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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Trouble In Paradise | February 25, 2025
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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.
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- He was lost, is found.'"
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- So in a sense, you can see the father accepted him as he was.
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- But then we read the father said, "get a clean robe on
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- This boy."
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- In other words, get this boy a bath, right?
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- So we come to christ, but now god wants to clean us up
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- And he wants to transform us.
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- So yes, god loves you and accepts you the way that
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- You are, but he doesn't want to leave you that way.
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- He wants you to grow in your faith.
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- Greg: so, god is now
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- 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.
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- 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
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- To become a woman or a woman who wants to become a man.
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- A man and a woman.
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- This is the only order that god will bless.
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- That's true.
- 00:12:49.603 --> 00:12:56.843
- We have strayed from god's order and we're reaping
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- The consequences of it in our nation today.
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- Almost every social ill that is happening in america today
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- Can be directly traced to the breakdown of the family
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- And specifically the absence of fathers.
- 00:13:11.925 --> 00:13:15.595
- I could speak for 45 minutes just giving you stats
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- To prove what i just said.
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- It's an undeniable fact.
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- And we've tampered with this.
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- We want to eliminate the family.
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- We want to redefine the family.
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- And as we've done this it's like we're striking
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- At the very foundation of our nation.
- 00:13:29.609 --> 00:13:31.945
- You know, it's been said a family can survive
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- Without a nation but a nation cannot survive
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- Without a family.
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- So here are adam and eve in perfect paradise.
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- Living the dream, man.
- 00:13:43.190 --> 00:13:45.058
- You can't get any better than this.
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- Surrounded by beauty, surrounded by the most amazing wildlife.
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- All the animals are docile and tame, and the greatest food
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- To eat, and it's so good.
- 00:13:56.436 --> 00:13:58.872
- Well, there was trouble in paradise.
- 00:13:58.872 --> 00:14:01.174
- Enter the devil.
- 00:14:01.174 --> 00:14:02.876
- Go to genesis 3, verse 1.
- 00:14:02.876 --> 00:14:05.378
- "now the serpent was more cunning
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- Than any beast of the field which the lord god had made.
- 00:14:07.948 --> 00:14:10.884
- And he said to the woman, 'has god indeed said, "you will not
- 00:14:10.884 --> 00:14:15.455
- Eat of every tree of the garden"?'"
- 00:14:15.455 --> 00:14:17.724
- And he probably said it like this, "has god indeed
- 00:14:17.724 --> 00:14:22.662
- Said," right?
- 00:14:22.662 --> 00:14:24.364
- He's a serpent.
- 00:14:24.364 --> 00:14:26.333
- "and the woman said to the serpent, 'well, we may eat of
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- The fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the
- 00:14:28.602 --> 00:14:30.604
- Tree which is in the midst of the garden, god has said, "you
- 00:14:30.604 --> 00:14:33.640
- Shall not eat it, nor touch it, lest you die."'
- 00:14:33.640 --> 00:14:36.142
- Then the serpent said to the woman, 'oh, you will not
- 00:14:36.142 --> 00:14:38.545
- Surely die.
- 00:14:38.545 --> 00:14:39.880
- For god knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be
- 00:14:39.880 --> 00:14:42.883
- Opened, and you will be like god, knowing good and evil.'
- 00:14:42.883 --> 00:14:46.353
- And when the woman saw the tree was good for food, that it was
- 00:14:46.353 --> 00:14:49.823
- Pleasant to the eyes, and desirable to make one wise, she
- 00:14:49.823 --> 00:14:53.260
- Took of the fruit and she ate.
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- And she gave it to her husband with her, and he ate.
- 00:14:55.362 --> 00:14:59.099
- Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they
- 00:14:59.099 --> 00:15:01.768
- Were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made
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- Themselves coverings.
- 00:15:04.504 --> 00:15:05.939
- And they heard the sound of the lord god walking in the garden
- 00:15:05.939 --> 00:15:09.643
- In the cool of the day, and adam and his wife hid themselves from
- 00:15:09.643 --> 00:15:13.980
- The presence of the lord god among the trees of the garden.
- 00:15:13.980 --> 00:15:17.717
- Then the lord called to adam and said to him, 'where are you?'
- 00:15:17.717 --> 00:15:20.921
- Adam said, 'i heard your voice in the garden, but i was afraid
- 00:15:20.921 --> 00:15:24.324
- Because i was naked, so i hid myself.'"
- 00:15:24.324 --> 00:15:27.961
- So, here now we see how the devil seeks to attack and
- 00:15:27.961 --> 00:15:32.499
- Undermine us.
