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7.25.21 Genesis 3:20-24 Pastor Danny Gardner · HBCWestminster

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  Our text this morning is Genesis chapter 3 and verse 20. If you're able to stand in honor of God's word as I read, I would ask you to do that now. Allow me to read these five verses and we'll pray and begin. It says,
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  Therefore, the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden, he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life. And Lord, I pray that you would help us to understand your word. Lord, by your Holy Spirit, illuminate the scriptures to us. Give us eyes to see the truth and ears to hear it. And Lord, make our hearts submissive. And it's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
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  Amen. Thank you, church. Well, why were you saved? It's kind of a funny question, right? And one that doesn't often get asked. We spend a lot of time oftentimes in the church answering, how were you saved? And we'll spend a little bit of time answering that question again this morning. But why were you saved is often neglected. Why were you saved? And before you answer, so that I could go to heaven, may I encourage you to ponder that question for a moment more. The response, so that I could go to heaven,
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  is true but it's shallow and it's a completely self-focused view of salvation and although your change of eternal address if you want to call it that way from heaven from hell to heaven
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  is a happy byproduct of your salvation. It is not necessarily the reason that you were saved. And you may be thinking, well, ha, I read Desiring God all those years ago. I know the answer is to bring God glory. And indeed it is. That is the reason for your salvation. But how do we do that? How do we, through our salvation, bring glory to God?
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  Listening in on conversations between church members across the country, we may assume that the answer to how do I bring God glory is to read the Bible more and pray more. It seems to be the pat answer in every Sunday school circle. And yet we find that it is not always those who read the Bible more and pray more that seem to be bringing the most glory to God. It was the Pharisees, for instance, who read and read and read.
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  and yet didn't even know the God whose name they so often invoked. Others may say it is as simple as being, maybe bringing glory to God can just be boiled down to being pro-life, pro-guns, pro-police, and pro-elephant. The problem is, I know plenty of conservatives, plenty of Fox News watchers, if you'll allow me to say it that way, who have no idea what the gospel is. Is that
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  This social and fiscal conservatism. Is that all there is to Christianity? Isn't there more? I appreciated Douglas Wilson's recent blog, which stated that rather than being persecuted, the modern American Christians, he says, are being slowly digested. That's the word that he used. And then he went on to explain. He said modern American so-called Christians
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  will complain about how hard their lives are all the while completely ensconced that means enveloped surrounded by sunk into okay ensconced in their lazy boy recliner our lives are so hard and yet he says we're saying this we're lamenting the difficulty of our soul journey while sitting in a lazy boy recliner and reaching for another cold beverage is that all there is to christianity
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  occasionally saying Jesus' name, occasionally attending church, as long as it doesn't interfere with trips to the mountains and doesn't interfere with my kids' sports schedules, because we would never do that. If I do these things, can I assume that I am a Christian? Slowly digested.
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  That picture reminds me of the slow and excruciating decay of those Star Wars characters caught in the belly of the Sarlacc. Now, listen, I like Star Wars. I've seen Star Wars. I haven't seen it in years, okay? I'm not one of those super fans. I don't know everything about Star Wars. Never read any of the books, okay? I don't know anything about it. But I do remember that one weird pit in the middle of the desert planet, whatever that was called.
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  That all those people fell into and were eaten by whatever that animal was. It was apparently called a sarlacc. I looked it up. But man, they go into that hole in the ground and they're just never seen from again. And that sarlacc, the belly of the sarlacc, the sarlacc would apparently deliberately swallow its victims whole.
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  and then keep its victims alive inside of its stomach and would begin slowly digesting them over the course of centuries. Somehow people inside of that thing would live up to a thousand years and yet be slowly digested over the course of a millennium. I mean, they're not dead, but they're not truly alive. Isn't that what the American church sometimes feels like? I mean, they're not dead.
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  But are they alive? Are they living this abundant life that Jesus promised? Keith Green, 50 years ago, described the American church as asleep in the light. Seems like a fitting description. And perhaps the only thing that has changed in the last 50 years is that the light of the church has actually grown dim. We don't appear to have woken up. We're just getting dimmer and dimmer. We haven't, it seems like just stopped illuminating the way.
