10B24.   Genesis 3:9-15.   In Genesis 2:17, God told Adam that he was not to eat from “the tree of knowledge of good and bad;” otherwise, he would surely be doomed to die.  Once he did eat of the fruit of that tree he felt naked or vulnerable because he recognized that now there was evil in his world that might do him harm. So he felt the need to defend or shield himself from potential harm.  Eve too felt the presence of evil that might harm her with a special enmity between her and the serpent.

Mark 3:20-35.  The scribes claimed that Jesus had power over demons since they said he was in union with Beelzubul, the ruler of the demons.  Jesus answered, if he were in union with the prince of demons, the prince of demons would never allow Jesus to inhibit the work of the demons to do bad things to people. Since Jesus by driving out demons to help the people who being demonized, his power came from God because he was doing good and not evil.  Furthermore, if anyone denied that the Holy Spirit had the power to drive out demons, he would be blaspheming against the Holy Spirit, which is an unforgiveable sin.  Jesus also encountered opposition from his own relatives who thought that Jesus ought to be remaining back in Nazareth and leading a normal acceptable ordinary life instead of being involved in a work that did not even allow him to have his meals.  For his part, Jesus asserted that he was now working to create a new family who were doing the will of God.

2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1. Adam lost paradise for us; Jesus brings us back to paradise.  “We have a building from God, a dwelling not made with hands, eternal in heaven.” “We look not to what is seen but to what is unseen; for what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal.”