WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.800 Let's begin from verse 8 through to the end of the chapter. 00:00:16.660 --> 00:00:23.400 The Word of God is a matter of life and death in terms of how we receive it. 00:00:23.400 --> 00:00:29.280 So may the Lord help us now to receive his Word and may he encourage us. 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:30.780 Let's hear God's words. 00:00:31.820 --> 00:00:33.039 Chapter 3, verse 8. 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:39.660 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the tomb of the day. 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:43.900 And they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:47.060 But the Lord God called to the man, 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:49.320 Where are you? 00:00:50.340 --> 00:00:51.280 He answered, 00:00:51.680 --> 00:00:56.740 I heard you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid. 00:00:56.740 --> 00:00:59.400 Then he said, 00:00:59.400 --> 00:01:01.640 Who told you that you were naked? 00:01:02.460 --> 00:01:05.799 Have you eaten from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat? 00:01:06.939 --> 00:01:07.920 The man said, 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:09.659 The woman you put here with me, 00:01:09.939 --> 00:01:12.719 She gave me some of the fruit from the tree and I ate. 00:01:14.020 --> 00:01:15.900 Then the Lord God said to the woman, 00:01:16.599 --> 00:01:18.219 What is this you have done? 00:01:18.820 --> 00:01:20.000 The woman said, 00:01:20.500 --> 00:01:23.420 The snake deceived me and I ate. 00:01:23.420 --> 00:01:26.579 So the Lord God said to the snake, 00:01:26.900 --> 00:01:28.320 Because you have done this, 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:32.480 Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals. 00:01:32.620 --> 00:01:34.320 You will crawl on your belly and eat, 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:36.760 And you will eat dust all the days of your life. 00:01:37.719 --> 00:01:40.460 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, 00:01:41.299 --> 00:01:42.840 Between your offspring and her. 00:01:43.879 --> 00:01:45.659 He will crush your head, 00:01:45.659 --> 00:01:48.799 And you will strike me to you. 00:01:50.039 --> 00:01:51.179 To the woman he said, 00:01:51.619 --> 00:01:55.519 I will make your pain and childbearing very superior. 00:01:56.500 --> 00:01:57.679 With painful labour, 00:01:58.459 --> 00:02:00.159 You will give birth to children. 00:02:01.219 --> 00:02:02.979 Your desire will be for your husband, 00:02:03.199 --> 00:02:04.920 And he will rule over you. 00:02:06.379 --> 00:02:07.840 To Adam he said, 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:11.159 Because you listen to your wife, 00:02:11.319 --> 00:02:14.039 And date from the tree about which I command you, 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:15.759 You must not eat from it. 00:02:16.640 --> 00:02:18.520 Cursed is the ground because of you. 00:02:19.020 --> 00:02:20.060 Through painful toil, 00:02:20.300 --> 00:02:21.580 You will eat food from you, 00:02:21.860 --> 00:02:23.340 All the days of your life. 00:02:23.980 --> 00:02:26.520 It will produce thorns and pittles for you, 00:02:26.780 --> 00:02:28.759 And you will eat the plants and the fields. 00:02:29.699 --> 00:02:31.099 By the sweat of your brow, 00:02:31.219 --> 00:02:32.280 You will eat your food, 00:02:32.680 --> 00:02:34.400 Until you return to the ground, 00:02:34.539 --> 00:02:35.960 Since strong as you were taken. 00:02:35.960 --> 00:02:38.219 For dust you walk, 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:40.960 And to dust you will return. 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:45.360 Adam made his wife feed, 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:49.560 Because she would become the mother of all the living. 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:54.280 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, 00:02:54.360 --> 00:02:55.060 And clothed them. 00:02:56.080 --> 00:02:57.280 And the Lord God said, 00:02:57.819 --> 00:03:00.120 The man has now become like one of us, 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:01.180 Knowing who is an evil. 00:03:01.939 --> 00:03:04.520 He must not be allowed to reach out his hand, 00:03:04.520 --> 00:03:06.420 And take also from the tree of life, 00:03:06.480 --> 00:03:08.820 And live forever. 00:03:10.060 --> 00:03:12.780 So the Lord God banished him from the garden of Eden, 00:03:12.939 --> 00:03:14.939 To work the ground from which he had hidden. 00:03:16.100 --> 00:03:18.160 After he drove the man out, 00:03:18.980 --> 00:03:21.620 He placed on the east side of the garden of Eden, 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:24.240 Cherubing him with flashing swords, 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:26.400 Flashing back and forth, 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:29.360 To guard the way to the tree of life. 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:33.819 Well let's keep our Bibles open there, 00:03:33.900 --> 00:03:35.620 And just really pray together. 00:03:40.219 --> 00:03:40.819 Father, 00:03:41.319 --> 00:03:43.860 Your word is good for us, 00:03:44.900 --> 00:03:48.500 And yet sometimes we recognize that it is hard, 00:03:48.500 --> 00:03:52.039 Because it reveals truth about us, 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:55.159 And who you are. 00:03:56.500 --> 00:03:59.180 So we pray that you will give us a heart, 00:03:59.180 --> 00:04:02.560 That will accept your word to us today, 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:05.479 And submit to us, 00:04:05.479 --> 00:04:09.639 That we would be humbled by you, 00:04:09.639 --> 00:04:12.559 And you would lift us up, 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:16.000 As we look only to you, 00:04:17.039 --> 00:04:18.560 To help us now we pray. 00:04:19.439 --> 00:04:19.919 Amen. 00:04:24.099 --> 00:04:26.439 Well it is all so crystal clear, 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:27.019 What am I? 00:04:27.599 --> 00:04:30.039 Look at chapter 2, verse 16, 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:33.580 The Lord God's command of the man, 00:04:33.700 --> 00:04:36.439 You are free to eat from any tree in the garden, 00:04:36.620 --> 00:04:38.720 Such was God's generosity, 00:04:39.060 --> 00:04:40.240 In kindness and provision, 00:04:40.520 --> 00:04:41.840 You can eat anything, 00:04:43.500 --> 00:04:43.939 But, 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:44.860 Verse 17, 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:47.200 You must not eat from the tree, 00:04:47.320 --> 00:04:48.580 In the knowledge of good and evil, 00:04:48.740 --> 00:04:49.879 For when you eat from it, 00:04:49.939 --> 00:04:51.200 You will certainly die. 