- 00:15:32.499 --> 00:15:33.833
- We see his four waves of attack that he uses over and
- 00:15:33.833 --> 00:15:38.104
- Over again.
- 00:15:38.104 --> 00:15:39.472
- Interesting, he comes as a snake, a talking snake.
- 00:15:39.472 --> 00:15:44.511
- Did other animals talk at this time before the fall?
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- I don't know.
- 00:15:47.714 --> 00:15:49.049
- That'd be kind of cool, having conversations with
- 00:15:49.049 --> 00:15:50.984
- Different animals.
- 00:15:50.984 --> 00:15:52.552
- But he comes as a snake.
- 00:15:52.552 --> 00:15:54.387
- You know, snakes are interesting creatures.
- 00:15:54.387 --> 00:15:56.790
- When i was a young boy, i was, really, an avid collector
- 00:15:56.790 --> 00:16:00.427
- Of snakes.
- 00:16:00.427 --> 00:16:01.795
- I had boas and pythons and king snakes and gopher snakes, and
- 00:16:01.795 --> 00:16:05.732
- Then i went out and caught snakes and--you know, snakes are
- 00:16:05.732 --> 00:16:09.169
- Not expressive creatures.
- 00:16:09.169 --> 00:16:10.603
- They're cold blooded.
- 00:16:10.603 --> 00:16:12.272
- Snakes don't show affection like a dog.
- 00:16:12.272 --> 00:16:15.642
- You know, dogs are so affectionate, they want to be
- 00:16:15.642 --> 00:16:18.144
- With you.
- 00:16:18.144 --> 00:16:19.512
- You know when a dog's happy, you know when a dog's sad.
- 00:16:19.512 --> 00:16:22.148
- Cats, they're more mysterious, filled with murderous thoughts.
- 00:16:22.148 --> 00:16:27.954
- They might occasionally lick you with their little weird
- 00:16:27.954 --> 00:16:30.857
- Sandpaper tongue and--but, even with a cat, you can read them to
- 00:16:30.857 --> 00:16:36.663
- A certain degree, though they're a bit more mysterious than dogs.
- 00:16:36.663 --> 00:16:40.066
- But reptiles, snakes in particular, you don't know if
- 00:16:40.066 --> 00:16:43.536
- They're just kind of looking around or they're gonna strike
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- At you.
- 00:16:46.206 --> 00:16:47.574
- They're--it's hard to tell.
- 00:16:47.574 --> 00:16:48.908
- And so, they're very clever, they're very sly, and the devil
- 00:16:48.908 --> 00:16:54.948
- Is compared in the bible to a snake.
- 00:16:54.948 --> 00:16:57.584
- Point number seven, he questioned the word of god.
- 00:16:57.584 --> 00:17:01.054
- "hey, did god really say what you thought he said?"
- 00:17:01.054 --> 00:17:03.590
- Interesting, now coming back to something i mentioned earlier,
- 00:17:03.590 --> 00:17:06.793
- Satan uses the name in the first chapter of genesis
- 00:17:06.793 --> 00:17:10.864
- For god, elohim.
- 00:17:10.864 --> 00:17:12.599
- "did elohim really say"--but remember the lord introduced
- 00:17:12.599 --> 00:17:15.902
- Himself as yahweh, a more personal name.
- 00:17:15.902 --> 00:17:18.938
- "hey, did elohim really say what you thought he said?"
- 00:17:18.938 --> 00:17:24.077
- The devil's primary objective is to separate you from god
- 00:17:24.077 --> 00:17:28.281
- Through sin.
- 00:17:28.281 --> 00:17:29.849
- He'll always be looking for ways to do that.
- 00:17:29.849 --> 00:17:32.285
- And once he succeeds, once you take the bait that he offers,
- 00:17:32.285 --> 00:17:37.257
- Then he'll come and conduct--condemn you.
- 00:17:37.257 --> 00:17:39.659
- That's why he's called the accuser of the brothers,
- 00:17:39.659 --> 00:17:42.896
- The brethren in king james.
- 00:17:42.896 --> 00:17:44.764
- But he will tempt you and then condemn you for giving in
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- To his temptation.
- 00:17:49.035 --> 00:17:50.403
- And he'll say things to you like, "oh, man,
- 00:17:50.403 --> 00:17:52.272
- Don't read the bible.
- 00:17:52.272 --> 00:17:53.973
- No, that would be hypocritical.
- 00:17:53.973 --> 00:17:55.341
- Don't you dare go to church."
