1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,680 This is City Post Church. We're about three things. 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:07,040 Build equipped and send. All under the. 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:10,240 Lordship of Jesus Christ. A small church plant in Fort 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:12,400 Worth, TX. Who decided to do things a 5 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:16,880 little differently? Adoramos Ajesu Cristo I love 6 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:20,480 city post because of the people. It's where I belong. 7 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:23,640 We truly preach the Word. I love City Post because of the 8 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:25,000 community we've been able to build. 9 00:00:25,240 --> 00:00:28,040 To do ministry like Jesus. For light to push back. 10 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:32,640 Darkness. This is City Post podcast. 11 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:39,160 Hey, guys. Good morning. 12 00:00:39,160 --> 00:00:41,160 How's everybody doing? That's good. 13 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:47,400 All right, so if you. Have your Bibles going to be in 14 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:50,320 the book of Genesis chapter 1? You don't even got to go that 15 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:52,120 far. So if you have your apps or. 16 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:53,760 Bibles, go ahead and get those out. 17 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:58,280 And man, before I jump into this thing, we are in a new sermon 18 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:02,400 series called The Gospel, God's Plan for All People and What I 19 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:03,960 Want to do these next couple of weeks. 20 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:06,200 Is walk us through the. Insurance and outs of the. 21 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:07,840 Gospel message What? Is it? 22 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:09,000 What is it about? What's up with? 23 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,240 This thing called sin that that jacks everything up like how 24 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:12,880 does? It work. 25 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:14,920 Why did Jesus have to die? Like. 26 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:16,840 Like what is? Redemption. 27 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:19,240 What is Sanctify? Like what is all these? 28 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:21,880 Pieces and these next. Couple weeks, we're going to be 29 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:25,080 walking through this thing. Called the gospel and my prayer 30 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:27,720 and my hope is not just for you personally. 31 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:31,440 But also as a church that you get so comfortable with it that 32 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:32,960 you. Feel more confident talking 33 00:01:32,960 --> 00:01:35,480 about it and a lot of us. You know what? 34 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:36,040 What? Whenever. 35 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:38,800 It comes to the. Gospel or sharing the gospel? 36 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:42,080 You know we. We hear these words, but do you 37 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:44,040 truly? Know how to share the? 38 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,960 Gospel message with somebody and many of us don't feel. 39 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:50,280 Confident in that. So I want to. 40 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:53,440 Just kind of kick us off before we dive into the text. 41 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:55,800 There's a big. Study done by Barna. 42 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:58,960 And the spiritual lives. In the United. 43 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:01,720 States and this. Came out recently and what they 44 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:05,880 found was that there's a vast majority of Americans, almost 45 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:10,160 92% believe. That Jesus was a real. 46 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,200 Person that Jesus was. Really. 47 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:14,320 Here he existed. He was. 48 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:15,640 Born. Jesus. 49 00:02:15,640 --> 00:02:19,440 Walked the planet, so they they're saying that Jesus is 50 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:22,920 real. Which is awesome, but now this 51 00:02:22,920 --> 00:02:24,200 is where it gets. Funky, though. 52 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:28,360 Because only. 56% believed that Jesus was God. 53 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,480 So even though people believe that Jesus is a real. 54 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:35,560 Person they don't really believe much in the. 55 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:38,640 Deity of Christ, but. Then even. 56 00:02:38,640 --> 00:02:42,880 On top of that only. 52%. Believed that Jesus was sinless. 57 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:45,760 So a lot of. People don't believe. 58 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:48,520 That there's a way? That somebody could walk on this 59 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:53,240 earth. And live a perfect life gets a 60 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:55,760 little bit better, you know, like. 6 out of 10 Americans. 61 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:59,760 Say that you do have. To make a commitment to. 62 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:05,080 Follow Christ or. To live in Christianity, but. 63 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:11,760 What's wild is this last statistic because. 63% of all of 64 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:14,600 those who. Believe that Jesus was real. 65 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:19,960 Are conflicted between following Jesus and living a life of good. 66 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:22,280 Deeds. In order. 67 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:26,640 To get to heaven. So even though they believe. 68 00:03:26,640 --> 00:03:29,560 In Christ, even though they they claim to know Christ. 69 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,480 Even though they go to. Church on Sunday mornings. 70 00:03:32,920 --> 00:03:35,280 The messaging. That they're receiving. 71 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:40,560 Is not the knowledge in the revelation of God's Word so we 72 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:43,960 we live in a nation where we're hearing all these things and 73 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:45,240 we're. Churches about you. 74 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:47,480 And everything is about. Like your life? 75 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:50,440 And and how God wants. You to be successful and. 76 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:53,960 And wants you to flourish And, and on top of that, we're 77 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:58,960 missing the essence of the gospel message and the gospel. 78 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:01,560 Is actually what changes you. That's why I love what Paul. 79 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:06,400 Proclaims Romans 116 I mean, or 116, right? 80 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:08,360 For I'm not. Ashamed of the gospel because it 81 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:11,920 is the power of God that. Brings salvation to everyone 82 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:14,160 who. Believes first to the Jew. 83 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:18,279 Then to the gentile so. We know that. 84 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:21,760 This gospel is for everybody, so if. 85 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:25,480 We're going to explain the. Gospel of Jesus Christ. 86 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,720 To a post Christian society. And when I say that, that means 87 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,960 that people kind of have a gist. Of church and a gist of who 88 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:35,200 Jesus is I I. Think we need to go? 89 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:38,000 All the way back. Back into time. 90 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:39,560 I'm joking, right? We had. 91 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:42,600 To go all the way back. And talk about the beginning. 92 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:45,800 We have to go back. To seeing God himself. 93 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:50,520 Because whenever we see the. Story of the gospel it. 94 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:54,600 Begins all the way back in creation, and So what? 95 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:56,400 We're going to do today is there's there's two. 96 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:59,960 Points I want us to understand. All right, so there's. 2 main 97 00:04:59,960 --> 00:05:01,400 points of what I want you to take. 98 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:04,200 Away point. One is that God is creator. 