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:53.360 A simple command, 00:04:54.420 --> 00:04:57.500 A test to show love and loyalty to God, 00:04:57.780 --> 00:04:59.420 But then came the deception, 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:01.860 Chapter 3, verse 4, 00:05:03.420 --> 00:05:05.819 You will not certainly die, 00:05:06.020 --> 00:05:07.360 A certain said to the woman, 00:05:08.180 --> 00:05:10.640 For God knows that when you eat from it, 00:05:11.220 --> 00:05:12.480 Your eyes will be opened, 00:05:12.620 --> 00:05:13.800 And you will be like God, 00:05:13.900 --> 00:05:15.920 Knowing good and evil. 00:05:17.060 --> 00:05:19.780 The prospect of being like God, 00:05:19.860 --> 00:05:20.920 Was too great, 00:05:21.400 --> 00:05:23.520 The thought of deciding for themselves, 00:05:23.520 --> 00:05:24.900 What is good and evil, 00:05:25.620 --> 00:05:26.780 Was too enticing. 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:29.400 And they believed, 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:30.279 The life, 00:05:30.479 --> 00:05:31.979 Questioning God's word, 00:05:32.159 --> 00:05:33.459 Doubting God's goodness, 00:05:33.919 --> 00:05:35.879 Desiring God's place, 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:38.060 What was meant to be, 00:05:38.120 --> 00:05:39.539 An expression of trust, 00:05:39.979 --> 00:05:41.459 In their loving creator, 00:05:41.919 --> 00:05:42.899 Turned out to be, 00:05:42.899 --> 00:05:45.699 The first steps of open rebellion, 00:05:45.699 --> 00:05:48.459 That simple act, 00:05:48.459 --> 00:05:48.659 That simple act, 00:05:48.659 --> 00:05:50.740 Of eating the fruit, 00:05:52.319 --> 00:05:53.459 Means man, 00:05:53.459 --> 00:05:55.639 Who replaced God with himself, 00:05:56.039 --> 00:05:58.360 They have pushed God from his throne, 00:05:58.699 --> 00:06:00.379 And shouted in defiance, 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:02.339 I don't need God, 00:06:02.419 --> 00:06:04.000 Because I am God. 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:08.579 But it's alive, 00:06:08.579 --> 00:06:08.600 But it's alive, 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:12.459 Replacing God with ourselves, 00:06:12.819 --> 00:06:15.300 Is not a simple change in regime, 00:06:16.759 --> 00:06:17.720 It's hell, 00:06:18.839 --> 00:06:19.980 It's hell. 00:06:21.300 --> 00:06:22.319 Four words, 00:06:22.980 --> 00:06:24.220 Are going to summarize, 00:06:24.379 --> 00:06:25.100 In our text, 00:06:25.579 --> 00:06:26.240 This morning, 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:27.100 Four words, 00:06:27.259 --> 00:06:27.819 To summarize, 00:06:27.819 --> 00:06:30.040 The consequences, 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:32.120 Of man's rebellion, 00:06:32.899 --> 00:06:34.019 Here's the first, 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:35.319 Conflict, 00:06:35.860 --> 00:06:37.199 In the beginning, 00:06:37.459 --> 00:06:38.439 Everything was good, 00:06:39.519 --> 00:06:41.980 Man created to reflect God's glory, 00:06:42.360 --> 00:06:44.659 Enjoying his relationship with God, 00:06:44.660 --> 00:06:48.180 But when God's word was rejected, 00:06:48.180 --> 00:06:50.620 And their word was fully replaced, 00:06:51.820 --> 00:06:53.400 Then conflict came. 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:56.480 We see this conflict in a number of ways. 00:06:57.220 --> 00:06:57.700 First, 00:06:58.440 --> 00:07:00.020 There's conflict with God. 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:00.960 Look at verse 8. 00:07:02.280 --> 00:07:05.340 The man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God, 00:07:05.400 --> 00:07:06.820 As he was walking in the garden, 00:07:06.960 --> 00:07:08.000 In the cool of the day, 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:11.060 And they hid from the Lord God, 00:07:11.100 --> 00:07:12.700 Among the trees of the garden. 00:07:12.699 --> 00:07:15.959 The joy and intimacy, 00:07:16.779 --> 00:07:17.860 Of knowing God, 00:07:17.939 --> 00:07:20.099 Of walking with God in the garden, 00:07:20.500 --> 00:07:22.399 Has now been completely reversed. 00:07:22.899 --> 00:07:24.079 Instead of trust, 00:07:24.500 --> 00:07:25.219 There is fear. 00:07:25.560 --> 00:07:26.819 Instead of openness, 00:07:27.300 --> 00:07:28.159 There is hiding. 00:07:28.939 --> 00:07:30.519 They neither want God, 00:07:30.860 --> 00:07:32.480 Nor are they looking for God. 00:07:33.699 --> 00:07:35.779 They're running and hiding, 00:07:36.360 --> 00:07:39.480 Covering themselves in lying and sections. 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:43.060 Their friendship with God, 00:07:43.060 --> 00:07:43.080 Their friendship with God, 00:07:43.180 --> 00:07:44.720 Has turned to envy, 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:46.319 Of God. 00:07:48.400 --> 00:07:52.560 The conflict also came with self. 00:07:53.700 --> 00:07:54.740 Look at verse 9. 00:07:55.720 --> 00:07:57.280 The Lord God called from us, 00:07:57.640 --> 00:07:58.520 Where are you? 00:08:00.020 --> 00:08:00.720 He answered, 00:08:01.520 --> 00:08:03.080 I heard you in the garden, 00:08:03.079 --> 00:08:04.219 And I was afraid, 00:08:04.219 --> 00:08:05.399 Because I was naked, 00:08:05.599 --> 00:08:06.560 So I hid. 00:08:08.379 --> 00:08:10.500 Fear and hiding. 00:08:11.139 --> 00:08:12.199 All of a sudden, 00:08:12.579 --> 00:08:14.060 Man has become conscious, 00:08:14.219 --> 00:08:15.959 That something was not right. 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:18.939 He's now wracked by his guilty shame, 00:08:19.299 --> 00:08:21.240 No longer at peace with himself, 00:08:21.620 --> 00:08:24.240 Trying to cover over what he doesn't like. 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:28.939 We might think of Adam's fiddlings, 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:33.000 And how they've become our man, 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:37.100 The things that we present to other people, 00:08:37.500 --> 00:08:39.159 To cover over our flaws, 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:40.820 Our flaws and failures, 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:44.320 Desperately trying to fit in and measure up. 00:08:44.639 --> 00:08:46.500 We're at war with ourselves, 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:49.360 We set standards that we cannot meet, 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:52.440 We seek desires that never ever fulfill. 