- 00:17:55.341 --> 00:17:56.676
- I mean, when we've sinned we think, well, i can't
- 00:17:56.676 --> 00:17:58.044
- Go to church after what i did this week.
- 00:17:58.044 --> 00:17:59.846
- What do you think the church is?
- 00:17:59.846 --> 00:18:01.948
- Think of the church like a hospital, think of the church
- 00:18:01.948 --> 00:18:05.985
- Like a place that you go to get better.
- 00:18:05.985 --> 00:18:08.521
- As i've often said, the church is not a hospital--excuse me,
- 00:18:08.521 --> 00:18:11.958
- It's not a museum for saints, it's a hospital
- 00:18:11.958 --> 00:18:14.527
- For sinners, right?
- 00:18:14.527 --> 00:18:16.296
- But the devil will try to keep you from church, keep you from
- 00:18:16.296 --> 00:18:19.365
- God's people, keep you from opening the bible,
- 00:18:19.365 --> 00:18:22.268
- Keep you from praying.
- 00:18:22.268 --> 00:18:23.937
- Don't listen to him.
- 00:18:23.937 --> 00:18:25.305
- But that's what the devil does.
- 00:18:25.305 --> 00:18:26.639
- "did god really say what you thought he said?"
- 00:18:26.639 --> 00:18:29.542
- And he introduces the assumption that god's word is subject to
- 00:18:29.542 --> 00:18:33.847
- Our judgment.
- 00:18:33.847 --> 00:18:35.348
- "you know what?
- 00:18:35.348 --> 00:18:36.683
- I don't know.
- 00:18:36.683 --> 00:18:38.051
- I mean, do we really wanna listen to what
- 00:18:38.051 --> 00:18:39.486
- God said in his word?"
- 00:18:39.486 --> 00:18:40.820
- And people do this all the time.
- 00:18:40.820 --> 00:18:42.155
- They'll say things like, "well, i'm a christian and i love the
- 00:18:42.155 --> 00:18:44.691
- Lord, but i don't know if i agree with this part of the
- 00:18:44.691 --> 00:18:47.861
- Bible, because my god would never send a person to hell for
- 00:18:47.861 --> 00:18:53.967
- Living in rebellion against him and outside of his plan," or,
- 00:18:53.967 --> 00:18:56.569
- "my god thinks thus."
- 00:18:56.569 --> 00:18:58.505
- And so, well, listen, i don't know who your god is, but he's
- 00:18:58.505 --> 00:19:01.608
- Not the god of the bible.
- 00:19:01.608 --> 00:19:04.644
- Someone once asked me, "what do you do when you come to a verse
- 00:19:04.644 --> 00:19:07.180
- In the bible you don't agree with?"
- 00:19:07.180 --> 00:19:09.315
- My response was, "change your opinion because you're wrong."
- 00:19:09.315 --> 00:19:13.686
- Now, you wanna make sure you've correctly interpreted that verse
- 00:19:13.686 --> 00:19:17.023
- In context and so forth, but having said that, the bible is
- 00:19:17.023 --> 00:19:21.427
- The source of all truth.
- 00:19:21.427 --> 00:19:23.963
- And so, we believe this, but the devil attacks the word of god.
- 00:19:23.963 --> 00:19:28.668
- Really, what he is implying is god is holding you away from
- 00:19:28.668 --> 00:19:32.438
- Something good.
- 00:19:32.438 --> 00:19:33.773
- "man, if god really loved you, he'd let you do whatever
- 00:19:33.773 --> 00:19:36.409
- You want.
- 00:19:36.409 --> 00:19:37.777
- Why would he restrict you?
- 00:19:37.777 --> 00:19:39.112
- Why would he say you can't eat of this tree?
- 00:19:39.112 --> 00:19:40.446
- God's holding you back from this thing, because in the day you
- 00:19:40.446 --> 00:19:43.516
- Eat of it, you will be like a god yourself.
- 00:19:43.516 --> 00:19:46.586
- You'll be a goddess, knowing good and evil."
- 00:19:46.586 --> 00:19:48.955
- He's a liar.
- 00:19:48.955 --> 00:19:50.623
- If god tells you not to do something that's for your
- 00:19:50.623 --> 00:19:52.992
- Own good.
- 00:19:52.992 --> 00:19:54.627
- Is it really that bad?
- 00:19:54.627 --> 00:19:56.496
- God gives his commandments.
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- You shall not lie, you shall not steal, you shall not take the
- 00:19:57.864 --> 00:20:00.867
- Lord's name in vain, you shall honor your mother and father.
