1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,200 How are you doing today? Awesome. I'm doing good. Thank you so much. We like to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:12,480 start every Sunday by welcoming anybody that is here visiting or joining us for 3 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:16,560 the very first time or if you're online watching for the very first time. We 4 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:19,240 want to say welcome to all of you. We're so glad you're here to worship with us here 5 00:00:19,240 --> 00:00:24,440 at Hosanna. I am Pastor Nathan and this morning we are going to be concluding 6 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:29,920 our study of the fall of mankind by looking at the curse and the judgment 7 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:34,640 that fell on the man. Now we've already looked at the curse that fell on the 8 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:39,840 serpent and the curse that fell on the woman for their part in the original sin 9 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:43,760 and if you remember when we started the book of Genesis I mentioned that there 10 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:48,640 were five major narrative movements through this book. The first one being 11 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:53,400 the fall and then Cain and Abel, the sons of God marrying the daughters of women, 12 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:58,640 the flood and the tower of Babel and each of those major narratives they 13 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:02,040 follow the same structure and we've seen this structure already in the story of 14 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:07,080 the fall of man where the sin is described or the sin is told like we see 15 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:12,520 the sin happen and what's taking place then there's a speech a dialogue or 16 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:17,400 conversation by God wherein he will either talk to those that are in sin but 17 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:22,640 his real big point in that is he then declares the penalty for sin but in the 18 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:27,680 declaration of the penalty we also see the grace of God as he brings hope both 19 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:33,960 practical hope and prophetic hope through his laying down the penalty for 20 00:01:33,960 --> 00:01:37,240 sin and then we actually see the judgment for and the consequences of 21 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:41,400 sin played out. Those are the four movements in this story. Now in Genesis 22 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:48,160 chapter 3 so far in the first 13 verses we read about the sin, the original sin, 23 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:53,080 the sin being described which is the story of the serpent and the woman and 24 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:58,440 the man. In verses 14 through 19 is where we've been studying the the speech by 25 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:02,600 God if you will where he's declaring the penalty as he has the conversation with 26 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:06,520 man and woman and then he goes on to declare the penalty on the serpent, the 27 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:09,760 penalty on the woman and then today we'll be looking at the penalty on man. 28 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:13,600 We'll also be looking at the third movement in the story in verses 20 through 29 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:20,880 21 which is grace. God extending grace onto the people that he's laying 30 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:25,840 consequence on as he then clothes man and woman to cover their sin through the 31 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:30,800 slaying of an animal and then verses 22 through 24 we see the actual final 32 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:35,240 judgment for and the final consequences of their sin as they're going to be 33 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:39,960 exiled from the Garden of Eden. Now throughout the whole story however we 34 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:46,440 have seen regular glimpses of God's grace in sins description. We saw glimpses of 35 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:51,040 God's grace in his dialogue with man and woman and the first glimpse of God's 36 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:57,000 grace we saw there was that he didn't destroy man for sinning. That was one of 37 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,960 the original consequences where he said if you'd have this tree you will surely 38 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:07,360 die and that death involved every aspect of death but when woman ate and then man 39 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:12,040 ate God didn't immediately strike them down and that was a grace because 40 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:16,760 instead of that death physical death immediately although the spiritual death 41 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:21,160 had happened God graciously engaged with them in conversation giving them both an 42 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:25,880 opportunity to repent. Sadly they didn't take that opportunity and so judgment 43 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:30,320 was declared first on the serpent secondly on the woman but those 44 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:33,840 judgments were also imbued with grace because in the judgment on the serpent 45 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:39,120 we saw the very first gospel being preached to the world wherein it said 46 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:43,200 the woman's offspring would crush the serpent's head while the serpent would 47 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:48,360 bruise his heel and that was a picture of the death of Jesus Christ the first 48 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:52,920 prophetical mention that salvation will come that Satan will not ultimately win 49 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:58,120 and conquer and destroy mankind but he will indeed lose and we know that he did 50 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:02,040 through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Then we saw the judgment 51 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:07,720 consequences on woman that impacted her fundamental roles her creative 52 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:14,320 purposes in the call of God to fill the earth to multiply to subdue everything 53 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:19,000 her and her husband's call to be a part of that original calling on earth her 54 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:23,920 judgment and consequence impacted her roles as a wife and as a mother wherein 55 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:29,480 these roles were originally eternally satisfying with little to no pain just a 56 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:35,040 complete joy and blessing in every way after the fall the blessed privileges of 57 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:40,320 carrying a child birthing a child raising that child sin came in and 58 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:45,360 polluted all of that wherein people can't have children people lose children 59 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:50,000 people simply have the pains of their children departing from them and in 60 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:54,480 going into lives of difficulty and drugs and sin and all of this being a result 61 00:04:54,480 --> 00:05:00,200 of the fall but the way everything was originally created to be it was all to 62 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:04,720 be a perfect blessing however that was lost in the fall and then this never 63 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:08,920 ending lack of peace as a wife and mother was just simply a grace it was a 64 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:13,160 grace to drive her into the arms of God wherein she would no longer find 65 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:17,760 complete satisfaction in her marriage complete satisfaction in her 66 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:21,200 motherhood and her children but there would be difficulty in that and that 67 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:24,920 difficulty would drive her to find the only place of true and lasting 68 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:30,480 satisfaction and that was God himself so now we come to the remainder of God's 69 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:35,520 speech his declaration of the penalty of sin for Adam but as we're gonna see 70 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:41,560 again even here grace shines very brightly as grace does through the entire 71 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:47,480 book of Genesis the entire word of God amen let's pray father we love you we 72 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:52,880 thank you God so much for who you are we thank you for what you've done we thank 73 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:58,000 you for the grace that you've given us Lord we we know as sinful people Lord 74 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:03,200 sinners born from our original parents Lord we've inherited this nature and 75 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:08,120 therefore we are deserving of judgment and wrath Lord but but God you came to 76 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:13,000 die for us and Lord you prophesied that in the very beginning right after Adam 77 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:19,040 and Eve's fall after their disobedience we're gonna see today how you are the 78 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:24,200 one who provide the answer for sin and God that is a grace because we 79 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:28,400 definitely don't deserve it but you don't save us Lord because we deserve it 80 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:32,200 you save us because you love us Lord you carry us through the valleys of the 81 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:36,200 shadow of death because you love us you carry us through good times and bad 82 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:41,440 times because you love us and Lord it is your love that drives you to dwell 83 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:45,840 within us in the Holy Spirit to lead us to guide us to be our counselor to be 84 00:06:45,840 --> 00:06:50,440 our guide to be our God and Lord we're so thankful so God as we look at the 85 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:56,400 curse on Adam today Lord we would see ultimately his prime responsibility in 86 00:06:56,400 --> 00:07:00,840 what he was supposed to do for his family and who he was supposed to be and 87 00:07:00,840 --> 00:07:05,560 how the curse affected those very things that he was called to do Lord we ask 88 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:08,440 that you would bless us today and encourage us and speak to us and Lord 89 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:13,000 especially the men that are here today God may they hear your word as they are 90 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:17,280 then challenged to step up to what your call is for men in this world God we 91 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:21,720 love you we worship you now it's in Jesus name we pray amen all right we are 92 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:27,760 in Genesis chapter 3 we're gonna be looking at verses 17 through 24 this 93 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:32,160 morning and if you remember with the with the serpent and the woman when God 94 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:40,320 laid out the the penalty on the serpent and the woman in his penalty and as he 95 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:43,680 was describing what was going to take place what was going to happen to them 96 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:50,040 God didn't specifically specify what they did in the declaration of the 97 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:55,700 penalty there was just