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Greg Laurie - Trouble In Paradise

January 14, 2026 | 27:29

Greg Laurie - Trouble In Paradise
Join Pastor Greg Laurie for a time of encouragement, worship, and Bible study.
#Mind #Thinking #Creation #Devil #Satan #Temptation #Lies #Deception #Condemnation #PositiveThoughts #NegativeThoughts #WordofGod #Truth #GregLaurie

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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Trouble In Paradise | January 14, 2026
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg laurie: listen, command central of your life is
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  • Your mind.
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  • You are the air traffic controller of your own mind.
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  • The air traffic controller tells one pilot he can take off.
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  • He tells another they can land.
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  • He tells another to change their altitude.
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  • He changes--he tells even another to change
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  • Their attitude.
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  • Probably not, but.
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  • But he's there directing, directing people, and you decide
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  • What thoughts come into this mind of yours
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  • And what thoughts stay out.
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  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins ♪
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  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins ♪♪
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  • Greg: so, i heard about a pastor who was taking over at church.
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  • He didn't really know anybody there yet.
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  • So, on the saturday before that sunday he decided to go meet
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  • People in the congregation.
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  • So, he met a few folks and he came to one home of one of his
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  • Congregants and he knocked on the door and there was
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  • No answer.
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  • He could see someone was inside.
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  • He knocked again.
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  • Again, still no answer.
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  • Knocked on one more time, and so he left his business card with
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  • His name on it and then he wrote down revelation 3:20, which of
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  • Course says, "behold, i stand at the door and knock: if any man
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  • Hear my voice, and open the door, i will come in."
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  • So, the next day was sunday and someone took that card the
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  • Pastor gave to them and gave it to an usher to give back to
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  • The pastor.
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  • And the pastor looked at the card and they, too, had written
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  • A scripture reference.
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  • They wrote down genesis 3:10, which says, "i heard your voice
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  • In the garden, and i was afraid because i was naked, so i hid
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  • Myself," so.
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  • So, we'll actually get to that verse in this message today,
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  • Among others.
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  • So, we've looked at the creation of all things.
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  • Now we're looking at the story of adam and eve's sin against
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  • God in the garden of eden.
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  • We're reading about the creation of men and women.
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  • And in genesis 2 moses zooms in from the cosmos to the garden
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  • Of eden.
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  • This new section of genesis deals with the relationship
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  • Between god and man.
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  • Here's an interesting little point.
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  • The name that god has used of himself up to this point is
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  • Elohim, but it shifts in chapter 2 to yahweh.
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  • So, we might say the name of god, elohim, would be the name
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  • Describing him as majestic creator and yahweh is dealing
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  • More--well, as--in a personal way with us.
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  • For instance, my son calls me "dad," my grandchildren call me
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  • "papa," you know, so it's a different terminology.
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  • You call me greg or maybe pastor greg or "hey, bald guy," or
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  • Whatever you say to me, i'll answer to almost anything, but
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  • The difference is relationship.
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  • So, when jesus taught us to pray, he did not say, "after
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  • This manner therefore pray: our creator who art in heaven,"
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  • Though he is that.
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  • But he said, "after this manner therefore pray: our father who
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  • Art in heaven."
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  • That's a privilege, that's access, that's relationship.
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  • And we all have that access to god.
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  • So, i wanted to point that out, that he changes the use of his
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  • Name from elohim to yahweh.
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  • So let's read together genesis 2, verse 7.
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  • "and the lord god formed man of the dust
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  • Of the ground, and breathed into his
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  • Nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
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  • The lord god planted a garden eastward in eden, and there he
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  • Put the man whom he had formed.
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  • And out of the ground the lord god made every tree grow that is
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  • Pleasant to the sight and good for food.
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  • The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the
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  • Tree of the knowledge of good and evil."
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  • So, if you're taking notes, here's point number one.
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  • God created man and breathed life into him.
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  • This word breathed is interesting in verse 7.
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  • It's warmly personal.
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  • God was face to face with man and with the intimacy of a kiss
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  • Or a little puff of air, god brings man to life.
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  • And now drop down to verse 15.
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  • "then the lord took the man and put him in the garden of eden to
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  • Tend and keep it.
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  • And the lord god commanded the man, saying, 'of every tree of
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  • The garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge
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  • Of good and evil you shall not eat, for on the day that you eat
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  • Of it you will surely die.'"
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  • We'll stop there.
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  • Eden, the garden of eden.
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  • By the way, the word eden means delight.
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  • The very name eden is used synonymously with names and
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  • Phrases like, oh, it's like camelot or atlantis or utopia
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  • Or shangri-la.
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  • So, we might think of eden as a fictitious place, but it was
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  • A real place that god placed adam in, in this garden
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  • Of absolute delight.
