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Well, good morning. 
So as Jay mentioned, my name is 

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Andrew. 
I'm still reacclimating to 

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Frontier and still getting to 
meet you guys. 

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So if I forget your name when I 
see you and I just say hey 

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brother, let's play because I 
can't remember your name in the 

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moment, so forgive me of that, 
but I am excited to be with you 

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this morning. 
And so yeah, we're going to be 

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continuing our journey through 
Genesis. 

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And so if you while I talk, when
I get your Bibles acclimated to 

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Genesis chapter 2, verses 4 to 
9, feel free to do that. 

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If you didn't bring a Bible with
you this morning, we'll have the

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scripture on the screen, but 
there's also Pew back Bibles 

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right in front of you. 
But so far we've looked at in 

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the beginning, God created the 
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So God is the originator of 
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And then we looked at how in 
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He created all the plants, 
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landmass, He created the 
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that were good for fruit. 
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So we've looked at that so far. 
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created man in his own image and
why that's important. 

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And we've looked at God creating
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So we're going to build up off 
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So just so you know, today is 
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giving me like the teaser 
sermons where I get to talk 

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about a little bit and then 
somebody else gets to have the 

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really fun parts. 
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But anyway, I'm what a lot of 
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today is it's kind of set up the
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So there are going to be some 
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really, really enjoy talking 
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purpose. 
It's not my time to do that. 

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So I'm going to set us up, build
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cliffhanger. 
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about something, I'll hint at it
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it'll be fleshed out later on. 
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just want to one just as I was 
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reminded of how unique Frontier 
is and the amount of like people

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that have come here that God has
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Great musical skills and vocal 
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Frontiers life, God just like 
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former worship leaders or people
who are really good at playing 

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drums. 
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Like day one. 
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frontier was is really unique in
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So when you see our worship team
later on, just encourage them 

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and stir up their affections for
Jesus because they get here 

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early and they love Jesus and 
they love you. 

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And it was just a a good 
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this church. 
So this morning, Genesis chapter

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2, verses 4 to 9. 
If you are able to stand, do 

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that. 
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spirit. 
Which is the sliding. 

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My wife keeps telling me to wear
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right now, so she can't make fun
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All right. 
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heavens and the earth when they 
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the Lord God made the earth and 
the heavens, when no Bush of the

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field was yet in the land, no 
small plant of the field had yet

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sprung up. 
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to rain on the land, and there 
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and a mist was going up from the
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face of the ground. 
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of dust from the ground and 
breathed into it, into his 

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nostrils the breath of life, and
the man became a living 

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creature. 
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garden in Eden in the east, and 
there he put the man whom he had

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formed. 
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God made to spring up every tree
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good for food. 
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midst of the garden and the tree
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evil. 
This is the word of God. 

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Brothers and sisters, it is true
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You may be seated. 
Father, we thank you for another

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morning to gather together as a 
church family. 

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And we're thankful that as we've
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breath that gives us life, that 
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And so even if we sung that song
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saying before, I pray that we 
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this morning, that all of us in 
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have breathed into us that 
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And we don't just have to be 
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strangers, But in this room 
right now, we are family, not 

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because of shared genetics, but 
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that covers us. 
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that and help us to worship you 
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It's in the name of Jesus that I
pray, Amen. 

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So Tracy is my wife. 
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you've seen her because Cole 
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Sundays ago. 
She's serving in Roots right 

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now. 
So I get to talk about fun 

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stories since she's not here. 
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We were engaged for four months.
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year, will be year 14. 
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Tracy was went home for the 
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college. 
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all dating couples do. 
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Are you going to hang up? 
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So we went through like a period
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one night and I can still 
remember it my mind, I was still

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living. 
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parents' home, my little 
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I can remember the whole setup 
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about to hang up and Tracy says,
I love you and then hung up. 

