Adam and Eve were happy in the Garden.  There were beautiful flowers.  There were all kinds of fruit, very good to eat.

“The fruit that grows in the Garden is yours to eat,” God told Adam.  “But there is one tree of which you must NOT eat.  That is the Tree of The Knowledge of Good and Evil.  It grows in the middle of the Garden.  If you eat the fruit off of that tree, you will die.”

God often came to the Garden.  Sometimes He came in the evening.  He would walk and talk with Adam and Eve, like we walk and talk with our friends.

But there was another person who came to the Garden.  That was Satan.  Satan hated God very much.  Because he hated God so much, he wanted to spoil the beautiful earth that God had made.
One day while Eve was walking alone in the Garden, Satan came to her.  He hid himself inside a snake and talked to her from inside the snake.

Satan said, “How lovely this Garden is!  How tasty the fruit looks!  Did God tell you not to eat of the fruit of the Garden?”

“Oh no”, said Eve.  “He gave us all these beautiful fruits to eat.  We can eat all we want.  There is only one tree we must not touch. That is the Tree of The Knowledge of Good and Evil.  God says that if we eat of that tree, we shall surely die.”

“But that is not true!” said Satan.  “You will not die if you eat of that tree.  You will become like God if you eat of that tree!”

Become like God?  How wonderful that would be!  Eve went to look at the Tree of The Knowledge of Good and Evil.  The fruit was very beautiful and Eve was sure it would taste very god too.  But God had said not to eat of it or she would surely die.  But the snake said she wouldn’t die.  Eve listened to the snake.
Eve took a bite of the fruit.  Then she called Adam and gave it to him.  Although he knew he shouldn’t, Adam took a bit too.  Then Satan was glad, for he thought he had spoiled God’s beautiful earth! 
But Adam and Eve looked at each other and they were ashamed.  They were afraid too!  They had disobeyed God.  What would happen to them now?  God said they would surely die!  
Satan just laughed at them.

Boys and girls, we need to remember not to do bad things no matter how much fun they might seem to be or how nice it might be.  When God tells us to obey, we need to obey.  That means listening to our mommy and daddy or whoever is looking after us.  God wants us to be obedient to Him.  Don’t let someone get you to do something bad—they will most times laugh at you when you get into trouble, just like Satan did with Adam and Eve.

Read the Scripture: Ephesians 6:1-3