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Speaker 2: You're listening to a podcast from Victory. Though God created
Speaker 2: everything good, sin entered and caused pain, suffering, misalignment and
Speaker 2: veering from God's plan. Learn more about this message in
Speaker 2: week two of our series. The Story of Us fasts.
Speaker 1: Here and we are now in the second week of
Speaker 1: our series, Uh, the story about us? And we have
Speaker 1: last week at Yes Green now so bron pack no
Speaker 1: ating series. And today I won't go uh, let's go
Speaker 1: straight to the word. Let's bow that our heads and
Speaker 1: pray Lord, we thank you for today. We open our hearts,
Speaker 1: that fire come down from heaven and consume as God.
Speaker 1: Maybe know more of who you are in Jesus name. Amen.
Speaker 1: So this series is about our story. It's a story
Speaker 1: of us. It's a story of human beings. It's a
Speaker 1: story of humanity. What is our purpose? Why are we here?
Speaker 1: And last week we have a very pact it was
Speaker 1: very full coming from Genesis chapter one. Actually for a
Speaker 1: couple of verses, if you would remember, no, last week
Speaker 1: we ended with this idea that God designed a good world.
Speaker 1: And whether you are a Christian or not, whether you
Speaker 1: believe in the Bible or not, or whether you agree
Speaker 1: with what Genesis says or not, this is what we
Speaker 1: all want our world to be, Isn't it true? Whether
Speaker 1: Christiano or in mundo, we want a good world. And
Speaker 1: last week we saw that when God designed the world,
Speaker 1: he designed it to be to be a good world,
Speaker 1: and that mankind us we are created in the image
Speaker 1: and likeness of God. But here's the tension that we
Speaker 1: left hanging last week. If God wanted a good world,
Speaker 1: why is it when we open our Facebook, when we
Speaker 1: watch the TV, we would see evil happening all around us?
Speaker 1: Because you don't have to be a Christian to agree
Speaker 1: with me in this. We all observe and we all
Speaker 1: generally agree that there is something wrong in this world.
Speaker 1: There's crime outside, there's war, there's terrorism, there's corruption, there's suicide,
Speaker 1: there's stealing, there's killings. There's something broken in our world.
Speaker 1: And you don't even have to be a Christian to
Speaker 1: declare this. This is something we all generally agree. Now
Speaker 1: the question is how did we get here? So many
Speaker 1: theories about that, lack of education, lack of self expression,
Speaker 1: lack of discipline, and all those things, But how did
Speaker 1: we get here? How come we have a world that's broken?
Speaker 1: If God said, oh, he created a good world, but
Speaker 1: when I go back to my office, when I go
Speaker 1: back to my campus, it's not a good world. There
Speaker 1: is something wrong. That's what we're going to look at.
Speaker 1: How did we get here? So we're going to read
Speaker 1: from chapter three of Genesis, and it's going to be
Speaker 1: very packed. Genesis three, verse one, it says here, now
Speaker 1: the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of
Speaker 1: the field that the Lord God had made. He said
Speaker 1: to the woman, Did God actually say you shall not
Speaker 1: eat of any tree in the garden? Now? Before I continue,
Speaker 1: most of us here you may be familiar with this story,
Speaker 1: but I'm praying and I'm begging you to look at
Speaker 1: it in a different perspective. As I've said last week,
Speaker 1: much of our issues in today's world are actually addressed
Speaker 1: and acknowledged in the first three chapters of Genesis, or
Speaker 1: in the first three chapters of the Bible Verse three,
Speaker 1: verse two, Sabidito and the woman said to the serpent,
Speaker 1: we may eat of the fruit of the trees in
Speaker 1: the garden. But God said, you shall not eat of
Speaker 1: the fruit of the tree that is in the midst
Speaker 1: of the garden. Neither shall you touch it lest you
Speaker 1: die verse four. But the serpent said to the woman,
Speaker 1: you will not surely die, for God knows that when
Speaker 1: you eat of it, your eyes will be open, and
Speaker 1: you will be like God, knowing good and evil. The
Speaker 1: first thing that we need to observe here is that
Speaker 1: there is the presence of an enemy, and that enemy
Speaker 1: is called the devil. Whether you believe the devil or
Speaker 1: not is up to you. But if you don't believe
Speaker 1: the devil, be already in a disadvantage because, say, whether
Speaker 1: we believe him or not, he exists, and the goal
Speaker 1: of the devil is to oppose God. They're not equals,
Speaker 1: mind you, and yang, God is far more supreme and
Speaker 1: powerful than him. But the active rule of the devil
Speaker 1: is to destroy and to corrupt and to oppose God's will.