99 00:05:05,280 --> 00:05:07,400 God is the Creator. Of all things. 100 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:10,320 But #2 he's also. Holy and righteous. 101 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:14,400 So God didn't just create everything, but he did it in 102 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:16,960 such a. Way that it shows his glory. 103 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:20,520 It shows His Holiness. And it shows his righteousness 104 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:23,040 all through. Creation. 105 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:26,920 Now here's the thing. If if you and I get this one 106 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:31,680 piece wrong, it's going to Jack up everything else in life. 107 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,200 So if you don't. Really understand that God is. 108 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:38,960 Creator if you don't get. That God is holy and righteous, 109 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:40,560 then the. Way that you think? 110 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:43,240 Of Jesus is going to be wrong. The way that you pray. 111 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:44,840 Is going to be wrong the way that? 112 00:05:44,840 --> 00:05:46,640 You view the Holy Spirit. Is going to be wrong. 113 00:05:46,840 --> 00:05:49,960 It's going to cause a. Domino effect of things that are 114 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:53,000 wrong. So we got to understand this 115 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,400 piece. Of God is our Creator. 116 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:57,720 And God is holy and. Righteous. 117 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:00,720 So we see that God is the. Creator of the heavens and the 118 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:02,400 earth. Look at Genesis chapter 1. 119 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:03,920 We're just going to read the first like. 120 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:06,600 Four or five verses. All right, so Genesis. 121 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:11,640 One starting in verse one and this is what. 122 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:15,240 The word of the Lord. Says in the beginning God 123 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:16,720 created the heavens and the earth. 124 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:20,360 Now the earth was formless and empty darkness. 125 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:23,440 Was over the surface of the. Deep and the. 126 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:26,840 Spirit of God was hovering. Over the waters and God. 127 00:06:26,840 --> 00:06:29,360 Said, let there be light, and there was light. 128 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:32,600 God saw that the light was good, and he. 129 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:34,400 Separated the light from darkness. 130 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:36,280 God called the light. Day in the. 131 00:06:36,280 --> 00:06:39,040 Darkness, he called night, and there was. 132 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:41,880 Evening and there was morning. And that. 133 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:47,120 Was just the first day. So what I want us to understand 134 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:48,960 so when we. Look at the gospel through. 135 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:54,440 The lens of creation .1 is that God's creation is a 136 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:57,240 demonstration. Of His glory. 137 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:02,640 So God didn't just create things, but He did it in a way. 138 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:08,360 To show off His glory, He did it in a way for us to see. 139 00:07:08,840 --> 00:07:14,600 God in all of creation and we see this even in Scripture like 140 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:17,960 Psalms 19 one says the heavens. Declare the glory of God. 141 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,760 The sky above proclaim his handiwork. 142 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:24,600 Man I love Romans 120. This is like one of my favorite. 143 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:26,600 Verses because it leaves us with. 144 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:30,560 No excuse. Romans 120 says this, For since 145 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:35,400 the creation of the world, God's invisible qualities, His eternal 146 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:39,960 power and divine nature have been clearly seen, being 147 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:42,760 understood from what has been made. 148 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:46,520 So that people are left without excuse. 149 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:51,600 So as God is. Creating the universe as God is 150 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:53,760 making this I want us to understand. 151 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:58,920 That it is to show off His glory and we also. 152 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:02,600 Have to understand something that God created everything with 153 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:03,640 it just. Speaking. 154 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:07,920 God made matter, He made time, He made space. 155 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:12,160 There was nothing before God showed up in the beginning. 156 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:15,960 God and then you have those people that are like in. 157 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:18,120 Like Nacho Libre, I don't. Believe in God, I believe in 158 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:21,600 science and I'm like, that's cool. 159 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:24,720 God created science too. God created it all. 160 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:28,800 He's the one that. Started all this and when we 161 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:32,799 talk about his glory, I started like so I I, I consider. 162 00:08:32,799 --> 00:08:34,600 Myself. A little bit well traveled. 163 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:37,039 I'm not saying this to flex, I'm just saying. 164 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:42,440 And I remember in 2015, our team went to go see the Taj Mahal in 165 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:44,280 India. And when I saw the Taj. 166 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:45,800 Mahal. I'm like, you know, it's one of 167 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:48,600 the seven wonders of the world. I was like, wow, that's actually 168 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:51,520 pretty. Cool, what impressed me more? 169 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:53,760 About the Taj Mahal. The guy that built it. 170 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:58,760 He built two other mosques identical to use that as a 171 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:01,560 measuring standard. For the actual Taj. 172 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:03,480 So he didn't. Just build the Taj. 173 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:04,840 He's like, you know what? We need to do. 174 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:06,840 Let's build 2 massive structures. 1st. 175 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:08,360 And. Then I'm going to build what I 176 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:11,280 want to build. That impressed me way. 177 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:13,120 More than the way. That this thing looked. 178 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:16,720 And there's some creation of man that I look at. 179 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:19,080 I'm like wow, like. I can't believe somebody made 180 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:21,480 that. Now here's another confession. 181 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:24,240 If you guys that don't know me, I'm not. 182 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:26,440 The kind of guy. That that gets really. 183 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:30,520 Interested in the intricacies? Of how something is made. 184 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:33,760 I'm not the guy that goes somewhere and I'm like I. 185 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:36,800 Wonder how they built that. I wonder what he was thinking. 186 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:38,680 I wonder how long it took to make this ceiling. 187 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:40,720 How did they get like? That's not me. 188 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:42,920 I'm like. Just show me the ocean. 