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“Drove out” (H1644 – garas) means to expel, to drive out from a possession, even to divorce. Adam and Eve were not eager to leave what was familiar. The presence of the flaming sword suggests a deeper truth: there was a tendency to want to return. The familiar, even when flawed, still pulled at them…

I’m sure that back in the very earliest days, as people saw me holding forth to a handful of people in a dumpy old building about touching the world for Jesus, they may have thought, Well, he certainly is a positive young man!

Can you steal from yourself? At first glance, the answer seems obvious. Stealing, by definition, is taking something that does not belong to you without permission. You can certainly give away something you own, but you cannot steal from yourself; there is no transfer of ownership. Yet, in another sense, a person can indeed steal from himself—by stealing from his future…