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War and Victory - Part 3 - The Promise of God | Episode #365 | Encore Episode #036 · Reflections On The Word With Richard Kay

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of Reflection on the Word with
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  Speaker 1: Richard K. I'm Chuck Christie, and today we are asking
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  Speaker 1: you to spend a few moments of your time with
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  Speaker 1: us each day as Richard shares from God's work, notes, quotes,
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  Speaker 1: and stories, along with some of his own personal experiences,
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  Speaker 1: to confirm for you God's great love for us, that
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  Speaker 1: his compassion for us never fails, and that He has
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  Speaker 1: a great faithfulness toward us in every regard. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: to recommend it to a friend, you can hear this
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  Speaker 1: program anytime online at Talknetwork Radio dot com. Well, now
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  Speaker 1: here's Richard with today's reflection.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the serpent was the most cunning of all the
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  Speaker 2: wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said
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  Speaker 2: to the woman, Did God really say you can't eat
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  Speaker 2: from any tree in the garden. The woman said to
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  Speaker 2: the serpent, we may eat the fruit from the trees
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  Speaker 2: in the garden, But about the fruit of the tree
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of the garden, God said, you must
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  Speaker 2: not eat or touch it, or you will die. No,
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  Speaker 2: you will not die, the serpent said to the woman.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, God knows that when you eat it, your
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  Speaker 2: eye will be open and you will be like God,
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  Speaker 2: knowing good and evil. We know now that Satan deceived
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  Speaker 2: the the deceived man through the woman that he gave him.
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  Speaker 2: But yet man was not in any way guiltless. He
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  Speaker 2: chose to disobey. And so I think it takes a
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  Speaker 2: moment for us to be able to view what is
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  Speaker 2: it that man forfeited when he's sinned. We need to read,
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  Speaker 2: and this portion of the scripture is in the book
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  Speaker 2: of Genesis. It is familiar to many. We're not going
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  Speaker 2: to cover all of that particular portion, but we will
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  Speaker 2: take a close look at segments. In the creative moment,
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  Speaker 2: God made everything, and he said that it was good.
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  Speaker 2: But when it came to the height of the creation,
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  Speaker 2: he actually changed his description. God said, beginning in Genesis,
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  Speaker 2: chapter one and verse twenty six. Then God said, let
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  Speaker 2: us make man in our image, according to our likeness.
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  Speaker 2: They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds
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  Speaker 2: of the sky, the livestock, all the earth, and the
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  Speaker 2: creatures that crawl on the earth. So God created man
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  Speaker 2: in his own image. He created him in the image
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  Speaker 2: of God. He created them male and female. God blessed them,
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  Speaker 2: and God said to them, be fruitful, apply fill the earth,
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  Speaker 2: and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the
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  Speaker 2: birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on
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  Speaker 2: the earth. God also said, look, I have given you
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  Speaker 2: every seed bearing plant on the surface of the entire earth,
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  Speaker 2: and every tree whose fruit contains seed. This food will
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  Speaker 2: be for you. For all the wildlife of the earth,
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  Speaker 2: and for every bird of the sky, and for every
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  Speaker 2: creature that crawls on the earth, everything having the breath
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  Speaker 2: of life in it. I have given every green plant
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  Speaker 2: for food. And it was soaked, and God saw all
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  Speaker 2: that he had made, and it was very good. Evening
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  Speaker 2: came and then morning the sixth day. Now, one of
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  Speaker 2: the things that I want to be able to take
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  Speaker 2: just a moment for us to be able to comprehend, is,
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  Speaker 2: as we read, God had given man dominion over the
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  Speaker 2: entire earth. Now to the expanse of this particular creation.
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  Speaker 2: We have no real knowledge other than through the word
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  Speaker 2: of God as to what that utopia type of existence.
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  Speaker 2: But we do know that it was an existence that
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  Speaker 2: was without sin. In that utopian garden, if you will,
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  Speaker 2: called the garden of Eden, there was no sickness, there
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  Speaker 2: was no pain, there was no being alone, there was
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  Speaker 2: no despise, and see all was complete peace and contentment.
