(Gen 3:2) And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden,
(Gen 3:3) but of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat of it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.
(Gen 3:4) And the serpent said to the woman, Dying you shall not die,
(Gen 3:5) for God knows that in the day you eat of it, even your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as God, knowing good and evil.
(Gen 3:6) And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make one wise. And she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.
(Gen 2:
And Jehovah God planted a garden in Eden to the east; and He put the man whom He had formed there.
(Gen 2:9) And out of the ground Jehovah God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food. The Tree of Life was also in the middle of the garden; also the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
(Gen 2:16) And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Eating you may eat of every tree in the garden;
(Gen 2:17) but of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil you may not eat, for in the day that you eat of it, dying you shall die.
(Gen 3:24) And He drove the man out. And He lodged the cherubs at the east of the Garden of Eden, and the flaming sword whirling around to guard the way of the Tree of Life.
(Pro 3:11) My son, do not reject the chastening of Jehovah, and do not loathe His correction;
(Pro 3:12) for whom Jehovah loves He corrects, even as a father corrects the son with whom he is pleased.
(Pro 3:13) Happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gets understanding.
(Pro 3:14) For its profit is better than the gain from silver, and its increase more than fine gold;
(Pro 3:15) she is more precious than rubies, and all the things you can desire are not to be compared with her.
(Pro 3:16) Length of days is in her right hand, riches and honor in her left hand.
(Pro 3:17) Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths peace.
(Pro 3:18) She is a tree of life to the ones who lay hold on her, and happy are the ones holding her fast.
(Pro 3:19) Jehovah founded the earth by wisdom; He founded the heavens by understanding;
(Pro 3:20) the depths were broken up by His knowledge, and the clouds dropped down the dew.
(Pro 3:21) My son, do not let them depart from your eyes; keep sound wisdom and judgment,
(Pro 3:22) and they shall be life to your soul, and grace to your neck;
(Pro 3:23) then you shall walk in your way safely, and your foot shall not stumble.
(Rev 2:7) The one who has an ear, hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To the one overcoming, I will give to him to eat of the Tree of Life which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.
(Rev 22:14) Blessed are the ones doing His commands, that their authority will be over the Tree of Life, and by the gates they may enter into the city.
We have all gone our own way, and eaten the tree of knowledge of good and evil. There is only one way to eat the fruit of the Tree of Life and they all point to Christ. The flaming swords; the gates; in the midst of the Paradise of God.
The fruit that we can produce is after being grafted in by Him, so the fruit we produce is not our own, but His, so none can boast.
I can understand the frustrations of worldly religion. Have not been to church for many years. The many, many denominations speaks clearly of the deceptiveness involved. I would like to know the percentage of people that attend church actually study and search for the truth with a whole heart. Maybe small or large, only God knows.
(Isa 53:1) Who has believed our report? And to whom is the arm of Jehovah revealed?
(Isa 53:2) For He comes up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no form nor magnificence that we should see Him; nor form that we should desire Him.
(Isa 53:3) He is despised and abandoned of men, a Man of pains, and acquainted with sickness. And as it were hiding our faces from Him, He being despised, and we did not value Him.
(Isa 53:4) Surely He has borne our sicknesses, and He carried our pain; yet we esteemed Him plagued, smitten by God, and afflicted.
(Isa 53:5) But He was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His wounds we ourselves are healed.
(Isa 53:6) All we like sheep have gone astray; we have each one turned to his own way; and Jehovah made meet in Him the iniquity of all of us.
(Isa 53:7) He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, but He did not open His mouth. He was led as a lamb to the slaughter; and as a ewe before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth.
(Isa 53:
He was taken from prison and from justice; and who shall consider His generation? For He was cut off out of the land of the living; from the transgression of My people, the stroke was to Him.
(Isa 53:9) And He appointed Him His grave with the wicked, but He was with a rich man in His death; though He had done no violence, and deceit was not in His mouth.
(Isa 53:10) But Jehovah pleased to crush Him, to make Him sick, so that If He should put His soul as a guilt offering, He shall see His seed; He shall prolong His days; and the will of Jehovah shall prosper in His hand.
(Isa 53:11) He shall see the fruit of the travail of His soul; He shall be fully satisfied. By His knowledge the righteous One, My Servant, shall justify for many, and He shall bear their iniquities.
(Isa 53:12) Because of this I will divide to Him with the great, and with the strong He shall divide the spoil; because He poured out His soul to death; and He was counted with those transgressing; and He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for those transgressing.
Sorry, for the length. Hope this can help.
God bless,
Gary