Why GOD put a TREE of Knowledge and Evil in the Bible | Sam Shamoun

why did God place the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil there especially if God knows the beginning and the end and knows the end from the beginning right amen okay if we are not Calvinists who are Bible perverts like I used to be and think that God has causely predetermined everything in that what you do is what he's predestined you to do as opposed to God in his forn knowledge knowing what you'll do and taking the things that free creatures will do in consideration and bring out his perfect will so let's put Calvinism

a sign it's not biblical it's not historical it's a perversion of scripture right if we believe what the Bible says that God is pure love now guys class has begun help me to help you hit the like button share and invite folks and Lor I hope this will bless you and may He comfort you and all of us for the glory of the Father the Son the Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit all right go to 1 John 4:8 and 1 John 4:16 read 1 John 4 in fact here read 1 John 4 verse

8 all the way to 16 slowly but surely first John not surely 1 John chapter 4 the Epistle of John chapter 4: 8-6 all right uh eight here we go he who does not love does not know God for God is love in this the love preaching a sermon so we is he who does not what he who does not love God does not love does not know God for God is love right in this love in this the love of God was manifested towards us that God has sent his only begotten son into the

world that we might live through him in this is love not that we love God but that he loved us and sent his son to be the prop propitiation for our sins beloved if God so loved us we also ought to love one another no one has seen God at any time if we love one another God abides in us and his love has been perfected in Us by this we know that we abide in him and he in us because he has given us of his spirit and we have seen and testified that the

father has sent the son as Savior of the world whoever confesses that Jesus is the son of God God abides in him and he in God and we have known and believ the love that God has for us God is love and he who abides in love abides in God and God in him okay now you caught what love means Brethren if you're listening he just read first John the Epistle of John chapter 4: 8-16 God's very nature is love he is love he is Holiness he is Purity he's the definition of love but notice

love is defined as loving another as an action he is love meaning he is loving and he loves another and notice that loving another means demonstrating Your Love In Deeds not in words so God who is pure love the source of Love who is loving proves his love towards others through his actions and what was the greatest action that the almighty Son of God came into the world to become flesh to offer his soul his life as a ransom for us for our sins to make atonement for our sins okay so pay attention God's very

being is defined by love pay attention Brethren help me to help you let's stay focused God's very being is defined by love he is the source of all Perfection goodness love Holiness he is love but notice love is an action so notice to be love is to be loving meaning loving another and proving your love for another by your Deeds right right okay so we got it right right so since God is love he created the universe in love he created creatures out of his love wanting to create others to experience his love and to

be loved by them not out of need out of his very kindness Mercy compassion and love he chose to create sentient beings beings with awareness cognition and will because he wanted others to experience this infinite perfect love that the father and the son Holy Spirit have always experienced and will always experience inseparably and perfectly okay you with me so far right yes okay so you understand why God created yes out of love because he is not out of need because before creation the father son Holy Spirit eternally beginning beginningless exist in SE separably with one

another in perfect infinite love right right okay so he didn't create out of need he created out of love out of kindness but the thing is Love by its very nature doesn't compel and force itself on another because that would be rape right that right love is a choice right you understand right if I force myself on a woman and force herself to love me will she really love me or she will despise and hate me because it is a form of I am forcing her to love me forcing her to reciprocate does anyone love

any person that forces and compels them to love them back no what would we call someone who forces you and compels you to love them you call exactly as psychological emotional spiritual if not physical rap because many forms it's not just physical you can one psychologically you can molest someone emotionally you can molest someone spiritually like Satan does to those who follow him right right okay since God's very nature is love he cannot do that he cannot molest someone psychologically spiritually emotionally let alone physically because then he isn't God right right nor can God give

you the illusion of having free will meaning for true love to exist he must create Those whom he wants to love and whom he wants to be loved by them choice to choose to respond to that love but then why didn't he just create them with the illusion that they're freely choosing to love God because God is not a deceiver right God by his very nature is a god of Truth so he cannot lie to himself be dishonest himself he cannot go against himself he cannot disown who he is and what he's like so though

