1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:04,320 On the occasion of Cornell University's second annual 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:09,560 Darwin Day, which I might add, it sounds like the kind of thing 3 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:12,520 where you ever hear of like the Darwin Awards. 4 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:19,320 These are these are like joke awards that are meant to get at 5 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:23,200 people who who don't necessarily understand survival of the 6 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:26,640 fittest. So maybe, perhaps they do 7 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:30,600 something stupid or foolish. That's, that's what I think of 8 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:33,960 when it, when I, when I read this Darwin Day is like, like 9 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:36,120 that. But no, that's not what they're 10 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:37,440 doing. They're actually celebrating 11 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:41,840 Darwin at Cornell University on their second annual Darwin Day. 12 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:46,680 William Provine opened his speech saying naturalistic 13 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:51,800 evolution has clear consequences that Charles Darwin understood 14 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:56,120 perfectly. No ultimate foundation for 15 00:00:56,120 --> 00:01:02,520 ethics exists. That is, if there's no God, then 16 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:06,080 there's no foundation on which the evolutionist can claim 17 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:09,160 anything is morally right or wrong. 18 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:13,720 The atheist actually needs God in order to be able to make such 19 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:17,960 a claim. I know, it's funny. 20 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:25,040 This morning we'll examine where right and wrong actually come 21 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:27,920 from. The origins of sin in this 22 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:31,240 world. So if you're able, would you 23 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:37,000 stand as we read from Genesis chapter 3, We'll read verses one 24 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:42,600 through 7. Now the serpent's was more 25 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,840 crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had 26 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:48,600 made. He said to the woman, Did God 27 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:51,600 actually say, You shall not eat of any tree in the garden? 28 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:54,760 And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit 29 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:57,920 of the trees in the garden. But God said, You shall not eat 30 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:00,440 of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, 31 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:02,720 neither shall you touch it, lest you die. 32 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:06,520 But the serpent said to the woman, You will not surely die, 33 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:09,400 for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be open, 34 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:11,680 and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. 35 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:15,080 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that 36 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:17,400 it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be 37 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:21,640 desired to make one wise, she took of its fruits and ate, and 38 00:02:21,640 --> 00:02:24,680 she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he 39 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:27,240 ate. Then the eyes of both were open, 40 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:30,480 and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves 41 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,480 together and made themselves loincloths. 42 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:43,220 You may be seated as we begin our time in this passage. 43 00:02:43,220 --> 00:02:49,580 It's it's important to say that this is not a fable or a myth. 44 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:52,680 There are streams of Christianity that that treat 45 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:55,760 passages like this as a simply myth. 46 00:02:55,760 --> 00:03:01,560 Their goal is to ascertain any principles that can be derived 47 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:05,160 from the passage. These sects aren't concerned 48 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:08,200 with the historicity of accounts like this. 49 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:13,280 However, I think it's important to understand this moment as 50 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:19,240 history since the New Testament presents it and treats it as 51 00:03:19,640 --> 00:03:23,120 history. So the first thing we will look 52 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:29,720 into here is the solicitor, which I know is a weird word but 53 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:33,000 you know alliteration. So have to go with what we can 54 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,880 do. The solicitor chapter 2 left us 55 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:39,120 in an idyllic world of perfection. 56 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:41,440 Right? The water is flowing down from 57 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:43,760 the mountain of God. There is an abundance of rich 58 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:47,160 natural resources. The the man now has a wife to 59 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:50,400 help him rule and subdue the world's. 60 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:55,920 Then suddenly the serpent shows up on the scene. 61 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:59,480 So what are we to to make of this serpent? 62 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,480 Well, let's start with some basics first. 63 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:07,640 The serpent is is new to the woman. 64 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:11,920 She's not seen him before, perhaps because he was he was 65 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:15,200 from the field is what's what the text says. 66 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:18,600 And she wasn't close to the animals that that lived out in 67 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:24,440 the field. He's crafty, but I think it's 68 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:28,480 best we probably understand this craftiness, this cunning to to 69 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:32,240 apply specifically to this one serpent. 