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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. 
Hey, that last song, Jason, by 

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the way. 
Welcome glad that you're here. 

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Hey listen. 
I see all kinds of sin around 

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the room in your colors this 
morning. 

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So we're praying for your 
hunches kid and I have to do 

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this. 
Hey, we sang that song. 

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It's your breath in our lungs. 
So I'll pour out my praise. 

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And at song has all these talk 
about about creation, right? 

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And we touched on that last 
week, right? 

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Remember we saw it's the breath 
of life. 

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It's God's breath that he put in
us that caused us to come alive,

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that worship song. 
That is a great example, an 

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illustration of why we do 
worship because as we come in 

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here and we sing these songs, we
sing, it's your breath in our 

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lungs, in those images, in those
pictures, Draw us back to 

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Creation. 
Draw us back to purpose and to 

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order and what so great. 
I love when a plan comes 

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together because that wasn't a 
plan. 

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I just heard that song and I was
like, oh my gosh, it's perfect 

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for where we are. 
So before we finish, we're going

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to finish this whole Genesis 
thing series up. 

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Today, I hope it has been 
enlightening for you. 

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I hope it has stretched. 
You challenge you, maybe some of

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the things that you think, maybe
it is see and experience God in 

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a different way. 
But more than anything for you 

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to know that God's desire, ER 
for you is life, God's desire 

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for. 
You is goodness, to give you the

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fullness of life here and 
abundance of goodness here. 

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So if we're going to understand 
how we get from there to here, 

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there's a very important concept
and a very important idea that 

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we have to cover because a lot 
of us, we know, kind of where 

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the story goes. 
Like, we read in the beginning 

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and we read God created Mankind 
and he placed them in a Many 

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brought in the animals and it 
was male and female, he created 

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them and it was good and it was 
wonderful and it was very good 

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and you go. 
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Here we are. 
How do we get from there to 

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here? 
We're going to talk about that 

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today, and I just want to 
acknowledge up front. 

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I here's what I'm going to ask 
for you. 

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Will you up front? 
Give me Grace. 

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Because this is hard. 
This is a very difficult thing, 

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right? 
And my idea is, listen, if 

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somebody comes in and they're 
offended by the message, there's

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nothing I can do really. 
It's not my Message, right? 

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Like we come, we believe that 
juice here, but if you're 

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offended by the messenger, that 
is my issue, right? 

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And so, we want to deal gently 
and kindly and lovingly. 

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And remember the goal here when 
we leave is to have hope the 

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goal when we leave here is to 
see and hope and understand, and

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believe that God is not just 
kind of arbitrarily, 

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theoretically good, but actually
good for our Good in this world.

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So here's a big idea that we're 
going to have to contend with 

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and wrestle with. 
If we're going to understand 

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Genesis chapter 3 and that is 
the idea of Covenant. 

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Let me give you a definition, a 
dictionary, dictionary, 

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definition of Covenant, a 
covenant is an agreement. 

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That brings about a relationship
of commitment between God and 

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his people, okay? 
So this is a theological 

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definition of Covenant, anytime 
you can have a covenant. 

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It's like a legally binding 
agreement between two parties. 

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That should be that must be 
carried out. 

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Okay, so specifically, when 
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when we're talking about church 
and God's people and God it is 

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this agreement, that brings 
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So now we have to talk about 
relationship, right? 

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Like when we just say Jesus died
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we have to understand, right? 
Because relationship, 

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technically the word 
relationship. 

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Just talks about how to beings. 
Exist toward each other, right? 

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One is on top of each other. 
Those two are in relationship to

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our opposed to each other. 
Those two things are in 

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relationships. 
So the question is, how do we as

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people as humans stand in 
relationship church? 

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Sometimes will say in right 
relationship and we can 

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understand what that is just a 
little bit, but we're going to 

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talk about this Covenant that 
brings us into relationship with

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with God, right? 
So Covenant is kind of an old 

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idea, it's an old term and there
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covenants. 
Okay? 

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So now we're going to get really
kind of nerdy. 

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The first one is kind of kind of
company, we called generally 

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called the law, okay? 
And in the way ancient old times

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it was there is as called the 
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Okay. 
And so is the way kind of 

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cultures and cities were 
established, you would have like

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a leader, a sovereign over an 
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the leader would be called the 
suzerainty and he would pass 

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laws and order for the rest of 
his for the rest of his area, 

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right? 
And they always took the form of

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these if then conditional, 
right, if you will do what I 

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say, then I will provide you 
with protection with food, with 

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opportunity, with housing with 
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But it is an agreement, right? 
If then conditional, there's an 

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example in the law of An 
if-then, conditional, listen 

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Genesis are Deuteronomy chapter 
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Okay, God's people are standing 
at the edge of the mount on the 

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edge of the promised land, and 
Moses stands up to recount the 

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law to them, and listen to what 
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See, I have set before you today
life and good death and evil. 

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If you obey the command of the 
Lord, your God that I commanded 

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you today by loving the Lord, 
your God by walking in his ways,

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and keeping his Commandments, 
and his statutes and his room. 

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rules if Then he says you shall 
live and multiply and the Lord, 

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your God will bless you in the 
land that you are entering to 

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take possession of it. 
That is a covenant, that is the 

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Covenant of God's law with his 
people. 

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If you do this, then I will do 
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There's a different kind of 
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call it like a like a promise, 
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We can call this a unilateral. 
Oil Covenant, where one party on

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the other just says, hey, I am 
gonna do this or I am not going 

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to do this and it doesn't 
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It doesn't say if you wear a 
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If you obey. 
It just says simply because of 

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who I am. 
I will do this and we find this 

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in Genesis chapter 8, right? 
This is a God talking to Noah 

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After the flood right? 
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What he says, Genesis 8:21, when
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Aroma the Lord said in Heart. 
Now, listen, I will never again 

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curse the ground because of, 
man, for the intention of man's 

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heart is evil from his youth. 
Did he say, hey mankind, you've 

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shown me that you're 
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Hey, you've shown me that you 
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No, he said I won't even though 
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from his youth. 
Neither will I ever again strike

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down every living creature? 
As I have done while the Earth 

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remains seedtime and harvest 
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day and night shall not cease. 
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quick and talk about when God 
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right? 
And the Covenant is unilateral, 

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I will never notice what he 
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What does he go back? 
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creation seed time and harvest. 
Remember we talked about day 

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three, right? 
God, created agriculture, dry 

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land, and he created seasons and
a space in the sky before day 

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and night. 
So God is saying, from this 

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point, I will protect my 
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So we had these two different 
kinds of Covenants, right? 

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We have the suzuran kind of law.
Covenant, if you go and start 

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talking about, Susan law and 
Covenants, right? 

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First of all, most people are 
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You're going to have so much to 
say and so many situations. 

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And I really think most of it is
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Right. 
Because the other part is when 

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God and our case, God simply 
comes and says, guys, I'm gonna 

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do this for you, not because of 
who you are but because of who I

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am because of what I'm about, 
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So now there are vocations and 
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There are different vocations, 
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You have the Covenant with 
Abraham where it says, I'll make

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you a nation of the Covenant of 
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We have a covenant with David 
where he says you will reign 

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forever and all my people right?
But there's another Covenant in 

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scripture, right at the 
beginning of Genesis, it doesn't

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say at no point. 
Does God say I'm establishing my

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Covenant with you, but there is 
a covenant established and it's 

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one of these suzuran covenants, 
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And we call it the Covenant of 
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So, this is very important. 
What we know about covenants, 

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it's an agreement between God 
and people to establish a 

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relationship, right? 
And so, God doesn't say, I'm 

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going to establish my Covenant 
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But here's what he says in 
Genesis chapter 2, starting 

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verse 15. 
We read this last week. 

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The Lord God took the man, and 
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Eden, to work it, and keep it, 
he put him there, what was man's

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purpose in the garden to work 
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Now as he works, the Garden to 
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Does he get to enjoy it? 
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He does. 
He looks and we've seen over and

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over. 
It was good for food, it was 

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pleasing to the eye. 
It was everything was good. 

