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Welcome To The River. 
City Church podcast and a 

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message by our lead. 
Pastor Jason Powers our prayer 

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is that this message would 
Inspire and encourage you, build

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your faith. 
And point you to the 

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life-changing love of Jesus, may
you enjoy the goodness of God as

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you follow him today. 
Have you ever wondered why the 

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week only has seven days? 
Nobody that happened? 

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Good, why would you write? 
Like, it's always just been like

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that, right? 
Like, here's the deal. 

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Did you know that? 
There is nothing really like 

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Like the only reason that we 
know today is Sunday is because 

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we trust that all throughout 
history. 

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People have been like keeping 
track, right? 

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Like there was a day in the 
Gregorian calendar. 

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I remember exactly what your it 
was, whatever. 

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But we found out, oh my gosh, 
the years like 11 days behind. 

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So like in October some year, 
whatever Gregory Pope Gregory 

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fixed, it just like there's 11 
days missing but the deal was 

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with seven days in a week during
the 1780s and the French 

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Revolution, they try to 10 day 
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They tried it for a little while
and I went Couple years and it 

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just just didn't work, right? 
They went through and they tried

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and they bring it back and it 
always kind of devolves to a 

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seven-day week. 
Well, my contention is that's 

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part of the creation story. 
I think there's something about 

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the Rhythm that just naturally 
works for Humanity for people. 

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And we've been looking for a 
couple weeks at Genesis 1, 2 and

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3. 
We actually started in John 

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chapter 3 with this idea that 
Jesus announces his kingdom with

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this, invitation to rebirth. 
He told Nicodemus a guy who is 

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it The top. 
He said, listen, if you want to 

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see the kingdom, if you want to 
see what God is really doing and

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what is really up to in this 
world, you need to be reborn. 

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And the idea behind rebirth for 
Nicodemus was you need to learn 

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how to see the world apart from 
separate from indistinct from 

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the values and The rhythms and 
the structures of the world that

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you've been in right for 
Nicodemus. 

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He existed in a system that 
valued, you know, kind of 

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religious Purity, right? 
Like you keep the law. 

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Exactly. 
And fundamentally, and all the 

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way through where you kind of Of
value and worth was Financial or

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position. 
And so Jesus just said, hey what

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I'm doing with this kingdom is 
about, it's really different 

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from that and then we looked 
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And today we're going to look at
Genesis 2 and we're going to see

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kind of God's design and 
intention for creation for 

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mankind, from the very beginning
and you're going to be like last

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week. 
I know it was a little bit long 

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so you're going to be happy to 
know today that this week I only

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have enough content for like 
eleven messages so we'll be 

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good. 
It's going to be fun, right? 

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So we saw in Genesis chapter 
one, kind of the broad Strokes 

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of the creation story and one of
the things that we said that was

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really important for kind of 
grasping and understanding kind 

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of Genesis chapter 1 is this 
idea that God created 

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everything. 
I believed every atom in 

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creation was designed 
intentionally and deliberately 

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and specifically was designed by
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I believe in intelligent design 
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And I believe that Genesis 1 is 
not the account of material 

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creation. 
I believe that everything 

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existed and I think the count of
Genesis 1 is the story of God, 

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giving purpose and meaning to 
everything that he created. 

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And we're going to see kind of 
more evidence for that today. 

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But so far we've created this 
the physical structures, right? 

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We created Genesis 1, right? 
Where he said, let there be 

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light and we saw him separating.
And he separated the light and 

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the dark, and then he separated 
the waters, and then he 

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separated the water from the 
land, and he separated sky, and 

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he separated all of these 
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And then we come to Genesis 
chapter 2, right? 

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And so we have six days at the 
end of Genesis chapter 1 God has

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created Mankind. 
And then there's Chapter break. 

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Now, listen, the chapters and 
the verses weren't in the 

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original. 
It's not like when Moses was 

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writing this down, he went 
chapter 2, right? 

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This was primarily an oral 
tradition, the chapters, and the

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verses are there to help us know
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So this was kind of a continuing
narrative, but something happens

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in chapter 2. 
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kind of its genre we called it 
elevated prose, right? 

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It's not pure poetry but it's 
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It's not a narrative. 
Script that doesn't have 

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instructions. 
It doesn't have designs. 

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It doesn't have metrics and 
measurements eight-foot like it 

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was building an ark. 
It's just kind of it's this kind

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of poetic narrative Ellen of P 
elevated prose but then we get 

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to Genesis chapter 2 and it 
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Here's a Genesis chapter 2 says 
thus after all of this thus the 

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heavens and the Earth were 
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them. 
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So now everything was done, he's
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And then again you notice 
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on the seventh day God finished.
His work that he had done and he

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rested on the seventh day from 
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So now just by the fact that God
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different. 
They 7 has something about it on

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day. 
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got separated. 
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on day two saw spokes separated 
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that. 
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nothing left to say to speak. 
And so what does he do? 

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He sits and he rests and I'm 
verse 3. 

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So God God blessed the seventh 
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Holy now this is a good 
opportunity to address some 

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language. 
Okay, so when F, I say to you 

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that God wants you to be. 
Holy your idea, first would 

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probably be something along the 
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You would translate in your 
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me to be good, right? 
To Fair, God wants me to be 

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morally. 
Good. 

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Well, you'll notice what here, 
let's try to insert that in 

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here, right? 
And so God finish everything 

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that he Had created. 
So God blessed the seventh day 

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and he made it good. 
Is that what that means does? 

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That does that kind of make 
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What if we take the word? 
Holy and we mean different, we 

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use it as set apart. 
Okay? 

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So and God. 
So God blessed the seventh day 

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and he set it apart because on 
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work that he had done in 
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The idea behind the Holiness of 
the Sabbath is that it is a day 

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set apart. 
It is one day out of seven that 

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is dated and inhabited for a 
different distinct separate 

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unique purpose. 
That's what Holiness means. 

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It means different. 
So now let's pause and let's 

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back up and let's remember where
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We remember Genesis 1 and 
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is an ancient near Eastern 
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We saw all kinds of similarities
between the account in Genesis 

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and the account in, you know, 
the Anu, my Iliad. 

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I like all of these creation 
ethics around and what we said 

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is that doesn't diminish It's 
that doesn't mean that we have 

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to read the creation account in 
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In fact, for me, it lends 
veracity to it because I can 

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come around and just say, man, 
all of these people all the way 

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around, they're talking about 
the same thing. 

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Now, they ascribe different 
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to it, right? 
But when we step back and we can

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look at it, my take is this 
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God, creating it makes the most 
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It's the most Thoughtful. 
Okay, so let's unpack this now, 

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Genesis 2. 
Verse 1, through 3, we have God 

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creating this ancient near 
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is telling his people in the 
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He is the god who has over the 
the chaos, he is, the god who 

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speaks order into all that. 
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one who speaks the one who 
creates one who brings order is,

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what deity. 
He is God, right? 

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So if you look at all of these 
creation text throughout the 

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ancient years, right from 
Babylon, from a series for Is 

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what you have is consistently a 
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Who goes about the work of 
creation for precisely seven 

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days. 
And on the seventh day, wherever

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you look at on the seventh day 
these deities, they quit. 

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Do you know why they quit after 
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Because on day seven they have 
created mankind, so they no 

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longer have to work because they
now have slaves to do the work 

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for them. 
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So an ancient near Eastern 
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Creates for seven days and then 
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And what is the place where a 
deity stops to rest, so that you

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can see the deity so that you 
can look at the DD so that you 

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can worship it. 
What do you call a place? 

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Where a deity is, worshipped a 
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So, an ancient near Eastern 
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and we're a god reigns, okay? 
So here's what we have. 

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Genesis chapter 1, Portrays all 
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Temple. 
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that the Genesis want to count 
is not the account of God, 

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creating material stuff. 
But it is God, organizing 

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creative material stuff. 
So that it is a place where he 

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can sit and dwell and rain and 
it habit this Earth among his 

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people. 
We know that this is what our 

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God is. 
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Exodus and he leaves the People 
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What does he do? 
He says build a tent and in the 

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tent there's going to be a 
place, right? 

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This is what the temple looked 
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the temple. 
Here's my little pointer that I 

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get to use again. 
This is fun for me. 

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Okay, right. 
So here's here's break it down 

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right out here. 
All this extra space out here, 

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right. 
When you read it, this is the 

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company of Israel. 
The people of Israel would have 

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camped outside of the tent, 
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And then there would have been 
this border and you could have 

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some Gentiles outside there and 
then you can have the core. 

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Women, right? 
What I want to show and I want 

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to point to a specific leave 
this place. 

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Do we see this? 
This is called the holy place. 

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The most holy place. 
This area right here is called 

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the holy of holies and this 
little box is the Ark of the 

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Covenant, okay? 
So what I want to draw attention

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to particularly is this holy 
place within the temple, okay, 

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so everybody could come out 
here. 