a this is what's going to happen and we infer what they 98 00:07:55,700 --> 00:07:59,520 did from the context of the story right we read the early verses in Genesis 3 99 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:03,680 and we could see what the woman did what the serpent did obviously and then when 100 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:07,680 we look at details of their judgment we can infer also some of what they did 101 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:12,560 specifically but when God gets to the man's judgment he doesn't make any 102 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:16,760 qualms about saying exactly why the man is being judged and so read with me in 103 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:24,120 verse 17 of Genesis 3 it says he said to the man because you listen to your wife 104 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:28,840 and ate from the tree about which I commanded you do not eat from it the 105 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:36,480 ground is cursed because of you so the curse the judgment on man the 106 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:42,920 consequences for his own sin it says came because he listened to his wife 107 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:50,840 and ate from the tree so men don't do that amen let's go home no that's not 108 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:53,720 what this is saying okay let's walk through it a little bit here all right 109 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:58,440 when it says he listened that word in the Hebrew literally means obeyed right 110 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:04,280 it's the idea that he heard what she said or suggested and and what she led 111 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:09,400 him to do or told him to do and he did it and so what we read earlier in the 112 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:13,920 story is that as she was convinced by the serpent that it was maybe a good 113 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:19,200 thing to eat from the tree that maybe if she became like God you know she was 114 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:23,240 deceived and so we infer a lot from that that she perhaps thought she was doing a 115 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:27,760 good thing even though it was disobedience to God but in Adam's case he 116 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:32,600 knew flat out it was wrong no matter what and yet he took and he ate anyways 117 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:37,600 and so in that it says she gave he ate so in that phrase right there we infer 118 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:44,240 that he he obeyed her right she handed him a fruit that he clearly knew is 119 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:48,520 wrong to eat of it's very likely he was there observing the whole conversation 120 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:52,300 between her and the serpent and he didn't say anything he didn't step up he 121 00:09:52,300 --> 00:09:55,480 didn't say wife don't listen to that serpent that's wrong that's not what God 122 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:59,920 told us to do he was silent and then she handed to him and without a word he ate 123 00:09:59,920 --> 00:10:06,200 and so he obeyed her in that sense and this part of Adam's curse or the 124 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:10,300 reasoning that that Adam is being cursed this ties directly back to the second 125 00:10:10,300 --> 00:10:15,020 part of the curse that fell on the woman if you guys remember there the second 126 00:10:15,020 --> 00:10:19,560 part of the curse is that your desire would be for him and yet he will rule 127 00:10:19,560 --> 00:10:22,920 over you and we walked through that in quite a bit of detail because it is a 128 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:29,160 hotly debated scripture it's a hotly debated thing where people are like well 129 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:32,480 the curse means this a curse means that and so we walked through that in detail 130 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:37,240 in our last message a couple weeks ago so if you want to look at that feel free 131 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:41,040 to go look at it on YouTube but to summarize the whole thing was this the 132 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:47,200 second part of her curse was that she would long to or crave or desire to 133 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:51,800 continue to have her husband listen to her and obey her to do it she wanted 134 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:55,520 to do it because that's exactly what she did in the garden there she said here 135 00:10:55,520 --> 00:11:00,440 honey eat this it's a good thing and so she would want to continue to have that 136 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:05,080 type of rule that type of authority that type of leadership within the context 137 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:09,760 of her marriage yet it says there in the scripture she would instead be under his 138 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:14,840 authority and his leadership which I just find interesting because if you 139 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:20,240 look at the story what you have is is Eve wanting to lead and Adam not wanting 140 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:24,640 not saying a word stepping back abdicating his responsibility as head 141 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:28,240 of his household and yet when things fall down it's like woman you're gonna 142 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:31,600 listen to your husband or wife you're gonna listen to your husband and husband 143 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:34,840 you're gonna be responsible for her you're gonna be responsible for your 144 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:38,920 family and so in the fall because Adam who was supposed to be the head of his 145 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:43,800 family obeyed his wife and followed her lead in direction his curse the 146 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:47,480 judgment the consequences come down on him but I do want you to notice what 147 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:51,920 does it say about the consequences because you listen to your wife and 148 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:59,920 obeyed her God cursed the ground because of Adam that's interesting the serpent 149 00:11:59,920 --> 00:12:04,960 sinned and the serpent was cursed Satan was working through that serpent Satan 150 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:10,480 was cursed the woman sinned the woman was cursed man sins and the ground is 151 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:17,120 cursed he wasn't cursed directly now it was a curse on him it was indirect 152 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:22,800 however and contrary to some popular opinion you know some people go well 153 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:27,080 work work is the curse right in the garden we did nothing we just sat there 154 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:31,240 and you know ate apples and had fun and frolicked around with the animals right 155 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:35,120 and it was just woohoo and so work man you have to work is a curse but that's 156 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:42,200 not what it says it says the ground was cursed that which he worked was cursed 157 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:49,040 and so the idea of having to work to produce to put in effort to see results 158 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:55,160 to have accomplishment that comes from that work that was a gift from God work 159 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:59,320 was always a part of the intention of perfection in the garden because back in 160 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:07,160 Genesis 2 15 it tells us that God placed Adam in the garden to work it so in the 161 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:11,880 perfection of heaven in the perfection of this paradise in this this presence 162 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:19,320 of God there was work but the work was joyous the work was not a burden the 163 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:25,920 work was not difficult and so again some like are like wow you know you read 164 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:29,240 through the curses and they're like Adam didn't even suffer a curse directly like 165 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:34,720 even the serpent how fair is that right I've even had some and many who will say 166 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:39,240 this today that if they see working as the curse they're like great so women 167 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:43,260 get double cursed because they have to work today they can't stay home and 168 00:13:43,260 --> 00:13:46,920 raise their kids and they have to get especially in California right the you 169 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:50,520 even the kids have to know I'm just kidding but it's like it's so expensive 170 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:54,520 here though one woman gets the pain in childbirth and caring and raising 171 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:59,120 children just the pain of motherhood she has to submit to her husband and she 172 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:04,400 has to go work too how fair is that well that is a misunderstanding of what the 173 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:09,680 man's curse is and why it's a curse and so let's dig into that how is the 174 00:14:09,680 --> 00:14:16,720 ground being cursed a curse on Adam well in a couple ways one I know this from 175 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:21,360 personal experience and I know this from talking to a lot of men over the years 176 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:30,360 but many men carry great guilt and shame when their actions harm something or 177 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:36,800 someone else okay it is a heavy thing for guys to carry when their actions harm 178 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:39,840 something or someone else and I believe that this is a part of the curse this is 179 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:44,120 a part of why it's the ground that was cursed and not Adam directly but he was 180 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:48,760 cursed indirectly through this because for the rest of time the rest of Adam's 181 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:54,120 life which he went on to live 900 plus years he would know that for all time 182 00:14:54,120 --> 00:15:02,000 his actions caused the ground the earth all of it to be cursed his actions 183 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:08,920 caused worldwide an innocent party so to speak the ground to be cursed to produce 184 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:14,320 thorns and thistles to be difficult to work it was his fault the ground was 185 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:19,800 cursed harmed because of what he did it was also a part of his curse to know for 186 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:25,160 all time that that what God had meant to be an easy joyful means of provision for 187 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:28,360 his family right just go work and you know can take the fruit and it's an easy 188 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:32,740 thing to do he had to know for all time that every time he put the plow to the 189 00:15:32,740 --> 00:15:39,360 field it was hard because of him his actions that that in trying to provide 190 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:45,400 for his wife it was difficult because of what man did he had to carry that guilt 191 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:49,720 and that shame for the rest of his life and the reason I see that as a curse 192 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:55,120 again and I've dealt with this personally too is is when men deal with 193 00:15:55,120 --> 00:16:00,880 temptation and disobedience right we often justify it by saying well it's not 194 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:07,100 hurting anybody else we'll