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And the animals were coming and 
God's presence was there, and it

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was great and the Lord, God 
commanded, the man saying, you 

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may surely eat of every tree in 
the garden, right? 

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Except right? 
What did he say? 

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But you can't eat from the one, 
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If then if you do good, if you 
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enjoy the Kingdom, right? 
If you work the garden and you 

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For it. 
What's the word for that 

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obedience? 
Do you hear? 

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Do you hear? 
Why? 

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Obedience is important? 
Obedience isn't some arbitrary 

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thing that God just has. 
This is it? 

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Just because I want to be your 
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The idea is God created a system
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system. 
And in order for the system to 

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work, everything has to work. 
So he says, if you will do your 

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part, if you will work my 
kingdom, if you will multiply Be

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fruitful have dominion. 
Remember he says have dominion 

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over creation expanded and fill 
the whole word. 

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If you do that you will enjoy 
abundant goodness forever. 

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Make no mistakes. 
Those are the terms of the 

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conditions in Genesis 1, 2 and 
3, if you will manage my 

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creation, according to my image,
the image of God that he put me.

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If you do that, you will enjoy. 
Goodness and life forever. 

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And not only you but the whole 
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If you will simply follow and do
that, all of Earth will be 

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fruitful and full, right? 
So here's the idea. 

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I'm just going to say this and I
wrote it, put a note in my it, 

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because right now this makes me 
happy, right? 

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Like this idea. 
And the idea of the recovery of 

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this makes me so happy. 
So I wrote it. 

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And I put a note, just say it, 
right? 

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Because here it is. 
Listen God created, man. 

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Mankind to Bear God's image into
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That means bring order right. 
God created the cosmos. 

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Let there be light and dark and 
sea and sky and land and I make 

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it or any place mankind. 
There in says be fruitful and 

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multiply expand the garden to 
fill the whole earth to Bear 

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God's image because that's what 
God is like God is like order 

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and so he put us into a wild 
disorder chaos and he said bear 

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my image into the world so God 
created Mankind to Bear God's 

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image into creation and to 
reflect the worship of an 

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orderly creation. 
Back to God. 

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Does it make sense? 
So here we have God as The 

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Sovereign ruler and Creator and 
God over here, he created all of

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creation and it was good and it 
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between the creation. 
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Mankind and Mankind in the 
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reflect the Beauty and the 
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back to God, do you see the 
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God mankind creation, creation 
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God mankind creation forever and
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So now we come to Genesis 3 and 
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the concept of sin. 
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unpack, this idea of sin as 
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not just some arbitrary thing 
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because I'm a stick in the mud, 
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broken, Covenant and listen, the
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point the entire creation. 
Depends on Covenant. 

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Got, listen, it doesn't 
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God if he chooses to operate 
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creates God could do it any way 
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system where mankind would be 
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Earth with all of the good 
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turn look back to God and go God
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that it would be about him sin. 
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then this idea of broken, 
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has to be undone. 
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beginning, when we talked about 
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about rebirth in Jesus is mine. 
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the restoration, the Redemption 
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We're going to see this at the 
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Jesus mind that has to do with 
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is this idea that God created 
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it's bigger than work. 
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very fiber of your being. 
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It's that thing. 
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time, you forget space, you Just
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sense things blooming and my 
conviction is God created us for

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that and God gave us everything 
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experience that within the 
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right? 
So here's what we're going to do

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today. 
Alright, I'm going to real quick

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The first thing I'm going to do 
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Temptation. 
What does it mean to be tempted?

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Then we're going to look at what
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decision to break that Covenant 
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that God put us here to work and
fulfill and multiply this Earth,

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the goodness in this Earth for 
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wonder why we want to find out. 
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implications of the broken 
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What does it mean? 
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important? 
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don't leave ourselves at the end
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by the sad, State of Affairs 
that we have walked ourselves 

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into. 
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You're like I'll tell you when 
we're done whether we're ready 

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or not, let's go. 
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see is that the archetype of sin
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So what we see in Adam and Eve 
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whatever that sin, whatever that
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walking in. 
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that you wonder and you just go,
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Someone said, this may be a sin 
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This is a sin. 
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Eve what we find in this fall, 
is this archetype that really 

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can be laid over and used to 
evaluate all different kinds of 

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and all different kinds of sins 
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come up and degradation of the 
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that stuff. 
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really becomes an archetype a 
picture, the big picture of what

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happens to us, When we get drawn
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Covenant, right? 
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So the primary techs are going 
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Genesis chapter 3. 
If you have your Bible, if you 

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have it on your phone, or your 
iPad, or however, you get your 

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scripture, you can turn there 
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Okay. 
So Genesis 3:1, I'm just going 

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to read this real quick and draw
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It says, now the serpent was 
more crafty than any other beast

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of the field that the Lord God 
has made. 

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So, notice we talk about the 
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is this is a beast. 
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We know what a serpent is, 
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But what it says is he went and 
he was more crafty and we talked

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all throughout a lot of kind of 
unpacking Genesis 12 and 3 comes

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down to kind of the words that 
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So what does that word crafty 
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It's interesting this word 
crafty only shows up in three 

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books in the Bible each time 
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It's used that translation in 
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words. 
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this translated in the King, 
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the way that word crafty is 
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Okay. 
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right? 
He's craft, you know what 

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crafting means? 
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Here's another one that I like, 
if you go to the word, if you go

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to the Book of Proverbs, right, 
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Well, Proverbs 12 uses this 
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discuss, but it translates that 
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Awful, right? 
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So now the serpent was more 
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He was more subtle than the 
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prudent than the other beasts. 
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And so what do we know what the 
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Like, to God, really say that. 
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Let's look verse 2. 
He said to the woman, did God 

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really say that you shouldn't 
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right? 
And remember, he's subtle he's 

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Prudence like. 
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I mean, I looking around, I'm 
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I mean, I'm sure it's fine. 
But, I'm just looking around and

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it's all good. 
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Eve, why would I wonder why God 
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You can't eat that. 
And the woman says, well, we can

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eat of any tree in the garden. 
But guys, exchange the tree in 

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the garden because now you can't
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You're gonna die. 
And you see Eve doing the right 

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thing, right? 
Like this is this is it? 

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Yeah right like now God didn't 
say that you touch it, you would

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die, God just said hey don't 
don't eat it right so See, Eve 

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trying to be the thing, right? 
Trying to be strong and I'm just

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like, where's Adam, bro? 
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So he says hey yeah you can't 
hit it, she said but the sermon 

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right? 
The Prudent crafty subtle 

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servant. 
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You not worried about you dying,
you know, he's worried about for

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God knows that your eyes are 
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like, God knowing good and evil 
knowing is one of those words as

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good Hebrew words, the Hebrew 
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All right, yada. 
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knew his wife and they had a son
Adam yada, right? 

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And Adam knew his wife. 
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that you will Yaya doll, good 
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He's talking about carnal 
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experience and understanding, so
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So if you just eat that, then 
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you'll be like God and you'll be
able to experience good and 

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evil. 
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is God's holding out on you. 
God said for you not to eat that

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tree because that tree is the 
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And if you just eat tree, eat 
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will know what. 
Real goodness feels like and we 

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see it all the time when we walk
around and we see stuff and 

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there's this temptation and we 
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do that and then in our mind 
reader's, yes. 

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Because it's probably really 
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Yes, he really God really 
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he's really terrible and he 
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But what I would say is we set 
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The Temptation is the temptation
to neglect and to Bandon. 

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And to reject our vocation. 
What did God tell Adam and Eve 

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to do, when they walked in the 
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dominion over creation, which 
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It doesn't mean to browbeat. 
It doesn't mean to have us take.

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It doesn't mean Napalm and 
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It means to make the whole 
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Expand in. 
Goodness mankind was supposed to

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be giving directions and Order. 
Good wise, loving instructions 

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to Creation. 
Be fruitful and multiply 

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expanded fill the whole earth of
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Dominion over be good to it. 
Mankind was supposed to be in 

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control of the creatures and 
instead here's this creature 

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walking up to eat going. 
You should just disobey God and 

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Adam and Eve were like, yeah, 
maybe we should. 

