The Outside Tree of Knowledge

[robert derrick]

The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is the outside source of all outside traditions, that are apart from the Scriptures. Scriptures are the roots of the tree of Life.

God commanded not to eat of a certain tree. And so eating thereof would be sin, because what was eaten was not all good, but also evil.

The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! No man can serve two masters.

We know a tree by its' fruit, whether it be good or evil, and so we also know the root of the tree by its' fruit.

God does not plant anything evil; therefore, that tree of the knowledge of good and evil was not planted by God, else He commanded against eating of His own good tree of the garden:

For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

Only the trees planted by God were of the garden, which God planted for man, and good for food:

And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

The Lord planted the garden, and then He made to grow every tree in the garden:

And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Why is the tree of knowledge written as an add on? Such as adding to the garden of God another tree, even as them that add to the Scriptures to preach another gospel.

The tree of knowledge was not said to be good for food, since there was evil in it and bearing evil fruit, that is commanded not to be eaten.

Scripture says the Lord God made to grow all these trees, but not necessarily planted them all.

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Man was commanded to eat of every tree of the garden. Who says the tree of knowledge was then an exception of a good tree? The trees of the garden were all good for food, that God planted, but not every tree in the garden was necessarily of the garden, since one of the trees was not good for food, because it would cause to die. And yet God did make it to grow alongside the rest: accompanying the rest.

For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel.

The mystery of iniquity is that all that are in the garden, are not of the garden, because they were not all planted by God, yet all were made to grow: allowed by God who giveth the increase of all things.

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

God is Light, and in Him is no darkness at all, and yet He allows both darkness and evil to grow in His garden. Why?

For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.

Why did Jesus allow His chosen apostle, whom He knew had become a devil (John 6), to continue to walk alongside Him and the other apostles?

Judas was in the company of Jesus and the apostles, and yet he was not of Jesus nor His apostles: he was in their company, and yet outside their fellowship and the will of God.

The tree of the knowledge of good and evil was in the garden, but not planted by the Lord. It grew alongside the rest of the trees, but produced fruit of another kind, because it was planted by another: it was of another source. A source apart from the planting and will of the Lord God of the garden.

It was inside the garden as a tree, but it was outside the garden as a source of fruit.

 

[robert derrick]

The devil destroys the body of Christ from the inside, by introducing doctrines and traditions and commandments, that are outside the will and Word of God: they are apart from the Scriptures of God, which are the product of the Spirit and are fruit of the tree of Life:

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is the outside source of all outside traditions, doctrines, and commandments of men, which are the produced fruit of the devil by the seducing spirit of his first error:

To make his own word like unto that of the Lord God. While he knew the good Word of God, and could quote Scripture like any other, his fruit was only evil, being outside and apart from the spoken and written words of God: The Scriptures and the prophecy of Scriptures, which is the preaching of the gospel of the cross according to the scriptures.

He wrestles the Scriptures into declaring other outside words and written traditions to be equal to the Scriptures: God's revealed knowledge of Himself and His will can be known by men from their own minds, speaking of Him apart from Scripture.

Them that eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, are them that know the scriptures are good for instruction and wise unto salvation, but then they also desire to know other traditions of another gospel, thinking themselves to be wise in their own conceits: they decide what is true of God, based upon Scripture and outside sources of Scripture, that they say must accompany Scripture.

All outside religions of men require a confession of agreement with things apart from Scripture, that are born of another source: that old serpent and dragon, the devil.

They teach such things using the good name of Jesus for effect. Even as the give lip service to the Scriptures, so do they to Jesus Christ, who is the way, the truth, and the life according to His words: the Scriptures.

While appearing to be on the inside, they are teaching things from the outside.

Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

Righteous judgment is judgment of Scripture. We judge the tree by its' fruit according to the Scriptures, and no evil fruit is borne of a good tree, and no good fruit is born of an evil tree, and we know the good from the evil by proof of Scripture:

But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

There is a tree that has knowledge of good and evil, knowing both the good of Scripture and the evil teachings outside of Scripture, and they eat of both declaring both to be equally true of God.

But, there is no tree that bares both good and evil fruit:

Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.

Those who try to know both good Scripture and evil traditions of men, will one day repent of the evil and be all good, or will reject the good and be all evil:

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Mammon is what man says is of God and is not, because Scripture agrees not with it. Mammon is those that are strong in tradition, and weak in Scripture.

We must strengthen the latter, and reject the former. We must believe first and last Jesus only, who is only preached truly according to the Scriptures.