Immanuel Lutheran High School, College, and Seminary
Eau Claire, WI

2018-03-23 ILC Chapel — The Impact of Trees on…

2018 Chapels -
The Impact of Trees on Our Spiritual Lives

 

Date : 2018-03-23
Speaker : John Reim

Genesis 3:1 (Listen)

The Fall

3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made.

He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You1 shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”

Footnotes

[1] 3:1 In Hebrew you is plural in verses 1–5

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Genesis 3:6 (Listen)

So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise,1 she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.

Footnotes

[1] 3:6 Or to give insight

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Romans 5:12–13 (Listen)

Death in Adam, Life in Christ

12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men1 because all sinned—13 for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.

Footnotes

[1] 5:12 The Greek word anthropoi refers here to both men and women; also twice in verse 18

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Galatians 3:13 (Listen)

13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—

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Hymn: LSB 561 :
The Tree of Life

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