00:08:54.220 --> 00:08:56.860 We are not at peace with ourselves, 00:08:57.019 --> 00:08:59.100 There's an inner turmoil. 00:09:01.899 --> 00:09:04.580 But the conflict goes further than himself, 00:09:05.240 --> 00:09:08.100 And God is seen with each other. 00:09:09.259 --> 00:09:10.480 We've seen, haven't we, 00:09:10.500 --> 00:09:12.300 Over the first few chapters, 00:09:12.519 --> 00:09:15.100 How God designed the bestesties, 00:09:15.180 --> 00:09:16.420 For male and female, 00:09:16.820 --> 00:09:18.259 With a beautiful fit. 00:09:18.259 --> 00:09:19.960 Man working, 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:21.259 Woman helping, 00:09:21.799 --> 00:09:24.299 Together they served the purpose of God, 00:09:24.659 --> 00:09:26.720 The husband guarding and providing, 00:09:27.179 --> 00:09:29.240 The wife encouraging and supporting, 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:32.179 Equality was nurtured, 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:34.460 Difference was celebrated, 00:09:34.899 --> 00:09:35.559 But now, 00:09:36.559 --> 00:09:37.759 Look at verse 16, 00:09:39.059 --> 00:09:40.679 To the woman he said, 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:45.600 I will make your pains in childbearing very severe, 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:47.600 With painful labour, 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:50.019 You will give birth to children, 00:09:50.019 --> 00:09:52.279 And then notice this, 00:09:52.340 --> 00:09:53.700 Look at the end of verse 16, 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:58.340 Your desire will be for your husband, 00:09:58.340 --> 00:10:03.180 The desire of the woman, 00:10:03.179 --> 00:10:06.179 Is the same desire, 00:10:06.179 --> 00:10:06.839 Is the same desire, 00:10:07.839 --> 00:10:09.979 That sought to control the king, 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:11.919 Have a look, 00:10:11.979 --> 00:10:14.299 Just jump ahead to Genesis chapter 4, 00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:15.620 The next chapter on, 00:10:16.219 --> 00:10:17.959 Genesis chapter 4 verse 7, 00:10:18.059 --> 00:10:20.219 We're going to come to this next week, 00:10:21.179 --> 00:10:22.559 But just thinking about where it says, 00:10:22.659 --> 00:10:24.039 The woman's desire, 00:10:24.539 --> 00:10:25.579 Will be for our husband, 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:27.959 The same thing is repeated here, 00:10:28.059 --> 00:10:28.620 But look at this, 00:10:28.719 --> 00:10:29.659 Look at how it's put, 00:10:29.659 --> 00:10:31.379 Chapter 4 verse 7, 00:10:31.819 --> 00:10:33.539 If you do what is right, 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:35.980 Will you not be accepted? 00:10:36.879 --> 00:10:39.100 But if you do not do what is right, 00:10:39.740 --> 00:10:41.819 Sin is crouching at your door, 00:10:42.299 --> 00:10:44.799 It desires to have you, 00:10:45.299 --> 00:10:47.639 Sin desires to control you, 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:49.899 But you must rule over it, 00:10:50.620 --> 00:10:52.759 You must be the one that controls sin, 00:10:53.980 --> 00:10:55.639 Back to Genesis 3, 00:10:55.639 --> 00:10:59.939 You see, Sin seeks to control, 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:03.199 And rule in harmful and negative ways, 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:06.439 So the woman's desire for her husband, 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:10.279 Is actually a desire to control, 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:11.199 To manipulate, 00:11:11.580 --> 00:11:14.240 To get over her husband, 00:11:15.379 --> 00:11:16.699 Instead of gentleness, 00:11:16.860 --> 00:11:18.439 She becomes bossy, 00:11:18.580 --> 00:11:19.159 And nagging, 00:11:19.279 --> 00:11:19.939 And pouting, 00:11:21.439 --> 00:11:22.899 Undermining his lead, 00:11:22.899 --> 00:11:25.039 By exercising an autonomy, 00:11:26.659 --> 00:11:28.799 Everything becomes a fight, 00:11:29.799 --> 00:11:30.939 Within the relationship, 00:11:32.720 --> 00:11:33.720 As for the husband, 00:11:34.740 --> 00:11:36.240 Look at the end of verse 16, 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:37.139 Chapter 3, 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:39.299 It says there, 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:41.740 The husband will rule over you, 00:11:42.740 --> 00:11:43.939 Rather than a rule, 00:11:44.059 --> 00:11:45.699 Which is serving, 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:46.960 And sacrificial, 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:48.279 And giving, 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:50.539 It's a rule that may become, 00:11:50.539 --> 00:11:51.939 Domination, 00:11:52.259 --> 00:11:53.240 And control, 00:11:54.199 --> 00:11:55.079 Instead of, 00:11:55.240 --> 00:11:56.740 Nurturing his wife, 00:11:56.819 --> 00:11:58.319 So that she will flourish, 00:11:58.839 --> 00:11:59.839 And that she will become, 00:12:00.019 --> 00:12:01.419 All that God intends, 00:12:01.799 --> 00:12:03.159 He will crush her, 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:04.819 And break her, 00:12:06.919 --> 00:12:08.659 Such rule is abusive, 00:12:08.659 --> 00:12:09.639 And harsh, 00:12:10.959 --> 00:12:11.659 Can you see, 00:12:11.779 --> 00:12:13.779 How everything is about control, 00:12:14.159 --> 00:12:16.459 One tries to get over her husband, 00:12:16.460 --> 00:12:18.720 The other one tries to keep her down, 00:12:20.019 --> 00:12:21.200 This is the conflict, 00:12:21.340 --> 00:12:22.960 We see played out in marriages, 00:12:23.500 --> 00:12:24.680 All around them, 00:12:25.620 --> 00:12:26.740 And more generally, 00:12:26.920 --> 00:12:28.480 Between the genders, 00:12:28.620 --> 00:12:30.000 Between male and female, 00:12:30.340 --> 00:12:32.259 Instead of team working together, 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:34.960 Men and women are in this fight, 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:36.220 In this battle, 00:12:36.379 --> 00:12:37.700 To rule the world, 00:12:40.139 --> 00:12:41.360 It's destructive, 00:12:42.860 --> 00:12:44.000 And this is ugly, 00:12:44.160 --> 00:12:44.420 That, 00:12:44.419 --> 00:12:47.579 The conflict, 