WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:14.259 Welcome everyone. Before we start, we've got some book recommendations. I'll mention this 00:00:14.259 --> 00:00:18.960 ! to everyone at the end again, but you get a little preview. Two books on the bookstore that 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:22.440 ! are very relevant to today and to all of Sunday School. First of all is the Westminster 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:27.359 Confession of Faith. If you didn't grab a free one last term, you're too late. You've now 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:32.000 got to pay a pound for this, but that's pretty cheap. One pound on the bookstall. And remember, 00:00:32.100 --> 00:00:35.879 this is going to be our guide throughout all of Sunday School. So please do grab one there. 00:00:36.259 --> 00:00:40.579 And the other one is Pride. I know this has been mentioned a few times over the past year, 00:00:40.899 --> 00:00:44.659 but this is going to be really relevant to what we're discussing today about fallen humanity 00:00:44.659 --> 00:00:51.200 and sin and kind of how to engage with all that's going on in the culture. And so I recommend 00:00:51.200 --> 00:01:00.060 this. I'll mention this at the end again. Grab pens, handouts, and you'll need a Bible today. 00:01:04.020 --> 00:01:06.420 We'll be flicking through a lot of passages today. 00:01:06.420 --> 00:01:14.260 But before we begin, let me pray. Let's pray for God's, ask for God's help. 00:01:19.060 --> 00:01:30.260 Lord God, we thank you that we can freely and openly know you and we can worship you and we can 00:01:30.260 --> 00:01:37.320 hear from you. We don't need to meet in secret and we don't take that for granted. Thank you for the 00:01:37.320 --> 00:01:43.760 many freedoms and liberties that we do have. And Lord, we ask for your help today as we consider 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:51.120 weighty things of your word, as we consider the sobering realities of who we are, this side of the 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:57.980 fall. Lord, please give us humility. Aid us, please, by your spirit and help us to better understand 00:01:57.980 --> 00:02:03.719 our own hearts and what's going on in this world. And we ask this all for your glory and in the name 00:02:03.719 --> 00:02:09.939 of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. So let's have a quick recap of some of the stuff we did in the 00:02:09.939 --> 00:02:17.259 earlier weeks. So we are creatures. We are fundamentally made of dust. And so we are entirely 00:02:17.259 --> 00:02:23.000 dependent on God for life and breath and everything. But also we are more than just creatures, aren't we? 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:29.699 We are the crown of creation. We're made in God's image, in his likeness. And no other creature is 00:02:29.699 --> 00:02:36.699 made like that. We're made to reflect and represent God. So we're made in knowledge and righteousness 00:02:36.699 --> 00:02:41.840 and holiness, meaning we're rational creatures, we're moral creatures, and we're relational creatures. 00:02:42.920 --> 00:02:48.060 And also we are vice regents. We're under kings. We have dominion over creation. 00:02:48.060 --> 00:02:56.300 And so we are unique and special creatures. We have inherent dignity. We aren't just a bag of cells. 00:02:56.920 --> 00:03:02.759 No human life, it's infinitely valuable. And we also saw that we are covenantal creatures. Do you 00:03:02.759 --> 00:03:10.360 remember that? So every human, every human exists in covenant with God. So no one is not in covenant 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:17.620 with God. So we are made for him. We're made to worship him, made to obey his law, love him, follow him, 00:03:17.620 --> 00:03:24.300 enjoy him, dwell with him. In summary, we're made to worship God. That's in our design, in our blueprint. 00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:32.939 And this is how we are to be truly human. This is what it means to be truly fulfilled and flourish 00:03:32.939 --> 00:03:43.319 and thrive in this life. And so far in this series, we have been following, focusing on the blueprint of 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:50.139 how God has designed us. So all of this has been before the fall, hasn't it? How we were originally 00:03:50.139 --> 00:03:58.079 designed, the purpose and the goodness of it. So at the end of day six, God said, looks at humanity and 00:03:58.079 --> 00:04:04.379 said, this is very good. And so we've been seeing what it means to be very good, how we should be. 00:04:04.379 --> 00:04:14.479 But something has happened since then. The fall has happened. And we naturally now aren't what we 00:04:14.479 --> 00:04:21.480 are designed to be anymore. We're designed to be with God and know God and love God. Our hearts 00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:29.519 are made to be directed to God in worship. And we're made to be truly human in our callings as men and 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:35.859 women. Images of God in true knowledge and righteousness and holiness. But all that has 00:04:35.859 --> 00:04:43.620 changed since the fall. And I want us to really see today that something has drastically changed 00:04:43.620 --> 00:04:55.500 in us. And I want us to ask, what exactly are we now? How can we understand ourselves now? If we've 00:04:55.500 --> 00:05:01.360 just been looking at how we were originally and intentionally designed, then what has humanity 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:10.120 become now? And to answer that, we need to look at the fall. So if Genesis 1 and 2 is the blueprint of 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:18.740 true humanity, what we're designed to be, Genesis 3 is the blueprint of fallen, sinful humanity. 