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She was the first one to say it.
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I think she texted me there. 
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She didn't call me back. 
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didn't mean to say that. 
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And so that just created grounds
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I say I mentioned the story 
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early pages of Genesis, we kind 
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And to our eyes it might look 
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might look like just a 
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really pointing us to the more 
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doing and creating the world. 
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God's creation. 
So Genesis chapter 1, we see all

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of God's creation and then we 
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there's another creation story. 
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people to say, well, how can you
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Why are there 2 creation 
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Why does it say God created all 
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back into God creating man 
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This has to be a mistake. 
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because of these two creation 
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And so it leads many of people 
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It leaves many of people to 
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It leaves many people to look at
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not doing anything for me. 
You said this one page ago. 

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Now we're on this page and it's 
saying the same thing, like what

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in the world is going on? 
Why should I shape my life in my

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life? 
Be informed around this book and

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so I want to walk through why 
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because of this and I want to 
walk through why this is in this

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particular section. 
There is a theory for there's a 

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bunch of people who are way 
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about like textual criticism and
they believe that at different 

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times different people inserted 
things into the Bible and by 

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people I mean scribes and from 
different parts whether they 

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were part of. 
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I don't need to talk about this 
right now you can talk come and 

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talk to me afterwards. 
I don't want to detract from the

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point, but anyway, what I want 
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in the weeds like that's where I
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As I was mentioned the last time
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you the position that God holds,
the personality of God and the 

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personable miss of God and the 
purpose that God is showing us 

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in this passage. 
I'm not going to use that 

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language over and over again. 
I don't have, I'm a good Baptist

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boy, but side stretched the 
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three points right there. 
But I'm not going to dissect the

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the sermon into those 3 
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kind of, but there's going to be
a lot of overlap and then coming

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But I want to show you why this 
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this passage is where it is. 
So we've seen just the general 

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creation of God and the specific
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of man. 
Genesis chapter 2 is honing in 

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on specific creation. 
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heavens and the earth. 
They were finished and the all 

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the host of them at the 
beginning of chapter 2 and God 

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takes a rest. 
And so we had Cole last week 

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talking about the the resting of
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He enjoyed all the goodness that
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existence. 
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these are the generations. 
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generations and what do you 
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Well, my mom and dad, my grandma
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genealogy, but this word 
generations has a has a 

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different meaning. 
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generations is tolido. 
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used over and over again in the 
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the rest of the, the Torah 
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But what it is used for is an 
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like, hey, we're going to talk 
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We're, we're shifting our focus.
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it's talking about God creating 
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general, now we see that, hey, 
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So new section of content of the
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were created in the day that the
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the heavens. 
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gaze somewhere else like, OK, if
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something new. 
So that's a really important 

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thing to notice because what 
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other words like in our English 
translations that are translated

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the same word, but they are 
different in the original 

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language. 
So we kind of miss a little, 

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some little crumbs on the on the
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discern why isn't why is there a
second creation narrative in the

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scriptures? 
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So that's one thing to consider,
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think about is, and Cole did a 
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our Genesis series of talking 
about there are all these 

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creation narratives, right? 
Ancient Mesopotamian people, 

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they had their creation 
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violence that came out of I'm 
creating you so you can serve me

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and feed me and grow food for 
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So everybody in the ancient Near
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that was being created. 
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see God, God, God, God, God. 
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But we get to chapter 2 and 
something interesting happens. 

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Maybe you've already seen what 
happens verse four in the day 

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the Lord God made the earth. 
So now we see something very 

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interesting. 
God, God, God, God, God. 

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Now Lord God, God is revealing 
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So we don't just have a generic 
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We have Yahweh God. 
If you're probably looking at 

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your Bibles right now, you're 
going to see Lord and it's all 

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capital letters, but that word 
Lord is Yahweh, Yahweh God. 

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And I'll unpack like why this is
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moment. 
But the shift, and This is why I

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want to try to show you like the
the transition and and why you 

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can trust the Bible is that this
isn't because somebody else 

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decided to just put things in 
here. 

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One of my favorite theologians, 
he says that Genesis 1 and 2 is 

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like an ancient tract, like 
anybody grew up with tracts 

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having to go do door knocking 
and try to evangelize the 

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neighborhood, So little 
pamphlets. 

