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 The Lord God said to the serpent, because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field.

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 To the woman, he said, I will surely multiply your pain and childbearing.

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 In pain, you shall bring forth children.

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 Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.

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 And to Adam, he said, because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, you shall not eat of it.

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 Cursed is the ground because of you.

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 In pain, you shall eat of it all the days of your life.

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 Thorns and thistles, it shall bring forth for you.

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 And you shall eat the plants of the field.

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 By the sweat of your face, you shall eat bread till you return to the ground.

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 For out of it, you were taken.

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 For you are dust.

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 And to dust, you shall return.

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 The man called his wife's name Eve because she was the mother of all living.

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 And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.

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 Then the Lord God said,

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 Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil.

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 Now lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live forever.

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 Therefore, the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

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 He drove out the man.

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 And at the east of the garden of Eden, he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.

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 Amen.

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 Up until this point in Genesis, we have only seen God blessing.

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 All of his work thus far in what we have studied has resulted in life and abundance, beauty, and satisfaction,

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 especially for humanity, for the first man and woman that he made.

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 All of that changes when we arrive at our present text.

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 Suddenly, God is not blessing.

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 Suddenly, we find that God is cursing.

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 So that in chapter 3, the emphasis of his work is on how it now results in deprivation, shame, painful toil, and death.

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 Again, especially for humanity, for Adam and for Eve.

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 The truth is that most everybody wants the God of Genesis 1 and 2.

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 They like that God.

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 He's pleasant when we see him displaying his glory through the wondrous, creative works of the world.

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 When he's providing life in its fullness and bountiful blessing for us.

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 We want that God.

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 That is a pleasant God.

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 We like that picture.

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 Few of us are as interested in the God of chapter 3.

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 The God who displays his glory just as prevalently, equally so through judgment, issuing curses and depriving us of the fullness of life that we had found earlier in chapters 1 and chapter 2.

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 And yet, it's the same God.

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 It's not a different God.

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 It's not a lesser God.

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 It's the same.

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 Just as God is glorious in creation.

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 Just as he is glorious in giving life and bounty and abundance.

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 He is glorious also in justice.

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 He's glorious in his judgment and good in both.

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 And one of my goals for this morning is to show you in this text that is only through the reality of God's judgment that we can actually come to discover what is the most astounding aspect of God's character and his acts toward us.

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 And that is God's grace.

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 God has written convincingly that God's glory in salvation through judgment is actually the primary theme of the entire Bible.

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 And that theme finds its climax, of course, in the person and the work of Jesus Christ.

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 First, the climactic moment of his atoning death on the cross and his crucifixion.

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 Christ bringing salvation through his own judgment, taking on our judgment as he is crucified.

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 And then being raised from the dead, proving that that saving work has been brought to us.

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 It finds its ultimate resolution, though, in the end.

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 As Christ, the righteous one, our Lord and Savior, finally judges the world to bring this final salvation to all of his people through its judgment at the end of the age.

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 So while it finds its climax later, as it finds its resolution later, this theme of God's salvation, God's glory and salvation through judgment, it finds its genesis here in chapter 3.

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 The emphasis of the narrative, of course, is clearly on God's judgment following the original sin.

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 And that judgment includes individual consequences.

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 It includes collective death and physical death.

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 It includes the expulsion from the blessings of God's presence in the garden.

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 And still within this narrative of judgment is the seedbed of God's saving grace.

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 And as we continue further in our study of the Bible, what we find is what the foundation that is laid here for us of grace, even in its concealment somewhat in chapter 3,

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 it begins to grow and flourish into the beautiful blessings of the gospel in Jesus Christ.

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 And so I want you to see God's judgment, but I want you to see God's grace in that judgment.

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 First, I want you to notice that grace is promised in judgment.

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 It's promised in judgment.

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 That comes in verses 14 to 19.

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 This is divine speech given to us in poetic form, which is helpful in helping us to understand what God is saying here.

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 It's the classic parallelism where the first line is intensified and further clarified by the second line as we work through the speech that God gives.

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 He's announcing his oracles of judgment on each party involved in the fiasco of the fall.

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 Those consequences include an existence that will be marked by struggle and toil, ultimately leading to death.

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 The man and the woman's experience of life moving forward will be stripped of all of that bounty and blessing that they had freely enjoyed in God's garden.

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 Theirs will be a living death that culminates in a physical death as their bodies are returned to dust.

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 But the particulars of God's judgments strike at the heart of each individual's distinctiveness in being.

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 Let's just walk through.

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 God begins first with the serpent, verses 14 and 15.

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 Look at it with me.

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 Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field.

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 On your belly you shall go, the dust you shall eat all the days of your life.

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 And I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring.

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 He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel.

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 There's a unique play on words here.

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 God declares that the serpent who, in verse 1, was most crafty will now be most cursed.

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 Remember, this curse, this is not about a species of animal.

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 That's not what this curse is being delivered to.

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 This is about a spiritual power represented symbolically by the animal.

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 It's about Satan.

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 That ancient serpent he's called in Revelation 12.

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 Who is symbolized by the snake in this narrative.

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 I want you to think about this.

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 Wrap your head around what's happening here.

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 That the serpent will go on his belly and eat the dust does not mean that there was a physical change in the species of animal.

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 It's been suggested that perhaps before this moment, maybe snakes looked different than what they look like now.

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 Maybe they had legs.

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 Maybe they wondered upright as opposed to crawling as we understand them to crawl now.

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 But I think that's a mistaken notion of what's actually happening in this text.

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 I don't think that we're to understand this to be a physical change in a species of animal.

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 Rather, the posture of crawling, eating the dust is used throughout the scriptures as a sign of abject humiliation.

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 It is to be brought low and despised and shamed.

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 It's not about a snake.

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 It's about how Satan, the devil, the deceiver will now be acknowledged in the world.

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 The evil one sought to be glorified like God, we understand.

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 We read between the lines and trying to sort out what is his motivation and attempting to deceive the woman to begin with.

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 We find what it is is he is an adversary of God.

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 He wants to destroy the Lord and the Lord's people.

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 He wants to make himself honorable like this God.

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 Instead, God declares he will be humiliated and disgraced above all of the created world.

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 And how will this humiliation ultimately be demonstrated?

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 In his demise.

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 Think about what's happening in the narrative here.

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 He will be crushed by the offspring of the very one he had manipulated for his own glory.

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 Rather than to receive glory through the deception and his manipulation of the woman,

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 the seed of the woman will ultimately bring about his greatest humiliation and destruction.

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 God curses the serpent, the devil, the adversary and deceiver.

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 Then we get to verse 16 and it moves from the serpent to the woman.

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 What is it that God says to her?

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 I will surely multiply your pain and childbearing.

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 In pain you shall bring forth children.

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 Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.

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 Moving forward, the distinctive elements of the woman's life will be marked by painful toil and discord.

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 God will multiply her pain and childbearing.

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 Sorry, Marissa.

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 That encourages you as you prepare.

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 This is more than about the labor pains of giving birth.

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 The word actually here in the beginning is conception.

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 I will surely multiply your pain in conception.

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 And then as we see in this parallelism, in pain you shall bring forth children.

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 The punishment, the punitive action here is on motherhood itself.

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 What would have brought her tremendous joy and joy alone up until this point will now be marked by pain.

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 Difficulty.

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 The joys of motherhood from conception to childbirth to raising children will be attended by painful toil.

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 Being a mother in a fallen world will be hard.

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 Becoming a mother in a fallen world will be hard.

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 The blessing of bringing life and bringing about more image bearers to give glory to God will continue,

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 but it will not continue in the same way.

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 It will also multiply evil as her sin and Adam's sin passes on to the sin of their children.

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 It will be painful for her.

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 The second part of this oracle is not actually punitive judgment from God.

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 It's a revelation of the ongoing effects of sin and her relationship to her husband.

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 Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.

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 The disputed text is somewhat ambiguous, but we get clarity if we look at chapter 4, just probably on the same page.

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 Look at chapter 4 and verse 7.

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 The same exact phrase is being used in the next narrative.

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 God is speaking to Cain, and he says,

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 If you do well, will you not be accepted?

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 And if you do not do well, same language, sin is crouching at the door.

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 Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it.

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 Now that gives us some clarity as to what this actually means in chapter 3 now.

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 Just as sin is desiring to master Cain, so will the woman attempt to struggle in a war of mastery with her husband.

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 The husband and the wife's relationship as a result of their sin is broken, and it will continue to be broken.

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 It will be a war of domination between the two of them.

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 She will attempt to dominate the one whom God had ordained to exercise the function of leadership.

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 And yet God will not allow for it.

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 He will rule over her still yet, albeit as a sinner.

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 He will.

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 God's order stands, though both the man and the woman will struggle to live up to it in their sinful and fallen state.

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 This is the effects of sin on the marriage union that was so glorious in chapter 2.

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 And then he moves to the man, verses 17 to 19.

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 To Adam he said,

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 Plants of the field, that's distinct.

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 He hasn't had to do that up to this point.

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 He's been eating the bounty of the good fruit of the garden.

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 He will have access to that goodness no longer.

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 By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground.

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 For out of the ground you were taken.

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 For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.

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 Interesting, if you remember when we studied this a couple of weeks ago, just the previous passage.

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 Once God exposes Adam's sin, what is it that he resorts to as a final option?

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 The blame game.

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 It's really not my fault.

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 It's the woman's fault that you gave me.

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 And by the way, since you gave her to me, this is really your fault, God.

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 Notice what God does with Adam as he speaks to him here at the beginning.

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 He will not accept that.

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 Notice, because you have listened to the voice of your wife.

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 That's not listening in the sense of receiving her counsel.

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 He must do that.

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 It's listening in the sense of abdicating his role as the prophet, priest, and king of the garden

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 in order to submit to his wife rather than to do what was right.

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 Because you have done this.

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 Because you have eaten of the tree that I commanded you not to eat of.

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 He will not let Adam get by with thinking that this is anything less than his own responsibility

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 and his own personal sin against God.

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 And what's the curse?

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 It's not on Adam.

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 It's on the ground.

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 The abundance of trees that were, in chapter 2, pleasant to the sight and good for food

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 are replaced now with thorns and thistles and the plants of the field that will require hard labor.

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 Prior to the fall, Adam's work was a personal pleasure.

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 God provided his food in abundance in the garden and he could be satisfied in the pleasure of his work

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 as he cared for the garden because it was through that work that he enjoyed his creator

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 and the blessings of his creator.

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 His work wasn't for survival.

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 His work was for glory and enjoyment of God.

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 All of that changes now.

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 Adam's work would no longer be a pleasure.

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 It would be a necessity for his very survival and it would be hard.

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 And the only relief he will get from this consequence is death.

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 No repentance in Adam will change the consequence that God gives him for this sin.

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 Only death will relieve him from the painful toil that he will now endure as he is returned to dust.

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 What is this?

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 It's judgment.

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 It's just.

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 But it's hard.

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 It's severe.

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 It's deserving.

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 But it's in the midst of these divine pronouncements of judgment that we find this profound promise of grace.

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 And it comes to us in the curse against the serpent in verse 15.

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 Will you just set your eyes on it again?

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 I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your offspring and her offspring.

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 He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel.

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 It's in the curse against the serpent.

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 There is no grace for the serpent and his offspring.

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 But there is grace here applied in hope of redemption and restoration for the man and the woman and her seed.

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 God will cause enmity to exist between the serpent and the woman, not between humanity and a species of animal, but between Satan and his power and evil and the seed of righteousness that will come from the woman.

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 An ongoing war between his offspring and hers.

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 And what's really interesting is as we move forward in the scriptures and particularly in Genesis, there is this delineation between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman.

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 It's revealed as early as chapter 4.

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 In the very next narrative as we get to Adam and Eve's first two sons, Cain and Abel.

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 Cain receives the curse for his sin.

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 He's the first human to receive a curse.

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 It's as if Moses is identifying Cain as the seed of the serpent and the righteous Abel in his death as the seed of the woman who is then replaced by righteous Seth.

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 And it is through Seth that mankind begins to call on the name of the Lord.

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 There's this delineation there.

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 The seed of Cain, the seed of the serpent, and the seed of the woman, the righteous, promised seed in Seth.

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 We see it later.

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 Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau.

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 On and on it goes as we see this delineation throughout the scriptures.

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 This warring and enmity between those who love God and seek God and those who hate God and rebel against him and against his truth.

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 Jesus himself alludes to this when in conflict with, of all people, the religious people of his day.

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 John chapter 8, he says to the Pharisees, you are of your father, the devil.

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 You are the seed of the serpent, he says.

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 And your will is to do your father's desires.

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 You want your way and your glory through lies about God the same way that he did.

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 Well, how do we know Jesus meant that?

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 Because it's what he says.

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 He was a murderer from the beginning, Jesus says.

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 He does not stand in the truth because there's no truth in him.

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 When he lies, he speaks out of his own character.

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 For he is a liar and the father of lies.

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 And then he says, whoever is of God hears the words of God.

00:23:52.300 --> 00:23:54.620
 That is the words of Christ in that context.

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 And the reason why you do not hear them, he says, is because you're not of God.

00:24:00.120 --> 00:24:01.240
 You're not the seed of the woman.

00:24:01.960 --> 00:24:02.960
 You're the seed of the serpent.

00:24:03.120 --> 00:24:04.080
 On and on it goes.

00:24:04.220 --> 00:24:06.940
 We find it all the way to the end of scripture.

00:24:07.840 --> 00:24:09.600
 It's collective in that sense.

00:24:09.599 --> 00:24:18.599
 I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your offspring and her offspring that's

00:24:18.599 --> 00:24:20.379
 collective in that sense.

00:24:20.519 --> 00:24:26.019
 But the collective seed of the woman and the serpent is suddenly narrowed at the end of the

00:24:26.019 --> 00:24:26.319
 verse.

00:24:26.519 --> 00:24:27.219
 Do you see it?

00:24:27.919 --> 00:24:32.000
 The collective sense of the seed now is individualized.

00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:41.599
 An individual offspring of the woman will do battle, not merely against the seed of the serpent,

00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:43.099
 but against the serpent himself.

00:24:43.960 --> 00:24:44.559
 Do you see it?

00:24:45.359 --> 00:24:49.299
 He, singular, shall bruise your head.

00:24:50.460 --> 00:24:53.000
 Not the offspring's head, the serpent's head.

00:24:53.000 --> 00:25:04.480
 Bruise here is the underlyingness is a more violent word than what we might assume reading

00:25:04.480 --> 00:25:06.839
 here with bruise in English.

00:25:07.960 --> 00:25:09.700
 It means to strike.

00:25:10.299 --> 00:25:14.059
 Just fitting if the imagery here is of a serpent, isn't it?

00:25:14.059 --> 00:25:22.720
 The serpent and the promised seed of the woman will trade parallel strikes.

00:25:23.059 --> 00:25:25.440
 The significance is not in the strike itself.

00:25:25.700 --> 00:25:28.000
 The significance is in the location of the strike.

00:25:29.359 --> 00:25:31.899
 The serpent will strike his heel.

00:25:33.359 --> 00:25:36.000
 The seed will strike the serpent's head.

00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:46.039
 He will deal a mortal blow that will destroy Satan and his offspring forever.

00:25:47.039 --> 00:25:51.160
 But the question is, who is this seed?

00:25:52.500 --> 00:25:56.119
 And how will he deal this mortal blow?

00:25:57.880 --> 00:25:59.799
 Well, that's concealed for us in chapter 3.

00:25:59.859 --> 00:26:00.380
 We don't know.

00:26:01.880 --> 00:26:03.819
 But we have this great privilege, don't we?

00:26:03.819 --> 00:26:10.519
 This great privilege of reading the Bible from the New Testament perspective of fulfillment.

00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:17.859
 And the Bible insists that Jesus Christ is indeed this promised seed,

00:26:18.679 --> 00:26:24.639
 who in his atoning death and resurrection received a strike to his heel

00:26:24.639 --> 00:26:29.000
 while delivering a head crushing blow to the serpent.

00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:35.079
 The mystery of Christ is concealed in the passage.

00:26:35.220 --> 00:26:42.000
 But the point is that God issued a promise of salvation through a future deliverer,

00:26:42.160 --> 00:26:46.400
 even in the midst of pronouncing this judgment against Adam and Eve.

