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And as you find your seat, if 
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the book of Genesis chapter 3. 
I apologize if my giant Band-Aid

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on my nose is distracting. 
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guess I should just let you 
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Friday night I've been sick all 
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church wasn't feeling well and 
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was feeling nauseated and was 
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All I remember is closing the 
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all I remember. 
I passed out and face planted on

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the bathroom tub and broke my 
nose and so Lauren took me to 

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the ER or the ambulance took me 
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Everything was fine. 
I just have a broken nose. 

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I've broken it like 3 or 4 times
playing basketball. 

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So it's, it's, he told me how to
get surgery done. 

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And I was like, man, you can't 
fix this thing. 

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It's, it's, it's already messed 
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So, but yeah, thankfully Lauren 
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It was so loud. 
Thankfully she heard it up 

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because I would have been 
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So, so yeah, I'm grateful to be 
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The Lord has sustained and 
feeling a lot better and so I'm 

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thankful to to be here with you 
and to be able to preach and so 

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I'm I'm excited to look at God's
word this morning. 

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Genesis chapter 3, verses 8 to 
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So as you turn there, type that 
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and your copy of God's Word 
Genesis chapter 3, beginning in 

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verse 8. 
And they heard the sound of the 

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Lord God walking in the garden 
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And the man and his wife hid 
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the Lord God among the trees of 
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But the Lord God called to the 
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you? 
And he said, I heard the sound 

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of you in the garden, and I was 
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hid myself. 
He said, who told you that you 

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were naked? 
Have you eaten of the tree of 

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which I commanded you not to 
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The man said, the woman whom you
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fruit of the tree and I ate. 
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woman, what is this that you 
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The woman said, the serpent 
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The Lord God said to the 
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this cursed are you above all 
livestock and above all beasts 

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of the field. 
On your belly you shall go, and 

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dust you shall eat. 
All the days of your life I will

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put enmity between you and the 
woman, and between your 

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offspring and her offspring. 
He shall bruise your head, and 

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you shall bruise his heel. 
Let's pray Lord, I pray God, 

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that You would give us 
understanding into Your word 

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this morning. 
You got to pray that You would 

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help me and sustain me to preach
this message. 

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I pray that you would help all 
the listeners sustain their 

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ears, their hearts and minds to 
receive the implanted word that 

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your Spirit is speaking to them.
God would you conform us and 

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teach us, make us more like 
Christ this morning. 

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God that is our hearts desire is
that we would we would look like

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Christ. 
I pray this in Jesus name, Amen.

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John Calvin writes this. 
As soon as the voice of God 

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sounds, Adam and Eve perceive 
that the leaves by which they 

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thought themselves well 
protected are of no avail. 

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The Sinner thinks himself well 
fenced until God's voice strikes

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his conscience. 
Left to ourselves, we can grow 

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fairly comfortable with our 
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Left to ourselves, we can grow 
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so-called shadows. 
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fig leaves. 
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living in the shadows. 
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That's what the sermon is about 
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I'm going to start by giving you
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If you haven't been here with 
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going to give the context and 
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application woven together this 
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So here's the context of of 
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Last week we were introduced to 
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true. 
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asked her a question that is 
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Did God actually say that you 
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garden? 
The woman says, Oh no, we we can

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eat of of all the trees except 
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one, we will die. 
And the server replies, you will

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not surely die. 
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it because God knows that the 
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you will be like him. 
You will know good and evil. 

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The serpent's crappy scheme 
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She takes the fruit and she eats
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Their eyes are immediately 
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naked. 
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last week. 
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this morning. 
I'm going to, as I mentioned, 

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I'm going to be doing expedition
application woven together. 

