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#10108 - The Curse Sin Brings - Genesis 3:9-24 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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Welcome to the study of God's word with pastor and author.
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And now, here's Pastor Ed to take us into our study.
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Amen. Amen.
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Take your Bibles open. Then to Genesis Chapter 3
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Genesis chapter 3 is a very important chapter in all of the
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Bible it reveals to us the roots of all the pain and suffering
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that so many are enduring today, it relates to us what happened
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from when God declared everything good and then the
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disaster that follows sin and death and destruction.
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So in chapter 3, that's pick up in verse 9.
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It was really this pick up in verse 8 and they heard the sound
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of the Lord Walking In The Garden, in the cool of the day
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and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of
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the Lord God Among the Trees of the garden.
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Then the Lord God Called to Adam and said to him where are you?
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You might want to mark that phrase God reaching out to Adam.
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Where are you? Why are they hiding and why have
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they chosen to cover themselves? What are, what is it about them?
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That has that has happened that now?
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They're no longer drawn to God, but rather, they're running away
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from him. Well, they had an awareness now,
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they had an awareness of the reality of their lives.
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They have an awareness that their Works will still not good
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enough. They're covering themselves but
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their Works to cover. We're still not good enough to
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bring them into the pleasant presence of the Lord and God's
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heart is broken. And he is now pursuing his
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creation. Now, back in verse 8, remember
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it says that they heard the sound of the Lord.
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They heard about him walking in the garden in the cool of the
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day and their response was hiding themselves.
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Some commentators I wanted to share this with you some
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commentators see this as an effect of sin and the effect of
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sin that they point out is that they say kind of like a phrase
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Adam and Eve went dark and what they mean by that, is now
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they're hearing things but they're not seeing things.
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They're not living in the fullness of reality that they
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once had they aren't able to see things, the way they used to see
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things. Everything is now distorted and
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their hearts just went dark. They closed up instead of living
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an open life and what it implies is that prior to the fall, prior
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to sin, Adam and Eve, enjoyed sweet fellowship with the Lord.
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Remember That Word Fellowship? It's the same in the Hebrew as
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it is in the Greek. It means relation it you just
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think of a relationship, the idea and the Greek word is to
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share in common. So now because of their sin,
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they're trying to take Take care of themselves or they're
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ashamed. They're covering themselves.
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They're running away, they're hiding.
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But they still here. They still hear the voice of God
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and it just reminded me in our own context today.
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That it would it's a wise decision to purposely.
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Stay away from sin at all, costs to stay away because it breaks
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relationship and it causes you to go dark.
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You're not who you were meant to be.
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When you live with unconfessed, unrepentant sin has been the
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theme in our Bible studies over the last few weeks you go dark.
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Notice the answer in verse 10. So we said I heard your voice in
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the garden and I was afraid that's a new emotion that wasn't
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there before. Prior to send, there was no fear
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of God to run away. It says, I was afraid because I
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was naked. And so I hid myself and he said,
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who told you that you were naked.
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Have you eaten from the tree? Which I commanded you.
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That you should not eat. And so, all of these changes
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came and and he says, I didn't want to face you, everything
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just happened. It just came upon it just
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instantly. I had all of these feelings.
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All of these responses and and I didn't want to be near you.
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Adam says, I was afraid naked, eye filled with shame now and so
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it's interesting in verse 11. God says, well who told you who
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told you all this? Where'd you learn this from?
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How do you know which many people will come?
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Right here in the beginning of Genesis and say, wait a minute.
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So God doesn't know everything. He has to ask Adam for
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information so he can learn what happened in the garden.
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And there actually is a theology today.
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That was popular, maybe about 10 years ago, it's real popular on
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some Seminary campus has now. But I haven't heard much about
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it in the last few years. It is a false Theology of open
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theism, open theism and I don't want to go into depth on it
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right now, but the open theist says, At God, learns.
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What's going on at the same time you learn it, which isn't God to
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me, like if God doesn't know what, I don't know.
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We're both in trouble. And of course God is omniscient
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and he knows all things and and they will come to passages like
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this and say, well here, see this is an example, God doesn't
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know, and he has to ask Adam to find out what happened because
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he wasn't there and he doesn't know, and it's simply not true.
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I'll give you an illustration of what's Happening here because
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What's Happening Here, in its most basic Think explanation?
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Is that God is asking questions of Adam, so that Adam might come
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to the realization of what happened.
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That Adam is going to learn right now he's leading him
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philosophically. You know you when you lead with
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questions, there is a way that your drawing information out.
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So what he's doing is he's drawing information out and
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let's just go to the classroom, some of you are teachers, let's
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just go to a first grade classroom and in a first grade
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classroom, Room. The teacher goes to the
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Whiteboard stands with the marker there and says, okay
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kids, we're going to learn some math today.
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Okay. Yeah we're going to learn math
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and so she writes on the board 2 plus 2 and then puts the line
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under it and say okay kids two plus two, what's the answer?
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Is she asking the question? Because she doesn't know the
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answer. She hasn't by now, doesn't know.
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Two plus two. No, she's leading them in a path
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of self-discovery. She knows what two plus two is
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but through the process two plus two equals.