00:05:18.740 --> 00:05:28.740 true humanity. And all this is really important to understand. Because if we understand this, we 00:05:28.740 --> 00:05:36.439 understand our own hearts. We will understand what's going on inside of us every day. And 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:43.680 also, it's helpful, necessary for us to understand what's going on in this crazy world all around 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:51.300 us. Okay? And our understanding of sin and the fall and fallen humanity, what we are now, 00:05:52.280 --> 00:05:57.379 when we understand that, it will begin to answer all those questions. And so let's look at the fall. 00:05:57.500 --> 00:06:02.860 The first point I have, the fall, I want to see that we have changed. We have changed. Let's read 00:06:02.860 --> 00:06:11.420 Genesis 3 together. I want us to read this whole chapter. And really listen as we're reading, because 00:06:11.420 --> 00:06:14.840 I've got some questions. We're going to break out into groups after this, and we're going to answer 00:06:14.840 --> 00:06:22.340 questions about this passage. So really keep an eye out for all these details. So Genesis chapter 3, 00:06:22.420 --> 00:06:23.100 starting with verse 1. 00:06:26.140 --> 00:06:31.220 Now, the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. 00:06:32.060 --> 00:06:37.400 He said to the woman, did God actually say, you shall not eat of any tree in the garden? 00:06:37.399 --> 00:06:42.679 And the woman said to the serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:48.019 but God said, you shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, 00:06:48.679 --> 00:06:54.719 neither shall you touch it, lest you die. But the serpent said to the woman, you will not surely die, 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:59.379 for God knows that when you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, 00:06:59.459 --> 00:07:04.419 knowing good and evil. So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, 00:07:04.420 --> 00:07:09.259 and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, 00:07:09.780 --> 00:07:16.720 she took of its fruit and ate. And she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate. 00:07:17.800 --> 00:07:23.520 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves 00:07:23.520 --> 00:07:29.439 together and made themselves loincloths. And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden 00:07:29.439 --> 00:07:34.160 in the cool of the day. And the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:40.120 among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, where are you? 00:07:40.819 --> 00:07:45.420 And he said, I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, 00:07:45.420 --> 00:07:53.019 and I hid myself. He said, who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I 00:07:53.019 --> 00:07:59.959 commanded you not to eat? The man said, the woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit 00:07:59.959 --> 00:08:06.139 of the tree, and I ate. Then the Lord God said to the woman, what is this that you have done? 00:08:06.979 --> 00:08:14.819 The woman said, the serpent deceived me, and I ate. The Lord God said to the serpent, because you have 00:08:14.819 --> 00:08:20.259 done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field. On your belly you shall 00:08:20.259 --> 00:08:25.680 go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. I'll put enmity between you and the woman, 00:08:25.759 --> 00:08:30.159 and between your offspring and her offspring. He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his 00:08:30.159 --> 00:08:37.580 heel. To the woman he said, I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing. In pain you shall bring 00:08:37.580 --> 00:08:45.299 forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you. And to Adam he said, 00:08:45.899 --> 00:08:50.200 because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 00:08:50.200 --> 00:08:56.740 you shall not eat of it. Cursed is the ground because of you. In pain you shall eat of it all 00:08:56.740 --> 00:09:01.820 the days of your life. Thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the 00:09:01.820 --> 00:09:07.520 plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, 00:09:07.640 --> 00:09:14.840 for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return. The man called his name, 00:09:14.840 --> 00:09:20.820 his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. And the Lord God made for Adam and for 00:09:20.820 --> 00:09:26.160 his wife garments of skin and clothed them. Then the Lord God said, behold the man has become like 00:09:26.160 --> 00:09:32.300 one of us in knowing good and evil. Now lest he reach out his hand, and take also of the tree 00:09:32.300 --> 00:09:38.580 of life and eat and live forever. Therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to work 00:09:38.580 --> 00:09:44.660 the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed 00:09:44.660 --> 00:09:50.379 the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life. 00:09:51.780 --> 00:09:57.680 This is the word of God. Now I want you to break out into groups and think about, 00:09:58.340 --> 00:10:04.420 answer these questions, I want you to think about how God has originally designed us, 00:10:04.419 --> 00:10:10.500 all that we've been learning so far, and compare that with what has now changed in that design 00:10:10.500 --> 00:10:15.740 since the fall. So I've got six questions there for you. Break out into groups and answer them, 00:10:15.740 --> 00:10:18.379 and then we'll gather in a minute, or a few minutes. 