189 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:46,520 Like let me just sit. My shirt off in front of the. 190 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:49,600 Beach and get cooked that's. Vacation for me. 191 00:09:50,680 --> 00:09:52,600 But that's not that's not what I do. 192 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:54,680 So when I see a structure, it's in my bed. 193 00:09:54,680 --> 00:09:57,880 I'm I'm amazed that somebody could do that, but I'm just 194 00:09:57,880 --> 00:09:59,040 like, wow. That's cool. 195 00:09:59,680 --> 00:10:04,000 However, I also. Got a chance to experience the 196 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,000 Grand Canyon? Now when I. 197 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:10,800 Went to see the Grand Canyon. I had no words. 198 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:14,840 Like I looked. Out and I'm like, yeah, this, 199 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:18,520 this makes no sense. Like how in the world can 200 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:22,360 something like this exists? Like I was speechless. 201 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:25,000 I was. So interested and then the. 202 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:28,000 Guy that's talking about like. Man, there's like skeletons. 203 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:29,800 Of like fish and stuff. Like. 204 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:32,640 Right there. And I'm like, so intrigued. 205 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:37,360 That this actually exists in. Nature and when you see. 206 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:40,360 It your mind is blown, you're like, there's no. 207 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:42,920 Way that this could actually. Happen. 208 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:48,000 But it did, because God. I've also seen like a. 209 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,120 Redwood tree in California man. I've also. 210 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:51,840 Seen like man when you go to Montana, you see. 211 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:55,760 Yellowstone and you see this. Mass land and you're just like 212 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:57,800 how in the. World is this real? 213 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:01,960 Like there's no picture. There's no like photography. 214 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:06,520 There's nothing even like just think about like a sunset in 215 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:09,640 Texas as you're driving home trying not to crash because 216 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:10,920 you're. Blinded by the sun. 217 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:16,040 But you see these super bright colors like how does that? 218 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:19,440 Work like I've seen like I've seen the ocean. 219 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:21,320 That is so. Blue. 220 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:24,240 Like it looks like a like Livy colored it. 221 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:28,200 Like, I, I've just seen all these things and I'm, I'm 222 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:32,160 watching nature and I'm watching and, and there's no way that I, 223 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:35,320 I'm, I'm looking at this and there's no. 224 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:37,920 Way that as I look. At this and I think. 225 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:39,880 Yeah, I'm the center of the universe. 226 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:44,160 It's. Impossible it actually. 227 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:46,080 Takes your breath away. It actually shows you. 228 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:49,000 That you're not all that there. Is in life. 229 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:52,000 That that we have a greater creator. 230 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:53,880 Who? Spoke. 231 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:57,840 All of this into existence. And you see his glory. 232 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:03,640 In nature and you see his glory in his creation and it's hard to 233 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:05,840 explain it. But when you. 234 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:08,760 Do see this grandeur of creation, man. 235 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:11,920 It calls out to the human heart, and it causes. 236 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:14,840 You to pause and look. Man, even watching a. 237 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:20,360 Thunderstorm come in in Texas. It's terrifying yet beautiful 238 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:23,120 where I'm just standing outside. I'm like. 239 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:25,400 Whoa, this is cool. And Rachel's yelling at me. 240 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:27,160 She's like. It's a tornado warning. 241 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:29,200 I'm like, bro, it ain't going to happen. 242 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:29,800 We're in. Fort Worth. 243 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:32,720 Right. Like, like I prayed. 244 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:33,720 It's cool. No, I'm so good. 245 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:34,960 So. Like like you. 246 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:38,720 Watch this front coming in and it's like the power. 247 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:42,280 And the majesty of nature. You know this last Friday I was 248 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:44,840 up here. And man, it was a bad 249 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:47,680 thunderstorm like it was. Loud like the lightning. 250 00:12:47,680 --> 00:12:51,560 In this area was crazy. Like it was so loud. 251 00:12:51,560 --> 00:12:53,760 It was like God. Clapped his hands right in my. 252 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:56,160 Ear and I was like, man, that is the. 253 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:59,480 Power of God. And the reason why we don't have 254 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:02,560 Internet this morning, but we're going to get it fixed on Monday. 255 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:07,280 So so we see this. And listen in all of this every. 256 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:12,920 Single day from verses 1. Through verses like. 24 and 25. 257 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:16,480 There's 2. Phrases that we continually see 258 00:13:16,680 --> 00:13:19,560 as God is creating the world and the universe. 259 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:25,000 God said and. It was we see this. 260 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,600 All through we see this all through these verses and God 261 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:31,520 said, let there be light. And there was. 262 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:33,400 And God said let there. Be the sea. 263 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:37,120 And it was. What do we see from God when God 264 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:38,760 speaks? It happens. 265 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:43,120 And everything begins to build up on. 266 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:46,560 Itself so as you start. Reading the book of Genesis in 267 00:13:46,560 --> 00:13:49,480 chapter 1. We don't just see the scope of. 268 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:53,120 Creation, but we also see. The importance of every. 269 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:55,480 Single new thing for every single. 270 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:57,760 Day and we see like. God created light, then he 271 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:00,600 created the sea, then he created land, and then the moon, and 272 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:05,120 then the sun, then birds and fish and animals and everything 273 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:08,760 is happening with a. Specific purpose and a specific 274 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:12,960 reason to show off His glory and it. 275 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:15,320 Comes to the pinnacle. Of his. 276 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:22,400 Creation in verse 26 where he creates mankind, He creates man 277 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:26,400 and he creates. Woman, Which leads us to #2. 278 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:30,320 God's design of us. Is a display of the. 279 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:33,680 Gospel. The way that God creates 280 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:37,120 humanity and the way. That he puts us in. 281 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:40,640 Relationship with one another. Shows us. 282 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:46,440 That design shows us the gospel, so he doesn't shows his glory 283 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:50,160 and his grandeur and His Holiness and righteousness and 284 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:52,520 everything that he's created. But when he. 285 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:56,800 Creates mankind When He creates woman and man, He also creates 286 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:58,800 them in relationship with one another. 