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  • It was a paradise beyond anything you could imagine.
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  • I mean, think of the most beautiful places you've ever
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  • Been to in this world.
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  • San bernardino or--i didn't mean that as a joke.
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  • Why did you laugh at it?
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  • No, but think tropical paradise or some incredible island or
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  • Some other place or maybe something you've seen in a movie
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  • Or on television and that looks like paradise or the garden
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  • Of eden.
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  • Eden was that and much more, hand-made by god himself,
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  • Untouched by sin.
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  • It was literally perfect.
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  • And adam had the coolest job of all time.
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  • He was the gardener in the garden of eden.
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  • His job was to discover what the lord had made, to enjoy what god
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  • Had created, and to tend to this garden.
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  • So, someone might walk up to him, although there wasn't
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  • Anyone to walk up to him at this point, but later,
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  • "hey man, what's your job?"
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  • "i'm a gardener in the garden of eden."
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  • Pretty great opportunity the lord gave and he had carte
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  • Blanche, "enjoy everything in the garden, adam, there's just
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  • One tree i want you to avoid: the tree of the knowledge of
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  • Good and evil."
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  • That was the one thing to stay away from.
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  • And now adam is given the task of naming the animals.
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  • Look at verse 20.
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  • "adam gave names to all cattle, birds," and so forth.
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  • So, i mean, he must have run out of names after a while, right?
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  • I mean, he's looking at these incredible creatures, "woah,
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  • Look at this thing.
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  • Elephant.
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  • Oh, look at this stubby little dude with a big mouth.
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  • Hippo.
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  • Well, what's going on with this horse?
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  • Never seen a horse like that?
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  • I'm gonna call him a zebra.
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  • Oh, this one, that bird--that's a peacock for sure."
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  • I mean, after the 100th, 1000th animal, he's just getting tired
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  • Of naming them and he's just making up stuff.
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  • Like, when he came to this fish, "oh, this fish.
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  • I'm sick of talking about--or naming animals.
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  • I'm gonna call him the humuhumunukunukuapua'a,
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  • Go swimming by."
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  • That is the actual fish--the official state fish of hawaii.
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  • That's actually the name of the fish.
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  • And so, something was missing in adam's life.
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  • And more specifically, it wasn't a something, it was a someone.
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  • But adam didn't know that yet because he had not yet met the
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  • Someone, but here she comes.
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  • Genesis 2, verse 18.
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  • "the lord god said, 'it's not good that man should be alone;
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  • I will make a helper comparable to him.'"
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  • Drop down to verse 21.
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  • "and the lord caused a deep sleep to fall upon adam, and as
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  • He slept; he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in
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  • Its place.
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  • Then the rib which the lord god had taken from man he made into
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  • A woman, and he brought her to the man.
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  • Adam said, 'this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh;
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  • She shall be called woman, because she was taken out
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  • Of man.'
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  • Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother and be joined
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  • To his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
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  • And they were both naked, the man and the wife,
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  • And they were not ashamed."
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  • So, my next point.
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  • God created woman and brought her to the man.
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  • It's worth noting at this point in genesis, after god created
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  • Each successive thing, he said, "it was good, it is good,
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  • This is good."
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  • Then he looks at the aloneness of adam and he says,
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  • "this is not good," this is not good.
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  • "i'm gonna make," verse 18, "a helper comparable to him."
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  • In the hebrew that can be translated to "someone
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  • Who assists another to reach fulfillment."
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  • Another way you can translate it is someone who comes
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  • To rescue another.
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  • Eve would provide what was missing in adam's life.
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  • Adam would provide what was missing in eve's life.
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  • And by the word, this word, helper, "god will create a
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  • Helper," in no way does it imply that eve was somehow inferior
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  • To adam.
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  • In fact, it's the same word god uses to describe himself
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  • As a helper to his people.
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  • But he's bringing them together.
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  • And this just reminds us, we are built for relationship
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  • With one another.
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  • We're not meant to do life alone.
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  • So, adam is put into a deep sleep and eve is produced
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  • From his side.
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  • Adam's enthusiastic response is verse 23.
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  • "this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh;
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  • She shall be called woman, she was taken out of man."
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  • It comes from the hebrew word stoketo.
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  • We get our english word stoked from it.
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  • I made that all up.
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  • Okay.
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  • But the idea is implied here that adam was astonished.
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  • He was blown away.
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  • He was thrilled.
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  • Greg: you know, there are certain things in life
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  • That sometimes we think are true that actually aren't.
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  • How about this one?
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  • "god loves me and accepts me the way that i am."
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  • Hm.
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  • Is that true?
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  • Sometimes another variation of that is, "don't judge
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  • My journey."