70 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:38,240 Those who want to mythologize the text will point to what they 71 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:42,280 call a talking snake. I might add, by the way, that 72 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:46,440 the serpent has legs at this point, It seems we'll we'll talk 73 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:49,600 about that next week. But but those who want to 74 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:52,400 mythologize the text point to a talking snake. 75 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:56,600 Serpents were part of God's good creation in the world of these 76 00:04:56,600 --> 00:05:00,080 two humans was actually marvelous and wonderful, filled 77 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:04,000 with all manner of creatures to discover and learn about. 78 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:08,440 And a talking serpent may well have just been another 79 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:11,920 intriguing creature that the woman had yet to meet. 80 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:17,480 Now I'd like to remind you that the relationship between animals 81 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:24,160 and humans was not yet one of fear, as life in the garden was 82 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:28,240 good and and the woman didn't have any reason to be suspicious 83 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:32,640 of of this serpent that that shows up. 84 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:38,640 She'd yet to experience what Ephesians 6 calls the Wiles of 85 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:45,440 the devil because everything was innocent there in that moment. 86 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:53,640 Still, the serpent apparently knows God in some sense at 87 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:57,560 least, as he's able to call God's words into question. 88 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:03,800 He knows what God said, he speaks with great intelligence 89 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:08,240 and and he's shrewd with his choice of words. 90 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:13,240 He's opposed to God and he's deceptive and and he's hostile 91 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:16,960 to the moral innocence of this first couple. 92 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:21,440 There are a number of perspectives on what's happening 93 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:27,360 in this passage, but my belief is that Satan is Co opting the 94 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:31,600 form of the serpents. He masquerades as whatever he 95 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:36,200 would like and his economy is deceit and that's likely what's 96 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:41,000 happening here. In Revelation 12 we see a 97 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:45,320 spiritual battle with Michael and his angels fighting against 98 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:50,520 the dragon. Verse 9 says the great dragon 99 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:54,120 was thrown down, that ancient serpent who is called the devil, 100 00:06:54,280 --> 00:06:57,320 and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. 101 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:03,880 Clearly John is identifying Satan with the serpent who had 102 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:07,360 deceived the woman back in Genesis 3. 103 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:13,640 Now when it comes to Satan's back story, we have to piece 104 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:17,360 some things together. There's there's no passage in 105 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:22,640 Scripture that specifically says this is where Satan came from. 106 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:29,680 The name Satan is actually a transliteration, a spelling into 107 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:34,920 English of the Hebrew word Satan and it means adversary or 108 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:40,920 opponent. His sole job is to stand against 109 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:45,760 followers of God, to oppose them and to accuse them. 110 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:50,960 In the first couple chapters of Job we see a bit of this and and 111 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:54,560 how he tries to work against humans. 112 00:07:56,880 --> 00:08:00,440 To ascertain Satan's origins we look at a couple Old Testament 113 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:05,120 passages as well as a couple New Testament references. 114 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:10,360 Back to the Old Testament. First we look at Ezekiel 28. 115 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:15,680 Now Ezekiel 28 is a prophetic judgement against the king of 116 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:18,720 Tyre. The king of Tyre was wealthy and 117 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:23,720 he saw himself as as a God. The 1st 10 verses talk about 118 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:29,320 this and and verse 11 changes in You realize it's talking about 119 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:32,600 something beyond an earthly king when you read it. 120 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:39,760 Ezekiel 2812 says you were the signet of perfection, full of 121 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:43,480 wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden. 122 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:46,560 Obviously the king of Tyre was not in Eden, right? 123 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:49,120 You were in Eden, the garden of God. 124 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:51,240 Every precious stone was your covering. 125 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:54,680 Verse 14 says you are an anointed guardian cherub. 126 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:57,760 I placed you. You were on the holy mountain of 127 00:08:57,760 --> 00:08:59,520 God. You were blameless in your ways 128 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:03,120 from the day you were created till unrighteousness was found 129 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:05,440 in you. Then jumping to verse 16, you 130 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:08,800 sinned. So I cast you as a profane thing 131 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:12,000 from the mountain of God. Your heart was proud Because of 132 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,200 your beauty. You corrupted your wisdom. 133 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:18,320 For the sake of your splendor, I cast you to the ground. 134 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:25,440 The spiritual being being written about here is Satan. 