WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:09.000 Welcome Just hand Away Tagalog Sermon podcast, your daily dose 2 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:12.919 of inspiring from heartfelt tagalog sermons from different pasters and 3 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:16.480 speakers all over the Philippines. We open this podcast finds 4 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:23.000 you in good shape and now here's your message. 5 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:28.320 You're listening to a podcast from Victory. Though God created 6 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:33.600 everything good, sin entered and caused pain, suffering, misalignment and 7 00:00:33.719 --> 00:00:37.119 veering from God's plan. Learn more about this message in 8 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:41.439 week two of our series. The Story of Us fasts. 9 00:00:41.079 --> 00:00:43.200 Here and we are now in the second week of 10 00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:47.240 our series, Uh, the story about us? And we have 11 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:52.079 last week at Yes Green now so bron pack no 12 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:55.719 ating series. And today I won't go uh, let's go 13 00:00:55.799 --> 00:00:57.520 straight to the word. Let's bow that our heads and 14 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:00.679 pray Lord, we thank you for today. We open our hearts, 15 00:01:01.359 --> 00:01:03.679 that fire come down from heaven and consume as God. 16 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:07.120 Maybe know more of who you are in Jesus name. Amen. 17 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:10.280 So this series is about our story. It's a story 18 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:12.319 of us. It's a story of human beings. It's a 19 00:01:12.359 --> 00:01:16.000 story of humanity. What is our purpose? Why are we here? 20 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:18.400 And last week we have a very pact it was 21 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:22.959 very full coming from Genesis chapter one. Actually for a 22 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:25.599 couple of verses, if you would remember, no, last week 23 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:30.400 we ended with this idea that God designed a good world. 24 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:34.560 And whether you are a Christian or not, whether you 25 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:39.000 believe in the Bible or not, or whether you agree 26 00:01:39.079 --> 00:01:42.519 with what Genesis says or not, this is what we 27 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:46.480 all want our world to be, Isn't it true? Whether 28 00:01:46.719 --> 00:01:51.840 Christiano or in mundo, we want a good world. And 29 00:01:52.040 --> 00:01:55.760 last week we saw that when God designed the world, 30 00:01:55.879 --> 00:01:58.400 he designed it to be to be a good world, 31 00:01:58.840 --> 00:02:02.680 and that mankind us we are created in the image 32 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:06.000 and likeness of God. But here's the tension that we 33 00:02:06.599 --> 00:02:10.319 left hanging last week. If God wanted a good world, 34 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:14.560 why is it when we open our Facebook, when we 35 00:02:14.639 --> 00:02:18.639 watch the TV, we would see evil happening all around us? 36 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:23.680 Because you don't have to be a Christian to agree 37 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:27.879 with me in this. We all observe and we all 38 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:32.599 generally agree that there is something wrong in this world. 39 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:40.240 There's crime outside, there's war, there's terrorism, there's corruption, there's suicide, 40 00:02:40.479 --> 00:02:45.520 there's stealing, there's killings. There's something broken in our world. 41 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:48.319 And you don't even have to be a Christian to 42 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:53.319 declare this. This is something we all generally agree. Now 43 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:56.520 the question is how did we get here? So many 44 00:02:56.639 --> 00:03:02.120 theories about that, lack of education, lack of self expression, 45 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:07.159 lack of discipline, and all those things, But how did 46 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:10.960 we get here? How come we have a world that's broken? 