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I uh, what is it? And as they answer for their
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answering something that she already knows.
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So God has the knowledge of what happened here, for sure.
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But the questions were for them To bring out as they face, more
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changes harsh and horrible as they begin to experience death
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and Decay. That's just up ahead.
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As we begin to see the leaves turned brown and animals
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carcasses and and vicious, you know, attacks between them when
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they begin to experience everything that's up ahead.
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God is preparing them. He's revealing to them of their
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current condition. God wants them To know where
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they came from and God wants them to know where they're going
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and it's an important question. You need to understand what you
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what you're telling me right now is something emember.
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God we're learning that God forbid send because it's good
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for us, he's thinking of us. And you could say here that what
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God is doing is saying who told you this because I purposely
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didn't tell you this so that you wouldn't be harmed or hurt.
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I told you stay away from that you ate of the tree, didn't you?
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Yes we ate of the tree and immediately there's Fellowship
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in agreement, they're running away, they're trying to hide
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their trying to take things, you know, with the Fig leaves and
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hide their nakedness and they're running away and what does God
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do? He pursues them and then through
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conversation he draws them back to himself.
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And now they agree with him again, they agree that they made
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the wrong decision or at least that they did.
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They don't quite agree that they made the wrong decision as
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you'll see in a moment. But they do agree that they
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disobeyed. And I want you to think of this
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perspective here, especially those that struggle with ongoing
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Temptation ongoing sin. I want you to think of this, not
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as a harsh father or a harsh pastor.
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Who's trying to bang the pulpit and condemn, you for your
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horrible Behavior. That's not I believe the heart
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of God here at all. It's not the heart of God ever
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in Christ. Jesus, I want you to see this in
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the tone of voice because we don't have the tone of voice in
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the Bible, I want you to read this.
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And here this in the tone of voice of a broken-hearted, God.
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Brokenhearted that here, they lived all this time in
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fellowship and relationship and now they lost it.
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All and forever, things are going to be changed.
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Everything is going to be wrecked.
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It's almost if you could say, oh, Adam Eve.
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What have you done? What have you done?
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That's I think the tone of voice here verse 12.
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Then the man said the woman who you gave to be with me.
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She gave me of the tree and I ate and the Lord God said to the
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woman what is this? You have done.
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And the woman said the serpent deceived me and I ate.
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Well there's a lot of things that you can call this.
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One of them is blame, you know, playing the blame game but there
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is a familiar psychological term.
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That's used to describe. This particular behavior, and by
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the way, it existed before psychology discovered it.
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And that is the word deflection. This is a great example of
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deflection instead of taking personal responsibility for
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their own behaviors. They first chose to blame
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someone else and then simply agree that they made the wrong
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decision, but not take ownership that they send.
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Because I mean the proper answer to Ooh, this is the man said I
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send against you. God, please forgive me.
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That's the proper way. But instead, he blames the
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woman. Now we do get hung up on that
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and we do get a couple of cheap laughs and our marriages.
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It's the woman you gave me it's the woman you gave me but I do
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believe we need to read a little bit farther than that to get the
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actual blame that's taking place here.
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He is. Not blaming Eve primarily.
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He's blaming God. And you say Ed, where is that?
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Will notice the woman that you gave to be with me?
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Ultimately the blame is being placed on God.
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It's almost as if Adam is saying, if you didn't give me
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this woman I would have been in trouble.
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I was just fine without her, but we know that he wasn't fine
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without her God declared that it's not good.
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That the man should be alone that she was a gift to Adam that
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this was God's heart to bless him and encourage him.
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But this is what sin does. It causes us.
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Not to walk in the truth. It causes us to walk in
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darkness. It causes us to Name everyone
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but take instead of taking personal responsibility and if
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we're ever going to solve the problems that are among us, we
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must first take personal responsibility for our own
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behavior. If there's any secondary causes
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any other issues, we can only deal with them.
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After we take personal responsibility and of course,
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our culture doesn't like that. So you also live in a culture,
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that's very victimized. So now everything is is
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interpreted of, I'm a victim. I'm a victim.
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Everything's done to me. I can't do anything.
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If it wasn't done to me, I'd be a better person.
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So it's the Garden of Eden right here.
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Different words, different philosophies of thinking but
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it's exactly the root cause of the fall of Man is not taking
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responsibility. So what does that tell me?
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That tells me as a believer in Jesus Christ, God has made me
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whole, I am restored into Fellowship, I'm a new creation.
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So when I choose to play the blame game when I choose not to
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Take personal responsibility when I choose to deflect, all of
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my behavior on to someone else. Then I am in deep sin because
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I've been restored. I've been restored to a
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relationship with God. I'm no longer Rebel, I'm no
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longer fighting him. I'm no longer under the wrath of
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God, and I'm telling you so much can be solved and stopped.
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And so many arguments could stop.
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If today is a believer in Jesus, you would just take
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responsibility for your behavior.
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It is not always someone else's fault.
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Fault. perhaps at times, there could be a waiting, you know,
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90/10 80/20 perhaps but even so take responsibility for the 20
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And the Lord will bless that the Lord will use that.
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He will honor that. And even in the time where we
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have marital discipleship and we have a couple in and it's him
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and it's her and it's him, and it's her.
