Scott Downey
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Hearkens back to the Garden of Eden, the Tree of Life and Adam and Eve.Do you understand what the "tree of life" is? And why it must be eaten?
God only commanded them not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, God said nothing about the Tree of Life being forbidden them, but they never chose to eat of the fruit of that Tree.
Jesus also compares Himself to the Vine.
John 15
“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He [a]takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you[b] will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.
You understand that if you eat of something in the natural world, it goes into you and becomes a part of your body, it is a food source for energy. So it is in the Spirit. Those who eat of Christ, who is the Tree of Life are given a spiritual energy that gives to them an age enduring eternal life, they are born again of the Spirit and actually God gives to them a new heart and a new spirit, a fresh start with God. But until Adam and Eve experienced the penalties of their sin against God, they had no desire to eat of that tree.
If you desire an eternal life to be empowered with the Spirit of God, to be joined to the Lord as one spirit with God, then you will desire to eat of the tree of life as well. Christ will enter your heart and mind, God indwells His people and says they will never be forsaken or come into judgement of Hell as they will have an eternal life with Him.
Ephesians 2
And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the [a]course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
I also think of this as an eternal promise from God, that you will be continually satisfied with Him. you will be continually filled with His Spirit for the ages to come, and there will be many ages yet to come.
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