get wrapped up in drugs and alcohol and we'll say 195 00:16:07,100 --> 00:16:09,880 well it's just hurting me it's not hurting anybody else and somehow we use 196 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:15,200 that justification to continue the sin well as long as it's not hurting 197 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:19,080 anybody else I'm fine I could take it I don't care what happens to me right and 198 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:24,200 and and that's a corruption of something that God built into man right men are 199 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:27,320 the ones who will go look I don't care what happens to me I'll go to war and 200 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:32,960 die as long as my family is protected right I'll go and in in slave away so 201 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:36,080 that there's food on the table for my my wife and kids that's how it was 202 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:40,280 supposed to be that's something God built within men to do I don't care what 203 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:45,080 happens to me as long as everybody else is taken care of but the per the 204 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:50,640 perversion of that is I don't care what happens to me I'll continue doing bad 205 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:54,120 things as long as it's not hurting anybody else that's a general thing that 206 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:58,600 men type men have now it's not a hundred percent across the board that men don't 207 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:02,280 care about themselves but the idea is is we'll use that as a justification for 208 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:09,440 disobedience but when innocence are suffering because of our actions when 209 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:13,800 others are harmed because of our actions it could be an incredibly great and 210 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:19,080 heavy burden to bear for a man in fact I think it's one of the greatest tools 211 00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:24,080 that the enemy uses to tear men down right one of the greatest struggles a 212 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:28,400 man has is when the devil keeps pointing out how he let everybody down how he let 213 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:32,160 his wife down how he let his kids down how he let his church down when the 214 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:35,400 devil just keeps capitalizing on his own faults your own faults your own 215 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:38,920 weaknesses your own struggles your own difficulties you know all of that all 216 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:44,040 look how it harmed someone else look out cause suffering in someone else look 217 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:46,760 how it hurts your wife look how to hurt your kids look out hurt your friends 218 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:53,040 when the devil capitalizes on that it's really really tough and a lot of men 219 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:56,960 because we tend to isolate ourselves and not want to talk about our things what 220 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:00,320 do we do we go isolate we try to bury ourselves deeper into the things that 221 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:07,440 we're struggling with to get away and we get really really hammered down by the 222 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:11,880 Lord especially when that harm and difficulty from our actions falls on 223 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:18,160 the people we love the most it's a really heavy burden to bear and I see 224 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:24,280 that here in the curse hey Adam the ground is cursed because of you and Adam 225 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:27,360 had to live for the rest of his life knowing all of this difficulty it's 226 00:18:27,360 --> 00:18:33,320 because of me it's because of what I did that's a heavy shame to bear now as I 227 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:37,420 mentioned in our study on the woman's curse I believe the primary context 228 00:18:37,420 --> 00:18:42,600 of what is being cursed here is the fulfillment of the divine commission you 229 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:46,400 guys remember back in Genesis chapter 1 verse 28 the divine commission on Adam 230 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:51,240 and Eve it tells us there was be fruitful multiply fill the earth subdue 231 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:56,960 it right the accomplishment of this commission was was an initially 232 00:18:56,960 --> 00:19:02,800 pleasant it was initially joyful it was without difficulty without you know 233 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:07,360 striving and toil it was satisfying it was easy work in that sense all they 234 00:19:07,360 --> 00:19:12,320 had to do is obey the one command don't eat of that tree everything else is 235 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:18,000 yours enjoy it have an awesome life Adams working the garden I was awesome it 236 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:22,100 was pleasant he looked forward to going to work every day right he wasn't on 237 00:19:22,100 --> 00:19:27,000 Sunday night going Monday's coming right it was he loved doing it it was a 238 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,800 service to the Lord and God was pleased with it it just pleased him right 239 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:36,360 everything about it was just beautiful but they did disobey and so as we saw 240 00:19:36,360 --> 00:19:40,360 on the woman's curse their commission to be fruitful multiply fill the earth and 241 00:19:40,360 --> 00:19:47,520 subdue it became much much harder the pleasant peaceful joyous easy nature of 242 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:55,080 their work was corrupted by pain both physical pain and emotional pain you see 243 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:59,200 an Eve's role in being fruitful and multiplying that was her role in that 244 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:04,000 was to be the one to carry the children and to birth the children and I believe 245 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:07,680 there's also extension into mothering and raising children her role in that 246 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:13,640 was cursed to be much more difficult than it was intended Adam's role in 247 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:17,240 providing and protecting in that his role in being fruitful and multiplying 248 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:21,480 which I believe was you know Adam yeah he contributed his genetic part of that 249 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:25,120 but then he didn't have to carry the child for nine months what did he do 250 00:20:25,120 --> 00:20:29,080 for nine months while mom was carrying the child he provided for her he took 251 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:33,440 care of her he ministered to her he watched over her right that was that was 252 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:37,720 his role in that overall being fruitful multiplying and then when that child was 253 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:42,360 born to be a part of raising that kid too but in the original context he would 254 00:20:42,360 --> 00:20:46,160 be providing and protecting while she would be primarily raising raising the 255 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:51,200 kids in the home all of that that he was called to do is made much much more 256 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:54,960 physically and emotionally difficult than it was intended to be just like the 257 00:20:54,960 --> 00:21:00,520 mother Eve's role so read with me in verse 17 we see what that difficulty 258 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:05,520 looks like he says the ground is cursed because of you you'll eat from it by 259 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:09,840 means of painful labor all the days of your life it will produce thorns and 260 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:14,240 thistles for you and you'll eat the plants of the field you'll eat bread by 261 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:17,400 the sweat of your own brow until you return to the ground since you were 262 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:24,400 taken from it for you are dust and you will return to dust so like I said in 263 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:28,440 the same way that the woman's curse struck at the deepest root of her being 264 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:32,920 as wife and mother the man's curse strikes at the innermost nerve of his 265 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:37,800 life his work his activity and fulfillment of God's call in his life 266 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:41,680 now when it said painful labor back in the woman's curse we talked about that 267 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:46,560 in our last study this was a Hebrew word is called Issa bond Issa bond now that 268 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:50,600 word is the one that is used in the women's curse where God says I will 269 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:54,400 intensify your labor pains right we talked about a little bit what that 270 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:59,240 means but issa bond in the Hebrew it has two main definitions the physical 271 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:04,280 sensation of ache or sharp pains for any period of time just pain physical pain 272 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:10,000 and then the second definition is hard work or toil or labor that is very 273 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:15,220 intense and so expending considerable energy with a special focus on the 274 00:22:15,220 --> 00:22:21,320 physical pain that occurs in very strenuous work now in the woman's curse 275 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:26,160 there was this word Hebrew word hair on that was connected to Issa bond and the 276 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:31,680 word hair on means pregnancy and in the Hebrew that meant the whole the whole 277 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:36,680 process from conception to birth of the child that was considered pregnancy okay 278 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:41,560 and so in the woman's curse it says I will intensify your issa bond hair on 279 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:45,480 the physical pain during the time of pregnancy and the strenuous work of 280 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:49,120 giving birth right that's how we interpreted that and then of course the 281 00:22:49,120 --> 00:22:52,600 second part of her curse involved the emotional pain that comes with children 282 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:55,920 and and I believe extends it to the the pain of mothering right it could be 283 00:22:55,920 --> 00:23:01,040 painful to be a mom but as we spoke last time when it says labor pains in the 284 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:05,960 English that that's not referring to just what we consider labor in our 285 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:09,480 modern understanding right it's not just the oh no my water broke right 286 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:14,800 labor is happening that that's not what it's referring to only it's including 287 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:21,520 the idea of the labor the work the toil of carrying a child birth in a child and 288 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:26,400 then moving on to raise that child and so here for the man the very ground that 289 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:32,160 had been such an easy joy to work such a blessing to work it was so easy to 290 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:36,200 provide for his wife it was so easy to provide for his family it was so easy to 291 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:40,840 please God and what he was called to do the ground that Adam cared for in the 292 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:45,360 garden the