The Two Oldest Trees

Apostle Paul found the Tree of Life after his struggles in Romans 7 when he cried out “Who will rescue me from this body of death?” This reminded me of what our Lord says in respect of the tree and its fruits in Matthew 7:15-20, and in Proverbs 18:21. The word we say is the fruit. The fruit of Righteousness finally came out of Paul’s mouth with his utterance of “WHO” instead of “HOW”, “WHAT” or “WHERE” and worse of all “WHY”.

He had finally come to the end of his self effort by not seeking HOW he is going to do with his struggles; and WHAT he is going to do with his struggles; or WHERE he is going to find help for his struggles or even WHY he needs to due with his struggles. He cried out “WHO can rescue him?” The revelation of Righteousness, Peace, Joy, Wisdom, Prosperity, Healing, Abundant, Freedom… by His grace becomes alive as the Person of Jesus to Apostle Paul.

From this revelation, he expounded his understanding that sin is a long settled issue on the Cross as he continued with Romans 8:1 – Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (in the Person of Jesus)… In the same manner, when the revelation on sin issue in a believer’s life is established, the ability to distinguish good from evil mentioned in Hebrews 5:14 manifested spontaneously as the revelation of the Person of Jesus revealed the Tree of Life and the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil before him in Romans 8:2 - because through Christ Jesus (in the Person of Jesus) the law of the Spirit of life (the Tree of Life) set me free from the law of sin and death (the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil).

When we are young in Christ, we have little knowledge about these two trees or we can say we don’t even care at all. We look from afar; it is as if these two trees grow side by side to each other, very near. But as our Spirit men grow, we are led nearer and nearer to these trees and the distance between them becomes further apart. It is when we are under these two trees that we realized they have a marginal distance between them. The picture of these two oldest trees becomes clear at this point in Romans 8:2 and the rest of the revelation in Chapter 8 leads us to the Tree of Life. The context of the whole Chapter become beautiful as it continues to expound on the power of the Trinity in us and our rightful identity in Christ.

This Chapter ends with no separation from the love of God that is Christ Jesus our Lord (again, the mention of the Person of Jesus)…