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The priests have to enter into 
the table and you have like you 

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have a table with bread on it 
and you have lampstands this, 

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you can't read the writing. 
This is called The Altar. 

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And the purpose of the altar was
to offer sacrifices. 

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Now, you know what sacrifices 
fall under the heading of right 

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worship. 
The sacrifices were the way that

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God's people were made right 
with God through the sacrifice 

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so that there could be Holiness.
And again, now we come down to 

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righteousness, right? 
Does righteous meeting, good. 

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There's certainly an element of 
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That means good show me a person
who lies and Steals and cheese 

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and all that. 
And I'm just going to say that's

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not righteousness, but the idea 
behind Righteousness has to do 

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with Covenant. 
It has to do with God, saying, I

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made a promise to you, and I'm 
going to keep that promise and 

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the Covenant is us than saying, 
and we'll make a promise to you 

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God, and we will keep that 
Covenant. 

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And God says, no, you won't 
because you're terrible and your

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sinful. 
And when you do that, there's 

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going to be a way for you to 
know that the Covenant is an 

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operations. 
The way that you can know, the 

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Covenant is in operation, is you
will go to the temple and you'll

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give your sacrifice to a priest 
and the priest will offer the 

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sacrifice for - so that we can 
worship together. 

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Are we tracking? 
Do you see the purpose of a 

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temple? 
A temple is where God and 

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Mankind come together? 
Where mankind can worship God In

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the Flesh in person from where 
he is? 

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So, in the ancient near East a 
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their God. 
We tracking Are you getting 

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anticipation because this is 
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Because you're always like, what
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What about the right was me. 
Look, we're gonna get there. 

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Here we go. 
Genesis chapter 4. 

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Okay, so now look, if you look 
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verse 4 is kind of set off, 
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Like you can see its got like 
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that. 
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that indicates a poetic 
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represents, create a kind of in 
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Are the Scripture, it indicates,
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let's see what it says. 
These are the generations of the

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Heaven and the earth. 
When they were created in the 

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day that the Lord God made the 
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So let's step back and unpack 
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Okay, so if you look in verse 4,
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created, there is the Hebrew 
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Okay. 
You don't have to know. 

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That means right now, it says 
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becomes very important because 
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with another word later. 
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So these are the generations of 
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they were created in the day 
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So some people come SE, see it 
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literal 624 our literal create 
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Here's what I would say to you. 
I hundred percent agree. 

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I believe that what we're 
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literal 24 hour days of ordering
and calling and filling and 

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purposing. 
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And so here we have so what does
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generation and in the day, 
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In the generation back in the 
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in the day, I used to follow a 
band around the country fish 

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right there. 
This hippie band had long hair 

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and hemp rope necklace and 
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He said, dude, lot and did all 
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Listen, so when I say a back in 
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like, like, like a Thursday, 
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time period. 
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off in the generations and back 
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the Earth. 
So here's what we've got right 

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now, right? 
We have Genesis 1:1 in the 

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beginning, God created the 
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like this, right? 
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125 and it looks like this 
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and the Earth God created. 
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Day. 4 day 5 day 6, right? 
So now what we're going to do is

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we're going to take that 
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zoom in even more, and we're 
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process. 
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label, right? 
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In verse 5, when no Bush of the 
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you remember on what day God 
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three. 
So we're not here right there. 

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They're going like a ha, it's 
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He said that the right now, 
we're just doing back down. 

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He's like, yeah, okay, so we're 
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3 and says, yeah, there was 
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So God, starting to work now. 
No Bush was in the field, right?

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No, small planet filled for the 
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God hadn't caused it to rain on 
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So there's like this mist and 
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the waters right? 
And then it says I lost my place

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is already know pretty verse 6 
and a miss was going up for the 

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land and was watering the whole 
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chronologically, it just means 
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watered and then at some point 
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know as day six in the creation,
then the Lord God formed That is

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the word and I want to make sure
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That is the word Yachts. 
Todd re-formed, created baba, 

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got sorry created for we just 
go. 

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What's the same thing? 
God May got it. 

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No different words, right. 
The idea of you got Sade is like

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if you take a piece of clay and 
you form it and you squeeze it 

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and you make it and you take 
your time and you look at it and

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you screw it up and then you fix
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You take it to a right to say 
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plant, plant, plant, plant. 
Plant bhadra plant. 

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But Ahh Bra. 
Yeah, sorry. 

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Sits down. 
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And he creates, and he makes any
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did he say? 
And he breathed into his 

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nostrils, the breath of life. 
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being see breath Hebrew. 
Word is Hua, right? 

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And it can mean wind. 
It can mean breath in this case 

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Soul, right? 
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The difference is a question, we
get all the time, right? 

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Like, there's an animal in the 
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Like, will animals be in heaven?
Listen, here's my take on this. 

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You're not going to like this. 
Some of you. 

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My mom's going to reject me, 
right? 

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Going to be out of the family 
here in just a second. 

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The question is, will do you 
know All Dogs Go to Heaven? 

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Here's my take, like it doesn't 
say this in the Bible, don't 

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lose your salvation over this. 
I think I'm right, I could be 

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wrong mankind, man and animal 
are different, right? 

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A different form of creation. 
God breathes a soul into human 

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now, listen God, created 
everything that God created 

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dogs, you bet dogs are wonderful
and if you don't I question your

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salvation. 
But no, that's for real. 

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I really suggest your salvation 
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The soul is what lives on, will 
there be dogs in heaven? 

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Of course. 
There will be dogs in heaven. 

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Will your dog be in heaven? 
Probably not. 

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Yeah. 
Listen, my wallet. 

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My mom right now already. 
Listen, I'm out. 

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I'm out of the will. 
She doesn't believe it. 

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It's the soul that sets mankind 
apart. 

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Do you know why? 
It sets, man kind of part. 

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Do you know what mankind has 
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Don't the dogs and cats and deer
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know what, those don't have a 
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Genesis 1:26 and 27. 
What does that say? 

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Right, this right. 
God said, let us make Mankind in

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our image after our likeness and
let them have dominion over the 

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fish of the sea and over the 
birds of the heavens and over 

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the livestock and over. 
All the Earth and over every 

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creeping thing that creeps on 
the earth, God gave mankind a 

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soul for the purpose for which 
he created. 

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He created animals and plants, 
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Earth to be beautiful, to be 
wonderful to make life have 

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Beauty and meaning and purpose 
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But he created us distinctly, he
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us in His image verse 27. 
So God created, man in his own 

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image. 
In the image of God, he created 

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him male and female he created 
them. 

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So God created us unique. 
God gave us a soul, that's the 

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thing in this whole world that 
we have that others. 

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Don't. 
So now if I look at this, if I 

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just walked into this room and I
see Gary's guitar right here, 

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I'm going to make an assumption 
about what happens here, right? 

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Because I see the tools, I have 
a sense of what kind of work 

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goes on, right? 
If I go to a, if I'm driving by 

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a field and I see big excavators
right in front end loaders, I 

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can know because of the tools 
what kind of work is happening 

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in this place. 
Ace. 

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So the question is, what kind of
work happens when a soul is 

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present when God sovereignly 
chooses, one being and all of 

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creation to give it a soul to 
give it the very Breath of God, 

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we sing that song. 
It's your breath in our lungs. 

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So, I'll pour out my praise. 
This is what he's talking about.

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Literally made Alive by the 
Breath of God. 

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So, what's the tool? 
What's the resource? 

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What would God want us to do? 
Do with this special gift of a 

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soul. 
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God planted a garden in the 
East. 

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Now remember no. 
Plants Wilderness wild, you 

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know, missed. 
And then later. 

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God planted a garden in the 
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So we have all of creation. 
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Eden and God. 
Plants, a garden in Eden, right?

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And there, he put the man who 
had formed listen. 

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Did you know mankind wasn't 
created in the garden. 

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You're creating the Wilderness 
we've created. 

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Outside and God placed us there,
he put us there. 

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The thing about that is, here's 
what that means. 

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That we weren't standing there. 
We had no part in making the 

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garden bloom, we just walked in,
and our breath was taken away, 

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because it was beautiful and it 
was already there. 

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And we had the full trees and 
the running water and the fruits

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and goes on to describe what 
this is like and out of the 

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ground. 
The Lord God had made to spring 

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up every tree. 
That is Pleasant to the sight 

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and good for food. 
And the tree of life was in the 

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midst of garden, the tree of the
knowledge of the good and evil 

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and a river flowed out of To 
water the garden, and there it 

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divided, and became Four Rivers.
So notice what he says, right, 

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this is there's a garden in the 
middle and the garden flows out.

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And when it flows out, it 
becomes Four Rivers, right? 