Speaker 1: And Elan, I won't say in themaganda too, But the
Speaker 1: schemes of the devil in Genesis is the same schemes
Speaker 1: that he still uses until today. What do I mean?
Speaker 1: The devil accuses? Did God actually say anabi? Any? Lord?
Speaker 1: He accuses God, He accuses us, not only that the
Speaker 1: devil is a liar, he deceives Sabina. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: you will surely die. If you read chapter two of Genesis,
Speaker 1: God said you may eat a van tree, except the
Speaker 1: tree of knowledge of good and evil, because if you
Speaker 1: eat it, you will die. No, no, he must have
Speaker 1: you know you must have misheard him. You will not
Speaker 1: surely die. And you know what the next attack of
Speaker 1: the devil is something that we all are familiar with.
Speaker 1: You're missing out on something for God knows. I know
Speaker 1: the moment we need with hold say you see, Lord,
Speaker 1: you know that statement, for God knows. He kind of
Speaker 1: accuses God of you know what he says he loves you,
Speaker 1: But why isn't he giving you what makes you happy?
Speaker 1: Maybe we have that prayers? Lord, I'm praying. I'm praying.
Speaker 1: Why aren't you answering me? Why aren't Why am I
Speaker 1: not happy? Back it? No, Lord, that's a lie of
Speaker 1: the devil. You know what God knows case you'll be
Speaker 1: better than him. You know what is not giving you?
Speaker 1: He says he loves you, but he doesn't give you
Speaker 1: the best schemes of the devil and nasty. The temptation,
Speaker 1: the greatest temptation is this, you will be like God.
Speaker 1: You know what, He's holding the fruit for you from
Speaker 1: you because you be like God. You know what's kind
Speaker 1: of interesting with the last statement, you will be like God.
Speaker 1: Remember what are we called. We are called to be
Speaker 1: in the image and likeness of God. So in short,
Speaker 1: we are already like God in the sense that we
Speaker 1: image him and we reflect him. But this time the
Speaker 1: devil makes us forget our identity Adam. And if no,
Speaker 1: we're like God already. I don't have to disobey God
Speaker 1: so that I can fulfill my identity. I can know
Speaker 1: good and evil if I just choose to obey God.
Speaker 1: But I feel like God's withholding some good from me
Speaker 1: and I get to be like God. At the very
Speaker 1: heart of our sin is that declaration. Now God, you're
Speaker 1: not God. I am God. I get to say what's
Speaker 1: good and what's evil, but not important just who everyone's
Speaker 1: doing it. I feel good about it. It's good. That's
Speaker 1: at the very heart of all our sin, declaring God,
Speaker 1: You're not God, I am God. That's the temptation. Of
Speaker 1: the devil. Then and until now, there's nothing new. He
Speaker 1: just changes the words, but in essence it's still the same.
Speaker 1: He makes us forget our identity. We are created to
Speaker 1: be an image bearer in the image and likeness of God.
Speaker 1: The temptation of the devil and something new he just angles.
Speaker 1: He just positions him self. So he's a great marketer.
Speaker 1: He sells that, the sin and that temptation in such
Speaker 1: a way in a patent feeling. But in reality, if
Speaker 1: you remember who we are in Christ, we actually have
Speaker 1: that already, your identity, not in So how did the
Speaker 1: how did mankind respond? Verse six sabio. So when the
Speaker 1: woman saw that the tree was good for food, and
Speaker 1: it was a delight to the eyes, and that the
Speaker 1: tree was to be desired to make one wise, she
Speaker 1: took of its food and ate, and she also gave
Speaker 1: some to her husband, who was with her. Now the
Speaker 1: lie of the devil has set in. If we let
Speaker 1: the lies of the devil set in our lives, the
Speaker 1: lies become eventually our truth, even though it's not really true.