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What would I pray for is? I just pray for a softness of
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heart because we're not going to make a.
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I let it go for a little while and so if it gets nasty and
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mean, I won't let it go. But if it's just expressing how
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they feel and what they have, and going through and letting
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them talk about it, I'll let him go for a while but in my heart,
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I'm praying to things. Lord soften their hearts and let
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me would you please give me. Ears to hear the point that I
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need to hang on to, I just the point, where, what is it that
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you're wanting to come out in there, what is it that we can
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make one? Little step?
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Going forward, this is a much deeper thing than just a
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marriage. It's not just a marriage
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situation blaming the woman, blaming the man, but rather
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man's separation as he places. Blame on.
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God, that's the separation. That's deep separation.
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It's your fault. God, it's not my fault, it
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couldn't be me. It's the one you gave me.
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It's your fault. God.
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And your God will be a debtor to no, man, it is not God's fault
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that you choose to send. It is not ever.
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It's never God's responsibility. Remember, Adam and Eve.
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We touch this on a previous study, Adam and Eve had a real
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free will choice. And as long as they chose not to
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eat of the fruit, they enjoyed everything and when they free
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nobody forced them. Nobody took it and stuffed it in
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their mouth. And nobody block them in and
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starve them. So that was the only food
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available to them. They made a free will choice and
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now they're dealing with the consequences of such.
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Then the attention is turned the eve and speaking to her drawing
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out from her. What is it?
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You've done and so will the serpent deceived me and I ate
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again. Another deflection and blaming
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is a natural response will but we don't want a natural
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response. We want to live in the spirit.
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We want to walk in the spirit not fulfill the Lust of our
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flesh and one thing can stop the cycle today.
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One thing can stop the cycle. If you choose to confess your
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sins immediately, you will experience the faithfulness of
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God to cleanse you, the blood of Jesus Christ, you enjoy
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forgiveness, you'll enjoy Freedom.
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Even if it's just for the moment.
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A lot of times there is this sense of condemnation because
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you do confess your sin and then five minutes later you're
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tempted again and go why must have not done it right?
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No, it's time to confess again. You're learning how to walk in
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the newness of life. And it maybe every five minutes
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you go. But it's so weary and I'm so
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tired. And weary having to deal with
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this issue and deal with this thought and deal with.
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I know, but over time as you do the hard work over time, you're
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going to experience more of the victory.
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It's not your fault. That all of these Temptations
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and things, the enemy does shootout, you but it is your
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fault if you mishandled them. So it's not your fault,
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Temptation. Temptation is not sin.
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The damage, we walk around with the difficulties of our past
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that, that, that that's unfortunate consequences of sin.
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And of course, it's may be routed directly to simple
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decision. We made in the past, but God is
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ready to free. You he wants to you walk in
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freedom, but if you don't do the hard work, you don't respond to
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the prompting of the Holy Spirit, your heart will get
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hard, you'll get separated. And you know, you'll be so much,
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you'll get so used to blaming that.
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You'll blame God. That's one category of people,
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the prideful and arrogant, you know, the other category of
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people, you'll blame yourself like you just make it all about
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you, and you just carry them heaps, you know, loads and loads
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of guilt and shame upon yourself.
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But that's an equally as bad. Because God has forgiven you, he
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loves you. So, you wrestle with things.
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You wrestle with who you are and what your identity is and you
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know, all of the that you wrestle with things, that's part
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of the Fall. But give God the glory for the
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victory. You have, you got has given you
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Victory, you're in Victor. Yeah, but it's so hard.
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I'm so tempted. I know.
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But you were walking in Victory. Don't blame God, don't blame
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others, but also don't blame yourself.
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Let God do the thorough work in you so that you can walk in the
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newness of life. So notice, here's the result,
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verse 14. So the Lord God said to The
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Serpent, of course, this serpent being and dwelt by the Devil
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Himself because you have done this, you are cursed more than
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all the cattle and more than every beast of the field and on
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your belly, you shall go. You shall eat dust all the days
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of your life and I will put enmity between you and the woman
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and between your seed and her seed, you might notice if you
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have a new James in your hand that her seed the word seed is
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capitalized. You guys see that?
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That is a very particular seed posterity.
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And if you're just taking notes, you can write next to it.
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That's a reference to Messiah, the in-between enmity, the anger
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between the devil and the Messiah.
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He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel.
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And as God declares these curses he's declaring the natural
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inevitable consequences of sin. He's cursing the serpent as a
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reminder of this fall, above all the cattle and every Beast.
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He's going to Slither forever. And there's going to be enmity
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between you and the woman. But more importantly between you
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or seed those that follow you, he doesn't reproduce himself.
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These those are that will adopt you and follow you and reject
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God and her seat. She's the human, she reproduces.
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Self and through her Messiah will come.
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So if you're taking notes, first 15 is the first Prophecy in the
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Bible, this is a prophetic word from god, of what will happen in
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the future pointing to the coming of Messiah, is the first
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Messianic Prophecy in the scripture is a lot of Prophecy
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in here, but it's the Messianic that's important.
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That's the real centerpiece of the Bible is the Messiah and
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this is it prediction that salvation will come.