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But he he says it's like luring 
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Like you're looking at Genesis 1
and you're being told God 

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created this and God created 
that and God created the 

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mountains over here. 
You're luring people in because 

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they're like, Oh yeah, I believe
God. 

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And then you get to Genesis 2 
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be, but what God? 
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So it's God revealing himself in
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just like teasing along a story,
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and you know that you love 
someone and then you tell them I

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love you at the end. 
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break the ice, right? 
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breaking the ice of this concept
of, yeah, we know that God 

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created the world, but what God?
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Genesis chapter 2, this God 
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Yahweh God, the God of all gods,
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This God has revealed himself to
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Because who wrote Genesis seemed
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Moses. 
OK, so if Moses wrote this, what

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did Moses go through prior to 
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Well, he encountered in Exodus 
the burning Bush right where God

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comes to him and says, hey, this
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Moses is told, here's what I 
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doesn't want to do it. 
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He goes to, well, what am I 
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Your name is? 
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people I am, I'm Yahweh. 
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This is who I am. 
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I've never been created. 
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I am. 
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exist. 
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is my name, right? 
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wrote Genesis under the 
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the inspiration of the Holy 
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God in the burning Bush and he 
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I think what he's trying to do 
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personable, that he reveals 
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individually and collectively. 
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with another word that I've been
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shows that Genesis chapter 2 is 
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here and squeezing them down 
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show the fine tuning of God, to 
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and the shaping that God does in
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It's not a retelling of the same
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the same story. 
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that our God doesn't just throw 
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over here and not care about 
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he takes something that already 
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I read and nerded out a lot 
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of the field was yet in the land
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had yet sprung up for the Lord. 
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the land and there was no man to
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So again, you go back to well in
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space in the midst of everything
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about, but I was told I can't 
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going to talk about it later. 
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home, the place that he is 
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He's already created created the
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He's already created water. 
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and below. 
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we're being told that he's 
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Well, it's because he is 
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He created in general. 
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He's creating a location or 
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else is going to get the glory 
of being able to talk about that

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specific location. 
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was going up from the land and 
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the earth. 
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of dust from the ground and 
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breath of life, and man became a
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We've seen created several times
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If you've been here and if 
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that over and over and over 
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But now it shifts to formed, the
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So this word form in Hebrew is 
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created. 
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that word. 
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interesting because it's more of
turning something into a desired

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purpose. 
So God created, but now he's 

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taking what he has created and 
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getting his hands dirty and he's
turning it into what he wants it

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to be exactly. 
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what God is doing. 
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And I use the the Plato analogy 
last time I preached in Genesis,

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He's got this. 
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Now he's. 
Molding things out of this ball 

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of Plato that he's created. 
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He not only creates, but he 
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he wants them to be. 
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Eastern myths, they don't get 
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because if you are molding, 
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that you are more involved into 
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That shows that God is 
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people. 
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intimately involved with a tree.
Like he cares about what type of

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tree grows in this place he 
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Like I've got bird feeders. 
Like God created a cardinal that

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is beautiful and all these 
little sparrows that just make a

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mess of my bird feeders. 
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randomly appeared and he created
the eagle that I saw fishing out

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of the Des Moines River. 
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in being specific in what he 
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Like that's amazing to think 
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He doesn't just say, you know, 
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the microwave, like, hey, I made
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wife stays up late and gets her,
you know, gross looking 

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sourdough starter working and 
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I don't know, use that. 
Real people know what I'm 

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talking about. 
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and then bakes it and does all 
that stuff like that's more 

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intricate, that's more specific.
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wife working with her sourdough 
starter and riser, that's what I

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think about here. 
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this process. 
He's getting his hands dirty. 

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That's what the imagery here is.
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How does he create and specify 
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He scoops up some dust and the 
liturgy that we had earlier was 

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perfect for this because we were
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up, and then what does he do? 
Does he just look at it and hope

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that something happens? 
Does he just throw it against 

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the wall and see what happens? 
No, he breathes life into it, 

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breathes life into the nostrils.
It's, it's specific, it's 

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intimate, it's personable that 
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and God could do it. 
He could just make things in a 

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way that they just happen. 
But that's not what text tells 

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us. 
It tells us that God is 

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intimately involved in the 
creation of man. 