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  • And that's sometimes said by people that are doing things
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  • They shouldn't be doing, and then they say, "god loves me and
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  • Accepts me the way that i am.
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  • I know i shouldn't go out and party and get drunk, but hey,
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  • God loves me and accepts me the way that i am.
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  • I know i shouldn't dissolve my marriage to divorce, but hey,
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  • God loves me and accepts me the way that i am."
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  • Now, is that true?
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  • Yes, technically it's true that god loves you and accepts you
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  • The way that you are, and let me add something else,
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  • But he doesn't wanna leave you that way.
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  • See, you don't have to clean your life up and come to christ.
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  • You come to christ and he'll clean your life up.
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  • You can come with your addictions, with your sins,
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  • With your problems.
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  • Say, "lord, here i am."
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  • But now god wants to change you and transform you.
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  • This is what it means to be a follower of jesus christ.
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  • The best illustration i can think of is the story of
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  • The prodigal son.
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  • He left his father's house, spent all his money, made a mess
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  • Of his life, came to his senses and decided to return home.
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  • And jesus said, "while the boy was still a long ways away, the
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  • Father saw him ran to him, threw his arms around him, hugged him,
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  • Kissed him, and said, 'rejoice with me.
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  • This my son who was dead is alive again.
  • 00:11:45.204 --> 00:11:47.973
  • He was lost, is found.'"
  • 00:11:47.973 --> 00:11:49.742
  • So in a sense, you can see the father accepted him as he was.
  • 00:11:49.742 --> 00:11:52.678
  • But then we read the father said, "get a clean robe on
  • 00:11:52.678 --> 00:11:56.382
  • This boy."
  • 00:11:56.382 --> 00:11:57.750
  • In other words, get this boy a bath, right?
  • 00:11:57.750 --> 00:11:59.351
  • So we come to christ, but now god wants to clean us up
  • 00:11:59.351 --> 00:12:02.822
  • And he wants to transform us.
  • 00:12:02.822 --> 00:12:04.190
  • So yes, god loves you and accepts you the way that
  • 00:12:04.190 --> 00:12:08.027
  • You are, but he doesn't want to leave you that way.
  • 00:12:08.027 --> 00:12:11.397
  • He wants you to grow in your faith.
  • 00:12:11.397 --> 00:12:14.266
  • Greg: so, god is now
  • 00:12:17.670 --> 00:12:19.004
  • Establishing the family.
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  • Long before there was a government or there were schools
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  • Or any other social structures, god establishes the family
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  • And a home.
  • 00:12:29.381 --> 00:12:30.716
  • This is god's order, a man and a woman together in marriage.
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  • Not a man and a man, not a woman and a woman, not a man who wants
  • 00:12:36.055 --> 00:12:41.460
  • To become a woman or a woman who wants to become a man.
  • 00:12:41.460 --> 00:12:44.497
  • A man and a woman.
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  • This is the only order that god will bless.
  • 00:12:46.298 --> 00:12:49.602
  • That's true.
  • 00:12:49.602 --> 00:12:56.842
  • We have strayed from god's order and we're reaping
  • 00:12:56.842 --> 00:12:59.445
  • The consequences of it in our nation today.
  • 00:12:59.445 --> 00:13:03.149
  • Almost every social ill that is happening in america today
  • 00:13:03.149 --> 00:13:07.653
  • Can be directly traced to the breakdown of the family
  • 00:13:07.653 --> 00:13:11.924
  • And specifically the absence of fathers.
  • 00:13:11.924 --> 00:13:15.594
  • I could speak for 45 minutes just giving you stats
  • 00:13:15.594 --> 00:13:18.364
  • To prove what i just said.
  • 00:13:18.364 --> 00:13:20.065
  • It's an undeniable fact.
  • 00:13:20.065 --> 00:13:21.500
  • And we've tampered with this.
  • 00:13:21.500 --> 00:13:23.135
  • We want to eliminate the family.
  • 00:13:23.135 --> 00:13:25.070
  • We want to redefine the family.
  • 00:13:25.070 --> 00:13:27.173
  • And as we've done this it's like we're striking
  • 00:13:27.173 --> 00:13:29.608
  • At the very foundation of our nation.
  • 00:13:29.608 --> 00:13:31.944
  • You know, it's been said a family can survive
  • 00:13:31.944 --> 00:13:34.413
  • Without a nation but a nation cannot survive
  • 00:13:34.413 --> 00:13:37.116
  • Without a family.
  • 00:13:37.116 --> 00:13:40.052
  • So here are adam and eve in perfect paradise.
  • 00:13:40.052 --> 00:13:43.189
  • Living the dream, man.
  • 00:13:43.189 --> 00:13:45.057
  • You can't get any better than this.