287 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:05,080 To show off the gospel message, look at verse 27 in Genesis 1. 288 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:08,680 Look what it says. We'll start on verse 27. 289 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:12,560 So God. Created mankind in his own image 290 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:14,080 in the image. Of God he. 291 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:18,800 Created them male and female. He created them, so God created 292 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:20,000 mankind. I'm just. 293 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:20,680 Reading that. Twice. 294 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:22,200 My bad. Verse 28. 295 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:25,840 God blessed them. So he didn't just create. 296 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:29,120 Them, but he blessed them. And how do you bless them? 297 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:30,920 Look what he. Says be fruitful. 298 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:34,480 And increase in number fill the earth and. 299 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:36,360 Subdue it. Rule over the. 300 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:40,600 Fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, and for every living 301 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:43,000 creature that moves on the ground. 302 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:46,440 Verse 29. Then God said, I give you every 303 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:47,760 seed. Bearing plant on the. 304 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:51,800 Face of this whole earth. And every tree that has fruit 305 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:56,160 and seed in it. They will be yours for food to 306 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:58,760 all the beasts of the. Earth and all the birds of the 307 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:01,440 sky and all the creatures that move on the ground. 308 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:04,360 Everything that has breath. Of life. 309 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:07,560 In it I give every green plant for food. 310 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:12,360 And and it was so and. God. 311 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:16,840 Saw all that he had. Made and it was what It wasn't 312 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:21,600 just good, it was very good. And there was. 313 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:24,080 Evening and there was morning. On the 6th day. 314 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:26,520 I thought it was interesting that he says that. 315 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:27,280 It's not just. Good. 316 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:31,200 It's very good. Like what if somebody were? 317 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:32,360 Like if. Rachel like, do you? 318 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:33,840 Like it. And I'm like, it was good. 319 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:38,160 It's like, but if I say, oh, it was very good. 320 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:40,760 Guys, that takes it. Up a notch. 321 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:42,760 And what God? Is saying, is that everything? 322 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:47,120 He created, he looked at it and said it was very good. 323 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:51,400 Which means it was perfect. Everything that God created is. 324 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:53,920 Perfect now. I'm going to, I'm going to push 325 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:56,800 a little bit now when we talk about the gospel, to be honest. 326 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:58,960 With us the gospel. Message. 327 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:01,360 Is it just kind of? Pushes a little bit about what 328 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:03,680 we're about, so. It could be a little offensive 329 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:05,480 sometimes. On what? 330 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:09,880 We grew up with and what we believe so if we are created. 331 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:15,960 Right, so God created us. And we are made, therefore we 332 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:19,960 are. Owned so if God created man and 333 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:24,040 woman, God formed us and he made it in his image so we. 334 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:27,800 Are all image bearers of the holy and righteous God, the 335 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:31,640 Creator of the universe? That means that you are not of 336 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:33,560 your own and you're not of yourself. 337 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:37,800 You are owned, God created. US. 338 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:41,160 Therefore, he knows exactly the. Perfect. 339 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:45,080 Way that you and I function. He knows how we thrive. 340 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:47,960 He knows what we need. In order to do. 341 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:51,840 Great in life. So God, what that means? 342 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:55,960 Is that God has giving every single thing in the universe 343 00:17:56,280 --> 00:18:01,360 purpose, including human beings. Do you get that? 344 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:05,920 Like you are not like a generic mutation. 345 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:12,280 You're not an accident. You're not, you're not like just 346 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:17,360 some drunken night. You're not here. 347 00:18:17,360 --> 00:18:20,640 Because of a rape. You're not here just because 348 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:22,320 it's like. Somebody got drunk? 349 00:18:24,120 --> 00:18:25,440 No like. God has. 350 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:29,880 You here for a reason and a purpose, and I think if we 351 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:31,880 understand that God is all. Creator. 352 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:34,160 And we understand that he's perfect and holy. 353 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:37,920 And righteous and that God. Makes everything according to 354 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:39,320 his will. That means that. 355 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:43,240 You're not here by accident, you are purposed. 356 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:45,960 Listen. Man I love Jeremiah chapter one 357 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:47,480 verse 13 says before. I. 358 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:51,520 Formed you in the womb, I knew. You before you were born. 359 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:52,880 I set you apart. I. 360 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:56,880 Appointed you as a prophet to the nations so because. 361 00:18:56,880 --> 00:18:59,920 God created us. That means that God has the 362 00:18:59,920 --> 00:19:05,480 right to tell us how to live. God is our. 363 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:08,320 Creator so that means that. He has the right. 364 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:10,680 To tell us how things function and how things work. 365 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:13,120 He's like, man, listen, I want you to thrive. 366 00:19:13,120 --> 00:19:14,640 I want you to do. Good, that's why. 367 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:16,440 God's like I've given you this to eat. 368 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:20,440 I've given you this. How to live, God tells. 369 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:23,760 Adam and Eve, he's like, I want you to eat from these trees in 370 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:26,240 chapter 2, but this one, don't eat from it. 371 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:30,200 So God is already. Giving boundaries and and he's 372 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:33,640 showing us how to live and how to do this. 373 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:38,560 For the good of his. Creation because everything has 374 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:42,280 a reason and a purpose. The Bible tells us that God is 375 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:45,720 good, therefore. God knows what's best. 376 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:48,640 For his people. And the way that God. 377 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:53,880 Tells us this is that he gives us his perfect law that it 378 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:55,680 would. Preserve and increase our 379 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:58,760 happiness and our well-being in life. 380 00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:02,960 So God is giving us all these things. 381 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:04,920 This is something that's important for us to know. 382 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:08,560 And God knows how his creation is to function. 