ground from where he provided or gathered the sustenance for him and 293 00:23:45,360 --> 00:23:51,120 his family during her role in in fruit being fruitful multiplying all of that 294 00:23:51,120 --> 00:24:01,160 was cursed his role in being fruitful multiplying was cursed his role in 295 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:07,160 taking care of his wife and children was cursed his role in serving the Lord was 296 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:14,200 cursed now the simple joyful blessing that all that was intended to be what 297 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:20,560 would be from this point forward an ongoing source of pain an ongoing source 298 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:25,960 of physical pain an ongoing source of emotional pain the very ground that was 299 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:31,560 this blessing that he was called to take care of was now his enemy it would now 300 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:36,880 work against him and so the role Adam played again and being fruitful in 301 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:41,520 multiplying and filling the earth and subduing it it would now be much much 302 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:46,720 more difficult more painful more laborious more tiring more strenuous 303 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:52,040 than it was ever intended to be and so yeah both Adam and Eve were now 304 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:57,360 experiencing perpetual pain in the very center of their existence and purpose 305 00:24:57,360 --> 00:25:03,120 but even in this we see grace even in this we see grace because like the woman 306 00:25:03,120 --> 00:25:08,400 would no longer find full satisfaction in her husband full satisfaction in her 307 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:12,960 kids full satisfaction in just her role as a wife and mother hopeful 308 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:17,600 satisfaction in a co-ruler overall creation with her husband just like she 309 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:23,600 would never find full satisfaction in that like she used to but be driven to 310 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:30,720 find it only in God apart from God no man's work no man's labor no man's 311 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:34,600 achievements would ever again fully satisfy him he would no longer be 312 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:38,600 content in those things it doesn't matter what the work was it doesn't 313 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:42,680 matter matter what the means of accomplishment is his providing his 314 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:47,080 protecting all of that none of it from the fall on would ever bring a full 315 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:52,360 complete joyous satisfaction in his life the way it did in the garden and thus 316 00:25:52,360 --> 00:25:56,160 the very thing that so many men seek their fulfillment from and their purpose 317 00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:03,520 in which is what I do my role as a husband my role as a father would now 318 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:07,840 be a never-ending source of disappointment and frustration and pain 319 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:12,640 now just like we talked about with the woman in mothering right there's there's 320 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:18,680 plenty of good moments right it's not all pain and you know just suffering 321 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:22,880 right you know it there's plenty of good moments the same thing applies in man's 322 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:27,200 work but it was never going to be remotely what it was intended to be in 323 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:31,600 the garden and so thus the good gift of work and labor and effort was now 324 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:36,960 covered in thorns and thistles especially the work that involved in 325 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:41,480 taking care of his family now as I said with the woman's curse stuff if you're a 326 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:47,360 single man you're not excluded right from the curse because anything you do 327 00:26:47,360 --> 00:26:51,400 all the work and toil you do to contribute to contribute and taking care 328 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:55,080 of yourself to contribute and taking care of your your church and being a 329 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:58,800 part of the generosity and that the the work you do and what you're given to 330 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:02,440 take care of other people the work is still cursed it's still laborious it's 331 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:07,300 still strenuous it's still you know painful especially as the generations 332 00:27:07,300 --> 00:27:11,080 have gone along I think I'm Gen X and I think my generation was the first one 333 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:18,080 that said the only reason we work is so we could have stuff right like 334 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:23,200 generations prior to Gen X was you work because that's what you do right you're 335 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,920 supposed to work my generation was like if I didn't have to work and I could 336 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:31,120 still have stuff I wouldn't work and then the generations that have come 337 00:27:31,120 --> 00:27:36,080 after you know as people look at some of the the the changing ideas and ethics of 338 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:41,180 of working and stuff some see a decline in that where the generation after me 339 00:27:41,180 --> 00:27:48,560 was I don't think I should have to work and then you know the generations after 340 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:52,880 that some say the idea is is no I should get paid what the CEO gets paid for my 341 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:56,480 entry-level work and you know and it's just like there's this idea that some 342 00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:02,200 see in the in the idea of work you know it's applicable to everybody across the 343 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:07,600 gender lines but men in general I think a lot of us would rather just play we 344 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:10,400 would rather just hang out we would rather accomplish things that are 345 00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:14,200 interesting to us more than we want to accomplish things for some company that 346 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:18,200 we work for and so we struggle with the idea of I have to earn and I have to pay 347 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,940 bills and I have to provide this and I you know we struggle with you know how 348 00:28:21,940 --> 00:28:25,880 much do I make and am I making enough and am I being respected and we struggle 349 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:30,440 with all of these things especially if you're a husband and a father to say I 350 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:33,440 gotta I gotta take care of my wife and I gotta take care of my kids and you know 351 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:36,960 and society says you're supposed to be the man and if you're not measuring up 352 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:41,800 to what society says now you feel guilty you know all of this stuff it was all 353 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:47,320 affected but the grace that shines through this is that no matter what his 354 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:53,000 work was no matter how difficult and frustrating it was no matter how none of 355 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:59,400 it would ever bring full satisfaction and full joy they would be driven into 356 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:05,920 the arms of God to find it that the good gift of work and labor and effort being 357 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:10,400 covered with thorns and thistles was one that would drive them to seek those 358 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:14,760 things in God alone because God is the only one that could provide that just 359 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:17,960 like women were going to be driven into the arms of God men are driven as well 360 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:23,440 the writer of Ecclesiastes wrote this about life apart from God he said in 361 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:28,120 Ecclesiastes chapter 1 verses 3 & 4 what does a person gain for all his 362 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:33,200 efforts that he labors at under the Sun a generation goes and a generation comes 363 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:40,000 but the earth remains forever he was frustrated what is the point of work in 364 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,600 Ecclesiastes chapter 2 verses 10 through 11 he goes all that my eyes desired I 365 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:47,960 did not deny them I did not refuse myself any pleasure for I took pleasure in all 366 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:54,240 my struggles this was my reward for my struggles when I considered all that I 367 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:57,600 had accomplished and all that I had labored to achieve I found everything to 368 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:02,240 be futile and a pursuit of the wind there was nothing to be gained under the 369 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:09,800 Sun so for the writer of Ecclesiastes after a lifetime of work and effort and 370 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:15,400 labor and struggle and planning and devising and accomplishing he's like 371 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:20,920 it means nothing because you're just gonna die and again that's what God said 372 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:26,880 to Adam here he goes look from dust you came dust you're gonna return and for 373 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:34,720 many without God that reality makes the point of life well pointless right there 374 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:38,560 are so many in our world today men that that struggle with why why go to work 375 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:43,280 why earn why do that right you're just gonna die and then so what the devil 376 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:46,920 does is capitalize that and turn it into an idea of like yeah there's no point so 377 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:50,680 just have as much fun as you can it doesn't matter who you hurt along the 378 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:56,860 way just bury that just bury it just go eat drink and be merry and so many 379 00:30:56,860 --> 00:30:59,880 men in our world try and live that way yet they're still carrying this deep 380 00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:06,800 emptiness inside there's a guilt and a shame that they might bury very deep 381 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:11,400 but it's a part of the curse here now our ultimate dissatisfaction and what we 382 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:15,160 do as guys and what we accomplish here on earth taking care of our family and 383 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:20,880 otherwise it is a significant grace as I said because that discontent that 384 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:25,200 dissatisfaction that gosh if I can't make enough money to be satisfied I 385 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,800 can't have enough cars to be satisfied I can't take care of my family well 386 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,640 enough to be satisfied I can't get a big enough house for them or I can't you 387 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:36,160 know whatever those things are that come through our mind God says your 388 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:41,320 satisfaction isn't found in any of that it's found in me come to me trust me 389 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:46,440 rest in me that's where you'll find true