A Garden In Eden

What if I told you that everything related to experiencing freedom, security, beauty, having a sense of purpose and completeness as a person, being at peace, as well as having healthy and fulfilling relationships is all found in just 22 verses of the Bible? Would you believe it? In fact, Genesis 2:4-25 has all of that and more.

As we look at what the LORD God has done for humanity in this week’s message, we’ll find more than a few principles that will help us navigate the world we live in now. In creating man and woman, planting a garden for them to live in, filling the world with beautiful things, establishing boundaries, and giving us the opportunity for both human and divine relationships, God reveals to us everything we could ever need.

Series: Genesis – The Things That Are Revealed
Message: 5 – A Garden In Eden
Text: Genesis 2:4-25
Todd Dugard
Harvest Bible Chapel
June 14, 2026

What the LORD God has done…

…his very life in me. (v. 4-7)

Simple Outline of History:
• God’s gives us the perfect creation (Genesis 1-2)
• Humanity ruins it (Genesis 3)
• The long struggle to return to Eden (Genesis 4-Revelation 20)
• God restores what was lost (Revelation 21-22)

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
– C. S. Lewis

We all long for [Eden], and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most humane, is still soaked with the sense of exile.
– J. R. R. Tolkien

…his incredible beauty around me. (v. 8-15)

…his loving boundaries for me. (v. 16-17)

The destiny of the human creation is to live in God’s world, with God’s other creatures, on God’s terms.
– W. Brueggemann

When God says, “Don’t,” he means, “Don’t hurt yourself.”

Genesis 4:7

…his perfect provision completing me. (v. 18-25)

For resources relating to the Genesis series, go to harvestbible.ca/resources and scroll down to “Genesis.”