00:26:47.400 --> 00:26:48.700
 It's all judgment.

00:26:49.380 --> 00:26:50.960
 But there's this promise.

00:26:52.420 --> 00:26:54.019
 Life will be restored.

00:26:54.599 --> 00:26:56.299
 A deliverer will come.

00:26:56.299 --> 00:27:00.519
 There will be one from the woman, another human,

00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:08.839
 who will deal this mortal blow to the serpent and to sin and to death.

00:27:10.740 --> 00:27:13.019
 And God always fulfills his promises.

00:27:14.240 --> 00:27:16.419
 He is faithful to his word.

00:27:16.579 --> 00:27:18.460
 Thus Paul says in Galatians 4,

00:27:18.460 --> 00:27:20.819
 when the fullness of time had come,

00:27:21.039 --> 00:27:23.779
 just at the right time, Paul says,

00:27:24.360 --> 00:27:27.380
 God sent forth his woman, his son,

00:27:27.960 --> 00:27:30.460
 born of a woman,

00:27:31.160 --> 00:27:33.200
 a real human,

00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:35.319
 truly human,

00:27:36.600 --> 00:27:38.000
 the seed of the woman,

00:27:39.000 --> 00:27:41.200
 but also truly God,

00:27:42.200 --> 00:27:43.220
 the son.

00:27:43.220 --> 00:27:45.920
 Paul says,

00:27:47.200 --> 00:27:48.319
 God sent him forth,

00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:49.039
 born of a woman,

00:27:49.180 --> 00:27:52.140
 to redeem those who are under the law

00:27:52.140 --> 00:27:59.100
 so that we might receive adoption as sons,

00:27:59.460 --> 00:28:01.940
 no longer as the seed of the serpent

00:28:01.940 --> 00:28:03.960
 in our sin and death,

00:28:04.420 --> 00:28:07.519
 but now the child of God

00:28:07.519 --> 00:28:09.299
 through the son

00:28:09.299 --> 00:28:11.279
 and his work on the cross.

00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:16.839
 And when we come back to Genesis 3,

00:28:16.980 --> 00:28:18.000
 what we must recognize

00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:21.700
 is that this promise of redemption

00:28:21.700 --> 00:28:24.819
 is entirely of grace.

00:28:26.759 --> 00:28:29.240
 God is not obligated in any way

00:28:29.240 --> 00:28:30.819
 to show us mercy.

00:28:33.319 --> 00:28:34.940
 Death is what we deserve,

00:28:35.160 --> 00:28:36.440
 but the Bible says that

00:28:36.440 --> 00:28:38.740
 God has no pleasure

00:28:38.740 --> 00:28:40.500
 in the death of the wicked,

00:28:40.500 --> 00:28:41.779
 but he delights

00:28:41.779 --> 00:28:44.160
 in steadfast love

00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:45.960
 for his people.

00:28:47.460 --> 00:28:47.880
 Therefore,

00:28:48.180 --> 00:28:49.840
 in the oracles of judgment,

00:28:50.080 --> 00:28:51.940
 we find this astounding

00:28:51.940 --> 00:28:53.840
 promise of grace.

00:28:54.019 --> 00:28:55.720
 Grace is promised

00:28:55.720 --> 00:28:56.940
 in judgment.

00:28:57.720 --> 00:28:58.620
 Let's quickly move on

00:28:58.620 --> 00:29:00.320
 to the next section.

00:29:01.360 --> 00:29:02.600
 Notice now that grace

00:29:02.600 --> 00:29:03.640
 is received

00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:04.980
 received in judgment.

00:29:05.660 --> 00:29:06.860
 It's received in judgment.

00:29:07.620 --> 00:29:08.080
 Verse 20,

00:29:08.800 --> 00:29:10.780
 the man called his wife's name Eve

00:29:10.780 --> 00:29:12.820
 because she was the mother

00:29:12.820 --> 00:29:13.500
 of all living.

00:29:14.820 --> 00:29:16.540
 And the Lord God made for Adam

00:29:16.540 --> 00:29:18.040
 and for his wife

00:29:18.040 --> 00:29:19.340
 garments of skins

00:29:19.340 --> 00:29:20.860
 and clothed them.

00:29:22.259 --> 00:29:23.520
 So the text is moving

00:29:23.520 --> 00:29:24.920
 from the divine speech

00:29:24.920 --> 00:29:26.700
 of God's oracles of judgment.

00:29:26.900 --> 00:29:27.680
 It's moving back

00:29:27.680 --> 00:29:29.360
 to Moses' narration

00:29:29.360 --> 00:29:30.500
 of the events.

00:29:31.140 --> 00:29:32.520
 Important to this part

00:29:32.519 --> 00:29:33.960
 is recognizing

00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:35.720
 that it describes

00:29:35.720 --> 00:29:36.440
 what happens

00:29:36.440 --> 00:29:38.400
 after the pronouncements

00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:38.920
 of judgment

00:29:38.920 --> 00:29:40.859
 so that Adam and Eve

00:29:40.859 --> 00:29:42.000
 and what they're experiencing

00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:43.420
 in 20 and 21,

00:29:43.680 --> 00:29:45.599
 they are living in judgment.

00:29:46.079 --> 00:29:46.279
 Therefore,

00:29:46.420 --> 00:29:47.639
 they are receiving grace

00:29:47.639 --> 00:29:49.339
 in the midst of judgment.

00:29:49.980 --> 00:29:51.759
 Death is raining on them.

00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:53.379
 God has spoken.

00:29:54.119 --> 00:29:54.639
 And yet,

00:29:54.819 --> 00:29:56.119
 even then,

00:29:56.460 --> 00:29:58.879
 they receive grace.

00:29:58.880 --> 00:30:01.000
 the first thing

00:30:01.000 --> 00:30:01.660
 that we see

00:30:01.660 --> 00:30:03.700
 is that Adam

00:30:03.700 --> 00:30:04.500
 gives his wife

00:30:04.500 --> 00:30:05.280
 a new name.

00:30:06.640 --> 00:30:07.400
 It's curious,

00:30:07.580 --> 00:30:07.920
 isn't it?

00:30:09.120 --> 00:30:09.980
 It almost seems

00:30:09.980 --> 00:30:11.100
 like it's out of place.

00:30:12.560 --> 00:30:13.880
 I don't think it is.

00:30:14.240 --> 00:30:14.880
 I think it's right

00:30:14.880 --> 00:30:15.680
 where it should be.

00:30:17.480 --> 00:30:18.680
 Up until this point,

00:30:18.760 --> 00:30:19.600
 she's only been called

00:30:19.600 --> 00:30:20.020
 the woman.

00:30:20.160 --> 00:30:21.020
 This is the first time

00:30:21.020 --> 00:30:21.680
 that we find

00:30:21.680 --> 00:30:22.820
 the name Eve

00:30:22.820 --> 00:30:23.960
 in the Bible

00:30:23.960 --> 00:30:25.600
 because that was not

00:30:25.600 --> 00:30:26.200
 her name

00:30:26.200 --> 00:30:27.340
 until this point.

00:30:28.519 --> 00:30:29.799
 She was called woman

00:30:29.799 --> 00:30:30.880
 because she was taken

00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:31.640
 out of man.

00:30:31.740 --> 00:30:32.279
 This is now

00:30:32.279 --> 00:30:33.440
 bone of my bone

00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:34.519
 and flesh of my flesh.

00:30:34.660 --> 00:30:35.019
 Adam says,

00:30:35.120 --> 00:30:36.920
 I will call her woman.

00:30:39.420 --> 00:30:40.920
 He named her that

00:30:40.920 --> 00:30:41.840
 initially

00:30:41.840 --> 00:30:43.340
 in recognition

00:30:43.340 --> 00:30:43.880
 of the fact

00:30:43.880 --> 00:30:44.860
 that she came

00:30:44.860 --> 00:30:46.240
 from his own flesh

00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:47.779
 to be a companion

00:30:47.779 --> 00:30:49.700
 in whom he would delight.

00:30:49.779 --> 00:30:50.880
 We saw a beautiful picture

00:30:50.880 --> 00:30:51.799
 of that in chapter 2.

00:30:51.799 --> 00:30:54.099
 But he renames her here.

00:30:56.359 --> 00:30:57.740
 Following God's judgment,

00:30:58.399 --> 00:30:59.180
 he names her Eve.

00:30:59.259 --> 00:31:00.960
 It means life giver.

00:31:01.879 --> 00:31:03.220
 And he names her that,

00:31:03.339 --> 00:31:04.000
 Moses says,

00:31:04.119 --> 00:31:06.039
 because Adam understood

00:31:06.039 --> 00:31:06.759
 she would be

00:31:06.759 --> 00:31:07.899
 the mother of all living.

00:31:08.180 --> 00:31:09.119
 Now, why does that matter?

00:31:10.940 --> 00:31:12.159
 I think Moses

00:31:12.159 --> 00:31:13.119
 is helping us

00:31:13.119 --> 00:31:14.240
 to see a change

00:31:14.240 --> 00:31:15.139
 in Adam here.

00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:18.659
 He had learned

00:31:18.659 --> 00:31:20.659
 not to doubt

00:31:20.659 --> 00:31:21.500
 the truthfulness

00:31:21.500 --> 00:31:22.559
 of God's word.

00:31:24.079 --> 00:31:25.000
 God had said

00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:25.619
 that if he eats

00:31:25.619 --> 00:31:26.180
 of the tree,

00:31:26.339 --> 00:31:27.400
 he will surely die.

00:31:27.460 --> 00:31:28.319
 And now he knows

00:31:28.319 --> 00:31:29.480
 it's true.

00:31:29.920 --> 00:31:30.799
 God doesn't lie.

00:31:32.680 --> 00:31:34.180
 And having been attentive

00:31:34.180 --> 00:31:35.859
 to God's promise

00:31:35.859 --> 00:31:36.819
 in the midst

00:31:36.819 --> 00:31:37.519
 of judgment

00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:39.200
 in verses 14 to 19,

00:31:39.460 --> 00:31:41.000
 he renames his wife

00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:42.640
 as a sign

00:31:42.640 --> 00:31:43.500
 of his faith

00:31:44.019 --> 00:31:45.640
 in what God said.

00:31:47.259 --> 00:31:48.400
 God says

00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:49.500
 he will still

00:31:49.500 --> 00:31:50.380
 bring forth

00:31:50.380 --> 00:31:51.000
 offspring

00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:52.380
 from Eve

00:31:52.380 --> 00:31:53.400
 and that through

00:31:53.400 --> 00:31:54.140
 that offspring

00:31:54.140 --> 00:31:54.940
 will become

00:31:54.940 --> 00:31:56.500
 a promised seed

00:31:56.500 --> 00:31:57.600
 who will bring

00:31:57.600 --> 00:31:58.080
 redemption.

00:31:58.720 --> 00:31:59.420
 And Adam hears

00:31:59.420 --> 00:32:00.020
 the oracle

00:32:00.020 --> 00:32:01.660
 and he believes God

00:32:01.660 --> 00:32:03.100
 and now he renames

00:32:03.100 --> 00:32:04.220
 his wife Eve

00:32:04.220 --> 00:32:05.400
 as a sign

00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:06.220
 of his faith

00:32:06.220 --> 00:32:07.320
 in what God

00:32:07.320 --> 00:32:07.860
 had said.

00:32:08.120 --> 00:32:09.400
 He receives

00:32:09.400 --> 00:32:10.840
 the promise

00:32:10.840 --> 00:32:11.780
 of grace

00:32:11.780 --> 00:32:13.220
 in the demonstration

00:32:13.220 --> 00:32:14.960
 of his faith

00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:16.360
 in God's promise.

00:32:16.359 --> 00:32:16.459
 grace.

00:32:17.359 --> 00:32:18.379
 But it's more

00:32:18.379 --> 00:32:18.819
 than that,

00:32:18.859 --> 00:32:19.259
 isn't it?

00:32:20.719 --> 00:32:21.759
 It's not just

00:32:21.759 --> 00:32:22.399
 the renaming

00:32:22.399 --> 00:32:23.039
 of the woman.

00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:24.459
 We read

00:32:24.459 --> 00:32:25.299
 in verse 21,

00:32:25.419 --> 00:32:25.959
 the Lord God

00:32:25.959 --> 00:32:26.819
 made for Adam

00:32:26.819 --> 00:32:27.619
 and for his wife

00:32:27.619 --> 00:32:28.819
 garments of skins

00:32:28.819 --> 00:32:30.539
 and he clothed them.

00:32:34.379 --> 00:32:36.119
 Adam resumes

00:32:36.119 --> 00:32:37.439
 his place

00:32:37.439 --> 00:32:38.159
 of headship

00:32:38.159 --> 00:32:39.319
 by issuing

00:32:39.319 --> 00:32:40.000
 a new name.

00:32:40.099 --> 00:32:40.559
 It seems

00:32:40.559 --> 00:32:41.179
 that he then

00:32:41.179 --> 00:32:42.000
 becomes the first

00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:43.099
 example of repentance

00:32:43.099 --> 00:32:44.259
 and faith

00:32:44.259 --> 00:32:45.039
 but then he

00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:46.779
 experiences grace

00:32:46.779 --> 00:32:47.740
 even further.

00:32:48.819 --> 00:32:49.740
 In the contrast

00:32:49.740 --> 00:32:51.839
 to the loincloths

00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:53.399
 of fig leaves

00:32:53.399 --> 00:32:55.879
 comes full garments

00:32:55.879 --> 00:32:57.259
 of skins,

00:32:57.459 --> 00:32:58.299
 full coverings.

00:32:58.659 --> 00:32:59.659
 The word is tunic.

00:33:00.619 --> 00:33:01.399
 The full covering,

00:33:01.559 --> 00:33:03.139
 it's not mere leaves.

00:33:03.240 --> 00:33:03.500
 Now,

00:33:04.219 --> 00:33:05.199
 it's made of skins.

00:33:06.919 --> 00:33:07.959
 This was an act

00:33:07.959 --> 00:33:08.740
 of grace.

00:33:10.240 --> 00:33:11.639
 God providing

00:33:11.639 --> 00:33:12.259
 a covering

00:33:12.259 --> 00:33:13.720
 that is sufficient

00:33:13.720 --> 00:33:14.599
 for them

00:33:14.599 --> 00:33:15.759
 as they await

00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:16.400
 the ultimate

00:33:16.400 --> 00:33:17.000
 fulfillment

00:33:17.000 --> 00:33:18.440
 of his promise.

00:33:21.160 --> 00:33:21.359
 Now,

00:33:21.440 --> 00:33:22.000
 I think

00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:23.460
 the people

00:33:23.460 --> 00:33:24.379
 who first received

00:33:24.379 --> 00:33:25.079
 this book,

00:33:26.240 --> 00:33:27.220
 the ancient Israelites

00:33:27.220 --> 00:33:27.740
 wandering

00:33:27.740 --> 00:33:28.619
 in the wilderness

00:33:28.619 --> 00:33:29.440
 of Sinai,

00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:31.200
 having just been

00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:33.000
 given the tabernacle

00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:33.859
 and its instructions

00:33:33.859 --> 00:33:34.779
 and they're witnessing

00:33:34.779 --> 00:33:37.079
 now in their daily life

00:33:37.079 --> 00:33:39.160
 these sacrificial rituals,

00:33:39.339 --> 00:33:40.079
 I think they would have

00:33:40.079 --> 00:33:41.200
 immediately connected

00:33:41.200 --> 00:33:42.400
 this statement

00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:44.720
 to the sacrifices

00:33:44.720 --> 00:33:45.580
 they were accustomed

00:33:45.580 --> 00:33:46.120
 to bringing

00:33:46.120 --> 00:33:47.059
 in the tabernacle.

00:33:48.259 --> 00:33:49.660
 I think it's likely

00:33:49.660 --> 00:33:50.860
 that we have here

00:33:50.860 --> 00:33:52.840
 a sign

00:33:52.840 --> 00:33:54.559
 of the sacrificial death

00:33:54.559 --> 00:33:56.100
 of the Lord Jesus

00:33:56.100 --> 00:33:57.140
 as a covering

00:33:57.140 --> 00:33:57.860
 for our guilt.