satisfaction now if through obedience 390 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:51,840 to God's Word and God's way men we seek to please God and please God alone in 391 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:57,000 all that we do we can experience some of the garden satisfaction here and now on 392 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:01,960 this earth as men and as fathers and as husbands as employees as bosses as 393 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:06,880 artists musicians mechanics plumbers right fill in the blank administrator 394 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:13,080 whatever it is we can find contentment in the ultimate and only purpose that 395 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:18,000 matters is to glorify God and when that is the thing that drives you I'm gonna 396 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:22,680 be a good husband because I want to glorify God I'm gonna be a good father 397 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:26,640 because I want to glorify God I want to be a good employee because I want to 398 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:31,560 glorify God I want to be a good boss because I want to glorify God when we do 399 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:37,100 that when we pursue that along the way of us living our life people will be 400 00:32:37,100 --> 00:32:42,320 blessed instead of cursed by our presence people will find the joy that 401 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,800 is in the Lord they will find the glory and the blessing that is in God people 402 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,840 will not be harmed by our selfishness but they will be blessed by our 403 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:53,600 selflessness and we only find that in Jesus Christ well I find that through 404 00:32:53,600 --> 00:33:00,120 him and living according to his way in his word now verse 20 we move on it 405 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:04,200 says the man named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all the living so 406 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:08,660 we're passing from now the speech that is that is proclaiming the penalty for 407 00:33:08,660 --> 00:33:13,360 the sin and we're moving into the grace that is going to be experienced by Adam 408 00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:17,520 and Eve in the midst of their judgment now instead of both Adam and Eve being 409 00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:21,760 destroyed for their disobedience killed for that killed for their sin against 410 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:26,760 God which is what was told to them they are allowed to continue living that is a 411 00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:31,200 grace right they are allowed to continue working in fulfillment of the 412 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:36,120 commission God gave them that's a grace they weren't done they hadn't failed to 413 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:40,240 the place of being completely cut off although it's gonna be much more painful 414 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:44,200 much more difficult to do it but all of that then had the hope of salvation 415 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:49,760 built into it you see Adam naming his previously unnamed wife Eve like prior 416 00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:53,800 to this she was just the woman she was just wife but he names her Eve it's a 417 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:58,560 it's a wonderful expression of hope on Adam's part because the word Eve means 418 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:05,160 life or life giver right and says he says he named her that because she was 419 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:10,220 the mother of all living you see Adam after having listened intently to what 420 00:34:10,220 --> 00:34:15,520 God said to his wife right because they were both hiding and then they were both 421 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:18,960 there and they both gave their excuses and so God cursed the serpent then he 422 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:22,360 talked to his wife Adam listened to all of this and so after listening to what 423 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:27,560 God said to his wife after understanding that her offspring were 424 00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:32,960 gonna be battling against Satan her ultimate offspring was gonna be the one 425 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:36,740 that would crush the head of Satan he knew that that all the intensified pain 426 00:34:36,740 --> 00:34:39,400 that she was gonna experience and carrying and birthing and raising 427 00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:45,760 children all of that meant a people would follow that there was a future hope 428 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:50,040 that she was indeed going to have children and children and children and 429 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:53,400 then through that line there's gonna be the ultimate Savior she understood he 430 00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:58,800 understood that that humanity was not done that they had not sinned so much 431 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:04,120 that they were beyond the grace of God and so when it says he named her Eve 432 00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:07,880 because she was the mother of all living there's an interesting tense in the 433 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:11,920 Hebrew language when it says she was the mother of all living that the tense of 434 00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:18,920 that is it's as good as done like Adam was putting hope in her judgment in that 435 00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:23,720 sense right you're gonna have kids Adam was like whoa wait a second that's 436 00:35:23,720 --> 00:35:27,400 that's not gonna be fun it's gonna be painful but but that means there's hope 437 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:32,200 there you are the mother of all living it is a promise he was expressing that 438 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:37,600 he had complete faith and trust and hope in God's extended grace and mercy 439 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:41,880 by saying she was he's saying look I know God's gonna restore God's gonna 440 00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:46,400 fix this God's gonna repair this God's promises are true I'm trusting in those 441 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:51,000 things it's as good as done and so verse 21 it says the Lord God made clothing 442 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:56,240 from the skins or from skins for the man and his wife and he clothed them now 443 00:35:56,240 --> 00:36:00,720 this is God performing an act of practical grace it says the Lord God 444 00:36:00,720 --> 00:36:07,520 made so what we notice here is that this act of covering them which is an 445 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:12,200 idea of covering their shame but practically covering them as well this 446 00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:19,600 is a sovereign work of God this work was thought of and executed by God alone so 447 00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:22,240 what I mean by that is I don't think Adam and Eve would ever thought of doing 448 00:36:22,240 --> 00:36:29,720 this themselves because it involved something that had yet never happened on 449 00:36:29,720 --> 00:36:37,640 earth it involved death it involved something dying it involved the taking 450 00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:43,920 of life there was no death prior to sin they had never experienced this I don't 451 00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:47,760 think they had ever seen this and remember their own attempt at covering 452 00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:53,000 their shame was was very inadequate fig leaves right they took something that 453 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:59,920 didn't cost much and they used that to try and cover their shame this attempt 454 00:36:59,920 --> 00:37:06,480 by them was was a replacement or it was a was a picture of man's own work to 455 00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:10,640 cover his sin now it says here the Lord God made clothing from skins that means 456 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:16,040 animal skins okay so animals were killed they were skinned by God and these skins 457 00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:19,880 were used to cover Adam and Eve's nakedness but again it's also a grace 458 00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:25,720 because it's a foreshadowing of God's promises to redeem by God slaying a 459 00:37:25,720 --> 00:37:30,200 creature it recognized that they were indeed now sinful creatures you Adam 460 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:34,580 and Eve are sinful creatures you have to be covered with something it admitted 461 00:37:34,580 --> 00:37:38,640 that the penalty of death did indeed fall to sin but again as we were talking 462 00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:42,500 about Adam carrying the shame and guilt of others being harmed because of what 463 00:37:42,500 --> 00:37:48,080 he did you see back when Eve ate the fruit I think Adam was standing there 464 00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:55,240 and he was like she didn't die maybe I'll get away with it too so he eats and 465 00:37:55,240 --> 00:38:03,200 he's like I'm still alive all right I got away with it but what is Adam seeing 466 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:10,960 right here no you didn't get away with it something had to die but it was this 467 00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:17,360 innocent animal that did nothing wrong because of you because of your actions 468 00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:24,000 because of what you did and Adam had to carry that shame and that guilt but it 469 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:28,880 also spoke to what God would do in rectifying the problem it spoke 470 00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:34,760 primarily that God would himself do the work of solving the problem of sin man's 471 00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:39,120 ideas for covering his guilt and shame is we take leaves from an inanimate 472 00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:45,880 unfeeling tree and and hey I'm good and God says no no no I have to deprive an 473 00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:52,760 animal of life so that you may live I have to deprive an innocent other of 474 00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:58,200 life so that you could continue and they're gonna die so that your shame 475 00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:04,120 might be relieved to a degree now for us today death is commonplace I think we're 476 00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:07,800 very familiar with death right all of us have experienced death to one degree or 477 00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:12,240 another maybe we've had loved ones that have passed but it's all around us and 478 00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:16,880 it has been our whole life and so in many ways death is is not such a big 479 00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:21,720 shocking deal as it may have been to Adam because remember for Adam I don't 480 00:39:21,720 --> 00:39:27,240 think death had ever happened at this point so in this animal being slain it 481 00:39:27,240 --> 00:39:30,400 doesn't say whether Adam watched it or not but knowing that this animal was 482 00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:34,880 slain for him I believe it was very shocking for him the idea that life was 483 00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:40,480 lost was very shocking for him and it highlighted the truth that yeah Adam 484 00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:46,240 what I told you was true if you ate of that tree death would indeed happen 485 00:39:46,240 --> 00:39:52,480 contrary to what the serpent tried to tell them you won't surely die but 486 00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:57,280 instead of it happening to Adam or Eve it happened to something else not him 487 00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:01,640 and it really displayed I think to