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See, the problem is Temptation 
comes up and says what you're 

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really missing is out there 
somewhere and so we're tempted 

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to abandon the thing that God 
created us for. 

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He created us to have dominion 
over creation and instead what 

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we do is we submit to it. 
I know because every time I have

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a hunger I submit to it I'm like
well I better eat 17 large meals

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a day, right? 
I better drive too fast. 

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I better all you know I drive 
this person's driving T. 

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So I better mean, Bug out them 
so they know how terrible they 

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are for me, right? 
All of these things. 

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Right. 
Rather than keeping my appetites

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under control. 
I feel like my appetite is the 

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thing that I must Express. 
Surely this anger at the guy 

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driving too slowly. 
Surely, this is from the Lord, 

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right? 
And so rather than mastering our

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appetites, we express them, 
instead of having dominion over 

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creation, we submit to Creation 
instead of trusting in God we 

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say I'll decide I will see what 
is Good. 

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You've heard Thomas Jefferson's 
Bible right Thomas Jefferson 

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loved the Bible except for all 
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right? 
So what Thomas Jefferson does is

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he goes and he cuts out all of 
the Miracles, including the 

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resurrection because Thomas 
Jefferson and lots of other car 

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around, like, they couldn't 
handle the chance, that there 

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would be anything in creation, 
that doesn't fit with their 

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Enlightenment, understanding of 
what is they were super smart, 

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guys, they were proud. 
Ducks of the Enlightenment 

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they'd seen? 
They think they for therefore, 

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they are. 
And so instead of submitting to 

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Creation that they can't 
understand, they believe that 

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their intellect, their Insight, 
their wisdom is superior and 

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supreme. 
Now they did all kinds of great 

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and wonderful things. 
I'm grateful for their 

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contributions to culture into 
society and all of that but I 

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can look at Thomas Jefferson's 
Bible and say there's no room 

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within that for God, Mankind and
creation. 

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One of those things has Has been
left out. 

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Not God is Jefferson. 
Wanted him to be, but God has, 

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he actually is, do you see when 
we go about creating God in our 

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own image? 
God ceases. 

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He doesn't cease to be. 
He ceases to be to us because 

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he's God and we're not and we 
don't get to create God in our 

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own image, right? 
So I need to not get off this 

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ride so we not, he could, we 
move from, not from trusting 

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God, to choosing for self. 
Remember, our vocation, the 

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garden was to look around and 
God says, Hey multiply, and be 

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fruitful to trust him to be. 
And to know garden was to stand 

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back and go, you know, that 
Divinity thing God's Got That 

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under control, but what I should
just do is multiply his goodness

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and walk it out and as I do that
I don't need to be God because I

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have the full experience of 
every good thing but there's a 

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problem. 
The problem with human nature is

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this John Piper says I don't 
quote John Piper a lot but I 

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love this, he says this the 
experience of God which is what 

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we had in The garden. 
The experience of God is 

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00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:13,700
accompanied by a temptation to 
reproduce the experience as God.

449
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:19,000
Read that again, the experience 
of God is accompanied by a 

450
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:23,600
temptation to reproduce the 
experience as God. 

451
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:28,700
So send then is not just some 
arbitrary thing that God said to

452
00:25:28,700 --> 00:25:33,000
you to make you have a terrible 
boring life. 

453
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:38,600
Sin is the temptation to get you
to say yes to something that is 

454
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:42,400
not the main thing as if it was 
the main thing. 

455
00:25:42,500 --> 00:25:45,000
Listen, I am convinced and I 
could be wrong. 

456
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:47,400
This, I'm gonna get to Jesus 
someday statement for Jesus and 

457
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:49,200
he can go like you, you screwed 
that up. 

458
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:53,800
But listen, I'm convinced that 
there was nothing magic in that 

459
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,200
tree. 
Do you know what was magic about

460
00:25:56,200 --> 00:26:02,500
the tree? 
God said, don't God said, don't 

461
00:26:02,500 --> 00:26:05,800
do it and Adam and Eve were 
confused and they were tempted, 

462
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:09,500
right? 
And so temptation is to make not

463
00:26:09,500 --> 00:26:11,500
the main thing, the main thing, 
right? 

464
00:26:11,500 --> 00:26:13,600
And so that brings up the 
fundamental question in 

465
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,900
Temptation, are you listening if
you want to know the fundamental

466
00:26:16,900 --> 00:26:19,900
question behind every Temptation
that you're going to face now? 

467
00:26:19,900 --> 00:26:22,400
And for the rest of your life, 
it is the question. 

468
00:26:22,700 --> 00:26:27,900
Who says what good is This is 
the question. 

469
00:26:28,900 --> 00:26:31,700
Whoever gets to Define. 
What is good? 

470
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,900
Is God right? 
We read in Genesis 1 over and 

471
00:26:34,900 --> 00:26:36,900
over and over and over again. 
That's good. 

472
00:26:36,900 --> 00:26:38,900
That's good, that's good. 
That's good. 

473
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,300
And in fact, when we get to 
Genesis 2 and we find God saying

474
00:26:41,300 --> 00:26:45,500
that's not good, what do we find
God getting involved again? 

475
00:26:45,500 --> 00:26:47,800
And finally going now. 
It's good. 

476
00:26:47,900 --> 00:26:50,500
So when we find goodness, we 
find God. 

477
00:26:50,500 --> 00:26:52,900
This is the fundamental question
in Temptation, right? 

478
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,300
And here's the question is food,
good? 

479
00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:57,700
Cause Course, it's good. 
Thank you. 

480
00:26:57,700 --> 00:27:00,000
Someone over here. 
Yes, food is good, right? 

481
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,500
Food is wonderful for 
sustenance. 

482
00:27:02,500 --> 00:27:05,700
In First Corinthians Paul, says 
food for the stomach and stomach

483
00:27:05,700 --> 00:27:08,200
for food, but God will destroy 
them. 

484
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,900
Both food is wonderful for 
sustenance. 

485
00:27:11,100 --> 00:27:15,400
Food is terrible to comfort me. 
When I'm grieving over sadness 

486
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,500
over my disobedient, children do
you understand when I grieving 

487
00:27:18,500 --> 00:27:21,400
over sadness over my children, 
everything I want to do is stand

488
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,400
in the fridge and like 
sandwiches and stuff like that. 

489
00:27:24,500 --> 00:27:29,400
But what I need to do to my kids
is go Kids, that behavior is an 

490
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,100
effective when you write. 
I need to talk to him and 

491
00:27:32,100 --> 00:27:34,500
insurance. 
A listen, when you say that to 

492
00:27:34,500 --> 00:27:37,300
me and hurts my feelings, it 
makes me small or I need to go 

493
00:27:37,300 --> 00:27:40,100
to my kids and go, listen, I 
have social anxiety, and so when

494
00:27:40,100 --> 00:27:42,100
this happens, when you say that,
to me, it makes this happen, 

495
00:27:42,100 --> 00:27:45,800
right? 
It's easier to go, right? 

496
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:49,200
But that's not helpful that 
doesn't do. 

497
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:51,900
Food is created for sustenance, 
right? 

498
00:27:52,300 --> 00:27:55,600
But if I say, oh, but I can also
use food to calm me down, then, 

499
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:59,000
it's not good. 
What about stuff is stuff bad? 

500
00:28:00,300 --> 00:28:02,700
It was a little hesitation that 
of food were sure. 

501
00:28:02,700 --> 00:28:07,000
So food is good. 
Everything that God created he 

502
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,000
said it is good. 
So what's the problem with 

503
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,600
stuff? 
The problem with stuff over here

504
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,500
is nothing. 
Creation is good. 

505
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:21,800
The problem is when stuff goes 
here, Right God stuff. 

506
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,800
Mankind, or what happens is when
dust when we do this. 

507
00:28:24,900 --> 00:28:27,900
God really just gets out of the 
picture or maybe God goes back 

508
00:28:27,900 --> 00:28:30,800
here and what we say is like I'm
just going to worship the stuff 

509
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:32,700
right. 
And so what's going to make me 

510
00:28:32,700 --> 00:28:35,400
happy and sad is when my stuff 
go listen, Okay? 