00:10:34.419 --> 00:10:49.019 that was so small. So that was small. So that was small. So that was small. So that was small. 00:10:49.019 --> 00:10:54.259 So that was small. So that was small. So that was small. So that was small. So that was small. 00:10:54.259 --> 00:10:57.799 So that was small. So that was small. So that was small. So that was small. So that was small. 00:10:57.799 --> 00:11:02.500 So that was small. So that was small. So that was small. So that was small. So that was small. 00:11:02.500 --> 00:11:32.480 Thank you. 00:11:32.500 --> 00:12:02.480 Thank you. 00:12:02.500 --> 00:12:32.480 Thank you. 00:12:32.500 --> 00:13:02.480 Thank you. 00:13:02.500 --> 00:13:32.480 Thank you. 00:13:32.500 --> 00:14:02.480 Thank you. 00:14:02.500 --> 00:14:32.480 Thank you. 00:14:32.500 --> 00:14:34.500 Thank you. 00:14:38.100 --> 00:14:40.840 Okay, let's have one more minute looking at Genesis 3. 00:14:40.840 --> 00:15:10.820 Thank you. 00:15:10.840 --> 00:15:28.060 Okay, let's bring it together. 00:15:28.059 --> 00:15:32.299 don't worry if you haven't finished everything we'll go through all the questions together 00:15:32.299 --> 00:15:39.519 so first question what is change in our body so we're looking at uh how we were designed 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:43.779 thinking about all the stuff that we've been thinking about up until now and comparing that 00:15:43.779 --> 00:15:50.500 to what is now changed in in the fall so what is changing our bodies uh nicola nicola wells 00:15:50.500 --> 00:15:58.000 what's changing our bodies pain yeah pain and childbearing and 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:06.740 hard work and death yeah yeah suffering and death to sum it up something's changed in us we are now 00:16:06.740 --> 00:16:14.240 mortal okay we were never intended or designed to die but now something has changed something 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:21.879 has changed in reality death has entered and now we are mortal and what's changed to our destinies 00:16:21.879 --> 00:16:25.200 um uh paul phoenix 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:39.279 yes yeah yeah yeah that's good yeah you could if we think back to the covenant of works yeah 00:16:39.279 --> 00:16:44.200 we we were designed to have eternal life that was always the direction the purpose of 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:49.620 of humanity and that was promised in the in the tree of life but but now what's happened we're 00:16:49.620 --> 00:16:55.740 shut out from the tree of life our destinies as humanity has changed it's not eternal life it's 00:16:55.740 --> 00:17:08.519 eternal death now uh what's changed between man and woman um uh david wu um conflict and disunity 00:17:08.519 --> 00:17:14.379 perfect yeah good words so so man and woman and all of humanity were meant man and woman was meant to 00:17:14.379 --> 00:17:21.220 complement each other and humanity was designed to be united but now look uh what what happens in the 00:17:21.220 --> 00:17:27.940 curse what what what is said uh to the woman your desire shall be for your husband and he shall loathe 00:17:27.940 --> 00:17:33.539 you so so the word actually for desire shall be for your husband it's actually it's an opposition 00:17:33.539 --> 00:17:41.639 um so it's going to be a so if the woman if man was designed to be head and protect her 00:17:41.639 --> 00:17:48.119 the woman is is now going to wants to strive for that position okay so there's now going to be an 00:17:48.119 --> 00:17:53.519 opposition and when it says he shall rule over you the word rule it is not actually a good rule like 00:17:53.519 --> 00:17:59.059 man was always meant to be head and protect but that this is a bad rule in the next chapter 00:17:59.059 --> 00:18:05.179 that this word for rule is is used for sin sin is going to rule over humanity well actually the 00:18:05.179 --> 00:18:12.339 husband is now going to rule in that dominating crushing way over his wife and so uh they were 00:18:12.339 --> 00:18:18.419 meant to be complimenting but now they're opposed uh they were meant to be united but now they're going 00:18:18.419 --> 00:18:27.000 to be blaming and in competition and what's changed between us and gods um uh let's go chinwa 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:44.160 um yeah that's brilliant yeah so we were designed to enjoy god to love him and now what do we do we 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:51.380 fear him adam and eve are scared of him and we were designed to dwell with him we were always meant to 00:18:51.380 --> 00:18:56.940 walk with him in the garden and in all the worlds to to actually be in his presence but but now we 00:18:56.940 --> 00:19:05.440 want to hide we don't want to be with god so something's changed in our hearts but we don't want god 