00:12:47.879 --> 00:12:48.759 Rages on, 00:12:50.459 --> 00:12:52.459 Not just between each other, 00:12:52.579 --> 00:12:54.199 But with the world as well, 00:12:54.479 --> 00:12:55.539 Look at verse 17, 00:12:56.099 --> 00:12:57.099 To Adam he said, 00:12:57.219 --> 00:12:58.799 Because he has listened to your wife, 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:00.019 And ate fruit from the tree, 00:13:00.099 --> 00:13:01.279 From which I commanded you, 00:13:01.579 --> 00:13:03.479 You must not eat fruit from it, 00:13:03.819 --> 00:13:06.059 Cursed is the ground because of you, 00:13:06.379 --> 00:13:08.120 Through painful toil, 00:13:08.620 --> 00:13:10.019 You will eat fruit from it, 00:13:10.019 --> 00:13:11.699 All the days of your life, 00:13:11.700 --> 00:13:14.980 In the beginning God had said to the man and the woman, 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:16.620 Subdue the world, 00:13:17.340 --> 00:13:18.240 Rule over it, 00:13:18.300 --> 00:13:19.480 For your good and blessing, 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:22.480 Now those roles have been reversed, 00:13:22.820 --> 00:13:25.680 It's like the world is now ruling over man, 00:13:25.860 --> 00:13:27.160 And crushing him, 00:13:27.160 --> 00:13:29.640 Verse 18, 00:13:29.639 --> 00:13:34.299 It will produce thorns and pitfalls, 00:13:34.299 --> 00:13:36.720 Brokenness, 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:38.259 Suffering, 00:13:38.259 --> 00:13:42.299 The world is broken, 00:13:43.100 --> 00:13:45.639 It's in conflict with man, 00:13:46.439 --> 00:13:47.580 Floods and famine, 00:13:47.939 --> 00:13:49.720 Hurricanes and tornadoes, 00:13:50.059 --> 00:13:51.240 Sickness and disease, 00:13:51.699 --> 00:13:53.799 Everything is now decaying, 00:13:53.980 --> 00:13:55.639 It's all distorted, 00:13:55.639 --> 00:14:01.000 There is another conflict, 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:04.319 A conflict with Satan, 00:14:05.460 --> 00:14:07.500 But we are going to come back to him in a minute, 00:14:07.500 --> 00:14:10.259 But all these conflicts, 00:14:10.500 --> 00:14:11.720 Conflicts with God, 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:12.759 With self, 00:14:12.919 --> 00:14:13.500 With each other, 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:14.240 With the world, 00:14:15.419 --> 00:14:17.460 Aren't they all experienced, 00:14:17.620 --> 00:14:18.960 To some degree or another, 00:14:19.159 --> 00:14:20.139 In our lives, 00:14:20.419 --> 00:14:21.620 Every single day? 00:14:21.620 --> 00:14:24.679 The struggle and the suffering, 00:14:25.740 --> 00:14:27.820 The conflict rages on, 00:14:27.879 --> 00:14:29.480 With increasing intensity, 00:14:30.179 --> 00:14:32.879 And there is only one winner, 00:14:34.340 --> 00:14:35.100 Who is the winner? 00:14:36.539 --> 00:14:38.220 Chapter 3, verse 19, 00:14:39.500 --> 00:14:41.159 By the sweat of your brow, 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:42.360 You will eat your food, 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:44.679 Until you return to the ground, 00:14:44.820 --> 00:14:47.000 To the fullness you are taking, 00:14:48.100 --> 00:14:50.000 For dust you are, 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:53.240 And through dust you will return, 00:14:53.240 --> 00:14:56.879 We continue to fight, 00:14:57.639 --> 00:14:59.700 We battle on in the conflict, 00:14:59.820 --> 00:15:02.179 With weapons of pride and greed, 00:15:02.600 --> 00:15:04.279 But there is only one winner, 00:15:06.059 --> 00:15:08.679 Death conquers all, 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:10.940 We are born fighters, 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:13.379 And we die of fighters, 00:15:14.379 --> 00:15:17.940 The conflict ends in death, 00:15:17.940 --> 00:15:20.120 For every one of them, 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:20.180 For every one of them, 00:15:23.180 --> 00:15:23.960 So first, 00:15:25.140 --> 00:15:26.020 Conflict, 00:15:27.280 --> 00:15:27.860 Second, 00:15:28.160 --> 00:15:28.680 Corruption, 00:15:29.680 --> 00:15:31.900 The conflict that we see, 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:33.940 And experience all around us, 00:15:34.740 --> 00:15:35.960 Well it reflects, 00:15:36.680 --> 00:15:37.900 The deep corruption, 00:15:38.180 --> 00:15:39.640 That lies within us, 00:15:40.580 --> 00:15:41.480 This corruption, 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:42.860 Is what the Bible calls, 00:15:43.160 --> 00:15:43.460 Sin, 00:15:44.460 --> 00:15:45.460 Sin is what happens, 00:15:45.460 --> 00:15:46.379 When the first man, 00:15:46.379 --> 00:15:47.160 And the first woman, 00:15:47.160 --> 00:15:48.740 Ate the fruit in the garden, 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:50.139 And they were told not to eat, 00:15:50.460 --> 00:15:51.820 It wasn't a mistake, 00:15:51.920 --> 00:15:53.000 Or a misdemeanor, 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:55.540 Sin is replacing God, 00:15:55.680 --> 00:15:56.300 With self, 00:15:56.759 --> 00:15:57.240 It says, 00:15:57.420 --> 00:15:58.620 I'm in charge now, 00:15:58.720 --> 00:15:59.580 I'm the boss, 00:15:59.920 --> 00:16:01.340 I'm calling the shot, 00:16:01.340 --> 00:16:06.000 You see, 00:16:06.139 --> 00:16:07.200 We're born sinners, 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:11.980 We're born with Adam's sinful nature, 00:16:11.980 --> 00:16:16.000 Do you remember how King David put it? 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:19.259 This is what he said, 00:16:19.360 --> 00:16:20.560 You can follow on the screen, 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:23.940 For I know my transgressions, 00:16:24.660 --> 00:16:27.220 And my sins always before me, 00:16:28.800 --> 00:16:31.580 Surely I was sinful at birth, 00:16:33.160 --> 00:16:36.160 Sinful from the time my mother conceived me, 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:39.159 But we don't become sinners, 00:16:39.159 --> 00:16:39.179 But we don't become sinners, 00:16:39.179 --> 00:16:39.199 But we don't become sinners, 00:16:39.199 --> 00:16:39.219 But we don't become sinners, 00:16:39.219 --> 00:16:41.219 But we don't become sinners, 00:16:41.219 --> 00:16:41.980 Later on in life, 00:16:41.980 --> 00:16:43.120 When we get bigger, 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:46.319 Sinful at birth, 00:16:46.319 --> 00:16:49.779 Sinful from the time my mother conceived me, 00:16:49.779 --> 00:16:52.339 As soon as the egg and the seed, 00:16:52.339 --> 00:16:54.439 As soon as life is formed, 00:16:54.439 --> 00:16:59.179 There is a seed of sinful nature there. 