We were discussing it in the
study back there. All you men that can meet with
us, you ought to. You're missing a blessing. We're
getting together back there to call on the name of the Lord.
The Lord blesses us back there to read the Scriptures, pray
together, and seek his face. Christ is all, and in all. He's in all. Everything, as Scripture
says, in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead. Scripture
says in him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Scripture says of him, through him, to him are all things, to
whom be glory forever. Amen. And in all things mentioned
here in Genesis 2, we're going to see Christ. Everything from
the mist to the dust to the trees to the what have you. Christ
is in all this. Let's read verses 4 through 6.
It says, These are the generations of the heavens and the earth,
when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the
earth and the heavens. Who's that? That's Christ. He's
the one that made it. We saw that, didn't we? We saw
that in Genesis 1. Christ is the Word by whom all
things were made and for whom. Verse 5 says, Every plant in
the field Before it was in the earth, every herb of the field
before it grew, the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon
the earth. There was not a man to till the ground. No man grew
it. Brother Perry reminded me of that passage. Our Lord said,
Every tree that my Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted
up. Every one he plants is going to be like that blessed man that
is firmly planted by the rivers of water. It didn't rain back
then. didn't need to. It says, verse
6, "...there went up a mist from the earth." A mist came up from
the earth to water the earth and water the whole face of the
ground. All right, look back at Isaiah 45 now. Look up at
Isaiah 45. Look forward, that is. God, it
didn't rain until Noah, until the flood. God used a mist that
came up from the earth to water the earth. And I believe that's the type
of Christ there who sprang out of the earth. It says here in
Isaiah 45, look at this, verse 8, it says, Verse 8, Isaiah 45,
drop down ye heavens from above, let the skies pour down righteousness,
and let the earth open up, let them bring forth salvation, let
righteousness spring up together, I the Lord. have created it. Christ was made flesh, made of
woman, made under the law, made like unto our flesh, sprang up
out of the earth. He says, I have exalted one chosen
out of the people. Christ is that mist who blessed
the whole earth and sprang up out of the earth like a mist. And it says here in Ephesians
4, listen to this. See, Christ is the first Christ
is the mist that watered the earth. Christ is also the rain that came down upon
the earth. Listen to this in Ephesians 4.
It says, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive. Now, that he ascended, what is
it but he that also descended? He that descended is saying also
that I ascended. So he's the rain that came down,
he's the mist that goes up. in the latter ray. We're all
blessings. He blesses the whole earth, the
former and latter ray, who brings forth salvation, like that passage
in Isaiah 45 says. Christ is that mist. All right?
Read on. And before there was a man, there was a mist. And before Adam was, the second
Adam is Christ. All right? Verse 7, it says,
And the Lord God formed man out of the dusts of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became
a living soul. Man was formed out of the dusts
of the ground. I like that statement by one
of the old writers. He said, God made the worlds
from nothing. So if he's going to make anything
out of you, you've got to be a nothing. But what I want you
to notice is what God made man out of, what man is made out
of. Great and mighty man that he thinks he is. You know what
he's made out of? Next to nothing. You know what dust is? It's next to nothing. Dust. And he doesn't say diamond dust.
but just old plain old dust. That's what the scripture says.
A man who, man is of the earth, earthy. He's of the earth, earthy. Dust, he's dusty. Right? And man's only right. You know
what man's only, people talk about they have their rights.
You know what you got a right to from God? Six feet in the
ground. That's all the rights we've got.
dust. Dust thou art, and that's where
you're going. Dust thou shalt return. You sure
can't take it with you because you didn't bring it with you.