135 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:30,400 He was a a cherub. The cherub being actually, 136 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:35,360 technically speaking, are to be differentiated from angels. 137 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:37,880 People will sit what people will call cherubs. 138 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:41,840 Oh, there's such a cherub. They're an Angel cherubs are a 139 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:46,080 different category of spiritual being than angels are angels 140 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:51,080 actually is more is more about a role being a messenger is really 141 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:55,120 what angels are about South. A cherub is a is a higher 142 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:59,600 spiritual being than some of the others in Their primary purpose 143 00:09:59,880 --> 00:10:04,120 is to serve and to protect God's holy spaces. 144 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:09,720 This particular cherub was beautiful, wise and and was in 145 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:12,480 the garden on the holy mountain of God there. 146 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:19,280 But then pride overtook him and he corrupted his wisdom. 147 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:24,200 He started to redefine rights and wrong on his own terms. 148 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:29,720 Then Isaiah 14 is the other passage we examined to learn 149 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:35,680 about Satan's back story. Isaiah 1412 reads how you are 150 00:10:35,680 --> 00:10:38,560 fallen from heaven, O Day star, Son of David. 151 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:43,080 I'll pause here as an aside. If you are reading the King 152 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:47,880 James Version of the OR the New King James Version, you will 153 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:52,800 instead read the word Lucifer instead of O Daystar or 154 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:56,480 Morningstar is the other words that are used. 155 00:10:56,640 --> 00:11:01,200 The Latin word Lucifer actually is not a translation. 156 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:03,480 It doesn't appear in the Hebrew text. 157 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:09,120 The text says hello, Ben Shakar, which is son of the morning. 158 00:11:09,560 --> 00:11:13,880 And the translators of the KJV decided they wanted to honor 159 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:18,840 this tradition. That was in place of using the 160 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:25,920 word Lucifer to refer to Venus, which is a star in their eyes, 161 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:27,640 right? They didn't know that Venus 162 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:30,320 wasn't wasn't a star, that it's a planet. 163 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:35,280 They refer to Venus as the Morning Star or the Evening 164 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:39,520 star, and Lucifer is actually a reference to that. 165 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:41,480 So that's what's happening in the KJV. 166 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:45,960 However, our modern translations have chosen to actually 167 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:52,320 translate Son of the Morning Star instead, rather than say 168 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:56,920 Lucifer. So it says how you were falling 169 00:11:56,920 --> 00:12:01,080 from heaven, O Daystar, Son of Dawn, how you are cut down to 170 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:02,880 the ground. You who laid the nations low, 171 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:07,480 you said in your hearts, I will ascend to heaven above the stars 172 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:09,160 of God. I will set my throne on high. 173 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:12,560 I will sit on the mounts of assembly in the far reaches of 174 00:12:12,560 --> 00:12:16,560 the north. Then it says in verse 14, I will 175 00:12:16,560 --> 00:12:18,120 send above the heights of the clouds. 176 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:23,320 I will make myself like the Most High, but you are brought down 177 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:26,960 to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit. 178 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:31,760 So when you read that, you can see that there's something, 179 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:36,360 something else in view here. And then in Luke 1018, Jesus 180 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:41,800 says, I saw, I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 181 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:46,160 And when he says that, that's a clear reference back to this 182 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:50,400 passage of Isaiah 14. And it also is saying Jesus is 183 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:56,440 saying I was there, I was there before that moment I was there, 184 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:01,280 which means he was already pre existent as God. 185 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:06,680 Now I believe there's a lot of discussion as to what happened. 186 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:11,920 My belief is Satan rebelled shortly after day 7 of creation. 187 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:16,760 Why do I believe this? Because all of God's creation 188 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:21,680 was good, some people will say, oh, maybe it happened. 189 00:13:21,680 --> 00:13:24,880 Maybe the rebellion was before creation, maybe it was sometime 190 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:27,760 during creation. I believe God's creation was 191 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:31,760 good, His spiritual beings were good. 192 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:33,400 So that's why I believe that it happens. 193 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:38,160 After day 7 when he rebelled, he deceived 1/3 of the other 194 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:41,440 heavenly beings and they fell with him. 195 00:13:42,680 --> 00:13:46,560 We arrive at this conclusion again by jumping to Revelation 196 00:13:46,560 --> 00:13:48,920 12. Verses 3 and 4 tell us the 197 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:53,240 dragon swept 1/3 of the stars out of the sky and the stars 198 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:59,600 being the other angelic like beings, swept 1/3 of the stars 199 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:01,240 out of the sky and threw them to the earth. 200 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:04,760 And then a few verses later we learned that the dragon is of 201 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:10,560 course Satan. So that's the solicitor, the 202 00:14:10,560 --> 00:14:13,520 person who's going to make the proposal to the woman. 