Speaker 1: For Eve, she believed the lie. Now it's a reality
Speaker 1: to her. I'm like God, So who says I should
Speaker 1: not get this fruit and eat it. She determines what's
Speaker 1: good and what's not. Now, the loss of the eyes,
Speaker 1: the loss of the flesh and the pride of life,
Speaker 1: I will become like God. There's this desire to be wise,
Speaker 1: and she took it. And this is the definition of sin,
Speaker 1: and this is the start of our downfall. Their sin
Speaker 1: is still present until now. We usually think of sin
Speaker 1: or caslana us doing something wrong, stealing, cheating, killing, cursing.
Speaker 1: We used to think that sin is doing something wrong,
Speaker 1: and yes, but if that is all our definition of sin,
Speaker 1: we are missing on a lot. Sin in its origin
Speaker 1: original language, actually means missing the mark. Can I ask
Speaker 1: Benjambista illustration, I've been wanting to do this, okay, So
Speaker 1: so sin is missing the mark. It means that what
Speaker 1: God wants us to have. So sin is when God
Speaker 1: says you aim at that and we try our best,
Speaker 1: but we don't hit it. You're not effort. That's also sin.
Speaker 1: We we think that sin is just deliberately, you know,
Speaker 1: doing something bad. Yes, but not only that, it's also
Speaker 1: failing to do something good. But more than that, sin
Speaker 1: also is not just doing something bad. It's declaring that no,
Speaker 1: I'm not submitting to God's law. The Bible says sin
Speaker 1: is lawlessness. It's removing God from the picture and putting
Speaker 1: ourselves as God. And we get to say, I'm not
Speaker 1: hitting that a yohu Lord, that's sin. And we think
Speaker 1: that sin is just all our actions Nata mura Salita.
Speaker 1: But you know that sin also starts in this, in
Speaker 1: our minds and in our hearts, meaning I don't even
Speaker 1: have to do anything bad, Masha. And then there's reading
Speaker 1: the heart. We've already set the direction of our life,
Speaker 1: not to the will of God, but to somewhere else.
Speaker 1: Not only that, sin is both commission and omission. What
Speaker 1: do I mean? Sin is commission in the sense Nasina
Speaker 1: Jana and magasala. We did things that we should not do,
Speaker 1: like what Eve did. She took the fruit and ate
Speaker 1: it when it should not have been done. But sin
Speaker 1: also is omission. We did not do something we're supposed
Speaker 1: to do. What Adam did verse Canina. Adam was right
Speaker 1: besides Eve, Adamnand the first sin of man, the male
Speaker 1: is passivity. When you look at our world now, how
Speaker 1: many men are passive, just sitting in their chairs playing
Speaker 1: video games for rs and rs and losing their purpose
Speaker 1: in life. Sin is not just doing something bad. Sin
Speaker 1: is deliberately saying I'm not hitting that, I'm going to
Speaker 1: hit whatever I want to hit because I rule my life,
Speaker 1: my happiness, my joy, my dreams, my way, Me, me,
Speaker 1: me and me, you gets it done. What's the effect
Speaker 1: of sin in our lives? The effect of that is separation.
Speaker 1: There was now a separation between us and God. Tyo
Speaker 1: Sabirito's the next versal, Genesis three, verse seven, It says,
Speaker 1: here then the then the eyes of both were open,
Speaker 1: and they knew that they were naked, and they sued
Speaker 1: fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths verse eight, Sabidito.