Adam and Eve that that that death ultimately 488 00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:06,240 was was the sign of God's anger for sin you had immortality you sinned and now 489 00:40:06,240 --> 00:40:10,000 death is gonna come into the world right and we talked before that the spiritual 490 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:14,440 death immediately happened their spirit died but their particular physical death 491 00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:18,120 wasn't until hundreds of years later but right here in the beginning Adam was 492 00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:24,180 very aware that death physical death was required to deal with their sin and so 493 00:40:24,180 --> 00:40:28,760 Adam had to learn that sin cannot be covered by his own efforts sin cannot be 494 00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:33,640 covered by a few leaves snatched as he passed by a tree in the forest it could 495 00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:38,000 only be covered by pain it can only be covered by sacrifice it could only be 496 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:42,040 covered by the innocent blood of another who had done nothing wrong are you guys 497 00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:48,400 seeing the connection here the point was sin cannot be atoned for atoned for by 498 00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:52,960 any work of man ritualistically without feeling oh let's just go through the 499 00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:58,200 motions and today that might be oh I go to church once a week I'm fine I read my 500 00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:05,080 Bible here and there I'm fine I do the ritualistic things but you're still 501 00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:10,080 living in sin the point here just because you come to church doesn't mean 502 00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:14,400 you're saved just because you read your Bible doesn't mean you're saved just 503 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:19,720 because you pass out tracts doesn't mean you're saved do you trust in Jesus 504 00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:24,800 Christ the innocent who was killed for your sin do you put your faith in his 505 00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:30,680 shed blood and if you do that is how you're saved everything else is a 506 00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:36,920 response to that so the animal very clearly demonstrated that suffering both 507 00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:42,520 physically and emotionally follows sin it demonstrated that sin was real a very 508 00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:47,400 serious evil it demonstrated that no cheap easy process could deal with sin 509 00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:57,280 and Adam further learned that sin goes beyond its effect to him alone it injures 510 00:41:57,280 --> 00:42:02,880 and harms everything around us it injures and harms the people around us 511 00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:12,480 whether we think it does or not it does sin is malicious personal sin that 512 00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:16,360 nobody knows about it's not okay it radically changes your relationship to 513 00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:21,100 your creator it changes that relationship man it hurts that 514 00:42:21,100 --> 00:42:27,520 relationship it builds barriers between you and God and contrary to what you 515 00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:30,800 might be thinking there is nothing you could do about its power over you on 516 00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:38,040 your own you have to have God's intervention to deal with your sin once 517 00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:43,640 and for all God had to do something very physically and emotionally painful 518 00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:50,000 something incredibly strenuously difficult and it was done to one who had 519 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:55,400 done nothing wrong one who was without sin whose blood was pure whose blood was 520 00:42:55,400 --> 00:43:03,040 absolutely innocent and that was Jesus Christ on the cross now of course the 521 00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:07,560 slain of an innocent animal to cover Adam and Eve's sin 522 00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:12,380 it's a foreshadowing to that work that God did as he came to this earth God the 523 00:43:12,380 --> 00:43:16,560 Son Jesus Christ clothed himself in human flesh lived a perfect life and 524 00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:24,000 then was crucified for my sin and your sin who was nailed to the cross 525 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:30,440 brutalized beaten for your sin and my sin an innocent man who had literally 526 00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:39,720 never committed sin one single time but thus again we see the gospel in Genesis 527 00:43:39,720 --> 00:43:45,360 right verse 22 then the Lord God said since the man had become like one of us 528 00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:50,960 has become like one of us knowing good and evil he must not reach out and take 529 00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:55,320 from the tree of life eat and live forever so as we've seen the gospel 530 00:43:55,320 --> 00:44:00,280 numerous times here in Genesis we've also seen the Trinity numerous times back 531 00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:06,000 in Genesis chapter 1 verse 26 God's initial internal conversation where 532 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:09,920 they were talking about the creation of man and all that we see that here again 533 00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:18,200 since man has become like one of us God is a Trinity is God the Father God the 534 00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:21,960 Son God the Spirit three separate and distinct persons but simultaneously one 535 00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:27,800 God okay and people still argue about that how does that make any sense I 536 00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:33,680 don't know but the Bible teaches it it's a principle we find in the Bible people 537 00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:39,280 go I know I've never seen the word Trinity in the Bible I also don't see 538 00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:46,080 the word pornography in the Bible but it's still wrong like we infer things 539 00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:50,400 from the teaching of Scripture and the idea of God being a triune being is very 540 00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:55,320 clearly taught throughout Scripture and so just because the word Trinity doesn't 541 00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:59,900 exist doesn't mean the idea isn't there and so we see it here again as God is 542 00:44:59,900 --> 00:45:06,160 saying since the man has become like one of us and how did he become like one of 543 00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:12,080 us how did he become like God what said he now had full knowledge of good and 544 00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:17,400 evil now this is part of what Satan promised to Eve you remember he said God 545 00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:19,960 doesn't want you to eat of it because he knows when you do you'll become like him 546 00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:27,120 knowing good and evil and now that was partially true they did know good and 547 00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:32,040 evil and in that way we're like God but in the way Satan was inferring they 548 00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:36,480 were not at all like God instead of becoming glorious in knowledge and 549 00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:41,640 wisdom instead of becoming pure and holy knowing every evil and every wrong and 550 00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:45,240 every good they were corrupted they were marred they were stained they were 551 00:45:45,240 --> 00:45:51,000 spotted made impure and imperfect as their innocence was lost and we talked 552 00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:54,440 about this back in that that what they had sought was the power to decide 553 00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:59,600 right and wrong outside of and apart from God and His Word that was the that 554 00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:03,480 was the temptation you'll have all the knowledge of good and evil you don't 555 00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:07,440 need God to tell you what is right and wrong you'll be able to decide yourself 556 00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:13,360 you'll be autonomous morally autonomous without God your own God's able to 557 00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:18,620 dictate your own fate and your own future and mankind has pursued that goal 558 00:46:18,620 --> 00:46:25,520 ever since let's do it without God we're gonna see that in all five stories that 559 00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:29,800 come up in Genesis the big major narratives or the primeval history I 560 00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:34,240 mean before we get to the post-flood world you have these five stories where 561 00:46:34,240 --> 00:46:37,760 you see man over and over going we could do it without God we don't need him 562 00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:43,280 let's do it on our own let's pursue our own pleasures let's pursue our own 563 00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:48,520 wisdom let's pursue our own way and every time God has to step in he has to 564 00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:52,800 declare penalty he has to drop the judgment and the consequences but every 565 00:46:52,800 --> 00:47:00,800 single time we see God's grace in the midst of it and so to remain living in 566 00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:06,560 the garden Adam and Eve would have possibly gone to eat from the tree of 567 00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:12,200 life and eating from that tree of life would have given them eternal life and 568 00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:17,440 so what God is saying here is like hey I don't want man to be forever alive 569 00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:22,080 bodily but forever dead spiritually right that's what he's referring to here 570 00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:25,320 if they ate of the tree of life bodily they would be still immortal but 571 00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:30,080 spiritually they would be separated from God and it would be forever and that 572 00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:32,960 would be a hellscape on earth right it would just be a literal whole earth 573 00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:37,920 populated by the undying dead like somebody's gonna make a movie about that 574 00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:43,200 at some point maybe they've already have I don't know anyways and God was like 575 00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:47,100 that's not okay I don't want my creation who I love so much to be separated 576 00:47:47,100 --> 00:47:51,740 spiritually for me forever and so verse 23 the Lord God sent him away from the 577 00:47:51,740 --> 00:47:56,080 Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken he drove the man out 578 00:47:56,080 --> 00:48:01,240 and stationed the cherubim and the flaming whirling sword east of the Garden 579 00:48:01,240 --> 00:48:06,760 of Eden to guard the way to the tree of life now it's interesting in verse 24 it 580 00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:13,040 says he drove the man out what does that tell you I don't think they left 581 00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:20,720 willingly they were like okay God we messed up let's go they were possibly 582 00:48:20,720 --> 00:48:26,640 still now in their sinful fallen state trying to justify no no let us stay and 583 00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:33,000 God's like get out you sinned you disobeyed me and you can't stay here 584 00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:36,640 anymore this is this is paradise this is the place of perfection the Bible tells 585 00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:40,720 