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  to heaven. And so what are we doing here? Why were we saved? Is it to keep our heads down and not make any waves and not cause problems and eventually to be digested? Or is it for something greater? And honestly, church, I don't think our heavenly father sent and crucified his only begotten son so that we could be digested. I don't think that's his goal for us.
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  I think it was so that he would have an army of people who would kick and scream and shake unbelievers awake. I think it was so that he could recruit an army to jump into the war as we've talked about. I think it was so that he would have an army of people who would communicate the truth that there is a better way, a way of real forgiveness and joy. And I said a few weeks ago that chapter three describes
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  a war it is the longest lasting and costliest war in history and i challenge us i challenged us then and i will challenge us again to get in the fight you weren't saved to sit in your recliner at home that's not what you were saved to do you were saved to join the war and i know when i say these things that there are all kinds of people who are going to nod their heads in agreement yeah that's right preach pastor that's right let's do it
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  But then I also know that when it comes time to talking to their neighbor about the Lord, or not shying away from a curious co-worker's questions, or expressing sacrificial kindness towards someone we find annoying, or even just as something as simple as signing up for kids ministry. It's like we start coming up with all kinds of excuses. I'm busy. I'm not equipped.
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  I hear this one a lot. I've paid my dues. I've paid my dues. It's somebody else's turn. Any excuse? I'm mute. Yeah, I'm mute. We have this summer been studying the first three chapters of Genesis, what we've called origins, how it all began. We studied the origin of species, the first six days of creation, how God made all things from no things, how his creation...
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  was good we studied the origin of sexuality how god made man and woman male and female now there is no room for deviance in this regard and that great joy can be found in the understanding and recognition of his design even along gender prohibitions
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  We studied the origin of Sabbath, how the Lord rested in order to commune with his creation, and how we should continue to do the same, setting aside time in our schedules to meditate upon and enjoy communion with the Lord. We studied the origin of Satan, where he came from, how he fell, how he is even now prowling around like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour. Last Sunday, we studied the origin of sin and how it came to universally affect mankind.
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  how it killed us spiritually, how it cursed us by separating us from God. And we focus this morning on the end of chapter 3. But what we see in chapter 3 as a whole is the entire story of redemption. Man falls at the beginning of chapter 3. He is cursed in the middle, and then he is redeemed at the end. And consider, church, just for a moment, the brilliance of the mind and plan of God
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  a text. We have a hint in chapter 3 into the full redemptive plan of God in the simple statement in verse 21 that the Lord God made for them garments of skin. Can we break the curse of sin and death? Can we avoid the curse of eternal death? And praise God, the answer is yes. But how?
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  And that is what our text will answer this morning. You'll notice first in verse 20, we can break the curse of death by the exercise of faith. We can break the curse of death by the exercise of faith. Verse 20 says, the man called his wife's name Eve because she was the mother of all the living.
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  No sooner were the curses received, no sooner had Adam been told that he would die, that does he push back against the curse by faith in God's word. We know from the remainder of scripture that salvation is by grace through faith. We are not saved by our own works because no amount of good works could possibly outweigh the destruction that our bad works have caused. And we find in scripture that even the good works we do apart from Christ are like filthy rags anyway.
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  Faith can be simply defined as believing the Word of God when it speaks about the Son of God and how the creation of God can find salvation in the name of God. Let me say that again. Faith can be simply defined as believing the Word of God when it speaks about the Son of God.
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  how the creation of God can find salvation in the name of God. In other words, faith is believing that whatever God says is true. No matter how at odds it is with the culture in which we live, no matter how difficult it may be to swallow, this Origins series has been a good example of that. I mean, church, how many times have I ended a thought with, that is what the Bible says.
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  You can choose to ignore it. You can choose to disagree with it. But your and my opinions do not change the word and mind of God. God's word, his mind is revealed in his word. And it is unchanging. When Adam and Eve were first created, they trusted God. They believed his word. They had faith.