Speaker 1: And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking
Speaker 1: in the cool of the day, the paparatingna Sabi Tito,
Speaker 1: and the man and his wife hid themselves from the
Speaker 1: presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
Speaker 1: But the Lord called out to the man, where are
Speaker 1: you all right? Where are you? Sabi titos so diverse,
Speaker 1: And he said, I heard the sound of you in
Speaker 1: the garden, and I was afraid, and I was naked,
Speaker 1: and I hid myself. Some things that we could see
Speaker 1: here there was separation between God and man Nasanka. It's
Speaker 1: not that God didn't know. God knows, it's that man
Speaker 1: chows to hide himself from God. In fact, remember that
Speaker 1: time nabasad glassna plata nasala Man, you know you've done
Speaker 1: something wrong. That's what they felt mana basadilla when they
Speaker 1: broke the law or the command of God. They knew
Speaker 1: they did something wrong, so they hit There's this separation,
Speaker 1: there's this shame, there's this guilt, guilty, and how many
Speaker 1: of us here coming to church every Sunday sometimes that's
Speaker 1: what you feel. I feel guilty every time pastor preaches.
Speaker 1: Open up. This is the effect of sin, separation between
Speaker 1: God and man. Not only that they started covering up
Speaker 1: their sin, they sued going fig leaves together in their
Speaker 1: effort to cover their shame. And all of us here we,
Speaker 1: in one way or another, have tried to cover our
Speaker 1: sin in our education, in our finances, in our being religious,
Speaker 1: in our being good. But all those things cannot cover
Speaker 1: up our sin, shame and guilt. Another thing that we
Speaker 1: can observe here is the sudden increase of iye making
Speaker 1: self centered. As man I heard I was naked, I
Speaker 1: was afraid. I hid myself Kawana Manahue. And this is
Speaker 1: our generation right now, right the victim mentality. I deserve
Speaker 1: to be treated like this. It's my right. I got hurt.
Speaker 1: I need respect, I need appreciation. Now the world suddenly
Speaker 1: revolves around man and not God. Could you imagine if
Speaker 1: all of us here starts to want to revolve all
Speaker 1: things around us. Nakhila and Taio, you selfish nesty, Coach, Josh,
Speaker 1: your selfish Adrian, you selfishness, go but Nakhila and Taio.
Speaker 1: And thus we see that in our schools, in our work,
Speaker 1: in our relationships, Sinos my friend, my cor relationship, the
Speaker 1: soubram self centered. Aren't we all fed up with people
Speaker 1: like that? Their their heads are just so big? And
Speaker 1: Yavang Why the effect of sin? Look at the number
Speaker 1: of eyes now it revolves around him. Then look at
Speaker 1: what God says. So the effect of sin, okay a
Speaker 1: separation between us and God. Because now we declare we
Speaker 1: are like God, and now the world revolves around us.
Speaker 1: We define what's good and what's wrong. Now look at
Speaker 1: the next thing that happened Verses eleven to twelve. He said,
Speaker 1: who told you that you were naked? Sabini, God, have
Speaker 1: you eaten of the tree which I commanded you not
Speaker 1: to eat? The man said, the woman whom you gave
Speaker 1: with me, she gave me fruit of the tree and
Speaker 1: I ate it. You know, Simolan, and see had hen
Speaker 1: I'm muba Adam you fruit. He didn't notice that. He
Speaker 1: didn't answer. Sabina yumba baye Nabini gay Mo, I'm the
Speaker 1: victim here God, the woman which is the tournament who
Speaker 1: you gave Lord? Which is also true? The Lord, I'm
Speaker 1: the victim here. Why are you asking me? I'm the
Speaker 1: the kouawa party here? Lord? It's her port fault and
Speaker 1: which by the way, Lord Lord kayoma case. That's what
Speaker 1: Adam was saying. Now the blame shifts started happening. Now
Speaker 1: the separation not just between God and man starts, but
Speaker 1: now the separation between man with their fellow mankind starts.
Speaker 1: Solana motoy it's your fault, Sino. Don't raise your hands,
Speaker 1: say na galitna conte na another human being in the
Speaker 1: past five days. Don't raise your hands. Usually what's the topic.