47 00:03:11.199 --> 00:03:14.479 If God said, oh, he created a good world, but 48 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:17.319 when I go back to my office, when I go 49 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:20.879 back to my campus, it's not a good world. There 50 00:03:21.159 --> 00:03:24.759 is something wrong. That's what we're going to look at. 51 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:27.800 How did we get here? So we're going to read 52 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:31.800 from chapter three of Genesis, and it's going to be 53 00:03:31.960 --> 00:03:35.759 very packed. Genesis three, verse one, it says here, now 54 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:39.319 the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of 55 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:42.159 the field that the Lord God had made. He said 56 00:03:42.199 --> 00:03:46.520 to the woman, Did God actually say you shall not 57 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:50.319 eat of any tree in the garden? Now? Before I continue, 58 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:53.280 most of us here you may be familiar with this story, 59 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:56.840 but I'm praying and I'm begging you to look at 60 00:03:56.840 --> 00:03:59.879 it in a different perspective. As I've said last week, 61 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:05.319 much of our issues in today's world are actually addressed 62 00:04:05.639 --> 00:04:10.280 and acknowledged in the first three chapters of Genesis, or 63 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:14.439 in the first three chapters of the Bible Verse three, 64 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:19.079 verse two, Sabidito and the woman said to the serpent, 65 00:04:19.279 --> 00:04:21.120 we may eat of the fruit of the trees in 66 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:23.600 the garden. But God said, you shall not eat of 67 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:25.959 the fruit of the tree that is in the midst 68 00:04:25.959 --> 00:04:29.040 of the garden. Neither shall you touch it lest you 69 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:32.079 die verse four. But the serpent said to the woman, 70 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:35.800 you will not surely die, for God knows that when 71 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:39.199 you eat of it, your eyes will be open, and 72 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:44.360 you will be like God, knowing good and evil. The 73 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:46.879 first thing that we need to observe here is that 74 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:50.199 there is the presence of an enemy, and that enemy 75 00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:54.279 is called the devil. Whether you believe the devil or 76 00:04:54.360 --> 00:04:57.839 not is up to you. But if you don't believe 77 00:04:57.879 --> 00:05:01.160 the devil, be already in a disadvantage because, say, whether 78 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:04.319 we believe him or not, he exists, and the goal 79 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:09.079 of the devil is to oppose God. They're not equals, 80 00:05:09.319 --> 00:05:13.600 mind you, and yang, God is far more supreme and 81 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:16.600 powerful than him. But the active rule of the devil 82 00:05:16.839 --> 00:05:20.759 is to destroy and to corrupt and to oppose God's will. 83 00:05:21.160 --> 00:05:24.720 And Elan, I won't say in themaganda too, But the 84 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:28.399 schemes of the devil in Genesis is the same schemes 85 00:05:28.439 --> 00:05:31.959 that he still uses until today. What do I mean? 86 00:05:32.279 --> 00:05:39.120 The devil accuses? Did God actually say anabi? Any? Lord? 87 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:46.199 He accuses God, He accuses us, not only that the 88 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:50.319 devil is a liar, he deceives Sabina. No, no, no, 89 00:05:50.519 --> 00:05:54.360 you will surely die. If you read chapter two of Genesis, 90 00:05:54.360 --> 00:05:56.639 God said you may eat a van tree, except the 91 00:05:56.639 --> 00:05:58.800 tree of knowledge of good and evil, because if you 92 00:05:58.839 --> 00:06:03.600 eat it, you will die. No, no, he must have 93 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:06.839 you know you must have misheard him. You will not 94 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:11.079 surely die. And you know what the next attack of 95 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:15.560 the devil is something that we all are familiar with. 96 00:06:15.959 --> 00:06:22.199 You're missing out on something for God knows. I know 97 00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:27.519 the moment we need with hold say you see, Lord, 98 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:30.800 you know that statement, for God knows. He kind of 99 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:34.519 accuses God of you know what he says he loves you, 100 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:37.800 But why isn't he giving you what makes you happy? 