- 00:20:00.867 --> 00:20:05.004
- Live in these standards and by these principles because these
- 00:20:05.004 --> 00:20:08.908
- Are walls of protection keeping evil out.
- 00:20:08.908 --> 00:20:13.546
- The bible says, "no good thing will he withhold from those that
- 00:20:13.546 --> 00:20:17.450
- Walk up rightly."
- 00:20:17.450 --> 00:20:19.485
- And satan also questioned the love of god.
- 00:20:19.485 --> 00:20:22.622
- "if god really loved you, he'd let you do whatever you want."
- 00:20:22.622 --> 00:20:25.091
- No, he love you too much to not let you do whatever you want.
- 00:20:25.091 --> 00:20:30.396
- And then, the devil denied the word of god.
- 00:20:30.396 --> 00:20:34.601
- You know, it's a short step from questioning the word of god to
- 00:20:34.601 --> 00:20:38.605
- Denying the word of god.
- 00:20:38.605 --> 00:20:39.939
- So, what do we learn?
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- Well, don't get into conversations with the devil.
- 00:20:41.307 --> 00:20:45.678
- The bible says, "resist the devil and he will flee
- 00:20:45.678 --> 00:20:49.415
- From you."
- 00:20:49.415 --> 00:20:50.783
- And then the devil substitute his own--substitutes its
- 00:20:50.783 --> 00:20:53.519
- Own--his own lie.
- 00:20:53.519 --> 00:20:54.854
- "hey, man, you'll become like a god, knowing good and evil."
- 00:20:54.854 --> 00:20:57.957
- That was a complete lie.
- 00:20:57.957 --> 00:20:59.626
- Listen, command central of your life is your mind.
- 00:20:59.626 --> 00:21:04.063
- You are the air traffic controller of your own mind.
- 00:21:04.063 --> 00:21:08.868
- The air traffic controller tells one pilot he can take off.
- 00:21:08.868 --> 00:21:12.805
- He tells another they can land.
- 00:21:12.805 --> 00:21:14.741
- He tells another to change their altitude.
- 00:21:14.741 --> 00:21:17.110
- He changes--he tells even another to change
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- Their attitude.
- 00:21:19.445 --> 00:21:20.780
- Probably not, but.
- 00:21:20.780 --> 00:21:22.148
- But he's there directing, directing people, and you decide
- 00:21:22.148 --> 00:21:25.418
- What thoughts come into this mind of yours and what thoughts
- 00:21:25.418 --> 00:21:28.354
- Stay out.
- 00:21:28.354 --> 00:21:29.722
- "the eyes of them both were opened," verse 7.
- 00:21:29.722 --> 00:21:32.925
- Their eyes were open to earth and closed to heaven.
- 00:21:32.925 --> 00:21:37.497
- Then guess who shows up in the garden?
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- The lord.
- 00:21:39.532 --> 00:21:41.000
- Verse 8, genesis 3, the lord comes walking through the
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- Garden, "they heard the sound of the lord god walking in the
- 00:21:45.138 --> 00:21:48.174
- Garden in the cool of the day."
- 00:21:48.174 --> 00:21:49.976
- Interesting, the word for god is yahweh.
- 00:21:49.976 --> 00:21:53.780
- So, we're back to yahweh again.
- 00:21:53.780 --> 00:21:56.115
- So, yahweh comes walking through the garden.
- 00:21:56.115 --> 00:21:58.785
- It would appear, perhaps, that the lord showed up in the garden
- 00:21:58.785 --> 00:22:03.790
- Every day as the sun was setting.
- 00:22:03.790 --> 00:22:06.793
- In the cool of the day everything would be bathed in
- 00:22:06.793 --> 00:22:09.729
- A golden light and adam would normally tell the lord what
- 00:22:09.729 --> 00:22:13.966
- He had discovered that day.
- 00:22:13.966 --> 00:22:15.301
- Maybe he had some questions for god.
- 00:22:15.301 --> 00:22:17.337
- So, here comes the lord as he would come, walking in
- 00:22:17.337 --> 00:22:20.673
- The garden.
- 00:22:20.673 --> 00:22:22.008
- But now adam is not running to see the lord, he's hiding from
- 00:22:22.008 --> 00:22:26.379
- The lord because of his sin.
- 00:22:26.379 --> 00:22:30.383
- And what a sad thing that is.
- 00:22:30.383 --> 00:22:32.852
- And now the thrill of sin is gone, and sin doesn't always
- 00:22:32.852 --> 00:22:36.222
- Have a thrill, but sometimes it does and is short lived at best.
