When grace fills your home | Giles Stevens | Oct. 12, 25

GRACE IN THE GARDEN: Family Lessons from Eden

Giles D. Stevens

Introduction: 

• Family is at the heart of God’s Plan

Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth.’ (Gen 1:28)

• Whilst Eden was a place made for the first family, it also points to Christ

Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden. (Gen 2:15)

Main: 

Let your family know how much they are loved. 

Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. (Gen 1:31)

Make your home a place of freedom and abundance.

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” (Gen 2:15-16)

Maintain an atmosphere of peace. 

Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it”. (Genesis 2:15)

Cultivate potential

Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it”. (Genesis 2:15)

Enjoy their company

And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?” So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.” (Gen 3:9-10)

Give them a big vision

“… fill the earth!” (Gen 1:28)

Be quick to forgive

Also, for Adam and his wife, the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them. (Gen 3:21)