383 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:09,960 He knows what's. Best for us. 384 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:11,400 He knows how to. Thrive and look what? 385 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:15,360 He tells Adam and Eve in chapter 2, or look what he tells man and 386 00:20:15,360 --> 00:20:17,840 woman. So go to Genesis chapter 2. 387 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:20,600 We're going to look at verses 18. 388 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:25,520 So it's just maybe like one more page over Genesis 218. 389 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:30,520 It says the Lord said. For it is not good for man to be 390 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:33,960 alone. I will make a helper suitable 391 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:36,600 for him. So the Lord God. 392 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:40,040 Caused the man to fall. Into a deep sleep and while he 393 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:41,200 was. Sleeping he took. 394 00:20:41,360 --> 00:20:46,400 One of the man's ribs, and then. Closed up the place with flesh, 395 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:49,880 then the Lord God. Made a woman for from the. 396 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:53,520 Rib he had taken out of the man and. 397 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:58,120 He brought her to the. Man and the man said this is 398 00:20:58,120 --> 00:21:00,560 bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. 399 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:03,440 She shall be called woman. For she was. 400 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:06,360 Taken out of man. That. 401 00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:09,240 Is why man leaves his father and mother and. 402 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,320 Is to be united. With his wife. 403 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:16,320 And they become one. Flesh Adam and his wife we're 404 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:18,720 both naked and they felt no shame. 405 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:23,760 Man, Pretty good. So God. 406 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:26,360 Because he knows how his creation functions. 407 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:30,480 He's like, you know what it's. Not good for man to be alone and 408 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:33,600 even if you read before that Adam was roaming just doing the 409 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:35,480 work. Because let's just be honest. 410 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:38,120 God created men. To work. 411 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,720 That's all another sermon, but we see it in Scripture. 412 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:47,080 The way that he formed us, our biology, testosterone, our our 413 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,840 skin is thicker and it's all for work. 414 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:52,640 So God made us to. Work. 415 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:54,640 And he? Looks, man, you know it's not 416 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:55,640 good for man to be. Alone. 417 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:57,880 So I'm going to make him. A suitable what? 418 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:00,360 Look at the word a suitable helper. 419 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:03,040 And then he took the. Rib. 420 00:22:03,120 --> 00:22:06,560 Why you take the rib? Because it's supposed to be side 421 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:09,640 by side each other. He didn't go to the foot where 422 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:11,880 man is on top. He didn't go for the head where 423 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,560 woman's on top, no. They are to be equal. 424 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:20,680 Helpers, you're to be a team, and God has given distinctions 425 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:23,960 to the woman that men do not have, and he gave. 426 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:27,720 Distinctions to men that. Women don't have Why? 427 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,000 Because they are to be complete with each other. 428 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:35,120 So whenever you hear this argument of like, well, like, I 429 00:22:35,120 --> 00:22:36,440 don't know if I want to be a woman no more. 430 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:39,360 That is not. God's creation and. 431 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:44,160 We're going to talk about how that comes right because things. 432 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:47,080 Go bad real fast here. So it says. 433 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:50,520 We take God's law. So so so. 434 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:52,280 I want to say sorry, I'm jumping ahead. 435 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:55,080 So think about this. You have man and woman and he's 436 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:56,480 like Adam. You're not it's not good for 437 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:57,360 you. I'm going to build you a, I'm 438 00:22:57,480 --> 00:22:59,400 going to give you a. Helper and then. 439 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:02,880 You guys are going to become one flesh guys in. 440 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:05,680 Scripture this is what. We call the cultural mandate 441 00:23:06,120 --> 00:23:09,200 that God tells. Adam and Eve, he says. 442 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:13,800 I want you to subdue like I want you to feel the world God 443 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:17,360 created man and woman to be sexual beings. 444 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:20,880 You know, I'm pretty sure Adam did not look at Eve and be like. 445 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:24,120 So how are we going to do this? No, like I'm pretty sure they 446 00:23:24,120 --> 00:23:27,840 understood. They get the biology of it all 447 00:23:28,120 --> 00:23:32,000 because. God made man perfectly to 448 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,240 function perfectly. So God. 449 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:41,280 Also created sex to procreate and for the. 450 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:45,400 Enjoyment in the confines of being man and wife. 451 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:51,200 God is making all of this perfectly, and He's given. 452 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,280 This to us. So how does he display? 453 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:58,360 The Gospel in creating us. So there's three things that the 454 00:23:58,360 --> 00:24:02,400 cultural mandate gives us #1. Procreation. 455 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:06,760 He he figures. He he makes us a way to fill the 456 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:09,800 earth, and the Bible says that. Listen, children are a. 457 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:12,080 Blessing from the Lord, not a curse. 458 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:17,960 They are a blessing from God to have kids, men to be able to 459 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:19,000 have. Kids, men, that's that's a. 460 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:23,560 Huge blessing in life. So so his image. 461 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:25,760 Bearers and to. Fill the Earth is a. 462 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:28,320 Blessing. We're sexual beings man. 463 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:31,280 He created sex for the confines of marriage like this is 464 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:34,640 something God put together Number. 465 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:36,960 Two illustration. So he didn't. 466 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:38,640 Just make them. From procreation, but also 467 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:40,480 illustration. What is he illustrating? 468 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:44,200 He's illustrating what it looks. Like for Christ to love the 469 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,520 church. If you guys are in Bible study, 470 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:49,680 man Ephesians. 6 Like we we see this. 471 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:52,400 What does it look like for Christ to love the church? 472 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:54,600 What does it look? Like for a husband to give his 473 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:55,720 life. For his wife. 474 00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,880 The same way Christ gave. His life for the church. 