511
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:39,800
So first thing I want to 
apologize to you for something. 

512
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,100
I said last week, my mom's going
to know this is right, that's 

513
00:28:42,100 --> 00:28:44,100
enough. 
I spent a whole lot of time 

514
00:28:44,100 --> 00:28:46,600
telling you that your dog wasn't
going to go to heaven. 

515
00:28:48,900 --> 00:28:51,100
Some of you are at home and I, 
why would you say that? 

516
00:28:52,500 --> 00:28:54,300
I can't my amen. 
I know it's good. 

517
00:28:54,300 --> 00:28:57,000
I deserves this and I can't back
away cuz I can buy that. 

518
00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:02,200
But like here's the thing that I
would say is like we should 

519
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:06,600
enjoy God's good creation for 
every ounce that it is. 

520
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:10,600
But when we find his portrayal 
of what goodness looks like, we 

521
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:13,200
can submit to that and just go 
in your heart is terrible at 

522
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,200
this. 
As this is, I believe you have 

523
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,300
made every provision for my 
goodness. 

524
00:29:18,300 --> 00:29:25,700
When we circumvent the order. 
When we dismiss God's revelation

525
00:29:25,700 --> 00:29:28,600
is plan is perfection. 
We find when we put stuff in the

526
00:29:28,608 --> 00:29:30,800
middle, we just go. 
I can't have. 

527
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,200
God without that. 
What we've done is we have set 

528
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:39,600
creation in God's place and we 
worship, and I could be 

529
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:41,900
anything, it could be sex, it 
could be food. 

530
00:29:41,900 --> 00:29:45,500
It could be not dogs, not not 
not a know, anything like that, 

531
00:29:45,500 --> 00:29:48,000
right? 
But we have that, when we find 

532
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:52,600
those inordinate, when those 
giant hungers and appetites in 

533
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:56,700
our life, we have to be careful.
We have to look at those and go.

534
00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:00,000
Is that taking the place? 
Is that? 

535
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,600
Am I putting that? 
Head of my relationship, right? 

536
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:06,200
Because I can only see this way 
and if I see stuff here than God

537
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,000
is invisible and he might as 
well be behind me. 

538
00:30:08,100 --> 00:30:12,700
But what really happens is I put
myself first and I see stuff as 

539
00:30:12,700 --> 00:30:16,000
the stuff that can satisfy and 
assuage me, what only God was 

540
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,200
created you and then God is 
somewhere behind that. 

541
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,600
And really when he gets behind 
that, we don't really care where

542
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:22,300
he is. 
Maybe we love him. 

543
00:30:22,300 --> 00:30:25,900
We want him to like, sanctify 
and bless our stuff or whatever.

544
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:29,000
But he just becomes kind of like
a, like a Talisman, right? 

545
00:30:29,100 --> 00:30:32,000
Okay. 
So, Food Comfort stuff, right? 

546
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,500
Okay, so the archetype of sin 
begins with temptation 

547
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:36,100
temptation. 
But listen, it's not a sin to be

548
00:30:36,108 --> 00:30:38,600
tempted. 
Some of you really need to hear 

549
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:43,500
that it is not a sin to be 
tempted. 

550
00:30:43,700 --> 00:30:45,800
When a thought pops into your 
head. 

551
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:49,100
You have a choice to go. 
Yes or no. 

552
00:30:49,700 --> 00:30:51,600
And this in CS Lewis talks a lot
about this. 

553
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:53,700
This is really important. 
I'm not going to unpack this. 

554
00:30:53,700 --> 00:30:56,400
I want you to take go home and 
meditate on it when you say yes 

555
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:58,700
or no whatever you might want to
say or think or believe about 

556
00:30:58,700 --> 00:31:02,700
yourself when you're faced with 
the And you are precisely the 

557
00:31:02,700 --> 00:31:06,800
kind of person who says yes or 
no to that Temptation. 

558
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:11,800
For instance, if you are tempted
with food to comfort you and you

559
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:16,100
say yes you can just say oh I'm 
not a compulsive overeater, I 

560
00:31:16,100 --> 00:31:17,900
just do that. 
And what I would say is, if 

561
00:31:17,900 --> 00:31:21,700
you're the kind of person who 
eats their feelings, you're the 

562
00:31:21,700 --> 00:31:23,800
kind of person who is a 
compulsive overeater. 

563
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:28,700
We cover that we put a because 
we don't want to deal with 

564
00:31:28,700 --> 00:31:30,600
shame. 
We don't want to deal. 

565
00:31:30,900 --> 00:31:35,000
With the fear, the pain, the 
hurt of having broken Covenant. 

566
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,600
Now here's the thing, we would 
wrap, we're going to see it will

567
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:40,200
get there. 
The story will tell itself, 

568
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:42,300
right? 
So here's the thing, Temptation 

569
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:46,200
becomes sin. 
When we choose to Define for 

570
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:50,900
ourselves, what good is? 
So we have this temptation that 

571
00:31:50,900 --> 00:31:54,300
says don't do that, but in our 
head, when we go, what's the 

572
00:31:54,300 --> 00:31:57,100
worst that could happen? 
That's when it becomes sin. 

573
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,600
We see this in verse 6. 
So when the woman, what did she 

574
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:01,900
do? 
She saw a The tree was good for 

575
00:32:01,900 --> 00:32:03,400
food, use of that, looks 
delicious. 

576
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,700
And that the tree was to be 
desired to make one wise. 

577
00:32:06,700 --> 00:32:09,900
She's like, if I eat it, then 
I'll know things that I don't 

578
00:32:09,900 --> 00:32:10,900
want to. 
I just want you to know, right? 

579
00:32:10,900 --> 00:32:13,000
Real quick. 
That's my Temptation, the 

580
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:14,700
template. 
Like I want to be smart. 

581
00:32:14,700 --> 00:32:17,400
I want people to think that. 
I know a lot of things I want, 

582
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,300
people think all of those 
things. 

583
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:23,200
And, so, sometimes full 
disclosure, that's why I talk so

584
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,200
much, right, because there's 
this real temptation to just, 

585
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,500
say all of the things that I 
know and you're like, even so 

586
00:32:28,500 --> 00:32:30,400
don't take you 40 minutes. 
That's not that much. 

587
00:32:30,500 --> 00:32:35,600
So, Way. 
Where was I? 

588
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:39,700
Oh, yeah. 
Delight to the eyes and it was 

589
00:32:39,700 --> 00:32:42,400
to be desired to make one wise, 
unless and she took of its fruit

590
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:45,200
and she ate. 
And she also gave some to her 

591
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,900
husband who was with her and he,
and he ate, oh, by the way, 

592
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:53,100
that's where Adam is right there
the whole time. 

593
00:32:54,900 --> 00:32:59,800
At any point Adam. 
Hey, you're a snake, you're not 

594
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:03,600
supposed to be talking to me, 
flying side, kick it to the walk

595
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,200
and servant the whole thing goes
away but Adams they're like no 

596
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:07,600
I'm just going to see how this 
plays out. 

597
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:10,200
You see the sin you see the 
Temptation. 

598
00:33:10,500 --> 00:33:14,900
Adam have dominion Adam, get out
there and make things work. 

599
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,100
Adam, you're naming the animals.
You know what that guy is? 

600
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,100
You know, that guy's more 
subtle, you know, that guy's 

601
00:33:21,100 --> 00:33:25,500
crappy, you know, that guy boot 
that down even For Adam. 

602
00:33:25,700 --> 00:33:28,700
I told you not to freaking stand
by a tree. 

603
00:33:28,900 --> 00:33:33,300
Why are you by the tree? 
Good grief. 

604
00:33:33,900 --> 00:33:35,700
Listen. 
Do you struggle with 

605
00:33:35,700 --> 00:33:38,500
pornography? 
Put a freaking filter on your 

606
00:33:38,500 --> 00:33:41,000
phone. 
Give your wife, the passwords. 

607
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,100
Let her have access. 
Do you want to trust her be 

608
00:33:44,100 --> 00:33:46,600
trustworthy? 
He says to himself. 

