God created Adam and Eve to live in fellowship with Him in the Garden of Eden. However, when they disobeyed God and ate the forbidden fruit, it introduced sin and death into the world. As a result, God expelled Adam and Eve from the garden and cursed the ground. Though God knew mankind would sin, He had a redemptive plan through Jesus Christ to restore humanity's relationship with Him and defeat sin and death. By believing in Jesus, people can be reconciled with God and enjoy the abundant life He originally intended.

1. His Redemptive Plan
By: Lashay White
God is aware. He is aware of our circumstances. He is cognitive of our state. He is concerned
about our state of mind. God is love. He searches the deep things of the heart. He is concerned
about our inner man. He wants us to be made whole in our mind, will and emotions. He is
active. He is actively engaged in our lives every day, whether we realize it or not. He is working
to bring all of us to Himself. Which is the original intent of creation.
Adam and Eve lived in total fellowship with God. They spoke the language of the creator. Adam
was powerful, wise and possessed a great understanding of God and His creation. God created
the earth and everything in it, then he created Adam and set him among all the earthly things.
He gave Adam dominion over everything that He had made in the earth. Adam and God worked
together from there. They were harmonious. God brought all the animals before Adam and
Adam named them all. Hundreds, to thousands, to millions of species of various animals made
by the hand of God. Adam’s capacity was so large that he was able to effortlessly apply a name
to all of God’s created beings. Created in God’s image and likeness, Adam cultivated Eden,
explored Eden and grew Eden, together with God, they worked alongside one another. Eve
worked in unison with Adam. She was his helper. She was his companion. Together, they
worked together with God and shared an awesome fellowship with Him. God revealed Himself
to them and walked with them together in the Garden of Eden.
Eden was the garden home of Adam and Eve, it was pleasure and it was paradise. Eden was
the region of Adam’s home. It was Adam’s territory, given to him by God. It was a fruitful land
flowing with all that Adam and Eve needed to have a prosperous and successful life. God
provided all that they needed, and all that they needed they had. They enjoyed an abundance of
delicacies fit for a king and queen. An array of trees with endless fruit engulfed all of Eden. God
the Father, in his awesome fellowship with Adam told him that he could eat the fruit of any tree
in the garden, but of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, he must not eat, lest
he surely die. He told Adam two things, do not eat the fruit, and if you do, you will surely die. As
a father to a son, he directed Adam and instructed Adam to obey His command. He also
informed him of what the consequence would be if he decided to disobey.
God is aware. He knows all. He knows what we will do before we do it. He knows what we will
say before we say it. Yet, he experiences these acts in present tense. Therefore, He knows all,
is the first and last of all, but he has not experienced all that he knows. He is an infinite God,
who experiences His known will, in His created time. He knew that satan would come and
beguile Adam and Eve. He proactively warned Adam to not eat the fruit. Yet, when satan came
both Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and disobeyed a direct
command from God. Instantly they knew they were naked. Prior to, they were naturally clothed
in God’s glory. Once they disobeyed God, they became sovereign unto themselves, exercising
their own will in lieu of God’s will. They were their own god, knowing good from evil. Therefore,
they became uncovered, and unsheltered by the Almighty God and Creator of the World and all
that is in it. The disobedience of Adam and Eve removed the dispensation of innocence and
established the dispensation of consciousness. God came looking for them, and Adam and Eve
became frightened and hid themselves from God.
In their innocence, when God came, they rushed out to see him as a child does who is happy to
see their father and fellowship with him. They would go to God and tell Him all that they had
discovered that day. Yet, this day, they had activated sin consciousness. God, Adam and Eve