475 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:01,400 What does it look like for a wife? 476 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:05,520 To live in submission to her husband the same way that Christ 477 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,600 submitted his life. For the church, for Christ to be 478 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:11,000 the head of the church. Same way that the husband should 479 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:16,280 be the head of his family. Guys, it's all symbolic here and 480 00:25:16,360 --> 00:25:19,560 Jesus and God creates husband and wife as a. 481 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,000 Beautiful. Wedding as a beautiful marriage 482 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:25,480 in order to show. People, what it looks like, what 483 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:30,200 the gospel truly looks like. And the number 3 sanctification, 484 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:32,640 so we have procreation. We have. 485 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:37,240 Illustration but we also have sanctification Why? 486 00:25:37,360 --> 00:25:39,880 Because marriage is a lifelong commitment. 487 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:42,520 So you don't just. Grow as a. 488 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:45,280 Person you grow together as persons. 489 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:49,960 Right, like your wife, your. Husband, as you guys walk in 490 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:54,560 Christ, you grow together. It's not going to be easy 491 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,960 because we're different personalities but also sin. 492 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:01,080 But as you walk. Together and as you. 493 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:05,600 Live life together. And as you love each other, God 494 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,360 uses marriage to. Draw you closer. 495 00:26:08,360 --> 00:26:12,000 To him as and that's where we get sanctification. 496 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:16,920 Now guys, this sounds awesome, but if we're honest in this 497 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,800 room, some of your like man Ricky, that sounds great, but 498 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:24,480 that ain't me. It's not it's not me. 499 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,720 It's like man, I. Like you're talking about this. 500 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:28,360 Beautiful picture of marriage like. 501 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:32,720 Man mine looks way opposite. It don't look like that. 502 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:36,160 I didn't. You didn't say smack down in 503 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:40,320 there. What happened? 504 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,840 How did we go from this beautiful design of marriage, 505 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:48,160 procreation, sex, like a wonderful relationship with one 506 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:49,720 another? How did we go from? 507 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:56,080 That to. Yeah, it's not going to work. 508 00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:00,040 What happens? How do we go from bad to worse? 509 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:05,040 Genesis chapter 3 hits. So as God is. 510 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:09,440 Designing this perfectly, not just in relation to him, but 511 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:13,640 also in relation to one another, Adam and Eve, what happens? 512 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:19,040 Sin enters the picture. Look at Genesis 3, Genesis 3. 513 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:20,600 We're just going to. Read a few verses. 514 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:25,040 And we'll talk more in depth next week, but I want us to 515 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,640 understand something. Look at look what happens here 516 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:32,080 Genesis 3 verse one says now the serpent was more crafty than 517 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:34,320 any. Other of the wild animals. 518 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,200 That the Lord. God had made and He. 519 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:41,480 Said to the woman. Did God really say you? 520 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:45,880 Must not eat from any tree. Of this garden Satan shows. 521 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:48,960 Up as. Something that belongs there a 522 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:50,400 lot of people like. Why snake? 523 00:27:51,360 --> 00:27:53,160 Well, if he showed up as a Penguin there would be 524 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:57,240 questions. Ain't cold because Satan always 525 00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:01,280 shows up as if he belongs, and it always and he. 526 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,600 Always makes these great promises and Satan can't create 527 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:06,560 anything, but he sure can't deceive you. 528 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:11,240 So what does he do? He tells Eve God's word and he. 529 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:14,480 Twists God's words around and he's like man because. 530 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:16,600 God said you can eat. Anywhere you want to, but just 531 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,680 don't eat from this tree. And then St. shows up. 532 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:22,040 He's like, man, did God really say you can't eat from this 533 00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:24,840 tree? I mean, look how nice it is. 534 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,080 And then look how he like. Brings her in verse 2, the woman 535 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:31,560 said to the serpent, we must eat fruit from the trees in the 536 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,960 garden. But God did say you must not eat 537 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:38,480 fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and 538 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:40,520 you must not touch it or it. Will die. 539 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:44,800 You will, certainly. Die the serpent till the woman, 540 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,440 for God knows that when you eat from this tree. 541 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:53,240 Your eyes will be open and you will be like God, knowing good 542 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:58,360 and evil. What is the pool for Eve here? 543 00:28:58,560 --> 00:28:59,320 What is? What is? 544 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:02,240 Satan trying to. Get her to do Satan. 545 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,240 Is saying listen, God didn't. Really. 546 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:07,240 Say. That and and men, you really 547 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,360 think you're going to die? But you're but but look. 548 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:14,080 At the enticement here, you're going to be able to understand 549 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,960 things like him. You're going to be like that. 550 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:21,920 So what happens? Selfishness, pride, ego. 551 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,920 All start. Creeping in when sin joins the. 552 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:29,240 Picture so as God creates. Man and wife. 553 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:31,320 Right, a suitable helper. For man. 554 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:35,360 They're supposed to be going. Side by side, now what creeps in 555 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:37,880 sin hits the picture and now it's. 556 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:42,200 This whole idea of selfishness. I want to be the one that I want 557 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,520 to know what God knows. I want to be like God, and 558 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:47,920 that's exactly how Satan got tossed out of heaven. 559 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,520 He wanted to be. Worshipped like God. 560 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:52,680 And God's like, no, that's not going. 561 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:54,560 To happen. Boom, he threw him out. 562 00:29:56,080 --> 00:30:00,480 Satan uses the same thing, So what happens when God? 563 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:04,880 Creates a perfect situation. He gives us a law, and we look 564 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,240 at God's law and we rebel. Against it. 565 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:10,400 And we're like, God, I know you told us this, but I think. 566 00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:12,720 I know better than you. I could do better. 567 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:14,880 Like this is going to impact me way better. 568 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:19,240 And I'm going to be honest, like, man, like I see this when 569 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,560 we look at marriage. How? 570 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:25,800 How? Ego and how selfishness, How all 571 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,400 these things begin. To Chris in like. 572 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:31,800 Come in and I started thinking even like our. 573 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:35,320 Culture. Think about like machismo. 