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 H.G. Wells was an English writer, quite popular in the end of the 19th century and the mid-20th

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 century. He was prolific. He wrote in many different genres. He wrote more than 50 novels,

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 dozens of short stories, such as The War of the Worlds turned into a classic movie with Tom Cruise

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 back in the day. He started life as someone who was, in his own words, sympathetic towards God

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 and religion, but he ended life as an atheist. He started life hopeful, but ended life actually

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 quite depressed and despondent. In his short History of the World, which is quite an ironic

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 statement, title for a book, quite a bold and ambitious thing actually, Short History of the

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 World, he wrote, can we doubt that presently our race will more than realise our boldest imaginations,

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 that it will achieve unity and peace, and that our children will live in a world made more splendid

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 and lovely than any palace or garden than we know, going on from strength to strength in ever widening

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 circle of achievement. What man has done, the little triumphs of his present state, form but a prelude

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 to the things that man has yet to do. That's written in 1937. Nine years later, after the awful carnage of

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 World War II, and just before he died, in fact, this book was published just after he died, he wrote

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 this. This is his final work. The cold-blooded massacre of the defenceless, the return of deliberate

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 and organised torture, mental torment, the fear to a world from which such things had seemed well

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 nine banished. Nine years later, from hope, the world is only improving, improving, improving, to

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 this is the end of all things. It's hard to avoid the conclusion, which is what we've been looking at

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 here in the book of Genesis, that there is something fundamentally wrong with the world in which we live.

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 Every worldview, every philosophy must come to terms with the experience of life in this world, and the

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 difficulty of the experience of life in this world. According to the Christian faith, as we've been looking at

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 in the book of Genesis, our biggest problem is what the Bible calls sin. That is the linchpin of what is wrong with

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 our world. Last week, we saw how sin entered the world through the rejection of God. And what we're doing

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 today, and what we're doing next week, is we're hanging around this chapter a little bit to look at what the results of

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 sin are in our world and in our lives, and what God does about it. And so if you've got the St. Paul's app, there's

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 really two points today, with a couple of sub-points, just to expand it a little bit. But really, it's just the curse and the

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 blessing. The curse of sin, as we see in the Bible, has touched every aspect of life. It is

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 comprehensive in the way that life has been transformed. There's not a single aspect of life

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 that is beyond the reach of sin and its consequences. And so I really want to look at four consequences

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 really briefly, without unpacking them too much, four consequences of sin that we see in the verses that were

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 just read out for us. The first thing that happens when God is disobeyed is Adam and Eve are cut off from

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 God. They experience the curse of spiritual alienation. We looked at this last week, we're going to do it again,

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 verse 8.

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 Now, walking is a Hebrew idiom. It's an idiom for fellowship. It's an idiom for friendship. It's an

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 medium for closeness and intimacy. And this is what they had with God before sin entered the world. And

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 now they are hiding from God. We see it in the prophets. We see it in the New Testament with Peter.

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 Peter, when they are in the presence of God, they want God to leave. They want God to go.

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 They cannot be coping with the presence of God. They are terrified. They can't stand. They are overwhelmed.

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 They can't look at God. Now, of course, in our world, not everyone feels this sense of alienation from God.

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 That is mainly because anyone in our world who does not know the God of the Bible and his grace and his mercy in Jesus,

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 what has happened is we've created gods in our own image.

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 Sort of like if you watch The Simpsons for too long at all, and you will find the cartoon God of The Simpsons,

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 a God who is powerless, a God who just does not want to be disturbed, who wants to be kind of separated from the

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 irreligion and the religion of the world, a God who's disconnected, a God who simply shrugs his shoulders

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 and tolerates our views and our lives. And occasionally when he gets disturbed, he just gets cranky

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 and throws the odd lightning bolts here and there and so on. That's the kind of God that we have

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 in our mind. And so we don't feel alienated from that God because it's a God that we've made.

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 The Bible tells us that we are alienated from the God who creates, the God who defines,

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 the God who sustains all things, including our very lives.

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 The second thing that happens when God is disobeyed

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 is that we are cut off from our self. So spiritual alienation, alienation from God,

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 leads to personal alienation or psychological alienation. We do not know our true self.

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 Notice the contrast with Genesis 2.25, which says Adam and Eve were both naked and they felt no shame.

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 Shame. Shame is an internal uneasiness that's at the centre of the self.

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 The minute we lost God, there was a dislocation with the self.

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 The consequence of sin is that we are no longer easy with who we are.