Speaker 1: It's either that person did something wrong against you, or
Speaker 1: that there's a misunderstanding or mag you know. Malay and
Speaker 1: you started hating that person, whatever it is. Lain in
Speaker 1: a sabe my ginawahan malay he or she hurt me.
Speaker 1: That's the start of sin. That's the effect of sin,
Speaker 1: rather not just separation between God and man, separation between
Speaker 1: man and another man. Now pre obviously Adam and Eve
Speaker 1: was enjoying the fellowship of God and man. They were
Speaker 1: enjoying the fellowship of each other. When sin came, it
Speaker 1: was all destroyed. It's his fault, it's her fault. It's
Speaker 1: causing the world revolves around you. When the world stops
Speaker 1: revolving around you, we start being angry. We start oh,
Speaker 1: I didn't get the way I want it to be.
Speaker 1: That's the separation between God and that's why God is
Speaker 1: mad at sin. It's not because he's a cosmic cage
Speaker 1: or a cosmic killed joy. He knows the effects of sin.
Speaker 1: It separates us from him, and it destroys our relationship
Speaker 1: with each other. Sine meat nah friends mon nomatagal that
Speaker 1: office met megino and and he or she has offended you,
Speaker 1: even if your officemate is just two blocks away from me,
Speaker 1: you in your office space. Malap or a classimo make
Speaker 1: a classic. You know doesn't it feel like, even though
Speaker 1: that person is physically near you, there's in your feeling
Speaker 1: there there's distance between you. Let me tell how about
Speaker 1: this one for the married people husband wife, tiba is ahama.
Speaker 1: But when there's an offense, you feel like, even though
Speaker 1: that person is literally right next to you, there's distance
Speaker 1: between you. What's that? The effect of sin? That's why
Speaker 1: God is mad at sin. And not only does it
Speaker 1: bring separation, it also brings brokenness. Now it doesn't just
Speaker 1: separate us, it breaks us. And for me, this is
Speaker 1: what this is, what this is what makes me angry
Speaker 1: about sin. And hopefully at the end of the series,
Speaker 1: when you read the Bible and when the Bible tells
Speaker 1: you to walk righteously and fight and turn away from sin.
Speaker 1: God's not telling that because he's beholding something from you.
Speaker 1: But God's telling that because he knows that it can
Speaker 1: separate you and it can break you. What do I
Speaker 1: mean by brokenness? Remember last week Yu mahawala, I have
Speaker 1: no time to describe this once again. But remember, since
Speaker 1: we are created in the image and likeness of God,
Speaker 1: we are a complete being. We reflect God and image
Speaker 1: God in these variety of ways. When sin came. It
Speaker 1: broke our image as a living being, our soul. Our
Speaker 1: emotions now become deceitful. Our spirit now we experience spirit
Speaker 1: will death, our morality, our conscience of what's right and
Speaker 1: what's wrong. Now, since we are functioning like God, we
Speaker 1: say what's right and what's wrong our unique personality. Now
Speaker 1: there's insecturities I II insecurities our mind, which by the way,
Speaker 1: belongs to the soul. Our mind is now plagued by
Speaker 1: depression and psychological issues. Our relationships can't function anymore because
Speaker 1: now your relationship, not the good design, is being corrupted
Speaker 1: by sin. We want we want to abuse physically, there's sickness,
Speaker 1: the sexually, there's distortion of gender orientation, all of that.
Speaker 1: To say it came from sin, imagine the gravity of it, Tao.
Speaker 1: We are undergoing some psychological problems, and we said last
Speaker 1: time that we can't just attack it at one point.
Speaker 1: It's a complete package. But Sin distorted that also. That's
Speaker 1: why there's that depression. We long depressed, so Genesis one.
Speaker 1: But when sin came, that's why there is That's why
Speaker 1: God so mad. That's sin. He doesn't want that. Remember creativity.
Speaker 1: God created us to be creative beings. If you're a
Speaker 1: business man, we have When you have a business idea
Speaker 1: and you start a business, you're exercising the image of God.
Speaker 1: You're creating value to the world. You're creating something good
Speaker 1: so that it would benefit society. Now that sin came,
Speaker 1: we get creative in sinning Yu Maha balita wowala. He
Speaker 1: was and you checkpoints. He was a young young Anatoma.
