Two Trees: Choosing God's Way Through Christ

But God keeps saying, he keeps calling, he keeps challenging. He says, listen, there's a better way. There's a real way back to the tree, back to that tree of life, and it's through Christ. It's through him alone. It's chasing him and setting aside all those things that we think are gonna bring life that don't ever bring us life they never fulfill. Chase Jesus and him alone. Don't grow weary. Don't give up living holy. Don't give up trying to to look to Jesus, to live his way. Don't give up. It's the only path that leads to life, and that's what Christ is calling us to today. That's the story of the Bible from start to finish. [00:35:43] (44 seconds)  #ChaseJesusOnly

See, and this is the problem, is that we crave the good life. We want to be under that tree of life. But because of our choices, because of our sin, we're separated. We have no way back. We have no access. We can't get back to the tree. No matter what we do, no matter what we get, no matter how hard we try, we're never gonna get across that that divide. We can never get back to that place that our heart longs to be in revelations where we stand face to face with the Lord. We cannot do it. We can never be good enough to get us there. [00:29:25] (39 seconds)  #SeparatedBySin

Here's the problem. And this is endemic to all of us as well. They're chasing all these things. They think, oh, my way is better. My way is right. My way, self law is gonna bring me happiness. It's gonna get me back to that temple. It's gonna get me to the tree of life, but it never gets us there, does it? It never gets Adam and Eve back. They can't go back to the garden. They can't go back to the tree of life. No matter what they choose, no matter now how no matter how much they work, no matter how much they strive, the all of these self law, these self choices, it it never brings the happiness they thought it was gonna bring. [00:21:26] (36 seconds)  #SelfLawFails

This this man who's gonna live a perfect life, perfect sinless life, a life that you can never live, and he is going to go to a tree. He's going to go to a cross. He's going to be nailed to this tree so that you could someday have a way back to the place you've always craved to be. That Jesus might hang on a tree someday, to hang on that tree, to give us the opportunity, the ability to get back to where we were made to be, to go home, to be under God's provision, his protection, to be at the tree of life. [00:31:03] (72 seconds)  #JesusOnTheCross