609
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:48,800
Right? 
This is the thing. 

610
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,600
Adam, where are you being 
passive watching this going? 

611
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:53,100
And then at the end, right? 
We're going to see what happens,

612
00:33:53,100 --> 00:33:54,700
right? 
So he says he's standing there. 

613
00:33:54,700 --> 00:33:56,600
There. 
And she gave some and he's like,

614
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,400
well, maybe it's not so bad, I 
don't know, right? 

615
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:05,500
Like but listen then. 
She ate, she gave it, he ate, 

616
00:34:06,700 --> 00:34:10,800
then the eyes of their open now.
Do you remember what the promise

617
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:12,600
was? 
If you eat the tree then you'll 

618
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:17,600
know what good and evil. 
So here's the thing in all 

619
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:23,300
creation, what is good, 
actually, good God, and His 

620
00:34:23,300 --> 00:34:25,000
creation that he made in his 
order, right? 

621
00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:29,400
So then is there ever any 
condition where God could not be

622
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,800
good? 
So when he says they're going to

623
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:39,400
know good and evil, the only 
thing that they don't know is 

624
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:42,600
evil. 
What do you think the evil comes

625
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:44,699
from? 
Where do you think they're going

626
00:34:44,699 --> 00:34:48,300
to recognize and realize in 
creation is evil. 

627
00:34:50,300 --> 00:34:55,600
Them their desire, when she 
stood back and looked and took 

628
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:58,800
it and saw it and gave and she 
looked at Adam, she realized 

629
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:02,200
what was in her was the thing 
that was separate. 

630
00:35:02,300 --> 00:35:06,000
She realized that Disobedience 
that think was it any was there 

631
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:10,700
anything new in creation? 
That was evil or was it simply 

632
00:35:10,700 --> 00:35:13,600
the revelation of something that
had been there the whole time 

633
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:15,800
and now we have to ask the 
question, do you think God knew 

634
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,400
what was in there? 
Yep. 

635
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:20,300
And somebody like well how could
God create the Awesome. 

636
00:35:20,300 --> 00:35:25,200
Why did God have to put the tree
if I take my 16 year old son 

637
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:28,700
Jackson, and I take him in the 
garage and I sit in there and I 

638
00:35:29,100 --> 00:35:32,600
saw her all the door shut and I 
lock in there and I go, you can 

639
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:35,800
never leave because I love you 
so much. 

640
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,800
I just want you to love me so 
much, but your captive here 

641
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:40,200
forever. 
Is that love? 

642
00:35:40,900 --> 00:35:42,800
Would any of you just go, man? 
That is sweet. 

643
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:44,500
I love the way that he treats 
his son. 

644
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:51,200
For sure, not right. 
For there to be love. 

645
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:56,300
There must be a choice and so 
God planted Mankind and a garden

646
00:35:56,300 --> 00:35:59,800
with one tree and said don't eat
that tree. 

647
00:35:59,900 --> 00:36:03,300
And you know what Adam should 
have done with his naked self 

648
00:36:03,300 --> 00:36:06,700
and his nekkid wife, he should 
have hop on one of those rivers 

649
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:11,300
and sailed on to the Sunset and 
plant that Garden that way 

650
00:36:11,500 --> 00:36:14,300
forever. 
A million miles from that tree, 

651
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:15,600
he should have looked and said 
God is good. 

652
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:17,000
Enough. 
I don't need that anyway, and he

653
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,300
should have split. 
He's like tying himself to the 

654
00:36:20,300 --> 00:36:22,600
tree, right? 
We're just like that Temptation 

655
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:25,300
that we have where I go every 
day staring at him. 

656
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,400
I hope I can withstand it, get 
out, get out. 

657
00:36:29,500 --> 00:36:32,500
But what happens is, you know 
how I got a dog? 

658
00:36:33,500 --> 00:36:34,900
Side note. 
It's going to get there, I 

659
00:36:34,900 --> 00:36:37,500
promise. 
For a long time. 

660
00:36:37,500 --> 00:36:39,700
I didn't have a dog. 
I didn't really want a dog even.

661
00:36:39,700 --> 00:36:42,000
I mean, I always wanted to, but 
even think about a dog, and then

662
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,000
one day, I started going me. 
I should get a dog, a dog would 

663
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:45,200
be nice. 
I didn't think about it again 

664
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,800
for like, a month, but then I 
saw another dog and I think I 

665
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,000
should get that dog again. 
And so, I go from thinking about

666
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,600
a dog once every month. 
I think about a dog once every 

667
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:54,300
two weeks or whatever. 
And then before, I know it all 

668
00:36:54,300 --> 00:36:57,100
the time, The dog for the kids, 
right? 

669
00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:59,400
And it's just over and over and 
over and over again. 

670
00:36:59,500 --> 00:37:02,100
And Natalie didn't want a dog. 
She wasn't raised with a dog but

671
00:37:02,100 --> 00:37:05,300
what happened is one day when I 
had that first thought about a 

672
00:37:05,300 --> 00:37:07,200
dog? 
And I said yes to thinking about

673
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,600
a dog that thought gets in and 
it starts filling up my brain 

674
00:37:10,700 --> 00:37:14,400
and eventually I can't not have 
a dog for the love of the kids. 

675
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:15,900
Natalie, we need to have a dog. 
Guess what? 

676
00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:21,300
I got a dog. 
And so, when I start thinking, 

677
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:26,700
and she don't understand me, you
know, who understands me, Jackie

678
00:37:26,700 --> 00:37:31,300
at work, she gets me. 
I should talk to Jackie at work,

679
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,200
right? 
Or you know what? 

680
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:36,600
I know, I shouldn't should be 
generous, you know? 

681
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,700
But I'm just going to do this 
from here is like I know I 

682
00:37:38,700 --> 00:37:41,000
should forgive but I'm just not 
going to forgive I'm gonna but 

683
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:44,800
you know, I should, you know, go
hold your tongue and not but I'm

684
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,000
going to just fire off because I
want to say that and I want to 

685
00:37:47,008 --> 00:37:48,200
do that. 
And you know what, it's fine 

686
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:51,700
because I want to look at I said
that right when we decide what 

687
00:37:51,700 --> 00:37:57,700
is good and best for us, we sit 
ourselves in the place of God. 

688
00:37:57,900 --> 00:38:06,300
God says listen God's word says 
obedience is good. . 

689
00:38:06,500 --> 00:38:09,400
Obedience is good. 
And in the garden we have a 

690
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,200
harder time seeing it. 
But in the garden, God Santos, 

691
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:15,400
look, everything is good. 
Every tree that I create except 

692
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,200
that one is good, everything is 
good. 

693
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:20,000
Except for that, just go run, 
everything is good. 

694
00:38:20,100 --> 00:38:23,400
I've filled the world with 
goodness things for you with 

695
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:25,900
good things. 
For all you, all you have to do 

696
00:38:25,900 --> 00:38:30,500
is trust and you know how you 
trust God by enjoying the good 

697
00:38:30,500 --> 00:38:34,100
things, by enjoying all of the 
other stuff they could have 

698
00:38:34,100 --> 00:38:35,900
said. 
Well, that trees good for food 

699
00:38:35,900 --> 00:38:37,600
to. 
I don't need that that trees 

700
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:39,400
Pleasant to look at. 
I don't need that. 

701
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:42,300
But instead, they're like, I 
wonder what it'd be like to eat 

702
00:38:42,300 --> 00:38:44,300
that tree and we do the same 
thing. 

703
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:48,100
We stare at that thing and we 
feel like that's got to be the 

704
00:38:48,100 --> 00:38:51,400
only solution rather than going.
God said it. 

705
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:52,800
And he's built the world for my 
goodness. 

706
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:57,200
So I'm going to turn around and 
I'm going to run I don't know 

707
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:58,600
what it is. 
Are you an addict? 

708
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,000
Give your spouse, your debit 
card, have them drive you to 

709
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,300
work. 
Tell him, I'm going to be 

710
00:39:05,300 --> 00:39:07,700
terrible to you for a week or 
for a month. 

711
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:09,900
Her for two months. 
You can do it. 