00:33:59.160 --> 00:34:00.620
 But the purpose here

00:34:00.620 --> 00:34:01.519
 in chapter 3

00:34:01.519 --> 00:34:04.600
 is to point out

00:34:04.600 --> 00:34:05.740
 that only God

00:34:05.740 --> 00:34:07.500
 can sufficiently

00:34:07.500 --> 00:34:08.559
 cover our guilt

00:34:08.559 --> 00:34:09.059
 and shame.

00:34:09.059 --> 00:34:10.679
 only He can do it.

00:34:11.860 --> 00:34:13.460
 All of our attempts

00:34:13.460 --> 00:34:14.219
 to make up

00:34:14.219 --> 00:34:15.039
 for our sin

00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:16.519
 and our fallenness

00:34:16.519 --> 00:34:17.340
 are like those

00:34:17.340 --> 00:34:18.719
 loincloths

00:34:18.719 --> 00:34:20.019
 of fig leaves.

00:34:21.559 --> 00:34:22.579
 Only God

00:34:22.579 --> 00:34:23.360
 can provide

00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:25.059
 what we really need

00:34:25.059 --> 00:34:27.500
 and He has provided

00:34:27.500 --> 00:34:27.940
 that

00:34:27.940 --> 00:34:29.559
 in the person

00:34:29.559 --> 00:34:30.719
 and work

00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:32.159
 of Jesus Christ.

00:34:32.360 --> 00:34:33.059
 Grace is received

00:34:33.779 --> 00:34:34.500
 in judgment.

00:34:34.719 --> 00:34:35.079
 Finally,

00:34:35.699 --> 00:34:36.599
 I think we see

00:34:36.599 --> 00:34:38.179
 in 22-24

00:34:38.179 --> 00:34:41.059
 that it is grace

00:34:41.059 --> 00:34:41.839
 alone

00:34:41.839 --> 00:34:42.900
 in judgment.

00:34:44.159 --> 00:34:45.019
 Grace alone.

00:34:46.679 --> 00:34:47.699
 Then the Lord God said,

00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:49.460
 Behold,

00:34:49.539 --> 00:34:50.400
 the man has become

00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:51.239
 like one of us

00:34:51.239 --> 00:34:51.920
 in knowing good

00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:52.360
 and evil.

00:34:53.400 --> 00:34:54.519
 Now lest he should

00:34:54.519 --> 00:34:55.500
 reach out his hand

00:34:55.500 --> 00:34:56.920
 and take also

00:34:56.920 --> 00:34:57.860
 of the tree of life

00:34:57.860 --> 00:34:58.239
 and eat

00:34:58.239 --> 00:34:59.099
 and live forever.

00:34:59.799 --> 00:35:00.619
 Here's the action

00:35:00.619 --> 00:35:01.599
 that follows the statement.

00:35:01.599 --> 00:35:03.139
 Therefore,

00:35:03.319 --> 00:35:03.880
 the Lord God

00:35:03.880 --> 00:35:04.719
 sent him out

00:35:04.719 --> 00:35:05.619
 of the Garden of Eden

00:35:05.619 --> 00:35:07.279
 to work the ground

00:35:07.279 --> 00:35:08.259
 from which he was taken.

00:35:09.179 --> 00:35:10.420
 He drove out the man

00:35:10.420 --> 00:35:11.139
 and at the east

00:35:11.139 --> 00:35:11.960
 of the Garden of Eden

00:35:11.960 --> 00:35:12.559
 he placed

00:35:12.559 --> 00:35:13.679
 the cherubim

00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:14.759
 and a flaming sword

00:35:14.759 --> 00:35:15.380
 that turned

00:35:15.380 --> 00:35:16.480
 every way

00:35:16.480 --> 00:35:17.460
 to guard the way

00:35:17.460 --> 00:35:19.539
 to the tree of life.

00:35:21.779 --> 00:35:23.139
 This final element

00:35:23.139 --> 00:35:23.819
 of judgment

00:35:23.819 --> 00:35:24.559
 in the text

00:35:24.559 --> 00:35:25.319
 is the formal

00:35:25.319 --> 00:35:26.559
 expulsion

00:35:26.559 --> 00:35:28.099
 from the garden.

00:35:28.099 --> 00:35:31.759
 It's the most tragic scene

00:35:31.759 --> 00:35:32.559
 in the whole thing.

00:35:34.940 --> 00:35:35.920
 The garden

00:35:35.920 --> 00:35:36.819
 was the place

00:35:36.819 --> 00:35:37.440
 of God's

00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:39.159
 manifest presence.

00:35:39.779 --> 00:35:40.679
 It was the place

00:35:40.679 --> 00:35:41.420
 where the couple

00:35:41.420 --> 00:35:43.259
 enjoyed the blessing

00:35:43.259 --> 00:35:44.659
 of intimate fellowship

00:35:44.659 --> 00:35:45.880
 with their creator.

00:35:47.639 --> 00:35:49.579
 God not only expels them

00:35:49.579 --> 00:35:51.839
 he guards it

00:35:51.839 --> 00:35:53.159
 so that they can't return.

00:35:54.519 --> 00:35:55.679
 He puts a chair of them there

00:35:55.679 --> 00:35:56.839
 a flaming sword

00:35:56.840 --> 00:35:58.340
 to prevent them

00:35:58.340 --> 00:35:59.340
 from going back.

00:36:00.280 --> 00:36:01.000
 How tragic.

00:36:03.100 --> 00:36:04.059
 The man

00:36:04.059 --> 00:36:04.680
 who was

00:36:04.680 --> 00:36:06.200
 once tasked

00:36:06.200 --> 00:36:06.980
 with guarding

00:36:06.980 --> 00:36:08.140
 the garden

00:36:08.140 --> 00:36:09.840
 serving as a

00:36:09.840 --> 00:36:10.519
 priest

00:36:10.519 --> 00:36:11.480
 to God

00:36:11.480 --> 00:36:12.880
 in the garden

00:36:12.880 --> 00:36:13.780
 delighting

00:36:13.780 --> 00:36:14.380
 in the presence

00:36:14.380 --> 00:36:14.860
 of God

00:36:14.860 --> 00:36:15.360
 now

00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:16.760
 is himself

00:36:16.760 --> 00:36:17.680
 being guarded

00:36:17.680 --> 00:36:18.960
 from it.

00:36:20.960 --> 00:36:22.320
 And the reason

00:36:22.320 --> 00:36:23.140
 for the banishment

00:36:23.140 --> 00:36:24.100
 is twofold.

00:36:25.120 --> 00:36:26.240
 First of course

00:36:26.239 --> 00:36:27.879
 they're removed

00:36:27.879 --> 00:36:29.079
 because of their sin

00:36:29.079 --> 00:36:31.219
 having become

00:36:31.219 --> 00:36:32.659
 entered into

00:36:32.659 --> 00:36:33.739
 this experiential

00:36:33.739 --> 00:36:34.339
 knowledge

00:36:34.339 --> 00:36:34.979
 of good and

00:36:34.979 --> 00:36:35.759
 evil

00:36:35.759 --> 00:36:36.419
 after eating

00:36:36.419 --> 00:36:37.439
 of the forbidden tree.

00:36:38.739 --> 00:36:39.599
 The serpent

00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:40.799
 had deceived Eve

00:36:40.799 --> 00:36:41.339
 into thinking

00:36:41.339 --> 00:36:41.979
 that if she ate

00:36:41.979 --> 00:36:42.479
 of the tree

00:36:42.479 --> 00:36:43.079
 she would be

00:36:43.079 --> 00:36:43.679
 like God

00:36:43.679 --> 00:36:44.119
 and indeed

00:36:44.119 --> 00:36:44.659
 that was only

00:36:44.659 --> 00:36:45.579
 partially true.

00:36:46.239 --> 00:36:47.199
 They enter

00:36:47.199 --> 00:36:47.719
 into this

00:36:47.719 --> 00:36:48.219
 awareness

00:36:48.219 --> 00:36:48.779
 of evil

00:36:48.779 --> 00:36:49.319
 that they did

00:36:49.319 --> 00:36:50.319
 not already

00:36:50.319 --> 00:36:50.619
 know

00:36:50.619 --> 00:36:51.259
 but it wasn't

00:36:51.259 --> 00:36:52.399
 what the servant

00:36:52.399 --> 00:36:52.979
 promised.

00:36:52.980 --> 00:36:54.500
 it was

00:36:54.500 --> 00:36:55.980
 a knowledge

00:36:55.980 --> 00:36:56.440
 of

00:36:56.440 --> 00:36:57.840
 death

00:36:57.840 --> 00:37:00.039
 rebellion

00:37:00.039 --> 00:37:00.920
 of shame

00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:01.659
 and guilt.

00:37:03.659 --> 00:37:04.360
 That's

00:37:04.360 --> 00:37:04.900
 punitive

00:37:04.900 --> 00:37:05.400
 judgment.

00:37:06.760 --> 00:37:07.340
 God says

00:37:07.340 --> 00:37:07.900
 you can't

00:37:07.900 --> 00:37:08.519
 be here

00:37:08.519 --> 00:37:09.039
 anymore

00:37:09.039 --> 00:37:09.940
 where I am.

00:37:11.599 --> 00:37:12.139
 But there's

00:37:12.139 --> 00:37:12.740
 another piece

00:37:12.740 --> 00:37:12.940
 to it

00:37:12.940 --> 00:37:13.260
 in fact

00:37:13.260 --> 00:37:14.300
 the second

00:37:14.300 --> 00:37:14.679
 piece

00:37:14.679 --> 00:37:15.079
 actually

00:37:15.079 --> 00:37:15.659
 seems to

00:37:15.659 --> 00:37:16.039
 be the

00:37:16.039 --> 00:37:16.480
 emphasis.

00:37:16.480 --> 00:37:20.639
 Adam and

00:37:20.639 --> 00:37:20.800
 Eve

00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:20.960
 were

00:37:20.960 --> 00:37:21.519
 expelled

00:37:21.519 --> 00:37:21.980
 so that

00:37:21.980 --> 00:37:22.380
 they might

00:37:22.380 --> 00:37:23.039
 no longer

00:37:23.039 --> 00:37:23.480
 eat

00:37:23.480 --> 00:37:24.519
 of the

00:37:24.519 --> 00:37:24.780
 tree

00:37:24.780 --> 00:37:25.380
 of life.

00:37:26.380 --> 00:37:26.780
 What is

00:37:26.780 --> 00:37:27.280
 that about?

00:37:28.139 --> 00:37:28.840
 I think

00:37:28.840 --> 00:37:29.519
 it's grace

00:37:29.519 --> 00:37:30.940
 and I think

00:37:30.940 --> 00:37:31.440
 it's grace

00:37:31.440 --> 00:37:32.079
 in this way.

00:37:33.300 --> 00:37:33.780
 Notice

00:37:33.780 --> 00:37:34.380
 what God

00:37:34.380 --> 00:37:34.940
 says.

00:37:36.539 --> 00:37:37.039
 Now

00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:37.619
 lest he

00:37:37.619 --> 00:37:38.179
 reach out

00:37:38.179 --> 00:37:38.820
 his hand

00:37:38.820 --> 00:37:40.059
 and take

00:37:40.059 --> 00:37:40.619
 also of

00:37:40.619 --> 00:37:40.980
 the tree

00:37:40.980 --> 00:37:41.460
 of life

00:37:41.460 --> 00:37:41.800
 and eat

00:37:41.800 --> 00:37:42.119
 and live

00:37:42.119 --> 00:37:42.460
 forever

00:37:42.460 --> 00:37:43.460
 therefore

00:37:43.460 --> 00:37:43.960
 he sends

00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:44.240
 them out.

00:37:44.300 --> 00:37:44.420
 And then

00:37:44.420 --> 00:37:44.820
 again in

00:37:44.820 --> 00:37:45.519
 verse 24

00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:46.000
 he puts

00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:46.599
 the cherubim

00:37:46.599 --> 00:37:46.940
 there with

00:37:46.940 --> 00:37:47.380
 the flaming

00:37:47.380 --> 00:37:47.880
 sword

00:37:47.880 --> 00:37:49.039
 to guard

00:37:49.039 --> 00:37:49.980
 not merely

00:37:49.980 --> 00:37:50.320
 the way

00:37:50.320 --> 00:37:50.559
 to the

00:37:50.559 --> 00:37:50.860
 garden

00:37:50.860 --> 00:37:51.599
 but to

00:37:51.599 --> 00:37:51.860
 guard

00:37:51.860 --> 00:37:52.260
 the way

00:37:52.260 --> 00:37:52.599
 to the

00:37:52.599 --> 00:37:52.820
 tree

00:37:52.820 --> 00:37:53.440
 of life.

00:37:53.820 --> 00:37:54.320
 Why would

00:37:54.320 --> 00:37:54.619
 this be

00:37:54.619 --> 00:37:55.159
 necessary?

00:37:56.199 --> 00:37:56.559
 What is

00:37:56.559 --> 00:37:56.940
 happening

00:37:56.940 --> 00:37:57.260
 here?

00:37:58.619 --> 00:37:59.280
 We ought

00:37:59.280 --> 00:37:59.659
 not to

00:37:59.659 --> 00:38:00.179
 take from

00:38:00.179 --> 00:38:00.659
 this that

00:38:00.659 --> 00:38:00.940
 it would

00:38:00.940 --> 00:38:01.559
 have been

00:38:01.559 --> 00:38:03.039
 theoretically

00:38:03.039 --> 00:38:03.840
 possible

00:38:03.840 --> 00:38:05.420
 for the

00:38:05.420 --> 00:38:05.960
 man to

00:38:05.960 --> 00:38:06.559
 take of

00:38:06.559 --> 00:38:06.940
 the tree

00:38:06.940 --> 00:38:07.519
 of life

00:38:07.519 --> 00:38:08.320
 and reverse

00:38:08.320 --> 00:38:08.860
 God's

00:38:08.860 --> 00:38:09.280
 judgment

00:38:09.280 --> 00:38:09.679
 against

00:38:09.679 --> 00:38:10.079
 God's

00:38:10.079 --> 00:38:10.320
 will.

00:38:11.739 --> 00:38:12.280
 That's

00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:12.719
 not what

00:38:12.719 --> 00:38:13.019
 we should

00:38:13.019 --> 00:38:13.500
 take from

00:38:13.500 --> 00:38:13.820
 this.

00:38:14.219 --> 00:38:14.420
 God

00:38:14.420 --> 00:38:14.719
 isn't

00:38:14.719 --> 00:38:15.340
 concerned

00:38:15.340 --> 00:38:15.940
 that

00:38:15.940 --> 00:38:16.320
 Adam

00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:16.500
 will

00:38:16.500 --> 00:38:16.880
 find

00:38:16.880 --> 00:38:17.059
 a

00:38:17.059 --> 00:38:17.240
 way

00:38:17.240 --> 00:38:17.579
 back

00:38:17.579 --> 00:38:18.200
 in

00:38:18.200 --> 00:38:18.860
 and

00:38:18.860 --> 00:38:19.039
 will

00:38:19.039 --> 00:38:19.240
 be

00:38:19.240 --> 00:38:19.480
 able

00:38:19.480 --> 00:38:19.740
 to

00:38:19.740 --> 00:38:20.220
 receive

00:38:20.220 --> 00:38:20.620
 life

00:38:20.620 --> 00:38:21.039
 apart

00:38:21.039 --> 00:38:21.360
 from

00:38:21.360 --> 00:38:21.640
 God

00:38:21.640 --> 00:38:22.160
 granting

00:38:22.160 --> 00:38:22.460
 it.

00:38:23.240 --> 00:38:23.780
 That's

00:38:23.780 --> 00:38:24.039
 not what

00:38:24.039 --> 00:38:24.400
 we take

00:38:24.400 --> 00:38:24.760
 from this.

00:38:24.820 --> 00:38:25.000
 I don't

00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:25.300
 think it's

00:38:25.300 --> 00:38:25.559
 what it

00:38:25.559 --> 00:38:25.980
 means.

00:38:27.059 --> 00:38:27.539
 Calvin

00:38:27.539 --> 00:38:28.100
 is helpful

00:38:28.100 --> 00:38:28.800
 on this.

00:38:29.500 --> 00:38:29.900
 Here's what

00:38:29.900 --> 00:38:30.360
 he said.