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And it brings you've been to the
Comal River right where the 

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headwaters rollout and it comes 
and it fits Atlanta Park and it 

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fills that little pool and then 
it goes and you can tube in it, 

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right? 
So there's the river that's 

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flowing out verse 11. 
And the name of the first is the

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pie Shawn and the, it's the one 
that float around the whole land

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of havilah where there is gold. 
So there, As you know, this 

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River There Is wealth, there was
fine as there was gold there. 

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The name of the second river is 
the guy. 

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Han is the one that float around
the whole land of cush and the 

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name of the third river is the 
Tigris which flows east of 

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Assyria and the fourth river is 
the Euphrates. 

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Right? 
And so, when we read in verse 8,

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and right? 
That means also. 

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So we have also. 
So God is creating and he 

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creates the plants and he 
creates all the stuff and also 

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in the midst of this, God plants
a temple in the East where he 

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and Mankind can do. 
Oh forever, right? 

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And notice the garden. 
Notice what the garden was like,

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notice its aesthetic, right? 
It was beautiful. 

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It was pleasing. 
It was good for food, it was 

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good to eat. 
There was good stuff there, 

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right. 
We notice God, is there in the 

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presence with him, notice? 
That it was practical, it was 

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good. 
The food was good to eat. 

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It was good to see. 
It was all of those things, 

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right? 
Did you notice? 

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It says the river was there and 
then they float out there's no 

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boundary. 
It doesn't like when it talks 

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about the boundaries of the 
promised land later in Exodus 

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and Leviticus Lucas and Josh, 
right? 

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It says and you can go this far 
north to the Sea and to this. 

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And there were boundaries of 
Lent, There's No Boundaries in 

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the Garden of Eden, he placed 
Mankind in a blooming growing 

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thriving. 
Beautiful practice full 

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Limitless, boundless place, he 
set us in a temple with him to 

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no end, right? 
And so here we have the temple, 

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the whole world outside where 
there's no plants and there's no

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animals. 
Just wild place. 

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And then we come in and starts 
and here's the garden. 

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And what does God tell mankind 
to do? 

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Be fruitful and multiply, and go
and fill. 

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Right? 
Because here's the holy place 

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and the priests come in and they
offer sacrifices on the altar to

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restore and repair the 
relationship and it's called 

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worship God, created a space for
mankind to worship God as God 

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listen. 
Verse 15 in Chapter 2. 

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The Lord God took them in and he
put them in the garden to work 

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it, and keep it, put him to work
it and keep it. 

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That's the purpose. 
And some of you are like, well, 

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that's terrible. 
I don't like to mow the yard. 

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I don't like to plant flowers, I
don't want to do a garden. 

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We're in a that's next week. 
We're going to unpack all of 

452
00:23:00,308 --> 00:23:02,700
that wide 10 in your garden is 
terrible and Harden. 

453
00:23:02,700 --> 00:23:05,100
We don't want to. 
But for right now the question 

454
00:23:05,100 --> 00:23:07,900
that we ask that, we have to 
come to is up to this point. 

455
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,300
There is one One precisely. 
What we haven't even got to 

456
00:23:11,300 --> 00:23:14,900
there yet, so far. 
Everything in creation is good, 

457
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:16,800
right? 
It is. 

458
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:21,100
Reflective of God's goodness. 
Okay, so what are you happy goes

459
00:23:21,100 --> 00:23:25,000
on and the Lord. 
God commanded. 

460
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,500
The man saying you may surely 
eat of every tree in the garden,

461
00:23:27,500 --> 00:23:28,800
which is good. 
Because remember they're 

462
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:32,100
beautiful and they're good. 
But of the tree of the knowledge

463
00:23:32,100 --> 00:23:33,800
of Good and Evil you shall not 
eat. 

464
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:36,000
Now, listen, how many trees do 
you think we're in the Garden of

465
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:39,300
Eden? 
At least two right? 

466
00:23:39,300 --> 00:23:41,500
Tree of the knowledge of Good 
and Evil in the tree of life. 

467
00:23:41,700 --> 00:23:44,100
You think there are more trees 
than those two. 

468
00:23:44,900 --> 00:23:50,700
How many more Ball part a 
gazillion, right? 

469
00:23:51,300 --> 00:23:53,700
Why Adam and Eve camping around 
the freaking tree. 

470
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:54,400
That's all. 
I want to know. 

471
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,900
We'll talk about that next week.
You may not eat it. 

472
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,200
But of the tree of the knowledge
of Good and Evil, you shall not 

473
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:03,600
eat front of the day. 
You shall surely die. 

474
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,200
Right? 
So he put mankind there to work 

475
00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:09,000
it and keep it and to serve with
later. 

476
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,500
So, listen, here's what we're 
talking because I know, right? 

477
00:24:11,500 --> 00:24:13,700
We're talking metaphor, we have 
Temple, but it's not a temple. 

478
00:24:13,700 --> 00:24:15,400
There's trees. 
And this stuff like this. 

479
00:24:15,500 --> 00:24:17,600
I'm talking about worship and 
what we talked about, listen, 

480
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:22,400
Romans, 12:1, I appeal to you, 
therefore, Brothers by the 

481
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:28,700
mercies of God, to present your 
bodies, as a Living Sacrifice. 

482
00:24:29,100 --> 00:24:32,100
Holy and acceptable and remember
what holy means right, good, 

483
00:24:32,100 --> 00:24:34,400
right because I go, I can't 
serve God I'm not good. 

484
00:24:34,700 --> 00:24:37,600
No set apart. 
Your life is created and 

485
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:42,100
intended to bring worship and 
service to God which is your 

486
00:24:42,100 --> 00:24:44,800
spiritual worship. 
Your spiritual worship is the 

487
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:48,800
service and the sacrifice. 
It is keeping the garden order 

488
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:50,700
intact. 
So worship. 

489
00:24:50,700 --> 00:24:54,400
Now is the desires is 
identifying seeing the desires 

490
00:24:54,500 --> 00:24:58,200
needs and preferences of the 
other one first. 

491
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,400
Okay. 
So now Who's the primary person 

492
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,500
in the Garden of Eden? 
God, his Temple. 

493
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:07,600
Not our Temple, right? 
We are priests in the temple. 

494
00:25:07,700 --> 00:25:11,200
What's our role in our mission 
and our service there to serve 

495
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,600
God in that space, right? 
So listen, what does it look 

496
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:17,200
like to serve God? 
Verse 9 be the tree of life was 

497
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:18,800
in the midst of the garden and 
the tree of the knowledge of 

498
00:25:18,808 --> 00:25:21,000
Good and Evil. 
And you go down to verse 16 and 

499
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:26,800
God said, don't eat that. 
So how do we serve God, we serve

500
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:30,400
God by going, right? 
It's your garden. 

501
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:34,900
I can have everything I want. 
Except that one tree. 

502
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:39,200
Simple enough, right? 
We'll talk about that next week.

503
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:40,600
You should come back. 
It's going to be fun. 

504
00:25:46,700 --> 00:25:49,400
Why would God say, leave me the 
tree of good of knowledge of 

505
00:25:49,408 --> 00:25:50,500
good news. 
First of all doesn't say the 

506
00:25:50,500 --> 00:25:52,300
knowledge of Good and Evil. 
It's not the knowledge of Good 

507
00:25:52,300 --> 00:25:56,100
and Evil it's just fruit. 
Maybe it's a persimmon. 

508
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,500
I don't know. 
Why would God say, leave me that

509
00:25:59,500 --> 00:26:02,900
one? 
Because it was better because it

510
00:26:02,900 --> 00:26:05,000
was the best tree in the garden 
because God didn't want to give 

511
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,900
it to mankind or because God 
wanted us to know. 

512
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:16,400
At the end of the day, all of 
this is yours to enjoy but it's 

513
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,900
mine. 
You are mine. 

514
00:26:19,500 --> 00:26:23,000
This is mine. 
What makes all of this work is 

515
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,600
the understanding and the 
awareness, Adam, and Eve. 

516
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:31,500
At this point Adam that you are 
created that you are not God 

517
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:33,900
what God says when he just says,
hey, don't eat from that tree. 

518
00:26:33,900 --> 00:26:36,600
You know what God says, Adam is 
Adam eyeballs right here. 

519
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:37,600
Right? 
I sailed time, I tell you 

520
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:38,900
listen, right. 
I'm bossy. 

521
00:26:38,900 --> 00:26:42,900
I think this is God. 
Adam eyeballs donate that and 

522
00:26:42,908 --> 00:26:46,900
here's what he's saying. 
Hey, I want you Adam to trust 

523
00:26:46,900 --> 00:26:49,800
me. 
Me to tell you what is good and 

524
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:53,900
evil Adam, I want you to trust 
me. 

