The goal of this lesson is to differentiate the spirit from the natural concept of doing good.

And out of the ground Jehovah God caused to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, as well as the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

• After God created man He put him in a garden with many trees.
• Two of the trees in the garden were not ordinary trees:
• The tree of life represents God as life for us to take in
• The other tree (Do not tell them the name of the other tree, ask them. They will likely not have noticed that good and evil are on the same tree.)
• It is not a question of good and bad, it is a matter of Spirit and life.
• Some will get confused by this:
  • If I don't do what is good how should I live?
  • I only have been helping you to know God, Christ, life, and spirit.

But Jesus said to him, Why do you call Me good? No one is good except One—God.

• Religion always teaches us to be good but actually no one is good except God

7 For scarcely for a righteous man will anyone die, though perhaps for the good man someone would even dare to die.
8 But God commends His own love to us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more then, having now been justified in His blood, we will be saved through Him from the wrath.
10 For if we, being enemies, were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more we will be saved in His life, having been reconciled,

• Suppose you have a very good friend, the most he can do for you is to die for you.
• God did more: While we were still His enemies He died for us.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So My ways are higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

• God's good is higher than our good like the heaven is higher than the earth
• If we are enjoying life and spirit our life will never be bad.
• I am not trying to teach you to be good.
• I am helping you to touch life and spirit.

39 And one of the criminals who were hanged there blasphemed Him, saying, Are You not the Christ? Save Yourself and us!
40 But the other, answering, rebuked him and said, Do you not even fear God, since you are in the same judgment?
41 And we justly, for we are receiving what we deserve for what we did, but this Man has done nothing amiss.
42 And he said, Jesus, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.
43 And He said to him, Truly I say to you, Today you shall be with Me in Paradise.

• One of the criminals that died with the Lord believed into Him.
• He was saved to be with the Lord.
• What good did he do? Nothing, he didn't have anymore chance to do anything.
• It is not a matter of good or bad but believing in the Lord.

• The tree of life is divinely good, not naturally good.
• The natural good is a counterfeit.
• The real good is only in spirit.
• It is not a question of good or bad but whether you have the Lord Jesus and are enjoying Him in spirit.