It's not yours. Dust is yours, though. You know
what you get for being a woman's brother, her brother? Dust. That's
your right. It's our origin. We came from
it. It's our substance. We're made of it. We get our
food from it. It's in our destination. Dust. Dust. Our final destination. And without the Living Spirit,
we're nothing, aren't we? Without the breath of God, the
life of God, we're nothing. Dust. Dust. Without me, you're nothing, Christ
said. Without me, the Spirit of God
Well, what of Christ in the dust, then? What do you see of Christ
in the dust? Huh? You know what it made me
think of? I thought to myself, infinity was made dust. I thought about the infinite
condescension of God Almighty, who is Spirit, to be made dust. Huh? God Almighty should condescend
a high and holy, eternal spirit to be made dust. Christ was made
in the likeness of flesh, and as great a marvel as that is,
he says that someday dust is going to be made in the likeness
of Christ. As marvelous as the making of Adam was, and of the
creature that he was, more marvelous than that is that this mortality,
this corruption, this dust, shall put on immortality, shall be
clothed with immortality. This corruption shall put on
incorruptible. This Adam shall be made like
unto the second Adam, like unto a son of God, spirit, spirit,
As Christ was made in the likeness of flesh, someday we'll be made
in the likeness of Christ. Spirit became dust. Dust is going
to become spirit. And you notice what animated
this dust, like I already said. Where in the life of the flesh
he is? Look at it. It says that God breathed into
his nostrils the breath of life. Man became a living soul. I want
you to turn over to John 9 with me. Turn over there and see this. This is marvelous. John 9. God Almighty breathed into man,
he became a living soul. Now, the first man, Adam, was
made a living soul, the Scripture says. The second Adam, the last
Adam, a quickening spirit. God, by his Spirit, makes us
a spirit, like Christ. First man was made a living soul,
the last Adam a quickening spirit. Scripture says, In Adam all die,
but in Christ shall all be made alive. And Paul said this, he
said, Beloved, I travail in birth until Christ be formed or breathed
in you. That's what we need to make us
alive unto God. Otherwise we're dead dust. dead
in trespasses and sin, until the Spirit of God breathes life
into us." This is what Christ did. Look at it. John 9, verse 6. Verse 5, he
says, As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the
world. And this is when a blind man
came to him, verse 6, and when he had thus spoken, he spat on
the ground. and made clay of the spittle. He spat in the dust and made
clay of the spittle, and anointed the eyes of the blind man, and
he went and washed, and he came back to see." All right, now
turn to John 20, John chapter 20. Our Lord spat in the dust,
spit in the dust. It's from his mouth, spit in
the dust, and of a common substance made a man see. John 20, look
at this, verse 22. John 20, verse 22, or verse 21,
it says, When Jesus came unto them, he appeared unto them,
he said, Peace be unto you, as my Father hath sent me, even
so send I you. And when he had said this, he
said, Peace be unto you, and so he received you, the Holy
Ghost. So what did he use there? Two
things, dust and breath. a little reminder of who he was. They might not have seen him
at that time. Do you see? Do you see it now? Christ reminded them of who he
was. Who is it? Who is this? Even the same that
I said unto you from the beginning, God, that's who took up the dust
of the ground, made a man a living soul, breathed into him, became
a living soul. Dust and All right, back to Genesis
2. Genesis 2. You think Christ just
thought, what can I use to heal his eyes? Oh, I'll just use some
dust here. No, no. He fulfilled the Scripture. He
came and breathed on it. The same one that made man live
to begin with makes us live now. The same one. The same yesterday,
today, and forever. All right, Genesis 2. I want
you to look at a garden with two trees in it. Genesis 2, verse
8. The Lord God planted a garden
eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had farmed. A garden. Now, just as man had
his beginnings in the Garden of Eden—it made me think of another
A garden in the east, it says there, it was eastward in Eden.
There's a garden over there in the east called Gethsemane. So what's significant about that?
I believe that right then and there was where Christ was being
made sin for us. You see, man was made and put
in a garden. Christ in the garden of Gethsemane
was being made sin for us. Our beginnings, the beginnings
of our salvation were right there. Christ was that man put in that
garden for us. That man formed like a good in
that garden for us, and like that mist, it says, he sweat
drops of blood. There was a mist that formed
on his brow. The duel of youth, our youth,
was upon his brow. What was that mist that was on
his brow and his blood? Blood, and it watered the ground.
His very sweat drops of blood, that man in the garden. Then
there were two trees in that garden. It says, Out of the ground
made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the
sight and good for food. All right, there are two trees
there. He made every tree pleasant to the sight and good for food.
But there are two trees we're concerned with here, he mentions.
Two trees, basically. The tree of life. It's in the
midst of the garden. And the tree of the knowledge.
Tree of knowledge of good and evil. Two trees in the garden.
Two trees. Tree of life. Tree of knowledge
of good and evil. All right, what is the first
tree there? What is this tree of life? Eh? Tree of life. Christ is that
tree of life. No doubt about it, is He? On
whom? Look at chapter 3. Christ is
that tree of life. Look at chapter 3, verse 22.