00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:11.680 and what's changed uh with our dominion uh marius 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:18.640 so we 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:21.000 say it again 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:25.039 yes yeah sorry dominion over creation yeah 00:19:25.039 --> 00:19:41.440 yeah exactly like we were meant to have control over creation it was meant to be an enjoyment we're 00:19:41.440 --> 00:19:46.519 meant to rule over it but but now it's going to fight back and actually could say we were meant to 00:19:46.519 --> 00:19:52.220 rule over nature nature's now going to rule over us and you can even see that in florida that's what's 00:19:52.220 --> 00:19:59.319 happened this week that nature's starting to rule does rule over us now and what's changing our minds 00:19:59.319 --> 00:20:03.220 our moral compass um chris kitchen 00:20:03.220 --> 00:20:33.220 that's that's that that's that that's that that's that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that 00:20:33.220 --> 00:20:37.220 like we're just seeing the seeds of all this here we're going to unpack more of the bible later 00:20:37.220 --> 00:20:42.799 but but we can even see it in this instance that okay that they were given god's law 00:20:42.799 --> 00:20:47.200 and now how do they treat that that they were meant to love and obey god's law but 00:20:47.200 --> 00:20:53.000 but now that they don't care about god's law that they trusted satan and not god's 00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:59.579 and eve and adam that they became wise in their own sights right they were meant to have wisdom 00:20:59.579 --> 00:21:05.639 from god and understand the world in by what god says and now they're saying it and now they're 00:21:05.639 --> 00:21:11.379 defining things in their own wisdom and you can even see that but by what they're going for that 00:21:11.379 --> 00:21:17.359 the knowledge of good the tree of the knowledge of good and evil but by grasping that eve thinks that 00:21:17.359 --> 00:21:25.259 she can define good and evil for herself and yeah and there's shame now that there's guilt in us and so 00:21:25.259 --> 00:21:30.879 what's happened to our moral compass our moral compass was designed to point to god right 00:21:30.879 --> 00:21:37.839 that that was what truth is that's what goodness is but now it's pointing all over the place it's 00:21:37.839 --> 00:21:42.779 pointing at herself so something's changed in our moral compass and also i just want you to know 00:21:42.779 --> 00:21:51.720 something our minds are broken what do they do when god comes down the almighty all-seeing god what do 00:21:51.720 --> 00:22:00.299 they do they think they can hide in a bush and not be seen by god and again it's just the seed a little 00:22:00.299 --> 00:22:06.480 glimpse of what's changed but but something has changed in our thinking we don't think about god or the world 00:22:06.480 --> 00:22:15.900 as we should and so what i want us to see is that in the fall something has actually and drastically 00:22:15.900 --> 00:22:23.860 changed in us it's not just the case that god made us one way and we're still basically that that same 00:22:23.860 --> 00:22:30.900 way but but now we just happen to do bad things now and again just bad things called sin no it's not that 00:22:30.900 --> 00:22:38.600 we see in the fall that something has actually changed in us the blueprint of god's original design was 00:22:38.599 --> 00:22:46.759 one way but now we aren't like that anymore we are now a broken corrupted distorted version of that 00:22:46.759 --> 00:22:58.199 design in a word we have become sinners we don't just do sinful things now we are sinners and this is 00:22:58.199 --> 00:23:04.379 the first sub point i want us to see we are sinners so so so what have we seen so far if this is how we 00:23:04.380 --> 00:23:12.120 were designed for god's uh to be for us to be dependent on god and man to be head over and love and protect 00:23:12.120 --> 00:23:20.400 his wife and together we would have dominion over the creator what's happened now that now uh creation 00:23:20.400 --> 00:23:28.420 has dominion over us okay and woman is is now seeking to be head of man and so there's a destruction 00:23:28.420 --> 00:23:36.200 and a disunity and a brokenness there and there's a brokenness but between the dominion of uh of our 00:23:36.200 --> 00:23:42.220 dominion over creation and in our broken moral compass what do we think about god we think we can 00:23:42.220 --> 00:23:48.580 rule over god we don't need god but we can define good and evil for ourselves and we're separated from 00:23:48.580 --> 00:23:55.340 from god he casts us out the garden and so there is a break there's an inversion and a break of god's design 00:23:55.339 --> 00:24:04.679 and in particular something has drastically changed in our hearts and so look at genesis 6 5 i've got it 00:24:04.679 --> 00:24:11.699 printed out there there for you on your handouts so just a few chapters after the fall look how god 00:24:11.699 --> 00:24:20.839 sees humanity so genesis 6 5 the lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that 00:24:20.839 --> 00:24:26.000 every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continuously 00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:33.279 these are heavy words aren't they so let's just take them seriously like do you see how 00:24:33.279 --> 00:24:39.319 just all these words of wickedness