00:38:30.360 --> 00:38:31.860
 God

00:38:31.860 --> 00:38:32.099
 it is

00:38:32.099 --> 00:38:32.480
 indeed

00:38:32.480 --> 00:38:33.019
 certain

00:38:33.019 --> 00:38:34.599
 that man

00:38:34.599 --> 00:38:34.860
 would

00:38:34.860 --> 00:38:35.240
 not

00:38:35.240 --> 00:38:35.480
 have

00:38:35.480 --> 00:38:35.720
 been

00:38:35.720 --> 00:38:36.200
 able

00:38:36.200 --> 00:38:36.880
 even

00:38:36.880 --> 00:38:37.320
 if

00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:37.480
 he

00:38:37.480 --> 00:38:38.039
 devoured

00:38:38.039 --> 00:38:38.320
 the

00:38:38.320 --> 00:38:38.599
 whole

00:38:38.599 --> 00:38:39.039
 tree

00:38:39.039 --> 00:38:40.900
 to

00:38:40.900 --> 00:38:41.440
 enjoy

00:38:41.440 --> 00:38:42.120
 life

00:38:42.120 --> 00:38:42.680
 against

00:38:42.680 --> 00:38:42.920
 the

00:38:42.920 --> 00:38:43.099
 will

00:38:43.099 --> 00:38:43.280
 of

00:38:43.280 --> 00:38:43.660
 God

00:38:43.660 --> 00:38:44.900
 for

00:38:44.900 --> 00:38:45.099
 there

00:38:45.099 --> 00:38:45.300
 was

00:38:45.300 --> 00:38:45.740
 never

00:38:45.740 --> 00:38:46.160
 any

00:38:46.160 --> 00:38:46.760
 intrinsic

00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:47.539
 efficacy

00:38:47.539 --> 00:38:47.860
 in

00:38:47.860 --> 00:38:48.000
 the

00:38:48.000 --> 00:38:48.360
 tree

00:38:48.360 --> 00:38:49.920
 but

00:38:49.920 --> 00:38:50.340
 God

00:38:50.340 --> 00:38:50.680
 made

00:38:50.680 --> 00:38:50.840
 it

00:38:50.840 --> 00:38:51.220
 life

00:38:51.220 --> 00:38:51.700
 giving

00:38:51.700 --> 00:38:52.160
 so

00:38:52.160 --> 00:38:52.620
 far

00:38:52.620 --> 00:38:52.840
 as

00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:53.059
 he

00:38:53.059 --> 00:38:53.300
 had

00:38:53.300 --> 00:38:53.780
 sealed

00:38:53.780 --> 00:38:54.099
 his

00:38:54.099 --> 00:38:54.800
 grace

00:38:54.800 --> 00:38:55.480
 to

00:38:55.480 --> 00:38:55.720
 the

00:38:55.720 --> 00:38:55.980
 man

00:38:55.980 --> 00:38:56.260
 and the

00:38:56.260 --> 00:38:56.500
 use

00:38:56.500 --> 00:38:56.820
 of it.

00:38:56.820 --> 00:38:57.440
 In

00:38:57.440 --> 00:38:57.880
 short

00:38:57.880 --> 00:38:58.240
 Calvin

00:38:58.240 --> 00:38:58.780
 says

00:38:58.780 --> 00:39:00.019
 God

00:39:00.019 --> 00:39:00.940
 resolved

00:39:00.940 --> 00:39:01.680
 to

00:39:01.680 --> 00:39:02.440
 rest

00:39:02.440 --> 00:39:03.180
 out

00:39:03.180 --> 00:39:03.440
 of

00:39:03.440 --> 00:39:03.640
 the

00:39:03.640 --> 00:39:03.940
 hands

00:39:03.940 --> 00:39:04.140
 of

00:39:04.140 --> 00:39:04.700
 man

00:39:04.700 --> 00:39:06.240
 that

00:39:06.240 --> 00:39:06.519
 which

00:39:06.519 --> 00:39:06.760
 was

00:39:06.760 --> 00:39:06.960
 the

00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:07.600
 occasion

00:39:07.600 --> 00:39:08.240
 and

00:39:08.240 --> 00:39:08.720
 ground

00:39:08.720 --> 00:39:09.059
 of

00:39:09.059 --> 00:39:09.220
 his

00:39:09.220 --> 00:39:09.940
 confidence

00:39:09.940 --> 00:39:11.940
 lest

00:39:11.940 --> 00:39:12.160
 he

00:39:12.160 --> 00:39:12.480
 should

00:39:12.480 --> 00:39:12.960
 form

00:39:12.960 --> 00:39:13.320
 for

00:39:13.320 --> 00:39:13.980
 himself

00:39:13.980 --> 00:39:14.460
 a

00:39:14.460 --> 00:39:14.920
 vain

00:39:14.920 --> 00:39:15.420
 hope

00:39:15.420 --> 00:39:15.980
 of

00:39:15.980 --> 00:39:16.580
 life

00:39:16.580 --> 00:39:17.519
 which

00:39:17.519 --> 00:39:17.680
 he

00:39:17.680 --> 00:39:17.840
 had

00:39:17.840 --> 00:39:18.260
 lost.

00:39:19.260 --> 00:39:19.539
 What

00:39:19.539 --> 00:39:19.660
 does

00:39:19.660 --> 00:39:19.800
 that

00:39:19.800 --> 00:39:20.059
 mean?

00:39:20.900 --> 00:39:21.559
 Simply

00:39:21.559 --> 00:39:22.100
 this.

00:39:23.780 --> 00:39:24.019
 The

00:39:24.019 --> 00:39:24.539
 tree

00:39:24.539 --> 00:39:25.460
 did

00:39:25.460 --> 00:39:25.720
 not

00:39:25.720 --> 00:39:26.019
 have

00:39:26.019 --> 00:39:26.600
 power

00:39:26.599 --> 00:39:26.900
 in

00:39:26.900 --> 00:39:27.000
 and

00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:27.119
 of

00:39:27.119 --> 00:39:27.679
 itself

00:39:27.679 --> 00:39:27.960
 to

00:39:27.960 --> 00:39:28.440
 confer

00:39:28.440 --> 00:39:29.179
 life

00:39:29.179 --> 00:39:29.860
 to

00:39:29.860 --> 00:39:30.019
 the

00:39:30.019 --> 00:39:30.219
 man

00:39:30.219 --> 00:39:30.360
 and

00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:30.500
 his

00:39:30.500 --> 00:39:30.860
 wife.

00:39:32.279 --> 00:39:32.579
 It

00:39:32.579 --> 00:39:32.799
 was

00:39:32.799 --> 00:39:33.679
 sacramental

00:39:33.679 --> 00:39:34.019
 in a

00:39:34.019 --> 00:39:34.440
 sense

00:39:34.440 --> 00:39:35.799
 so that

00:39:35.799 --> 00:39:36.000
 every

00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:36.579
 time they

00:39:36.579 --> 00:39:37.019
 took of

00:39:37.019 --> 00:39:37.279
 this

00:39:37.279 --> 00:39:37.659
 tree

00:39:37.659 --> 00:39:37.799
 it

00:39:37.799 --> 00:39:37.940
 was

00:39:37.940 --> 00:39:38.079
 a

00:39:38.079 --> 00:39:38.559
 reminder

00:39:38.559 --> 00:39:38.860
 of

00:39:38.860 --> 00:39:39.079
 the

00:39:39.079 --> 00:39:39.460
 life

00:39:39.460 --> 00:39:39.679
 that

00:39:39.679 --> 00:39:39.860
 they

00:39:39.860 --> 00:39:40.579
 received

00:39:40.579 --> 00:39:41.099
 and

00:39:41.099 --> 00:39:41.719
 enjoyed

00:39:41.719 --> 00:39:42.819
 from

00:39:42.819 --> 00:39:43.339
 God.

00:39:44.339 --> 00:39:44.900
 It

00:39:44.900 --> 00:39:45.319
 was a

00:39:45.319 --> 00:39:46.159
 sign

00:39:46.159 --> 00:39:47.139
 of

00:39:47.139 --> 00:39:47.299
 the

00:39:47.299 --> 00:39:47.799
 reality

00:39:47.799 --> 00:39:48.039
 of

00:39:48.039 --> 00:39:48.339
 life

00:39:48.339 --> 00:39:48.539
 that

00:39:48.539 --> 00:39:48.759
 came

00:39:48.759 --> 00:39:48.980
 from

00:39:48.980 --> 00:39:49.239
 God.

00:39:49.319 --> 00:39:49.460
 The

00:39:49.460 --> 00:39:49.759
 tree

00:39:49.759 --> 00:39:50.659
 represented

00:39:50.659 --> 00:39:51.079
 this

00:39:51.079 --> 00:39:51.619
 blessing

00:39:51.619 --> 00:39:51.960
 of

00:39:51.960 --> 00:39:52.440
 life

00:39:52.440 --> 00:39:53.259
 but

00:39:53.259 --> 00:39:53.579
 now

00:39:53.579 --> 00:39:53.779
 the

00:39:53.779 --> 00:39:54.079
 man

00:39:54.079 --> 00:39:54.219
 and

00:39:54.219 --> 00:39:54.360
 the

00:39:54.360 --> 00:39:54.639
 woman

00:39:54.639 --> 00:39:54.920
 would

00:39:54.920 --> 00:39:55.179
 no

00:39:55.179 --> 00:39:55.539
 longer

00:39:55.539 --> 00:39:55.920
 have

00:39:55.920 --> 00:39:56.180
 a

00:39:56.180 --> 00:39:56.700
 participation

00:39:56.700 --> 00:39:57.840
 in

00:39:57.840 --> 00:39:58.059
 that

00:39:58.059 --> 00:39:58.599
 life

00:39:58.599 --> 00:39:59.180
 which

00:39:59.180 --> 00:39:59.480
 means

00:39:59.480 --> 00:39:59.639
 they

00:39:59.639 --> 00:39:59.780
 will

00:39:59.780 --> 00:40:00.019
 no

00:40:00.019 --> 00:40:00.320
 longer

00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:00.539
 have

00:40:00.539 --> 00:40:00.680
 a

00:40:00.680 --> 00:40:01.159
 participation

00:40:01.159 --> 00:40:02.280
 in

00:40:02.280 --> 00:40:02.500
 the

00:40:02.500 --> 00:40:02.980
 sign

00:40:02.980 --> 00:40:03.159
 of

00:40:03.159 --> 00:40:03.340
 that

00:40:03.340 --> 00:40:03.820
 life

00:40:03.820 --> 00:40:06.019
 but

00:40:06.019 --> 00:40:06.260
 this

00:40:06.260 --> 00:40:06.440
 is

00:40:06.440 --> 00:40:06.800
 also

00:40:06.800 --> 00:40:07.420
 grace

00:40:07.420 --> 00:40:08.360
 in

00:40:08.360 --> 00:40:08.659
 this

00:40:08.659 --> 00:40:09.039
 way

00:40:09.039 --> 00:40:11.380
 it

00:40:11.380 --> 00:40:11.719
 meant

00:40:11.380 --> 00:40:11.719
 meant

00:40:11.719 --> 00:40:11.980
 that

00:40:11.980 --> 00:40:12.360
 all

00:40:12.360 --> 00:40:12.539
 of

00:40:12.539 --> 00:40:12.739
 their

00:40:12.739 --> 00:40:13.199
 hope

00:40:13.199 --> 00:40:14.739
 for

00:40:14.739 --> 00:40:15.360
 restoration

00:40:15.360 --> 00:40:16.460
 and

00:40:16.460 --> 00:40:16.980
 forgiveness

00:40:16.980 --> 00:40:17.980
 and

00:40:17.980 --> 00:40:18.539
 life

00:40:18.539 --> 00:40:19.980
 would

00:40:19.980 --> 00:40:20.340
 have

00:40:20.340 --> 00:40:20.599
 to

00:40:20.599 --> 00:40:21.199
 rest

00:40:21.199 --> 00:40:21.980
 solely

00:40:21.980 --> 00:40:22.059
!