203 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:21,640 Next, we examine his strategy. How does Satan work? 204 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:27,200 Well, the way Satan works is through deception. 205 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:31,400 Deception is the name of the game for Satan. 206 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:34,080 He takes the truth and he distorts it. 207 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:42,040 That's his. That's his MO in John 844 Jesus 208 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:47,520 was talking to the Pharisees and and he has some strong words for 209 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:48,440 them. I love this. 210 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:52,800 Can you imagine talking to the your religious leaders and 211 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:56,120 telling them these things? Here you are of your father the 212 00:14:56,120 --> 00:15:00,520 devil and your will is to do your father's desires. 213 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:03,920 He's basically saying your little devils is what he's 214 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:06,080 saying. He was a murderer from the 215 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:08,800 beginning and does not stand in the truth because there is no 216 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:12,560 truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of 217 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:16,840 his own character for he is a liar and the father of lies. 218 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:23,120 Satan is a liar. In Second Corinthians 11/14, 219 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:27,520 Paul wrote about false apostles who who make themselves out to 220 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:32,880 be on the same side as Paul. They tried to look like genuine 221 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:36,840 apostles, but they aren't. Why? 222 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:44,680 Paul says even Satan disguises himself as an Angel of light. 223 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:48,440 Satan disguises himself as an Angel of light. 224 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:52,640 He can make himself look good. So if he can make himself look 225 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:57,760 like an Angel of light, then he can make his servants, these 226 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:01,200 false apostles, look like the real thing. 227 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:06,160 Satan loves to deceive Christ followers. 228 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:12,600 As we look at his strategy, let's briefly review what God 229 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:16,360 said in Genesis 2 verses 15 through 17. 230 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:21,440 You see it there on the screen. The Lord God took the man and 231 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:24,760 put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and keep it. 232 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:28,760 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, You may surely eat 233 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:32,760 of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of 234 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:36,160 good and evil, you shall not eat, for the day that you eat of 235 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:42,240 it, you shall surely die. God gave the humans permission 236 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:45,840 to eat of nearly every tree in the garden. 237 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:50,120 He'd given abundant provision and freedom. 238 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:56,680 They even had the freedom to eat of the tree of life, But God put 239 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:00,840 a limit on that freedom and prohibited them from eating the 240 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:03,840 fruits of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 241 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:09,160 They could eat of every tree in the garden except for one. 242 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:11,839 This is this is a pretty good deal. 243 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:19,079 They had everything they needed. Now, Satan's strategy here is to 244 00:17:19,319 --> 00:17:24,000 distort God's provision. He likes to distort God's 245 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:25,440 provision is what he's doing here. 246 00:17:25,599 --> 00:17:30,240 He approached the woman, He said, did God actually say you 247 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:32,560 shall not eat of any tree in the garden? 248 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:40,360 No, that is not what God said. They could eat a basically the 249 00:17:40,360 --> 00:17:45,840 entire garden and Eve's responses we may eat of the 250 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:47,720 fruit of the trees in the garden. 251 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:51,880 But God said this is this is her, her remembrance, if you 252 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:55,200 will, she's saying, but God said you shall not eat of the fruit 253 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:57,200 of the tree that is in the midst of the garden. 254 00:17:57,680 --> 00:17:59,760 Neither shall you touch it lest you die. 255 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:06,520 Satan had portrayed God as narrow and restricting, focusing 256 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:11,720 her attention on the limitations that were in place rather than 257 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:16,160 on the abundant provision and freedom that was to be enjoyed 258 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:23,080 there in the garden. And Satan, part of distorting 259 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:27,920 God's provision is he also loves to manipulate the truth. 260 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:35,080 He manipulates the truth. He gave the woman a distorted 261 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:38,760 view of what God had supplied. And now he has the opportunity 262 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:42,720 to give her a distorted view of what God actually said. 263 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:50,360 He's misleading her, causing her to question God's words and and 264 00:18:50,360 --> 00:18:54,960 actually trying to paint himself in a favorable light. 265 00:18:56,480 --> 00:19:00,400 I think in a sense trying to prove that, oh look, I care more 266 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:07,120 about you than God does, he retorts. 