101 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:43.240 Maybe we have that prayers? Lord, I'm praying. I'm praying. 102 00:06:43.519 --> 00:06:47.160 Why aren't you answering me? Why aren't Why am I 103 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:53.920 not happy? Back it? No, Lord, that's a lie of 104 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:58.199 the devil. You know what God knows case you'll be 105 00:06:58.199 --> 00:07:01.360 better than him. You know what is not giving you? 106 00:07:01.519 --> 00:07:03.560 He says he loves you, but he doesn't give you 107 00:07:03.639 --> 00:07:08.959 the best schemes of the devil and nasty. The temptation, 108 00:07:09.519 --> 00:07:12.800 the greatest temptation is this, you will be like God. 109 00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:16.560 You know what, He's holding the fruit for you from 110 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:20.240 you because you be like God. You know what's kind 111 00:07:20.279 --> 00:07:23.879 of interesting with the last statement, you will be like God. 112 00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:27.519 Remember what are we called. We are called to be 113 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:31.839 in the image and likeness of God. So in short, 114 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:34.639 we are already like God in the sense that we 115 00:07:34.959 --> 00:07:39.560 image him and we reflect him. But this time the 116 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:45.439 devil makes us forget our identity Adam. And if no, 117 00:07:45.560 --> 00:07:49.720 we're like God already. I don't have to disobey God 118 00:07:49.800 --> 00:07:53.199 so that I can fulfill my identity. I can know 119 00:07:53.399 --> 00:07:56.079 good and evil if I just choose to obey God. 120 00:07:56.399 --> 00:08:00.879 But I feel like God's withholding some good from me 121 00:08:02.079 --> 00:08:05.199 and I get to be like God. At the very 122 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:10.600 heart of our sin is that declaration. Now God, you're 123 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:14.720 not God. I am God. I get to say what's 124 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:21.720 good and what's evil, but not important just who everyone's 125 00:08:21.800 --> 00:08:26.000 doing it. I feel good about it. It's good. That's 126 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:30.360 at the very heart of all our sin, declaring God, 127 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:34.799 You're not God, I am God. That's the temptation. Of 128 00:08:34.879 --> 00:08:40.519 the devil. Then and until now, there's nothing new. He 129 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:44.039 just changes the words, but in essence it's still the same. 130 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:48.120 He makes us forget our identity. We are created to 131 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:52.399 be an image bearer in the image and likeness of God. 132 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:58.600 The temptation of the devil and something new he just angles. 133 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:01.759 He just positions him self. So he's a great marketer. 134 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:06.399 He sells that, the sin and that temptation in such 135 00:09:06.440 --> 00:09:09.440 a way in a patent feeling. But in reality, if 136 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:11.799 you remember who we are in Christ, we actually have 137 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:17.200 that already, your identity, not in So how did the 138 00:09:17.399 --> 00:09:22.519 how did mankind respond? Verse six sabio. So when the 139 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:25.480 woman saw that the tree was good for food, and 140 00:09:25.559 --> 00:09:27.799 it was a delight to the eyes, and that the 141 00:09:27.840 --> 00:09:30.639 tree was to be desired to make one wise, she 142 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:34.200 took of its food and ate, and she also gave 143 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:38.720 some to her husband, who was with her. Now the 144 00:09:38.759 --> 00:09:41.480 lie of the devil has set in. If we let 145 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:44.679 the lies of the devil set in our lives, the 146 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:48.799 