712
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:13,600
Figure out a way. 
The thing is, we worship. 

713
00:39:13,700 --> 00:39:18,200
What we say, yes to are saying, 
yes, is worship when we say yes 

714
00:39:18,500 --> 00:39:22,900
to good for food, good. 
To look at useful for making us 

715
00:39:22,900 --> 00:39:26,300
wise. 
We're saying yes to that over 

716
00:39:26,300 --> 00:39:30,400
God right? 
So listen to what NT Wright 

717
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:32,400
says, in this is gets us to it, 
right? 

718
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:37,900
To become a Christian is not to 
say no to the good world. 

719
00:39:38,900 --> 00:39:41,900
The whole God is approved. 
Thing is just it's doesn't bear 

720
00:39:41,900 --> 00:39:44,600
with reality, it doesn't. 
Bear with the revelation of God 

721
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:48,200
in scripture. 
God has said, things are good to

722
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,900
be a Christian. 
It's not to say no to the good 

723
00:39:50,900 --> 00:39:55,000
World which God has made. 
It is of course to turn ones 

724
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:59,200
back on all of the Corruptions 
into which the world has fallen 

725
00:39:59,300 --> 00:40:02,600
and into which each individual 
has fallen. 

726
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:11,400
Here's the idea, what Adam and 
Eve understood and figured out 

727
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,500
was what would happen when they 
ate that. 

728
00:40:13,700 --> 00:40:17,900
They ate that fruit, right? 
So what happens verse 9, the 

729
00:40:17,900 --> 00:40:21,500
Lord God Called To The Man and 
said, where are you God knew 

730
00:40:21,500 --> 00:40:23,100
where they were as a very 
limited space. 

731
00:40:23,100 --> 00:40:24,700
He had seen all that. 
He's asking. 

732
00:40:24,700 --> 00:40:28,200
Adam Adam, what are you doing? 
Where are you? 

733
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:31,400
And he said I heard the sound of
you in the garden and I was 

734
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:36,100
afraid because I was naked and I
hid myself and God said who told

735
00:40:36,100 --> 00:40:38,500
you that you were naked? 
Have you eaten of the tree of 

736
00:40:38,500 --> 00:40:40,800
which I commanded you not to eat
all that we got it. 

737
00:40:40,808 --> 00:40:42,000
Yep. 
What is it? 

738
00:40:42,700 --> 00:40:49,600
That man said the woman that you
gave me Yeah, she gave me the 

739
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:51,400
fruit of the tree and I ate in 
the Lord asked the woman. 

740
00:40:51,500 --> 00:40:54,600
What is this that you have done 
in the woman said, the serpent 

741
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:56,800
deceived me. 
And I ate, yeah, don't be 

742
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:58,900
surprised when that servant 
deceives you because that's what

743
00:40:58,900 --> 00:41:01,700
the serpent does. 
Don't be surprised when your 

744
00:41:01,700 --> 00:41:05,100
prowling around on the internet 
at 12:00 at night and you end up

745
00:41:05,100 --> 00:41:07,600
on the site where you're not 
supposed to be, that's what the 

746
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:10,200
internet does. 
Don't be surprised when you're 

747
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:13,200
on social media and you say that
thing that's hurtful and 

748
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:16,100
offensive and divisive and rude 
and you get off and go man. 

749
00:41:16,100 --> 00:41:17,900
Why did I get off? 
Why did I say that? 

750
00:41:17,900 --> 00:41:22,200
That's what social media does. 
It draws and it infects and it 

751
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:25,400
corrupts and it makes us and it 
makes us crazy, right? 

752
00:41:25,500 --> 00:41:28,500
And so what happens is Adam and 
Eve, they thought well I'll just

753
00:41:28,500 --> 00:41:30,100
be wise. 
Then I'll know all kinds of 

754
00:41:30,108 --> 00:41:31,700
things. 
And what happened was when they 

755
00:41:31,700 --> 00:41:35,500
ate that fruit, they went from 
being seen to being hidden. 

756
00:41:35,500 --> 00:41:38,800
They went from being vulnerable 
to being full of Shame. 

757
00:41:38,900 --> 00:41:43,100
What they learn was what they 
realized was God makes all 

758
00:41:43,100 --> 00:41:46,900
things good. 
But anything without him. 

759
00:41:47,100 --> 00:41:48,700
Isn't. 
Here's the deal. 

760
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:54,400
Is electricity, good. 
Maybe you thinking around as 

761
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:57,200
long as it's in a wire and not 
in your bathtub while you're in 

762
00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:01,800
it. 
Is sex, good. 

763
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:06,700
Yeah, as long as you're in a 
committed relationship with 

764
00:42:06,700 --> 00:42:10,200
somebody who is not going to use
your nakedness against you 

765
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:14,500
someday and you know, the only 
way that can happen till death 

766
00:42:14,500 --> 00:42:18,300
do us part. 
It's not because God's approved 

767
00:42:18,300 --> 00:42:22,400
and doesn't like sex, it's 
because God knows the best sex 

768
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,800
is married sex. 
I've had both kinds, I can tell 

769
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:30,000
you, I don't back away from it. 
I mean, it there's something 

770
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:35,000
about looking at a person and 
knowing Forever until we are 

771
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:37,000
done and listen. 
If you've been divorced and 

772
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,500
you're feeling guilty or ashamed
of that, don't feel guilt and 

773
00:42:39,500 --> 00:42:41,300
shame over that now. 
Just acknowledge you just 

774
00:42:41,300 --> 00:42:44,400
recognize what God created in 
the marriage is hard and it's 

775
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:46,600
difficult, but it's made to be 
worked out. 

776
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:50,900
It's made to be entered into 
rationally and calmly and 

777
00:42:50,900 --> 00:42:55,200
slowly, and intentionally, and 
with an abundance of, caution 

778
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:58,200
and recommendation. 
But within the context of that 

779
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:02,500
loving Garden of a marriage is 
supposed to be fully alive. 

780
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:08,100
Live and vulnerable and seen and
without the hint of rejection 

781
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:12,100
and red and blame and shame. 
And all of the things that we 

782
00:43:12,100 --> 00:43:14,900
see in the garden, God didn't 
say keep sex till marriage 

783
00:43:14,900 --> 00:43:17,300
because he's a prude. 
He said it because he wants 

784
00:43:17,300 --> 00:43:20,600
what's best for you. 
We have placed ourselves in a 

785
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:23,300
position to step back and go. 
Thanks God. 

786
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:28,400
You did all the creating will 
now do the defining will now 

787
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:31,500
say, what is good and what isn't
good. 

788
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:33,600
So the only Change that 
happened. 

789
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:38,300
Was that the Adam and he became 
aware of themselves. 

790
00:43:39,300 --> 00:43:41,200
They knew that God was still 
good. 

791
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:44,900
They didn't try to hide God, 
they knew that they weren't. 

792
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:48,000
They knew that in their heart 
was striving, they knew that 

793
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:50,000
they weren't content with the 
garden. 

794
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:53,100
They weren't content with the 
lot that God had planted them. 

795
00:43:53,100 --> 00:43:56,600
Which by the way, was to be the 
most fruitful life getting 

796
00:43:56,600 --> 00:44:00,800
people ever ever created to 
experience every good thing now.

797
00:44:00,900 --> 00:44:06,300
And for all of eternity instead,
what they got was hiddenness and

798
00:44:06,300 --> 00:44:10,000
nakedness and fig leaves. 
And shame. 

799
00:44:11,300 --> 00:44:14,200
And we read the curse and we're 
like well, God is so mean like 

800
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:17,900
how could God curse them? 
Why would God yell at those 

801
00:44:17,900 --> 00:44:20,300
people? 
Just for eating that fruit. 

802
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:22,300
Very important. 
You haven't heard anything else.

803
00:44:22,300 --> 00:44:23,700
This is important. 
You're listening. 