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This passage sums up really the rest of the Bible and all the
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activity, but not only is it the first most profit prophetic
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passage Miss, Anna, prophetic passage, but in the introduce
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you to a new phrase. This is also the first
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protoevangelium and what that is is it's the first, it's the
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first hint or mention of the Gospel, This is the first
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mention of the gospel and you say, Ed where is that?
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The first mention of the Gospel? Well, that there will be enmity
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between your seeds, those that follow, you devil and the
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Demonic realm, the Devil Himself and and her seed Messiah and the
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notice. He's going to go after Hebrews
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your head. And you shall bruise his heel.
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So there is a hint at just like we saw in chapter one, we had a
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hint at the fullness of the doctrine of the Trinity.
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We have the father in the spirit of God, hovering now we have a
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hent as it is progressive. Revelation comes in.
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The whole Bible is written, we see it all now.
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But from this point it's like God saying in the curse not All
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Is Lost. Not everything is going to be
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thrown, not All Is Lost, because there is hope.
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There is hope for you. More specifically again, getting
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a little bit deeper on Bible study here.
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More specifically, there is an enmity between the seeds and
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this verse explains Satan's, bloodthirsty desire to kill the
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coming Messiah, by wiping out the Jewish race.
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And you may hear the desire to wipe out the Jewish race today,
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the phrases anti-semitism This is where it was born right here,
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the desire of the devil to wipe out the Jewish race for the
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purposes of eliminating Messiah, for a lot of different purposes.
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Of course, but primarily to end Messiah and you can follow it.
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You can look at you can look this up, you can follow along
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right here. The very first thing we see is
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Cain kills Abel. And then Pharaoh wants to kill
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all the male children of Israel. And then Heyman launches, a
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failed attempt to kill all the Jews.
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Then Herod wanted all the babies killed in Jerusalem, Jewish.
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These are all Jewish people. And then the people wanted to
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throw Jesus off a cliff and kill him right there.
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And then the storm on Galilee that almost shipwreck the boat
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where Jesus was sleeping soundly, an attempt perhaps to
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kill Messiah, and, of course, the ultimate attempt to kill
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Messiah was what the cross. He went after all the blood
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lines and all the people and ultimately it's like no let's
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just get them. I'll get them on the cross.
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And he did indeed bruised his head but of course in the
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resurrection Jesus, he triumphed and Hebrews the heel of the
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devil. And as the Bible says, later on
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in the New Testament, the devil knows that he has a short time.
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He knows that he has a short time so it's it feels as if that
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he's pulling out all the stops before.
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The second coming of Messiah, before the Rapture of the church
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notice now in verse 16. to the woman he said, God speaking, I
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will greatly, multiply your sorrow and your conception And
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in pain you shall bring forth children, your desire shall be
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for your husband and he shall rule over you.
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So now this is the first connection of pain with sin,
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from God's perspective. Now I think they already had a
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connection with pain or discomfort with the Fig leaves
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in the private areas of their body.
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But now God is saying, send will bring pain and I know is Maria
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and I were raising our kids as Believers.
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We were always wanting to associate pain with sin in some
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way. It wasn't punitive, it wasn't
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punishment. It.
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You've made me mad. So go to your room, our intent
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was to associate sinful Behavior with a commensurate level of
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pain because in the home, parents are very gracious and
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kind and loving, it's not going to be like that in the world.
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The world is very vicious and harsh when it comes to sin, it
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is not, it is not favorable to, you're not going to get away
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with stuff in the world. So you need to learn that pain
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associated with sense, so that you might stay away from sin.
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And here he's associating with childbirth anytime now.
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Of course I don't know this x, I don't know the multiplication of
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sorrow and in pain bringing for a child.
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I don't know that personally but I've been at three births and it
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was from all observations a very painful time.
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For my wife, my girlfriend for our first child and now my wife
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with our other two is very painful, and of course you
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ladies that have experienced that you could tell that
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testimony. It was a very Painful experience
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would implies that if the fall didn't take place that it would
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have been painful, which would be very interesting of what that
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might have been like. But we haven't experienced that
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we didn't get to experience Paradise apart from sin, so pain
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and sorrow comes with childbirth.
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The association of pain would send.
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Remember Satan's promise to Eve the deception, was he promised
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pleasure and fun? What was the result pain?
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That's what send, that's the temptation of sin.
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Remember the question is, well, why do you send?
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I can tell you why you send you like it.
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If you didn't like it, you wouldn't do it.
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You wouldn't freely assess all the consequences that could come
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and do it anyway. That's why that's why you could
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have a very best friend that you grew up with.
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You've been to been best friends for 30 years, and why the
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Temptations you deal with are not the Temptations.
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She deals with You go. But what does that mean it?
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Well because different, you like different sin than your best
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friend so that you might. Look at your best friend, go.
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I can't believe it. Why would you do that?
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Why would you fall for that? I can't believe.
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I would never fall for that. Well, that would not be a good
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way to treat your best friend. Because I'm certain that there
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are things in your life that would never affect your friend.
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Because the devil knows he has schemes were not.