Speaker 1: Pierre Mahanta is a airport Parada smuggle. And we see
Speaker 1: now the creativity of men to create sin. In fact,
Speaker 1: let's not go further. Let's start with Let's start with us.
Speaker 1: Isn't it true? Sometimes we create lies to protect ourselves.
Speaker 1: We get creative with lies sin. It affects our creativity
Speaker 1: that the original design is user creativity for something good.
Speaker 1: Now I'm using my creativity for my benefit and sometimes
Speaker 1: to hurt the world purpose. Our purpose is destroyed. Also
Speaker 1: now sometimes we feel like we don't live for a purpose.
Speaker 1: Why am I here? Or we have a distorted view
Speaker 1: of purpose. I live so that I can be happy.
Speaker 1: I live so that I can alone, so that I
Speaker 1: will be successful. It's a distorted view of purpose. The
Speaker 1: image is broken. Not only that our how we lead,
Speaker 1: remember this last week. We are called to lead, to
Speaker 1: be a good steward and to create and fight fight
Speaker 1: for good. Because of sin, it has distorted that. Also,
Speaker 1: now I a not ima lead or you want to
Speaker 1: lead to do something bad stewardship. Now when we look
Speaker 1: at our environment, but what's the reason why it was closed?
Speaker 1: Because men have not become good stewards and it destroys
Speaker 1: the environment. And now there's a whole cost of environmentalism.
Speaker 1: As Christians, we are environmentalists because we are called to
Speaker 1: be good stewards of our environment. Also we're also called
Speaker 1: to create good and to fight for good. But because
Speaker 1: of sin, when we don't disciple, when we don't preach,
Speaker 1: when we don't reach out, we are taking a backstep
Speaker 1: and letting the bad take the lead. Here's another thing
Speaker 1: that surprised me, a Asalan and Natin. But did you
Speaker 1: know that even the whole creation was also affected, the
Speaker 1: whole of it ta mara natural disasters. That's why we
Speaker 1: have earthquakes, sounamis and storms, all of that. The effect
Speaker 1: of sin. So you may be here and you may
Speaker 1: be saying grabbing a man, the effect on LEI like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's exactly my point. We view sin so small, but
Speaker 1: God views it. It can destroy your relationship with me
Speaker 1: and your relationship with everyone else. It corrupts the whole thing.
Speaker 1: I have here another illustration. And but as I said,
Speaker 1: I need a table. As we've said last time, we
Speaker 1: are called in the image and likeness of God. We
Speaker 1: reflect God Tibah. But when sin came, when God called
Speaker 1: us to reflect him, he called us to reflect him,
Speaker 1: to lead and to rule, to be goods towards, to
Speaker 1: create good, to fight for what's good, to be a
Speaker 1: living being that reflects God. That's our purpose first two
Speaker 1: chapters of Genesis. This is who we are. His will
Speaker 1: is our mission to be a blessing to the world.
Speaker 1: But the effect of sin in Adam and Eve's life
Speaker 1: was passed on to us, and that sin lives in
Speaker 1: all of us here and now. Instead of us reflecting God,
Speaker 1: it was broken ay by Mila Matt. It's not completely
Speaker 1: the mind you there's still reflection. That's why, even if
Speaker 1: you're not a Christian, that person can create something good.
Speaker 1: Hindi Kristiano Hindisilla pero da Hill, your image to God
Speaker 1: Nasa pen. But they are also broken. You see here's
Speaker 1: the point. We are all broken in different ways. We
Speaker 1: we still reflect God in a certain degree, but it's
Speaker 1: not the same anymore. That's why you can be here,
Speaker 1: we can worship, we can listen, but there's still undult
Speaker 1: sin in our lives. You are living a broken life.
Speaker 1: You are living a life that's not what God wants.
Speaker 1: That's why means Santi Bahit and Miss Manama, why broken?
Speaker 1: We are all broken? Yoo yo ikau. We are all broken.