525
00:26:54,300 --> 00:26:57,500
Here's the thing all Adam and 
Eve Al Adam had to do is look 

526
00:26:57,500 --> 00:26:59,800
around Gomez. 
A lot of good bro that's a lot 

527
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:01,700
of good. 
Lot of good man. 

528
00:27:01,700 --> 00:27:03,700
Whoa that one trees. 
Not bad. 

529
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:05,400
Great. 
I just won't look that way and 

530
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:08,000
I'll go this way because I can 
have everything in that 

531
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:15,100
quadrant. 
Just don't eat that at me. 

532
00:27:15,100 --> 00:27:20,500
Just trust me to lead you into 
tell you what is good to leave 

533
00:27:20,500 --> 00:27:24,100
in to tell you what is right? 
And so God created us and he 

534
00:27:24,100 --> 00:27:27,800
placed Us in the garden, he 
created a garden for us and he 

535
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:31,300
placed us there and he told us 
to fill it with goodness. 

536
00:27:31,300 --> 00:27:34,100
He told us to take all of those 
good trees, right? 

537
00:27:34,100 --> 00:27:36,900
The trees that are good for food
and for their Pleasant to look 

538
00:27:36,900 --> 00:27:40,000
at and they're useful and you 
can build houses and boats and 

539
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:41,800
buildings out of. 
He says, I want you take all 

540
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:43,200
those things. 
I just want you to make them 

541
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,100
feel their, listen, the garden. 
Didn't the fill the whole earth.

542
00:27:46,100 --> 00:27:48,800
The garden was one spot. 
It was like the stage and God 

543
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,700
said, Adam, just expand it and 
pick the fruit and Planet, let 

544
00:27:52,700 --> 00:27:56,900
trees growing plant crops and 
harvest and just go, Adam, go do

545
00:27:56,900 --> 00:28:01,600
all that because he created you.
Listen infusions to 10, Paul 

546
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,400
tells the Gentiles coming back. 
He says listen for years 

547
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,200
workmanship, you were created in
Christ. 

548
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:10,400
Jesus to do good works which he 
prepared beforehand when was 

549
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:14,600
before him like on day. 
A six not day six of the month. 

550
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:20,100
Like, on day 6, he created good 
works for us to do to manage to,

551
00:28:20,100 --> 00:28:26,000
multiply to tend to, to care for
his creation, to work it, and to

552
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,300
keep it for his goodness. 
Not for ours. 

553
00:28:28,300 --> 00:28:30,400
So now we're talking about, 
let's get this was bringing this

554
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,400
all home and let's make some 
applications, right? 

555
00:28:32,700 --> 00:28:37,500
The Earth is a temple where 
people can experience God's 

556
00:28:37,500 --> 00:28:41,600
goodness and creation and 
express it through living 

557
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:43,400
worship. 
River Cities mission statement 

558
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:46,900
where a church for New Braunfels
experiencing and expressing 

559
00:28:46,900 --> 00:28:50,200
God's love in our lives and 
Community because I believe 

560
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:55,900
because we believe is a church, 
this is the very substance of 

561
00:28:55,900 --> 00:29:00,500
what we were created for. 
We were created to experience 

562
00:29:00,500 --> 00:29:05,900
God in a blooming place. 
We were created to know, God in 

563
00:29:05,900 --> 00:29:08,700
his goodness, and his 
faithfulness and his 

564
00:29:08,700 --> 00:29:11,000
righteousness. 
And in his Holiness, we were 

565
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,300
created to know. 
No, his plan and his purpose in 

566
00:29:14,300 --> 00:29:16,400
our lives. 
And for our lives, we are 

567
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:22,300
created in the image of God. 
We are created to look like him 

568
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:25,500
in this world and that's what 
our work. 

569
00:29:25,500 --> 00:29:30,300
That's what are our vocation is 
supposed to reveal, right? 

570
00:29:30,300 --> 00:29:32,000
So, I'm going to read this 
passage and then we're going to 

571
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,800
pull real quick 3. 
Like, remember last week, what 

572
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:36,000
does it say? 
What do we say? 

573
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,600
What does it mean? 
What do we do, right? 

574
00:29:37,700 --> 00:29:40,500
We're going to pick out, three 
kind of, what does this mean? 

575
00:29:40,500 --> 00:29:45,700
Well, that's what verse 18. 
Then the Lord God said it's not 

576
00:29:45,700 --> 00:29:47,500
good that the man should be 
alone. 

577
00:29:47,500 --> 00:29:51,000
That's the very first time in 
the scripture that something is 

578
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,100
not good. 
Every single thing that God has 

579
00:29:54,100 --> 00:29:59,000
created up to this point has 
been either good or very good 

580
00:29:59,100 --> 00:30:00,600
but what's happening? 
We're going to find in just a 

581
00:30:00,608 --> 00:30:03,000
second as God gave him, the 
work, God brings the animals to 

582
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:04,400
him and the animals are walking 
by. 

583
00:30:04,500 --> 00:30:08,300
And so, he's sin to elephants. 
They look the same to leopards. 

584
00:30:08,300 --> 00:30:12,200
They look the same to platypus. 
They look the same too. 

585
00:30:12,300 --> 00:30:16,100
Two African Violets, they look 
the same, what's going on here, 

586
00:30:16,100 --> 00:30:17,100
right? 
So he sees the man. 

587
00:30:17,100 --> 00:30:19,800
He says, it's not good. 
That man should be alone. 

588
00:30:20,100 --> 00:30:23,700
I will make a helper fit for 
him, Hebrew word. 

589
00:30:23,700 --> 00:30:27,900
For helper, is there connect do 
weren't talk about that later. 

590
00:30:27,900 --> 00:30:29,400
This year, we're going to do a 
family series. 

591
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,200
We're gonna talk about marriage,
we're gonna talk about money or 

592
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,400
going to talk about kids. 
We're going to talk about a lot 

593
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:34,800
of that stuff and we're going to
unpack. 

594
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:38,600
The whole is there connect do 
help meet this, suffice it to 

595
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:40,300
say if you'll give me one second
just unpack. 

596
00:30:40,300 --> 00:30:43,000
This, it does not mean In 
worker. 

597
00:30:43,500 --> 00:30:47,400
It does not mean slave. 
It does not mean servant. 

598
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,700
It does not mean woman. 
You do what I want? 

599
00:30:50,700 --> 00:30:53,500
That is not what it means. 
That is not how it goes. 

600
00:30:53,700 --> 00:30:57,000
If you've been told that, I'm 
sorry, they told you wrong. 

601
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,600
It is a helper, is taken out of 
his side, not out of his foot, 

602
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,100
not out over his head as a 
partner, it is the completion. 

603
00:31:03,100 --> 00:31:06,900
And finally, when he says he 
has, this is I should just read 

604
00:31:06,900 --> 00:31:07,900
it. 
It says it right here. 

605
00:31:07,900 --> 00:31:11,400
I'm stopping, right? 
I'll make a helper fit for him. 

606
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:15,600
Now, out of the ground, the got 
keep going right out of the 

607
00:31:15,700 --> 00:31:17,100
ground. 
The Lord, God, formed every 

608
00:31:17,100 --> 00:31:18,900
beast of the field and every 
bird of the heavens, and they 

609
00:31:18,900 --> 00:31:21,400
brought them to the man, to see 
what he would call them. 

610
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,300
And whatever the man called 
every living creature. 

611
00:31:23,300 --> 00:31:25,600
That was his name. 
The man gave names to all the 

612
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:28,100
livestock into the birds of the 
heavens and every beast of the 

613
00:31:28,100 --> 00:31:29,700
field. 
But for Adam, there was not 

614
00:31:29,700 --> 00:31:32,400
found a helper for him. 
So now we see it, right? 

615
00:31:32,500 --> 00:31:34,800
He was naming. 
He's like, man, what, why didn't

616
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:36,600
that work, right? 
Like the male lion goes and 

617
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:38,300
hunts in the female line stays 
home? 

618
00:31:38,300 --> 00:31:41,800
Why don't I don't have that? 
That what's going on right verse

619
00:31:41,808 --> 00:31:44,800
21. 
So the Lord God caused Adam to 

620
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,500
take a nap. 
The Deep Sleep to fall upon the 

621
00:31:47,508 --> 00:31:50,000
man and while he slept, he took 
one of his ribs and closed up 

622
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,100
the place with flesh. 
You may have heard that women 

623
00:31:52,100 --> 00:31:55,000
have one more ribs in their body
because of whatever that's dumb.

624
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:56,900
It's not true. 
Don't have to believe that. 

625
00:31:56,900 --> 00:32:00,500
Don't listen, it's okay. 
We have, we live, we trust 

626
00:32:00,500 --> 00:32:03,100
doctors, we're doctors, tell us.
They don't have extra, we can 

627
00:32:03,100 --> 00:32:04,700
just believe them. 
That's that's good, right? 

