Just Another Brick in the Wall

The Plant & It’s Place

What I Thought

What Adam thought

Reality

Genesis 2:8; 15

Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. And the LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground-trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food...

…The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.

Psalm 1:3

That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,which yields its fruit in season

and whose leaf does not wither—whatever they do prospers.

Isaiah 63

Verse 3

They will be called oaks of righteousness,a planting of the LORD

Verse 11

For as the soil makes the sprout come upand a garden causes seeds to grow,

so the Sovereign LORD will make righteousnessand praise spring up before all nations.

John 15

Verse 1

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener”

Verse 5

“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.”

Galatians 5:22-23

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

What I Thought

Two-Fold Nature of Gardening

The plant…

…and its place

To trim or to prune?

Isaiah 63:11

For as the soil makes the sprout come up and a garden causes seeds to grow,

so the Sovereign LORD will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations.

The Plant & It’s Place