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DWDP: Gen; 3,7 Naked and Ashamed · More Than Medicine

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to More Than Medicine, where Jesus is more than enough for the ills that plague our culture and our country.
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  Speaker 1: Hosted by author and physician, Dr Robert Jackson.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Papa, can you tell me a story?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Do you really want me to tell you a story?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Well, you go, get your brother and your sisters and I will tell you a story.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Well, you go, get your brother and your sisters and I will tell you a story.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Welcome to Devotions with Dr Papa.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Gather around, grab your Bibles and let's look into the written Word, which reveals to us the living Word, who is our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Today we're at Genesis, chapter 3 and verse 7.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Let me read the verse to you.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they knew that they were naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Now, if you remember, in our previous lessons we learned that the serpent had deceived Adam and Eve, convincing them that if they took from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, that it would make them wise and they would be like God, knowing good and evil and being fully deceived.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: The woman, seeing that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from this fruit and she ate.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: She gave also to her husband, who was with her, and he ate.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: And that brings us to verse 7.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Now let's look at this verse phrase by phrase.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: First of all, it says the eyes of both of them were opened.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Please understand.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: They already knew good.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: They were personally acquainted with the goodness of God, they were acquainted with how he had abundantly provided for them and they knew that he was, as we sing in church, a good good God.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: But now they were personally acquainted with evil, their own evil, and they realized that they themselves were evil and that they were openly rebellious against this good good God.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Lucifer had promised a counterfeit wisdom, but rather than becoming wise, which you and I know comes from the consequence of fearing and obeying God, they chose disobedience and became foolish, foolish sinners.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: And they became acquainted with sin, which opened their eyes to an entire other, sinister world that opposed God and lured people into its trap.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Lured people into its trap, but having their eyes open to evil condemned all their posterity, all ensuing generations, to spiritual blindness.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Rather than opening the eyes of themselves and their posterity, it condemned their posterity to spiritual blindness.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: The Bible says that the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, neither can he understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: In fact, in the book of Ephesians, the Bible tells us Paul is speaking to the Ephesians church and he says this I say and affirm, together with the Lord, that you walk no longer, just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: You understand that being darkened in the understanding is spiritual blindness and it leads to being spiritually ignorant and being hardened in one's heart.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: All of this is a consequence of what Adam and Eve chose to do in rebelling against God.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Not only did they know sin when their eyes were opened, but they immediately knew and personally experienced guilt and shame.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: How do we know that?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Because the scripture tells us that they first realized.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: The thing that they first realized was that they were naked.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: They were exposed and vulnerable.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: They were no longer comfortable in one another's presence with the knowledge of what they had done, and they felt the need to cover up.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: They were naked and exposed.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Guilt and shame are powerful influences that drive people away from God who alone can forgive?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: It drives people away from one another, away from family and away from God who alone can forgive.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: It drives people away from one another, away from family and away from friends, and into seclusion and hiding.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Guilt and shame drive people to alcohol and drugs, to anger and bitterness.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Guilt and shame drives people to a victim mentality.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Adam and Eve were instantly guilty, instantly ashamed and aware of their exposure, their physical nakedness.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: But sin also makes us emotionally and spiritually naked in the presence of God.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: It makes us emotionally and spiritually vulnerable, which is just as terrifying, which is why we hide our sin from God and from each other.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: There are a lot of firsts in Genesis, chapter 2 and chapter 3.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: We see the creation of the first man and the first woman.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: We see the first commands by God woman.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: We see the first commands by God.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: We see the first temptation, the first sin, and in verse seven we meet the first sowist.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: What's a sowist?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Well, a sowist is somebody who loves to sow Not a seamstress, but a sowist.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: You see, my wife is a sowist.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: When I first heard her say that word, I said what in the world is a sewist?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: She said a sewist is somebody who loves to sew.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Now I'm going to tell you my wife disappears every day upstairs to her little room where she has multiple sewing machines, not just one, but three and she sews clothing for our grandchildren, grandchildren, and if she had her druthers she would stay up there all day, every day.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: And the thing that makes her happier than anything is is sewing pretty little dresses and little suits for these little boys and dresses for the little girls, and that makes her happier than anything.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: She is a sewist.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Well, in verse 7, we meet the first sewist, because you see Adam and Eve sewed for themselves fig leaves in order to cover up their exposure.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: They made loin coverings.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: When my patients are embarrassed I want you to pay close attention to this when my patients are embarrassed or ashamed, they put their face in their hands and they cover up their face.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Now let me ask you why did Adam and Eve not create a mask to cover their faces, to hide their shame, their embarrassment and their guilt?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Have you ever wondered about that?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Let me explain something to you.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: It's because the command that God gave them in Genesis, chapter 1.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: In verse 28.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Was to be fruitful and multiply, which involved their procreative parts, which they instinctively Covered up.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: And ever since that day, when they sinned in the garden, ever since then, that which God intended to be beautiful and sacred, when a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife and they become one flesh One flesh that beautiful and sacred thing has become corrupted by sinful men, with fornication, adultery, polygamy, concubines, prostitution, homosexuality and abortion, all of which defy the original plan of God for one man and one woman to be married for life and to produce children to fill the earth.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: So this first sowist sowed loin coverings, not a face covering.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: But let me ask a question Can a man make a covering that would adequately cover our sin?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: You know the answer to that Absolutely not, of course not.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Isaiah tells us that the filthy rags of our self-made righteousness will not cover our sin or our rebellion against holy God.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: What can you do to erase a single sin?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Have you ever pondered that?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: What can you do to cover or atone for your shame and guilt in the presence of God's holiness?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: As Isaiah tells us, we need garments of salvation and we need robes of righteousness.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: That's in Isaiah 61, in verse 10.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: We need robes of righteousness which only Jehovah, jireh, the Lord who provides, can give to those who trust in the Lamb, the perfect Lamb of God, which he provided, as we will discuss later when we get further down in chapter 3, god provided clothing for Adam and Eve at the expense of the life of probably a lamb who gave its life's blood to atone for, to cover up their nakedness, their shame and their guilt.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Once again, I remind you that these things do not happen by accident in the book of Genesis.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: These things happen by divine design.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: That lamb was slain to cover their sin and shame, as a portrait, as a painting, as a picture of that which would eventually come in the fullness of time, when God's perfect lamb, the Passover lamb, would give his life to atone for, to cover all of our sin and our shame.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Dear listener, is the Holy Spirit of God speaking to your heart today, convicting of spiritual exposure, spiritual sin, shame and guilt?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Do you realize that your man-made covering is totally inadequate?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Let me remind you that Jesus took your sin, he took your shame and he nailed it to the cross that you might bear it no more.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: He offers to you a snow-white robe of His righteousness as a totally free gift.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Confess to Him your shame and guilt, turn your back on your old way of life and receive Jesus as your only Savior and the true King of your life.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: That's the invitation that a loving Heavenly Father extends to you.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: This day You're listening to Devotions with Dr Papa.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Till then, may the Lord bless you real good.
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