628
00:32:04,700 --> 00:32:06,700
Okay. 
Don't have to get crazy and 

629
00:32:06,700 --> 00:32:09,200
silly verse 22 and the rib that 
the Lord God had taken from the 

630
00:32:09,208 --> 00:32:10,700
man. 
Made into a woman. 

631
00:32:10,700 --> 00:32:14,300
And he brought her to the man, 
and the man said this at last is

632
00:32:14,300 --> 00:32:16,700
bone of my bones and Flesh of My
Flesh. 

633
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:20,400
And she shall be called woman 
because she was taken out of, 

634
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:23,100
man. 
Some people later on after this 

635
00:32:23,100 --> 00:32:27,200
was came back and said, oh yeah,
it's woman because the woman was

636
00:32:27,500 --> 00:32:31,000
woe to the man because she's so 
have this is before. 

637
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,100
Don't listen, listen, if you 
hear something and you just go, 

638
00:32:34,100 --> 00:32:39,000
that sounds just goofy screwy 
lean into that, go search for 

639
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,100
it, find it maybe. 
B, it is Goofy and screw, we 

640
00:32:41,100 --> 00:32:42,800
don't know, right? 
That's not what it says. 

641
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:45,000
It's just, she's just called 
woman for out of man. 

642
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,800
She was taken right verse 24. 
Therefore a man shall leave his 

643
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:51,300
father and his mother and hold 
fast to his wife, and they shall

644
00:32:51,300 --> 00:32:53,700
become one flesh. 
And the man, and his wife were 

645
00:32:53,700 --> 00:32:58,400
both naked and were not a shame,
so God created purpose. 

646
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:01,100
And so, as we see mankind, I'm 
going to tell you real quick, 

647
00:33:01,100 --> 00:33:03,400
three things that we can see 
about the design for man that I 

648
00:33:03,408 --> 00:33:06,500
hope have influence and impact 
for you because here's the deal,

649
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:10,800
we still live in this world. 
And the goodness that God 

650
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:13,600
created for it, I believe that 
it's still late and in this 

651
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:15,100
world, that's what God is 
redeeming. 

652
00:33:15,100 --> 00:33:16,500
That's what God is calling 
forth. 

653
00:33:16,700 --> 00:33:19,900
That is what our role and 
responsibility in this world is 

654
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,500
when he says, you have to be 
born again and he created, good 

655
00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:25,500
works for us to do, it's not 
some new unknown thing. 

656
00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:28,800
When we read Revelation, 21 and 
22, it's putting back things. 

657
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,500
The way that they were at the 
end, it's a city and you know, 

658
00:33:31,500 --> 00:33:33,100
what a Sit, you know, what? 
In the UK, you know what? 

659
00:33:33,100 --> 00:33:35,900
They call yards, week, own 
backyards, they call him 

660
00:33:35,900 --> 00:33:38,300
Gardens. 
The be the world begins in a 

661
00:33:38,308 --> 00:33:41,200
garden. 
It Is in gardens and it's our 

662
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:45,900
Priestly role to tend to the 
garden and manage them for 

663
00:33:45,900 --> 00:33:48,400
fruitfulness. 
It's our job to tend to the 

664
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:52,300
Garden to work it and to keep it
to fret reflect his goodness and

665
00:33:52,300 --> 00:33:54,300
His glory. 
But in order for that to happen,

666
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,500
we have to be, right. 
And we have to understand how he

667
00:33:57,500 --> 00:34:01,200
made us to reflect that. 
Are you ready to hear that? 

668
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,300
You want to know how you were 
created, and why you're creating

669
00:34:03,300 --> 00:34:05,100
what it means? 
And what God has done to do 

670
00:34:05,100 --> 00:34:08,199
that. 
First thing mankind was designed

671
00:34:08,199 --> 00:34:09,300
for company. 
Yeah. 

672
00:34:10,699 --> 00:34:16,600
It's not good for mankind to be 
alone. if you've ever left, 

673
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:22,100
husband alone in a house for a 
weekend, you know, it's not good

674
00:34:22,100 --> 00:34:25,800
for mankind to be alone. 
We find at the beginning. 

675
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,100
In the beginning, God created 
the heavens and the Earth. 

676
00:34:28,100 --> 00:34:31,800
And then we're told that God 
said and in John chapter one, 

677
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:35,000
we're told that the word was 
with God and the Word was God. 

678
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:38,000
So we have the speaking voice of
God is Jesus and we're told that

679
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:39,900
the spirit hovered over the 
waters. 

680
00:34:39,908 --> 00:34:43,300
So in the very beginning of 
creation, God already existed in

681
00:34:43,300 --> 00:34:45,800
three parts, a father and a son,
and his Spirit, we called that 

682
00:34:45,808 --> 00:34:50,500
Trinity, that's a doctrine of 
the Trinity and it will melt 

683
00:34:50,500 --> 00:34:54,100
your Blaine's, because you're 
like, there are three were not 

684
00:34:54,100 --> 00:34:56,000
polytheists, right? 
Like, we don't believe in three 

685
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:56,900
Gods. 
It's one. 

686
00:34:56,900 --> 00:34:59,500
God, it's a father to son and 
it's a spirit. 

687
00:34:59,500 --> 00:35:02,400
And it's hard right now. 
I'm not there's analogies 

688
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:04,400
breakdown, right? 
It's not like a shamrock. 

689
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,000
It's not like ice, it's 
not-it's, not those things, 

690
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:08,000
right? 
But we exist the got in. 

691
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,500
Here's the idea. 
Since before the beginning of 

692
00:35:10,500 --> 00:35:14,300
time, God has existed in 
relationship to himself the 

693
00:35:14,300 --> 00:35:18,500
father perfectly relating to the
sun, the sun, perfectly relating

694
00:35:18,500 --> 00:35:20,700
to the spirit. 
Now I want you to imagine 

695
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:25,800
spending eternity with your 
father-in-law or your 

696
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,200
mother-in-law. 
It's hard, right? 

697
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,300
It's hard. 
I don't like being like 15 

698
00:35:31,300 --> 00:35:32,600
minutes. 
And with people, I'm just like, 

699
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:34,200
I'm an introvert. 
I need a nap, right? 

700
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:38,300
Like that, for all of eternity, 
God has related perfectly to 

701
00:35:38,300 --> 00:35:40,800
himself. 
That tells you what God's 

702
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:43,900
character is like. 
Can you can't, can you imagine 

703
00:35:43,900 --> 00:35:46,800
spending an eternity with 
someone and they never like, get

704
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:50,500
on your nerves? 
Jesus is like, is never like 

705
00:35:50,500 --> 00:35:53,500
need D. 
The holy spirit is never like 

706
00:35:53,500 --> 00:35:55,700
kind of codependent. 
Well, I'll just do whatever you 

707
00:35:55,700 --> 00:36:01,200
want to do, know perfectly, 
loving kind and generous towards

708
00:36:01,300 --> 00:36:07,100
God for all of mankind. 
So when God says, it's not good 

709
00:36:07,100 --> 00:36:10,200
for man to be alone, what he's 
saying is that loneliness is 

710
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,200
incompatible with the image of 
God in us. 

711
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,000
Listen, if you just come and 
say, listen, I like the church, 

712
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,100
I'll read the Bible. 
I'll do all the Bible studies. 

713
00:36:18,100 --> 00:36:20,700
I'll read them that, but I'm not
going to have a connection. 

714
00:36:20,700 --> 00:36:23,600
I'm not going to have people in 
my life that I gather with that.

715
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:25,500
I connect with that, I give 
inside of myself. 

716
00:36:25,500 --> 00:36:27,800
I'm not going to get, you don't 
have to do it, but I'm telling 

717
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,100
you, you're missing a gift from 
God. 

718
00:36:30,100 --> 00:36:33,600
God created us for company and 
when he saw that, we didn't have

719
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:36,300
the appropriate company. 
Right, first of all, God knew, 

720
00:36:36,300 --> 00:36:38,700
you know, who added, you know 
who didn't know Adam. 

721
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:40,200
Do you know why? 
Adam didn't know? 

722
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:43,700
Because how are men? 
I'm fine God, I'll do this 

723
00:36:43,700 --> 00:36:46,400
myself, right? 
He probably since Eve going, 

724
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:47,900
what do you think we should call
this one? 

725
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,400
And he's like, don't worry 
honey, I got this right. 

726
00:36:50,500 --> 00:36:54,100
So he's all by himself and God 
says, no, that's not good. 

