Lesson 2, July 5: Boundaries
Tuesday July 5 Boundaries Does humanity’s dominion over “all the earth” ( Gen. 1:26 ) indicate that there are no boundaries to our dominion? Biblical history indicates that dominion (which can also be understood as “stewardship”) must have boundaries. For example, God told Adam that the tree of knowledge of good and evil was off-limits (see Gen. 2:15–17 ). The first sin was, then, in the context of stewardship. Adam and Eve overstepped the boundaries that God had set on their dominion. Creation is still suffering from that overstepping of boundaries (see Rom. 8:20–22 ). Read Exodus 20:1–17 . What kinds of “boundaries” are set there for us in God’s law? What does the law tell us about the limits of human dominion? Throughout human history (for example, Pharaoh in Exodus 1–14; Herod in Matthew 2) to the end of time (see Revelation 13), domineering people controlled by Satan are notorious for attempting to dominate that over which they have no rightf...
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