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  Speaker 2: There was nothing lacking. Everything that man needed in order
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  Speaker 2: to provide for his own existence, his own ability, to
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  Speaker 2: provide for others, to care for the animal and wildlife,
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  Speaker 2: to provide for all of the balance of his society
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  Speaker 2: was there. And so he only had one command, and
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  Speaker 2: that command was not just not to eat. That command
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  Speaker 2: was to listen and to obey the voice of God.
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  Speaker 2: Now Adam knew the voice of God. Adam knew who
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  Speaker 2: he was made by. He also knew, and there's an
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  Speaker 2: element in the passages that we had referred to that
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  Speaker 2: he had the type of relationship with God that he
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  Speaker 2: could walk with him and talk with him. There's a
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  Speaker 2: scripture that states that he was able to have fellowship
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  Speaker 2: and walk with him in the cool of the day. Now,
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  Speaker 2: that term used in the cool of the day maybe
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  Speaker 2: was referring to a comfortable time in which they would
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  Speaker 2: get together. But in this particular description we can see
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  Speaker 2: that Adam, which is the word given for man, had
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  Speaker 2: the intimate fellowship with God that he could walk with
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  Speaker 2: him and talk with him, and God would reveal to
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  Speaker 2: him certain things which we may not even realize now,
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  Speaker 2: but at some point we will understand what it was
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  Speaker 2: that was the existence before sin, and I would like
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  Speaker 2: for us to recognize why that is so important. First
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  Speaker 2: of all, Adam was created in the image of God.
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  Speaker 2: He was made like God, not just to be a puppet.
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  Speaker 2: He was given special knowledge. He had the ability to
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  Speaker 2: name every single living creature on the earth. His knowledge
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  Speaker 2: and his mind was so much more advanced than what
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  Speaker 2: we could conceive because it was not him hindered by
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  Speaker 2: any any means of disobedience or sin. He lived in
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  Speaker 2: a state of existence where he would not die. Death
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  Speaker 2: was not a known subject other than by command. He
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  Speaker 2: had no means of being able to interpret what that meant. Why,
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  Speaker 2: Because nothing God had created died. Everything continued to produce
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  Speaker 2: to live, and so that was what he could relate to.
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  Speaker 2: So the knowledge of death was so farign that the
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  Speaker 2: understanding of it was a matter of being able to say,
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  Speaker 2: even though I don't understand what it means, I do
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  Speaker 2: understand I was commanded not to disobey, because disobedience was allowed.
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  Speaker 2: No matter what anybody could think. The action of disobedience
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  Speaker 2: against God, who created everything, has consequences and those consequences
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  Speaker 2: brought us to the place where that creation was changed.
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  Speaker 2: It was changed because man gave up dominion. He did
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  Speaker 2: it because he disobeyed. But because he disobeyed, God was merciful.
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  Speaker 2: Now was he merciful to the serpent the description of
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  Speaker 2: Satan the falling angel? Or was he merciful to man? Well,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that we can say he was merciful
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  Speaker 2: to Satan, because the scripture states that after the fall
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  Speaker 2: of Adam, God pronounced a curse on Satan. He took
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  Speaker 2: him from the existence that he created him, and he
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  Speaker 2: made him to be a creature that would be reviled
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  Speaker 2: and in many ways feared by all that would see him,
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  Speaker 2: or sense him, or know that he is there. And
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  Speaker 2: the scripture says that the Lord God said to the serpent,
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  Speaker 2: because you have done this, you are cursed more than
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  Speaker 2: any livestock and more than any wild animal. You will
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  Speaker 2: move on your belly and eat dust all the days
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  Speaker 2: of your life. I will put hostility between you and
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  Speaker 2: the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He
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  Speaker 2: will strike your head and you will strike his heel.
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  Speaker 2: Now that was God, the creator speaking to his creation,
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  Speaker 2: the creature who deceive mankind by lying to and deceiving he.
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  Speaker 2: Now in this particular area, he goes on and he
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  Speaker 2: explains how man will continue to live, that he will
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  Speaker 2: intensify labor pains when eve or women will bear children.