lies become eventually our truth, even though it's not really true. 147 00:09:49.480 --> 00:09:54.799 For Eve, she believed the lie. Now it's a reality 148 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:58.919 to her. I'm like God, So who says I should 149 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:02.039 not get this fruit and eat it. She determines what's 150 00:10:02.080 --> 00:10:05.080 good and what's not. Now, the loss of the eyes, 151 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:07.759 the loss of the flesh and the pride of life, 152 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:11.799 I will become like God. There's this desire to be wise, 153 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:15.519 and she took it. And this is the definition of sin, 154 00:10:15.679 --> 00:10:18.519 and this is the start of our downfall. Their sin 155 00:10:18.879 --> 00:10:22.440 is still present until now. We usually think of sin 156 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:33.519 or caslana us doing something wrong, stealing, cheating, killing, cursing. 157 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:36.480 We used to think that sin is doing something wrong, 158 00:10:36.879 --> 00:10:40.519 and yes, but if that is all our definition of sin, 159 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:44.360 we are missing on a lot. Sin in its origin 160 00:10:44.519 --> 00:10:48.039 original language, actually means missing the mark. Can I ask 161 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:58.000 Benjambista illustration, I've been wanting to do this, okay, So 162 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:05.080 so sin is missing the mark. It means that what 163 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:15.519 God wants us to have. So sin is when God 164 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:19.519 says you aim at that and we try our best, 165 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:25.639 but we don't hit it. You're not effort. That's also sin. 166 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:29.960 We we think that sin is just deliberately, you know, 167 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:34.000 doing something bad. Yes, but not only that, it's also 168 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:38.080 failing to do something good. But more than that, sin 169 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:44.519 also is not just doing something bad. It's declaring that no, 170 00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:47.759 I'm not submitting to God's law. The Bible says sin 171 00:11:47.919 --> 00:11:52.240 is lawlessness. It's removing God from the picture and putting 172 00:11:52.279 --> 00:11:56.159 ourselves as God. And we get to say, I'm not 173 00:11:56.399 --> 00:12:06.360 hitting that a yohu Lord, that's sin. And we think 174 00:12:06.440 --> 00:12:11.120 that sin is just all our actions Nata mura Salita. 175 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:14.840 But you know that sin also starts in this, in 176 00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:18.960 our minds and in our hearts, meaning I don't even 177 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:28.519 have to do anything bad, Masha. And then there's reading 178 00:12:28.600 --> 00:12:32.480 the heart. We've already set the direction of our life, 179 00:12:32.639 --> 00:12:35.360 not to the will of God, but to somewhere else. 180 00:12:36.519 --> 00:12:40.639 Not only that, sin is both commission and omission. What 181 00:12:40.679 --> 00:12:44.240 do I mean? Sin is commission in the sense Nasina 182 00:12:44.360 --> 00:12:48.679 Jana and magasala. We did things that we should not do, 183 00:12:49.080 --> 00:12:51.759 like what Eve did. She took the fruit and ate 184 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:54.799 it when it should not have been done. But sin 185 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:59.320 also is omission. We did not do something we're supposed 186 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:05.000 to do. What Adam did verse Canina. Adam was right 187 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:17.720 besides Eve, Adamnand the first sin of man, the male 188 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:21.639 is passivity. When you look at our world now, how 189 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:26.559 many men are passive, just sitting in their chairs playing 190 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:30.240 video games for rs and rs and losing their purpose 191 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:37.559 in life. Sin is not just doing something bad. Sin 192 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:40.919 is deliberately saying I'm not hitting that, I'm going to 193 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:44.600 hit whatever I want to hit because I rule my life, 194 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:52.000 my happiness, my joy, my dreams, my way, Me, me, 195 00:13:52.000 --> 00:14:00.440 me and me, you gets it done. What's the effect 196 00:14:00.480 --> 00:14:03.519 of sin in our lives? The effect of that is separation. 