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 Sin causes every single person to have a deep sense of inadequacy. When we lose God, we lose ourselves.

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 And the great John Calvin, the theologian, a church reformer, said that we cannot know ourself.

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 We cannot contemplate who we are unless we have first contemplated and gazed upon who God is.

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 With the loss of God comes a loss of identity and the drive to cover up that deep inadequacy that we feel.

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 There is not a single person alive who believes that they are entirely okay.

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 Not a single person.

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 Other people and circumstances in life might aggravate our sense of inadequacy, but they are never the cause of it.

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 They are never the cause of our inadequacy.

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 Spiritual alienation leads to psychological alienation.

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 The third thing that happens when God is disobeyed, for Adam and Eve here, is they are cut off from others.

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 So spiritual alienation leads to psychological alienation, which leads to social alienation.

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 Back to chapter 3, verse 7.

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 That is, they are not just hiding from God and they are not just trying to hide from themselves, but they are hiding from each other.

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 Sin, this is very general terms, but sin is the source of every single personal relationship problem.

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 Every single one of them.

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 If we cannot be utterly transparent with God, then we cannot be utterly transparent with another human being.

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 And unless we are resting deep in our hearts in the assurance that God delights in us, despite all of our flaws and inadequacies,

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 then we move into every single relationship desperate for the approval of others.

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 And we sit in the process.

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 Gossip comes from a deep sense of inadequacy in me, and it's the way that I connect with others.

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 Gossip becomes a relational connector point for me, where I'm constantly communicating information in the hope that this person will connect with me,

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 and love me, and approve of me in some kind of way.

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 If we are not sure about our own lovability, then we seek to extract it from others.

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 I'm just using gossip as an example.

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 I will destroy that reputation in order to build this one.

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 That's what gossip is.

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 It's relationally destructive in order to build this relationship.

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 If we choose people and relationships that make us feel good about ourselves,

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 that is one of the results of our social alienation.

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 I'll only choose those relationships that will make me feel good.

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 And in that sense, I'm simply using other people to build up my own sense of self because of my deep inadequacy.

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 And therefore, keep covering up.

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 Have to keep covering up more and more.

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 Keep covering up, keep covering up, keep covering up,

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 lest they will see the real me.

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 We can see how sin creates barriers in verse 11.

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 God comes into the garden.

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 He finds Adam and then says to him,

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 Who told you you were naked?

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 Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?

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 Now, what God's trying to do here with Adam in this moment,

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 he's trying to get Adam to confess his sin.

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 He's trying to get Adam to repent.

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 He's trying to help Adam see that he has failed.

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 And so Adam has a choice.

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 He knows God.

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 He's walked and talked with him in the Garden of Eden for who knows how long.

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 He's got a choice here.

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 He could lean into God's mercy.

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 He could have admitted this point.

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 You're right.

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 I am so flawed.

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 I have done the wrong thing.

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 Instead, he makes a decision to justify himself.

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 In verse 12,

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 You see what he does?

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 Oh, come on, God.

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 Seriously.

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 You know that helper that you gave me?

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 She did it.

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 Not only is he blaming Eve,

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 he's blaming God.

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 You know?

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 I mean, if it wasn't for the helper,

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 we wouldn't have this scenario.

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 He turns the focus away from himself onto Eve and onto God.

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 And Eve does the same thing.

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 Verse 13,

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 The serpent deceived me and I ate.

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 There is even a breakdown in relationship with the animal world.

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 God, it's not my fault.

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 The dog ate the homework.

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 Not my fault at all, God.

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 God.

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 Racism, sexism, classism,

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 every other relational barrier that we keep fueling

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 is linked to Genesis 3 and the decision to disobey God.

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 The fourth thing that happens when God is disobeyed

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 is Adam and Eve are cut off from nature.

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 There's even physical alienation.

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 Verses 17 onwards.

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 Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree

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 about which I commanded you, you must not eat from.

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 Cursed is the ground because of you.

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 Through painful toil, you will eat food from it all the days of your life.

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 It will produce thorns and thistles for you.

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 And you will eat the plants of the field.

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 By the sweat of your brow, you will eat your food until you return to the ground.

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 Since from it you were taken.

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 For dust you are.

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 Into dust you will return.

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 We saw in the second message of this series,

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 humanity was created to steward creation as God's representative.

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 From the moment Adam and Eve disobeyed God,

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 it put them and us at loggerheads with the creation that we were meant to steward.