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  When Satan tempted Eve and lied about God's motivation in keeping them from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, in essence, accusing God of wanting to keep all the toys for himself, right? He knows that if you eat from the tree, you will become like him, knowing good and evil. He doesn't want you to become like him. That was Satan's temptation that he offered. God doesn't, he's lying to you. And then lied additionally.
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  By saying that they would not die if they ate the fruit, Satan was accusing God of being a liar. Satan said, God is withholding good things from you, and he is lying in order to cover it up. And when Adam and Eve took the fruit, as we talked about last Sunday, and they ate it, they believed the devil's lie rather than God's truth. Turn with me, if you would, in your Bibles to Ephesians. Let's go hard right turn, almost all the way to the back.
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  Ephesians chapter 6. The context here is the armor of God. We talked about this a couple weeks ago. Putting on the whole armor of God. But verse 17 makes an interesting statement. It says in verse 17, and another piece of the armor is this helmet. Take, it says, the helmet of salvation. The helmet of salvation. In other words, the battle for our souls.
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  begins in our minds. There is a reason he calls salvation our helmet. It's to protect our minds. Salvation begins in our minds. Saving faith begins as a battle for our minds. We must decide to believe the truth of God. Saving faith begins as a battle for our minds before.
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  It becomes a battle for our hearts. And Adam and Eve, we'll go back now to Genesis 3, Adam and Eve failed to believe God. They replaced the truth of God for a lie and were consequently cursed. The woman's labor becoming hard, the man's labor in another way becoming hard, and the ground refusing to cooperate. But then we see kind of a change in verse 20. You've got all these curses, verses 14 to 19.
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  But then there is a distinct change in verse 20. You consider the context of curses and death. And then verse 20 says, the man called his wife's name Eve. Did you know, church, it had never occurred to me, I had never seen it until this week in my studies, that Adam had not yet named his wife. He doesn't name his wife until after the fall. Now, I don't know totally maybe what he called her before then. I think he might have called her woman. His name was Adam, which meant...
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  dirt right god gave him that name i formed you from dirt and so you'll be called adam adama dirt okay hebrew word for dirt i'll call you adam eve was then taken not from the dirt from her husband and so adam says you will be called woman for you were taken from man so i think he may have called her that until this point but then in verse 20 he names her just like he had named all the other animals previously now he names her and calls her
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  Eve. Eve means life. Life. God had just sentenced them to death, and yet Adam recognized that his wife would bring new life. Henry Morris has said it this way, he thus, Adam thus, indicated his faith in God's promises. Not only that they would have children,
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  but also that through this means, God would send one of their children to bring salvation. Adam knew life would come from his wife. His naming of Eve was an affirmation that he believed the promise of God tucked into those curses given after the fall. He believed that one of her children would crush the head of the serpent.
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  John MacArthur has said it this way, the victory over Satan, the victory over sin, the victory over death would come through the seed of the woman because she was the mother of all the living. Adam demonstrated faith in God's word. He displayed an anticipation of their fulfillment in the crushing of the enemy's head. And with the acceptance of her name, Eve evidenced that same faith.
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  That the one who brought calamity on her, the serpent, the devil himself, the one who brought calamity on her and on her family would be destroyed. One of her own sons would make all things new. That is first. We break the curse of sin and death by faith. But notice second. We can break the curse of sin and death by the provision of God in sacrifice. We can break the curse of sin and death by the provision of God.
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  In sacrifice, look at verse 21. And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skin and clothed them. The reality, church, is that man can believe all he wants. He can repent all he wants. He can plead for mercy and forgiveness all he wants and still not receive those things if God has not made provision.
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  If God hadn't sent a sacrifice, our faith wouldn't matter, our belief wouldn't matter, our prayer wouldn't matter, our pleading to God for mercy would not matter. It required provision from God in sacrifice. And God, we find in verse 21, makes the first sacrifice. This is the very first death recorded in Scripture. This is it. It is the very first death of any sentient being.