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The Bible says we're not ignorant of his devices and his
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devices are two, senior Lee. Tempt Us in the areas, he didn't
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go after Adam. He went after Eve because, then
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Eve and, you know, obviously he doesn't have all knowledge, he's
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just making assumptions here. But I believe he went after e
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for the deception, and then allowed Eve to take care of
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Adam. He never went after out him,
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Because there's devices, he schemer.
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He's a liar. He's the father of all lies and
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Eve's desire. Now, what, what the devil
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offered this, pleasure and desire ended up being sin and
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then notice part of the curse. Now, what something is
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fundamentally changed inside of women.
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Inside of Eve, this is unique. This is the curse on Eve and all
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the daughters of Eve. This is unique.
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The desire now will be for your Has been, and he shall rule over
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you. Now reading in the English
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version, that doesn't sound like, that's a big, a deal.
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I mean, it does kind of sound. Like, what do you mean?
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He'll rule over me. Nobody rules over me.
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Nobody, but you not have to understand the Hebrew language
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here. And really understanding the
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essence of this. This is a difficult passage of
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scripture to be taken in by many women over the ages and it's
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been misused by many men as well.
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I think it's again. It's part of the confusion of
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the enemy. He likes it.
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Confuse things. He doesn't want us to know the
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truth. He doesn't want us to live in
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the truth. He wants us to be upset even
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with each other even in our marital relationships, he wants
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us to be selfish and self-centered.
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So he confuses things that God clearly says, he's kind of tell
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him. This is your future.
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I'm going to Define for you how hard it's going to be because of
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what you did this what the future is and it's very gracious
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of God to do. He didn't have to do that.
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He could have let them experience it on their own.
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We God loves them, even after sin, he didn't stop lovey.
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And let's begin. First of all, with this text,
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this passage by what it's not saying, it's not saying that the
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wife is to be a doormat or the slave of her husband.
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It's not saying that the man is inherently better than the
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woman. It's not saying that God hates
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women. It's not saying that men are
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superior. It's not saying that women need
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to live in an abusive home, or beat up or anything like that.
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That's not what the Bible is saying.
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At all, in order to get clarity on this, I think, first of all,
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we need to focus in on this word.
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Desire. So you can mark it there in
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verse 16. At the end, your desire will be
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for your husband. Now the Hebrew word, there is
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much more than you will like him, and I want to show you
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where it's used in another place.
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Would you just turn the page in Genesis, 2 chapter 4 in verse 7?
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The same word is used to describe something, totally
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different notice and he ties it together here in the very
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beginning. He says, in verse 7, if you do
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well will you not be accepted and if You do not do well sin
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lies at the door and its desire is for you, but you should rule
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over it. Same language.
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So the idea here in the chapter 4, is that sin wants to master
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your life wants to take control of your life, wants to take an
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unhealthy lead in your life. And I think that's still with us
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today. Sin wants to master us knocking
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at the door, Wants to Rule, us wants us to present ourselves to
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send. It has a desire.
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And now he's personifying sin, so that we might understand that
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sin wants to rule over us if we pull back.
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Now, the definition of that word.
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In the context of chapter 3, what God is telling Eve is, is
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you're going to have an unhealthy desire to control your
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husband, it's going to be unhealthy, you're gonna have an
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unhealthy desire to rule. Over your husband, your sin is
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going to Kant, going to create ongoing conflict in your
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marriage because you're going to want to take inherently.
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The lead Eve, chose to act independently of Adam in the
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garden and going forward, there will be an ongoing Battle of the
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Flesh and because of sin wives will have the same desire to
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rule over their husbands, just as send desires to rule over.
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Over you. And this becomes this is the
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Battle of the Sexes were started right here, the battle between
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men and women. This is where so much confusion
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and chaos is taking place where people were.
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There's unhealthy relationships between men and women on healthy
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relationships and marriages. Even a man.
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Now taking this passage a, he will rule over you and and using
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it like a phrase of King know the ruling over the wife, is to
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help bring order back into the home.
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Divine order. We learned last time.
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Remember we view within the scriptures?
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We have we take a complementarian view of
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scripture when it comes to men and women comes to leadership in
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the church, we haven't, we explain those two views in depth
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but what's more important is not our view of how God uses people
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in church. That's not as important as God's
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view of men and women being together.
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They are to complement one another.
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It's not just the woman complimenting, the man.
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It's also the man. Implementing the woman, that's
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what's important. We get caught up in all the
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disagreement. We want to argue all everybody's
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place in the church and roles in the church.
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That that is, that is just a distraction, because God's heart
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is for us, to complement one. Another both in marriage and in
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Ministry to Value each other is the one that's created in the
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image of God, to help one another, to serve one another,
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and to recognize for women today, you have to recognize in
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the flesh. Shhhh there can be an unhealthy
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desire in you to rule over your husband, you just have to
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acknowledge that, not all know where it is in your life.
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I'm not sure if he'll even experienced it, but it's part of
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the curse. If you have it, it's part of the
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curse. And it's unhealthy, and if
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husband's, if you come to this passing a wall, I have been put
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into rule the roost. Well, that's unhealthy as well.
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That's sinful your to compliment your wife, not to be an Overlord
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to be the absolute Authority in Marriage.
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It's a team. And so it is in the family of
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God, we're to love one another. We're to be gracious.
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To One Another, We're to serve One Another.