00:40:22.059 --> 00:40:23.139
 on the

00:40:23.139 --> 00:40:23.659
 promise

00:40:23.659 --> 00:40:24.300
 of God

00:40:24.300 --> 00:40:25.139
 in the

00:40:25.139 --> 00:40:25.639
 redemption

00:40:25.639 --> 00:40:26.779
 through a

00:40:26.779 --> 00:40:27.159
 promised

00:40:27.159 --> 00:40:27.779
 seed

00:40:27.779 --> 00:40:31.739
 their

00:40:31.739 --> 00:40:32.300
 hope

00:40:32.300 --> 00:40:33.219
 was

00:40:33.219 --> 00:40:33.519
 then

00:40:33.519 --> 00:40:34.259
 grace

00:40:34.259 --> 00:40:35.519
 alone

00:40:35.519 --> 00:40:37.699
 it

00:40:37.699 --> 00:40:38.259
 wasn't

00:40:38.259 --> 00:40:38.679
 merely

00:40:38.679 --> 00:40:39.320
 faith

00:40:39.320 --> 00:40:39.679
 in

00:40:39.679 --> 00:40:39.880
 the

00:40:39.880 --> 00:40:40.519
 promise

00:40:40.519 --> 00:40:41.340
 plus

00:40:41.340 --> 00:40:42.159
 participation

00:40:42.159 --> 00:40:42.980
 in

00:40:42.980 --> 00:40:43.259
 the

00:40:43.259 --> 00:40:43.860
 signs

00:40:43.860 --> 00:40:44.360
 that

00:40:44.360 --> 00:40:44.679
 God

00:40:44.679 --> 00:40:45.320
 gave

00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:47.280
 their

00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:47.659
 hope

00:40:47.659 --> 00:40:47.960
 could

00:40:47.960 --> 00:40:48.300
 not

00:40:48.300 --> 00:40:48.599
 be

00:40:48.599 --> 00:40:48.800
 in

00:40:48.800 --> 00:40:49.239
 anything

00:40:49.239 --> 00:40:49.780
 apart

00:40:49.780 --> 00:40:50.280
 from

00:40:50.280 --> 00:40:51.300
 grace

00:40:51.300 --> 00:40:52.400
 alone

00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:53.139
 in

00:40:53.139 --> 00:40:53.659
 Christ

00:40:53.659 --> 00:40:54.679
 alone

00:40:54.679 --> 00:40:55.380
 and

00:40:55.380 --> 00:40:55.699
 in

00:40:55.699 --> 00:40:55.920
 an

00:40:55.920 --> 00:40:56.280
 act

00:40:56.280 --> 00:40:56.480
 of

00:40:56.480 --> 00:40:57.000
 grace

00:40:57.000 --> 00:40:57.480
 God

00:40:57.480 --> 00:40:58.340
 removes

00:40:58.340 --> 00:40:58.840
 them

00:40:58.840 --> 00:40:59.179
 from

00:40:59.179 --> 00:40:59.579
 any

00:40:59.579 --> 00:41:00.179
 notion

00:41:00.179 --> 00:41:00.880
 that

00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:01.360
 life

00:41:01.360 --> 00:41:01.559
 would

00:41:01.559 --> 00:41:01.780
 be

00:41:01.780 --> 00:41:02.179
 found

00:41:02.179 --> 00:41:02.440
 by

00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:02.840
 any

00:41:02.840 --> 00:41:03.340
 means

00:41:03.340 --> 00:41:03.739
 other

00:41:03.739 --> 00:41:04.099
 than

00:41:04.099 --> 00:41:04.340
 his

00:41:04.340 --> 00:41:04.960
 promise

00:41:04.960 --> 00:41:06.199
 so

00:41:06.199 --> 00:41:06.380
 that

00:41:06.380 --> 00:41:06.559
 they

00:41:06.559 --> 00:41:06.820
 might

00:41:06.820 --> 00:41:07.079
 move

00:41:07.079 --> 00:41:07.519
 forward

00:41:07.519 --> 00:41:08.179
 acknowledging

00:41:08.179 --> 00:41:08.699
 in

00:41:08.699 --> 00:41:08.860
 the

00:41:08.860 --> 00:41:09.300
 tragedy

00:41:09.300 --> 00:41:10.679
 that

00:41:10.679 --> 00:41:10.900
 there

00:41:10.900 --> 00:41:11.199
 is

00:41:11.199 --> 00:41:11.579
 grace

00:41:11.579 --> 00:41:11.940
 here

00:41:11.940 --> 00:41:13.139
 but

00:41:13.139 --> 00:41:13.280
 it

00:41:13.280 --> 00:41:13.420
 is

00:41:13.420 --> 00:41:13.740
 only

00:41:13.740 --> 00:41:13.940
 in

00:41:13.940 --> 00:41:14.079
 the

00:41:14.079 --> 00:41:14.400
 promise

00:41:14.400 --> 00:41:14.619
 of

00:41:14.619 --> 00:41:14.800
 God

00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:14.960
 I

00:41:14.960 --> 00:41:15.380
 can't

00:41:15.380 --> 00:41:15.619
 get

00:41:15.619 --> 00:41:15.780
 it

00:41:15.780 --> 00:41:16.179
 any

00:41:16.179 --> 00:41:16.639
 other

00:41:16.639 --> 00:41:17.340
 way

00:41:17.340 --> 00:41:21.559
 and

00:41:21.559 --> 00:41:21.760
 so

00:41:21.760 --> 00:41:21.960
 we

00:41:21.960 --> 00:41:22.300
 read

00:41:22.300 --> 00:41:22.460
 in

00:41:22.460 --> 00:41:22.880
 Ephesians

00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:23.240
 2

00:41:23.240 --> 00:41:24.820
 by

00:41:24.820 --> 00:41:25.400
 grace

00:41:25.400 --> 00:41:25.699
 are

00:41:25.699 --> 00:41:25.900
 you

00:41:25.900 --> 00:41:26.300
 saved

00:41:26.300 --> 00:41:26.559
 through

00:41:26.559 --> 00:41:27.039
 faith

00:41:27.039 --> 00:41:28.880
 this

00:41:28.880 --> 00:41:29.059
 is

00:41:29.059 --> 00:41:29.320
 not

00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:29.519
 your

00:41:29.519 --> 00:41:29.800
 own

00:41:29.800 --> 00:41:30.179
 doing

00:41:30.179 --> 00:41:31.099
 because

00:41:31.099 --> 00:41:31.460
 you

00:41:31.460 --> 00:41:31.720
 ate

00:41:31.720 --> 00:41:31.840
 of

00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:32.000
 the

00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:32.220
 right

00:41:32.220 --> 00:41:32.679
 tree

00:41:32.679 --> 00:41:34.260
 or

00:41:34.260 --> 00:41:34.500
 did

00:41:34.500 --> 00:41:34.659
 the

00:41:34.659 --> 00:41:34.880
 right

00:41:34.880 --> 00:41:35.500
 things

00:41:35.500 --> 00:41:36.500
 or

00:41:36.500 --> 00:41:36.960
 attended

00:41:36.960 --> 00:41:37.219
 the

00:41:37.219 --> 00:41:37.440
 right

00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:38.099
 service

00:41:38.099 --> 00:41:38.880
 or

00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:39.239
 gave

00:41:39.239 --> 00:41:39.440
 the

00:41:39.440 --> 00:41:39.659
 right

00:41:39.659 --> 00:41:40.219
 amount

00:41:40.219 --> 00:41:40.920
 or

00:41:40.920 --> 00:41:41.340
 said

00:41:41.340 --> 00:41:41.539
 the

00:41:41.539 --> 00:41:41.800
 right

00:41:41.800 --> 00:41:42.420
 prayers

00:41:42.420 --> 00:41:43.059
 no

00:41:43.059 --> 00:41:44.420
 it

00:41:44.420 --> 00:41:44.599
 is

00:41:44.599 --> 00:41:44.800
 by

00:41:44.800 --> 00:41:45.239
 grace

00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:45.820
 alone

00:41:45.820 --> 00:41:46.820
 through

00:41:46.820 --> 00:41:47.320
 faith

00:41:47.320 --> 00:41:48.619
 it's

00:41:48.619 --> 00:41:48.860
 not

00:41:48.860 --> 00:41:49.059
 your

00:41:49.059 --> 00:41:49.280
 own

00:41:49.280 --> 00:41:49.599
 doing

00:41:49.599 --> 00:41:51.000
 it

00:41:51.000 --> 00:41:51.239
 is

00:41:51.239 --> 00:41:52.420
 entirely

00:41:52.420 --> 00:41:53.440
 the

00:41:53.440 --> 00:41:53.860
 gift

00:41:53.860 --> 00:41:54.119
 of

00:41:54.119 --> 00:41:54.619
 God

00:41:54.619 --> 00:41:55.599
 not

00:41:55.599 --> 00:41:55.800
 the

00:41:55.800 --> 00:41:56.179
 result

00:41:56.179 --> 00:41:56.400
 of

00:41:56.400 --> 00:41:56.679
 any

00:41:56.679 --> 00:41:56.980
 work

00:41:56.980 --> 00:41:57.159
 on

00:41:57.159 --> 00:41:57.360
 your

00:41:57.360 --> 00:41:57.840
 part

00:41:57.840 --> 00:41:59.239
 so

00:41:59.239 --> 00:41:59.420
 that

00:41:59.420 --> 00:41:59.679
 no

00:41:59.679 --> 00:41:59.860
 one

00:41:59.860 --> 00:42:00.039
 may

00:42:00.039 --> 00:42:00.519
 boast

00:42:00.519 --> 00:42:01.500
 it

00:42:01.500 --> 00:42:01.699
 is

00:42:01.699 --> 00:42:02.179
 grace

00:42:02.179 --> 00:42:02.920
 alone

00:42:02.920 --> 00:42:03.940
 there

00:42:03.940 --> 00:42:04.079
 is

00:42:04.079 --> 00:42:04.559
 judgment

00:42:04.559 --> 00:42:04.980
 here

00:42:04.980 --> 00:42:06.059
 but

00:42:06.059 --> 00:42:06.199
 it

00:42:06.199 --> 00:42:06.360
 is

00:42:06.360 --> 00:42:06.579
 not

00:42:06.579 --> 00:42:06.940
 only

00:42:06.940 --> 00:42:07.440
 judgment

00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:08.440
 in

00:42:08.440 --> 00:42:08.920
 each

00:42:08.920 --> 00:42:09.699
 phase

00:42:09.699 --> 00:42:10.039
 of

00:42:10.039 --> 00:42:10.179
 the

00:42:10.179 --> 00:42:10.559
 judgment

00:42:10.559 --> 00:42:10.880
 whether

00:42:10.880 --> 00:42:11.119
 it's

00:42:11.119 --> 00:42:11.199
 in

00:42:11.199 --> 00:42:11.340
 the

00:42:11.340 --> 00:42:11.960
 pronouncement

00:42:11.960 --> 00:42:12.159
 of

00:42:12.159 --> 00:42:12.300
 the

00:42:12.300 --> 00:42:12.679
 oracles

00:42:12.679 --> 00:42:12.880
 of

00:42:12.880 --> 00:42:13.179
 judgment

00:42:13.179 --> 00:42:13.460
 whether

00:42:13.460 --> 00:42:13.719
 it's

00:42:13.719 --> 00:42:13.880
 in

00:42:13.880 --> 00:42:14.139
 the

00:42:14.139 --> 00:42:15.639
 existence

00:42:15.639 --> 00:42:16.219
 within

00:42:16.219 --> 00:42:16.539
 that

00:42:16.539 --> 00:42:16.860
 judgment

00:42:16.860 --> 00:42:17.079
 or

00:42:17.079 --> 00:42:17.280
 the

00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:17.960
 expulsion

00:42:17.960 --> 00:42:18.139
 of

00:42:18.139 --> 00:42:18.259
 the

00:42:18.259 --> 00:42:18.579
 garden

00:42:18.579 --> 00:42:19.259
 there

00:42:19.259 --> 00:42:19.559
 is

00:42:19.559 --> 00:42:20.239
 grace

00:42:20.239 --> 00:42:21.199
 grace

00:42:21.199 --> 00:42:21.400
 is

00:42:21.400 --> 00:42:21.960
 promised

00:42:21.960 --> 00:42:22.440
 in

00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:22.559
 a

00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:22.840
 future

00:42:22.840 --> 00:42:23.340
 seed

00:42:23.340 --> 00:42:24.179
 grace

00:42:24.179 --> 00:42:24.380
 is

00:42:24.380 --> 00:42:25.079
 received

00:42:25.079 --> 00:42:25.079


00:42:25.079 --> 00:42:25.340
 through

00:42:25.340 --> 00:42:25.860
 faith

00:42:25.860 --> 00:42:26.000
 and

00:42:26.000 --> 00:42:26.199
 the

00:42:26.199 --> 00:42:26.900
 coverings

00:42:26.900 --> 00:42:27.539
 of

00:42:27.539 --> 00:42:27.940
 God

00:42:27.940 --> 00:42:28.119
 that

00:42:28.119 --> 00:42:28.280
 are

00:42:28.280 --> 00:42:28.860
 sufficient

00:42:28.860 --> 00:42:29.179
 for

00:42:29.179 --> 00:42:29.619
 their guilt

00:42:29.619 --> 00:42:30.340
 and shame

00:42:30.340 --> 00:42:31.640
 and it

00:42:31.640 --> 00:42:31.800
 is

00:42:31.800 --> 00:42:32.220
 grace

00:42:32.220 --> 00:42:32.660
 alone

00:42:32.660 --> 00:42:32.920
 so

00:42:32.920 --> 00:42:33.079
 they

00:42:33.079 --> 00:42:33.260
 may

00:42:33.260 --> 00:42:33.420
 not

00:42:33.420 --> 00:42:33.620
 be

00:42:33.620 --> 00:42:34.320
 confused

00:42:34.320 --> 00:42:35.340
 as to

00:42:35.340 --> 00:42:35.539
 how

00:42:35.539 --> 00:42:35.740
 they

00:42:35.740 --> 00:42:36.120
 might

00:42:36.120 --> 00:42:36.940
 once

00:42:36.940 --> 00:42:37.280
 again

00:42:37.280 --> 00:42:37.519
 be

00:42:37.519 --> 00:42:38.039
 restored

00:42:38.039 --> 00:42:38.860
 there's

00:42:38.860 --> 00:42:39.320
 tragedy

00:42:39.320 --> 00:42:39.700
 here

00:42:39.700 --> 00:42:40.940
 but

00:42:40.940 --> 00:42:41.140
 the

00:42:41.140 --> 00:42:41.600
 tragedy

00:42:41.600 --> 00:42:41.900
 is

00:42:41.900 --> 00:42:42.079
 how

00:42:42.079 --> 00:42:42.280
 we

00:42:42.280 --> 00:42:42.579
 get

00:42:42.579 --> 00:42:43.300
 to

00:42:43.300 --> 00:42:43.460
 the

00:42:43.460 --> 00:42:43.920
 grace

00:42:43.920 --> 00:42:44.360
 I

00:42:44.360 --> 00:42:44.519
 want to

00:42:44.519 --> 00:42:44.880
 close

00:42:44.880 --> 00:42:45.500
 in a

00:42:45.500 --> 00:42:45.740
 different

00:42:45.740 --> 00:42:46.180
 way

00:42:46.180 --> 00:42:48.180
 I

00:42:48.180 --> 00:42:48.280
 want to

00:42:48.280 --> 00:42:48.700
 go back

00:42:48.700 --> 00:42:49.039
 to this

00:42:49.039 --> 00:42:49.620
 idea

00:42:49.620 --> 00:42:50.660
 it's

00:42:50.660 --> 00:42:51.059
 presented

00:42:51.059 --> 00:42:51.320
 here

00:42:51.320 --> 00:42:51.579
 in the

00:42:51.579 --> 00:42:52.000
 text

00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:52.820
 this

00:42:52.820 --> 00:42:53.420
 ongoing

00:42:53.420 --> 00:42:54.180
 struggle

00:42:54.180 --> 00:42:55.940
 of the

00:42:55.940 --> 00:42:56.400
 serpent

00:42:56.400 --> 00:42:56.900
 and the

00:42:56.900 --> 00:42:57.260
 seed

00:42:57.260 --> 00:42:58.800
 of grace

00:42:58.800 --> 00:42:59.519
 and faith

00:42:59.519 --> 00:43:00.320
 how

00:43:00.320 --> 00:43:00.480
 does

00:43:00.480 --> 00:43:00.599
 it

00:43:00.599 --> 00:43:00.920
 work

00:43:00.920 --> 00:43:01.659
 and I

00:43:01.659 --> 00:43:01.840
 just

00:43:01.840 --> 00:43:02.000
 want

00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:02.119
 to

00:43:02.119 --> 00:43:02.360
 show

00:43:02.360 --> 00:43:02.579
 you

00:43:02.579 --> 00:43:02.840
 just

00:43:02.840 --> 00:43:03.119
 through

00:43:03.119 --> 00:43:03.699
 one

00:43:03.699 --> 00:43:04.880