- 00:22:36.222 --> 00:22:40.093
- And then the repercussions come, then the guilt kicks in and that
- 00:22:40.093 --> 00:22:44.030
- Dead, cold feeling that comes from sin is there.
- 00:22:44.030 --> 00:22:47.667
- And the lord says, "adam, where are you?"
- 00:22:47.667 --> 00:22:51.137
- Does the lord say that because he literally didn't know where
- 00:22:51.137 --> 00:22:53.506
- Adam is?
- 00:22:53.506 --> 00:22:54.841
- "adam.
- 00:22:54.841 --> 00:22:56.209
- Adam, i can't find you."
- 00:22:56.209 --> 00:22:57.543
- The lord knew exactly where adam was.
- 00:22:57.543 --> 00:22:58.945
- The lord knew everything that was happening.
- 00:22:58.945 --> 00:23:00.713
- He was aware of it from the very beginning.
- 00:23:00.713 --> 00:23:04.450
- God wasn't looking for the location of adam, he was looking
- 00:23:04.450 --> 00:23:07.487
- For confession from adam.
- 00:23:07.487 --> 00:23:09.922
- "adam," the lord says, "where are you?"
- 00:23:09.922 --> 00:23:13.192
- Adam, of course, covers things up.
- 00:23:13.192 --> 00:23:16.562
- But i wonder if god is asking that question of some of us
- 00:23:16.562 --> 00:23:19.265
- Right now.
- 00:23:19.265 --> 00:23:20.633
- Where are you?
- 00:23:20.633 --> 00:23:21.968
- Not literally where are you, he knows where you are.
- 00:23:21.968 --> 00:23:23.336
- We're in church.
- 00:23:23.336 --> 00:23:25.037
- But where are you spiritually?
- 00:23:25.037 --> 00:23:27.373
- Are you in the place you should be in right now or are you
- 00:23:27.373 --> 00:23:31.144
- Separated from god because of sin?
- 00:23:31.144 --> 00:23:33.379
- 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
- 00:23:38.751 --> 00:23:43.089
- And to restore what was lost in the garden of eden.
- 00:23:43.089 --> 00:23:46.726
- And we'll look at that first messianic passage next time in
- 00:23:46.726 --> 00:23:50.997
- Genesis chapter 3, verse 15 when god speaks of one who would come
- 00:23:50.997 --> 00:23:55.868
- To deliver us, but we'll stop short of that today
- 00:23:55.868 --> 00:23:58.971
- And just deal with that question, where are you?
- 00:23:58.971 --> 00:24:01.474
- Are you where you need to be?
- 00:24:01.474 --> 00:24:03.876
- Are you right with god?
- 00:24:03.876 --> 00:24:06.012
- If you died today, would you go to heaven or have you done
- 00:24:06.012 --> 00:24:11.417
- Something you know has separated you from god?
- 00:24:11.417 --> 00:24:13.586
- And there might be someone i'm talking to that was walking with
- 00:24:13.586 --> 00:24:17.423
- The lord, but you've allowed sin to get into your life and to
- 00:24:17.423 --> 00:24:21.327
- Compromise you and you've eaten of that forbidden fruit.
- 00:24:21.327 --> 00:24:25.431
- Well, the good news is god can forgive you.
- 00:24:25.431 --> 00:24:29.769
- The bible says, "if we will confess our sin, he's faithful
- 00:24:29.769 --> 00:24:33.339
- And just to forgive us of our sin and cleanse us from
- 00:24:33.339 --> 00:24:36.142
- All unrighteousness."
- 00:24:36.142 --> 00:24:37.844
- You have to admit your sin.
- 00:24:37.844 --> 00:24:39.679
- Stop making excuses for it, stop blaming others for it, and just
- 00:24:39.679 --> 00:24:44.484
- Say, "i am guilty.
- 00:24:44.484 --> 00:24:45.852
- I'm sorry.
- 00:24:45.852 --> 00:24:47.186
- 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: so this is--these are the remains of someone's home, and
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- We have a team of people here that are volunteers.
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- Many of these people are from harvest working
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- With samaritan's purse.
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- So we come here, and we do these things for these people in the
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- Name of jesus christ to let them know that there are people
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- That care about them.
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- And we share the gospel with people and help people see
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- Their need for jesus.
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- You know, when you're down, when you're hurting, when tragedy
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- Is hit, a lot of times you're more open to hearing the gospel
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- Than maybe under normal circumstances when
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- Things are going well.
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- And i found that sometimes in the worst of circumstances, you
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- Can see amazing things happen because people open their hearts
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- To god and see their real need.
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