he could create you thinking that you love him freely you're choosing to love him with that illusion God whose very nature is truth knows he's deceiving you and lying you because he created you with the illusion that you're responding when in reality he designed you that you had no choice but to love him so God would be lying to himself and he cannot deceive himself right you with me so far yeah second Timothy 2:13 Focus Brethren let me answer this question second Timothy if we are faithless he remains faithful he cannot deny himself wow see

wow if he were to give you the illusion that you are freely loving him but he programmed you that you could not help but love him he would be then deceiving himself and denying himself and he can't do that right right correct right and that means he's lying right he's deceiving right but then read Hebrews 61718 Hebrews 61718 let's read it and I'm going to sum up what I said I'm going to explain why the tree was there thus God determining to show more abundantly to The Heirs of Promise the immutability of his counsel immutability

meaning it's unchangeable immutable means unchangeable confirmed it by an oath that by two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to lie W not that he chooses not to lie it's imposs possible for him to lie wow because it's against his n wow yeah it's against his nature okay we might have strong consolation who have fled for Refuge to lay hold of the Hope set before us okay so guys did you hear it God's very nature is love and by his very nature he is truth because that's his nature he is loving and

Truth ful it's impossible for him to lie deceive and force himself on people so with that in mind so now if God wants to create a world in which there are creatures that he wants them to experience his love if he forces himself on them it's not true love it's a spiritual psychological rape molestation God cannot do that nor can he create them with the illusion that they are freely choosing to love God because that means god is deceiving them because he programmed them to think I'm freely choosing to love God even though they were

programmed in such way they could not help but love God even though they thought they were choosing to love him which means God would know that he's lying and deceiving them and he cannot lie and deceive because then he would be denying himself and God cannot deny himself go against his nature are you with me there yes everyone it so far did everyone get it I know you got it I need to make sure everyone else is getting it so now he creates Heaven and Earth he creates Angels Spirit creatures like Satan and Adam and

Eve so why the tree of the knowledge and good and evil in order to give them the choice will you trust me enough and love me enough to know what is right or wrong or are you going to question my character my love and faithfulness and not trust me enough to tell you what is right and wrong so you have to go and experience it on your own so the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil was there in order to give man the opportunity to show do you love God enough and trust this

character to let him tell you what is right or wrong or do you think that you know better and question his character and goodness to call into judgment what he tells you is right and wrong so that you have to go and find it out and Discover it for yourself because you don't trust him enough to tell you what's best for you so that's exactly why God accredited Abraham righteousness because he trusted God he trusted God to tell him that this is what I'm going to do for you so you understand why the tree of

the knowledge of Good and Evil was there wow in other words it was a test for Adam and Eve Adam and Eve do you love me enough and trust me enough and do you see my goodness and faithfulness to you that I've done nothing but love you and bless you because I want what's best for you to take me at my word so that you don't have to learn it the hard way but take me at my word this is better for you this is not or are you going to call into question my character

my goodness and my faithfulness and love to you and think you can do it better and know better and go ahead and choose to disobey me so that you can Discover right or wrong on your own apart from me because you're questioning my character and my goodness and you think you know better so just like Abraham that's exactly why God accredits us righteousness for trusting in Jesus wow yeah but you understand go back to this was more of an assault on God because what Adam and Eve were telling God though you've done nothing but bless

us and love us you created us in a perfect world and perfect environment with perfect bodies and you loved Adam so much that you could not stand to see Adam alone so you created a helper to be his partner in life to keep him company where they could then do life together all that God did to prove his goodness and character and love they questioned it on the testimony of a serpent a serpent who did nothing for them who didn't create them with perfect bodies who didn't create a perfect world and a perfect garden for

them to own and enjoy and they took the word of this stranger over the God who had done nothing but prove his goodness to them wow you understand what that was and others are saying look God this serpent whom we don't know we're just meeting for the first time we take his word over against you a god who's done nothing but love us bless us and do everything for a comfort and enjoy even giving us a garden with everything to eat except this one we're going to take his word and trust him over against you

and we're going to question your goodness that's what the tree of the knowledge and good and evil was