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We're to build one another up where to edify.
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We're not to tear down. We're not to seek to harm the
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one that's closest to us. The Bible says that we're leave
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our mother, and father, and what we come together and we cleave,
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and what's our responsibility to create an environment, where we
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want to cleave, where we want to be together.
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And, of course, how does this apply in the single life where
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you have different relationships prior to marriage, that we
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complement one another, in the body of Christ, men are not
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better than women. Women are not better than men.
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But it's important that we learn to follow the divine order, so
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that God will give us the direction.
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I've studied, we taught this in depth in other places
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Corinthians and other places. If you want to hear it verse by
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verse. But this is what's happening
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here. And I want you to think of one
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more thing here about how much God loves Eve.
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Eve gets all of the flak here and she shouldn't they're
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equally sinful before. God, don't forget that.
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And god holds Adam responsible. Not Eve for bringing sin.
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He's the We'll head. He's our representative.
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He's the one responsible for allowing send to be spread
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throughout Humanity, but I want you to go back now, let's put
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this together. And if you've ever seen this
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before, but in verse 15, eavis is given Direction about.
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You know, the difficulty of well first, when he's talking to the
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serpent, I should say talking about her seed, so he's
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prophesying here. He's prophesying, she's going to
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have children. Not only that but he's also
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prophesying in verse 16 is going to be hard and it's going to be
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different. I just want you to see something
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here. So, cool, the grace of God.
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I'm telling you, if you look for the grace of God throughout the
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Bible, you'll find it on every page.
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This is so cool because the seed of the woman, I just, I just
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love how God turns everything on its head and says, it's through
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women. That's salvation will come to
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the world. I know she gets pointed.
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She's the one that ate first, okay, but she's also the one
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through whom the savior of the world will come through and he
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redeems and restores something that would easily have been
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thrown away. Can't believe he did this eve.
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What's your problem? You know, e Adam.
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It's the woman you gave me and the woman you gave me is going
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to bring forth Messiah and rescue us.
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It's not great. I mean that's the grace of God
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like it. And if we look for Race in each
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other and we look for grace and serving one another.
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And we're just looking for ways to we can see, not only the sin
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but the restoration of God, we can see.
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You know, I was just like today on the radio like that somebody
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asked about alcoholism and can alcoholic be saved.
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Of course, a person that's a drunkard can be saved, of
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course, of course, God can speak through all of that, but what it
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led me is that. I'm not, I don't believe.
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It's a wise thing that if you have been delivered from alcohol
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to continue to identify yourself as a slave to alcohol, which is
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what alcoholic is, you know, and I had to go to AA many years
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ago, a court-mandated, and I had to stand up before everybody.
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Give my testimony. Hello, I'm Ed.
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And I mock all like, oh, hello Ed.
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And I've been sober XYZ and all that.
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If a Believer goes into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting for
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encouragement and support, I just don't believe you're
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telling the truth, when you stand before, that group and
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say, I am at an alcoholic, you're not anymore.
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You are a new creation in Christ, old things have passed
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away. God has broken the stronghold.
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He is delivered you from that past sin and all you need to do
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is walk in the newness of Life Moment by moment and day by day
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that identity we have. And the point that I would make
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here, is that so many times? We identify people by their sin
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and that's wrong. It's not their past.
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They're not a recovering such-and-such.
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They're not. Well, I know what you did, 10
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years ago. No, it's ten years.
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Years ago. So they are a new creation
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today. Even Believers that are maybe,
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stumbled, prodigal got into stuff, they shouldn't get into,
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we aren't going to hold the past against you.
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But rather, we're going to point you to the upward call of
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Christ. You aren't that anymore.
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Now, if you want to be that, you can present yourself to send,
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Romans chapter 6, I think says, and you can be a slave to sin if
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you want. I guess, if you want to get up
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in the AA meeting and saying I am Ed and I have chosen to be a
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slave to sin. You could say that.
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You could say that, that's that would be accurate.
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But then as you're saying it, you're spooky speaking forth the
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word and God could free you from anyone who wants to say that the
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rest of their lives. And I was thinking it came up in
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the programmer. I'm just thinking of rehab,
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right? We know Rahab many people think
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Rahab her name. You know.
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Her first name is Rahab her middle.
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Name is the and her last name is harlot because that's how she's
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recognized. She's often referred to that in
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the Bible. God used Rahab vary greatly in
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the scriptures and yes she was in the sex industry.
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Yes she did. So her so her body.
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Yes. And you know God redeemed that
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part of her life created an environment.
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So the spice Come in and be hidden.
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It wouldn't be unusual for men to come in and out of.
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And it was also a god appointment for her that she
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wasn't going to be a heart of the rest of her life by those
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spies saved her through the red cord.
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Remember it's the crimson red line throughout the whole
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scriptures so that when if you get to heaven before I do, I'm
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going to teach you right now. I don't want you walking around
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Heaven. You want to meet Rahab?
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I don't want you walking around Heaven saying is Rahab the
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Harlot here. Rahab the Harlot.
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Where are you? I know someday Angels going to
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come and go. Boom.
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And Poppy in the back of that. There's no harlots in heaven.