and sin that they're just heaped up on top of each other 00:24:39.319 --> 00:24:43.639 every intention not just one intention every intention 00:24:43.640 --> 00:24:50.440 of the thoughts of his heart was only evil not sometimes continually 00:24:50.440 --> 00:25:01.600 god says we are not good we are evil all our intentions and thoughts and desires are only evil 00:25:01.600 --> 00:25:09.160 continually we don't get a break from being sinners in this life we always are and notice the contrast 00:25:09.160 --> 00:25:17.180 how this contrast to how day six ends so day six ends says god saw he looks down he saw everything 00:25:17.180 --> 00:25:25.720 that he made he saw humanity and behold it was very good but what happens now the lord saw 00:25:25.720 --> 00:25:29.019 that the wickedness of man was great in the earth 00:25:29.019 --> 00:25:36.579 and notice god doesn't just say oh look now they do bad things they just do them 00:25:36.579 --> 00:25:46.579 no he looks into our hearts and he sees something has changed he sees we are corrupt we are sinners 00:25:46.579 --> 00:25:52.660 and so this is god's moral assessment of of all of humanity every heart 00:25:52.660 --> 00:25:59.519 and so so what are we now let's just ask that what are we now if we are designed 00:25:59.519 --> 00:26:03.380 to be the image of god reflecting who he is and representing him 00:26:03.380 --> 00:26:10.720 are we no longer the image of god well here's here's the answer we are the image of god 00:26:10.720 --> 00:26:20.060 but we are broken images of god so in actually in one sense we still are the image of god 00:26:20.059 --> 00:26:28.179 so so genesis 9 6 um in this it talks about why murder is so bad these are god's words of why 00:26:28.179 --> 00:26:34.220 murder is so bad and one of the reasons he says it's so bad is because we are still the image of god 00:26:34.220 --> 00:26:39.639 but when you murder someone you are murdering the image of god and so it's such a travesty because 00:26:39.639 --> 00:26:46.539 it's such a precious thing and genesis 3 9 uh james 3 9 sorry um he talks about how bad cursing is 00:26:46.539 --> 00:26:52.420 and it's so bad because other people are made in the likeness of god so so we are still the image 00:26:52.420 --> 00:27:03.319 but now we are a broken image a corrupted distorted image so if we are designed to reflect god we're 00:27:03.319 --> 00:27:11.259 designed to be mirrors reflecting who god is and be an image of who he is you can now think of us 00:27:11.259 --> 00:27:18.480 we are shattered mirrors or think about you know those bended warped mirrors you can get at like 00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:25.039 in a house of mirrors in a fun fair and you look at it and it's reflecting something but it doesn't 00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:33.160 reflect who you are very well at all does it it's all distorted and warped and it's it's a weird version 00:27:33.160 --> 00:27:42.180 of you that you see well that's like us now we are just this ugly distortion of the image of god 00:27:42.180 --> 00:27:53.960 and this is why being a sinner is such a tragedy and just so awful because we should be something so 00:27:53.960 --> 00:28:00.200 much better we've fallen from such a great height so it's like if i if i just made on a scrap bit of 00:28:00.200 --> 00:28:04.539 paper now like a little portrait and i showed you and i just scrumpled up and threw it away 00:28:04.539 --> 00:28:12.380 you wouldn't care right it's just nothing but if i went up to the mona lisa and i tore it and i 00:28:12.380 --> 00:28:18.759 scrumpled it up screwed it up and i threw it away how do you feel that that would be disgraceful if i did 00:28:18.759 --> 00:28:26.460 that right well that is why to be a sinner is such a bad thing we have screwed up the mona lisa 00:28:26.460 --> 00:28:35.579 and so how can we sum up what it means to be a broken image of god's well we now have corrupted 00:28:35.579 --> 00:28:43.420 natures that's my third sub point we have corrupt nature we have corrupt natures and so this is the 00:28:43.420 --> 00:28:49.519 language the church in the confession is used so look at these um articles from the westminster 00:28:49.519 --> 00:28:54.940 confession of faith this is our guide i'll plug this later it's on the bookstall if you need it 00:28:54.940 --> 00:29:02.759 this is our guide and all that we're doing so 6.2 by this sin the original sin in the garden by this 00:29:02.759 --> 00:29:09.299 sin adam and eve fell from their original righteousness and design and communion with god 00:29:09.299 --> 00:29:19.140 and so became changed and became dead in sin and wholly defiled in all parts and faculties of soul and 00:29:19.140 --> 00:29:27.980 everywhere and then 6.3 they being adam and eve being the root of all mankind the guilt of this sin was 00:29:27.980 --> 00:29:36.620 imputed remember this word paul's paul's sermons it passed on to us counted to us and this that same 00:29:36.620 --> 00:29:44.560 death in sin and corrupted nature conveyed passed down to all their posterity their descendants 00:29:44.559 --> 00:29:52.799 descending from them by ordinary generation ordinary birth and then 6.4 from this original corruption 00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:59.899 whereby we are utterly indisposed disabled and made opposite to all good and wholly inclined to all evil 00:29:59.899 --> 00:30:05.379 do precede all actual transgressions all kind of physical out