After man had eaten of the tree of knowledge and good and evil,
the Lord God said in verse 22 of chapter 3, He said, Behold,
the man is become as one of us to know good and evil. Now lest
he put forth his hand and take also the tree of life and eat
and live forever, God kicked him out. Christ is that tree
of life of whom, if we partake of, we'll live forever. He's
that tree of life. And there's much speculation
about what would have happened had man taken of that tree, but
the point in talking about it is he didn't. You know what I
thought of, though? This is man's free will at work,
isn't it? This is a picture of Christ. And here's sin. What do you have? The tree of
life or the tree of evil? What do you take? What do you
have? What's your pleasure? Not Christ. Not Christ. That's
man's free will, isn't it? Christ is that tree. Turn to
Psalm 1. Psalm 1. Christ is that tree. He said, I am the vine. I am
the vine. and you are the branches." That
word vine is really tree. There in John 15, I am the vine,
you are the branches, he is the tree. Christ is that tree of
life with whom we partake and live forever, eternal life. And
he's typified many times in the scriptures as trees. I don't
think it's any coincidence that I love trees. I just love trees,
especially stately oak trees, you know. Stately oaks. Some of these fast-growing trees,
you know, like poplars and all, wind blows them right down, hooks
them up by the root, not an old oak. It's been there a long time. That's Christ, isn't it? Huh?
Been around forever. Look at Psalm 1. I love this
Psalm, don't you? Verse 1. Blessed is the man that
walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in
the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the sea of the scornful. His
delight is in the law of the Lord, and in the law doth he
meditate day and night. He shall be like a tree." Who's
this talking about? Christ. He's the blessed man. David was a man after God's own
heart, and David began his song. God's son was named after David,
the son of David. feeling that David began his
psalm with his son. God's son I'm talking about.
That blessed man. In the beginning, God. Everything
begins with God, doesn't it? It's not talking about us. Oh,
yes, we're blessed in him. We're blessed men. We're blessed
men, but we have walked in the counsel of our own God. We have
stood in the way of sinners. We have sat and received the
scornful. We didn't delight in the law
of the Lord, did we? Christ did. Verse 3 says, He shall be like
a tree, a big oak tree, planted by the rivers of water, that
bringeth forth his fruit, acorns. Those old oak trees just shower
the ground with acorns, don't they? They're just everywhere.
Aren't they, Nancy? They're just everywhere. You can't eradicate
them. You can't get them all up. Everywhere. It covers the
earth. The fruit in his season, his
leaf, also shall not wither. He's an evergreen, evergreen. Whatsoever he does shall prosper,
shall prosper. Christ is that tree. And also,
look at Revelation 22, all right? Hurry over there with me, would
you? Revelation 22 is fitting that
the Scripture begins in Genesis 1, 1 with Christ, and it ends
in Revelation 22, 1 with Christ. You see, he's the Alpha and the
Omega, he's the beginning and the end, he's the first and the
last, he's the first word, he's the last word. He's the God who
created it, the true, he's the tree God created. Revelation
22, 1, he showed me a pure river of water, of life, clear as crystal,
proceeding out of the throne of God and the land, and in the
midst of the tree of it, or the street of it, on either side
of the river was there the tree of life. which bear twelve manner
of fruits," that's Christ bearing his apostles, and that's our
high priest bearing the names of his children on his breastplate,
"...and yield with fruit every month, his mercies anew every
morning, and the leaves of the tree for the healing of the nations."
That's Christ, isn't it, Margaret? That's Christ so clearly. Keep
your place there in Revelation. Turn back to Genesis 2 now. So
Christ is the tree of life. He is the tree of life. There's
no doubt about that, is there? No doubt. No doubt. See him clearly. All right, what's this tree of
the knowledge of good and evil here in verse 9? It said also
there was in that garden a tree of the knowledge of good and
evil. Huh? What is that? Well, I've heard
many things about this, too. Let's see if this doesn't make
sense. Acts 5, Peter stood up to preach. Peter, James, and John stood
up to preach, and here's what he said, "'The God of our fathers
raised up Jesus, whom you slew, and hanged on a tree.'" A tree—he
doesn't call it a cross. He calls it a tree that God planted
on God's office here. Calvary's tree. Calvary's tree
is where we learn. It's where He's revealed unto
us the knowledge of good and evil. Isn't it? Oh, the treasures
of wisdom and knowledge of good. God's goodness is seen on Calvary's
tree. Isn't it? The infinite wisdom
of God is seen on Calvary's tree. The infinite mercy of God is
seen on Calvary's tree. The infinite grace of God is
seen on Calvary's tree. The infinite love of God is seen
on Calvary's tree. The infinite character of God
is seen on Calvary's tree. The goodness of God holdeth me
in my praise of the Lord for his goodness. What's that? Calvary's
tree, right there, where the goodness of God is constant.