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You can look for Rahab the saint and Rahab the sister and Rahab
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the redeemed, but Rahab, the Harlot is gone.
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And that's the testimony of your life.
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That's the delivering power of God in your life that even Eve.
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Making such a horrible decision. We're not going to stand in
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judgment on her. God redeemed, her God, brought
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the seed through Eve. I'm going to save you from the
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same same person that started it all with the right.
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Humble Brokenness. I'm going to use that.
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Same person, I'm going to turn this around.
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What the as we learn in was will learn later on in a long time
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will be in Genesis 50. When we get there at the end,
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let me show you give you a sneak peak.
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Genesis 50, turn over there so you could see it in your Bible.
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We're going to get a sneak peek of this and it's more fullest
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sense. In Genesis 50 verse 20 Joseph
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has, they're all is redeemed. He's looking at his brothers,
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it's a glorious time. Very hard, but very beautiful.
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And what does he say? Genesis 50:20.
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But as for you, you meant evil against me but God meant it for
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good in order to bring it about as it is this day to save many
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people alive and so on Let me just tell you.
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You can think Eve today that you know Jesus Christ because it was
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through Eve that the seat came just like God predicted.
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He didn't throw away, Eve didn't toss her to the side.
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God didn't shame, her guilt her, he redeemed her.
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And He restored her and she's now a part of the testimony of
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all of us that get to experience new life.
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And in the seed, I want you to think of this as well, even
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along the lines of identifying ourselves by our sin.
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And what we've done in the past and I'm always going to be this
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way, you're not always going to be this way Temptations in your
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life. Don't Define you.
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Your identity is in Christ and you should email me.
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Tell me this week you listening on the radio, email me at Ed Ed
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Ed Taylor dot. Organ asked specifically for
41:17
information on your identity and I'll send it to you and you can
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just start meditating on what God thinks about you and who you
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are, who you are in Christ, what you have in Christ.
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But let me give you just one of the thing that you have in
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Christ because of your faith in Jesus Christ today to some 2,000
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years later. Now, we're later from the cross
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and six, seven thousand years from the beginning of time.
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Here we are experiencing life and goodness because why Jesus
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defeated sin and Death on the cross affirmed.
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That when he rose again, he is Victorious.
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Over sin. His life is Victorious.
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Over sin. He's defeated it.
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So you and I now for an our lives were not buried by our
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sin, we don't work for victory, we don't have to have major
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efforts to stay away from sin and it's It's not like that.
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We don't have to fight like that.
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We don't fight for victory. We fight from victory.
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I mean it's a silly illustration, but I mean, if you
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play, if you play baseball and you already know you're going to
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win, you're going to probably play the game a little
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differently especially if you're down 50 to nothing, you're down
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50 to nothing but you already know you're going to win.
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You're not going to stress it. You're not going to go look for
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say you're just like you're just, you're going to play and
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have fun because you know, somehow it's going to, you don't
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know how but God said you're going to win.
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So you're going to enjoy it. You're not going to freak out.
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You're not going to quit, you're going to move forward.
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So at the end, you go. Oh no, I know.
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We're Down. But I'm victorious in Christ.
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I know, it doesn't look good right now but it's going to look
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good at the end. I know it's hard now but it's
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going to be fine at the end. Why?
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Because of what Jesus did in the past.
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And that's all right here in Genesis right here, just in
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these couple verses. It's so encouraging.
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And so verse 17, then Adam said to, he said because you have
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heeded, the voice of your wife and you've eaten from the truth,
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the tree which I've commanded you that you shall not eat of it
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cursed on the ground for your sake and Toil, you will eat of
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it all the days of your life thorns and thistles, shall it?
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Bring forth to you and you shall eat it herb of the field in the
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sweat of your face. You shall eat bread till you
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return, to the ground wages of sin is death.
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Right? Because he says, out of it, you
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were taken to dust you are and to dust you will return.
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I want to be very careful here that you understand work is not
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the curse. There was work before the curse.
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They tended the garden to carry the garden work is not The
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curse, you go ahead. Would you don't work where I
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work? Work is not the curse.
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And even those that might come on, you know, to team here to
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work here. I always remind them.
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This isn't heaven, like you're not coming to work at Heaven,
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quite the opposite. We're all waiting for heaven,
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amen? We all want heaven to come down
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in the presence of Jesus, so work is not the curse.
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It is the toil in the sweat and the hard, and the difficult in
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the stacks of paper, and learning the computer, and the
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new of all of that tilling of the ground.
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And that's the curse. That work isn't as enjoyable as
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it was prior to the fall and it does take a lot of effort to
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make work enjoyable. Even if you have something that
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you like doing that you love doing that you're just good at
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you still have your Hard Day's. Amen.
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I mean even the things he's like, this is what I was born to
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do. They're still hard days are
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still challenges. It's part of the curse.
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It's to remind us. All of this is to remind us that
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there's a better place. We're just passing through, and
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the Lord is with us. Notice verse 20 says and Adam
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called his wife Eve. She was the mother of all living
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for Adam and his wife also a for Adam and his wife.
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The Lord God made tunics of skin and clothed them.
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Another first, this is the first animal sacrifice.