  • 00:13:45.057 --> 00:13:47.860
  • Surrounded by beauty, surrounded by the most amazing wildlife.
  • 00:13:47.860 --> 00:13:51.831
  • All the animals are docile and tame, and the greatest food
  • 00:13:51.831 --> 00:13:56.435
  • To eat, and it's so good.
  • 00:13:56.435 --> 00:13:58.871
  • Well, there was trouble in paradise.
  • 00:13:58.871 --> 00:14:01.173
  • Enter the devil.
  • 00:14:01.173 --> 00:14:02.875
  • Go to genesis 3, verse 1.
  • 00:14:02.875 --> 00:14:05.377
  • "now the serpent was more cunning
  • 00:14:05.377 --> 00:14:07.947
  • Than any beast of the field which the lord god had made.
  • 00:14:07.947 --> 00:14:10.883
  • And he said to the woman, 'has god indeed said, "you will not
  • 00:14:10.883 --> 00:14:15.454
  • Eat of every tree of the garden"?'"
  • 00:14:15.454 --> 00:14:17.723
  • And he probably said it like this, "has god indeed
  • 00:14:17.723 --> 00:14:22.661
  • Said," right?
  • 00:14:22.661 --> 00:14:24.363
  • He's a serpent.
  • 00:14:24.363 --> 00:14:26.332
  • "and the woman said to the serpent, 'well, we may eat of
  • 00:14:26.332 --> 00:14:28.601
  • The fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the
  • 00:14:28.601 --> 00:14:30.603
  • Tree which is in the midst of the garden, god has said, "you
  • 00:14:30.603 --> 00:14:33.639
  • Shall not eat it, nor touch it, lest you die."'
  • 00:14:33.639 --> 00:14:36.141
  • Then the serpent said to the woman, 'oh, you will not
  • 00:14:36.141 --> 00:14:38.544
  • Surely die.
  • 00:14:38.544 --> 00:14:39.879
  • For god knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be
  • 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:42.882
  • Opened, and you will be like god, knowing good and evil.'
  • 00:14:42.882 --> 00:14:46.352
  • And when the woman saw the tree was good for food, that it was
  • 00:14:46.352 --> 00:14:49.822
  • Pleasant to the eyes, and desirable to make one wise, she
  • 00:14:49.822 --> 00:14:53.259
  • Took of the fruit and she ate.
  • 00:14:53.259 --> 00:14:55.361
  • And she gave it to her husband with her, and he ate.
  • 00:14:55.361 --> 00:14:59.098
  • Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they
  • 00:14:59.098 --> 00:15:01.767
  • Were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made
  • 00:15:01.767 --> 00:15:04.503
  • Themselves coverings.
  • 00:15:04.503 --> 00:15:05.938
  • And they heard the sound of the lord god walking in the garden
  • 00:15:05.938 --> 00:15:09.642
  • In the cool of the day, and adam and his wife hid themselves from
  • 00:15:09.642 --> 00:15:13.979
  • The presence of the lord god among the trees of the garden.
  • 00:15:13.979 --> 00:15:17.716
  • Then the lord called to adam and said to him, 'where are you?'
  • 00:15:17.716 --> 00:15:20.920
  • Adam said, 'i heard your voice in the garden, but i was afraid
  • 00:15:20.920 --> 00:15:24.323
  • Because i was naked, so i hid myself.'"
  • 00:15:24.323 --> 00:15:27.960
  • So, here now we see how the devil seeks to attack and
  • 00:15:27.960 --> 00:15:32.498
  • Undermine us.
  • 00:15:32.498 --> 00:15:33.832
  • We see his four waves of attack that he uses over and
  • 00:15:33.832 --> 00:15:38.103
  • Over again.
  • 00:15:38.103 --> 00:15:39.471
  • Interesting, he comes as a snake, a talking snake.
  • 00:15:39.471 --> 00:15:44.510
  • Did other animals talk at this time before the fall?
  • 00:15:44.510 --> 00:15:47.713
  • I don't know.
  • 00:15:47.713 --> 00:15:49.048
  • That'd be kind of cool, having conversations with
  • 00:15:49.048 --> 00:15:50.983
  • Different animals.
  • 00:15:50.983 --> 00:15:52.551
  • But he comes as a snake.
  • 00:15:52.551 --> 00:15:54.386
  • You know, snakes are interesting creatures.
  • 00:15:54.386 --> 00:15:56.789
  • When i was a young boy, i was, really, an avid collector
  • 00:15:56.789 --> 00:16:00.426
  • Of snakes.
  • 00:16:00.426 --> 00:16:01.794
  • I had boas and pythons and king snakes and gopher snakes, and
  • 00:16:01.794 --> 00:16:05.731
  • Then i went out and caught snakes and--you know, snakes are
  • 00:16:05.731 --> 00:16:09.168
  • Not expressive creatures.