267 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:10,640 You won't die. God knows that if you eat of the 268 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:13,960 fruit from that tree, your eyes will be opened and and you'll be 269 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:19,240 like him. You'll know good and evil, and 270 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:24,040 in a single interaction, Satan had called God's goodness and 271 00:19:24,120 --> 00:19:27,320 his forthrightness into question. 272 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:32,960 He planted seeds of doubt in the woman's mind, speaking half 273 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:36,400 truths and essentially convincing the woman that God 274 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:40,200 was just being selfish and and preventing her from being like 275 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:44,840 him. Satan is a master manipulator. 276 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:48,680 Sure, her eyes would be open to the existence of right and 277 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:58,080 wrong, but actually she would become less like God rather than 278 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:03,080 more like him. Satan still uses this tactic 279 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:06,000 today. He manipulates the truth through 280 00:20:06,120 --> 00:20:12,080 false religions and and cults. False religions and cults take. 281 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:16,640 Bits of truth, things that, oh, that sounds right or that sounds 282 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:18,720 interesting, and then they distort it. 283 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:25,040 They manipulate the truth to suit their own purposes. 284 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:29,800 I love when in our connect group, as we've been talking 285 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:35,320 about heretics, this phrase was, was brought up that said, you 286 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:40,360 know, some false religions or, or cults, they may use the same 287 00:20:40,360 --> 00:20:48,360 language, but they're using a different dictionary, same 288 00:20:48,360 --> 00:20:52,720 words, but they're using entirely different meanings. 289 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:56,760 We can see this in the new age. We can see this in the LDS 290 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:58,480 church, the Latter Day Saints, Mormons. 291 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:01,800 We can see this in a number of places. 292 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:04,400 Same words, different dictionaries. 293 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:16,440 So we've met the person, we've examined his strategy, but how 294 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:21,840 would he actually pull it off? So now we look at the seduction 295 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:24,240 of sin. First. 296 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:31,000 John 215 through 16 reads, Do not love the world or the things 297 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:35,040 in the world. If anyone loves the world, the 298 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:37,520 love of the Father is not in him. 299 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:41,720 For all that is in the world, the desires of the flesh and the 300 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:45,680 desires of the eyes and the pride of life is not from the 301 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:50,680 Father, but is from the world. This is John writing, like 302 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:56,400 thousands of years later. He's writing this. 303 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:58,720 The desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the 304 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:02,600 pride of life are the very same sins. 305 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:07,960 These are the very same sins the woman gave into in the garden. 306 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:13,680 That's what John is has in mind when he's writing these things. 307 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:16,280 He's recalling what happened there in the garden. 308 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:21,760 Genesis 36 tells us the tree was good for food. 309 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:27,240 That's the lust of the flesh. The desires of the flesh we we 310 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:30,600 need to eat, right? The tree also looked good. 311 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:33,960 That is the desires of the eyes. The lust of the eyes and the 312 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:37,560 tree would make her wise. That's the pride of life rearing 313 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:41,440 its head. The issues she dealt with are 314 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:45,080 the very same issues that we deal with today. 315 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:51,480 Nothing new is happening now. A couple weeks ago, when talking 316 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:57,440 about gender and sexuality, I made a comment that desires in 317 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:02,120 and of themselves aren't bad. I should have clarified that a 318 00:23:02,120 --> 00:23:05,120 little more. So I'm doing that now because 319 00:23:05,120 --> 00:23:08,080 it's entirely appropriate to what we're what we're examining 320 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,000 this morning. The point I was actually trying 321 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:16,480 to make was that temptation in and of itself isn't a sin. 322 00:23:17,120 --> 00:23:22,400 You can be tempted, but not sin when you choose to not act or 323 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:29,960 entertain that temptation. However, entertaining sinful 324 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:38,920 thoughts, sinful desires is a sin because sin is a matter of 325 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,160 the heart. It's a matter of the heart. 326 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:49,200 In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says everyone who looks at 327 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:54,480 a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with 328 00:23:54,480 --> 00:24:00,160 her in his heart. So the law dealt with the 329 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:05,480 externals and the Pharisees would focus on that as well. 330 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:09,800 The externals of of how we maintain our relationship with 331 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:11,760 God. That was that was the primary 332 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:17,160 focus of the law, I would say. But in the Sermon on the Mount, 333 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:22,280 Jesus double s down on what righteous living really is. 334 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:30,240 It's not just the externals. It's a matter of the heart what 335 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:34,880 happens in here. If we have a desire for 336 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:40,720 something outside of God's design, then that's is lust, and 337 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:44,280 that desire is considered sinful. 