And also we see we have the knowledge of evil, don't we? The exceeding
sinfulness of sin and evil is seen on Calvary's tree, isn't
it? Like no other place, isn't it?
Sin, we see the exceeding sinfulness of sin, the blackness of man's
heart is seen on Calvary's tree. The infinite justice and wrath
of God against sin is seen on Calvary's tree. Man's depravity
is seen on Calvary's tree. Evil, the knowledge of evil,
is not seen and not known anywhere like Calvary's tree. That's the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil, isn't it? And Christ
hung on that too. He hung on that too. God's infinite
goodness and man's infinite evil. Christ crucified. Two trees. Christ, the tree of life, crucified. His cross. The revelation of
evil and shows us the expiation of All right. Now look at verse
17. Look at verse 17 here in Genesis
2. It says, God said to Adam, He
says, Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt
not eat of it. And the day thou eatest of it shalt surely die. Well, that's certainly man partaking
of evil, sinning against God. But I thought about this, too.
Christ said, The cup that I drink, are you able to bear it? Are
you able to drink it? No. Can't do it. Only Christ
can bear our sins. Only Christ could die, yet live.
And were we to partake of God's wrath, we would surely die. It
says there in verse 17, in dying, if you see that in the Latin,
do you have a marginal reference by that last line, thou shalt
surely die? What does it say? Dying thou
shalt die. Dying, thou shalt die. You not
only will die physically, but you'll die spiritually. You'll
be dying physically, but you already have died spiritually.
And we'll discuss that when we discuss the Father. But only
Christ could eat that fruit and taste death. He does not die. Only he. All right? Look at the
next thing, the fourth thing I want you to see. Verse 10, it says, "...and a
river went out of Eden to water the garden." A river. Now, you still have Revelation
22? I already read it to you, didn't I? A river. Christ is
that river. Revelation 22.1, it says, "...he
showed me a pure river, a pure river of water of life,
clear as crystal." You've been up in the mountains,
run across a river where the snow had melted off of the mountain
tops, and you've been to Montana and places like this. No water
on earth like that. It's clear, deep, and cold, and
tastes unlike anything else, right? Pure, crystal clear. Well, Christ is the one who came
off that mountain. The water of life. the pure,
holy, spotless Son of God, taste and see that He's gracious. That makes
me thirsty. The water I used to drink. I give unto you water that you'll
never thirst again. Me? Me. Take a taste of me. The only thing you'll thirst
for is Him. Keep thirsting for him. Christ is that river, a
pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding
out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. And that's rivers
of mercy proceeding out of him, rivers of grace, rivers of salvation
itself out of him that were washed in his blood, that river that
flowed, that crimson tide, that fountain filled with blood drawn
from Emmanuel's veins where sinners plunged beneath that river. that
blood, lose all their guilt and shame. So much is seen there,
isn't it? Well, look at these four branches with me. What about
them? It says this river was parted
into four heads. Brother John Davis said, well,
that's got to be wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.
That's right, John. That's right. You've seen something,
haven't you? You've been wading in the river. You've been swimming
in the river, haven't you, buddy? Wisdom, righteousness, sanctification.
I thought of his hands and his feet. See, from his hands, his
feet, sorrow and love flowed and mingled down. Well, they're
given names. Four names of these tributaries
from this one river. Four names. Four heads, or the
river parted into four tributaries. But they are the first, verse
11. And it's significant. All these names have significance.
Verse 11 says, The name of the first is Pison. Pison. And that is it. Pison is that
which compasses or covers the whole lands of Hevelah where
there is gold. And the gold of that land is
good. It's good gold. And there is Bdellium, the onyx
stone. In other words, from this river
proceed unsearchable riches. The word Pison means dispersive. Dispersive. Dispersive. You ever disperse something?
Say I have. No, I don't have. I don't have
any money. I haven't been paid yet. I don't
have any money. Sunday I'm out. But anyway, if
I had a change and I wanted to disperse it to you all, You know,
I'd hand it out. That's what dispersion, you know
what that means, dispersion. Well, Christ is him from whom
all blessings flow, right? He disperses. He's our Joseph
who's in charge of the storehouse. If we want porn, if we want to
be fed, we've got to go to Joseph. Why? Joseph's in charge. In him,
all the blessings, all the fullness of God. He's the one that disperses
it. He disperses it. And what do
we get from him? Unsearchable riches. gold, deity,
jewels, righteousness, precious stones, precious stones, unsearchable
riches he disperses to us that come from him. All right, let's
look at the next one. It says, verse 13, the name of
the second river is Gihon. Gihon, the same as it, and I
wanted you to see there it says it encompasses the whole land.