  • 00:16:09.168 --> 00:16:10.602
  • They're cold blooded.
  • 00:16:10.602 --> 00:16:12.271
  • Snakes don't show affection like a dog.
  • 00:16:12.271 --> 00:16:15.641
  • You know, dogs are so affectionate, they want to be
  • 00:16:15.641 --> 00:16:18.143
  • With you.
  • 00:16:18.143 --> 00:16:19.511
  • You know when a dog's happy, you know when a dog's sad.
  • 00:16:19.511 --> 00:16:22.147
  • Cats, they're more mysterious, filled with murderous thoughts.
  • 00:16:22.147 --> 00:16:27.953
  • They might occasionally lick you with their little weird
  • 00:16:27.953 --> 00:16:30.856
  • Sandpaper tongue and--but, even with a cat, you can read them to
  • 00:16:30.856 --> 00:16:36.662
  • A certain degree, though they're a bit more mysterious than dogs.
  • 00:16:36.662 --> 00:16:40.065
  • But reptiles, snakes in particular, you don't know if
  • 00:16:40.065 --> 00:16:43.535
  • They're just kind of looking around or they're gonna strike
  • 00:16:43.535 --> 00:16:46.205
  • At you.
  • 00:16:46.205 --> 00:16:47.573
  • They're--it's hard to tell.
  • 00:16:47.573 --> 00:16:48.907
  • And so, they're very clever, they're very sly, and the devil
  • 00:16:48.907 --> 00:16:54.947
  • Is compared in the bible to a snake.
  • 00:16:54.947 --> 00:16:57.583
  • Point number seven, he questioned the word of god.
  • 00:16:57.583 --> 00:17:01.053
  • "hey, did god really say what you thought he said?"
  • 00:17:01.053 --> 00:17:03.589
  • Interesting, now coming back to something i mentioned earlier,
  • 00:17:03.589 --> 00:17:06.792
  • Satan uses the name in the first chapter of genesis
  • 00:17:06.792 --> 00:17:10.863
  • For god, elohim.
  • 00:17:10.863 --> 00:17:12.598
  • "did elohim really say"--but remember the lord introduced
  • 00:17:12.598 --> 00:17:15.901
  • Himself as yahweh, a more personal name.
  • 00:17:15.901 --> 00:17:18.937
  • "hey, did elohim really say what you thought he said?"
  • 00:17:18.937 --> 00:17:24.076
  • The devil's primary objective is to separate you from god
  • 00:17:24.076 --> 00:17:28.280
  • Through sin.
  • 00:17:28.280 --> 00:17:29.848
  • He'll always be looking for ways to do that.
  • 00:17:29.848 --> 00:17:32.284
  • And once he succeeds, once you take the bait that he offers,
  • 00:17:32.284 --> 00:17:37.256
  • Then he'll come and conduct--condemn you.
  • 00:17:37.256 --> 00:17:39.658
  • That's why he's called the accuser of the brothers,
  • 00:17:39.658 --> 00:17:42.895
  • The brethren in king james.
  • 00:17:42.895 --> 00:17:44.763
  • But he will tempt you and then condemn you for giving in
  • 00:17:44.763 --> 00:17:49.034
  • To his temptation.
  • 00:17:49.034 --> 00:17:50.402
  • And he'll say things to you like, "oh, man,
  • 00:17:50.402 --> 00:17:52.271
  • Don't read the bible.
  • 00:17:52.271 --> 00:17:53.972
  • No, that would be hypocritical.
  • 00:17:53.972 --> 00:17:55.340
  • Don't you dare go to church."
  • 00:17:55.340 --> 00:17:56.675
  • I mean, when we've sinned we think, well, i can't
  • 00:17:56.675 --> 00:17:58.043
  • Go to church after what i did this week.
  • 00:17:58.043 --> 00:17:59.845
  • What do you think the church is?
  • 00:17:59.845 --> 00:18:01.947
  • Think of the church like a hospital, think of the church
  • 00:18:01.947 --> 00:18:05.984
  • Like a place that you go to get better.
  • 00:18:05.984 --> 00:18:08.520
  • As i've often said, the church is not a hospital--excuse me,
  • 00:18:08.520 --> 00:18:11.957
  • It's not a museum for saints, it's a hospital
  • 00:18:11.957 --> 00:18:14.526
  • For sinners, right?
  • 00:18:14.526 --> 00:18:16.295
  • But the devil will try to keep you from church, keep you from
  • 00:18:16.295 --> 00:18:19.364
  • God's people, keep you from opening the bible,
  • 00:18:19.364 --> 00:18:22.267
  • Keep you from praying.