338 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:50,200 Once the woman started to entertain Satan's thoughts and 339 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:56,080 to be moved by the seduction of the tree's fruits, she'd already 340 00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:59,120 sinned. She'd lusted after the fruits 341 00:24:59,120 --> 00:25:02,880 and her pride brought a hunger that she'd not experienced 342 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:06,640 before. Prior to this moment, you see, 343 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:15,000 she was content with all God's provision, but now suddenly she 344 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:22,040 needs this one piece of fruit in a way that she'd not ever known 345 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:27,320 before. Did sin come from Satan? 346 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:35,560 No, He loves to tempt us and to pull us off course. 347 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:42,680 But sin comes from inside us, our own desires. 348 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:46,160 Sin comes from inside us, our own desires. 349 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:51,320 Where do we see this? James 1 verses 13 through 15 350 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:57,840 tells us how this works. Let no one say when he is 351 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:00,520 tempted. I am being tempted by God, For 352 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:05,360 God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. 353 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:11,160 But each person is tempted when he was lured and enticed by his 354 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:14,520 own desire. Then desire, when it has 355 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:19,120 conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin, when it is fully grown, 356 00:26:19,120 --> 00:26:23,440 brings forth death. We'll talk about death more next 357 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,440 week, but God is not the author of temptation. 358 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,280 He doesn't tempt anyone, James said. 359 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:33,600 Each person is tempted when he's lured and enticed. 360 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:37,600 By what? By his own desires. 361 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:44,040 The Greek word exelco pictures a fish. 362 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:49,680 Actually, in this passage, the the fish is naturally lured. 363 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:53,800 That word lure, the net, it's naturally lured in by the worm 364 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:57,720 or whatever it is that's being used as bait. 365 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:04,360 The fish doesn't ponder that worm and think, is this a good 366 00:27:04,360 --> 00:27:06,360 worm? Is this a safe worm? 367 00:27:06,360 --> 00:27:09,840 Can I have this worm or, or is this one of those bad worms that 368 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,200 that took one of my friends away? 369 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:15,640 The fish doesn't think about this, right? 370 00:27:17,360 --> 00:27:22,960 The fish is simply one of God's creations, one of God's 371 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:26,720 creatures. It acts on what we call 372 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:34,600 instinct. It sees, it likes, it bites. 373 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:41,400 This is a primal desire importing the metaphor into the 374 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:46,040 human realm. We're tempted when we are lured 375 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:52,840 by our very own desires. This is where sin comes from 376 00:27:53,160 --> 00:28:01,880 inside of us. In Matthew 1519, Jesus says out 377 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:04,880 of the heart come evil thoughts. Murder, adultery, sexual 378 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:08,480 immorality, theft, false witness, slander. 379 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,160 The heart is the foundation of who we are. 380 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:16,680 It's the root of our emotions, our desires and our will. 381 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:24,160 All these evil acts Jesus mentioned start in the heart as 382 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:32,000 it is the seat of our desires. The now late pastor and 383 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:39,240 theologian John MacArthur wrote. When sin penetrates the mind, 384 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:44,840 emotions and will, it will always be manifest in sinful 385 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:48,760 actions. Let me repeat that when sin 386 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:54,160 penetrates the mind, emotions and will, it will always be 387 00:28:54,160 --> 00:29:00,800 manifest in sinful actions. The woman's first sin was in her 388 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:04,080 heart. Before she'd taken any steps, 389 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:09,440 before she'd done anything and rebelled against God physically, 390 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:13,840 the rebellion started internally in her heart. 391 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,840 Once that happened, she didn't have any defenses up to keep her 392 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:24,960 from taking that next step. She took the fruit and ate, 393 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:29,160 completely unaware that this simple act could have such a 394 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:33,080 massive impact. And she gave the fruit to the 395 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:36,520 man and he ate. But interestingly, though 396 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:50,200 scriptures clear, the man is at fault and all the women said the 397 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:57,040 man is at fault for bringing sin into the world. 398 00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:03,720 Sure, the woman took that first bite, but the words of the text 399 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:07,960 basically let her off the hook. It says she was deceived by the 400 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,960 serpent, so it kind of casts her in a little bit of a different 401 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:19,600 space than it does the man. Romans 5 tells us sin came into 402 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:22,920 the world through one man, and death is now part of the human 403 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,120 experience because of that one man. 404 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:30,080 Then First Corinthians 1522 For as an Adam all die, so also in 405 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:33,120 Christ shall shall all be made alive. 