2. knew that something was different. The power of death and sin had been unlocked through
disobedience, and the world as God had designed it changed dramatically.
“You shall be like God, knowing good from evil.” (Satan) Genesis 3:5
The result of Adam and Eve’s sin caused God to enact His consequences upon them and all
generations to come. Adam and Eve were kicked out of the Garden of Eden, and cursed to toil
an unfruitful ground. They were far removed from the blessed territory that God had given them.
They had to fend for themselves and work very hard to survive. Adam lived to be over 900 years
old, his life cursed because of disobedience. I am most positive that for that length of time,
every day, he regretted his decision to disobey God. Satan then used that regret and fallen
countenance to break down Adam’s soul. He began to enact his vicious plan to delay the
purpose, vision, dreams and destiny of mankind for generations and generations to come. He
stole Adam’s power, privilege and authority in the world. He stole Adam’s passion for life and his
direct relationship and fellowship with God. Adam undoubtedly felt the sting of hurt, pain,
bitterness, anger, doubt, fear and regret. Instead of passing down the superiority of kings and
queens established by God to all generations, Adam passed down an inferiority complex that is
still plaguing generations to this day.
God, in all of his sovereignty, was there and God was aware of mankind’s great need to be
restored to Him and rescued from the grips of sin and death. Before God laid the foundations of
the world, he knew the world would sin against Him. He had a plan to reestablish mankind to
their rightful place in “His Story.” Our power, our privilege, our authority and our purpose is
hidden in God almighty. He designed a great life for all of us, every single one of us. We all
have a divine gift, skill and talent that God Himself planted within us. We are destined to
succeed and destined to cultivate our own Eden, our very own God ordained fruitful territory.
God created us to impact the world. He did not create us to merely survive, living day by day,
hungry for food and thirsting for water. Your life is meant to impact this world in a profound way.
God created us in His image and in His likeness. The God who created this world and all that is
in it, created you in His image and in His likeness. God in His infinite wisdom created the earth
and all that is in it. He created you and I to resemble Him, to be similar to Him, and to function
as He does. We were created to think big, to achieve more, to go further, to dig deeper, to rise
higher and to manifest His Glory in the world. This is God’s original intent for man; and man, in
our totality, is nowhere near unearthing the deep truths and mysteries of an eternal God.
I am a mother. My four-year-old son is super smart, talented, a great basketball player and very
charming and charismatic. My ten-year-old daughter is funny, loving, intelligent, savvy, a genius
in math, and very caring. I love them both very much. They bring me great joy. However, they
are sometimes disobedient, pitch temper tantrums, argumentative, and disrespectful. For the
latter, I punish them. I don’t like to punish them. It hurts me more than it hurts them. I must teach
them, however, that there are consequences for disobedience. I find that when I punish them
their countenance falls and they become sad, they ask forgiveness and of course they ask to be
reconciled to me and the things that I took away from them like TV privileges and computer
usage. Through raising my own children, I see a glimpse into the mind of God. God told Adam
not to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and He told him that if he did
the result would be death. Adam disobeyed and suffered great consequences. I am sure that
this brought God great pain. God is an emotional God. In the same manner we feel sadness,
anger, and compassion, so does He. We were created in His image and in His likeness. So
when Adam sinned, it brought great pain to God. This one act of disobedience affected the

3. entire lineage of mankind. Adam’s actions removed God from our presence because a holy God
cannot tolerate the presence of sin. God’s family became torn and isolated. Fortunately, God
had a plan to reconcile His greatest creation back to Him.
“And I will put enmity (open hostility)
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed (offspring) and her Seed;
He shall [fatally] bruise your head,
And you shall [only] bruise His heel.” Genesis 3:15 (AMP)
God spoke these words to the serpent upon discovering (and experiencing) his deceitful tactics
that persuaded Adam and Eve to disobey a direct command from Him. The seed from the
woman that shall fatally bruise the head of the serpent would be God’s answer to man’s
dilemma. Jesus Christ came into this world as a seed planted into the virgin Mary. He was born
into this world to bear the sins of mankind. He was born to die for you and I. He came into this
world to bear our iniquities and infirmities. He died so that you and I may have life, and have it to
the full. He died to break the curse of sin and death and to redeem mankind back to an
everlasting relationship with our Father. Now, when we disobey God, we can go to Jesus and
repent of our sins and He will wash us clean in His blood and our fellowship with God is totally
restored. In repentance, we confess our shortcomings and wrong decisions, and turn away from
them. Sin consciousness is no longer the dominant force plaguing mankind. God extends His
grace and accepts us back into His loving arms. When Jesus left this earth, He planted His
church. Every person who accepts Jesus as their Lord and Savior becomes a member of His
body, the church, and we continue to take authority over the enemy by the power in the name of
Jesus.
"Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the
power of the enemy, and nothing will injure you. Luke 10:19
The restoration offered by Jesus, is a choice. We are free will agents. We must choose to allow
Jesus to have Lordship over our lives, giving up our own will, and submitting to the will of the
Father. The grace provided by Jesus ushers in the atmosphere that Adam and Eve enjoyed in
Eden. We need only to believe in Him, and cast all our cares upon Him. He is faithful to do the
rest and sustain us. As we draw closer to Him, He will give us the desires of our heart, as those
desires align with His. Peace, love, joy, happiness, abundance, kindness and fruitfulness are
God’s original intent. God is longing for a relationship with you and to bless you. God loves you
and He created a good life for you. Before the foundations of this world, God knew you. He
established this redemptive plan for you: to bring you to Himself, and to bring out the greatness
in you, right here on earth. You have a purpose. God has an awesome plan for you. No matter
what your past is, God has an awesome future awaiting. When we go to God, we don’t look
back, we look ahead.
God is not a forceful God. We can also choose to be the Lord of our own lives, and work very
hard to cultivate a cursed ground. Man has tried desperately for generations to be sovereign
unto himself, carrying out his own will, desires and plan. Yet for generations, the result has been
death and destruction because man was not created to be sovereign unto himself. God is
sovereign. God is our creator. God is our source and our sustainer. He has a plan and purpose
for us all. We must seek him to find it. He is the manufacturer; you are the product.

4. Our decisions determine our destiny.
“Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now
I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so
that you and your descendants might live! You can make this choice by loving the LORD your
God, obeying him, and committing yourself firmly to him. This is the key to your life. And if you
love and obey the LORD, you will live long in the land the LORD swore to give your ancestors
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” Deuteronomy 30: 19-26