 particular

00:43:04.880 --> 00:43:06.400
 example

00:43:06.400 --> 00:43:06.759
 of the

00:43:06.759 --> 00:43:06.940
 Lord

00:43:06.940 --> 00:43:07.280
 Jesus

00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:09.239
 would you

00:43:09.239 --> 00:43:09.539
 turn

00:43:09.539 --> 00:43:10.019
 just to

00:43:10.019 --> 00:43:10.300
 John

00:43:10.300 --> 00:43:10.599
 chapter

00:43:10.599 --> 00:43:11.000
 3

00:43:11.000 --> 00:43:19.360
 we're

00:43:19.360 --> 00:43:19.480
 not

00:43:19.480 --> 00:43:19.639
 going to

00:43:19.639 --> 00:43:19.820
 read

00:43:19.820 --> 00:43:20.059
 verse

00:43:20.059 --> 00:43:20.519
 16

00:43:20.519 --> 00:43:22.400
 I

00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:22.539
 actually

00:43:22.539 --> 00:43:22.759
 want to

00:43:22.759 --> 00:43:22.940
 read

00:43:22.940 --> 00:43:23.179
 just

00:43:23.179 --> 00:43:23.579
 before

00:43:23.579 --> 00:43:23.880
 it

00:43:23.880 --> 00:43:26.059
 John

00:43:26.059 --> 00:43:26.360
 chapter

00:43:26.360 --> 00:43:26.780
 3

00:43:26.780 --> 00:43:28.580
 just

00:43:28.580 --> 00:43:28.960
 before

00:43:28.960 --> 00:43:29.200
 we

00:43:29.200 --> 00:43:29.500
 get

00:43:29.500 --> 00:43:29.800
 to

00:43:29.800 --> 00:43:30.280
 that

00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:31.420
 amazing

00:43:31.420 --> 00:43:31.880
 statement

00:43:31.880 --> 00:43:32.080
 of

00:43:32.080 --> 00:43:32.420
 God's

00:43:32.420 --> 00:43:32.900
 love

00:43:32.900 --> 00:43:33.660
 being

00:43:33.660 --> 00:43:34.060
 shown

00:43:34.060 --> 00:43:34.260
 in

00:43:34.260 --> 00:43:34.440
 the

00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:34.800
 son

00:43:34.800 --> 00:43:35.820
 for

00:43:35.820 --> 00:43:36.040
 all

00:43:36.040 --> 00:43:36.180
 who

00:43:36.180 --> 00:43:36.340
 will

00:43:36.340 --> 00:43:36.720
 believe

00:43:36.720 --> 00:43:38.200
 I

00:43:38.200 --> 00:43:38.360
 want

00:43:38.360 --> 00:43:38.440
 you

00:43:38.440 --> 00:43:38.560
 to

00:43:38.560 --> 00:43:38.680
 see

00:43:38.680 --> 00:43:38.860
 what

00:43:38.860 --> 00:43:39.200
 Jesus

00:43:39.200 --> 00:43:39.580
 says

00:43:39.580 --> 00:43:39.740
 to

00:43:39.740 --> 00:43:40.340
 Nicodemus

00:43:40.340 --> 00:43:40.500
 in

00:43:40.500 --> 00:43:40.740
 verses

00:43:40.740 --> 00:43:41.220
 14

00:43:41.220 --> 00:43:41.380
 and

00:43:41.380 --> 00:43:41.700
 15

00:43:41.700 --> 00:43:42.580
 this

00:43:42.580 --> 00:43:42.760
 is

00:43:42.760 --> 00:43:43.019
 not

00:43:43.019 --> 00:43:43.180
 a

00:43:43.180 --> 00:43:43.480
 reference

00:43:43.480 --> 00:43:43.720
 to

00:43:43.720 --> 00:43:44.019
 Genesis

00:43:44.019 --> 00:43:44.420
 3

00:43:44.420 --> 00:43:44.640
 I'm

00:43:44.640 --> 00:43:44.800
 not

00:43:44.800 --> 00:43:45.000
 trying

00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:45.160
 to

00:43:45.160 --> 00:43:45.420
 make

00:43:45.420 --> 00:43:45.500
 it

00:43:45.500 --> 00:43:45.600
 a

00:43:45.600 --> 00:43:45.860
 reference

00:43:45.860 --> 00:43:46.080
 to

00:43:46.080 --> 00:43:46.340
 Genesis

00:43:46.340 --> 00:43:46.620
 3

00:43:46.620 --> 00:43:46.840
 but

00:43:46.840 --> 00:43:47.280
 I

00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:47.380
 want

00:43:47.380 --> 00:43:47.480
 to

00:43:47.480 --> 00:43:47.720
 show

00:43:47.720 --> 00:43:47.840
 you

00:43:47.840 --> 00:43:47.980
 a

00:43:47.980 --> 00:43:48.420
 connection

00:43:48.420 --> 00:43:48.660
 as

00:43:48.660 --> 00:43:48.800
 we

00:43:48.800 --> 00:43:49.100
 see

00:43:49.100 --> 00:43:49.380
 this

00:43:49.380 --> 00:43:49.880
 theme

00:43:49.880 --> 00:43:50.360
 of

00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:50.740
 grace

00:43:50.740 --> 00:43:50.980
 and

00:43:50.980 --> 00:43:51.300
 judgment

00:43:51.300 --> 00:43:51.600
 the

00:43:51.600 --> 00:43:51.920
 serpent

00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:52.180
 and

00:43:52.180 --> 00:43:52.340
 the

00:43:52.340 --> 00:43:52.620
 seed

00:43:52.620 --> 00:43:53.480
 following

00:43:53.480 --> 00:43:53.820
 throughout

00:43:53.820 --> 00:43:54.019
 the

00:43:54.019 --> 00:43:54.300
 scripture

00:43:54.300 --> 00:43:55.060
 notice

00:43:55.060 --> 00:43:55.280
 what

00:43:55.280 --> 00:43:55.400
 he

00:43:55.400 --> 00:43:55.600
 says

00:43:55.600 --> 00:43:55.740
 in

00:43:55.740 --> 00:43:55.900
 verse

00:43:55.900 --> 00:43:56.340
 14

00:43:56.340 --> 00:43:58.140
 Jesus

00:43:58.140 --> 00:43:58.460
 says

00:43:58.460 --> 00:43:58.660
 as

00:43:58.660 --> 00:43:59.019
 Moses

00:43:59.019 --> 00:43:59.500
 lifted

00:43:59.500 --> 00:43:59.680
 up

00:43:59.680 --> 00:43:59.880
 the

00:43:59.880 --> 00:44:00.180
 serpent

00:44:00.180 --> 00:44:00.480
 in

00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:00.580
 the

00:44:00.580 --> 00:44:00.900
 wilderness

00:44:00.900 --> 00:44:03.240
 so

00:44:03.240 --> 00:44:03.539
 must

00:44:03.539 --> 00:44:03.780
 the

00:44:03.780 --> 00:44:04.060
 son

00:44:04.060 --> 00:44:04.340
 of

00:44:04.340 --> 00:44:04.680
 man

00:44:04.680 --> 00:44:05.260
 be

00:44:05.260 --> 00:44:05.519
 lifted

00:44:05.519 --> 00:44:05.820
 up

00:44:05.820 --> 00:44:07.640
 that

00:44:07.640 --> 00:44:08.000
 whoever

00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:08.500
 believes

00:44:08.500 --> 00:44:08.660
 in

00:44:08.660 --> 00:44:08.960
 him

00:44:08.960 --> 00:44:10.320
 may

00:44:10.320 --> 00:44:10.560
 have

00:44:10.560 --> 00:44:10.880
 eternal

00:44:10.880 --> 00:44:11.320
 life

00:44:11.320 --> 00:44:12.760
 now

00:44:12.760 --> 00:44:12.920
 those

00:44:12.920 --> 00:44:13.019
 are

00:44:13.019 --> 00:44:13.300
 short

00:44:13.300 --> 00:44:13.620
 verses

00:44:13.620 --> 00:44:13.840
 but

00:44:13.840 --> 00:44:14.060
 they

00:44:14.060 --> 00:44:14.240
 are

00:44:14.240 --> 00:44:14.740
 packed

00:44:14.740 --> 00:44:17.240
 Jesus

00:44:17.240 --> 00:44:17.519
 is

00:44:17.519 --> 00:44:17.780
 saying

00:44:17.780 --> 00:44:17.980
 there

00:44:17.980 --> 00:44:18.120
 is

00:44:18.120 --> 00:44:18.260
 a

00:44:18.260 --> 00:44:18.620
 promise

00:44:18.620 --> 00:44:18.800
 of

00:44:18.800 --> 00:44:19.260
 life

00:44:19.260 --> 00:44:19.700
 though

00:44:19.700 --> 00:44:20.000
 death

00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:20.500
 reigns

00:44:20.500 --> 00:44:20.740
 in

00:44:20.740 --> 00:44:20.940
 us

00:44:20.940 --> 00:44:21.139
 in

00:44:21.139 --> 00:44:21.420
 Adam

00:44:21.420 --> 00:44:21.639
 there

00:44:21.639 --> 00:44:21.780
 is

00:44:21.780 --> 00:44:21.920
 a

00:44:21.920 --> 00:44:22.200
 promise

00:44:22.200 --> 00:44:22.400
 of

00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:22.720
 life

00:44:22.720 --> 00:44:23.200
 and

00:44:23.200 --> 00:44:23.400
 that

00:44:23.400 --> 00:44:23.820
 promise

00:44:23.820 --> 00:44:24.019
 of

00:44:24.019 --> 00:44:24.280
 life

00:44:24.280 --> 00:44:24.460
 will

00:44:24.460 --> 00:44:24.679
 come

00:44:24.679 --> 00:44:24.940
 through

00:44:24.940 --> 00:44:25.159
 the

00:44:25.159 --> 00:44:25.320
 son

00:44:25.320 --> 00:44:25.460
 of

00:44:25.460 --> 00:44:25.740
 man

00:44:25.740 --> 00:44:26.139
 Jesus

00:44:26.139 --> 00:44:26.460
 in

00:44:26.460 --> 00:44:26.659
 this

00:44:26.659 --> 00:44:26.940
 text

00:44:26.940 --> 00:44:27.220
 is

00:44:27.220 --> 00:44:27.440
 that

00:44:27.440 --> 00:44:27.679
 son

00:44:27.679 --> 00:44:27.820
 of

00:44:27.820 --> 00:44:28.099
 man

00:44:28.099 --> 00:44:29.519
 and

00:44:29.519 --> 00:44:29.619
 it

00:44:29.619 --> 00:44:29.760
 will

00:44:29.760 --> 00:44:30.059
 come

00:44:30.059 --> 00:44:30.260
 by

00:44:30.260 --> 00:44:30.679
 faith

00:44:30.679 --> 00:44:31.220
 alone

00:44:31.220 --> 00:44:31.840
 in

00:44:31.840 --> 00:44:32.059
 the

00:44:32.059 --> 00:44:32.240
 son

00:44:32.240 --> 00:44:32.400
 of

00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:32.619
 man

00:44:32.619 --> 00:44:32.760
 and

00:44:32.760 --> 00:44:32.920
 what

00:44:32.920 --> 00:44:33.079
 he

00:44:33.079 --> 00:44:33.420
 does

00:44:33.420 --> 00:44:33.820
 okay

00:44:33.820 --> 00:44:35.480
 salvation

00:44:35.480 --> 00:44:37.420
 but

00:44:37.420 --> 00:44:37.539
 he

00:44:37.539 --> 00:44:38.079
 illustrates

00:44:38.079 --> 00:44:38.240
 it

00:44:38.240 --> 00:44:38.340
 in

00:44:38.340 --> 00:44:38.500
 verse

00:44:38.500 --> 00:44:39.000
 14

00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:41.360
 just

00:44:41.360 --> 00:44:41.599
 as

00:44:41.599 --> 00:44:42.019
 Moses

00:44:42.019 --> 00:44:42.480
 lifted

00:44:42.480 --> 00:44:42.740
 the

00:44:42.740 --> 00:44:43.079
 serpent

00:44:43.079 --> 00:44:43.360
 in

00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:43.480
 the

00:44:43.480 --> 00:44:43.780
 wilderness

00:44:43.780 --> 00:44:44.780
 so

00:44:44.780 --> 00:44:45.039
 must

00:44:45.039 --> 00:44:45.240
 the

00:44:45.240 --> 00:44:45.400
 son

00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:45.599
 be

00:44:45.599 --> 00:44:45.880
 lifted

00:44:45.880 --> 00:44:46.159
 up

00:44:46.159 --> 00:44:47.940
 it's

00:44:47.940 --> 00:44:48.079
 not

00:44:48.079 --> 00:44:48.179
 a

00:44:48.179 --> 00:44:48.419
 reference

00:44:48.419 --> 00:44:48.579
 to

00:44:48.579 --> 00:44:48.859
 Genesis

00:44:48.859 --> 00:44:49.179
 3

00:44:49.179 --> 00:44:49.339
 it's

00:44:49.339 --> 00:44:49.460
 a

00:44:49.460 --> 00:44:49.719
 reference

00:44:49.719 --> 00:44:49.919
 to

00:44:49.919 --> 00:44:50.259
 Numbers

00:44:50.259 --> 00:44:50.799
 21

00:44:50.799 --> 00:44:52.839
 Numbers

00:44:52.839 --> 00:44:53.279
 21

00:44:53.279 --> 00:44:53.799
 Moses

00:44:53.799 --> 00:44:54.139
 is

00:44:54.139 --> 00:44:54.399
 still

00:44:54.399 --> 00:44:54.839
 leading

00:44:54.839 --> 00:44:55.319
 the

00:44:55.319 --> 00:44:55.659
 Israelites

00:44:55.659 --> 00:44:56.000
 through

00:44:56.000 --> 00:44:56.179
 the

00:44:56.179 --> 00:44:56.500
 wilderness

00:44:56.500 --> 00:44:58.639
 they

00:44:58.639 --> 00:44:58.899
 keep

00:44:58.899 --> 00:44:59.259
 falling

00:44:59.259 --> 00:44:59.500
 into

00:44:59.500 --> 00:44:59.739
 this

00:44:59.739 --> 00:45:00.239
 repetition

00:45:00.239 --> 00:45:00.539
 of

00:45:00.539 --> 00:45:00.819
 sin

00:45:00.819 --> 00:45:00.980
 and

00:45:00.980 --> 00:45:01.319
 rebellion

00:45:01.319 --> 00:45:01.679
 against

00:45:01.679 --> 00:45:02.000
 God

00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:02.179
 their

00:45:02.179 --> 00:45:02.719
 complaints

00:45:02.719 --> 00:45:02.960
 and

00:45:02.960 --> 00:45:03.419
 murmurings

00:45:03.419 --> 00:45:03.719
 against

00:45:03.719 --> 00:45:04.099
 God

00:45:04.099 --> 00:45:04.799
 over

00:45:04.799 --> 00:45:05.059
 and over

00:45:05.059 --> 00:45:05.419
 they keep

00:45:05.419 --> 00:45:05.679
 coming

00:45:05.679 --> 00:45:05.819
 to

00:45:05.819 --> 00:45:06.019
 God

00:45:06.019 --> 00:45:06.179
 and

00:45:06.179 --> 00:45:06.460
 saying

00:45:06.460 --> 00:45:06.879
 we

00:45:06.879 --> 00:45:07.119
 wish

00:45:07.119 --> 00:45:07.219
 you

00:45:07.219 --> 00:45:07.339
 would

00:45:07.339 --> 00:45:07.440
 have

00:45:07.440 --> 00:45:07.619
 just

00:45:07.619 --> 00:45:07.940
 left

00:45:07.940 --> 00:45:08.099
 us

00:45:08.099 --> 00:45:08.239
 in

00:45:08.239 --> 00:45:08.539
 Egypt

00:45:08.539 --> 00:45:08.879
 because

00:45:08.879 --> 00:45:09.239
 you're

00:45:09.239 --> 00:45:09.460
 not

00:45:09.460 --> 00:45:09.719
 better

00:45:09.719 --> 00:45:09.899
 than

00:45:09.899 --> 00:45:10.259
 Egypt

00:45:10.259 --> 00:45:11.159
 we

00:45:11.159 --> 00:45:11.279
 would

00:45:11.279 --> 00:45:11.379
 have

00:45:11.379 --> 00:45:11.559
 rather

00:45:11.559 --> 00:45:11.919
 stayed

00:45:11.919 --> 00:45:12.339
 there

00:45:12.340 --> 00:45:16.420
 when

00:45:16.420 --> 00:45:16.600
 the

00:45:16.600 --> 00:45:16.900
 story

00:45:16.900 --> 00:45:17.300
 shows

00:45:17.300 --> 00:45:17.519
 up

00:45:17.519 --> 00:45:17.660
 in

00:45:17.660 --> 00:45:17.920
 Numbers

00:45:17.920 --> 00:45:18.360
 21

00:45:18.360 --> 00:45:18.780
 God

00:45:18.780 --> 00:45:18.960
 has

00:45:18.960 --> 00:45:19.220
 just

00:45:19.220 --> 00:45:19.680
 delivered

00:45:19.680 --> 00:45:20.120
 them

00:45:20.120 --> 00:45:22.500
 powerfully

00:45:22.500 --> 00:45:23.220
