The Gospel in the Garden

David preached on the creation of the Garden of Eden. He found the basis for God’s gracious promises to all of humanity already built into the garden’s landscape itself:

According to verses 10-13, there was a river flowing from Eden, which watered the garden and separated into four headwaters. Their respective names were Pishon, Gihon, Tigris, and Euphrates. The river flowing from the Eden became the origin of the four great rivers. This means that water from the garden of Eden supplies life to the whole earth. The garden of Eden is itself the paradise, and it is also the source of life to all the lands. The fictional paradises such as Shangri-La and Utopia have the common characteristic, which is that they are totally isolated from the world, enclosed with high mountains or deep waters…But the Garden of Eden planted by God embraces the whole world and shares its blessings from God. When God gives heaven to a man, God expects that the heavenly blessings may flow to the world through the man.