727
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:58,900
And so, God gave adam a partner.
And what I would say for you is,

728
00:36:59,300 --> 00:37:03,400
God has given you a partner and 
maybe it's not, maybe it's not a

729
00:37:03,408 --> 00:37:05,700
spouse. 
My name is not a husband, maybe 

730
00:37:05,700 --> 00:37:11,000
it's not a wife, but it's 
somebody God did not intend for 

731
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:15,800
you to walk through this life. 
This life, this spiritual 

732
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,900
journey alone. 
And I don't mean someone that 

733
00:37:18,900 --> 00:37:22,400
you wave to over the fence. 
I mean, somebody who was walking

734
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:26,300
through this life, someone who 
like Adam said, bone of my bone,

735
00:37:26,300 --> 00:37:29,700
and Flesh of My Flesh, someone 
who is like me, someone who will

736
00:37:29,700 --> 00:37:33,400
kill to help carry this load and
bear my burdens and listen, do 

737
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:34,600
you know why we don't want to do
that? 

738
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:37,000
That because it's embarrassing 
because if we get close to 

739
00:37:37,008 --> 00:37:39,800
people, they're going to know 
things about us that I don't 

740
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,900
want them to know that's next 
week. 

741
00:37:43,300 --> 00:37:47,000
That's very, very important 
because we're going to talk 

742
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:48,800
about how do we unpack that next
week? 

743
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:50,800
What does that mean? 
But for right now I just want 

744
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,900
you to know the very first time 
that God and all of creation saw

745
00:37:54,900 --> 00:37:56,900
something that he said, whoa, we
need to address. 

746
00:37:56,900 --> 00:38:01,500
That was the man standing by 
himself and I believe he does 

747
00:38:01,500 --> 00:38:03,800
it. 
Say listen every time if you 

748
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:05,700
step back and you look Another 
churches, right? 

749
00:38:05,700 --> 00:38:09,600
And, and you it's like it's like
the decade of pastoral moral 

750
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:11,500
failure, right? 
And it breaks my heart. 

751
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:13,400
Here's where I promise you, 
every single time. 

752
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,000
You see a pastor is that a moral
failure who has gotten into 

753
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,100
sexual sin or has gotten into 
drugs or so. 

754
00:38:18,100 --> 00:38:21,100
I've gotten into some kind of 
thing every single time. 

755
00:38:21,100 --> 00:38:25,300
Without exception, I would bet a
month's pay that that Pastor has

756
00:38:25,300 --> 00:38:27,700
rejected accountability. 
He is a cat. 

757
00:38:27,700 --> 00:38:29,600
He has rejected Authority in his
life. 

758
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,300
There is nobody who has 
permission to go to that Pastor 

759
00:38:32,300 --> 00:38:33,900
and go. 
How are you doing? 

760
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,800
Really Lee there's nobody in his
life that has the permission to 

761
00:38:36,808 --> 00:38:40,600
go to that Pastor and go. 
Hey, we heard this can we look 

762
00:38:40,700 --> 00:38:43,300
and I want you to tell me the 
reason that we have Elders, the 

763
00:38:43,300 --> 00:38:46,300
reason that we have staff here, 
the reason that I will get up 

764
00:38:46,300 --> 00:38:49,200
sometimes and just go, I have 
OCD and today's terrible and I 

765
00:38:49,208 --> 00:38:50,500
don't know whether I'm coming or
going. 

766
00:38:50,700 --> 00:38:54,600
The reason I do that is so that,
you know, I'm not different. 

767
00:38:54,700 --> 00:38:57,600
I'm not above the law, I'm not 
above the rules. 

768
00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:01,100
There aren't a separate set of 
rules and Authority, for me and 

769
00:39:01,100 --> 00:39:03,100
for you. 
I am a Christian. 

770
00:39:03,100 --> 00:39:04,500
I am a human. 
I am a person. 

771
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:09,100
And I have my section of the 
garden to tend and so we're 

772
00:39:09,100 --> 00:39:11,200
submitted. 
It's not good for mankind to be 

773
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:12,700
alone. 
Listen, I'm when we talk about 

774
00:39:12,700 --> 00:39:15,000
small groups, when we talk about
Bible studies, when we talk 

775
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,100
about relationships, it's not 
because I just need you to do my

776
00:39:18,100 --> 00:39:20,600
stuff. 
It's because I believe that God 

777
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:24,300
created us for an experience of 
life and his love in this world 

778
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:28,800
that we cannot find a part from 
meaningful relationships. 

779
00:39:29,300 --> 00:39:32,800
That's what I want for. 
You reborn means we get, we are 

780
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:36,100
born into a World War people 
know Show us where we are known.

781
00:39:36,100 --> 00:39:39,000
Like Adam said, bone of my bone 
and Flesh of My Flesh. 

782
00:39:39,100 --> 00:39:40,900
Now, it's different for spouses,
right? 

783
00:39:40,900 --> 00:39:44,400
But I don't believe everybody's 
called to be married and that 

784
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:47,100
can mean like if you're single 
right, that maybe your thing, 

785
00:39:47,300 --> 00:39:49,100
God may have caused you. 
Any like, well, that's terrible,

786
00:39:49,100 --> 00:39:52,300
I don't want that. 
Listen, you're not exempt from 

787
00:39:52,300 --> 00:39:55,500
needing community of God has 
called you to walk in single and

788
00:39:55,500 --> 00:39:58,000
holy singleness. 
I want to tell you that we're 

789
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,600
here for you. 
But Union relationships to you, 

790
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:03,900
need people to help you to 
encourage you to walk with you 

791
00:40:03,900 --> 00:40:05,800
to love You to support you to 
do. 

792
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:09,500
All of the things that helped 
make us fruitful and this life. 

793
00:40:09,500 --> 00:40:12,000
So that's the question who 
points you to God? 

794
00:40:13,500 --> 00:40:19,700
Who points you to others? 
Who celebrates you when the Lord

795
00:40:19,700 --> 00:40:21,700
does something in your life, who
celebrates? 

796
00:40:21,700 --> 00:40:24,100
Because here's the deal. 
If you have friends who are 

797
00:40:24,100 --> 00:40:27,600
cynical, if you have friends who
are a burden to you, if you have

798
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:30,000
friends who use go, man, I would
never share that with them 

799
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,000
because they would hurt me or 
use me or not care. 

800
00:40:32,100 --> 00:40:34,900
What I would say is those aren't
the kind of relationships that 

801
00:40:34,900 --> 00:40:37,100
God created you for. 
Now, those relationships have a 

802
00:40:37,100 --> 00:40:40,000
purpose and a venue can talk to 
people about those people about 

803
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,600
God's goodness, you can invite 
them to your birthday party if 

804
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:44,200
you want. 
You can do all of those things, 

805
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:47,400
but I'm telling you, you need. 
Need relationships with people 

806
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:51,700
that are deep and close and 
intimate so that you aren't 

807
00:40:51,700 --> 00:40:54,000
alone. 
So, who is that for you? 

808
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,900
If not, you can text connect our
C and here's the deal, you know,

809
00:40:57,900 --> 00:40:59,400
you're going to get me in and 
smoke great, you're gonna go to 

810
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:00,800
smoker and you're going to show 
up the first one. 

811
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:01,900
You like? 
Well I don't know, any of these 

812
00:41:01,900 --> 00:41:05,600
people either write, it takes 
time would have been great if we

813
00:41:05,608 --> 00:41:08,700
had done that a year ago, right?
We'd be set, we'd be better off 

814
00:41:08,700 --> 00:41:11,500
in this place. 
But start today keep going 

815
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:14,900
connect our seat to the number 
nine 4000 will help you will get

816
00:41:14,900 --> 00:41:16,800
you plugged in will find a 
Place, I'll do it. 

817
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:20,100
The second thing mankind was 
created for Meaningful work. 

818
00:41:21,300 --> 00:41:25,400
Once again, Eden was borderless 
and what was God's command? 

819
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:29,700
He told Adam, be fruitful. 
And multiply fill the Earth. 

820
00:41:29,700 --> 00:41:34,300
We were created for Meaningful 
work and so God commands 

821
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:39,200
fruitfulness. 
So I have for the last month I 

822
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:43,200
have been insistent on taking a 
Sabbath Friday, is my Sabbath. 

823
00:41:43,300 --> 00:41:45,500
If at all possible, I don't 
answer the phone. 

824
00:41:45,500 --> 00:41:48,000
I certainly don't answer emails,
I don't answer. 

825
00:41:48,100 --> 00:41:50,500
Answer text messages if you try 
to get a hold of me on Friday. 

826
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:52,800
I'll talk To you on Monday, 
it'll be good, right? 

827
00:41:53,900 --> 00:41:59,900
And the idea is, the reason for 
that is because I know, if I 

828
00:41:59,900 --> 00:42:04,800
don't stop, I will die. 
And I will think that I am God. 

829
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:08,700
And I'll think that this whole 
thing depends and runs on me and

830
00:42:08,700 --> 00:42:11,000
it didn't, right? 
I don't know why I said that God

831
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:14,200
created this Garden of Eden and 
it was borderless and he said, 

832
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:17,900
go fill the Earth with it. 
Go make it happen and then God 

833
00:42:17,900 --> 00:42:20,900
stepped back and he said be 
fruitful God. 