us that that sin cannot dwell in the presence of God and in the garden that 586 00:48:40,720 --> 00:48:46,120 was that special place of God's presence here on earth and so God makes his 587 00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:51,240 preemptive strike to to make sure they're an inevitable next step towards 588 00:48:51,240 --> 00:48:55,840 making themselves like God could not happen and he kicks them out of the 589 00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:59,880 garden it says that he posted the cherubim and the flaming whirling sword 590 00:48:59,880 --> 00:49:05,440 east of the Garden of Eden and I'm like as a kid I would read something like that 591 00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:08,960 as a teenager I'm like oh that's cool all right that's like Lord of the Rings 592 00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:13,600 right a whirling flaming sword the words in the Hebrew literally mean a real sword 593 00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:19,960 that was really on fire and really whirling in the air I'm gonna ask God to 594 00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:24,160 show me that when I get to heaven I'm like that's cool but it was the point of 595 00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:29,200 it was to keep them from re-entering to Eden to keep them out right the flaming 596 00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:33,960 sword is a picture of God's righteous judgment and so they couldn't get in and 597 00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:37,800 then it says there was cherubim that word cherubim refers to an otherly world 598 00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:43,480 otherworldly servant of God right it's an angel or a particular type of angel 599 00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:47,360 and then cherubim is a plural word it's a plural of the word cherub so there was 600 00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:51,720 more than one of these particular types of angels there guarding the entrance to 601 00:49:51,720 --> 00:49:55,680 Eden it also appears that there was one entrance into the garden from the east 602 00:49:55,680 --> 00:50:02,800 and so the one who was created to be a caretaker of the garden the one who was 603 00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:09,520 created to subdue the earth the one who was created to provide for and take care 604 00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:15,000 of his family to be the head of his house and to lead in a godly way as God 605 00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:23,400 would lead him the one who is created and placed in this very special place of 606 00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:28,120 God's presence just like the Holy of Holies that we see in the later 607 00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:32,680 tabernacle and then the Holy of Holies later in the temple and this place we're 608 00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:38,880 gonna see ultimately in heaven again he was excluded from that place he was 609 00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:44,000 excluded from that special presence never to enter it again at least in an 610 00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:50,480 earthly sense so although the exile was was terrible it was paradise lost again 611 00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:54,800 there is grace here is he because Adam and Eve had once lived in this perfect 612 00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:58,760 place gazing on God's face as he walked in the garden spending time in God's 613 00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:03,160 presence walking with him literally kind of breathing in the air of his presence 614 00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:09,600 there now it was impossible to do so there was a separation and I imagine 615 00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:14,480 their new condition their new situation had to be like I don't know life without 616 00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:20,760 oxygen right it was it was now they were perpetually short of spiritual 617 00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:27,120 breath they couldn't get enough they couldn't get close to God like they had 618 00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:31,280 before and there was that that very palpable sense of separation they could 619 00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:37,800 never get enough of God and in that they would long for what they had lost the 620 00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:41,520 memory of what they had lost would drive them and the intent was that it would 621 00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:47,040 drive them back in pursuit of what they once had it would drive them back into 622 00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:50,560 pursuit of the only one who could give them that peace and perfection and that 623 00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:55,760 was God himself and so Eve she found pain at the very center of her domestic 624 00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:59,080 existence Adam found the same pain in all his 625 00:51:59,080 --> 00:52:03,600 labors every day for the rest of his life I think at this point especially 626 00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:09,280 after Adam blamed her this is where fights began their children fought as 627 00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:13,680 we're gonna see in the next chapter with Cain and Abel and and after Eden they 628 00:52:13,680 --> 00:52:20,840 were never truly at home again there was always discontent and always frustration 629 00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:24,960 and always that sense that things aren't right things aren't the way they should 630 00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:30,600 be but they lived with the hope that one day through faith in God and trust in 631 00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:36,160 his promises that they could one day again be in paradise in his presence 632 00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:42,080 restored without sin forever and that really is the story of the Bible that 633 00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:46,160 that hope lies before all of us you know the entirety of Scripture from the 634 00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:49,800 Garden of Eden all the way to the great holy city at the end it's a story of 635 00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:54,840 grace as I mentioned the Garden of Eden this place of God's special presence it 636 00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:59,120 foreshadowed the Holy of Holies in the tabernacle in the temple it foreshadowed 637 00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:02,480 that special place of God's presence which we're gonna see at the end in the 638 00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:06,120 new heaven and new earth as we go through the Old Testament we're gonna 639 00:53:06,120 --> 00:53:10,620 see the entire system of worship in the tabernacle and temple all pointed to 640 00:53:10,620 --> 00:53:15,400 Jesus Christ the promised offspring who was gonna come and fix it when Jesus 641 00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:19,280 died on the cross we know in that story it says the veil that separated the 642 00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:24,240 outside of the holy place from the Holy of Holies where God's presence was it 643 00:53:24,240 --> 00:53:28,920 was torn in half from the top to the bottom why because when Jesus died on 644 00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:35,360 the cross access to the presence of God no longer required the blood of another 645 00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:40,480 as those animals they sacrificed all the time it no longer required a priest to 646 00:53:40,480 --> 00:53:44,960 mediate between the people in God it no longer required a temple as the sole and 647 00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:48,800 only place of God's special presence why because Jesus Christ was all three of 648 00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:54,600 those at once he was the sacrifice he is the great high priest and he is the 649 00:53:54,600 --> 00:54:00,440 temple he is the embodiment of all of God's glory in one spot and then as he 650 00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:03,240 is sitting at the right hand of the Father it says that the Holy Spirit is 651 00:54:03,240 --> 00:54:08,280 sent to dwell within us Christian do you understand that each one of you that 652 00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:12,800 know Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior you were the Holy of Holies do 653 00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:19,200 you realize that and I'm like I got to repaint or something I got to decorate 654 00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:24,920 this place a little better and God's like no I I dwell within you I dwell 655 00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:29,000 within you I am the hope of the future I am the promise of salvation it says 656 00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:35,280 that he is literally the guarantee of our inheritance the Holy Spirit is and 657 00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:39,720 this amazing reality for for all of believers today is that we have access 658 00:54:39,720 --> 00:54:45,960 to God's presence now not exactly like it was in the garden but we have the 659 00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:50,400 hope that it will be again one day just like that but the other side of that 660 00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:53,840 coin is for Adam and Eve and for us and all humans today there's no going back 661 00:54:53,840 --> 00:55:00,600 to the garden here on earth but it's through Christ the second Adam that the 662 00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:04,840 reality of paradise is restored to us the hope of heaven is restored to us and 663 00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:08,960 this is how Paul stated the gospel and I'll close on this 1st Corinthians 15 664 00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:12,920 verse 3 & 4 Paul said for I passed on to you is most important what I also 665 00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:17,520 received that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures that he was 666 00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:22,080 buried that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures what 667 00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:26,560 scriptures do you think Paul's referring to there they didn't have the New 668 00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:30,520 Testament canonized at this point what scriptures is he referring to the Old 669 00:55:30,520 --> 00:55:34,360 Testament he's referring to the Old Testament scriptures and that will 670 00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:40,000 naturally does naturally take us back to Genesis chapter 3 and the very original 671 00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:43,080 initial prophecy that Jesus would crush Satan's head by his death and 672 00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:48,080 resurrection to the glimpse of grace we saw in verse 21 as God slaughtered an 673 00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:53,040 innocent animal to provide covering the clothing to cover Adam and Eve sin they 674 00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:57,000 exiled from the garden all of that that Adam being reminded every day of his 675 00:55:57,000 --> 00:56:04,340 life that his disobedience caused all of this devastation his disobedience 676 00:56:04,340 --> 00:56:09,360 called the whole world caused the whole world to suffer his disobedience made 677 00:56:09,360 --> 00:56:14,000 his very call to to provide for himself and his family so strenuous so 678 00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:20,360 difficult so frustrating everything he would do all his work to provide and 679 00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:24,480 protect and accomplish the very ground the animals slain for their skin all of 680 00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:28,840 the the innocent suffering for his his his choices the physical and emotional 681 00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:34,840 pain of fulfilling God's Commission all of the days of his life as difficult as 682 00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:40,840 it was was still God's