  • 00:18:22.267 --> 00:18:23.936
  • Don't listen to him.
  • 00:18:23.936 --> 00:18:25.304
  • But that's what the devil does.
  • 00:18:25.304 --> 00:18:26.638
  • "did god really say what you thought he said?"
  • 00:18:26.638 --> 00:18:29.541
  • And he introduces the assumption that god's word is subject to
  • 00:18:29.541 --> 00:18:33.846
  • Our judgment.
  • 00:18:33.846 --> 00:18:35.347
  • "you know what?
  • 00:18:35.347 --> 00:18:36.682
  • I don't know.
  • 00:18:36.682 --> 00:18:38.050
  • I mean, do we really wanna listen to what
  • 00:18:38.050 --> 00:18:39.485
  • God said in his word?"
  • 00:18:39.485 --> 00:18:40.819
  • And people do this all the time.
  • 00:18:40.819 --> 00:18:42.154
  • They'll say things like, "well, i'm a christian and i love the
  • 00:18:42.154 --> 00:18:44.690
  • Lord, but i don't know if i agree with this part of the
  • 00:18:44.690 --> 00:18:47.860
  • Bible, because my god would never send a person to hell for
  • 00:18:47.860 --> 00:18:53.966
  • Living in rebellion against him and outside of his plan," or,
  • 00:18:53.966 --> 00:18:56.568
  • "my god thinks thus."
  • 00:18:56.568 --> 00:18:58.504
  • And so, well, listen, i don't know who your god is, but he's
  • 00:18:58.504 --> 00:19:01.607
  • Not the god of the bible.
  • 00:19:01.607 --> 00:19:04.643
  • Someone once asked me, "what do you do when you come to a verse
  • 00:19:04.643 --> 00:19:07.179
  • In the bible you don't agree with?"
  • 00:19:07.179 --> 00:19:09.314
  • My response was, "change your opinion because you're wrong."
  • 00:19:09.314 --> 00:19:13.685
  • Now, you wanna make sure you've correctly interpreted that verse
  • 00:19:13.685 --> 00:19:17.022
  • In context and so forth, but having said that, the bible is
  • 00:19:17.022 --> 00:19:21.426
  • The source of all truth.
  • 00:19:21.426 --> 00:19:23.962
  • And so, we believe this, but the devil attacks the word of god.
  • 00:19:23.962 --> 00:19:28.667
  • Really, what he is implying is god is holding you away from
  • 00:19:28.667 --> 00:19:32.437
  • Something good.
  • 00:19:32.437 --> 00:19:33.772
  • "man, if god really loved you, he'd let you do whatever
  • 00:19:33.772 --> 00:19:36.408
  • You want.
  • 00:19:36.408 --> 00:19:37.776
  • Why would he restrict you?
  • 00:19:37.776 --> 00:19:39.111
  • Why would he say you can't eat of this tree?
  • 00:19:39.111 --> 00:19:40.445
  • God's holding you back from this thing, because in the day you
  • 00:19:40.445 --> 00:19:43.515
  • Eat of it, you will be like a god yourself.
  • 00:19:43.515 --> 00:19:46.585
  • You'll be a goddess, knowing good and evil."
  • 00:19:46.585 --> 00:19:48.954
  • He's a liar.
  • 00:19:48.954 --> 00:19:50.622
  • If god tells you not to do something that's for your
  • 00:19:50.622 --> 00:19:52.991
  • Own good.
  • 00:19:52.991 --> 00:19:54.626
  • Is it really that bad?
  • 00:19:54.626 --> 00:19:56.495
  • God gives his commandments.
  • 00:19:56.495 --> 00:19:57.863
  • You shall not lie, you shall not steal, you shall not take the
  • 00:19:57.863 --> 00:20:00.866
  • Lord's name in vain, you shall honor your mother and father.
  • 00:20:00.866 --> 00:20:05.003
  • Live in these standards and by these principles because these
  • 00:20:05.003 --> 00:20:08.907
  • Are walls of protection keeping evil out.
  • 00:20:08.907 --> 00:20:13.545
  • The bible says, "no good thing will he withhold from those that
  • 00:20:13.545 --> 00:20:17.449
  • Walk up rightly."
  • 00:20:17.449 --> 00:20:19.484
  • And satan also questioned the love of god.
  • 00:20:19.484 --> 00:20:22.621
  • "if god really loved you, he'd let you do whatever you want."
  • 00:20:22.621 --> 00:20:25.090
  • No, he love you too much to not let you do whatever you want.
  • 00:20:25.090 --> 00:20:30.395
  • And then, the devil denied the word of god.
  • 00:20:30.395 --> 00:20:34.600
  • You know, it's a short step from questioning the word of god to
  • 00:20:34.600 --> 00:20:38.604
  • Denying the word of god.