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  thinking knowing aware being okay this is the very first one and you'll notice that god is the executioner god kills animals and takes from their skins and clothes the man and woman thus not only covering their sin but covering their shame you may recall that prior to sin the man and his wife were naked and not ashamed chapter 2 and verse 25 says
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  But when they sinned, chapter 3, verse 7 says that their eyes were opened and they realized they were naked and sought to hide from the presence of the Lord, even fashioning together fig leaves in order to cover their nakedness and shame. They previously had no shame. They had no evil thought. In fact, chapter 3, verse 11 seems to suggest that prior to the fall, Adam and Eve didn't even know that they were naked. But when their eyes were opened,
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  They realized not only that they were naked, but that their nakedness filled them with shame. And so they made a feeble effort to clothe themselves using leaves, an attempt to cover their sin and shame. And church, we've been wearing clothes ever since. That's where clothes came from. That's why we started wearing them, was because of the shame of our nakedness and sin.
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  I've heard some people say, well, the Lord intended for us to be naked and therefore we should free ourselves from the encumbrance of clothing. But you'll notice here, church, that God does not impede their search for clothing. You notice he doesn't take Adam and Eve and say, I didn't make you to wear clothes. I made you to remain naked. And so remain naked. What are you guys doing? He doesn't do that at all. He, in fact, encourages the clothing by helping them along.
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  Because of lust, because of the depraved state of the human heart, public nakedness is no longer acceptable. Again, Henry Morris, in Man's Fallen State, he says, a sense of shame relative to nakedness is entirely appropriate. We should be ashamed over immodesty, public nakedness. He says, any who think otherwise should consider that God went to great pains to provide clothing to cover the nakedness of the first.
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  man and woman it's as if god is saying yes clothe yourselves from now on and to be unclothed from this point forward is shameful and this is why we jokingly say in the church especially to our young ladies who don't fully understand this concept yet we will jokingly say to our church modest
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  is hottest modest is hottest this is what we're talking about the lord designed clothes for us and so we should cover ourselves that's not saying that there is nothing beautiful about you that is not saying that you can't make yourself look beautiful but what the remainder of scripture says is that beauty comes from the inside and not from the outside but i digress in verse 21 we find what becomes the main theme of scripture throughout
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  That God has provided a covering for man's shame, not only physically, but spiritually as well. He has provided a way of escape through the sacrifice of his own son on the cross, which is symbolized here in this first sacrifice in Genesis 3. In fact, in my Bible, in the margin right next to verse 21, I have written the first death, a reference to Jesus Christ covering our shame. This was a symbol.
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  the sacrifice that Jesus would make laying down his own life to cover our shame Genesis chapter 3 says that sin brought death to man and it is both ironic and poetic that sin brought death but through death God brought life through the death of a man Jesus Christ God would bring life to any and all
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  who would accept it turn with me in your bibles again a hard right hand turned to second corinthians second corinthians chapter 5 and verse 21 if you don't have this verse underlined or circled in your bible now might be a good time to fix that this is a great verse one of the best explanations single verse explanations of the gospel in all of scripture second corinthians 5 and 21 this would be a great memory verse for you your kids your grandkids to learn
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  Second Corinthians 521 says for our sake he made him Jesus to be sin who knew no sin So that in him we might become the righteousness of God God made Jesus to become sin even though he never sinned so that in him we might become the righteousness of God he takes our sin and puts it on the sinless Jesus and he takes the sinless Jesus and puts that on us he becomes sin we become
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  righteousness. There is a life for a life exchange. This is grace. This is the gospel. It's what theologians call substitutionary atonement. You and I are sinners.
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  And we are running a hell-bound race. Left to ourselves, we end in hell. But by his own blood, 2 Corinthians 5.21 says, by his own blood, Jesus offers himself as a substitute who would die in our place. Again, John MacArthur, here is God's grace, he says, when he, instead of killing them, killed something else. When God, instead of killing Adam and Eve, killed something else and covered them.