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Let's start in verse 8. 
Then they heard the sound of the

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Lord God walking in the garden 
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man and his wife hid themselves 
from the presence of the Lord 

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God among the trees of the 
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The text tells us that that Adam
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walking in the garden. 
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spirit. 
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is either anthropomorphic 
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form in the garden, that there 
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God took and he is actually 
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Either way, we learned that God 
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I want to pause and just 
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When God made this earth and the
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in the garden, it wasn't as 
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And then he says, OK, I'll be in
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on me if you need me. 
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The text says that God, when he 
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garden, he would come to the 
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garden. 
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that for a moment. 
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wasn't just that it was filled 
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some blissful paradise. 
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was that God would come and walk
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What an unspeakable privilege to
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you, to have uninhibited 
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Church family, there is nothing 
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fellowship with God. 
We don't know how many times God

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has taken a stroll in this 
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day, something was different. 
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cool of the day. 
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their father's voice, they run 
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You know that when dad comes 
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the door. 
The child hears their their 

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dad's voice. 
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Daddy, Daddy, you're home. 
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they don't run to God, they run 
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How ironic that what they wanted
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The whole reason they ate this 
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And now they are hiding from the
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Now I want to point out how 
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woman attempt to hide from the 
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They attempt to hide behind the 
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made. 
It's a pitiful attempt of 

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hiding. 
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were really young. 
We used to love to play hide and

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seek. 
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Seattle, so we have to play in 
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We, they would go and hide and 
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could see an arm sticking out or
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Young children are poor hiders, 
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How illogical it is anytime we 
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They have not yet learned what 
the psalmist teaches in Psalm 

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139. 
Where shall I go from your 

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spirit? 
Where shall I flee from your 

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presence? 
If I ascend to heaven, you are 

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there. 
If I make my bed and she'll, you

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are there. 
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from God. 
He sees everything. 

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He sees your thoughts right now.
He knows what you're thinking. 

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Are your thoughts on Him or are 
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He sees everything. 
He sees our emotions. 

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He sees our secret sins. 
He sees it all. 

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If you need to hide, hide in 
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Look at verse 9. 
But the Lord God called to the 

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man and said to him, where are 
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You know what's interesting is 
that in this passage, God asks 4

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questions. 
Initially, God, initially God 

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doesn't make any statements to 
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In this passage, He makes 0 
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but he does ask them four 
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Why does God only ask them 
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Because God wants them to be 
accountable, as Derek Kidner 

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writes, God must draw rather 
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God wants to draw them out of 
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hiding. 
These questions are intended to 

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draw Adam out of the shadows. 
This is a strategy that God uses

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all throughout Scripture. 
God asked Elijah the same 

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question twice. 
What are you doing here, Elijah?

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God asked Jonah the same 
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Do you do well to be angry? 
God asked Cain. 

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Where is your brother Abel? 
Jesus asked Peter the same 

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question three times. 
Do you love me? 

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Brothers and sisters, if you are
still, you will hear the voice 

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of God asking you questions. 
You will. 

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You will hear the Holy Spirit 
asking you, why are you doing 

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this, Why are you doing this? 
Why are you here? 

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What is your motive? 
Why do you feel like you need 

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this? 
God's questions are always 

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intended to reveal the truth of 
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They are designed to bring our 
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shadows. 
The man and the woman are hiding

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among the trees in the garden. 
But it's not as though God is 

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going to look for them. 
And after he spends a few 

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minutes, you're looking for 
them, he says, oh, well, I don't

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know where they're at. 
I guess I'll go back to heaven. 

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No, like a Good Shepherd, he 
stays and he calls out for his 

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sheep. 
The Lord God called to the man. 

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I want to pause there and 
mention what tremendous grace 

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this is. 
God is omniscient. 

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He knows what has happened. 
You know, he could just say, 

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fine, you don't want to do what 
I tell you to do, fine, go to 

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Burger King, have it your way. 
You are on your own now. 

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But God in his mercy and grace 
calls to the man. 

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Sometimes we wish that God would
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And we sometimes wish, like God,
just just let me have my cake 

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and eat it too, for this season,
Like for just this one decision,

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just this one thing, just let me
have my cake and eat it too. 

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But God will not let us go. 
He won't let us go. 

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He comes to us, He calls to us, 
He draws us out of the shadows. 

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Now notice who did God call to? 
Not the woman. 

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Not the man and the woman, just 
the man. 

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He only called to the man. 
Why Paul writes for the husband 

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is the head of the wife, even as
Christ is the head of the 

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church. 
God calls to Adam because Adam 

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is the spiritual head. 
He is the spiritual authority 

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and therefore he holds a greater
accountability than the woman 

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does. 
Look at the first question that 

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God asked. 
He says where are you, you? 