00:16:59.179 --> 00:17:01.720 We're born sinners, 00:17:01.720 --> 00:17:03.720 In other words, 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:04.720 In other words, 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:08.720 We sin not just because we do bad things, 00:17:08.720 --> 00:17:12.720 We sin because we are sinners, 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:16.720 That's why we don't have to teach cute little children, 00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:18.720 Who smile and gurgle at us, 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:21.720 To get angry and move their child, 00:17:21.720 --> 00:17:24.720 We don't have to tell them that, 00:17:24.720 --> 00:17:25.720 We just do it, 00:17:25.720 --> 00:17:32.720 You see we're sinners by choice and nature, 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:36.720 It's the corruption of our whole being, 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:40.720 In fact we are so corrupted, 00:17:40.720 --> 00:17:45.720 We even resist God's gracious intervention, 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:46.720 We are no, not me, 00:17:46.720 --> 00:17:47.720 Not me, 00:17:47.720 --> 00:17:48.720 Oh I would never resist God, 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:52.720 I would reach out to God. 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:54.720 Well look what happened to the man and woman 00:17:54.720 --> 00:17:56.720 When they first sinned, 00:17:56.720 --> 00:17:59.720 Look at verse 8 again in chapter 3, 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:02.720 The man and wife heard the sound of the Lord God 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:05.720 As he was walking in the garden in the coolest day, 00:18:05.720 --> 00:18:07.720 And they hid from the Lord God 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:09.720 Along the trees of the garden, 00:18:09.720 --> 00:18:12.720 But the Lord God called to the man, 00:18:12.720 --> 00:18:14.720 Where are you? 00:18:14.720 --> 00:18:19.720 Now, this is not a game of hiding things, 00:18:19.720 --> 00:18:24.720 Let's not say that Adam has found the best hiding place in the garden, 00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:28.720 Or that somehow these fig leaves are camouflaged him, 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:30.720 And where is it? 00:18:30.720 --> 00:18:34.720 No, God knows all, God sees everything, 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:39.720 The calling of Adam is an opportunity to repent, 00:18:39.720 --> 00:18:40.720 To own up, 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:42.720 To take responsibility. 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:45.720 Verse 10, 00:18:45.720 --> 00:18:47.720 The answer is, 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:49.720 I heard you in the garden, 00:18:49.720 --> 00:18:51.720 And I was afraid because I was naked, 00:18:51.720 --> 00:18:52.720 So I did. 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:54.720 And God said, 00:18:54.720 --> 00:18:56.720 Well who told you you were naked? 00:18:56.720 --> 00:19:01.720 Have you eaten from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat? 00:19:01.720 --> 00:19:05.720 Here comes Adam's opportunity. 00:19:05.720 --> 00:19:09.720 Can you see him there in the garden? 00:19:09.720 --> 00:19:13.720 Falling down on his face before God, 00:19:13.720 --> 00:19:15.720 Yes Lord, 00:19:15.720 --> 00:19:19.720 I did eat from the tree that you told me not to eat, 00:19:19.720 --> 00:19:21.720 I disobeyed you, 00:19:21.720 --> 00:19:23.720 I didn't do what I had commanded, 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:26.720 I failed to guard and protect my wife, 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:29.720 Forgive me Lord, for I have sinned. 00:19:29.720 --> 00:19:34.720 I mean that's what we would have done, 00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:40.720 No, instead of confessing to God, 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:42.720 He blamed God very well. 00:19:42.720 --> 00:19:45.720 The man said to the woman, 00:19:45.720 --> 00:19:47.720 The woman, 00:19:47.720 --> 00:19:50.720 This beautiful gift that God gave us, 00:19:50.720 --> 00:19:54.720 You, you put her here with me, 00:19:54.720 --> 00:19:56.720 I mean if she got the design better, 00:19:56.720 --> 00:19:58.720 It would have been better. 00:19:58.720 --> 00:20:02.720 She gave me some of the fruit from the tree, 00:20:02.720 --> 00:20:04.720 And I ate it. 00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:07.720 You see it's never our fault, is it? 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:10.720 It's only somebody else or something else. 00:20:10.720 --> 00:20:15.720 And it's not just the men who do the blaming either. 00:20:15.720 --> 00:20:20.720 Then the Lord God said to the woman, 00:20:20.720 --> 00:20:22.720 What do you think he's done? 00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:24.720 The woman said, 00:20:24.720 --> 00:20:26.720 The snake, 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:28.720 The thief, 00:20:28.720 --> 00:20:30.720 It's him, 00:20:30.720 --> 00:20:33.720 And I ate. 00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:36.720 That's how corruptive we are. 00:20:36.720 --> 00:20:39.720 We don't like to take responsibility. 00:20:39.720 --> 00:20:44.720 It's only something or someone else's fault. 00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:47.720 Pressure at work. 00:20:47.720 --> 00:20:50.720 That's the reason I have an affair. 00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:52.720 I mean if pressure wasn't so great, 00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:54.720 I would have been alright. 00:20:54.720 --> 00:20:57.720 The car cut in on me. 00:20:57.720 --> 00:20:58.720 I wouldn't have got angry, 00:20:58.720 --> 00:21:00.720 But he was a really bad driver. 00:21:00.720 --> 00:21:03.720 She started. 00:21:03.720 --> 00:21:05.720 I'm tired. 00:21:05.720 --> 00:21:11.720 There's something we can learn here. 00:21:11.720 --> 00:21:15.720 Proverbs puts it like this. 00:21:15.720 --> 00:21:20.720 Whoever conceals their sin does not prosper, 00:21:20.720 --> 00:21:29.720 But the one who confesses and renounces things finds mercy. 00:21:29.720 --> 00:21:32.720 Searching, isn't it? 00:21:32.720 --> 00:21:34.720 Are we conceiving something? 