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  God clothes the naked sinner by the sacrifice of an innocent victim. That's exactly what Jesus did He was an innocent victim and he used his own life to cover ours Turn with me now back to Genesis if you would but go to Genesis 22 Genesis 22 there is a phrase again that I want to point out Genesis 22 the context here is the sacrifice of Isaac Abraham has had his son of
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  promise, his miraculous son born to him in old age, long after childbearing years. And so Isaac is born, and then one day God, in a test of Abraham's faith, tells him to take his son, his begotten son, his only begotten son, the son whom he loved, Genesis 22 says, and go up on the hill where I will show you, and I want you to sacrifice your only son. I want you to kill him for me.
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  And Abraham, as a man of faith, goes walking up the hill. He's bringing Isaac with him. Isaac keeps asking on his way up the hill, what are we doing? We're going to make a sacrifice. But dad, we don't have anything to sacrifice. Abraham says, God will provide the sacrifice. Remember him saying this? And he walks up. Abraham knows full well, it's going to be you, son. It's going to be you. I have to kill you. The Lord has asked me to kill you. All the way up to the top of the mountain, they build the altar.
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  Isaac's still saying, where is the sacrifice? Abraham says, Isaac, it's you. He puts Isaac up on the altar. He raises his hand with the knife in it. And just before he's about to plunge it into his own son's heart, an angel shows up and stops him and says, stop, Abraham, man of faith. The Lord has provided another sacrifice. And look at Genesis chapter 2 and verse 13. And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked.
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  And behold, behind him was a ram, a male sheep, a ram caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering. What are the next words? You guys have your Bibles open? Genesis chapter 22, verse 13. Look at your Bibles. It says he offered up the ram as a burnt offering instead of his son. Instead of his son.
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  you guys listen that phrase instead of his son sums up the entire theme of old and new testaments it sums up the gospel itself substitutionary atonement there is an offering being made a sacrifice being made instead of killing something else instead of killing isaac kill the sheep instead of killing us kill the lamb of god jesus himself who would take away
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  the sin of the world you'll recall jesus himself in the garden of gethsemane the evening before his crucifixion as he was praying vehemently to his heavenly father and even asking lord if there is another way father if there is another way let this cup pass right you can almost envision him going all the way back in his mind to that day when abraham was going to sacrifice isaac and the sacrifice was stopped
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  And the angel said, Abraham, sacrifice the ram instead of your son. It's almost as if in the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus is looking up to his heavenly father, looking around, Lord, Father, is there a ram caught in the thicket? I'm about to get up on the altar. I'm about to be the sacrifice. Is there a ram? You can imagine him looking around in the garden, provide another, provide another. And the heavenly father replying back, not today, my son, you are the ram who will be sacrificed. You'll recall.
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  Jesus the next morning before Pilate. And as the governor offered to release him, remember this to the crowd, let me release him. I find no fault in this man. Let him go. And the crowd demanded Barabbas instead. And so the cross that was intended for Barabbas was taken off of Barabbas' back and laid on Jesus.
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  He was literally the substitute for Barabbas. And can you imagine, church, what must have been Barabbas' response as now he's released? He was going to carry that cross. He was going to go and be crucified. And instead, Jesus literally took his place. That is substitutionary atonement. All of the sacrifices in Scripture, picture the death of an animal.
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  the spilling of its blood as required for forgiveness. It's our faith, yes, yes, of course. But if there weren't some kind of sacrifice, our faith would be meaningless. The entire sacrificial system was given to picture the one who was to come who would offer what Hebrews calls a once-for-all sacrifice for sin. We break the curse of sin and death by God's provision.
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  in sacrifice our faith his death but finally we break the curse of sin and death by submitting to some backward sounding grace let me say that again we break the curse of sin and death by submitting to some backward sounding grace what do i mean by backward grace eternal life
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  What we all look forward to eternal paradise in the presence of God eternal life can only follow a temporal life Does that make sense what I just said? You can only go to heaven if This life right now what we're experiencing on earth if this life is temporary if this life lasted forever We would never get to go there if we never died on earth
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  We could never live forever in heaven. It is some backward sounding grace. Look at verse 22. The Lord God said, behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. That was the only aspect that we became like God. Nothing else, nothing good or pure. The only way that we became like God was knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat forever. Therefore, the Lord God sent him out of the garden.