Speaker 1: You know. It's easy to say when we look at
Speaker 1: the the bad news in the TV right now. It's
Speaker 1: easy to say young a corrupt government official, a terrorist
Speaker 1: in the other country, a rapist. It's easy to say
Speaker 1: a Samanila, Why is our world like that? But here's
Speaker 1: the hard truth. The same evil that lives in their hearts.
Speaker 1: If you and I are really honest with ourselves, it's
Speaker 1: the same evil that lives in our hearts. We are
Speaker 1: all broken. We're all broken a different way. Ibalangian degree,
Speaker 1: no gravity and supposed to. We may not have raped anyone,
Speaker 1: but we have lusted someone. We may not have killed someone,
Speaker 1: but we have become angry at someone to the point
Speaker 1: that we want something that's bad for them. We may
Speaker 1: not have corrupted millions, but we may have stolen answers jantika,
Speaker 1: We may have stolen ideas. We may have stolen a
Speaker 1: little bit less than one thousand pesos. But the seed
Speaker 1: of sin is there, and when it grows, it produces death,
Speaker 1: and it corrupts. It separates us between God and man,
Speaker 1: and it destroys, It breaks our relationship with each other.
Speaker 1: Come only it putslan And I hope this preaching tells
Speaker 1: you your view of sin is so small. God's telling you.
Speaker 1: That's not the gravity of sin. This is so big.
Speaker 1: Now let's continue with this afterwards, when God said, okay, Adam,
Speaker 1: what happened Sabini Adams Eve, Eve? What happens Sabini IV?
Speaker 1: You snake and all that? And then God pronounced accurs
Speaker 1: upon them, they suffered the consequences. By the way, listen
Speaker 1: to this, Sin always has a consequence, always an na pan.
Speaker 1: Sin always has a consequence. And do not for a
Speaker 1: second belief. Now we're free to do anything that we
Speaker 1: want to do as long as no one gets hurt.
Speaker 1: That's a lie from the devil, because the truth is
Speaker 1: every sin God is hurt. Because every sin, whether done
Speaker 1: against him, intentionally or not, is ultimately done against him.
Speaker 1: Had you sin against Godyan, you sin that and against
Speaker 1: gay Gadyan. Obviously against a sin always breaks God's heart.
Speaker 1: So don't ever say it's like you're saying, I don't
Speaker 1: believe in God. I'm the God. At The truth is
Speaker 1: God gets hurt why because He loves us. Now let's
Speaker 1: continue with the story. You know what's interesting now after
Speaker 1: this Genesis chapter five is a story of Cain and Abel.
Speaker 1: And you know the story right, Cain killed Abel. After
Speaker 1: that story, Genesis chapter six sab the people has grown
Speaker 1: in their evilness, not their thoughts and hearts are always
Speaker 1: evil continually in all, I want to encourage you to
Speaker 1: read Genesis three and you will notice that in the
Speaker 1: middle of all of it, no one said sorry to God.
Speaker 1: And that's why the Bible is offensive means and I
Speaker 1: am not in Masa makah. No one said sorry. Tangapin.
Speaker 1: You go to the school, and what does it teach us?
Speaker 1: We are a good person, there's goodness within. It's a
Speaker 1: society outside that caused us to become like this. The
Speaker 1: Bible teaches otherwise, we are utterly depraved, We are sinners.
Speaker 1: Objects of God's wrath broken in the middle of it.
Speaker 1: No one said sorry. Bai Sabini Adam, Shah Sabini IV,
Speaker 1: Shah Sabino snake, okay was easy afterwards. No one said sorry.
Speaker 1: When Kane killed Abel and Kate and God didn't killed
Speaker 1: a uh Cain, Kane didn't say sorry. When the flood
Speaker 1: before Noah came, no one said sorry. That's how sinful
Speaker 1: our hearts are. In the middle of that, in the
Speaker 1: middle of our sinfulness, in the middle of our utter depravity.
Speaker 1: How did God respond? We read it a while ago
Speaker 1: he covered them, the Rakpani lord. Before that, he looked
Speaker 1: for them, Nasanka, you know why he's saying that there's
Speaker 1: the separation. But now he's chasing us. He's looking for us.