574 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:40,600 Because here's what. Happens when sin creeps in and 575 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,920 when selfishness and pride creep in you. 576 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:45,240 We. What we end up doing is that we 577 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,000 take absolute truth what God has. 578 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,520 Given us and we make everything subjective. 579 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:54,000 Now it's all depends on like what we want, what benefits us. 580 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,520 And what we believe. And it doesn't matter what our 581 00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:59,400 creator says, but as long as it helps me out. 582 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,280 So when we take something like machismo and that creeps into 583 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:06,680 our culture, it's like me man, me work, you, woman, you. 584 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,440 Just take care of kids. And you clean the. 585 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,880 House and I better have a sandwich and a beer when I get 586 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:16,200 home. OK, so if that's what your. 587 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,880 Perception of man looks like. Let me ask you A. 588 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:21,440 Question. What happens if she got a job? 589 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:25,320 Too. Where does that leave you? 590 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,920 Well, no, but like my job. Is more more important. 591 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:32,880 OK, well what happens if she makes more than you? 592 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:35,920 What if she's the main breadwinner here or not? 593 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:39,640 Does that make you? More or less than a man. 594 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:42,840 Yeah, Rick. But like The thing is. 595 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:44,760 It's like I get. Overwhelmed like I had to. 596 00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:46,440 Work 9 hours instead of eight hours. 597 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:47,960 It's just. Harder. 598 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,480 Well, she has a job. She makes. 599 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:54,160 More than you and then plus she has to come home take. 600 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:57,080 Care of the kids. And fix the house like you want, 601 00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:59,200 right? So if she's doing all this stuff 602 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,360 and you're only doing this stuff, who's the man? 603 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:05,880 So just. Because you got another. 604 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,680 Chromosome and you pee standing. Up that makes you a man. 605 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:11,000 That's not how this. Works. 606 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:13,240 That is not how this. Works. 607 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:16,280 And it's the same thing on the other side when feminism kicks 608 00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:18,000 in, like, I don't need a man. I don't men. 609 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:19,480 Men suck, man. I don't need men. 610 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:20,920 OK, Until you. Get a flat tire. 611 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,560 Who's going to help me guys? I go back and forth all day. 612 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,520 But the point. Is is that? 613 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:33,040 When selfishness begins to creep in. 614 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:38,400 You're supposed to be a. Team not a competition, right? 615 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,520 Like man and woman are supposed to be. 616 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:42,880 Side by side, each other, loving each. 617 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,720 Other worshipping the Lord together growing. 618 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:50,160 Together for the glory of. God, but because sin crept in, 619 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:55,520 now it becomes me, my mine. And that is going to. 620 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:59,880 Fail a marriage every single time We're not built. 621 00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:03,760 That way and when we. Take something that the creator 622 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,080 made. And God put. 623 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:08,600 Parameters around it and God's like this is how it's going to 624 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:12,440 function and because of our sinful nature and because our 625 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,760 rebelliousness. Toward God. 626 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:20,040 We want to try doing things our own way and it does not work 627 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:23,920 well. It ends up not doing well at all 628 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,520 and it. Crashes and it destroys. 629 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:32,360 And listen, this is exactly what sin does, and this is what we 630 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:35,560 call the bad news. Because before, there's good 631 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,000 news. There's got to be some bad news 632 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:42,200 and bad news. Is is that God? 633 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,840 As creator made everything perfect. 634 00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:48,000 As God, as Creator made. Everything to function. 635 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,840 Exactly the way. That he intended it to. 636 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,640 God as Creator who's holy and righteous. 637 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,880 Gave us parameters so that way you and I could thrive. 638 00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,960 And live. Awesome lives and be happy and 639 00:33:59,960 --> 00:34:02,920 our hearts be growing and and just moving. 640 00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:09,000 Together closer relationship to. Him, But then with sin we rebel 641 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,880 against our Creator. And what we tell God is that we. 642 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:14,960 Don't need your rules and I know more than you. 643 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:21,000 Selfishness and pride creep in. Now here's the problem. 644 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:25,280 Because God created us. And because God owns us, then 645 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:29,080 what do you do when your own creation rebels against you? 646 00:34:31,159 --> 00:34:34,239 I don't know, maybe just wipe it and start all over again? 647 00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:39,800 I could easily just destroy it. I could speak it out of. 648 00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,880 Existence the same way I spoke it into existence. 649 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:49,000 So what does God do? Well, because God is all loving. 650 00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,679 God creates. A solution to our 651 00:34:53,679 --> 00:34:57,200 rebelliousness. Because he has. 652 00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:00,240 To because he's holy and. Righteous and because God is 653 00:35:00,240 --> 00:35:05,160 holy and righteous, our. Sin and our rebelliousness is 654 00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,840 not going to be. Able to live. 655 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:11,040 In the same same sphere. As God. 656 00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:17,360 Because he can't be around sin, so the truth of the human 657 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:18,720 existence. The the. 658 00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:21,920 The woe everything flows from is that God? 659 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,040 Created us and therefore He. Owns. 660 00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:29,360 Us, but because we rebelled. Against him, we deserve his. 661 00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:33,960 Wrath. You know, when I, when we have 662 00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:40,800 children, when your child rebels against you, there's got to be 663 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:46,160 some consequences because it's loving to give your child 664 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:50,400 consequences when they rebel. If you don't give your child 665 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,880 consequences when they rebel against you, it's actually going 666 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:57,040 to be worse for them. That's not loving at all. 667 00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:02,200 And as we try to be cool parents, we're actually becoming 668 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:08,840 parents who are allowing our kids to begin the cycle of 669 00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:13,200 destruction. God the same way He loves us so 670 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:14,600 much. That there's got to be. 671 00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:20,400 A payment, a punishment for sin. So God's rule over the universe, 672 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:24,800 His sovereign Lordship over creation, all of this stuff is 673 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:28,200 founded upon his remaining forever. 