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There is singular meaning. 
He is specifically asking Adam. 

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He calls to Adam and he ask Adam
where are you Adam? 

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Now obviously God knows where 
Adam is, but this question has a

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purpose. 
This is such a simple question 

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and yet a profound one at the 
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Where are you? 
Trust family of God were to come

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to you today and ask the same 
question. 

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How would you answer Where are 
you? 

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Where are you spiritually? 
How would you answer that if God

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asked you? 
Where are you spiritually? 

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Where are you salvifically? 
Where are you in your walk with 

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God? 
Where are you in your commitment

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to killing your sin church 
family? 

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Where are you in verse 10? 
And he said, I heard the sound 

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of you in the garden and I was 
afraid because I was naked and I

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hid myself. 
Now what's interesting is that 

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Adam doesn't answer the Lord's 
question. 

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He doesn't. 
We would expect him to say I'm 

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over here behind these trees. 
That's not what he says. 

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He feels the need to explain 
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He says I heard the sound of you
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And what he says next is 
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And I was afraid. 
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history of fear. 
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effects of sin upon mankind. 
Fear has now forever entered the

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world. 
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prior to this the man and woman 
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the Lord, but now that sin has 
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fear of God. 
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the fear of God. 
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beginning of wisdom. 
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of fear of God. 
The proper fear of God causes us

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to run to God. 
We we know His power and His 

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love, and we we fear being 
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because I fear being away from 
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I fear his displeasure. 
I fear not being under his 

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protection. 
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causes us to run away from God. 
We forget who God is. 

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We assume that God will meet us 
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Isn't that why Adam hides? 
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merciful and gracious and slow 
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God and confessed his sin. 
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gives her why he was afraid. 
He says I was afraid because I 

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was naked. 
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originally the man and the 
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and and and they lived that way 
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have a framework for it. 
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nakedness. 
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fruit, their eyes were opened 
and they knew they were naked 

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and that. 
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produces a feeling of shame. 
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them into the shadows. 
Church family, if any of you are

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engaged in secret sins, I 
understand you might, you feel 

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like maybe I could never confess
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And I get it. 
Like as a pastor of, you know, 

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people will confess things to me
that they never tell anybody 

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things, that if I were them, I 
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able to admit it. 
I understand there there may be 

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things in your life you feel 
like I could never confess this 

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to anybody, like confessing this
struggle would be as difficult 

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as walking through those doors 
naked. 

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But I'm here to tell you, you 
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You don't have to be afraid of 
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There is therefore now no 
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in Christ Jesus. 
You are free to come out of the 

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shadows. 
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He said, Who told you that you 
were naked? 

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Have you eaten at the tree of 
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God? 
Second question is this, Who 

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told you that you were naked? 
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It seems to imply that both the 
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would have never realized they 
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They they just would have lived 
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They would have never known any,
any any different. 

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They didn't have this knowledge 
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But now that they have this 
knowledge, it means it came from

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somewhere. 
They know they're naked. 

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And God says, if you have this 
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from somewhere. 
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third question. 
The only way that you would have

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gained this knowledge is if you 
did something I told you not to 

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do. 
Have you eaten of the tree of 

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which I commanded you not to 
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Now again, God knows good and 
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God is once again calling them 
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God asked Adam a point blank 
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Have you eaten of the tree that 
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This is an opportunity for Adam 
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sin. 
To say yes Lord, I have eaten of

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the tree that you commanded me 
not to eat. 

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I did so. 
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God? 
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The man said the woman whom you 
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fruit of the tree and I ate. 
Notice Adam doesn't answer God's

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question. 
God asked a very simple 

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question. 
Have you eaten up the tree of 

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which I commanded you not to 
eat? 

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A simple question warrants a 
simple answer. 

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Yes or no. 
The correct answer is yes. 

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Yes, I have eaten of the tree 
that you commanded me not to 

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eat. 
That's the correct answer. 

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But that's not how Adam answers.
Instead, he deflects his blame. 

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Church family, there is great 
freedom of being able to confess

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our sin humbly, directly, 
immediately, with no deflection,

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no explanation, no 
justification. 