Speaker 1: He fights for us. What's happened? What happened, Alanda money Lord?
Speaker 1: What happened? Though? He chases us in the middle of
Speaker 1: all our utter sin and darkness in our hearts? How
Speaker 1: did God respond? Look at this and they heard the
Speaker 1: sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in
Speaker 1: the cool of the day. But the Lord God called
Speaker 1: to the man and said to him, where are you?
Speaker 1: And the Lord God made for Adam and for his
Speaker 1: wife garments of skin and clothing them. In the middle
Speaker 1: of all the sin, how did how did God respond
Speaker 1: or responded sible? God was walking in the cool of
Speaker 1: the garden of the day. What does it mean? Right now?
Speaker 1: You know Afri se jed il mahil and a mahaba guy,
Speaker 1: so MeBot know so plus total. And sometimes we would
Speaker 1: hear a loud crash man who look, maybe a bunch
Speaker 1: of books or toys or thank god, laptop and what's
Speaker 1: a reaction? Who are in? Were opens her? It's like,
Speaker 1: oh no, then in the basket? But look at God's reaction.
Speaker 1: He was walking in the cool of the day. What
Speaker 1: does it mean? It means that he is still sovereign?
Speaker 1: Death could sin could not defeat God walking in the
Speaker 1: cool of the day. And after that, what did he
Speaker 1: do in his sovereignty? He decided to pursue Adam and Eve.
Speaker 1: He could have said die, but he didn't. Where are you?
Speaker 1: I love you? Actually, to be honest, but illustration, insha,
Speaker 1: that's the reason why I'm concerned. That's exactly what God's saying. Here,
Speaker 1: Where are you? I love you, my son, I love
Speaker 1: you my daughter? What happened? Where are you. He didn't
Speaker 1: ask what happened. He knows what happened, and the blame
Speaker 1: shifts happen. And what God did, He covered their sin.
Speaker 1: He covered their guilt. He dealt with their sin. No
Speaker 1: is a time problema the devil. The devil is still
Speaker 1: there actively opposing. But look at what happened in Genesis three,
Speaker 1: verse fifteen. God said, I will put an enmity between
Speaker 1: you and the woman goes in devil detail, and between
Speaker 1: your offspring and her offspring. He shall bruise your head
Speaker 1: and you shall bruise his heel. What God was saying
Speaker 1: is you will still be continually opposing me, and there's
Speaker 1: going to be one cosmic showdown between you and the
Speaker 1: seed of the woman Mgiggin descendant Ya. And your best
Speaker 1: most hideous plan is just going to strike his heel
Speaker 1: m pinata, best effort Mohandan and battle ok Tama bay word,
Speaker 1: your best effort, Satan, your most hideous plans in the world.
Speaker 1: Devil is only going to hit this and at the end,
Speaker 1: I will crush you with one blow. That's what Christ
Speaker 1: did on the cross. The seed was Jesus. The plan
Speaker 1: of the devil was to kill the son of God,
Speaker 1: his best intention crushed when Christ resurrected. Now we're going
Speaker 1: to end with this. That's what that's the end of
Speaker 1: Genesis three. Well, we may look at our world today.
Speaker 1: We still want this a good world, but the reality
Speaker 1: is they're sin in the world. Before we take one
Speaker 1: step further to solve the problem, we need to first
Speaker 1: admit that we have the problem. But here's the good
Speaker 1: news for all of us. Here. The mission of God,
Speaker 1: the will of God, the heart of God is for
Speaker 1: the good world to come back. And there is one
Speaker 1: biblical word for that, and that is the word shalom.
Speaker 1: God wants to bring shalom. Now, what's shalom? And why
Speaker 1: is that so important right now? If you are here
Speaker 1: and you have problems psychologically, mentally, financially, physically, in terms
Speaker 1: of society relationships, I want to tell you that's the answer. Shalom. Now,
Speaker 1: what's that? That's what we're going to look at next week.
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