  • 00:20:38.604 --> 00:20:39.938
  • So, what do we learn?
  • 00:20:39.938 --> 00:20:41.306
  • Well, don't get into conversations with the devil.
  • 00:20:41.306 --> 00:20:45.677
  • The bible says, "resist the devil and he will flee
  • 00:20:45.677 --> 00:20:49.414
  • From you."
  • 00:20:49.414 --> 00:20:50.782
  • And then the devil substitute his own--substitutes its
  • 00:20:50.782 --> 00:20:53.518
  • Own--his own lie.
  • 00:20:53.518 --> 00:20:54.853
  • "hey, man, you'll become like a god, knowing good and evil."
  • 00:20:54.853 --> 00:20:57.956
  • That was a complete lie.
  • 00:20:57.956 --> 00:20:59.625
  • Listen, command central of your life is your mind.
  • 00:20:59.625 --> 00:21:04.062
  • You are the air traffic controller of your own mind.
  • 00:21:04.062 --> 00:21:08.867
  • The air traffic controller tells one pilot he can take off.
  • 00:21:08.867 --> 00:21:12.804
  • He tells another they can land.
  • 00:21:12.804 --> 00:21:14.740
  • He tells another to change their altitude.
  • 00:21:14.740 --> 00:21:17.109
  • He changes--he tells even another to change
  • 00:21:17.109 --> 00:21:19.444
  • Their attitude.
  • 00:21:19.444 --> 00:21:20.779
  • Probably not, but.
  • 00:21:20.779 --> 00:21:22.147
  • But he's there directing, directing people, and you decide
  • 00:21:22.147 --> 00:21:25.417
  • What thoughts come into this mind of yours and what thoughts
  • 00:21:25.417 --> 00:21:28.353
  • Stay out.
  • 00:21:28.353 --> 00:21:29.721
  • "the eyes of them both were opened," verse 7.
  • 00:21:29.721 --> 00:21:32.924
  • Their eyes were open to earth and closed to heaven.
  • 00:21:32.924 --> 00:21:37.496
  • Then guess who shows up in the garden?
  • 00:21:37.496 --> 00:21:39.531
  • The lord.
  • 00:21:39.531 --> 00:21:40.999
  • Verse 8, genesis 3, the lord comes walking through the
  • 00:21:40.999 --> 00:21:45.137
  • Garden, "they heard the sound of the lord god walking in the
  • 00:21:45.137 --> 00:21:48.173
  • Garden in the cool of the day."
  • 00:21:48.173 --> 00:21:49.975
  • Interesting, the word for god is yahweh.
  • 00:21:49.975 --> 00:21:53.779
  • So, we're back to yahweh again.
  • 00:21:53.779 --> 00:21:56.114
  • So, yahweh comes walking through the garden.
  • 00:21:56.114 --> 00:21:58.784
  • It would appear, perhaps, that the lord showed up in the garden
  • 00:21:58.784 --> 00:22:03.789
  • Every day as the sun was setting.
  • 00:22:03.789 --> 00:22:06.792
  • In the cool of the day everything would be bathed in
  • 00:22:06.792 --> 00:22:09.728
  • A golden light and adam would normally tell the lord what
  • 00:22:09.728 --> 00:22:13.965
  • He had discovered that day.
  • 00:22:13.965 --> 00:22:15.300
  • Maybe he had some questions for god.
  • 00:22:15.300 --> 00:22:17.336
  • So, here comes the lord as he would come, walking in
  • 00:22:17.336 --> 00:22:20.672
  • The garden.
  • 00:22:20.672 --> 00:22:22.007
  • But now adam is not running to see the lord, he's hiding from
  • 00:22:22.007 --> 00:22:26.378
  • The lord because of his sin.
  • 00:22:26.378 --> 00:22:30.382
  • And what a sad thing that is.
  • 00:22:30.382 --> 00:22:32.851
  • And now the thrill of sin is gone, and sin doesn't always
  • 00:22:32.851 --> 00:22:36.221
  • Have a thrill, but sometimes it does and is short lived at best.
  • 00:22:36.221 --> 00:22:40.092
  • And then the repercussions come, then the guilt kicks in and that
  • 00:22:40.092 --> 00:22:44.029
  • Dead, cold feeling that comes from sin is there.
  • 00:22:44.029 --> 00:22:47.666
  • And the lord says, "adam, where are you?"
  • 00:22:47.666 --> 00:22:51.136
  • Does the lord say that because he literally didn't know where
  • 00:22:51.136 --> 00:22:53.505
  • Adam is?
  • 00:22:53.505 --> 00:22:54.840
  • "adam.