 from

00:45:23.220 --> 00:45:23.519
 another

00:45:23.519 --> 00:45:23.820
 enemy

00:45:23.820 --> 00:45:23.960
 and

00:45:23.960 --> 00:45:24.360
 immediately

00:45:24.360 --> 00:45:24.620
 they

00:45:24.620 --> 00:45:24.860
 turn

00:45:24.860 --> 00:45:24.960
 and

00:45:24.960 --> 00:45:25.100
 they

00:45:25.100 --> 00:45:25.260
 say

00:45:25.260 --> 00:45:25.420
 the

00:45:25.420 --> 00:45:25.660
 food

00:45:25.660 --> 00:45:25.840
 that

00:45:25.840 --> 00:45:25.980
 you

00:45:25.980 --> 00:45:26.200
 keep

00:45:26.200 --> 00:45:26.420
 giving

00:45:26.420 --> 00:45:26.579
 us

00:45:26.579 --> 00:45:26.780
 every

00:45:26.780 --> 00:45:27.059
 day

00:45:27.059 --> 00:45:27.519
 we're

00:45:27.519 --> 00:45:27.800
 tired

00:45:27.800 --> 00:45:27.940
 of

00:45:27.940 --> 00:45:28.100
 it

00:45:28.100 --> 00:45:28.460
 we

00:45:28.460 --> 00:45:28.780
 hate

00:45:28.780 --> 00:45:28.960
 it

00:45:28.960 --> 00:45:29.220
 we

00:45:29.220 --> 00:45:29.500
 don't

00:45:29.500 --> 00:45:29.780
 want

00:45:29.780 --> 00:45:29.960
 it

00:45:29.960 --> 00:45:30.260
 we

00:45:30.260 --> 00:45:30.440
 want

00:45:30.440 --> 00:45:30.600
 the

00:45:30.600 --> 00:45:30.820
 food

00:45:30.820 --> 00:45:30.940
 of

00:45:30.940 --> 00:45:31.300
 Egypt

00:45:31.300 --> 00:45:33.039
 we

00:45:33.039 --> 00:45:33.280
 don't

00:45:33.280 --> 00:45:33.440
 want

00:45:33.440 --> 00:45:33.559
 to

00:45:33.559 --> 00:45:33.800
 die

00:45:33.800 --> 00:45:33.920
 in

00:45:33.920 --> 00:45:34.039
 the

00:45:34.039 --> 00:45:34.320
 wilderness

00:45:34.320 --> 00:45:34.660
 and

00:45:34.660 --> 00:45:34.940
 suffer

00:45:34.940 --> 00:45:35.280
 here

00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:35.720
 you're

00:45:35.720 --> 00:45:36.019
 not

00:45:36.019 --> 00:45:36.460
 better

00:45:36.460 --> 00:45:36.720
 than

00:45:36.720 --> 00:45:37.140
 Pharaoh

00:45:37.140 --> 00:45:37.360
 we

00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:37.600
 want

00:45:37.600 --> 00:45:37.680
 to

00:45:37.680 --> 00:45:37.780
 go

00:45:37.780 --> 00:45:38.039
 back

00:45:38.039 --> 00:45:38.220
 to

00:45:42.340 --> 00:45:42.780
 judgment

00:45:42.780 --> 00:45:43.100
 on

00:45:43.100 --> 00:45:43.340
 them

00:45:43.340 --> 00:45:44.200
 do

00:45:44.200 --> 00:45:44.240
 you

00:45:44.240 --> 00:45:44.440
 remember

00:45:44.440 --> 00:45:44.620
 what

00:45:44.620 --> 00:45:44.720
 it

00:45:44.720 --> 00:45:45.100
 was

00:45:45.100 --> 00:45:46.300
 it

00:45:46.300 --> 00:45:46.440
 was

00:45:46.440 --> 00:45:46.640
 the

00:45:46.640 --> 00:45:46.980
 fiery

00:45:46.980 --> 00:45:47.780
 serpents

00:45:47.780 --> 00:45:50.120
 God

00:45:50.120 --> 00:45:50.640
 brings

00:45:50.640 --> 00:45:51.000
 forth

00:45:51.000 --> 00:45:51.320
 these

00:45:51.320 --> 00:45:51.820
 serpents

00:45:51.820 --> 00:45:51.980
 who

00:45:51.980 --> 00:45:52.160
 would

00:45:52.160 --> 00:45:52.360
 bite

00:45:52.360 --> 00:45:52.519
 the

00:45:52.519 --> 00:45:52.800
 people

00:45:52.800 --> 00:45:53.280
 venomous

00:45:53.280 --> 00:45:53.620
 snakes

00:45:53.620 --> 00:45:53.800
 they

00:45:53.800 --> 00:45:53.960
 would

00:45:53.960 --> 00:45:54.160
 bite

00:45:54.160 --> 00:45:54.320
 the

00:45:54.320 --> 00:45:54.579
 people

00:45:54.579 --> 00:45:54.700
 and

00:45:54.700 --> 00:45:54.820
 the

00:45:54.820 --> 00:45:55.000
 people

00:45:55.000 --> 00:45:55.120
 would

00:45:55.120 --> 00:45:55.220
 get

00:45:55.220 --> 00:45:55.360
 very

00:45:55.360 --> 00:45:55.579
 sick

00:45:55.579 --> 00:45:55.720
 and

00:45:55.720 --> 00:45:56.000
 die

00:45:56.000 --> 00:45:58.300
 now

00:45:58.300 --> 00:45:58.420
 the

00:45:58.420 --> 00:45:58.640
 reason

00:45:58.640 --> 00:45:58.840
 I

00:45:58.840 --> 00:45:59.140
 point

00:45:59.140 --> 00:45:59.320
 to

00:45:59.320 --> 00:45:59.700
 that

00:45:59.700 --> 00:46:00.860
 is

00:46:00.860 --> 00:46:01.039
 the

00:46:01.039 --> 00:46:01.360
 imagery

00:46:01.360 --> 00:46:01.559
 of

00:46:01.559 --> 00:46:01.700
 the

00:46:01.700 --> 00:46:02.019
 serpent

00:46:02.019 --> 00:46:02.900
 why

00:46:02.900 --> 00:46:03.180
 would

00:46:03.180 --> 00:46:03.539
 God

00:46:03.539 --> 00:46:04.000
 choose

00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:04.720
 serpents

00:46:04.720 --> 00:46:06.039
 so

00:46:06.039 --> 00:46:06.519
 many ways

00:46:06.519 --> 00:46:06.780
 he could

00:46:06.780 --> 00:46:07.160
 have judged

00:46:07.160 --> 00:46:07.579
 the people

00:46:07.579 --> 00:46:07.800
 in the

00:46:07.800 --> 00:46:08.039
 wilderness

00:46:08.039 --> 00:46:08.340
 why

00:46:08.340 --> 00:46:08.500
 would

00:46:08.500 --> 00:46:08.600
 he

00:46:08.600 --> 00:46:08.760
 do

00:46:08.760 --> 00:46:09.079
 that

00:46:12.340 --> 00:46:12.780
 symbolism

00:46:12.780 --> 00:46:13.280
 that

00:46:13.280 --> 00:46:13.519
 is

00:46:13.519 --> 00:46:14.400
 perpetual

00:46:14.400 --> 00:46:14.880
 throughout

00:46:14.880 --> 00:46:15.100
 the

00:46:15.100 --> 00:46:15.360
 scriptures

00:46:15.360 --> 00:46:15.600
 we

00:46:15.600 --> 00:46:16.160
 sense

00:46:16.160 --> 00:46:16.280
 it

00:46:16.280 --> 00:46:16.460
 even

00:46:16.460 --> 00:46:16.680
 in

00:46:16.680 --> 00:46:17.000
 secular

00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:17.360
 culture

00:46:17.360 --> 00:46:17.760
 today

00:46:17.760 --> 00:46:18.539
 the

00:46:18.539 --> 00:46:19.160
 serpent

00:46:19.160 --> 00:46:19.420
 the

00:46:19.420 --> 00:46:19.740
 snake

00:46:19.740 --> 00:46:19.940
 is

00:46:19.940 --> 00:46:20.579
 associated

00:46:20.579 --> 00:46:20.900
 with

00:46:20.900 --> 00:46:21.380
 sin

00:46:21.380 --> 00:46:21.600
 and

00:46:21.600 --> 00:46:22.400
 darkness

00:46:22.400 --> 00:46:22.760
 and

00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:23.320
 evil

00:46:23.320 --> 00:46:23.660
 and

00:46:23.660 --> 00:46:24.200
 death

00:46:24.200 --> 00:46:25.860
 I

00:46:25.860 --> 00:46:26.260
 think

00:46:26.260 --> 00:46:26.480
 God

00:46:26.480 --> 00:46:26.620
 is

00:46:26.620 --> 00:46:26.800
 doing

00:46:26.800 --> 00:46:27.160
 something

00:46:27.160 --> 00:46:27.880
 specific

00:46:27.880 --> 00:46:28.280
 there

00:46:28.280 --> 00:46:28.660
 he's

00:46:28.660 --> 00:46:29.340
 connecting

00:46:29.340 --> 00:46:30.039
 their

00:46:30.039 --> 00:46:30.600
 sin

00:46:30.600 --> 00:46:30.920
 and

00:46:30.920 --> 00:46:31.120
 their

00:46:31.120 --> 00:46:31.519
 death

00:46:31.519 --> 00:46:31.880
 back

00:46:31.880 --> 00:46:32.039
 to

00:46:32.039 --> 00:46:32.280
 this

00:46:32.280 --> 00:46:33.039
 imagery

00:46:33.039 --> 00:46:33.600
 of

00:46:33.600 --> 00:46:33.840
 the

00:46:33.840 --> 00:46:34.180
 serpent

00:46:34.180 --> 00:46:34.420
 and

00:46:34.420 --> 00:46:34.620
 when

00:46:34.620 --> 00:46:34.880
 they

00:46:34.880 --> 00:46:35.120
 are

00:46:35.120 --> 00:46:35.700
 bit

00:46:35.700 --> 00:46:36.380
 by

00:46:36.380 --> 00:46:36.660
 the

00:46:36.660 --> 00:46:37.280
 snake

00:46:37.280 --> 00:46:38.000
 and

00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:38.180
 they

00:46:38.180 --> 00:46:38.840
 succumb

00:46:38.840 --> 00:46:39.620
 and

00:46:39.620 --> 00:46:39.940
 commit

00:46:39.940 --> 00:46:40.180
 the

00:46:40.180 --> 00:46:40.600
 sin

00:46:40.600 --> 00:46:41.539
 they

00:46:41.539 --> 00:46:41.960
 die

00:46:41.960 --> 00:46:44.880
 so

00:46:44.880 --> 00:46:45.000
 they

00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:45.159
 come

00:46:45.159 --> 00:46:45.320
 to

00:46:45.320 --> 00:46:45.639
 Moses

00:46:45.639 --> 00:46:45.900
 and

00:46:45.900 --> 00:46:46.059
 they

00:46:46.059 --> 00:46:46.300
 say

00:46:46.300 --> 00:46:46.679
 Moses

00:46:46.679 --> 00:46:46.960
 we

00:46:46.960 --> 00:46:47.199
 need

00:46:47.199 --> 00:46:47.300
 you

00:46:47.300 --> 00:46:47.460
 to

00:46:47.460 --> 00:46:47.599
 go

00:46:47.599 --> 00:46:47.780
 to

00:46:47.780 --> 00:46:48.000
 God

00:46:48.000 --> 00:46:48.159
 on

00:46:48.159 --> 00:46:48.300
 our

00:46:48.300 --> 00:46:48.860
 behalf

00:46:48.860 --> 00:46:50.340
 we

00:46:50.340 --> 00:46:50.519
 need

00:46:50.519 --> 00:46:50.659
 a

00:46:50.659 --> 00:46:51.139
 solution

00:46:51.139 --> 00:46:52.199
 we

00:46:52.199 --> 00:46:52.400
 need

00:46:52.400 --> 00:46:53.019
 salvation

00:46:53.019 --> 00:46:54.920
 so

00:46:54.920 --> 00:46:55.320
 Moses

00:46:55.320 --> 00:46:55.880
 the

00:46:55.880 --> 00:46:56.159
 great

00:46:56.159 --> 00:46:56.780
 intercessor

00:46:56.780 --> 00:46:57.440
 for

00:46:57.440 --> 00:46:57.960
 Israel

00:46:57.960 --> 00:46:58.980
 goes

00:46:58.980 --> 00:46:59.159
 to

00:46:59.159 --> 00:46:59.420
 God

00:46:59.420 --> 00:46:59.559
 and

00:46:59.559 --> 00:46:59.780
 God

00:46:59.780 --> 00:47:00.099
 says

00:47:00.099 --> 00:47:00.360
 here's

00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:00.579
 what

00:47:00.579 --> 00:47:00.780
 I

00:47:00.780 --> 00:47:00.920
 want

00:47:00.920 --> 00:47:01.019
 you

00:47:01.019 --> 00:47:01.139
 to

00:47:01.139 --> 00:47:01.300
 do

00:47:01.300 --> 00:47:01.440
 I

00:47:01.440 --> 00:47:01.579
 want

00:47:01.579 --> 00:47:01.699
 you

00:47:01.699 --> 00:47:01.860
 to

00:47:01.860 --> 00:47:02.079
 make

00:47:02.079 --> 00:47:02.280
 a

00:47:02.280 --> 00:47:02.539
 serpent

00:47:02.539 --> 00:47:03.199
 and

00:47:03.199 --> 00:47:03.320
 I

00:47:03.320 --> 00:47:03.480
 want

00:47:03.480 --> 00:47:03.579
 you

00:47:03.579 --> 00:47:03.699
 to

00:47:03.699 --> 00:47:03.940
 hang

00:47:03.940 --> 00:47:04.059
 it

00:47:04.059 --> 00:47:04.179
 on

00:47:04.179 --> 00:47:04.320
 a

00:47:04.320 --> 00:47:04.760
 post

00:47:04.760 --> 00:47:05.320
 in

00:47:05.320 --> 00:47:05.440
 the

00:47:05.440 --> 00:47:05.820
 camp

00:47:05.820 --> 00:47:08.099
 and

00:47:08.099 --> 00:47:08.240
 if

00:47:08.240 --> 00:47:08.619
 anybody

00:47:08.619 --> 00:47:08.840
 will

00:47:08.840 --> 00:47:09.099
 just

00:47:09.099 --> 00:47:09.380
 look

00:47:09.380 --> 00:47:09.539
 at

00:47:09.539 --> 00:47:09.759
 it

00:47:09.759 --> 00:47:10.840
 they

00:47:10.840 --> 00:47:10.900
 are

00:47:10.900 --> 00:47:11.119
 bit

00:47:11.119 --> 00:47:11.199
 and

00:47:11.199 --> 00:47:11.340
 just

00:47:11.340 --> 00:47:11.539
 look

00:47:11.539 --> 00:47:11.679
 at

00:47:11.679 --> 00:47:11.800
 it

00:47:11.800 --> 00:47:12.259
 they

00:47:12.259 --> 00:47:12.360
 will

00:47:12.360 --> 00:47:12.659
 receive

00:47:12.659 --> 00:47:12.840
 their

00:47:12.840 --> 00:47:13.139
 healing

00:47:13.139 --> 00:47:14.719
 so

00:47:14.719 --> 00:47:15.000
 Moses

00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:15.340
 does

00:47:15.340 --> 00:47:15.579
 it

00:47:15.579 --> 00:47:16.619
 he

00:47:16.619 --> 00:47:17.119
 doesn't

00:47:17.119 --> 00:47:17.480
 take

00:47:17.480 --> 00:47:17.719
 one

00:47:17.719 --> 00:47:17.800
 of

00:47:17.800 --> 00:47:17.960
 the

00:47:17.960 --> 00:47:18.300
 fiery

00:47:18.300 --> 00:47:18.960
 serpents

00:47:18.960 --> 00:47:19.259
 that

00:47:19.259 --> 00:47:19.500
 were

00:47:19.500 --> 00:47:19.940
 killing

00:47:19.940 --> 00:47:20.239
 people

00:47:20.239 --> 00:47:20.440
 that's

00:47:20.440 --> 00:47:20.559
 not

00:47:20.559 --> 00:47:20.659
 what

00:47:20.659 --> 00:47:20.739
 he

00:47:20.739 --> 00:47:21.000
 does

00:47:21.000 --> 00:47:21.619
 he

00:47:21.619 --> 00:47:22.079
 makes

00:47:22.079 --> 00:47:22.420
 a

00:47:22.420 --> 00:47:22.719
 serpent

00:47:22.719 --> 00:47:23.360
 in

00:47:23.360 --> 00:47:23.699
 the

00:47:23.699 --> 00:47:24.400
 likeness

00:47:24.400 --> 00:47:25.519
 of

00:47:25.519 --> 00:47:25.840
 those

00:47:25.840 --> 00:47:26.380
 serpents

00:47:26.380 --> 00:47:26.860
 I

00:47:26.860 --> 00:47:27.079
 think

00:47:27.079 --> 00:47:27.380
 that's

00:47:27.380 --> 00:47:27.679
 actually

00:47:27.679 --> 00:47:28.079
 important

00:47:28.079 --> 00:47:28.320
 for

00:47:28.320 --> 00:47:28.480
 us

00:47:28.480 --> 00:47:28.639
 to

00:47:28.639 --> 00:47:28.940
 see

00:47:28.940 --> 00:47:29.860
 it's

00:47:29.860 --> 00:47:30.099
 not

00:47:30.099 --> 00:47:30.259
 a

00:47:30.259 --> 00:47:30.639
 snake

00:47:30.639 --> 00:47:30.860
 a

00:47:30.860 --> 00:47:31.039
 real

00:47:31.039 --> 00:47:31.360
 one

00:47:31.360 --> 00:47:32.059
 it's

00:47:32.059 --> 00:47:32.179
 a