there transgressions 00:30:05.380 --> 00:30:09.680 so what's this saying we have corrupt natures 00:30:09.680 --> 00:30:18.820 a human nature so what is human nature a human nature it's just everything about us okay it's all 00:30:18.820 --> 00:30:25.700 the it it says that all the parts and faculties of soul and body 6.2 so so it's everything about us heart 00:30:25.700 --> 00:30:35.140 mind body desires thinking everything okay and corrupted it means rotten poisoned ruined 00:30:35.140 --> 00:30:43.900 so our very being has now become corrupted with sin which means it's not functioning properly 00:30:43.900 --> 00:30:50.360 it's functioning now in an evil way and that's what we saw in genesis 3 isn't it adam and eve 00:30:50.360 --> 00:30:58.700 weren't functioning properly but we still are the image of god we still are human with human natures 00:30:58.700 --> 00:31:04.580 to be human is to be an image of god but we are a corrupted version of that 00:31:04.580 --> 00:31:14.340 and so we aren't as bad as we possibly could be so just listen to what i'm saying here we aren't as bad as 00:31:14.340 --> 00:31:21.620 we possibly could be we aren't a hundred percent saturated with evil no it's more like every part of us 00:31:21.619 --> 00:31:27.299 every thought and desire and ability every kind of compartment everywhere in us 00:31:27.299 --> 00:31:30.239 it's all been stained and corrupted with sin 00:31:30.239 --> 00:31:33.739 so it's like if my glass of water here 00:31:33.739 --> 00:31:39.659 it's water if i got a big dollop of poison and i dropped it in there 00:31:39.659 --> 00:31:44.459 uh it wouldn't be a hundred percent poison would it 00:31:44.460 --> 00:31:50.940 right but but the poison would have touched every part of that this water you couldn't taste a little 00:31:50.940 --> 00:31:55.220 bit this water without tasting poison but it's not a hundred percent poison 00:31:55.220 --> 00:31:58.059 but that's like us now 00:31:58.059 --> 00:32:05.420 there's not a bit of us anywhere that that hasn't been touched and corrupted by sin 00:32:05.420 --> 00:32:10.100 it's touched every minute part of us and so 00:32:10.099 --> 00:32:17.759 even the non-christian can still do outwardly good things you know love and be kind give to charity 00:32:17.759 --> 00:32:24.839 but even then the heart that that comes from is corrupted everywhere 00:32:24.839 --> 00:32:29.559 even those outwardly good works are tainted with sin 00:32:29.559 --> 00:32:36.399 and so just while we're here just a side note flip your page on page two 00:32:36.400 --> 00:32:43.000 just a side note this nature that we have now it's been passed down to us from adam 00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:45.180 so do you see that in 6.3 00:32:45.180 --> 00:32:49.460 they being the root of all mankind the guilt of this sin was imputed 00:32:49.460 --> 00:32:52.780 and the same death in sin and corrupted nature 00:32:52.780 --> 00:32:57.000 conveyed passed down to all their posterity 00:32:57.000 --> 00:33:03.080 all their children and children's children descending from them by ordinary generation 00:33:03.080 --> 00:33:06.200 ordinary generation which means ordinary birth right giving birth 00:33:06.200 --> 00:33:09.440 and this is what paul tells us in romans 5 00:33:09.440 --> 00:33:15.140 it's all from adam therefore just as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin 00:33:15.140 --> 00:33:18.860 and so death spread to all men because all sinned 00:33:18.860 --> 00:33:21.140 we all sinned with adam then 00:33:21.140 --> 00:33:24.580 and in verse 19 for as by the one man's disobedience 00:33:24.580 --> 00:33:26.980 the many were made sinners 00:33:26.980 --> 00:33:33.279 when adam fell we were made sinners we were changed 00:33:33.279 --> 00:33:38.900 guilt and death and a corrupt nature was passed down to us 00:33:38.900 --> 00:33:44.099 adam was representing eve in that moment but he was also representing all of us 00:33:44.099 --> 00:33:46.640 all of humanity when he sinned 00:33:46.640 --> 00:33:49.480 so if adam was a pool of water 00:33:49.480 --> 00:33:53.559 that pool of water was corrupted and poisoned 00:33:53.559 --> 00:33:57.259 and it all flows down to all the generations after that 00:33:57.259 --> 00:34:02.620 and it's passed down through ordinary generation 00:34:02.620 --> 00:34:04.019 ordinary giving birth 00:34:04.019 --> 00:34:06.559 so when he had children 00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:11.099 seth and then seth had children and they had children and they had children 00:34:11.099 --> 00:34:13.039 all the way down to us today 00:34:13.039 --> 00:34:17.320 all these ordinary births produce sinners 00:34:17.320 --> 00:34:23.480 a corrupt nature is passed down from fathers and mothers to their children 00:34:23.480 --> 00:34:26.920 which has just three implications there 00:34:26.920 --> 00:34:29.940 which means we are born sinners 00:34:29.940 --> 00:34:33.440 that's what david says in psalm 51 00:34:33.440 --> 00:34:36.260 in sin did my mother conceive me 00:34:36.260 --> 00:34:39.539 from conception we are sinners 00:34:39.539 --> 00:34:41.240 we aren't born innocent 00:34:41.240 --> 00:34:43.519 and then we eventually become sinners 00:34:43.519 --> 00:34:45.079 no 00:34:45.079 --> 00:34:46.740 we are born sinners 00:34:46.740 --> 00:34:50.079 and every parent in the room I think knows this 00:34:50.079 --> 00:34:53.300 we know how sinful our children can be 00:34:53.300 --> 00:34:55.840 we never need to