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He could have just created the 
dust and then been like, well, 

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we'll see what happens. 
I'll wait a couple of centuries 

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and then if something happens 
out of this, that would be 

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great. 
That's not what he, that's not 

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what the Bible tells us. 
It tells us that he scoops up 

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something he's already created 
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And this is unique language, 
like he gives life to the 

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plants, He gives life to the 
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he breathes life into man, into 
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man. 
He and he creates what He wants 

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to create. 
So again, like we've seen like 

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separations in Genesis. 
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separation of animal life and 
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God has provided this 
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Just as man is created in the 
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plants aren't. 
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God, but they're not created in 
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God here separates how man was 
created breath of his breath 

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breathed into the nostrils of 
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That's how God creates me. 
So there's a further distinction

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and then we see in verse 8 
again, I have to skip over some 

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stuff. 
I would like to nerd out with 

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you. 
We can get coffee this week, but

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verse 8 and the Lord God planted
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I wrote, sorry, I want to talk 
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And there he put the man whom he
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So again, it's a reminder he 
formed him. 

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He didn't just create him, but 
he formed him. 

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He got his hands dirty. 
He shaped and molded him in the 

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way that he wanted him to be. 
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God made to spring up every tree
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and good food for and good for 
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The tree of life was in the 
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tree of the knowledge of good 
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So this is another interesting 
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So in our English translations 
we see the Lord God planted the 

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garden, and then it says, And 
there he put the man whom he had

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formed. 
Those words are pretty much the 

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same. 
So God plants a garden, then he 

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plants man in the garden. 
He, he rests the man. 

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So it's, it's a word that's 
similar to Sabbath. 

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It's a word that's similar to 
Noah's name. 

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Noah, like he rests him in the 
garden. 

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God rests this garden and then 
he rests his man in the garden. 

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If you think about those two 
things and then think about God 

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resting after he's created 
everything, and that's just, 

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that's very interesting to think
about. 

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It's very beautiful to think 
about that God rests his people 

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in the place that he is just 
created and rested. 

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And then he rests over all the 
things that he has just brought 

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into existence and didn't do it 
Willy nilly, but did it very 

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specifically. 
So this is God forming Eden and 

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resting Eden. 
This is God setting up his 

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earthly home where heaven and 
earth overlap. 

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And that's your teaser for later
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And then we see the tree of 
life. 

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So this place that God has 
created his heavenly home, he 

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places the tree of life, which 
is the source of renewal, the 

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source of life giving fruit. 
And then he also places this 

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thing called the tree of the 
knowledge of good and evil. 

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And we'll talk about that later,
which is super fascinating. 

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The payoff will come. 
I want to talk about it right 

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now so bad, but we'll we'll talk
about it later. 

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So what do we do with all this 
stuff? 

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Thinking about God who recreate,
we see. 

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We see a God as revealed to us 
in Scripture who creates things 

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in general, but then also is in 
the mess of creating things. 

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It gets his hands dirty. 
He shapes things, He forms 

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things. 
What do we do with that 

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knowledge? 
And why should we care about it,

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right? 
Why should that cause us to 

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worship him? 
Why should that sway our opinion

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of whether worshipping God is 
worthy? 

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Why? 
I think on a very human level, 

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if you just think about the 
people in your life just 

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talking. 
I've talked with a couple of 

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people about this, but you have 
like your two PM friends and 

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your two AM friends. 
You got the friend that you can 

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call it 2:00 PM on a Saturday 
and can come and help you with 

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whatever you have. 
And then you have your two AM 

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friends who you can call and no 
matter what, they'll drop it at 

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a moment whatever they're doing 
and they'll show up. 

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Judy Maxwell was our 2:00 AM 
friend when we lived in Des 

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Moines. 
Like whenever Tracy was going 

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into labor, like hey Judy, can 
you please come and watch our 

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other kid and take care of them 
while we go to the hospital. 