406 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:37,920 First Timothy 214 Adam was not deceived, but the woman was 407 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,640 deceived and became a transgressor. 408 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:49,160 So Adam knew what he was doing. He wasn't deceived is what that 409 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:52,800 verse just told us. The onus of responsibility in 410 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:56,200 Scripture is clearly placed on the man. 411 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:02,680 The woman was deceived, but man engaged in a willful act of 412 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:07,920 disobedience. His actions then caused sin and 413 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:12,480 death to be passed on to the entire human race. 414 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:18,520 Satan had entered the scene set on plying his trade, which was 415 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:21,040 deception, by enticing the woman with the fruit of the tree. 416 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:24,560 She took it, she bit into it, gave it to the man, and he bit, 417 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:31,920 and the result was shame. The result was shame in a 418 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:35,240 metaphorical sense. Their their eyes were open to 419 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,400 see that they'd violated God's command. 420 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:42,680 Their eyes were now open to see they'd violated God's command. 421 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,960 In the aftermath of sin. They realized that there was a 422 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:53,400 right and there was a wrong. The innocence in their minds and 423 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:58,760 their and their bodies nakedness was now replaced by shame. 424 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,520 Shame for what they had done and shame at the realization that 425 00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:09,680 they were naked. They quickly sought to cover 426 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:14,640 things up by making the first Speedo and bikini out of leaves 427 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:20,840 and hid from God. When they took a bite of the 428 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,640 fruit. They they probably expected to 429 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:29,960 have a greater understanding of life and how to live well in the 430 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:35,760 garden. Instead, they got more than they 431 00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,360 had bargained for when they chose to redefine right and 432 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:43,720 wrong on their own terms. What happens when a child does 433 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:48,000 something wrong that they know they're not supposed to do? 434 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:53,920 They hide right. They make themselves scarce. 435 00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,280 They they don't want you to see them. 436 00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,080 And we'll see in the next verse that the man and woman in the 437 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:04,480 next week, that the man woman's response was to hide. 438 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:07,280 They'd already hidden the parts of their body over which they 439 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:11,320 felt shame and and now they would hide themselves completely 440 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:14,160 from God. The first game of hide and seek 441 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:20,600 ensues and God wins. Now, when people argue that 442 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:25,920 nudity is a return back to humanity's innocence, they're 443 00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:30,120 dreaming. The page has been turned, and we 444 00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:35,280 can't go back. To do so now is to be in denial 445 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:41,440 of the realities that set in on that fateful day, that day shame 446 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:46,480 enter the world, and to not experience shame today, which 447 00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:50,520 there are people like this. To not experience shame is a 448 00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:56,640 sign that someone has cast off all restraints that God had 449 00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,600 previously put in place for our own good. 450 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:02,520 There are people who have cast off all restraints. 451 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:08,040 Everything is within the realm of possibility in their world 452 00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:16,719 because they've lost shame. So how do we defend ourselves 453 00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:23,800 against sin? Satan prowls around like a lion, 454 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:28,840 is what it says in First Peter, seeking whom he may devour. 455 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:37,000 He wants to chew you up. So what are our defenses? 456 00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:42,199 In the last few minutes I want to share 4 defenses that we 457 00:34:42,199 --> 00:34:47,360 have. First of all, the Holy Spirit is 458 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:54,000 a defense. Galatians 516 tells us to walk 459 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,000 by the Holy Spirit. That means that the Holy Spirit 460 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:02,720 controls us and all our actions and decisions, that even even 461 00:35:02,720 --> 00:35:07,560 our thoughts are under His control. 462 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:13,240 I know this is hard, but the result of a life completely 463 00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:17,120 surrendered to the Spirit's power and authority is growing 464 00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:21,560 in Christ's likeness. We grow in Christ's likeness by 465 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:26,240 walking in the Spirit and daily being filled with Him. 466 00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:33,120 So the Holy Spirit is is the first thing in our our arsenal 467 00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:40,640 of defense. Next is the word Scripture. 