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  to work the ground from which he was taken one question pastors often get asked and i myself included is why do we die explain the meaning of death to me and in that moment when that question gets asked answers are sometimes difficult because that question is rarely asked as a philosophical construct it's it's never some vague and nameless and faceless question
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  When somebody comes to me and says, Pastor Danny, why do we die? It is because they have lost a loved one every time. Why did my mom die? Why did my child die? Why did my friends, my neighbors, my relatives, why do we die? And church, the honest answer is, sounds backward, I know. The honest answer is we die because God loves us. We die because God loves us.
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  We spend a whole lot of time and resources trying to live forever on this earth I am absolutely Convinced beloved church that if there existed a pill that we could swallow That would cause us to live a thousand years. We would swallow it. I'm Convinced take this pill you live for a thousand years. We would do it
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  I'm convinced, church, that if there existed a pill that we could swallow, that would make us immortal. We would never die on this earth. We would take it as fast as it were offered. But would that be the best thing for us? There was a tree of life that Adam and Eve could have continued eating from, and they would have continued living. They would have lived forever. And God said, we don't want that. You can't have that. That is not best for you. And so he actually kicked them out.
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  Kicked them out and guarded them from the ability to live forever. Isn't that crazy? It seems backward is Eternal life on this planet God's plan. Don't forget church where we live This world is evil if we lived here forever We would remain forever where it is
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  evil and to allow Adam and Eve to continue in the garden with access to the tree of life would have been to allow them to live forever in a cursed and fallen and evil place. And the Lord honestly loves us too much to allow us not to die. He knew that like the unborn child in utero, we would be tempted to stay where we are only because it's the only thing we know.
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  And so the Lord ejected humans from the garden and forbade access to eternal life on earth. In so doing, he protected them from eating from the tree of life and for settling for eternal life that was broken and cursed. That's not what he wanted for us. And so he removed them from the ability to live forever. And this is why, church, we die. It's not because the Lord hates us.
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  It's because the Lord loves us. And notice what he does in verse 24. No, no, verse 23. Therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden to work the ground from which he was taken. Verse 24. He drove out the man and at the east of the garden of Eden, so he must have forced him out of the east gate, right, of the garden. And at the east side of the garden of Eden, he placed the cherubim, angels, and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life. He kept them from trying to break.
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  back in. God drove them east. He drove them toward the rising of the sun so that every sunset would be a reminder of the paradise they had lost. Can you imagine? Adam and Eve are now out there in the world. The Garden of Eden is to the west of them, which meant every time the sun set, the sun is setting over the Garden of Eden. Every sunset became a reminder of paradise lost. But they lived in hope.
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  That one day their own lives would reset. That their own lives would be like that setting sun. That they would enter the paradise of God once more. What a crazy and beautiful picture that is. And church, that is how we were saved. By the sacrifice of another. By the spilling of the blood of the ram caught in the thicket. A life for a life received by faith. But that is not only how we were saved, it is why we were saved.
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  It is to get into the war, to fulfill our mission by communicating that same message to a lost world that needs to hear it. Death is coming. It is inevitable. And not because God hates us, it is because God loves us. And the chapter, chapter 3, started with the greatest tragedy in the history of the world. That opening salvo began the longest and costliest war in human history, but it ends with the greatest promise.
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  eagerly provided grace immediately upon the heels of the fall and the curse and lord i pray i pray that your word would resonate in our hearts that it would ring out from us that we would not be those christians who are just being slowly digested saved but saved for what and god i pray that we would get in the war that we would take up your armor
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  even the helmet of salvation, that we would have faith in your word when it speaks and believe. And Lord, I pray that we would trust in the provision of your son in his sacrifice so that he would become our substitute. And it's in his name we pray and rejoice. Amen.