197 00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:08.679 There was now a separation between us and God. Tyo 198 00:14:08.679 --> 00:14:12.440 Sabirito's the next versal, Genesis three, verse seven, It says, 199 00:14:12.480 --> 00:14:15.879 here then the then the eyes of both were open, 200 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:18.799 and they knew that they were naked, and they sued 201 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:24.039 fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths verse eight, Sabidito. 202 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:26.919 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking 203 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:34.519 in the cool of the day, the paparatingna Sabi Tito, 204 00:14:34.559 --> 00:14:37.240 and the man and his wife hid themselves from the 205 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:40.440 presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 206 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:43.039 But the Lord called out to the man, where are 207 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:47.320 you all right? Where are you? Sabi titos so diverse, 208 00:14:47.519 --> 00:14:50.039 And he said, I heard the sound of you in 209 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:53.000 the garden, and I was afraid, and I was naked, 210 00:14:53.240 --> 00:14:55.480 and I hid myself. Some things that we could see 211 00:14:55.480 --> 00:14:59.320 here there was separation between God and man Nasanka. It's 212 00:14:59.360 --> 00:15:03.639 not that God didn't know. God knows, it's that man 213 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:10.480 chows to hide himself from God. In fact, remember that 214 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:24.159 time nabasad glassna plata nasala Man, you know you've done 215 00:15:24.200 --> 00:15:28.120 something wrong. That's what they felt mana basadilla when they 216 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:31.320 broke the law or the command of God. They knew 217 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:34.279 they did something wrong, so they hit There's this separation, 218 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:39.960 there's this shame, there's this guilt, guilty, and how many 219 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:44.080 of us here coming to church every Sunday sometimes that's 220 00:15:44.080 --> 00:15:46.919 what you feel. I feel guilty every time pastor preaches. 221 00:15:48.440 --> 00:15:52.000 Open up. This is the effect of sin, separation between 222 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:55.559 God and man. Not only that they started covering up 223 00:15:55.600 --> 00:15:59.919 their sin, they sued going fig leaves together in their 224 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:03.279 effort to cover their shame. And all of us here we, 225 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:07.039 in one way or another, have tried to cover our 226 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:13.519 sin in our education, in our finances, in our being religious, 227 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:17.399 in our being good. But all those things cannot cover 228 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:21.320 up our sin, shame and guilt. Another thing that we 229 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:28.200 can observe here is the sudden increase of iye making 230 00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:35.120 self centered. As man I heard I was naked, I 231 00:16:35.200 --> 00:16:40.320 was afraid. I hid myself Kawana Manahue. And this is 232 00:16:40.360 --> 00:16:44.519 our generation right now, right the victim mentality. I deserve 233 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:48.679 to be treated like this. It's my right. I got hurt. 234 00:16:49.320 --> 00:16:53.559 I need respect, I need appreciation. Now the world suddenly 235 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:57.480 revolves around man and not God. Could you imagine if 236 00:16:57.600 --> 00:17:02.000 all of us here starts to want to revolve all 237 00:17:02.120 --> 00:17:08.160 things around us. Nakhila and Taio, you selfish nesty, Coach, Josh, 238 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:12.400 your selfish Adrian, you selfishness, go but Nakhila and Taio. 239 00:17:12.519 --> 00:17:16.799 And thus we see that in our schools, in our work, 240 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:23.920 in our relationships, Sinos my friend, my