468 00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:48,280 That is, the word Second Timothy 316 and 17 says all Scripture is 469 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:50,960 breathed out by God, and profitable for teaching, for 470 00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:54,880 reproof, for correction, and for training and righteousness, that 471 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:58,160 the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. 472 00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:02,320 Then Hebrews 412 For the Word of God is living and active, 473 00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:06,560 sharper than any 2 edged sword, piercing to the division of soul 474 00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:10,640 and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, discerning the thoughts 475 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:16,520 and intentions of the heart. God's inspired Word is 476 00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:21,760 profitable for our daily lives and to bring us to maturity. 477 00:36:23,240 --> 00:36:26,600 It tells us how to live, what to do, what not to do, what to 478 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:31,360 believe, what not to believe. It pierces the intentions of our 479 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:35,200 hearts, and it exposes our true motives. 480 00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:41,680 That's the power of the Word. And God's Word longs to be 481 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:48,960 mulled over, read, studied, meditated on, memorized. 482 00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:56,400 And when we do, the Word becomes a weapon in our battle against 483 00:36:56,520 --> 00:37:02,520 Satan, just as Jesus himself modeled in his temptation that 484 00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:09,480 he endured with Satan. 3rd is prayer. 485 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:16,320 Ephesians 618 encourages us to pray at all times, keeping alert 486 00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:21,080 while also offering our request for others up to God. 487 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:26,560 When we're tempted, we should pray for the Holy Spirit to work 488 00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,480 in us to overcome that temptation. 489 00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:36,560 Prayer says I need God and I can't do this on my own. 490 00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:41,880 Prayer is my declaration of dependence on him. 491 00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:52,080 And our last weapon is the church, not the building I love. 492 00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:58,320 The other night in Awana, Mike Meyer was up here teaching a 493 00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:02,560 lesson. He's, he's asking what are some 494 00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:07,040 good things about the church? You know what he's talking about 495 00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:11,800 people. There's air conditioning. 496 00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:19,040 I was like, that's great. Yes, yes, the building does have 497 00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:21,600 air conditioning, but that is not what we're talking about. 498 00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:30,680 The church is the people. Ephesians or Ecclesiastes 4/9 499 00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:34,920 through 10 2 are better than one because they have a good reward 500 00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:37,720 for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift 501 00:38:37,720 --> 00:38:42,320 up his fellow, but woe to him who was alone when he falls and 502 00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:49,200 has not another to lift him up. We weren't meant to live the 503 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:54,440 Christian life alone. God gave us a gift when he gave 504 00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:59,560 us the church. The body of Christ makes us 505 00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:02,280 better. It provides ample resources for 506 00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:03,840 us to be encouraged in the faith. 507 00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:07,680 That provides an opportunity for us to be real and authentic with 508 00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:14,000 others about sin in our lives. And when we live in community, 509 00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:20,760 we are stronger and better able to resist Satan's attacks. 510 00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:27,680 Sin doesn't exist in a morally neutral world. 511 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:34,320 Sin is a self coronation. Choosing to say what I say 512 00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:38,800 matters most. When the man and the woman 513 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:43,240 seated themselves on that throne, the throne of selfish 514 00:39:43,240 --> 00:39:50,280 desires, everything collapsed and LED to chaos, brokenness, 515 00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:56,560 and alienation. Humanity's relationship with God 516 00:39:56,560 --> 00:40:01,640 had been severed and everything changed. 517 00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:06,600 We'll talk about that next week. Let's bow our heads and close 518 00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:24,260 our eyes. God, I pray that you would use 519 00:40:24,780 --> 00:40:32,600 the words that's. I've just delivered that we 520 00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:36,760 would each look into our hearts and lives to examine ourselves. 521 00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:49,280 What is a specific area that I need to bring into conformity to 522 00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:59,160 be like Christ? God, I pray that we would all 523 00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:08,970 take that sin, offer it to you, confess it to you, Say, God, 524 00:41:09,850 --> 00:41:11,530 will you forgive me for this sin? 525 00:41:12,970 --> 00:41:18,730 Holy Spirit, I need you to fill me up so that I'm walking by the 526 00:41:18,730 --> 00:41:25,330 power of the Holy Spirit and not walking in the flesh. 527 00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:36,680 And may we not live in a place of shame, but understand that 528 00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:44,240 our shame was crucified with Jesus on that cross. 529 00:41:50,290 --> 00:41:53,450 We thank you for your forgiveness that you pour into 530 00:41:53,450 --> 00:42:06,840 our lives and that you have made a way for a broken people to be 531 00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:15,520 made right with the Holy God. We're broken, sinful people, but 532 00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:20,720 we have a relationship with you through the blood of Jesus 533 00:42:20,720 --> 00:42:24,480 Christ. So we thank you for that. 534 00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:31,400 It's in Jesus name we pray, Amen.