In this sermon Preserve Trees that Give Life, The tree of the field is man's life. This obscure little law in Deuteronomy holds great significance to the issue of the Christian life of today. It's a law that ensured care be given to the means by which food might be obtained by a city. The element in the fruit tree of Life that differs from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was the fact that it gave life. God said the forbidden tree would bring death. The law in Deut. stated that the fruit trees give life, and therefore must be preserved. But the forbidden fruit tree was contradictory to this truth. It was a fruit tree but did not give life. It gave death. Therefore, it cannot be preserved. It will be cut down. And that is the reason that in the City of Revelation there is only the tree of life, and not the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. All other life giving trees will be cut down and burned.