00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:38.720 Are we hiding from God today? 00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:41.720 God came looking for the man and woman. 00:21:41.720 --> 00:21:42.720 Why? 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:45.720 Because he longed to restore. 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:48.720 Deal with the opportunity to confess, 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:51.720 Not to steal. 00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:54.720 The problem is we're not deeper. 00:21:54.720 --> 00:21:57.720 We don't like to confess. 00:21:57.720 --> 00:22:01.720 We prefer to hide each other. 00:22:01.720 --> 00:22:07.720 We're corrupt. 00:22:07.720 --> 00:22:09.720 So there's conflict. 00:22:09.720 --> 00:22:13.720 There's corruption. 00:22:13.720 --> 00:22:16.720 And third, there's condemnation. 00:22:16.720 --> 00:22:22.720 God's response to our corruption may unsettle us. 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:25.720 We're held accountable. 00:22:25.720 --> 00:22:28.720 And we are judged. 00:22:28.720 --> 00:22:30.720 It means two things. 00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:33.720 That's the passage certainly points out to us. 00:22:33.720 --> 00:22:35.720 First, it means separation. 00:22:35.720 --> 00:22:37.720 Look at verse 22. 00:22:37.720 --> 00:22:43.720 And the Lord God says, 00:22:43.720 --> 00:22:47.720 The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. 00:22:47.720 --> 00:22:50.720 He must not be allowed to reach out his hands, 00:22:50.720 --> 00:22:55.720 And to take also from the tree of light and eat and live forever. 00:22:55.720 --> 00:23:02.720 In the garden that God had made, man and woman enjoyed life in all its fullness. 00:23:02.720 --> 00:23:05.720 A life full of goodness and blessing. 00:23:05.720 --> 00:23:08.720 They were eternally satisfied. 00:23:08.720 --> 00:23:12.720 Now God comes and says, 00:23:12.720 --> 00:23:16.720 They must not be allowed to eat from the tree of light. 00:23:16.720 --> 00:23:19.720 They must not be allowed to live on them. 00:23:19.720 --> 00:23:26.720 In fact, they were to be cut off from the source of life itself. 00:23:26.720 --> 00:23:27.720 Verse 23. 00:23:27.720 --> 00:23:31.720 So the Lord God banished him from the garden. 00:23:31.720 --> 00:23:34.720 They are banished. 00:23:34.720 --> 00:23:36.720 Separated from God. 00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:40.720 You see, God alone gives life. 00:23:40.720 --> 00:23:45.720 Not just physical life that he sustains us now with the breath that we breathe. 00:23:45.720 --> 00:23:47.720 But he gives us spiritual life. 00:23:47.720 --> 00:23:49.720 The life that we were made for. 00:23:49.720 --> 00:23:51.720 A life with God. 00:23:51.720 --> 00:23:56.720 But sin has broken in and has crushed and destroyed that relationship. 00:23:56.720 --> 00:23:59.720 That's the judgment we now face. 00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:01.720 We are banished. 00:24:01.720 --> 00:24:03.720 Shut out. 00:24:03.720 --> 00:24:04.720 Denied. 00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:06.720 At that. 00:24:06.720 --> 00:24:10.720 And that's what every human being is born into. 00:24:10.720 --> 00:24:13.720 A life without a relationship with God. 00:24:13.720 --> 00:24:18.720 It's not that we start out in a relationship with God and somehow make it bad. 00:24:18.720 --> 00:24:21.720 We are born into a life without God. 00:24:21.720 --> 00:24:29.720 A life that is unfulfilled and never satisfied as we go searching and striving. 00:24:29.720 --> 00:24:38.720 Instead of joy and peace, because of our corruption, we live under the judgment of God. 00:24:38.720 --> 00:24:43.720 Separated from the one who alone gives what we truly need. 00:24:43.720 --> 00:24:52.720 Now we might think, I mean, what's the big deal? 00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:58.720 I mean, it was just a little thing, wasn't it really? 00:24:58.720 --> 00:25:01.720 Isn't it just a bit over the top? 00:25:01.720 --> 00:25:08.720 Surely God, of all people, could put up with a few lives in the odd times. 00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:14.720 I mean, why bring it to attention? 00:25:14.720 --> 00:25:20.720 Why can't God just overlook what's going on and just ignore it? 00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:23.720 It would be so much easier. 00:25:23.720 --> 00:25:27.720 But here's the note. 00:25:27.720 --> 00:25:30.720 God loves us too much. 00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:33.720 He loves us too much. 00:25:33.720 --> 00:25:40.720 You see, to ignore sin or to overlook sin is to deny God his justice. 00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:44.720 Imagine if God were just a turn of blind eyes. 00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:45.720 The fruit is taken. 00:25:45.720 --> 00:25:48.720 Oh, I didn't see that really. 00:25:48.720 --> 00:25:51.720 You know, you can have access to the tree of life. 00:25:51.720 --> 00:25:53.720 It's all right. 00:25:53.720 --> 00:25:55.720 Do you know what that would mean? 00:25:55.720 --> 00:26:01.720 It would mean we can live as we please without any consequences. 00:26:01.720 --> 00:26:03.720 Nobody is so detangible. 00:26:03.720 --> 00:26:05.720 Nobody is punished. 00:26:05.720 --> 00:26:08.720 No wrong is ever close right. 00:26:08.720 --> 00:26:11.720 It's chaos and disorder. 00:26:11.720 --> 00:26:16.720 He loves us too much. 00:26:16.720 --> 00:26:20.720 Justice must be done. 00:26:20.720 --> 00:26:23.720 You see, God's banishment is just and fair. 00:26:23.720 --> 00:26:24.720 It's right and good. 00:26:24.720 --> 00:26:25.720 Verse 24. 00:26:25.720 --> 00:26:30.720 After he throws the man out, he plays on the east side of the garden of Eden, 00:26:30.720 --> 00:26:38.720 a cherubim that's like angels with a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the waves of the tree of life. 00:26:38.720 --> 00:26:47.720 To let man have access and to eat from the tree of life is to pretend that sin doesn't matter. 00:26:47.720 --> 00:26:50.720 It does. 00:26:50.720 --> 00:26:57.720 We are denied access to the life we so desperately need. 00:26:57.720 --> 00:27:00.720 Now, I don't find this easy. 00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:05.720 It's certainly not very wide of wants to write the story. 00:27:05.720 --> 00:27:08.720 And if we find this unacceptable, 00:27:08.720 --> 00:27:12.720 it means we do not really see ourselves as we should, 00:27:12.720 --> 00:27:15.720 and we don't see God as we should. 