teach our children to 00:34:55.840 --> 00:34:57.900 to snatch or lie 00:34:57.900 --> 00:34:59.679 or to be disobedient do we 00:34:59.679 --> 00:35:02.859 we are born with a corrupt nature 00:35:02.859 --> 00:35:05.899 and also second thing 00:35:05.899 --> 00:35:09.480 this is why the virgin birth of christ is so significant 00:35:09.480 --> 00:35:15.039 because jesus was not born by ordinary birth was he 00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:19.940 he was born by a supernatural virgin birth 00:35:19.940 --> 00:35:24.619 this means he was not included in adam's sin 00:35:24.619 --> 00:35:27.539 he was not born with a corrupt nature 00:35:27.539 --> 00:35:29.179 he was not a broken image 00:35:29.179 --> 00:35:31.960 he came as the true image of god 00:35:31.960 --> 00:35:34.759 but third implication 00:35:34.759 --> 00:35:39.139 this is also why adam must be real 00:35:39.139 --> 00:35:42.859 adam isn't a mythic 00:35:42.859 --> 00:35:46.159 made up kind of aesop's fable kind of character 00:35:46.159 --> 00:35:49.719 no adam is real real real 00:35:49.719 --> 00:35:51.480 he's historical 00:35:51.480 --> 00:35:53.199 he walked this earth 00:35:53.199 --> 00:35:54.859 he breathed this air 00:35:54.860 --> 00:35:56.880 he actually existed 00:35:56.880 --> 00:35:58.760 and he was actually the first man 00:35:58.760 --> 00:36:01.240 because from him 00:36:01.240 --> 00:36:02.640 we get this nature 00:36:02.640 --> 00:36:03.320 from him 00:36:03.320 --> 00:36:04.599 death occurs 00:36:04.599 --> 00:36:08.079 and so as real as our sin is 00:36:08.079 --> 00:36:10.300 that is how real adam is 00:36:10.300 --> 00:36:14.340 okay that's a side note 00:36:14.340 --> 00:36:16.519 but let's see 00:36:16.519 --> 00:36:19.000 something has radically and drastically changed us 00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:19.940 we are now sinners 00:36:19.940 --> 00:36:21.300 we're broken images 00:36:21.300 --> 00:36:22.620 we have a corrupt nature 00:36:22.620 --> 00:36:24.820 and for this final part 00:36:24.820 --> 00:36:26.440 i want us just to focus on 00:36:26.440 --> 00:36:27.340 oh we're running out of time 00:36:27.340 --> 00:36:27.980 oh 00:36:27.980 --> 00:36:29.060 for this final part 00:36:29.060 --> 00:36:30.940 i just want us to focus on something specific 00:36:30.940 --> 00:36:32.880 i want us to see 00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:33.760 what is 00:36:33.760 --> 00:36:36.700 what exactly has changed and become corrupt in us 00:36:36.700 --> 00:36:39.640 because if everything is corrupt and poisoned with evil 00:36:39.639 --> 00:36:40.799 that means 00:36:40.799 --> 00:36:42.079 what our desire 00:36:42.079 --> 00:36:43.699 that means our desires 00:36:43.699 --> 00:36:46.500 what we want 00:36:46.500 --> 00:36:48.139 has become corrupt 00:36:48.139 --> 00:36:50.639 and so let's see that 00:36:50.639 --> 00:36:51.579 the fall 00:36:51.579 --> 00:36:53.119 our desires are corrupt 00:36:53.119 --> 00:36:54.339 so we've seen 00:36:54.339 --> 00:36:56.839 how genesis 3 shows how our hearts have changed 00:36:56.839 --> 00:36:58.199 now let's zoom in 00:36:58.199 --> 00:36:59.579 on our desires 00:36:59.579 --> 00:37:01.400 and our hearts 00:37:01.400 --> 00:37:02.920 you hear of the heart a lot in the bible 00:37:02.920 --> 00:37:05.579 the heart is the control centre of our being 00:37:05.579 --> 00:37:07.339 our hearts 00:37:07.340 --> 00:37:10.620 are especially where our desires come from 00:37:10.620 --> 00:37:11.400 what we want 00:37:11.400 --> 00:37:13.400 and so i want you to look up these passages 00:37:13.400 --> 00:37:15.460 maybe just look up the first three 00:37:15.460 --> 00:37:15.900 okay 00:37:15.900 --> 00:37:17.620 look them up and 00:37:17.620 --> 00:37:20.120 see what has changed in our hearts 00:37:20.120 --> 00:37:22.280 what's changed with what we naturally want 00:37:22.280 --> 00:37:23.539 try to be quick 00:37:23.539 --> 00:37:25.220 and we can get through the rest 00:37:25.220 --> 00:37:27.280 break out into groups 00:37:27.280 --> 00:37:31.480 so 00:37:31.480 --> 00:37:41.880 that's the 00:37:41.880 --> 00:37:41.880 00:37:41.880 --> 00:37:41.880 00:37:41.880 --> 00:37:41.880 00:37:41.880 --> 00:37:41.880 00:37:41.880 --> 00:37:41.880 00:37:41.880 --> 00:37:41.880 00:37:41.880 --> 00:37:41.880 00:37:41.880 --> 00:37:41.880 00:37:41.880 --> 00:37:41.880 00:37:41.880 --> 00:37:41.880 00:37:41.880 --> 00:37:41.880 00:37:41.880 --> 00:37:41.880 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--> 00:40:13.880 Thank you. 00:40:16.680 --> 00:40:18.220 Okay, let's bring it together. 00:40:18.640 --> 00:40:22.119 Sorry for rushing you guys. 00:40:22.660 --> 00:40:23.700 Okay, Ephesians 4. 00:40:25.059 --> 00:40:25.920 Who looked at that? 00:40:25.920 --> 00:40:30.300 Harry Ovi. 00:40:31.700 --> 00:40:33.539 What's our relationship with God like? 00:40:33.539 --> 00:40:33.920 Yep. 00:40:33.920 --> 00:40:45.920 Yeah. 00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:46.400 Yeah. 00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:48.440 And what are our hearts like? 00:40:49.139 --> 00:40:52.639 Hardened hearts. 00:40:52.639 --> 00:40:59.260 Hardened hearts. 