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I think the shift is we see a 
2:00 PM friend in chapter 1, 

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which I'm not taking anything 
from the glory of the Lord, but 

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what I'm trying to say is he's 
also the 2:00 AM friend. 

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He's both of those. 
He's there for you in general, 

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but he's there for you in 
specific terms if you're in 

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Christ. 
And we see that shift here. 

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And so I think that's that 
should lead us to worship him to

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know that he doesn't just care 
about you as Oh, you're my 

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little pet, give you a pound in 
the back. 

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But he's like, no, you're, you 
created my image. 

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I did this on purpose. 
I shaped you to be who you are. 

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I love you. 
I want you to be in my family. 

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I think it's that leads us to 
worship. 

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And there's a lot of times where
I don't feel like I'm worthy of 

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that. 
But why? 

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And so I think it's, we have to 
go to Scripture and see you 

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decided God, you decided to do 
things the way that you did. 

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So even if I don't feel like I'm
worthy of it, you say that I'm 

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worthy of your attention, worthy
of your shaping, worthy of your 

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forming when we see people 
suffer and it makes no sense. 

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We talked about this earlier 
with the worship team, like 

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there's so much suffering that 
goes on and so much pain and 

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hurt and bad experiences and 
doesn't make sense. 

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But we know that God has shaped 
those people who are suffering. 

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He's shaped us as we're 
experiencing other people's 

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suffering. 
Like we can step into that too 

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and, and dirty our hands just 
like God dirtied his hands when 

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he created man. 
I want to end with this because 

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this is something I was thinking
about today. 

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So not only did God dirty his 
hands and breathe life into dust

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and create man, he also sent his
son who didn't just dirty his 

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hands, but bloodied his hands so
that you and I could be brought 

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into right relationship with God
to be brought back into that, 

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that that shape that God had 
originally intended man to 

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experience and be molded into. 
And just like God created things

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in general and then created them
specifically and shaped them, if

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you're in Christ, he's not done 
with you yet. 

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He's sanctifying you. 
He's still working on shaping 

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you and molding you. 
So I would encourage all of us 

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to think about that, to see that
parallel of creating and 

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shaping, saving and sanctifying.
Like those two ways of thinking 

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will change the way that you 
read the Bible. 

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It'll change the way that you 
wake up in the morning. 

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It'll change the way that you go
to bed at night. 

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So think about your Yeah, think 
about those things that. 

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And that should lead us to try 
to meet our church's mission 

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statement of being the most 
joyful church in Des Moines. 

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If we understand who God is, we 
understand who we are and we 

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understand what God is doing 
through us. 

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And if you have any questions 
about any of that, go talk to 

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one of the pastors. 
Come find me, Talk to somebody 

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in your community group. 
And if you don't know that you 

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were created in God's image and 
that he has formed you, and if 

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you don't know that salvation 
alone is only in Jesus and that 

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you can be sanctified and 
changed, talk to one of the 

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pastors. 
We've got amazing pastors here. 

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I'm not one of them, so I get to
brag on these guys. 

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So just, yeah, go talk to them. 
Don't, don't leave here today. 

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If you've got a question about 
any of this, don't leave today 

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without asking that question. 
Let me pray for us. 

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Father, I thank you for your 
goodness. 

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I thank you that you have 
created us, that you have shaped

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us. 
And Father, I'm thankful that 

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because of Jesus that you create
a new life again and that you 

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shape that new life. 
So help us to trust in Jesus. 

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Help us to see Him as the only, 
only way that we can experience 

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transformation in this life. 
Because we can try and try and 

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try to change things. 
We can try to change our diets, 

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we can try to read all the 
books, we can try to go to 

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counseling, and those are all 
good things. 

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But the only thing that can 
transform us inside and out is 

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Jesus. 
So help us to run to Jesus. 

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Help us to see how when we run 
to him, he points us to places 

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for transformation. 
But the place that he points to 

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the most is himself,