00:27:15.720 --> 00:27:22.720 You see, God in all his duties cannot have rebellious people in his presence. 00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:25.720 God is pure and good. 00:27:25.720 --> 00:27:28.720 God cannot tolerate evil. 00:27:28.720 --> 00:27:31.720 Sin disgusts sin. 00:27:31.720 --> 00:27:34.720 We might tolerate each other's behaviour. 00:27:34.720 --> 00:27:37.720 We can make excuses for one another. 00:27:37.720 --> 00:27:39.720 Oh, it's just their personality. 00:27:39.720 --> 00:27:40.720 It's just their character. 00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:42.720 It's just the way they are. 00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:45.720 We might even think that God is overreacting. 00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:52.720 But God's banishing man from his presence reveals just how serious it all is. 00:27:52.720 --> 00:27:58.720 Here's a quote I came across during the week. 00:27:58.720 --> 00:28:07.720 In the blindness of our sin, we are ignorant of our true condition, and we distort who God is. 00:28:07.720 --> 00:28:08.720 We are ignorant of our sin. 00:28:08.720 --> 00:28:13.720 This means we grossly underestimate the depth of our sin before God. 00:28:13.720 --> 00:28:20.720 Like fools who think ourselves wise, we vainly try to resent God in our own image. 00:28:20.720 --> 00:28:25.720 God must take action. 00:28:25.720 --> 00:28:29.720 And in verse 24, he takes action. 00:28:29.720 --> 00:28:31.720 He cries the man out. 00:28:31.720 --> 00:28:34.720 This isn't just getting what we choose. 00:28:34.720 --> 00:28:39.720 This is getting what we desire. 00:28:39.720 --> 00:28:50.720 Condemnation may unsettle us, but it's God's right response to the corruption in our own lives. 00:28:50.720 --> 00:28:58.720 The corruption. 00:28:58.720 --> 00:29:09.720 As God condemns and judges, God also makes a promise. 00:29:09.720 --> 00:29:19.720 You see, in the darkness of this chapter, in Genesis 3, there is a beam of glorious light. 00:29:19.720 --> 00:29:23.720 And it comes to us in verses 14 and 15. 00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:25.720 Have a look at verse 14. 00:29:25.720 --> 00:29:29.720 The Lord God has said to the serpent, 00:29:29.720 --> 00:29:33.720 Because you have done this, because of your deception, 00:29:33.720 --> 00:29:37.720 Cursed for you above all livestock and all wild animals. 00:29:37.720 --> 00:29:41.720 You will crawl on your belly, and you will eat dust all the days of your life. 00:29:41.720 --> 00:29:45.720 Satan is cursed. 00:29:45.720 --> 00:29:52.720 Whatever he was before, he is now humiliated, brought low by the Creator God. 00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:57.720 The one who thought himself crafty and clever, is now put into place. 00:29:57.720 --> 00:30:00.720 But there is something more. 00:30:00.720 --> 00:30:01.720 Verse 15. 00:30:01.720 --> 00:30:09.720 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her. 00:30:09.720 --> 00:30:15.720 He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel. 00:30:15.720 --> 00:30:18.720 Now there is a strange verse. 00:30:18.720 --> 00:30:20.720 What does that mean? 00:30:20.720 --> 00:30:25.720 Well, first there is the promise. 00:30:25.720 --> 00:30:28.720 There will be enmity. 00:30:28.720 --> 00:30:29.720 There will be conflict. 00:30:29.720 --> 00:30:34.720 We talk about conflict with God, with ourselves, with each other, with the world. 00:30:34.720 --> 00:30:38.720 There will be conflict between Satan and the human race. 00:30:38.720 --> 00:30:40.720 That will go on. 00:30:40.720 --> 00:30:45.720 He may be cursed and humiliated, but he has not given up his deception. 00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:48.720 People are still believing his lies. 00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:50.720 You can be like God. 00:30:54.720 --> 00:30:55.720 But God is not done. 00:30:55.720 --> 00:30:59.720 A victorious chanting has been promised. 00:30:59.720 --> 00:31:01.720 Look at what is said at the end of verse 15. 00:31:01.720 --> 00:31:04.720 He will crush your head. 00:31:04.720 --> 00:31:06.720 So God is talking to Satan. 00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:09.720 He will crush your head, Satan. 00:31:09.720 --> 00:31:13.720 And you will strike his heel. 00:31:13.720 --> 00:31:14.720 He. 00:31:14.720 --> 00:31:16.720 Who is the he? 00:31:16.720 --> 00:31:19.720 Well, it is a seed from the woman. 00:31:19.720 --> 00:31:22.720 One of her offspring is going to come. 00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:28.720 The woman's seed would be just like the first man, Adam. 00:31:28.720 --> 00:31:31.720 A son of a woman. 00:31:31.720 --> 00:31:37.720 But unlike Adam, he's going to love God. 00:31:37.720 --> 00:31:40.720 And he's going to be loyal to God. 00:31:40.720 --> 00:31:42.720 And he's not going to sin. 00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:49.720 Instead, he's going to inflict a blow that will ultimately crush Satan's head. 00:31:49.720 --> 00:31:56.720 The seed of the woman will be victorious and defeat Satan. 00:31:56.720 --> 00:32:01.720 He will destroy his hold over humanity. 00:32:01.720 --> 00:32:07.720 Although the woman's seed would suffer, Satan will strike his heel. 00:32:07.720 --> 00:32:10.720 It's not going to be faithful. 00:32:10.720 --> 00:32:12.720 He's going to live and be victorious. 00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:17.720 So who is his promise seed? 00:32:17.720 --> 00:32:22.720 Well, the promise seed is a serpent crusher. 00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:31.720 Have a look with me to Hebrews chapter 2. 00:32:31.720 --> 00:32:34.720 Hebrews chapter 2. 00:32:34.720 --> 00:32:44.720 Hebrews chapter 2. 00:32:44.720 --> 00:32:49.720 Hebrews chapter 2. 00:32:49.720 --> 00:32:53.720 Hebrews chapter 2. 00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:57.720 As we lead through from Genesis towards the New Testament, 00:32:57.720 --> 00:33:01.720 we meet those whom God has raised us. 00:33:01.720 --> 00:33:06.720 Seed of the woman, offspring from the woman, 00:33:06.720 --> 00:33:13.720 whom God uses to crush his enemies and trample on the head of the wicked. 00:33:13.720 --> 00:33:18.720 But the problem is, everyone that comes is equally wicked. 00:33:18.720 --> 00:33:24.720 None of them deliver that once and for all fatal blow. 00:33:24.720 --> 00:33:29.720 That is, until we meet Jesus. 00:33:29.720 --> 00:33:31.720 Chapter 2. 00:33:31.720 --> 00:33:32.720 Chapter 2. 