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That. Where did the tunics of skin
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come from animals needed to die? And again, another hint of the
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shedding of blood that will have for us in writing, by the time
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we get to Deuteronomy. By the time we get to Leviticus
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without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin but
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you see it right here. There is a sacrificial animal
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that's taken care of the consequences of their sin here.
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Then the Lord God said, behold the man is become like one of
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us. Another hint to the Trinity,
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inner trinitarian, conversation to know, good and evil and now
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lest he put Out his hand and also taking the tree of life and
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eat and eat and live forever, therefore, the Lord sent him out
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of the Garden of Eden to till the ground, from which he was
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taken. So, he drove out the man.
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And he placed cherubim at the east of the Garden of Eden with
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a flaming sword with which he turned every way to guard, the
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way to the tree of life. So Eve is named and Adam is we
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have this Insight on the faith of Adam While the curse is bring
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death and sorrow, Adam, new life would come.
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Then there's the sacrifice. God has been gracious to them
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replacing their own work. You have to understand that the
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theme throughout the Bible is not based on your works.
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I know that's the modern Christian mantra.
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Today that is much of Western Christianity.
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That is much of man-made religion, but even in churches
46:32
that truly do love God and teach property they miss it on this
46:35
point and they Sighs your Works in order to be right with God.
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And so what does that do? When you fail, you become a
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prime target for guilt and manipulation.
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That's not God's heart for you. He doesn't motivate by
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manipulation and guilt. You know that you know how he
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moves. You my love.
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And isn't that the greatest motivator to think of how much
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God loves me and sent his son to die?
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For me, and how much he hasn't given up on me.
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He doesn't manipulate you and guilt.
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You know, he provides for you. You need something, he'll
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provide it for you. You can't present Perfection to
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God. He'll give it to you of his own
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son. You think that fig leaves are
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going to be what you need to cover your sin.
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No, no. Let me make something for you.
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Let me make something perfect for you.
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And in that point ahead to animal sacrifice.
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So the lands that would be sacrificed every year.
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Then to that, the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the
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that's what God is doing here. And he expels them from the
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garden again, you can you and I can sit here and go.
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What's wrong? With the God?
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Why would he do that? Why can't he just let him enjoy
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the garden. Will he explained?
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I'm doing this because I love them.
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I'm doing this because I love him.
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I don't want them to live forever in this condition if
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they took of the tree of life. Now they're going to live in
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this sinful condition and it'll never end.
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So I'm looking out for them even in their sin.
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And that is the heart of God. I know sometimes maybe a rule
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rubs you the wrong way. Maybe the speed limit rubs you
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the wrong way. Maybe a scripture rubs you the
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wrong way. But it's intended to help you.
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Not only to help you but everyone around you, it's for
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your good. I can't believe you kicked me
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out of the garden. It's for your good.
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And you know God doesn't need to explain why he does things to
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us. I know you demand explanations
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but he does need to explain himself to you just trust him.
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He's shown himself faithful before.
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We don't live on explanations, we don't live on knowledge.
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How do we live? We live by faith and I trust my
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heavenly father, I don't always like it and quite frankly, I
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don't always respond in faith, I don't stand here as some.
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Stellar example to follow, I understand what faith is
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faithlessness means. I understand what being
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frustrated or upset with God's will for my life, is I get it.
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But I also understand that Faith.
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Triumphs my doubts And Faith continues any moving forward.
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And that God has promised that even in this life, if things
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don't line up the way, I desire, all the difficult things, I've
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experienced all the hard things, they're making me a better man,
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the conformity in the image of Christ, they're shaving off the
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flesh. I know you would like a if you
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want to deal with the Flesh in your life, give me a Bible
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study, give me a t-shirt. Give me a bigger Bible.
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But, you know, sometimes it's only through experience.
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And through the providential will of God where he knows
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exactly like a master sculptor, right?
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He knows exactly what needs to go.
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And so he chips it away. Chips it away, could be very
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painful process. But even in these painful things
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suffering, the consequences of your sin right now, Yeah, but
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God is there. God is with you, he's going to
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take care of you. What do we have at the end of
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chapter 3? The fruit of mixing good and
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evil will now be confusion paying separation, chaos,
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spreading throughout the world. You know, when you somebody asks
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you, why is there so much evil in the world?
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You could say because of sin. As there's so much nastiness,
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why they keep ripping off our catalytic converters because
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their centers And there are separate from their master.
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Why is there so much confusion? Why is there so much all?
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Because the fall of Man is real. And so is the Redemption of,
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man. So, as God's heart to bring you
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back to himself and if you will come to him today, he'll receive
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you. If you admit and take
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responsibility for your sin, he will receive you.
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Temptation is not sin, senesin, confusions, not sin, senesin.
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Not understanding, is not Sin, Sin is Sin.
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And let somebody help you along the way, clear out your mind.
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So you can see and hear God clearly being restored through
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being born again. So father, I pray as we have
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this privilege of studying your word tonight.
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This is a glorious truth of your Redemption power, that even
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through, even the mistakes that she made.
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You also used Eve to bring about the salvation of the world.
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And for that, we're grateful, Let us be men and women of Grace
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teach us what that means walking in love in Jesus name.
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Amen. Amen.
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Outboard be blessed as you worship Jesus this week.