That river, the blessings from that river, The whole land encompasses,
spread throughout, where Christ's blessings flow to a people all
over this planet, don't they? Encompasses the land. There's
no place on earth where the blessings of Christ have not been experienced
and seen. Huh? You go out in the heart
of the jungle of Mexico, up in those rocky, barren mountains,
and you'll see gold. You'll hear little ladies singing
about the unsearchable riches of Christ in Spanish. You can't
understand it, but yes, you can. All right, it says in verse 13,
the name of the second river is Gahun. Gahun, the same as
it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. Ethiopia, what
does Gahun mean? Well, Gahun means stream. It just means stream. That's
what It means stream. Stream is something that flows
from somewhere, right? Stream comes from somewhere.
Like a spring flows from—well, Christ's blood, from Christ's
blood streams. From Christ's blood streams all
these things to us. The blood stream, or the blood
of Christ, is that which compasses—look at that, it said Ethiopia, didn't
it? What's in Ethiopia? Black people. You see it? Christ's blood is
what covers black people. You a Cushite, Henry? Huh? You an Ethiopian eunuch, buddy?
Huh? Go down in the water, the water
of Christ, the bloodstream of Christ. It'll cover your old
black heart, buddy. It'll cover your sins. It'll
compass you. It compasses every black heart,
the blood of Christ. All right, look at the next one.
And the name of the third, verse 14, river, the third river is
Hithiko. Hithiko. What does that mean? Well, you know, it doesn't have
a meaning. It doesn't have one. I searched.
I looked. By searching, I looked as hard
as I could, and it was passed on and out. You see, I have not seen, you
see. It does not yet appear unto us.
Christ is a river of blessings unto us, and it does not yet
appear unto us what we shall, or the things that God has prepared
for us in that river. See, there's some things that
are secret. Does that make sense? It does not yet appear unto him,
it didn't appear, there was no apparent meaning. Well, it does
not yet appear unto us, too, that everything that we have
in Christ, they're unsearchable. They're past finding out. We
can't find everything about Christ. I searched, I dug, I looked up,
he didn't know anything. John Gil didn't know anything. Neither does any man know the
fullness of Christ. Past finding out. Look at the
next one. It says, And the fourth letter,
verse 14, is Euphrates. Euphrates means to break forth. and pierced his side and out
gushed forth, outrushed out water and blood. From Christ's side
is that river Euphrates. He was broken for a wounded,
for Christ is all and in all." I'll read on here, and then I'll
quit. The Lord God, it says, took the man and put him in the
garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it." That's Christ, too,
isn't it? Huh? That's Christ, too. He's
put in humanity to dress it in his righteousness and to keep
it by his power and by his blood. And the Lord God commanded the
man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely
eat, eating thou shalt eat it. But the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it. though that thou should
eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die." What's that? Christ was
without sin. Christ could not under commandment
by God Almighty, and because of his deity, because of who
he was, he could not partake of sins. Holy, sinless, undeclared,
separate from sinners. But he willingly did, didn't
he? We're going to see that when we look at Adam as a type of
Christ. I had a matter of love to that
woman. He wasn't fooled, was he? He knew. He knew. The woman was fooled. The woman
being ignorant was deceit. That's how I said it. That's
how. Christ knew full well what he
was doing when he came down here and partook of that tree, partook
of it. And I loved his wife like Adam.
I'm telling the message. But out of love to his wife,
Adam said, I love her. I'm going to be made like her.
I don't want to lose her. And he was made sin like unto
her. That's Christ too, isn't it? Christ is all. And in all. Dust and mist and rivers and
trees. I see Christ in everything. Let's sing that, Sherry. Number
495. 495. Oh, the unsearchable riches of
Christ. And we just waited ankle deep,
didn't we? We just touched the hem of that
glorious, multifaceted, multicolored garment, didn't we? That multicolored
garment of Christ, we just looked at the color red. There's every
color of the spectrum, the rainbow spectrum. in Christ, his character,
his person, his work. And we just looked at one facet.
All right, 495, let's stand and sing verse 1. This wealth can never be told.
I tried, but I failed, didn't I? I failed. But we'll look at
it some more. Maybe we'll get something. And
then let's sing verse 1. And verse 2 is a good one. These
are pearls that the poorest may wear. All right. Oh. Well. Oh, the unsearchable riches of
crowns Precious, more precious than gold Oh, the unsearchable
riches of crowns Who shall their greatness declare? a way. Well.