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Isn't it our tendency that when 
we confess our sin, we say, yes,

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I did this, but here's why I did
it? 

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Or you don't understand, like 
the is there. 

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There is a great freedom in 
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No deflection, no explanation, 
no justification, just an 

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acknowledgement that we have 
sinned. 

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But that's not what Adam does. 
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The woman whom you gave to be 
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the tree and I ate. 
This is such a tragic response 

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because Adam had the opportunity
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responsibility for his actions, 
and instead he deflects the 

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blame not just to one person, 
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Look at who Adam blames #1 God. 
He says, the woman whom you gave

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to be with me, the woman whom 
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It's almost as if Adam is 
blaming God for giving him this 

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woman. 
Adam initially received the 

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woman as a gift from God. 
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liability. 
Satan will tempt us to blame God

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for our sin. 
He will. 

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I have met many people through 
the years who have blamed God 

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for their sin. 
God gave me the same sex 

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attraction. 
I didn't choose it. 

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It's not my fault I have it. 
God gave me such strong 

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heterosexual attraction. 
It's not my fault that I lost. 

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God didn't want me to lost. 
Why did he make it so difficult?

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God gave me this disability or 
infirmity. 

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How am I not supposed to be 
bitter? 

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God made me this way, therefore 
it's his fault. 

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God allows so much evil in this 
world. 

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How can I not doubt Satan will 
attempt to convince you that God

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is the one to blame for your 
sin? 

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The second person Adam blames is
the woman she gave me fruit of 

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the tree. 
The woman who you gave to me, 

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she gave it to me. 
Now this excuse sounds a lot 

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like Aaron's excuse when he made
the golden calf. 

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Remember when Aaron made the 
golden calf, Moses came down the

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mountain and he couldn't believe
what he was seeing. 

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And when he confronted Aaron, 
this is what Aaron said. 

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You know the people, they are 
set on evil. 

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So I said to them, let any web 
gold take it off. 

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So they gave it to me and I 
threw it in the fire and out 

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came this calf. 
He just threw gold in the fire 

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and out came a calf. 
Adam is like he ate of the fruit

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because she gave it to him. 
Like, like you didn't have any 

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choice in the matter. 
You didn't eat it. 

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You ate because she gave it to 
you. 

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That's why you ate. 
You didn't eat because you made 

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a willful choice to eat it. 
Brothers and sisters, there are 

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always factors that play into 
our sin. 

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There are always external 
factors that are playing into 

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our sin. 
But there is always just one 

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person who is responsible for my
sin, and that is the man in the 

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mirror. 
No one is ever to blame except 

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me. 
Let me say that again, because 

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inevitably you and I both will 
blame somebody else. 

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No one is to blame or is 
responsible for our sin except 

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us. 
Look at verse 13. 

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Then the Lord God said to the 
woman, what is this that you 

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have done? 
The woman said, the serpent 

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deceived me and I ate. 
God asked His fourth and final 

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question and this time He asked 
it to the woman. 

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This is the first recorded words
that God speaks to the woman and

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they are piercing ones. 
What is this that you have done?

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This question is meant to 
express shock. 

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It's it's similar to our 
statement. 

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What in the world have you done?
The question is designed to 

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bring a a healthy level of shame
and remorse. 

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It reminds us that that our sin 
grieves the heart of God. 

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God is not a robot who remains 
unaffected by our choices. 

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God is a person, God is a 
father, and he is grieved by our

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sin. 
Now how might the woman answer 

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God's question when he said, 
What is this you have done? 

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How might she have answered 
God's question? 

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Well, she could have said, I 
took from the tree that you 

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commanded us not to eat from, 
and I ate from it. 

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Or my eyes saw the forbidden 
fruit and I coveted it, and so I

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ate. 
Or I have sinned against you. 

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O God, those would be 
appropriate responses. 

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But just as Adam knows how to 
play the blame game, so does the

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woman. 
Look at what she says. 

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The serpent deceived me and I 
ate. 

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Now is her statement true? 
Is her statement true? 

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In content yes, in content, yes.
We know that the woman was 

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deceived. 
Second Corinthians 11/3 But I am

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afraid that is the serpent 
deceived Eve by his cunning. 

