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DWDP: Gen 3-8 "Adam, Where Are You?" · 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: 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: Welcome to Devotions with Dr Papa.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: I'm your host.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Dr Robert Jackson, gather around, grab your Bibles and let's look into the written word, which reveals to us the living word, which reveals to us the living Word which is our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Today.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: We are now in Genesis, chapter 3 and verse 8.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Let me read that for us today Genesis, chapter 3 and verse 8.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: One of my favorite songs is I Come to the Garden Alone, which goes like this I come to the garden alone, while the dew is still on the roses and the voice I hear falling on my ear the Son of God discloses.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Listen to Alan Jackson singing the first verse and the chorus.
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  Speaker 1: I come to the garden alone, while the dew is still on the roses and the voice I hear Falling on my ear, the Son of God discloses and he walks with me and he talks with me and he tells me I am his own and the joy we share as we tarry there, none other has ever known, has ever known.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Now, isn't that one of the sweetest songs you've ever heard?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: I just love hearing that song sung and I love singing it myself.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: I try to imagine how sweet and pleasant the fellowship with God the Father must have been before Adam and Eve sinned To be able to walk with God in perfect harmony, without any sin barrier, to know Him without sin's disruption, without sin's disrupting influence, to be able to walk and talk hand in hand with one's creator, to love and be loved without any interference or friction.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: What must that have been like?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: I imagine it was heaven on earth.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Now, verse 8 tells us they heard the sound, the voice of the Lord God.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Now, was he speaking?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Was he singing?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Was he humming?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: What did they actually hear?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Now, we know from the prophets experience in the Old Testament that the voice of God was not in the whirlwind, nor was it in the fire, but it was a still small voice.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Whatever they heard, it was the Word of God, it was the voice of God and it frightened them.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: For the very first time, the Word of God brought fear into the heart of man, into the hearts of Adam and Eve.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Why?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Well, you know they had sinned against God.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: How many times have your children, hidden from you in a closet with a bag of cookies or a bag of chips, knowing they had done wrong?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: How many times has your guilty conscience wished that you could hide from God?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: But can we really hide from him?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: To hide from him, from whose eyes all things are open and laid bare?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: We know that Jonah couldn't flee from God.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Jonah couldn't hide from God and neither could Adam and Eve.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Even lost people today try to hide themselves from the voice of God, from the Word of God.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: They refuse to listen to gospel preaching in churches or on the radio or on TV.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Preaching in churches or on the radio or on TV?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Listen.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: I often will give a little small Bible to my patients who are lost and I'll ask them to read a portion of it before they come back to see me at their next visit.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: And when I hand them that Bible you would think I was handing them a snake or hot coals, because they often refuse to even put it into their hands.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: And if they take it the next time I see them I will say have you read that portion of scripture?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: And they'll just look at me as if I have two heads.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: And of course they haven't read it because they're afraid.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: They're afraid of the voice of God, they're afraid of the Word of God.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: They actually are fearful of coming into a church service or coming into contact with the Word of God.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Now, why is that?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: It's the same as Adam and Eve they fear the sound of the Lord, god.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: And for the very same reason that Adam and Eve hid themselves it's because there's sin in their life that they don't want to be exposed in the presence of Holy God.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: So they hide in their workplace, they hide in their hobbies, they hide in their family activities, they hide in their entertainment and they pretend God can't see them Hiding in the bushes, like Adam and Eve.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: But get this there was someone else in the garden beside Adam and Eve.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: There was someone in the garden beside Lucifer.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: There was someone in the garden besides God, and that someone was their guilty conscience, and their guilty conscience was convicting them, speaking to them.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: But here's the thing there was hope for Adam and Eve because they were listening to their conscience.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: As long as people are responsive to their conscience, there's always hope for them.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: The ones that I worry about are the ones who have a calloused, insensitive conscience, those who no longer listen to their conscience.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: If their conscience is calloused and seared as with a hot iron, there's no remedy, there's no hope for them, and you and I all know people whose conscience is no longer sensitive, no longer responsive, and they sin with brazenness, not caring what God thinks of them, not caring what other people think of their sin, and for them there is no hope.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: God called to Adam and Eve and I want you to know that God is always calling sinners.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: The Bible says seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: I want you to know that God calls us many times in our lives.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: He calls to us when we are young and healthy and full of ourselves, reminding us that it is he who gives us life and strength.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: God calls us when we marry, reminding us that marriage is a picture of that mystical union between Jesus and His church.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: God calls us when our children are born, reminding us that those precious children are fearfully and wonderfully made and our soul knows it very well.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: God calls us when our children are nearly injured, and perhaps seriously so, and we know that His angels are watching over our little ones.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: God calls us when you and I face serious illness later in life and we realize that Jehovah Rapha, the Lord who heals, is the Lord that heals us.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: God calls you when, later in life, you look at your retirement account and your paid off mortgage and you remember that it is the Lord who gives you the power to make wealth.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: And God calls you and me later in life, when we're old and feeble and we realize that our years on this earth are nearly done and we understand that life is but a vapor.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: And God calls us and reminds us that our life does not consist in the abundance of one's possessions, but life, and life eternal is in knowing God's Son and knowing Him aright.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: But here's the question.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: The question is will you come out of hiding, confessing your sin and receiving the Son, our Savior, as your only hope, or will you continue to fear the voice of God, continuing to hide?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: God calls each of us personally, asking where are you?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Where are you today in relation to God, the Father?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Are you hiding and pretending he doesn't know, you, doesn't see you, pretending he doesn't exist?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: You know that's foolishness that won't last long.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: There is a day of accountability.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: The Bible says it is appointed unto man once to die, and then comes the judgment, we all will face the judge of all the earth and give account of ourselves to him.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: You cannot hide forever.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: When that day comes, the last thing you want to do is stand before holy God clothed in your own righteousness, which amounts to nothing more than filthy rags, amounts to nothing more than filthy rags.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Here's what you really want.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: What you really want is the great exchange when Jesus takes your sin upon himself and gives you his righteousness as a free gift.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Then, and only then, can you stand before God clothed in the righteousness of Jesus Christ, wearing a snow-white robe of His righteousness.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: For you see, the Bible says that God made Him, who knew no sin, to be sin on our behalf, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: That is the great exchange.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: How does that happen?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: It happens by confessing your sin and receiving Him as your only Savior and the true King of your life.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Humble yourself under the mighty hand of God and he will lift you up.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Next week, we'll talk about Adam's response when God asked where are you?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: But today, my concern is where are you, dear listener, in relationship to God, the Father?
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: He calls us often in the course of our life.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: I would like to remind you that Jackson Family Ministry has multiple books that we offer.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: My first book was the Family Doctor Speaks the Truth About Life, which is a book, a pro-life book.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: My second book is the Family Doctor Speaks the Truth About Seed Planting, equipping Believers for Evangelism, which, of course, is an evangelism book.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: The third book is the Family Doctor Speaks Turkey Tales and Bible Truths, a book about turkey.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: Hunting and deer hunting, but each story immediately segues into Bible teaching hunting, but each story immediately segues into Bible teaching.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: And then my fourth book is on Laughter, silvered Wings, which is a biography about my father, who was a family doctor, a Vietnam War veteran and a social activist and, of course, a really good dad, and I think many of you would really like that book, which was published earlier this year.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: All right, All of those books can be found at Amazon or at Jackson Family Ministry.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: The first book, the pro-life book, is at Zulon Press.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: You're listening to Devotions with Dr Papa.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: I'm your host, dr Robert Jackson.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: I thank you for listening and I pray that the Lord will bless you real good.
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  Dr. Robert Jackson: We'll be back again next week.
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