00:40:59.260 --> 00:40:59.260 00:40:59.260 --> 00:40:59.260 00:40:59.260 --> 00:40:59.260 00:40:59.260 --> 00:40:59.260 00:40:59.260 --> 00:40:59.260 00:40:59.260 --> 00:40:59.260 00:40:59.260 --> 00:40:59.260 00:40:59.260 --> 00:40:59.260 00:40:59.260 --> 00:40:59.260 00:40:59.260 --> 00:40:59.260 00:40:59.260 --> 00:40:59.260 00:40:59.260 --> 00:40:59.260 00:40:59.260 --> 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yes 00:41:44.740 --> 00:41:54.340 exactly exactly so yeah the flesh is it's kind of another term 00:41:54.340 --> 00:42:01.400 it's for sin the things opposite to god with our minds and our desires you can say all our thinking 00:42:01.400 --> 00:42:09.500 is now set opposite to god hostile to god and now we we desire uh sinful things and that's what jesus 00:42:09.500 --> 00:42:16.000 says in mark 7 our hearts have now changed and now it's it's from it it's flowing out all this sin 00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:22.900 and this is a key key thing to see what it means to be human now that this side of the fall 00:42:22.900 --> 00:42:32.500 we are naturally opposed to god we naturally don't want him sometimes you might see this 00:42:32.500 --> 00:42:38.659 illustration this gospel illustration you ever seen this but we're we're on one side of the gap 00:42:38.659 --> 00:42:44.519 and then god's over here uh and we're trying to get to him aren't we like oh come on come on i just 00:42:44.519 --> 00:42:50.259 can't but then the cross helps us get there now if you've used this that like that's okay i'm not 00:42:50.259 --> 00:42:54.219 saying don't do this but but can you see what what's wrong with that illustration 00:42:54.219 --> 00:42:59.359 are we trying to get to god but we just can't we're not able to do it 00:42:59.360 --> 00:43:04.980 no we're running in the opposite direction right it's not that 00:43:04.980 --> 00:43:15.280 um we're opposed to him we hate god the language of ephesians 2 is we're children of wrath and so 00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:23.660 what we naturally want our desires are corrupt they're broken and unreliable pointing in the wrong 00:43:23.659 --> 00:43:28.019 direction they're they're evil we naturally desire sinful things 00:43:28.019 --> 00:43:36.500 now we don't think that they're bad things because our moral compass is all broken but we think 00:43:36.500 --> 00:43:41.019 they're good things but we tell ourselves they're good things we rationalize it that's why isaiah 5 20 00:43:41.019 --> 00:43:47.679 says woe to those who call evil good and good evil but they don't think that it's actually evil 00:43:47.679 --> 00:43:53.159 but they just think it's actually good and so our thinking is broken too we have this darkened 00:43:53.159 --> 00:44:02.579 understanding but we're not thinking straight and so we are naturally corrupt and we can't help this 00:44:02.579 --> 00:44:10.759 we can't help but desire bad things this is how we are naturally we are designed to naturally desire god 00:44:10.759 --> 00:44:19.059 but actually what we are now we are naturally desire sin this is how we natural this is our default 00:44:19.059 --> 00:44:27.519 position and so our desires are stuck and set into this to desire sin and that's why jesus says 00:44:27.519 --> 00:44:33.960 things like we're slaves to sin that's why paul says that without christ we're enslaved to sin and 00:44:33.960 --> 00:44:40.840 we're ruled by it and it's a slavery we love uh i'll try and finish in one minute 00:44:40.840 --> 00:44:50.680 and so this is fundamentally why we can't save ourselves we don't want to we're enslaved to sin 00:44:50.680 --> 00:44:58.480 and so we need to be united to christ we need our old nature to die to escape this slavery and we need 00:44:58.480 --> 00:45:04.700 to be raised new and this is why the idea of being true to yourself we hear this all the time is the 00:45:04.699 --> 00:45:12.079 message of every disney film this is why being true to yourself is such a dangerous idea the heart and 00:45:12.079 --> 00:45:20.939 our desire is not something to be trusted jeremiah 17 the heart is deceitful above all things and so i 00:45:20.939 --> 00:45:27.099 hope by now that we can see why this understanding of sin and humanity is so important right now 00:45:27.099 --> 00:45:34.819 this is the exact opposite of how the world thinks and i want us to think about this maybe this can be 00:45:34.819 --> 00:45:39.779 homework maybe we can think about this next week i've got two scenarios there but i was quickly touching 00:45:39.779 --> 00:45:47.519 it this is kind of how the world thinks the church needs to support the lgbtq plus community because i 00:45:47.519 --> 00:45:56.239 can't help the way i feel i was born this way and so i need to be true to myself can you see already 00:45:56.239 --> 00:46:03.479 how dangerous that thinking is and why people think this way and why they're so enthusiastically 00:46:03.479 --> 00:46:11.579 positive about it like this is good for us because our moral compass has flipped and what we now desire 00:46:11.579 --> 00:46:20.779 is the opposite to good and we think that is now it's evil but we think it's good uh i'm going to stop 00:46:20.779 --> 00:46:24.839 there sorry for running over time do we have any questions at this point i do want to engage with 00:46:24.840 --> 00:46:28.660 these maybe think about this for homework and we'll engage it engage with it next next session 00:46:28.660 --> 00:46:39.940 great uh let me pray lord god we thank you for the salvation that we have in christ thank you for 00:46:39.940 --> 00:46:46.380 all your goodness and your mercy to a fallen humanity help us to know us and know our world better 00:46:46.380 --> 00:46:51.960 and in all that to know your grace better we ask this in jesus name amen