grace for it would drive him it would drive his wife 683 00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:45,680 it would drive his children and all future generations to God where true 684 00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:51,080 and full safety salvation and satisfaction can be found again so men 685 00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:55,600 my message to you today you know every frustration every difficulty every 686 00:56:55,600 --> 00:57:01,360 stress involved in your work and what you do all of your labor to provide for 687 00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:04,760 your own needs provide for the needs of your wife and your kids your families 688 00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:09,400 every frustration with the difficulty of making ends meet the difficulty of 689 00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:15,560 finding purpose in what you do all of that should remind you of the 690 00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:24,080 consequences of ever thinking you don't need God when you're like I hate my job 691 00:57:24,080 --> 00:57:29,520 I hate the fact that I have to go to work right you can get a different job 692 00:57:29,520 --> 00:57:34,920 but why do I have to work it's because I have a tendency to think I could do it 693 00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:43,920 without God's counsel why am I having this friction with my wife it's because 694 00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:49,340 I have a tendency to do things without God's counsel why won't my kids listen 695 00:57:49,340 --> 00:57:56,440 to me because of the original sin in the garden of Adam saying I'm gonna forsake 696 00:57:56,440 --> 00:58:01,680 my role as head of the household I'm gonna forsake my role as a husband I'm 697 00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:05,960 gonna forsake my role as a father I'm gonna set that aside and say it's her 698 00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:12,720 responsibility men God are calling you to lead I think a lot of the problems we 699 00:58:12,720 --> 00:58:17,960 see in the world today is because men won't step up and lead men won't step up 700 00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:24,560 for righteousness well men won't step up for for God and why it's because of our 701 00:58:24,560 --> 00:58:29,880 fallen sinful nature to say I don't want to be responsible just let me do me and 702 00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:36,440 you do you and we're all good no we're not all good the world needs godly men 703 00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:40,400 to step up and lead it needs godly men to step up and lead in their families it 704 00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:44,200 needs godly men to step up and lead in their church it means men it needs men 705 00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:49,000 to to to example what it is to be a follower of God as a husband and a 706 00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:56,440 father the world needs it because the world is so lost and we will look out to 707 00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:59,920 the world without God what we have is men who abandon their wives we have men 708 00:58:59,920 --> 00:59:03,120 who abandon their children we have men who who abandon their 709 00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:13,600 responsibilities that's a problem now if you're a man here this morning in 710 00:59:13,600 --> 00:59:22,280 you want to have your sins forgiven you've realized that you've disobeyed 711 00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:28,080 God in your life maybe you're carrying the the guilt and the shame of of 712 00:59:28,080 --> 00:59:31,880 innocence being harmed by your own selfishness and your own selfish 713 00:59:31,880 --> 00:59:40,600 decisions maybe you're just sick of how messed up you are in this world is and 714 00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:46,560 you want to have the hope of heaven maybe you're like what is the point of 715 00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:51,480 life I want you to know this today the answers to all of those questions all 716 00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:56,040 those struggles is only found through the shed blood of Jesus Christ it is 717 00:59:56,040 --> 01:00:01,600 only in a relationship with your Creator that you will find purpose you will find 718 01:00:01,600 --> 01:00:08,360 peace you will find everything you need to be who God has created you to be and 719 01:00:08,360 --> 01:00:11,000 if you're like no I'm gonna keep trying on my own you know the definition of 720 01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:14,480 insanity is trying the same thing over and over and hoping for a different 721 01:00:14,480 --> 01:00:23,880 result that's insane God wants to save you your sin your shame your guilt the 722 01:00:23,880 --> 01:00:26,960 glorious news of the Gospels it's not just covered but it's completely washed 723 01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:32,080 away by a sacrifice that from the moment you put your faith in Jesus Christ God 724 01:00:32,080 --> 01:00:35,960 looks at you and he doesn't see a person covered with an animal skin no that was 725 01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:41,000 the old covenant what he sees as someone who is spotless and blameless because 726 01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:44,080 you've put your faith in the blood of Jesus Christ the innocent who died in 727 01:00:44,080 --> 01:00:50,160 your place the one who had done nothing wrong where you had done everything 728 01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:54,760 wrong but he died he took the penalty in the punishment when you put your faith 729 01:00:54,760 --> 01:01:00,120 in that that blood that he shed it washes you clean there's no guilt there's no 730 01:01:00,120 --> 01:01:08,240 condemnation you're free you are free in Jesus Christ this is the great gospel 731 01:01:08,240 --> 01:01:13,000 this is the gospel announced here in the beginning of Genesis this is the gospel 732 01:01:13,000 --> 01:01:16,640 that is fully consummated at the end of Revelation and the reality is simply 733 01:01:16,640 --> 01:01:21,600 this if you were apart from Christ you are lost but if you were in Christ you 734 01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:27,760 have life and in Christ you will one day again see paradise you will see the tree 735 01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:32,600 of life you will see the face of God forever in his presence but it starts 736 01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:39,880 here and now saying God I believe in who you are I believe that sin is my problem 737 01:01:39,880 --> 01:01:46,480 and I believe you're the only one that could fix it let's pray father we thank 738 01:01:46,480 --> 01:01:53,680 you God for your word Lord I believe there are men possibly here in our room 739 01:01:53,680 --> 01:02:02,080 and men online watching that you're speaking to God Lord our world has 740 01:02:02,080 --> 01:02:09,720 twisted your call on men's life and tried to tell us that that we are the 741 01:02:09,720 --> 01:02:12,520 ones who have all the answers and it's in our strength everything will be 742 01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:18,840 accomplished Lord and yet the harder we try the worst things get that Lord there 743 01:02:18,840 --> 01:02:22,400 is no peace without you there is no joy without you there is no point and 744 01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:29,480 purpose without you but God the problem is that we are sinners and as long as we 745 01:02:29,480 --> 01:02:34,960 keep trying to cover our own sin with fig leaves we keep trying to say well 746 01:02:34,960 --> 01:02:38,760 our own works our own efforts are enough that somehow that's gonna make us right 747 01:02:38,760 --> 01:02:43,760 with you God Lord the reality is none of that will ever be enough it is only full 748 01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:51,800 faith and trust and yielding to the blood of Jesus Christ that cleanses 749 01:02:51,800 --> 01:02:58,720 from all sin and Lord your word promises us both men and women that all who would 750 01:02:58,720 --> 01:03:04,840 confess their sin all who would come to you and confess what they've done and 751 01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:14,120 say God I am a sinner and I know that that if they ask for your salvation they 752 01:03:14,120 --> 01:03:18,000 would be saved and so Lord I just want to pray right now for any men in this 753 01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:22,320 room and women as well if God is speaking to you about your need for salvation I 754 01:03:22,320 --> 01:03:28,360 just want you to pray this prayer with me and say Lord God I know I've sinned I 755 01:03:28,360 --> 01:03:35,920 know I've been trying to cover my sin with my own efforts and my own work but 756 01:03:35,920 --> 01:03:43,360 God I know I've been neglecting your call God I know I've been neglecting the 757 01:03:43,360 --> 01:03:51,160 role you've given me in this world Lord to be a man to be a father to be a 758 01:03:51,160 --> 01:03:59,280 husband to be an employee to be a boss whatever it may be God Lord in all of 759 01:03:59,280 --> 01:04:07,120 those you've called me to obey you that I would accomplish your call 760 01:04:07,120 --> 01:04:17,480 successfully but God I've I've sinned I have disobeyed you I've neglected my 761 01:04:17,480 --> 01:04:25,720 duty and I say God please forgive me God I don't want to be covered with my own 762 01:04:25,720 --> 01:04:30,400 works anymore because they're inadequate I want to be covered by the blood of 763 01:04:30,400 --> 01:04:37,960 Christ Jesus I trust in what you did for me I thank you for what you did for me I 764 01:04:37,960 --> 01:04:44,960 put my faith in that and believe that you are saving my soul that I am saved 765 01:04:44,960 --> 01:04:51,640 now and that I will be saved in the future Lord let me experience your 766 01:04:51,640 --> 01:04:59,240 presence humble me in your presence that I would live for you in this world with 767 01:04:59,240 --> 01:05:06,880 the hope of heaven in the future thank you for loving me so much thank you for 768 01:05:06,880 --> 01:05:14,160 dying in my place thank you for taking my penalty and thank you Lord to the 769 01:05:14,160 --> 01:05:20,160 blood of Jesus Christ that you would forgive me and alleviate me of the guilt 770 01:05:20,160 --> 01:05:27,040 and the condemnation that the enemy would pull upon me Lord be glorified in 771 01:05:27,040 --> 01:05:32,560 my life in Jesus name amen well if you prayed that prayer today 772 01:05:32,560 --> 01:05:37,680 congratulations God is gonna change your life I think every man in here that 773 01:05:37,680 --> 01:05:41,000 knows Jesus Christ can testify to the moment they put their faith in Jesus 774 01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:45,280 Christ their life changed and it continued to change as they walked with 775 01:05:45,280 --> 01:05:49,600 him there's also a lot of men in here who can testify that yes sometimes when 776 01:05:49,600 --> 01:05:56,360 we stopped walking with God wow things got worse and so don't do that right but 777 01:05:56,360 --> 01:05:59,480 there are people here that that want to support you in this walk and if you gave 778 01:05:59,480 --> 01:06:02,520 your life to Jesus Christ today you've made the most important decision you 779 01:06:02,520 --> 01:06:08,600 will ever make you were on the path to being who God created you to be as you 780 01:06:08,600 --> 01:06:11,920 learn of him you were on the path to being a better husband and a better 781 01:06:11,920 --> 01:06:17,720 father as you learn how to yield to Jesus and lead the way he's calling you 782 01:06:17,720 --> 01:06:23,160 to lead you're gonna experience contentment and peace and joy and purpose 783 01:06:23,160 --> 01:06:30,000 like you've never experienced before so if you made that decision today we we 784 01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:32,960 have this thing called a new believers pack we want to give you to help you on 785 01:06:32,960 --> 01:06:36,000 this journey if you're watching online please let us know in chat we'll mail 786 01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:40,680 one out to you because this relationship you've now reestablished 787 01:06:40,680 --> 01:06:46,680 yours with your creator we just want to walk with you the church is the family 788 01:06:46,680 --> 01:06:50,080 of God and as family we support one another we pray for one another we're 789 01:06:50,080 --> 01:06:54,840 there for one another don't do this alone guys don't try and isolate that is 790 01:06:54,840 --> 01:07:01,160 not how God created it to be be in community and grow in the Lord and watch 791 01:07:01,160 --> 01:07:20,840 your life be blessed amen let's pray or let's worship