cor relationship, the 241 00:17:24.079 --> 00:17:28.200 soubram self centered. Aren't we all fed up with people 242 00:17:28.319 --> 00:17:32.160 like that? Their their heads are just so big? And 243 00:17:32.759 --> 00:17:37.759 Yavang Why the effect of sin? Look at the number 244 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:42.000 of eyes now it revolves around him. Then look at 245 00:17:42.039 --> 00:17:45.640 what God says. So the effect of sin, okay a 246 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:51.559 separation between us and God. Because now we declare we 247 00:17:51.599 --> 00:17:55.759 are like God, and now the world revolves around us. 248 00:17:56.079 --> 00:17:59.519 We define what's good and what's wrong. Now look at 249 00:17:59.559 --> 00:18:02.599 the next thing that happened Verses eleven to twelve. He said, 250 00:18:02.759 --> 00:18:05.440 who told you that you were naked? Sabini, God, have 251 00:18:05.559 --> 00:18:07.799 you eaten of the tree which I commanded you not 252 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:11.160 to eat? The man said, the woman whom you gave 253 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:14.079 with me, she gave me fruit of the tree and 254 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:19.039 I ate it. You know, Simolan, and see had hen 255 00:18:19.079 --> 00:18:24.160 I'm muba Adam you fruit. He didn't notice that. He 256 00:18:24.240 --> 00:18:30.720 didn't answer. Sabina yumba baye Nabini gay Mo, I'm the 257 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:36.000 victim here God, the woman which is the tournament who 258 00:18:36.119 --> 00:18:41.680 you gave Lord? Which is also true? The Lord, I'm 259 00:18:41.720 --> 00:18:44.799 the victim here. Why are you asking me? I'm the 260 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:49.880 the kouawa party here? Lord? It's her port fault and 261 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:54.160 which by the way, Lord Lord kayoma case. That's what 262 00:18:54.279 --> 00:18:58.920 Adam was saying. Now the blame shifts started happening. Now 263 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:03.400 the separation not just between God and man starts, but 264 00:19:03.559 --> 00:19:08.039 now the separation between man with their fellow mankind starts. 265 00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:15.640 Solana motoy it's your fault, Sino. Don't raise your hands, 266 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:24.160 say na galitna conte na another human being in the 267 00:19:24.279 --> 00:19:29.640 past five days. Don't raise your hands. Usually what's the topic. 268 00:19:30.319 --> 00:19:34.359 It's either that person did something wrong against you, or 269 00:19:35.200 --> 00:19:39.799 that there's a misunderstanding or mag you know. Malay and 270 00:19:39.880 --> 00:19:43.279 you started hating that person, whatever it is. Lain in 271 00:19:43.319 --> 00:19:48.079 a sabe my ginawahan malay he or she hurt me. 272 00:19:49.319 --> 00:19:51.759 That's the start of sin. That's the effect of sin, 273 00:19:51.880 --> 00:19:56.480 rather not just separation between God and man, separation between 274 00:19:56.640 --> 00:20:01.279 man and another man. Now pre obviously Adam and Eve 275 00:20:01.480 --> 00:20:05.440 was enjoying the fellowship of God and man. They were 276 00:20:05.599 --> 00:20:08.920 enjoying the fellowship of each other. When sin came, it 277 00:20:09.079 --> 00:20:15.119 was all destroyed. It's his fault, it's her fault. It's 278 00:20:15.400 --> 00:20:19.519 causing the world revolves around you. When the world stops 279 00:20:19.599 --> 00:20:23.279 revolving around you, we start being angry. We start oh, 280 00:20:23.319 --> 00:20:25.359 I didn't get the way I want it to be. 281 00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:30.119 That's the separation between God and that's why God is 282 00:20:30.200 --> 00:20:33.799 mad at sin. It's not because he's a cosmic cage 283 00:20:34.480 --> 00:20:38.000 or a cosmic killed joy. He knows the effects of sin. 284 00:20:38.200 --> 00:20:42.039 It separates us from him, and it destroys our relationship 285 00:20:42.119 --> 00:20:49.680 with each other. Sine meat nah friends mon nomatagal that 286 00:20:49.880 --> 00:20:54.960 office met megino and and he or she has offended you, 287 00:20:55.839 --> 00:20:59.880 even if your officemate is just two blocks away from me, 288 00:21:00.039 --> 00:21:04.599 you in your office space. Malap or a classimo make 289 00:21:04.640 --> 00:21:10.640 a classic. You know doesn't it feel like, even though 290 00:21:10.720 --> 00:21:14.640 that person is physically near you, there's in your feeling 291 00:21:14.799 --> 00:21:19.599 there there's distance between you. Let me tell how about 292 00:21:19.640 --> 00:21:24.880 this one for the married people husband wife, tiba is ahama. 