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  Speaker 2: And he also states that your desire will be to
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  Speaker 2: dominate your husband, yet he will dominate you. Instead of
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  Speaker 2: being in agreement, they became in conflict. And he also
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  Speaker 2: said to Adam, because you listen to your wife's voice
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  Speaker 2: and ate from the tree about which I commanded, you
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  Speaker 2: do not eat from it. Now. The ground is cursed
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  Speaker 2: because of you. You're going to eat from it by
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  Speaker 2: means of painful labor all the days of your life.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to produce thorns and thistles for you. But
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  Speaker 2: you'll eat the plants of the field, and you'll eat
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  Speaker 2: bread by the sweat of your brow until you returned
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  Speaker 2: to the ground, since you were taken from it. For
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  Speaker 2: you are dust, and you will return to dust. Now.
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  Speaker 2: Because of this fall that became known as original sin,
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  Speaker 2: God pronounced a curse on everything that he had created
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  Speaker 2: for man to have dominion over, and he pronounced a
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  Speaker 2: curse on man himself. He did proclaim a promise, and
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  Speaker 2: the promise that he made was what we read where
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  Speaker 2: he said, he will put hostility between you, the serpent
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  Speaker 2: and the woman, between your seed and hersy. He will
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  Speaker 2: strike your head and you will strike his heel. This
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  Speaker 2: was a promise that God was going to sin a
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  Speaker 2: savior for mankind. He was going to sin, a representative
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  Speaker 2: that would restore man from the place that Satan had
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  Speaker 2: taken him. Because of that, God's promise is recorded there
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  Speaker 2: in Genesis, chapter three and verse fifteen. We know now
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  Speaker 2: that in that promise the seed of woman, which comes
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  Speaker 2: to fruition in the birth of Jesus, the son of God,
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  Speaker 2: made flesh. That promise stated that he would bruise the
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  Speaker 2: head of the serpent. That term means that he is
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  Speaker 2: going to disc joy the works of the devil, and
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  Speaker 2: it also said that the serpent will bruise his heel. So,
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  Speaker 2: in other words, in the actual means, their conflict would
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  Speaker 2: be resolved by Jesus, the Messiah, coming and dying for
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  Speaker 2: the sin of mankind. As long as sin could still
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  Speaker 2: be held to the charge of man, Satan had legal rule.
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  Speaker 2: He could do whatever he wanted to and man could
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  Speaker 2: not do anything about it. But when Jesus came. He
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  Speaker 2: broke the hole that Satan had because he paid the
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  Speaker 2: price for the sin. God the Father was then satisfied
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  Speaker 2: his justice had been rendered and man would no longer
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  Speaker 2: be held in the sinful state. He had been purchased,
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  Speaker 2: redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. You see when
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  Speaker 2: we understand that God plan for man to live eternally
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  Speaker 2: with him, and Satan took that plan and tried as
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  Speaker 2: much as possible to keep that from happening. He was
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  Speaker 2: successful to the extent that man had to work from
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  Speaker 2: that point forward.
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  Speaker 1: Richard will be right back in a moment to wrap up.
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  Speaker 1: But if you've just joined us, you've been listening to
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  Speaker 1: up today's message.
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  Speaker 2: And God made it such that he actually closed the
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  Speaker 2: garden of Eden. He sealed it up, and he placed
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  Speaker 2: a means of being able to keep it sealed by
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  Speaker 2: putting a cherubim an angelic beam with a flaming whirling
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  Speaker 2: sword at the entrance to the garden of Eden. He
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  Speaker 2: drove man out and would not allow him to come back,
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  Speaker 2: not in his sinful And so since we understand that,
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  Speaker 2: we then can see what man forfeited and why when
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  Speaker 2: Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil. Man
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  Speaker 2: then had the legal position to fight. But he is
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  Speaker 2: not fighting man. He's fighting the forces of the enemy,
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  Speaker 2: Satan and his strategic armies. We note that those strategic
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  Speaker 2: armies are still in existence. They were not eliminated, but
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  Speaker 2: their ability to rule over man was. And that is
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  Speaker 2: the most important part of the lesson of God making
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  Speaker 2: the promise and fulfilling it in his son Jesus, Theah.
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  Speaker 2: That is today's reflection on the word.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Richard. Join us again tomorrow when we continue
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  Speaker 1: with the next edition of Reflections on the Word with
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  Speaker 1: Richard k or Richard Tire Team. This is Chuck Christie
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  Speaker 1: saying thanks for listening to this edition Reflections on the
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  Speaker 1: Word