804
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:42,000
God did not in n. 
And God said, okay, so he 

805
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:44,400
explains it right? 
So listen, the Covenant right 

806
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:48,000
was the Covenant, the Covenant 
was Adam and Eve as obedient 

807
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,300
priests. 
They get to enjoy all of the 

808
00:44:50,300 --> 00:44:53,300
goodness of the world forever. 
All they have to do is keep 

809
00:44:53,300 --> 00:44:57,300
Creation in its place and they 
have to put God first and 

810
00:44:57,300 --> 00:44:58,600
exercise their Dominion. 
Right. 

811
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:01,400
They could enjoy they could do 
all that stuff and instead what 

812
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:03,500
they did was use it for 
themselves. 

813
00:45:03,500 --> 00:45:06,200
Put their desires, their wants 
their appetites first. 

814
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:08,900
So what did God say? 
Real quick verse 14. 

815
00:45:08,900 --> 00:45:12,300
The Lord God said to the serpent
because You've done this cursed,

816
00:45:12,300 --> 00:45:14,800
are you above all livestock? 
And above all the beasts on the 

817
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:17,700
field on your belly? 
You shall go and dust. 

818
00:45:17,700 --> 00:45:20,700
You shall eat all the days of 
your life creation. 

819
00:45:20,700 --> 00:45:25,700
The created order was not 
intended to look Mankind in the 

820
00:45:25,700 --> 00:45:31,200
eye as equals God did not create
this world and make us it's 

821
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:34,200
servants. 
He said have dominion over it 

822
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:38,100
rule at lead it. 
Now he also didn't say use it as

823
00:45:38,100 --> 00:45:40,700
your trash can use it. 
However you see fit. 

824
00:45:40,700 --> 00:45:46,200
'If it he said multiply it make 
more of it, use it wisely 

825
00:45:46,500 --> 00:45:50,900
Steward the Earth as a gift that
I have given you and use it as a

826
00:45:50,900 --> 00:45:55,200
reflection of God's good and 
wise provision for you. 

827
00:45:55,400 --> 00:46:00,600
It matters, if you put yourself 
first, Adam, or if you put 

828
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:05,100
creation first Adam, everything 
falls apart. 

829
00:46:05,100 --> 00:46:06,900
Right. 
So the serpent, you're going to 

830
00:46:06,900 --> 00:46:08,500
rise up. 
You're going to stand up and 

831
00:46:08,500 --> 00:46:10,500
look Mankind in the, I know 
you're not. 

832
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:13,700
For the rest of Eternity, you 
will, you will fall, you'll be 

833
00:46:13,700 --> 00:46:16,500
down, there will be mistrust 
verse 16 to the woman. 

834
00:46:16,500 --> 00:46:18,600
You remember what the Woman's 
Place was? 

835
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:23,100
She was taken out of atoms side 
out of mankind, she was going to

836
00:46:23,100 --> 00:46:25,700
be the mother of all living. 
We're going to find in just a 

837
00:46:25,708 --> 00:46:28,200
few second hurt. 
She was created. 

838
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:32,500
Eve, is the only one in creation
that was not born alone. 

839
00:46:32,900 --> 00:46:37,500
She was born into relationships,
her relationships, where the 

840
00:46:37,500 --> 00:46:39,700
context where she came and so 
what did she do? 

841
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:43,900
But she She didn't consider 
relationship, she put herself 

842
00:46:43,900 --> 00:46:47,100
above the relationship, and then
when she got caught, she, you 

843
00:46:47,100 --> 00:46:49,400
know, misery loves company. 
So, like, so she brought him in,

844
00:46:49,500 --> 00:46:55,400
we've already saw, I shouldn't 
have to say this, if you look at

845
00:46:55,400 --> 00:47:00,400
Genesis chapter 3 and think that
the lesson is that men need to 

846
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:03,900
keep their woman in order. 
It's almost impossible for you 

847
00:47:03,900 --> 00:47:06,700
to read Genesis 3 anymore 
incorrectly. 

848
00:47:06,700 --> 00:47:10,200
That's that's not what it says. 
It is mankind together falling 

849
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:13,800
and what Says to me to woman, I 
will multiply your pain and 

850
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:17,000
childbearing in pain you shall 
bring forth children. 

851
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:20,800
Your desire shall be contrary to
your husband but he shall rule 

852
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:23,500
over you. 
The idea here is there's going 

853
00:47:23,500 --> 00:47:27,700
to be this conflict and he 
physically stronger. 

854
00:47:27,700 --> 00:47:30,800
Is going to have a way guys. 
This is not something that we 

855
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:33,100
should celebrate. 
This is not a thing, I'm sure. 

856
00:47:33,100 --> 00:47:36,000
Yeah, woman live up to the 
curse. 

857
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:40,200
That's just dumb. 
We should try to be pre curse, 

858
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:40,800
right? 
Right. 

859
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:42,000
Good. 
I like that. 

860
00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:47,000
Let's aim for that and Adam he 
says because you have listened 

861
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,300
to the voice of your wife and 
have eaten, the fruit of the 

862
00:47:49,300 --> 00:47:52,500
tree of which I commanded you, 
you shall not eat of it. 

863
00:47:52,700 --> 00:47:56,600
Cursed is the ground because of 
you because Adams vocation was 

864
00:47:56,600 --> 00:48:01,200
the garden was to walk in it and
watch God bless it and multiply 

865
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:03,100
it as he had dominion. 
And now he says it's going to be

866
00:48:03,100 --> 00:48:05,500
hard thorns and thistles it will
bring for you and you will eat 

867
00:48:05,500 --> 00:48:08,000
the plants of the field and by 
the sweat of your face, you'll 

868
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:10,500
eat bread until you return to 
the ground for out of it. 

869
00:48:10,700 --> 00:48:15,600
You were taken for you are dust 
and to dust you will return. 

870
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:18,800
See, when you have God work as 
experience of fruit. 

871
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:21,000
But when you just say, no, 
thanks, God will try to be like 

872
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:24,700
you will handle this from here. 
God, all of a sudden things stop

873
00:48:24,700 --> 00:48:28,500
growing and so the destruction 
of the Covenant of vocation 

874
00:48:28,700 --> 00:48:32,900
means that nothing is ordered as
it should, it means that we 

875
00:48:32,900 --> 00:48:37,300
become people Pleasers and we 
become worshippers of stuff and 

876
00:48:37,300 --> 00:48:40,500
God and his way in his and 
obedience. 

877
00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:44,900
It's becomes an afterthought or 
a thing that we use to get what 

878
00:48:44,900 --> 00:48:49,900
we want disorder in this life. 
Looks like lust, it looks like 

879
00:48:49,900 --> 00:48:53,000
compulsions. 
It looks like obsessions. 

880
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:57,400
And what I would say to you is 
it never satisfies sex for sex 

881
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:01,300
sake. 
Never satisfies stuff for Stuff 

882
00:49:01,300 --> 00:49:05,100
sake. 
Never satisfies fun for fun 

883
00:49:05,100 --> 00:49:10,500
sake, never satisfies. 
We are satisfied in God alone. 

884
00:49:10,700 --> 00:49:16,200
And when we are satisfied in 
God, every single extra thing is

885
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:19,100
gravy. 
Now your weekend on the beach, 

886
00:49:19,100 --> 00:49:22,200
it's not so that you can have 
peace in your life it's because 

887
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:24,900
you have peace in your life. 
So what do we do man? 

888
00:49:24,900 --> 00:49:26,400
I'm gonna blow through this. 
Are you ready? 

889
00:49:26,500 --> 00:49:29,700
The first thing that we have to 
do is you have to confess own 

890
00:49:29,700 --> 00:49:34,600
your disorder own it just say go
to the Lord and say God I have 

891
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:39,000
chosen sex over intimacy. 
God I have chosen food as 

892
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:42,200
comfort over you. 
The second thing is we have to 

893
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:46,800
repent, repent is to turn. 
Here's what that looks like to 

894
00:49:46,808 --> 00:49:49,500
talk about food a lot, right? 
If food is the thing that you go

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to a food is how you bring 
comfort. 

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Then what you do is you 
recognize that you confess, it, 

897
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you own it, and then you do 
something to discipline that. 

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That's where the discipline of 
fasting comes in. 

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If you say, hey, I use food to 
comfort myself. 

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You say tomorrow, I will eat 
zero food and then you can 

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expect for all that emotional 
turmoil that you've been. 