293 00:21:25.079 --> 00:21:28.480 But when there's an offense, you feel like, even though 294 00:21:28.559 --> 00:21:32.160 that person is literally right next to you, there's distance 295 00:21:32.279 --> 00:21:37.160 between you. What's that? The effect of sin? That's why 296 00:21:37.240 --> 00:21:43.519 God is mad at sin. And not only does it 297 00:21:43.599 --> 00:21:50.160 bring separation, it also brings brokenness. Now it doesn't just 298 00:21:50.319 --> 00:21:53.480 separate us, it breaks us. And for me, this is 299 00:21:53.559 --> 00:21:56.440 what this is, what this is what makes me angry 300 00:21:56.519 --> 00:21:59.079 about sin. And hopefully at the end of the series, 301 00:21:59.440 --> 00:22:01.559 when you read the Bible and when the Bible tells 302 00:22:01.599 --> 00:22:05.400 you to walk righteously and fight and turn away from sin. 303 00:22:05.799 --> 00:22:08.799 God's not telling that because he's beholding something from you. 304 00:22:09.400 --> 00:22:12.559 But God's telling that because he knows that it can 305 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:15.279 separate you and it can break you. What do I 306 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:19.759 mean by brokenness? Remember last week Yu mahawala, I have 307 00:22:19.920 --> 00:22:23.160 no time to describe this once again. But remember, since 308 00:22:23.240 --> 00:22:25.440 we are created in the image and likeness of God, 309 00:22:25.519 --> 00:22:30.039 we are a complete being. We reflect God and image 310 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:34.519 God in these variety of ways. When sin came. It 311 00:22:34.799 --> 00:22:40.440 broke our image as a living being, our soul. Our 312 00:22:40.599 --> 00:22:46.119 emotions now become deceitful. Our spirit now we experience spirit 313 00:22:46.200 --> 00:22:50.519 will death, our morality, our conscience of what's right and 314 00:22:50.640 --> 00:22:54.319 what's wrong. Now, since we are functioning like God, we 315 00:22:54.640 --> 00:22:59.240 say what's right and what's wrong our unique personality. Now 316 00:22:59.359 --> 00:23:09.440 there's insecturities I II insecurities our mind, which by the way, 317 00:23:09.519 --> 00:23:13.559 belongs to the soul. Our mind is now plagued by 318 00:23:13.640 --> 00:23:20.640 depression and psychological issues. Our relationships can't function anymore because 319 00:23:20.720 --> 00:23:24.920 now your relationship, not the good design, is being corrupted 320 00:23:25.079 --> 00:23:29.920 by sin. We want we want to abuse physically, there's sickness, 321 00:23:30.759 --> 00:23:36.839 the sexually, there's distortion of gender orientation, all of that. 322 00:23:37.039 --> 00:23:43.839 To say it came from sin, imagine the gravity of it, Tao. 323 00:23:44.359 --> 00:23:47.839 We are undergoing some psychological problems, and we said last 324 00:23:47.880 --> 00:23:50.319 time that we can't just attack it at one point. 325 00:23:50.680 --> 00:23:54.920 It's a complete package. But Sin distorted that also. That's 326 00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:59.720 why there's that depression. We long depressed, so Genesis one. 327 00:24:00.880 --> 00:24:04.920 But when sin came, that's why there is That's why 328 00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:09.359 God so mad. That's sin. He doesn't want that. Remember creativity. 329 00:24:09.839 --> 00:24:13.079 God created us to be creative beings. If you're a 330 00:24:13.160 --> 00:24:15.440 business man, we have When you have a business idea 331 00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:19.039 and you start a business, you're exercising the image of God. 332 00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:22.880 You're creating value to the world. You're creating something good 333 00:24:23.240 --> 00:24:26.599 so that it would benefit society. Now that sin came, 334 00:24:26.880 --> 00:24:38.079 we get creative in sinning Yu Maha balita wowala. He 335 00:24:38.279 --> 00:24:41.839 was and you checkpoints. He was a young young Anatoma. 336 00:24:42.599 --> 00:24:46.799 Pierre Mahanta is a airport Parada smuggle. And we see 337 00:24:46.880 --> 00:24:51.039 now the creativity of men to create sin. In fact, 338 00:24:51.319 --> 00:24:53.759 let's not go further. Let's start with Let's start with us. 339 00:24:54.519 --> 00:24:57.920 Isn't it true? Sometimes we create lies to protect ourselves. 340 00:24:58.000 --> 00:25:04.160 We get creative with lies sin. It affects our creativity 341 00:25:04.519 --> 00:25:08.759 that the original design is user creativity for something good. 342 00:25:09.200 --> 00:25:13.960 Now I'm using my creativity for my benefit and sometimes 343 00:25:14.079 --> 00:25:19.640 to hurt the world purpose. Our purpose is destroyed. Also 344 00:25:20.200 --> 00:25:23.480 now sometimes we feel like we don't live for a purpose. 345 00:25:24.000 --> 00:25:28.160 Why am I here? Or we have a distorted view 346 00:25:28.200 --> 00:25:31.000 of purpose. I live so that I can be happy. 