  • 00:22:54.840 --> 00:22:56.208
  • Adam, i can't find you."
  • 00:22:56.208 --> 00:22:57.542
  • The lord knew exactly where adam was.
  • 00:22:57.542 --> 00:22:58.944
  • The lord knew everything that was happening.
  • 00:22:58.944 --> 00:23:00.712
  • He was aware of it from the very beginning.
  • 00:23:00.712 --> 00:23:04.449
  • God wasn't looking for the location of adam, he was looking
  • 00:23:04.449 --> 00:23:07.486
  • For confession from adam.
  • 00:23:07.486 --> 00:23:09.921
  • "adam," the lord says, "where are you?"
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  • Adam, of course, covers things up.
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  • But i wonder if god is asking that question of some of us
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  • Right now.
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  • Where are you?
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  • Not literally where are you, he knows where you are.
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  • We're in church.
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  • But where are you spiritually?
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  • Are you in the place you should be in right now or are you
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  • Separated from god because of sin?
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  • I don't think this is a spoiler alert when i tell you that, of
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  • Course, jesus came to die on the cross to reconcile us with god
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  • And to restore what was lost in the garden of eden.
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  • And we'll look at that first messianic passage next time in
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  • Genesis chapter 3, verse 15 when god speaks of one who would come
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  • To deliver us, but we'll stop short of that today
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  • And just deal with that question, where are you?
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  • Are you where you need to be?
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  • Are you right with god?
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  • If you died today, would you go to heaven or have you done
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  • Something you know has separated you from god?
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  • And there might be someone i'm talking to that was walking with
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  • The lord, but you've allowed sin to get into your life and to
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  • Compromise you and you've eaten of that forbidden fruit.
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  • Well, the good news is god can forgive you.
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  • The bible says, "if we will confess our sin, he's faithful
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  • And just to forgive us of our sin and cleanse us from
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  • All unrighteousness."
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  • You have to admit your sin.
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  • Stop making excuses for it, stop blaming others for it, and just
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  • Say, "i am guilty.
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  • I'm sorry.
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  • Forgive me," and he will, because jesus died on that cross
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  • For your sin.
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  • He paid the price for every wrong you've done.
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  • You don't have to atone for your own sin.
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  • You don't have to do x amount of good works to get god
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  • To forgive.
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  • You just come and say, "god, i'm a sinner.
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  • I failed, but you're our savior and you love me and i need your
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  • Forgiveness right now."
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  • God longs for relationship with you.
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  • Isn't it interesting that the story says, "the lord
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  • Came calling."
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  • It should have been adam, saying, "god, where are you?
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  • God, come to me.
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  • God, help me."
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  • Instead, it's the lord calling.
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  • Greg: hi, i'm greg laurie.
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  • Years ago, i was in the ocean with my son
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  • And we got caught in a rip tide.
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  • Problem is, we were only a few feet from the shore.
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  • The lifeguard comes to rescue me.
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  • I say, "i think i'm okay," and i finally got my feet
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  • On firm ground.
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  • But the problem was i was too proud to say i needed help.
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  • That's like us, drowning in sin, drowning in addiction,
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  • Needing the help of god.
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  • Here's what the bible says.
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  • "whoever will call upon the name of the lord will be saved."
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  • Whatever you're facing right now, jesus is ready to come
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  • And help you, to save you.
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  • You can just pray, "lord jesus, save me, forgive me of my sin.
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  • I need a relationship with you.
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  • I need hope of my life."
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  • Pray that prayer.
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  • He'll hear it and he'll answer it.
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  • I want to send you a bible
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  • At no charge to help you
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  • Get started in a relationship
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  • With jesus christ.
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  • Greg: greg laurie here.
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  • You know, there is a very special group of people
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  • I want to introduce you to.
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  • They are a group of people who are passionate about the gospel
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  • Of jesus christ being proclaimed in this nation and beyond.
  • 00:26:40.865 --> 00:26:44.803
  • In fact, these people our radio program, our harvest
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  • Crusades, our evangelistic movies like "jesus revolution,"
  • 00:26:48.873 --> 00:26:52.944
  • And so much more.
  • 00:26:52.944 --> 00:26:54.279
  • Without them, harvest ministries could not even exist,
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  • So who are these amazing people?
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  • We call them harvest partners.
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  • They are people who have chosen to give monthly to harvest to
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  • Keep the gospel moving forward.
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  • Some can only give a little, others can give more,
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  • But all of it makes a big difference.
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  • Jesus said, "the harvest is plentiful,
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  • But the laborers are few.
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  • Therefore, pray the lord of the harvest to send out
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  • Laborers into his harvest."
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  • Will you become a harvest partner and help us fulfill the
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  • Great commission in our lifetime?
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  • Let's do this together.
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