902
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:14,800
Used to covering with Bagels. 
You can expect that to come 

903
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:18,200
rushing up. 
And now instead of right you go,

904
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Lord, this is really terrible. 
What should I do and he'll tell 

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you they'll you know maybe all 
you do is pray. 

906
00:50:26,100 --> 00:50:28,500
Maybe you confess something, I 
don't know. 

907
00:50:28,500 --> 00:50:33,300
But you follow him right? 
That's repenting when we turn to

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00:50:33,300 --> 00:50:38,500
God instead of turning to that 
thing and finally is submission,

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we redefine good as what God 
says. 

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Okay so listen The story's not 
in a good place right now. 

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Adam and Eve are without God, 
they have sinned, the whole 

912
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:54,200
thing is falling down around 
them. 

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I cannot leave you with bad news
so I don't want to tell you is 

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something called the 
protoevangelium, going to be so 

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00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:01,700
smart when you talk to your 
friends, right? 

916
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:05,100
It's like the original, good 
news, right? 

917
00:51:05,100 --> 00:51:08,000
The that the shape of the good 
news to come, right? 

918
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And here it is. 
Genesis chapter 3 verse 21 

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through 24. 
And I'm going to wrap up with 

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this verse 21 janissary and the 
Lord God made for a demand for 

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us. 
I've garments of skins and 

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clothed them. 
If you think God is interested 

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in exposing your shame and 
making you ashamed and Afraid 

924
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:28,700
and depressed not so he covers 
them a life is given so that 

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00:51:28,700 --> 00:51:32,300
Adam and Eve can be covered so 
that their shame is done away 

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with then the Lord God said, 
behold the man is become like 

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one of us in knowing good and 
evil. 

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00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:41,100
Now listen Les he reached out 
his hand and take also of the 

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tree of life and eat and live 
forever. 

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00:51:43,500 --> 00:51:47,500
God sent him out from the garden
of Of Eden to work the ground. 

931
00:51:47,700 --> 00:51:50,700
Do you know why he keeps them 
out of the garden because of 

932
00:51:50,700 --> 00:51:54,700
Adam and Eve at eating that Tree
of Life, The Hope for Redemption

933
00:51:54,700 --> 00:51:58,700
is gone because what did God say
the wages of the death? 

934
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:00,900
If you eat that there will be 
death. 

935
00:52:00,900 --> 00:52:04,700
And so Adam and Eve had to go so
that they could die and you say 

936
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well that's just terrible. 
I know but listen. 

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Verse 24. 
He drove the man out to the east

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of the Garden of Eden and he 
placed the cherubim and a 

939
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flaming sword that turned every 
way to guard to the tree of 

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00:52:18,300 --> 00:52:20,100
life. 
So now the Garden of Eden is 

941
00:52:20,100 --> 00:52:21,200
locked. 
Oh my gosh. 

942
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:26,000
Are you ready? 
Genesis are Revelation 21:1 and 

943
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:30,000
I saw a new Heaven and a new 
Earth for the first Heaven. 

944
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And the first Earth had passed 
away in the sea was no more. 

945
00:52:32,500 --> 00:52:35,700
And I saw the holy city, New 
Jerusalem, coming down out of 

946
00:52:35,700 --> 00:52:38,900
Heaven, from God prepared as a 
bride adorned for her husband, 

947
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:41,600
and I heard a loud voice from 
the throne saying, Behold 

948
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:44,400
lessen. 
The dwelling of God is with, 

949
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:46,000
man. 
Does it sound like the garden to

950
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:48,400
you? 
Remember he created all of 

951
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:52,200
creation to be a temple where he
would Reign and rest and Rule 

952
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:53,800
from within his creation among 
people are? 

953
00:52:53,808 --> 00:52:56,000
He would dwell with them. 
He says the dwelling of God is 

954
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,600
now with mankind. 
He will dwell with them in the 

955
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:01,200
sea and they will be his people 
and God himself will be with 

956
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:02,600
them. 
And I will be their God, he will

957
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:05,600
wipe away every tear from their 
eyes and Death Shall be no more 

958
00:53:05,700 --> 00:53:08,300
neither shall there be mourning 
or crying or pain anymore for 

959
00:53:08,300 --> 00:53:10,400
the former things have passed 
away. 

960
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:13,200
It sounds like we got back in 
the garden verse 22. 

961
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:15,300
Then the angel showed me the 
river of the Water of Life. 

962
00:53:15,300 --> 00:53:18,100
Remember, all the rivers in the 
garden, showed me the river of 

963
00:53:18,100 --> 00:53:21,100
the Water of Life bright, as a 
crystal flowing from the throne,

964
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:22,800
through the middle of the street
of the city. 

965
00:53:22,900 --> 00:53:26,500
And on either side of the river,
the tree of life, we know where 

966
00:53:26,500 --> 00:53:29,600
the tree of life is, it's the 
Garden of Eden, how is it God, 

967
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:33,100
shut it in our big flaming sword
and there's angels all around, 

968
00:53:33,100 --> 00:53:35,700
except in Revelation, we get 
back. 

969
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:39,600
How do we get back there? 
Because Jesus of Nazareth, he 

970
00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:42,200
went under the Flaming A sword 
himself. 

971
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:45,100
It looked like a cross and they 
killed him. 

972
00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:49,800
And he lives and he is 
resurrected. 

973
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:54,100
The garden is open because Jesus
opened it. 

974
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:57,000
So when I say, I want you to 
follow Jesus, it's not because I

975
00:53:57,008 --> 00:53:59,700
don't want you to have sex 
because I'm proved, it's because

976
00:53:59,700 --> 00:54:05,600
I want your life to be abundant 
and eternal and Jesus makes that

977
00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:11,200
happen. 
The highest design for your life

978
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:17,800
is a radical selfless Life 
Giving Medians to the way of 

979
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:21,200
Jesus. 
From now until Easter, we're 

980
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:23,100
going to see how Jesus undoes 
this. 

981
00:54:23,900 --> 00:54:25,500
It's going to take your breath 
away. 

982
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:30,500
It's the best story in the world
that you can't miss a week. 

983
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:34,900
Kim is a week because what Jesus
does to undo, this is amazing. 

984
00:54:34,900 --> 00:54:37,200
So Jesus, I pray that you would 
plant this in our hearts and 

985
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:40,100
show us. 
And I confess my sin, I confess 

986
00:54:40,100 --> 00:54:43,800
that I am a sinner and I confess
that I have sinned and I confess

987
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:48,600
that I have misused sex, and 
drugs and rock and roll and food

988
00:54:48,700 --> 00:54:50,000
and everything. 
Thing. 

989
00:54:51,500 --> 00:54:53,900
So I ask for your grace and I 
ask for your forgiveness and I 

990
00:54:53,900 --> 00:54:56,500
ask that you would lead us into 
righteousness in your presence 

991
00:54:56,500 --> 00:54:59,100
Lord, we love you. 
And we thank you and your name. 

992
00:54:59,500 --> 00:55:02,800
Amen. 
Thank you for joining us today. 

993
00:55:03,100 --> 00:55:06,000
River City Church is all about 
experiencing and expressing 

994
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:07,800
God's love in our lives and 
community. 

995
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:11,400
And we hope that you've been 
able to experience that today as

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00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:12,300
grateful. 
As I am. 

997
00:55:12,300 --> 00:55:14,900
That you've spent this time, 
listening in this morning, this 

998
00:55:14,900 --> 00:55:18,500
podcast is no substitute for 
full participation in a local 

999
00:55:18,500 --> 00:55:20,600
church. 
I love it when rivers City 

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00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:23,800
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but it is those who show up week

1001
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:26,500
after week Faithfully, giving 
their support and time and 

1002
00:55:26,500 --> 00:55:28,500
resources, that make all of this
possible. 

1003
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:32,400
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1004
00:55:32,500 --> 00:55:34,900
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1005
00:55:34,900 --> 00:55:37,700
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1006
00:55:37,700 --> 00:55:39,200
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1007
00:55:39,300 --> 00:55:41,800
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1008
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:44,800
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