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Your thoughts will be LED astray
from a seer, sincere and pure 

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devotion to Christ. 
First Timothy 214 And Adam was 

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not deceived, but the woman was 
deceived and became a 

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transgressor. 
Her statement is true and 

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content. 
But truth is not merely measured

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by content, it's also measured 
by implications. 

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What does her statement imply? 
It implies this because the 

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serpent deceived me. 
It's not my fault that I ate. 

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That's what it implies, and that
is not a true implication. 

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Being deceived is not an excuse 
for sin. 

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That is why four times in the 
New Testament we are commanded 

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do not be deceived. 
Being deceived is not something 

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that just happens to us and we 
have no control over it. 

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Being deceived is something that
we let happen to us because we 

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didn't fill our minds with the 
word of God. 

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The woman knew the truth. 
God clearly said you will surely

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die. 
It wasn't as though God, you 

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know, said something kind of 
ambiguous and she wasn't sure. 

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And then Satan played on that 
ambiguity. 

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No, she knew the truth. 
God said unequivocally, you will

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surely die. 
She failed to fill her mind with

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these words and instead let her 
mind be taken hostage by the 

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words of a serpent Church 
family. 

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Make it a priority in your life 
to not be deceived. 

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Let the truth of God's Word be 
tattooed all over your mind so 

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that there is no space left for 
Satan's ink. 

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Look at verses 14 to 15, our 
last section. 

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The Lord God said to the 
serpent, Because you have done 

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this, cursed are you, above all 
livestock and above all beasts 

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of the field. 
On your belly you shall go, and 

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dust you shall eat. 
All the days of your life. 

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I will put enmity between you 
and the woman, in between your 

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offspring and her offspring. 
He shall bruise your head, and 

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you shall bruise his heel. 
Now what's interesting is that 

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God asked the man and the woman 
for questions. 

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He asked them four questions. 
But God asked the serpent no 

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questions. 
Nor does he ask the the serpent 

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for a confession of any kind. 
God knows the serpent is beyond 

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redemption. 
For the first time in history, 

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God is going to hand out 
punishment. 

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Before God addresses the man and
the woman, he's going to punish 

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the serpent. 
He doles out three pieces of 

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punishment #1 cursed. 
Are you above all livestock and 

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above all beasts of the field? 
We often talk about being under 

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the curse. 
Sin brought in a curse upon this

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world. 
It's why we have death and 

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sickness and famine and, and 
every unimaginable tragedy in 

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this life. 
And the curse starts with the 

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serpent. 
God pronounces a curse upon this

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serpent. 
Two. 

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He says on your belly you shall 
go and dust you shall eat. 

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Now, of course, people always 
want to ask this question. 

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Does does this mean the serpent 
originally had legs? 

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I don't think so. 
I don't think that's what that 

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means. 
Serpents don't eat dust. 

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So I think this is metaphorical 
language. 

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I think this is a way of saying 
that the serpent will now be 

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humiliated. 
Three, there will be enmity 

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between you and the woman. 
This enmity will last throughout

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all generations. 
Look at what God says. 

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He says He shall bruise your 
head, and you shall bruise his 

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heel. 
And what does that mean? 

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This verse is highly debatable. 
Not everybody agrees on this, 

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but some scholars see here the 
earliest foreshadowing of 

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Christ. 
The offspring of the woman, 

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thousands of years later, came 
down to this earth to bruise the

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serpent's head. 
The serpent will bruise his 

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heel, meaning he will get first 
bite, but the victory will 

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belong to the woman's offspring.
This is good news for us all 

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because there are still serpent 
out there. 

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He is a roaring lion seeking 
someone to devour. 

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He is a poisonous serpent that 
still strikes at our heels. 

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He is a slander attempter, an 
accuser, a liar, an adversary, A

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deceiver. 
But we need not fall for his 

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schemes because Jesus has taken 
away his power of deception. 

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This serpent can wound us, but 
he can no longer keep us in the 

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shadows. 
Jesus has bruised his head. 

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It is a decisive blow, and now 
he invites us to walk freely in 

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the light. 
Church family, do you hear God 

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calling to you? 
Do you hear him come out of the 

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shadows into the light? 
Let's pray.