00:33:32.720 --> 00:33:35.720 It is speaking about Jesus. 00:33:35.720 --> 00:33:39.720 Since the children, that is, humanity, 00:33:39.720 --> 00:33:42.720 since they have flesh and blood, 00:33:42.720 --> 00:33:46.720 he, Jesus, shared in their humanity, 00:33:46.720 --> 00:33:54.720 so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death, 00:33:54.720 --> 00:33:56.720 that is the devil, 00:33:56.720 --> 00:34:03.720 and free those whom all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. 00:34:03.720 --> 00:34:06.720 Satan promised life. 00:34:06.720 --> 00:34:09.720 Death is what came. 00:34:09.719 --> 00:34:13.719 Instead of being like God, we have been separated from God. 00:34:13.719 --> 00:34:18.719 But here is one who has come and who has delivered the fatal blow, 00:34:18.719 --> 00:34:21.719 Jesus, the serpent-crushed. 00:34:21.719 --> 00:34:24.719 And how did he win the victory? 00:34:24.719 --> 00:34:26.719 Look again at verse 14. 00:34:26.719 --> 00:34:34.719 By his death he breaks the power of him who holds the power of death. 00:34:34.719 --> 00:34:39.719 You see, Satan comes as the prosecutor, pointing out all our sins. 00:34:39.719 --> 00:34:40.719 Look at him. 00:34:40.719 --> 00:34:41.719 He's failed. 00:34:41.719 --> 00:34:42.719 She's failed. 00:34:42.719 --> 00:34:43.719 What do they deserve? 00:34:43.719 --> 00:34:45.719 They deserve death and separation. 00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:46.719 Shut out. 00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:47.719 That's what they get. 00:34:47.719 --> 00:34:51.719 And Jesus comes. 00:34:51.719 --> 00:34:54.719 He says, 00:34:54.719 --> 00:34:56.719 No, I've died. 00:34:56.719 --> 00:34:58.719 Their death was end. 00:34:58.719 --> 00:35:04.719 Jesus comes to us in the person of himself. 00:35:04.719 --> 00:35:09.719 A human being just like Adam, except he loved God and was loyal to God. 00:35:09.719 --> 00:35:10.719 Look at verse 17. 00:35:10.719 --> 00:35:22.719 For this reason he had to be made like him, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful, faithful high priest in the service of God. 00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:27.719 That he might make atone for the sins of the people. 00:35:27.719 --> 00:35:34.719 You see, the condemnation that we deserve fell in Jesus. 00:35:34.719 --> 00:35:38.719 Jesus was treated as sinful and corrupt for me. 00:35:38.719 --> 00:35:45.719 He died my death and was banished and separated from the Father so that I might be welcomed in. 00:35:45.719 --> 00:35:49.719 Through Jesus we now have access to true life. 00:35:49.719 --> 00:35:56.719 A relationship with God, reflecting his glory and enjoying his presence. 00:35:58.719 --> 00:36:01.719 Yes, Satan did strike Jesus at the field. 00:36:01.719 --> 00:36:03.719 Jesus was crucified and died. 00:36:03.719 --> 00:36:05.719 But that's fatal. 00:36:05.719 --> 00:36:07.719 But that strike was not fatal. 00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:17.719 Because three days later Christ rose again from the grave, proving his victory over Satan and death. 00:36:17.719 --> 00:36:22.719 In Jesus we have the life of fallen. 00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:27.719 How can this life be mine? 00:36:27.719 --> 00:36:30.719 How can this life be yours? 00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:33.719 Well, it comes through trust. 00:36:33.719 --> 00:36:37.719 It comes through faith in God's promise. 00:36:37.719 --> 00:36:43.719 Just go back quickly to Genesis chapter 3. 00:36:43.719 --> 00:36:48.719 Genesis chapter 3. 00:36:48.719 --> 00:36:55.719 The announcement of the serpent crusher was made to Adam. 00:36:55.719 --> 00:37:02.719 God had said that a seed would come from the woman who would crush Satan's head. 00:37:02.719 --> 00:37:08.719 And as God pronounced his judgment, he also promised salvation. 00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:11.719 God's promise was so clear. 00:37:11.719 --> 00:37:16.719 And so in Acts of Faith, look at chapter 3 verse 20. 00:37:16.719 --> 00:37:20.719 Adam named his wife Eve. 00:37:20.719 --> 00:37:23.719 Eve means living. 00:37:23.719 --> 00:37:29.719 Because she would become the mother of all the living. 00:37:29.719 --> 00:37:34.719 You see, remember what God had said to Adam and Eve, you'll die. 00:37:34.719 --> 00:37:37.719 From dusty cave to dusty witcher, you'll die. 00:37:37.719 --> 00:37:39.719 But not yet. 00:37:39.719 --> 00:37:45.719 Adam and Eve would live on a bit more, and they would have a family, they would have children. 00:37:45.719 --> 00:37:54.719 One of their offspring would come to crush Satan's head. 00:37:54.719 --> 00:37:58.719 And so by faith, Adam called his wife Eve. 00:37:58.719 --> 00:38:02.719 The one who would give birth to all. 00:38:02.719 --> 00:38:05.719 The one who would give life. 00:38:05.719 --> 00:38:13.719 And so as they look forward in faith to the one who is to come, we look back in faith to the one who has come. 00:38:13.719 --> 00:38:22.719 To Jesus, the serpent crusher, who has dealt that faithful blow once and for all, so that we might live forever. 00:38:22.719 --> 00:38:24.719 No more condemnation. 00:38:24.719 --> 00:38:26.719 No more separation. 00:38:26.719 --> 00:38:31.719 But enjoying life with him forever. 00:38:31.719 --> 00:38:37.719 Let's pray together. 00:38:37.719 --> 00:38:58.719 Father, we stand back and see the mess that sin has caused. 00:38:58.719 --> 00:39:00.719 All we can thus bear with us to know the mess. 00:39:02.719 --> 00:39:05.719 Theクلي comfort, the crux of your immune system 00:39:08.719 --> 00:39:10.719 … 00:39:10.719 --> 00:39:16.559 William, complete 00:39:17.719 --> 00:39:18.719 … 00:39:19.719 --> 00:39:20.719 … 00:39:20.719 --> 00:39:25.719 … 00:39:25.719 --> 00:39:34.719 The one who has dealt that final blow once and first so that we might have life today. 00:39:34.719 --> 00:39:40.719 Thank you for what you have done. Thank you that we can now have access to God. 00:39:40.719 --> 00:39:48.719 We can live in his presence without fear, without hiding, without worry. 00:39:48.719 --> 00:39:56.719 For you will never ever turn us away. You will welcome us with open arms. 00:39:56.719 --> 00:40:07.719 And when we sing, you will forgive us. And you will go on changing us to be more like your son. 00:40:07.719 --> 00:40:15.719 Thank you for this gift of salvation. Thank you for what you have done. Amen. 00:40:18.719 --> 00:40:23.719 So we are going to sing, in Christ alone my truth is banned. 00:40:23.719 --> 00:40:27.719 These are on me. The only one.