00:47:32.179 --> 00:47:32.539
 bronze

00:47:32.539 --> 00:47:32.860
 one

00:47:32.860 --> 00:47:33.219
 in

00:47:33.219 --> 00:47:33.460
 the

00:47:33.460 --> 00:47:33.920
 likeness

00:47:33.920 --> 00:47:34.059
 of

00:47:34.059 --> 00:47:34.320
 those

00:47:34.320 --> 00:47:34.700
 snakes

00:47:34.700 --> 00:47:35.300
 and

00:47:35.300 --> 00:47:35.420
 he

00:47:35.420 --> 00:47:35.700
 hangs

00:47:35.700 --> 00:47:35.820
 it

00:47:35.820 --> 00:47:35.940
 on

00:47:35.940 --> 00:47:36.059
 the

00:47:36.059 --> 00:47:36.460
 post

00:47:36.460 --> 00:47:37.000
 and

00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:37.120
 it

00:47:37.120 --> 00:47:37.380
 didn't

00:47:37.380 --> 00:47:37.700
 matter

00:47:37.700 --> 00:47:37.900
 if

00:47:37.900 --> 00:47:38.160
 somebody

00:47:38.160 --> 00:47:38.360
 was

00:47:38.360 --> 00:47:38.740
 bit

00:47:38.740 --> 00:47:39.480
 by

00:47:39.480 --> 00:47:40.000
 the

00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:40.240
 serpent

00:47:40.240 --> 00:47:40.380
 it

00:47:40.380 --> 00:47:40.539
 didn't

00:47:40.539 --> 00:47:40.740
 matter

00:47:40.740 --> 00:47:40.940
 how

00:47:40.940 --> 00:47:41.300
 sick

00:47:41.300 --> 00:47:41.500
 they

00:47:41.500 --> 00:47:41.800
 were

00:47:41.800 --> 00:47:42.180
 it

00:47:42.180 --> 00:47:42.400
 didn't

00:47:42.400 --> 00:47:42.660
 matter

00:47:42.660 --> 00:47:43.059
 how

00:47:43.059 --> 00:47:43.820
 far

00:47:43.820 --> 00:47:44.120
 in the

00:47:44.120 --> 00:47:44.640
 progression

00:47:44.640 --> 00:47:44.920
 of

00:47:44.920 --> 00:47:45.180
 death

00:47:45.180 --> 00:47:45.320
 they

00:47:45.320 --> 00:47:45.519
 had

00:47:45.519 --> 00:47:45.980
 come

00:47:45.980 --> 00:47:47.440
 if

00:47:47.440 --> 00:47:47.700
 they

00:47:47.700 --> 00:47:47.940
 would

00:47:47.940 --> 00:47:48.380
 just

00:47:48.380 --> 00:47:48.840
 look

00:47:48.840 --> 00:47:49.120
 to

00:47:49.120 --> 00:47:49.320
 it

00:47:49.320 --> 00:47:49.559
 in

00:47:49.559 --> 00:47:50.220
 faith

00:47:50.220 --> 00:47:51.140
 that

00:47:51.140 --> 00:47:51.539
 God

00:47:51.539 --> 00:47:51.760
 has

00:47:51.760 --> 00:47:52.440
 promised

00:47:52.440 --> 00:47:53.360
 that

00:47:53.360 --> 00:47:53.519
 if

00:47:53.519 --> 00:47:53.660
 I

00:47:53.660 --> 00:47:53.960
 just

00:47:53.960 --> 00:47:54.340
 look

00:47:54.340 --> 00:47:54.519
 to

00:47:54.519 --> 00:47:54.780
 his

00:47:54.780 --> 00:47:55.280
 provision

00:47:55.280 --> 00:47:55.519
 of

00:47:55.519 --> 00:47:56.019
 grace

00:47:56.019 --> 00:47:56.500
 in

00:47:56.500 --> 00:47:56.620
 the

00:47:56.620 --> 00:47:56.940
 bronze

00:47:56.940 --> 00:47:57.240
 servant

00:47:57.240 --> 00:47:57.600
 he

00:47:57.600 --> 00:47:57.820
 will

00:47:57.820 --> 00:47:58.100
 bring

00:47:58.100 --> 00:47:58.280
 me

00:47:58.280 --> 00:47:58.740
 healing

00:47:58.740 --> 00:48:00.820
 and

00:48:00.820 --> 00:48:01.240
 Jesus

00:48:01.239 --> 00:48:01.859
 reflects

00:48:01.859 --> 00:48:02.099
 on

00:48:02.099 --> 00:48:02.299
 that

00:48:02.299 --> 00:48:02.459
 in

00:48:02.459 --> 00:48:02.699
 John

00:48:02.699 --> 00:48:02.959
 3

00:48:02.959 --> 00:48:03.079
 and

00:48:03.079 --> 00:48:03.219
 he

00:48:03.219 --> 00:48:03.679
 says

00:48:03.679 --> 00:48:04.979
 just

00:48:04.979 --> 00:48:05.259
 as

00:48:05.259 --> 00:48:05.679
 Moses

00:48:05.679 --> 00:48:06.219
 lifted

00:48:06.219 --> 00:48:06.559
 that

00:48:06.559 --> 00:48:07.059
 serpent

00:48:07.059 --> 00:48:07.379
 in

00:48:07.379 --> 00:48:07.500
 the

00:48:07.500 --> 00:48:07.799
 wilderness

00:48:07.799 --> 00:48:08.259
 so

00:48:08.259 --> 00:48:08.559
 must

00:48:08.559 --> 00:48:08.799
 the

00:48:08.799 --> 00:48:09.039
 son

00:48:09.039 --> 00:48:09.319
 of

00:48:09.319 --> 00:48:09.659
 man

00:48:09.659 --> 00:48:10.219
 be

00:48:10.219 --> 00:48:10.559
 lifted

00:48:10.559 --> 00:48:10.939
 up

00:48:10.939 --> 00:48:11.399
 so

00:48:11.399 --> 00:48:11.939
 Jesus

00:48:11.939 --> 00:48:12.359
 Paul

00:48:12.359 --> 00:48:12.879
 says

00:48:12.879 --> 00:48:13.159
 is

00:48:13.159 --> 00:48:13.699
 God's

00:48:13.699 --> 00:48:13.919
 son

00:48:13.919 --> 00:48:14.559
 sent

00:48:14.559 --> 00:48:15.239
 in

00:48:15.239 --> 00:48:15.539
 the

00:48:15.539 --> 00:48:16.219
 likeness

00:48:16.219 --> 00:48:16.559
 of

00:48:16.559 --> 00:48:17.099
 sinful

00:48:17.099 --> 00:48:17.759
 flesh

00:48:17.759 --> 00:48:18.399
 and

00:48:18.399 --> 00:48:18.679
 God

00:48:18.679 --> 00:48:19.339
 makes

00:48:19.339 --> 00:48:19.719
 him

00:48:19.719 --> 00:48:19.979
 who

00:48:19.979 --> 00:48:21.139
 had

00:48:21.139 --> 00:48:21.399
 no

00:48:21.399 --> 00:48:21.739
 sin

00:48:21.739 --> 00:48:21.979
 he

00:48:21.979 --> 00:48:22.479
 makes

00:48:22.479 --> 00:48:22.699
 him

00:48:22.699 --> 00:48:23.059
 to

00:48:23.059 --> 00:48:23.419
 be

00:48:23.419 --> 00:48:24.039
 sin

00:48:24.039 --> 00:48:24.879
 so

00:48:24.879 --> 00:48:25.299
 that

00:48:25.299 --> 00:48:25.599
 if

00:48:25.599 --> 00:48:25.979
 we

00:48:25.979 --> 00:48:26.359
 will

00:48:26.359 --> 00:48:26.819
 just

00:48:26.819 --> 00:48:27.299
 look

00:48:27.299 --> 00:48:27.919
 to

00:48:27.919 --> 00:48:28.419
 Jesus

00:48:28.419 --> 00:48:30.899
 we

00:48:30.900 --> 00:48:31.320
 will

00:48:31.320 --> 00:48:31.900
 receive

00:48:31.900 --> 00:48:32.220
 the

00:48:32.220 --> 00:48:32.619
 healing

00:48:32.619 --> 00:48:33.039
 through

00:48:33.039 --> 00:48:33.320
 the

00:48:33.320 --> 00:48:33.760
 promise

00:48:33.760 --> 00:48:33.980
 of

00:48:33.980 --> 00:48:34.480
 grace

00:48:34.480 --> 00:48:35.039
 that

00:48:35.039 --> 00:48:35.599
 begins

00:48:35.599 --> 00:48:35.860
 all

00:48:35.860 --> 00:48:36.019
 the

00:48:36.019 --> 00:48:36.160
 way

00:48:36.160 --> 00:48:36.559
 back

00:48:36.559 --> 00:48:37.119
 in

00:48:37.119 --> 00:48:37.480
 Genesis

00:48:37.480 --> 00:48:37.920
 3

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 it

00:48:39.960 --> 00:48:40.380
 doesn't

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 matter

00:48:40.800 --> 00:48:41.160
 how

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 much

00:48:41.500 --> 00:48:41.860
 sin

00:48:41.860 --> 00:48:42.039
 is

00:48:42.039 --> 00:48:42.480
 there

00:48:42.480 --> 00:48:42.960
 it

00:48:42.960 --> 00:48:43.280
 doesn't

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 matter

00:48:43.680 --> 00:48:43.940
 how

00:48:43.940 --> 00:48:44.160
 many

00:48:44.160 --> 00:48:44.619
 times

00:48:44.619 --> 00:48:44.840
 you've

00:48:44.840 --> 00:48:45.000
 been

00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:45.440
 bitten

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 it

00:48:46.019 --> 00:48:46.400
 doesn't

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 matter

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 how

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 far

00:48:47.599 --> 00:48:48.079
 along

00:48:48.079 --> 00:48:48.400
 in

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 the

00:48:48.599 --> 00:48:49.180
 progression

00:48:49.180 --> 00:48:49.460
 of

00:48:49.460 --> 00:48:49.920
 sin

00:48:49.920 --> 00:48:50.420
 and

00:48:50.420 --> 00:48:50.760
 death

00:48:50.760 --> 00:48:50.920
 you

00:48:50.920 --> 00:48:51.360
 find

00:48:51.360 --> 00:48:51.940
 yourself

00:48:51.940 --> 00:48:52.700
 if

00:48:52.700 --> 00:48:52.980
 you

00:48:52.980 --> 00:48:53.300
 will

00:48:53.300 --> 00:48:53.740
 just

00:48:53.740 --> 00:48:54.079
 by

00:48:54.079 --> 00:48:54.720
 faith

00:48:54.720 --> 00:48:55.500
 look

00:48:55.500 --> 00:48:55.760
 to

00:48:55.760 --> 00:48:56.240
 God's

00:48:56.240 --> 00:48:56.700
 provision

00:48:56.700 --> 00:48:56.980
 of

00:48:56.980 --> 00:48:57.500
 grace

00:48:57.500 --> 00:48:58.160
 in

00:48:58.160 --> 00:48:58.360
 the

00:48:58.360 --> 00:48:58.880
 person

00:48:58.880 --> 00:48:59.220
 of

00:48:59.220 --> 00:48:59.420
 his

00:48:59.420 --> 00:49:00.019
 son

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 in

00:49:00.559 --> 00:49:01.000
 Jesus

00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:01.699
 Christ

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 and

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 what

00:49:02.659 --> 00:49:02.860
 he

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 has

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 done

00:49:03.400 --> 00:49:03.639
 for

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 us

00:49:03.900 --> 00:49:04.360
 on

00:49:04.360 --> 00:49:04.559
 his

00:49:04.559 --> 00:49:05.139
 cross

00:49:05.139 --> 00:49:05.780
 and

00:49:05.780 --> 00:49:05.920
 in

00:49:05.920 --> 00:49:06.079
 the

00:49:06.079 --> 00:49:06.619
 resurrection

00:49:06.619 --> 00:49:07.539
 you

00:49:07.539 --> 00:49:07.820
 will

00:49:07.820 --> 00:49:08.559
 receive

00:49:08.559 --> 00:49:09.519
 full

00:49:09.519 --> 00:49:10.239
 and

00:49:10.239 --> 00:49:10.719
 complete

00:49:10.719 --> 00:49:11.280
 healing

00:49:11.280 --> 00:49:12.480
 or

00:49:12.480 --> 00:49:12.679
 in

00:49:12.679 --> 00:49:12.960
 Jesus

00:49:12.960 --> 00:49:13.480
 words

00:49:13.480 --> 00:49:13.699
 in

00:49:13.699 --> 00:49:13.960
 John

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 3

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 eternal

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 life

00:49:16.360 --> 00:49:18.159
 death

00:49:18.159 --> 00:49:19.460
 will

00:49:19.460 --> 00:49:19.719
 no

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 longer

00:49:20.099 --> 00:49:20.659
 reign

00:49:20.659 --> 00:49:21.579
 in

00:49:21.579 --> 00:49:21.980
 you

00:49:21.980 --> 00:49:23.460
 sin's

00:49:23.460 --> 00:49:23.960
 power

00:49:23.960 --> 00:49:25.139
 will be

00:49:25.139 --> 00:49:25.559
 broken

00:49:25.559 --> 00:49:26.780
 in

00:49:26.780 --> 00:49:27.119
 you

00:49:27.119 --> 00:49:28.179
 and

00:49:28.179 --> 00:49:28.400
 you

00:49:28.400 --> 00:49:28.579
 will

00:49:28.579 --> 00:49:28.739
 be

00:49:28.739 --> 00:49:29.219
 restored

00:49:29.219 --> 00:49:29.519
 to

00:49:29.519 --> 00:49:29.960
 life

00:49:29.960 --> 00:49:32.199
 not

00:49:32.199 --> 00:49:32.719
 because

00:49:32.719 --> 00:49:33.059
 you

00:49:33.059 --> 00:49:33.699
 ate

00:49:33.699 --> 00:49:33.799
 of

00:49:33.799 --> 00:49:33.920
 a

00:49:33.920 --> 00:49:34.279
 tree

00:49:34.279 --> 00:49:36.259
 or

00:49:36.259 --> 00:49:36.619
 said

00:49:36.619 --> 00:49:36.900
 just

00:49:36.900 --> 00:49:37.099
 the

00:49:37.099 --> 00:49:37.319
 right

00:49:37.319 --> 00:49:37.819
 words

00:49:37.819 --> 00:49:37.940
 in

00:49:37.940 --> 00:49:38.059
 a

00:49:38.059 --> 00:49:38.460
 prayer

00:49:38.460 --> 00:49:40.199
 or

00:49:40.199 --> 00:49:40.440
 did

00:49:40.440 --> 00:49:40.639
 the

00:49:40.639 --> 00:49:41.000
 things

00:49:41.000 --> 00:49:41.219
 that

00:49:41.219 --> 00:49:41.559
 churches

00:49:41.559 --> 00:49:41.940
 tend

00:49:41.940 --> 00:49:42.139
 to

00:49:42.139 --> 00:49:42.339
 say

00:49:42.339 --> 00:49:42.539
 that

00:49:42.539 --> 00:49:42.719
 you're

00:49:42.719 --> 00:49:42.960
 supposed

00:49:42.960 --> 00:49:43.279
 to

00:49:43.279 --> 00:49:43.619
 do

00:49:43.619 --> 00:49:45.400
 but

00:49:45.400 --> 00:49:45.799
 because

00:49:45.799 --> 00:49:46.279
 Christ

00:49:46.279 --> 00:49:46.519
 is

00:49:46.519 --> 00:49:47.000
 sufficient

00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:48.219
 and

00:49:48.219 --> 00:49:48.440
 by

00:49:48.440 --> 00:49:48.980
 faith

00:49:48.980 --> 00:49:49.819
 you

00:49:49.819 --> 00:49:50.079
 might

00:49:50.079 --> 00:49:50.519
 receive

00:49:50.519 --> 00:49:50.739
 the

00:49:50.739 --> 00:49:51.159
 grace

00:49:51.159 --> 00:49:51.759
 alone

00:49:51.759 --> 00:49:53.019
 that

00:49:53.019 --> 00:49:53.299
 God

00:49:53.299 --> 00:49:53.859
 promised

00:49:53.859 --> 00:49:54.940
 and

00:49:54.940 --> 00:49:55.079
 that

00:49:55.079 --> 00:49:55.219
 you

00:49:55.219 --> 00:49:55.440
 might

00:49:55.440 --> 00:49:55.779
 have

00:49:55.779 --> 00:49:55.920
 for

00:49:55.920 --> 00:49:56.219
 eternal

00:49:56.219 --> 00:49:56.679
 life

00:49:56.679 --> 00:49:57.619
 let's

00:49:57.619 --> 00:49:57.759
 pray

00:49:57.759 --> 00:49:58.000
 together