834
00:42:21,100 --> 00:42:24,300
God commands, fruitfulness, 
listen. 

835
00:42:25,300 --> 00:42:28,800
We were created outside the 
garden outside the garden. 

836
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:31,300
And when we were in the garden, 
we knew it was going to you know

837
00:42:31,300 --> 00:42:33,000
why? 
Because it was already blooming.

838
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:33,800
I already told that you know, 
why? 

839
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:36,100
It was already blooming because 
God made it Bloom. 

840
00:42:36,100 --> 00:42:40,600
Listen, God does not need you at
your work. 

841
00:42:40,700 --> 00:42:43,800
He's not like oh my gosh. 
Who's gonna make those O-rings 

842
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,000
have Bob's not there. 
He's fine. 

843
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:51,100
Do you know why he sends you to 
your work so that you can 

844
00:42:51,100 --> 00:42:54,800
experience His Image in you as 
you? 

845
00:42:54,900 --> 00:42:58,000
You bring order to a chaotic 
world. 

846
00:42:58,500 --> 00:43:00,800
Yeah, I don't do chaotic where 
I'm just a teacher. 

847
00:43:01,700 --> 00:43:04,200
Don't think a middle schools 
world is chaotic. 

848
00:43:06,100 --> 00:43:08,800
No, seriously you go to your 
job. 

849
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:10,800
You don't think the guy that 
sits at the dead, right? 

850
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:13,200
That lady at work that just 
complains them constant. 

851
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:15,300
Relational drama. 
You don't think that. 

852
00:43:15,300 --> 00:43:19,900
That lady's life is chaotic, you
serve the Living. 

853
00:43:19,900 --> 00:43:22,900
God. 
The one who with a word, says 

854
00:43:22,900 --> 00:43:26,800
peace and the storms calm. 
You have that spirit inside. 

855
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:30,400
You, you live, you were placed 
in a garden and told it to 

856
00:43:30,500 --> 00:43:33,600
expand it, but it's not Adam and
Eve going to, I am I gonna get 

857
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:35,700
out there. 
I gotta go to then grow. 

858
00:43:35,900 --> 00:43:38,500
It. 
Do you want peace in your life? 

859
00:43:38,500 --> 00:43:40,500
Make peace. 
That's your job. 

860
00:43:40,500 --> 00:43:41,900
That's what you were created 
for. 

861
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:44,700
It's not somebody else's job to 
make peace. 

862
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,300
You make peace. 
Do you know why the world is 

863
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:50,300
torn up? 
Because the church we've set 

864
00:43:50,300 --> 00:43:51,500
back we want someone else to do 
it. 

865
00:43:51,500 --> 00:43:52,900
Don't do that. 
You were created for Meaningful 

866
00:43:52,900 --> 00:43:55,800
work. 
And God gave you a command go. 

867
00:43:56,000 --> 00:44:00,300
Bring order to the world, don't 
step back and yell at disorder, 

868
00:44:00,300 --> 00:44:04,200
go get in it, go walk in it. 
That's why churches that 

869
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:06,100
Retreat. 
That's why I turned Churches, 

870
00:44:06,100 --> 00:44:09,200
that throw bombs that lob stones
at the enemy from behind 

871
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:10,900
protecting with, that's not what
it's about. 

872
00:44:10,900 --> 00:44:12,400
That's not what Jesus came and 
saves. 

873
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:17,200
You Jesus left heaven? 
Where it was real safe to come 

874
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:21,800
here where they murdered him? 
He's not up there going Jason, 

875
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:24,700
just be careful that people can 
say mean things to you. 

876
00:44:24,708 --> 00:44:26,500
If you go there I just don't 
want that for you. 

877
00:44:27,900 --> 00:44:30,700
Is that bro they try to kill you
you'll make it you'll be okay 

878
00:44:31,300 --> 00:44:33,300
even if they do kill you you'll 
be fine. 

879
00:44:33,700 --> 00:44:35,900
Eternity God I don't want to 
die. 

880
00:44:36,300 --> 00:44:37,600
Yeah well maybe that's not in it
right. 

881
00:44:37,700 --> 00:44:41,900
The question is what in your 
life qualifies as spiritually 

882
00:44:41,900 --> 00:44:46,500
meaningful work And you may be 
in this place today where you 

883
00:44:46,508 --> 00:44:48,600
just go, like I'm a teacher but 
I've never really thought of my 

884
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:50,200
students as K. 
I mean, I think of them as 

885
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:53,500
chaotic mess all the time, but I
never thought of them as like my

886
00:44:53,500 --> 00:44:54,700
role and responsibility to fix 
them. 

887
00:44:54,700 --> 00:44:57,100
So maybe you haven't been 
operating in that, but identify 

888
00:44:57,100 --> 00:44:59,300
a place. 
Where is a place that you could 

889
00:44:59,300 --> 00:45:04,000
go tomorrow with eyes to bring 
order to chaos? 

890
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,800
And here's what I would tell 
you, if you go to a job and you 

891
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:10,100
look and you go, I cannot bring 
order to this place for whatever

892
00:45:10,100 --> 00:45:12,200
reason. 
Here's what you cannot do, you 

893
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:15,600
cannot stay at that place? 
And be a terrible worker. 

894
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:19,400
You cannot walk around the 
Garden of Eden going. 

895
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:21,200
God, why is there all this Cedar
here? 

896
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:22,000
God? 
Why you too? 

897
00:45:22,100 --> 00:45:23,700
Yeah, got you messed this up, 
right. 

898
00:45:23,700 --> 00:45:29,800
Listen, get in or get out. 
But just know wherever you go, 

899
00:45:30,100 --> 00:45:32,700
there you are. 
Do you know the tie that binds 

900
00:45:32,700 --> 00:45:34,500
between you and all of your 
terrible jobs? 

901
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:40,200
Sorry, it's you how create us 
for Meaningful work. 

902
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:44,800
But it means that my job is not 
about my personality, it's not 

903
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:47,900
about my ego, it's not about my 
Effectiveness, it's not about my

904
00:45:47,900 --> 00:45:49,900
fruit. 
It's not about how much money I 

905
00:45:49,900 --> 00:45:51,400
wake. 
It's not about my identity. 

906
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:54,100
It's not about my provision. 
It's not about power. 

907
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:57,500
It's about purpose. 
It's about me experiencing The 

908
00:45:57,500 --> 00:46:01,500
Unbelievable power that God put 
in me. 

909
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:04,800
So what in your life is 
spiritually, meaningful work, 

910
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:08,200
and Mankind was formed for 
vulnerability. 

911
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:11,600
And this really goes with the 
first one with company. 

912
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:14,300
See, the reason that our 
relationships are shallow, 

913
00:46:14,300 --> 00:46:18,000
sometimes reason their surf yet 
Services because we don't like 

914
00:46:18,100 --> 00:46:19,700
to be vulnerable. 
And we know, you know, why we 

915
00:46:19,700 --> 00:46:22,100
don't like to be vulnerable 
because we live in a world 

916
00:46:22,100 --> 00:46:25,600
marked by sin where people will 
take our weaknesses and they use

917
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:27,700
them against us, they will use 
us. 

918
00:46:27,700 --> 00:46:29,800
They will come to us with things
that we have told him in 

919
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:32,400
confidence and they will 
ostracize us, and they will 

920
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:35,200
exclude us, and they will make 
fun of us and they will hurt us.

921
00:46:35,300 --> 00:46:38,500
And they will kill us. 
And then our hearts we will die.

922
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:41,400
And what I wanted want to say is
in that moment, are you 

923
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:43,500
listening to me? 
Because in that moment you have 

924
00:46:43,500 --> 00:46:45,800
never been closer to the heart 
of God. 

925
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:50,100
Jesus himself said, blessed are 
those who mourn for they will be

926
00:46:50,100 --> 00:46:52,700
comforted, have you ever 
wondered whether our God could 

927
00:46:52,700 --> 00:46:54,300
come for you in this moment of 
morning? 

928
00:46:54,500 --> 00:46:57,000
Maybe the reason he hasn't 
comforted us and our morning is 

929
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:00,700
because we Breeze past it and we
do every shortcut, we can to get

930
00:47:00,700 --> 00:47:02,000
around it. 
No, no pain. 

931
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:03,600
I don't want to tell anybody I 
won't say anything. 

932
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:06,800
Nothing bad will ever happen and
We never know this comfort. 

933
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:10,200
And so what happens in our brain
is then our own weaknesses. 

934
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:15,100
Become the worst thing in the 
entire world rather than our 

935
00:47:15,100 --> 00:47:18,100
weaknesses, becoming the very 
place where we see God going, I 

936
00:47:18,100 --> 00:47:20,000
can handle that. 
I can handle that, I can deal 

937
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:21,100
with that. 
I can do that. 