674 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:31,080 I'm sorry, all of this. Is founding in him remaining. 675 00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:36,560 Forever perfect. Just and right, which is this to 676 00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:41,600 my last one number. 3 is God judges us by his righteous law. 677 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,200 God judges us by his righteous. Law. 678 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:50,840 So because we have rebelled. Against our Creator who made 679 00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:54,520 everything perfect, we need to understand. 680 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:59,000 How we rebelled and. If we don't understand how we 681 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,760 rebelled, then we're going to keep continually doing things 682 00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:06,160 that rebel against our Creator, and it's going to go from bad to 683 00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:09,280 worse. So God gives us His righteous 684 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,720 law. Man, I love this passage. 685 00:37:11,720 --> 00:37:14,320 In Exodus I want to. Look it up. 686 00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:17,720 Exodus 34. Exodus 34. 687 00:37:17,720 --> 00:37:23,600 We're going to look at verses 5 and 7, Exodus. 34. 5:00 and 7:00 688 00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:30,400 So Moses has two new tablets because Moses lost his cool and 689 00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,720 destroyed the 10 commandments when he saw the Israelites 690 00:37:33,720 --> 00:37:38,840 worshipping the golden calf. So Moses goes back and and and 691 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:43,240 God appears to Moses. He reveals himself to Moses and 692 00:37:43,240 --> 00:37:44,520 look. How God? 693 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:49,480 He introduces himself to Moses, and with this will end here. 694 00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:52,560 Verse 5. Then the Lord came down. 695 00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:56,280 In the cloud and stood. There with him, and proclaimed 696 00:37:56,280 --> 00:38:00,040 his name, the Lord. And he passed in front of Moses, 697 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:04,800 proclaiming the Lord the. Lord, the compassionate and 698 00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:05,960 gracious. God. 699 00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:11,080 Now look at his characteristics. Slow to anger, abounding in 700 00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:12,920 love. And faithful. 701 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:16,200 Sounds good. I'm like, yeah, I could rock 702 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:19,880 with that. Maintaining love to thousands 703 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:23,520 and forgiving wicked rebellion and sin. 704 00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,040 Yet he. Does not leave the guilty 705 00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:30,520 unpunished. He punishes the children and 706 00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:35,680 their children for the sins of their parents to the third and 707 00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:37,400 4th. Generation. 708 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,960 That's a. Powerful verse guys, this is. 709 00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:48,400 God announcing himself to Moses and many of us think of. 710 00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:50,040 God as. Loving, Yes, he is. 711 00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:53,240 Slow to anger. Yes, he's abounding in love. 712 00:38:53,240 --> 00:38:55,680 Yes, he is. Faithful, yeah, but you know 713 00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:59,440 what a lot of people leave out? He leaves the guilty unpunished. 714 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:01,040 He doesn't leave the guilty. Unpunished. 715 00:39:03,240 --> 00:39:07,880 Why can't he leave? The guilty unpunished because 716 00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:09,360 he's. A God of justice. 717 00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:13,480 And of righteousness. Where does this leave us? 718 00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:18,400 Where does this leave us? Because all of us have. 719 00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,240 Sinned, we're all. Guilty of rebelling against our 720 00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:25,520 Creator. Here comes the cross. 721 00:39:27,240 --> 00:39:32,760 You see guys, the gospel is that God as Creator who is holy and 722 00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:35,440 righteous. And just and made everything 723 00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:37,200 perfect and how everything in the. 724 00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:41,320 World was perfect. And sin enters the world, and it 725 00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:43,360 ruins not just a relationship amongst. 726 00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:46,120 Each other but it. Ruins our relationship with him. 727 00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:49,360 We rebel. We think we know better than 728 00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:53,600 our. God, but because God is. 729 00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:58,360 Slow to anger, abounding in love and faithful, he does not leave 730 00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:01,440 the guilty go unpunished. Many of us that are. 731 00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:04,160 Suffering many of us that are going through some hard times. 732 00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:09,280 Maybe, just maybe, it's sins of our fathers. 733 00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,160 Look what it says right he. Punishes the children and their. 734 00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,360 Children of the for the. Sin of the parents. 735 00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:18,680 To the third and 4th. Generation, The bad news? 736 00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:20,000 Is that a relationship? Is. 737 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,080 Broken. The bad news is that there's 738 00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,120 consequences. To the. 739 00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:27,840 Sins not just of your sins, but of the sins of your parents. 740 00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:31,080 And if we do not? Address it with a holy. 741 00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:34,440 And righteous God and ask for forgiveness. 742 00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,880 The consequences are going to keep on going for the generation 743 00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:40,960 after generation after generation. 744 00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:45,720 But because God is faithful and. Because God is loving and 745 00:40:45,720 --> 00:40:47,840 because God is slow to anger what He. 746 00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:51,240 Does is that he gives us a way to seek. 747 00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:54,800 Forgiveness and restoration and peace. 748 00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:57,520 And he, he gives. Us a way to stop. 749 00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:01,400 Those generational sins and curses, and his name is Jesus. 750 00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:08,920 And I wish. More of us would understand why 751 00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:11,520 Christ came. And how he's the solution? 752 00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:15,440 To many of our hurts and our problems, His name is Jesus. 753 00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:17,440 And he is the answer. To our. 754 00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:21,920 Rebellious nature and he's the answer to us looking at the 755 00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:24,000 Creator and saying we know better, so thank you. 756 00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:27,120 Jesus, for today, thank you. Jesus, for everything that 757 00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:27,640 you've done.