How to Eat the Tree of Life - “Loving the Lord with the First Love” vs “Letting the Lord Have the First Place in All Things”
Genesis 2:9 The Lord God made every kind of tree grow out of the ground—trees that are pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden was the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
John 6:35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.”
Revelation 2:4 But I condemn you for one thing: you have forsaken your first love.
Colossians 1:18 He is also the head of the body of the church, the beginning, the firstborn one raised from the dead, so that he may have the highest position in all things;
Philippians 3:8 Moreover, I consider all things a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For him I have lost all things; I consider them rubbish, that I might gain Christ.
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Item |
Loving the Lord with the First Love |
Letting the Lord Have the First Place in All Things |
Spiritual Integration: How to Eat the Tree of Life |
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Meaning |
Returning to love the Lord with the purest and best love (Rev. 2:4) |
Honoring Christ as Head and center in all things (Col. 1:18) |
Loving the Lord is the inward motive; giving Him first place is the outward practice |
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Reason |
Religious knowledge causes believers to lose love and enjoyment of Christ |
The self and the natural man hinder Christ from being Lord |
Loss of love leads to loss of enjoyment; lack of first place blocks the way of life |
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Way |
Giving the Lord our best love: “I give You my first love” |
Willingly being adjusted, broken, and denied |
Giving the heart to the Lord and giving Him the position |
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Explanation |
Love brings us back to the tree of life, not to the tree of knowledge |
Giving Him first place allows Christ to have a free way within us |
Love opens the channel; first place maintains the flow |
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Purpose |
To enjoy Christ as the supply of life |
To allow Christ to build up His Body |
Eating the tree of life is for the building of the Body |
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Result |
Gaining Christ as enjoyment |
Living out Christ as expression |
Eating → Living → Shining |
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Relationship |
Love produces the willingness to give Christ first place |
First place preserves love from degradation |
Love is the root; first place is the fruit |
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Example |
Mary loving the Lord above service (Luke 10:39) |
Paul counting all things loss for Christ (Phil. 3:8) |
From doing things for Christ to letting Christ do everything |
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Application |
Renew our love for the Lord daily |
Ask in every matter: Does Christ have the first place? |
Eat the tree of life daily, not the tree of knowledge |
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Burden |
To recover the church’s first love |
To recover Christ’s headship |
To recover God’s original intention: man eating the tree of life |
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Prophesying Direction |
“Lord, I love You with the first love.” |
“Lord, have the first place in all things.” |
“Lord, make me one who eats You as the tree of life.” |
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Conclusion |
Loving the Lord brings life supply |
Giving Him first place brings living testimony |
Eating the tree of life = loving the Lord + giving Him first place |
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Related Verses |
Gen. 2:9; Rev. 2:4, 7; John 6:35 |
Col. 1:18; Matt. 6:33; Rom. 12:1–2 |
Heb. 10:19–20; Rev. 22:2, 14 |
✨ Spiritual Integrated View (Key Point)
To eat the tree
of life is not a matter of knowledge, but of relationship;
not doctrine, but love;
not activity, but lordship.
Loving the Lord with the first love brings us back to the
tree of life.
Letting Christ have the first place keeps us in the tree of life.
🗝 One Prophesying Summary Sentence
“Lord Jesus, I love You with the first love and give You the first place in all things, that I may eat You as the tree of life for my life supply and testimony.”
🏁 Ultimate Conclusion
God’s original intention: man should eat the tree of life.
God’s redemption: the way to the tree of life is reopened.
God’s present way: through the overcomers to recover eating the tree of
life.
The practical way today is:
❤️
Loving the Lord with the first love
👑 Letting
Him have the first place in all things
🌳 This
is to truly eat the tree of life.
*Please refer to the 2025 Winter Training: Experience, Enjoy, and Manifest Christ (Part 4), Week 5: Tree of Life.
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