938
00:47:21,300 --> 00:47:27,700
I can make that weakness Bloom. 
We're running around covered up 

939
00:47:27,700 --> 00:47:30,200
hardware and trash bags. 
So nobody sees us hiding in the 

940
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:31,900
dark. 
Not gonna so nobody sees us. 

941
00:47:31,900 --> 00:47:33,900
And Jesus says, that's not what 
it was about. 

942
00:47:33,900 --> 00:47:38,500
And so what happens is, What? 
Now we got a fast forward to 

943
00:47:38,500 --> 00:47:42,700
Jesus. 
Because this is what Jesus did 

944
00:47:42,700 --> 00:47:48,600
for us. 
Jesus left a kingdom to come to 

945
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:51,800
a world in disarray, where he 
would be misunderstood. 

946
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:55,200
And you know what he did, he 
walked with his friends anyway. 

947
00:47:55,300 --> 00:47:59,800
Do you know what he did? 
He gave Judas the money bag. 

948
00:48:02,100 --> 00:48:05,400
See the thing that shocks me 
about Jesus is that he really 

949
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:09,400
wasn't afraid of being hurt by 
pi, he wasn't stupid, he wasn't 

950
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:13,500
codependent, he didn't give 
people inside in a right into 

951
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:14,800
his life. 
To overtime said there's a 

952
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:17,200
passage where he says they were 
people just trying to set him up

953
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:19,300
and he said he didn't trust 
himself to them because he knew 

954
00:48:19,300 --> 00:48:21,400
what was in his heart. 
You have to be wise and you have

955
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:24,100
to be Discerning but I'm just 
telling you you will never come 

956
00:48:24,100 --> 00:48:27,800
to an achieve, the life that God
has for you by staying isolated 

957
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:30,500
and staying alone. 
And by just sitting and by 

958
00:48:30,500 --> 00:48:35,000
learning about Working God, 
created a World In Bloom with 

959
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:38,800
purpose with action with 
motivation with. 

960
00:48:40,500 --> 00:48:48,500
Garden for you to walk with him 
and to know him in this world. 

961
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:55,200
He formed us for vulnerability 
Eve was not Adam Eve, just like 

962
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:58,200
Adam was created. 
She was created by a kind of a 

963
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:02,000
unique expression of creation 
but when they were born and says

964
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:04,500
they would says, when they were 
created, they were naked. 

965
00:49:04,500 --> 00:49:06,100
And it says, they were not 
ashamed. 

966
00:49:06,100 --> 00:49:09,500
That means that Eve not for one.
Second was worried what Adam 

967
00:49:09,500 --> 00:49:10,700
thought about her. 
A body. 

968
00:49:12,100 --> 00:49:14,600
Wouldn't it be neat to live in a
world like that? 

969
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:18,000
where the things that are on the
outside, where your weakness is,

970
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:21,500
where your frailties, and we 
were deficiencies Aren't 

971
00:49:21,500 --> 00:49:23,500
trouble. 
They're not punishment for you. 

972
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:27,000
We're different, doesn't equal 
suspicion. 

973
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:31,800
So the question is, how much of 
your life are you missing hiding

974
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:35,300
from vulnerability, responsible,
vulnerability, revolver ability 

975
00:49:35,300 --> 00:49:37,400
with a group of people. 
This is what, when we have 

976
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:39,300
group, we have a small group 
that meets in our home and we 

977
00:49:39,300 --> 00:49:41,900
love it and the idea is what 
happens in that room stays in 

978
00:49:41,908 --> 00:49:44,000
that room. 
And so we've walked with our 

979
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:47,000
group, through all kinds of 
wonderful, and beautiful, and 

980
00:49:47,100 --> 00:49:50,300
difficult things. 
That's what God has for us. 

981
00:49:51,100 --> 00:49:55,000
Gardens at Temple where we walk 
with him and there's all kinds 

982
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:57,500
of creation stories in the 
ancient near East where there is

983
00:49:57,500 --> 00:50:03,200
a temple in creation but Genesis
paints, a picture of creation is

984
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:07,400
the temple wherever you go you 
have access to the person of God

985
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:11,900
wherever you go you have access 
to the order making wisdom and 

986
00:50:11,900 --> 00:50:14,500
power and might of God because 
that spirit that hovered over 

987
00:50:14,500 --> 00:50:18,800
the waters is in you. 
Jesus died so that you could 

988
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:21,500
have that. 
So that means that you're 

989
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:23,500
hopeless. 
Child is not hopeless. 

990
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:27,500
That means you're hopeless job, 
as not hopeless, and you're 

991
00:50:27,500 --> 00:50:29,800
hopeless. 
Financial situation is not 

992
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:31,900
hopeless. 
Now you may have lots of 

993
00:50:31,900 --> 00:50:34,300
disorder to get rid of, but 
that's okay. 

994
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:36,600
We can do that. 
We can figure that out. 

995
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:41,000
God's desire for you as a garden
blossoming with goodness and 

996
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:46,400
faithfulness and order in his 
presence with him because it's 

997
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:48,000
not meant good. 
Mankind to be alone. 

998
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:51,100
So Jesus, I pray that as we walk
through this life, will sense 

999
00:50:51,100 --> 00:50:52,100
your presence. 
Will sense. 

1000
00:50:52,100 --> 00:50:54,500
Your goodness will see you with 
us. 

1001
00:50:57,100 --> 00:50:59,400
And I pray father that you'll 
give us a vision for your 

1002
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:00,900
creation. 
Maybe we've never thought about 

1003
00:51:00,900 --> 00:51:04,100
our jobs as places where we can 
find you where we can. 

1004
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:08,100
Help those Blossom and Bloom 
into Garden. 

1005
00:51:08,100 --> 00:51:10,400
So father, I pray for each 
person as they think about their

1006
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:12,400
context where they're going. 
I pray that they would see 

1007
00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:15,400
themselves in this. 
And I pray that they would be an

1008
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:17,400
excitement. 
Maybe that wasn't there before. 

1009
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:20,900
Father, I pray for anybody 
that's in here right now. 

1010
00:51:20,900 --> 00:51:23,000
That doesn't know you. 
They haven't heard of you, they 

1011
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:25,600
don't know what it's like to 
walk and maybe they've heard, 

1012
00:51:25,700 --> 00:51:27,900
and they think that you're a God
who wants to take from them, who

1013
00:51:27,900 --> 00:51:31,600
wants to make their, like 
difficult or or ugly or small. 

1014
00:51:33,100 --> 00:51:37,300
I pray, that is they meditate as
we meditate over this. 

1015
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:42,900
Account of your creation and the
love that you demonstrated in 

1016
00:51:42,908 --> 00:51:44,300
this Garden. 
I pray that we will see your 

1017
00:51:44,300 --> 00:51:46,000
heart and will know that you are
good. 

1018
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:49,600
You are for us. 
So Jesus, we love you. 

1019
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:50,700
We thank you. 
Father God. 

1020
00:51:50,700 --> 00:51:54,500
We thank you that you created a 
world compatible for us and you 

1021
00:51:55,700 --> 00:51:58,300
and I pray that we would see 
that and realize that in walk in

1022
00:51:58,300 --> 00:52:00,800
that this week, Lord. 
We love you. 

1023
00:52:00,808 --> 00:52:02,000
And we thank you. 
And we praise you. 

1024
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:03,500
And we ask all these things in 
your name. 

1025
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:06,600
Amen. 
Thank you for joining us today. 

1026
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:09,800
River City Church is all about 
experiencing and expressing 

1027
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:11,600
God's love in our lives and 
community. 

1028
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:15,200
And we hope that you've been 
able to experience that today as

1029
00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:16,800
grateful. 
As I am, that you've spent this 

1030
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:20,300
time, listening in this morning,
this podcast is no substitute 

1031
00:52:20,300 --> 00:52:22,800
for full participation in a 
local church. 

1032
00:52:23,100 --> 00:52:25,000
I love it. 
When River City people listen to

1033
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:28,500
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who show up week after week 

1034
00:52:28,500 --> 00:52:31,300
Faithfully, giving their support
and time and resources that make

1035
00:52:31,300 --> 00:52:34,300
all of this possible. 
If we can help you get connected

1036
00:52:34,300 --> 00:52:37,700
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or support you in any way. 

1037
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:40,500
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1038
00:52:40,500 --> 00:52:42,500
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1039
00:52:42,500 --> 00:52:44,300
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Click the give link on our 

1040
00:52:44,300 --> 00:52:47,500
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1041
00:52:47,500 --> 00:52:49,300
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1042
00:52:49,500 --> 00:52:52,300
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May the Lord bless, and keep you

1043
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:53,900
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