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DWDP: Gen 2; 25 Why Cant We be Naked and Unashamed? · More Than Medicine

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to More Than Medicine, where Jesus is more than enough for the ills that plague our culture and our country.
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  Speaker 1: Hosted by author and physician, Dr Robert Jackson.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Well, you go, get your brother and your sisters and I will tell you a story.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Welcome to Devotions with Dr Papa.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: I'm your host, dr Robert Jackson.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: I encourage you to gather around, grab your Bibles and let us look into the written word, which reveals to us the living word which is our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Now, today, we're at Genesis, chapter 2 and verse 25.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: It's the last verse in chapter 2.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: A simple statement.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Now, what does it really mean?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Naked and unashamed?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Why is this statement even there?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: What about you?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Can you be naked and fully exposed in the presence of other people without being mortified, embarrassed and ashamed?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Truthfully, only small children have no shame when their nakedness is publicly exposed.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: We've all seen and laughed at a two-year-old that ran, completely exposed through a room full of adults with his embarrassed mother in hot pursuit.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Unashamed also implies a lack of guilt, which infers a lack of sin, and in fact that was true of Adam and Eve.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: There was no sin in their life at this point in time and therefore there was no need for shame.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: They were naked, fully exposed, in one another's presence.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: There was no sin, there was no guilt, there was no shame.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Any sexual intimacy outside of marriage, any physical exposure or nakedness by a man and woman outside the sanctity of marriage brings with it guilt and shame.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Now why is that?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Number one because it's the ministry, the job of Holy Spirit, to ensure guilt when we do something that is morally wrong.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: The Bible says that the Spirit convicts of sin and righteousness and judgment.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Spirit convicts of sin and righteousness and judgment.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: But number two any sort of physical or moral nakedness outside of the bonds of marriage violates the sanctity of the marriage contract, that sacred institution that God himself established in the garden.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: And when we violate the sanctity of marriage, it necessarily brings with it shame and guilt.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Now watch this.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Why is it that a man and a woman who were guilty and ashamed yesterday to be undressed in one another's presence can be married today and can rejoice, without any sense of guilt or remorse, in one another's physical, natural state, naked and unashamed, today, after they've been married?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: You see something magical, something spiritual, something supernatural occurs after marriage.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: What exactly is it?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Let me tell you, it's the blessing of God on that marital union that removes guilt and shame and replaces it with joy and unity, replaces it with joy and oneness of spirit as they become one flesh.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Many of you have heard me talk about my son, Thomas.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Thomas is the professor.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: He's 25 years old and he's our Down's Syndrome boy.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: When Thomas was growing up, he had a bad habit of coming out of the shower completely exposed, with his towel under one arm and his clean underwear under the other arm, and he would just walk through a room full of adults completely naked and unashamed.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Now why would that be?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Well, it's because Thomas has the intellect of a three-year-old and it didn't bother him one bit to walk through a room full of adults in his birthday suit.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Now, it took some serious training before we could help him to understand that that was inappropriate.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Understand that that was inappropriate to walk through a room in his birthday suit, naked as a jaybird, and hear the men laugh and the women gasp, and he was totally unconcerned.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: On Sunday morning my wife and I are getting ready for church and all of a sudden the bathroom door opens and Thomas stridesides in, naked as a jaybird, with his towel under one arm, his clean underwear under the other arm, and he lays down his clothes carefully.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: He lays down his flip phone and his little matchbox car and situates everything.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: And then he goes and he gives his mama a big hug, gives me a, a big hug, which is uncomfortable for me because I'm still not very comfortable with a fully grown, naked man giving me a hug.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: But Thomas is totally unfazed by the fact that his mom is in various states of dress or undress, and then he gets in the shower and takes his shower.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: You see, Thomas has the intellect of a three-year-old and he's naked and unashamed.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: But now, what's the difference between him and Adam and Eve?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Were Adam and Eve unashamed, and why?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Well, number one their union was blessed by God.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: God brought them together.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: And number two, unlike Thomas, who still does have sin in his life.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: There was no sin in the life of Adam and Eve at this point in time.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Sin came later in their relationship.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: We don't know exactly how much later.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Was it one day later?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Was it one week later?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Did Adam have a day or a week to walk through the garden hand in hand with his beautiful new bride, pointing out to her the work that he had done in the garden, pointing out to her the animals that he had done in the garden, pointing out to her the animals that he had named and saying to her now, this one is a zebra and this one is a monkey, that one is a giraffe.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: And she looks at him and says how do you know that?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: He says, well, darling, I named them.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: And she says well, you're so smart.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: And he said I know no brag, just fact, God made me that way.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: And he said, by the way, you're exceptionally beautiful.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: There's no one else like you.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: And she says I know no brag, just fact, God made me that way.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Well, you see, how long did they get to be naked and unashamed in the garden?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: We don't know.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: But hear me clearly With sin comes shame and fear Fear of exposure, Fear of other people knowing about your and my sinful, shameful wrongdoing.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: That's why Adam and Eve immediately covered up, made a covering for themselves.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: The awareness of their sin made them afraid of God, made them feel naked and exposed, shameful, and they needed a covering.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: But here's the question Could plants, could leaves, cover their sin and their shame?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Of course not, Absolutely not.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Let me ask you another question Can your silence cover your sin and shame?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Well, no, absolutely not.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Listen to Psalms 32.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: The psalmist had this to say about being silent about your sin.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: He says when I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long, For day and night.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Your hand was heavy upon me, my vitality was drained away, as with the fever heat of summer.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: I acknowledged my sin to you and my iniquity I did not hide.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: I said I will confess my transgression to the Lord and you forgave the guilt of my sin.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: How blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered, how blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: You've heard that biblical word, atonement.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: That word atonement means covered, covering.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: And you see, he says how blessed is the man whose sin is covered whose sin is atoned for.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: And Adam and Eve immediately began to look for a covering to cover up their nakedness and their shame.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Why were they ashamed?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Because there was sin, there was guilt.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: And you see, when you and I have sin and shame in our lives, we look for a covering and we hide.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: We hide from God the same as they did, and we don't want other people to know about our sinfulness, our wretchedness, our shamefulness.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: They couldn't hide from God.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: You and I can't hide from God, not even if you take the wings of the dawn and fly to the remotest part of the earth or go to the deepest ocean or to the highest mountain, Behold, he is there.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: There's nowhere that you and I can go to flee from the presence of God.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: So what can wash away our sin?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: The Bible tells us that God made garments of skin for Adam and Eve and clothed them, providing and covering their nakedness and shame.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: He provided them with a covering.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Some animal had to give its life, had to shed its blood, and it was the first death of a creature in this perfect world.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: It had to give its blood in order to cover their shame.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Theologians speculate that this animal, this creature, was probably a lamb.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Now, why would they speculate that?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Because this sacrificial animal that covered their sin and shame was a picture.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: It was a picture of Jesus, God's Passover lamb, who would eventually take away the sin of the entire world.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: What can wash away my sin?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: What can make me whole again?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Remember that I told you, nothing is there by accident.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: It's all there by divine design.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Having to kill that first animal to cover their sin and shame and it was probably a lamb to cover their nakedness and their shame was not an accident.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: That was the first step on the trail of blood that weaves its way through the entire Old Testament and always points to the cross of Jesus Christ.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: No accident, but a divine design.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Until then, may the Lord bless you.
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