347 00:25:31.519 --> 00:25:34.279 I live so that I can alone, so that I 348 00:25:34.440 --> 00:25:37.960 will be successful. It's a distorted view of purpose. The 349 00:25:38.160 --> 00:25:43.279 image is broken. Not only that our how we lead, 350 00:25:44.599 --> 00:25:47.519 remember this last week. We are called to lead, to 351 00:25:47.640 --> 00:25:51.680 be a good steward and to create and fight fight 352 00:25:51.799 --> 00:25:55.400 for good. Because of sin, it has distorted that. Also, 353 00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:59.160 now I a not ima lead or you want to 354 00:25:59.279 --> 00:26:03.799 lead to do something bad stewardship. Now when we look 355 00:26:03.799 --> 00:26:10.480 at our environment, but what's the reason why it was closed? 356 00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:16.759 Because men have not become good stewards and it destroys 357 00:26:16.799 --> 00:26:21.079 the environment. And now there's a whole cost of environmentalism. 358 00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:26.000 As Christians, we are environmentalists because we are called to 359 00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:31.000 be good stewards of our environment. Also we're also called 360 00:26:31.039 --> 00:26:34.880 to create good and to fight for good. But because 361 00:26:34.920 --> 00:26:41.240 of sin, when we don't disciple, when we don't preach, 362 00:26:41.480 --> 00:26:44.559 when we don't reach out, we are taking a backstep 363 00:26:44.680 --> 00:26:50.519 and letting the bad take the lead. Here's another thing 364 00:26:50.599 --> 00:26:57.960 that surprised me, a Asalan and Natin. But did you 365 00:26:58.079 --> 00:27:05.279 know that even the whole creation was also affected, the 366 00:27:05.440 --> 00:27:11.599 whole of it ta mara natural disasters. That's why we 367 00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:16.559 have earthquakes, sounamis and storms, all of that. The effect 368 00:27:16.599 --> 00:27:19.119 of sin. So you may be here and you may 369 00:27:19.200 --> 00:27:27.920 be saying grabbing a man, the effect on LEI like, oh, 370 00:27:28.720 --> 00:27:33.200 that's exactly my point. We view sin so small, but 371 00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:38.359 God views it. It can destroy your relationship with me 372 00:27:39.519 --> 00:27:44.440 and your relationship with everyone else. It corrupts the whole thing. 373 00:27:46.200 --> 00:27:50.480 I have here another illustration. And but as I said, 374 00:27:51.160 --> 00:28:03.880 I need a table. As we've said last time, we 375 00:28:04.039 --> 00:28:07.720 are called in the image and likeness of God. We 376 00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:15.200 reflect God Tibah. But when sin came, when God called 377 00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:18.079 us to reflect him, he called us to reflect him, 378 00:28:18.279 --> 00:28:21.079 to lead and to rule, to be goods towards, to 379 00:28:21.240 --> 00:28:24.000 create good, to fight for what's good, to be a 380 00:28:24.119 --> 00:28:29.200 living being that reflects God. That's our purpose first two 381 00:28:29.319 --> 00:28:32.880 chapters of Genesis. This is who we are. His will 382 00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:35.440 is our mission to be a blessing to the world. 383 00:28:36.680 --> 00:28:39.880 But the effect of sin in Adam and Eve's life 384 00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:44.039 was passed on to us, and that sin lives in 385 00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:49.240 all of us here and now. Instead of us reflecting God, 386 00:28:50.480 --> 00:28:59.640 it was broken ay by Mila Matt. It's not completely 387 00:28:59.720 --> 00:29:06.480 the mind you there's still reflection. That's why, even if 388 00:29:06.519 --> 00:29:10.519 you're not a Christian, that person can create something good. 389 00:29:13.440 --> 00:29:18.839 Hindi Kristiano Hindisilla pero da Hill, your image to God 390 00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:23.759 Nasa pen. But they are also broken. You see here's 391 00:29:23.799 --> 00:29:28.920 the point. We are all broken in different ways. We 392 00:29:29.160 --> 00:29:33.599 we still reflect God in a certain degree, but it's 393 00:29:33.759 --> 00:29:38.960 not the same anymore. That's why you can be here, 394 00:29:39.839 --> 00:29:43.759 we can worship, we can listen, but there's still undult 395 00:29:43.880 --> 00:29:47.079 sin in our lives. You are living a broken life. 396 00:29:48.559 --> 00:29:51.480 You are living a life that's not what God wants. 397 00:29:53.359 --> 00:29:59.279 That's why means Santi Bahit and Miss Manama, why broken? 398 00:30:01.440 --> 00:30:12.319 We are all broken? Yoo yo ikau. We are all broken. 399 00:30:13.319 --> 00:30:15.799 You know. It's easy to say when we look at 400 00:30:15.839 --> 00:30:19.559 the the bad news in the TV right now. It's 401 00:30:19.640 --> 00:30:25.160