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 Things do not work well.

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 And there is this big problem.

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 Nature draws us in.

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 It is meant to draw us in.

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 We are meant to delight in it,

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 but it is not our friend.

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 Disease, floods, extreme weather, earthquakes, landslides,

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 and the weeds I was trying to dig out in my garden yesterday.

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 And on it goes.

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 And goes and goes.

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 Because sin ruined our relationship with the natural world.

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 The great English preacher George Whitefield once asked,

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 haven't you ever noticed that when you come near the animals,

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 they growl at us?

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 They bark at us?

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 The birds screech at us and fly away?

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 Do you know why?

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 They know that we have a quarrel with their master.

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 Nature draws us in and it wears us down.

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 It's why we go to work and we delight in it on one level

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 and it ruins us on another.

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 While it's satisfying on one level,

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 but deeply dissatisfying on another.

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 It's why the emails keep coming and keep coming and keep coming

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 and keep coming and they will never stop.

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 Now all of these alienations come because we have rejected

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 and we are now hiding from God.

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 This is how the Christian faith understands what is wrong with the world.

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 What the problems of the world are.

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 It's deep and it's complex and it's quite devastating.

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 Every single area of life is touched by sin.

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 Now I would suggest that every other worldview,

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 every other worldview, whether it be religious or secular,

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 is more simplistic in the way it tries to understand the world.

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 What I mean by that is other worldviews tend to identify

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 the source of the world's problems or our personal problems

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 in one or two of the alienations I mentioned,

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 but not all of the alienations of the world.

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 The stream right-wingers say that the problem with the world

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 is the left-wingers.

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 They're the bad people.

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 They're the bad people over there.

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 Those other people are the problem.

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 Others say it's psychological oppression

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 is the problem with our world.

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 Give everyone a healthy self-esteem

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 and the world will be changed.

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 Others say it's social isolation.

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 Learn to love

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 and the world will be problems and be solved.

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 You see, what happens with every other way you look at it,

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 every other solution wants to find some villain in the world.

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 And if we can solve that villain,

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 then our problems are fixed.

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 The Bible says that villain is sin

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 and it's touched every single thing in our existence.

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 Everything.

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 Sin's the problem.

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 It's not religion and it's not irreligion.

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 It's not right-wing.

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 It's not left-wing.

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 It's not this racial group.

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 It's not that racial group.

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 It's not the body nor the mind.

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 Sin is the problem.

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 And that's why the Christian church,

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 as well as the life of the individual Christian,

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 our response to a broken world

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 ought to be one of comprehensive healing.

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 comprehensive healing.

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 Some churches,

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 you might call these churches more conservative churches,

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 would focus on the spiritual alienation

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 and a little bit of the psychological alienation.

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 Others, which tend to be more liberal churches,

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 focus on the physical and the social alienation in our world.

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 What we desire here at St. Paul's

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 is to have an appropriate balance

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 of seeking to meet all kinds of alienations in this world.

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 The problems of this world are not just solved

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 by people needing just to love each other a bit more

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 and just by being accepting and embracing of everything.

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 Nor are they solved just by telling them

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 you need to repent of your sin.

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 It's proclamation of the truth of salvation in Jesus Christ

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 and works of service

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 of serving the alienations of our world.

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 It's all of those things.

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 This is how we seek to bless the world

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 that is broken by sin.

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 Which brings me to

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 the second point, the blessing.

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 How does the blessing come then to our world?

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 How does this broken world get healed?

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 Verse 15 is a tremendous hope.

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 Verse 15 is only one of two places in the Bible.

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 Only one of two places in the Bible

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 where God verbalizes a curse.

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 The others in chapter four of Genesis.

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 The only two places in the Bible.

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 I will put enmity between you and the woman,

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 between your offspring and hers.

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 He will crush your head and you will strike his heel.

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 What's interesting here is the division of the world.

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 The division between the serpent and the woman

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 and the serpent's offspring and the woman's offspring.

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 Now, is that saying, therefore,

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 that all people from here on in

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 are going to have a problem with snakes?

00:21:37.899 --> 00:21:40.619
 Well, now, I've got to agree with Indiana Jones.

00:21:40.920 --> 00:21:42.299
 I don't like snakes.

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 All right?

00:21:42.960 --> 00:21:44.079
 Not a personal preference.

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 Although, I don't like spiders more.

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 But that's not what's being said here.

00:21:52.619 --> 00:21:53.919
 Let me just take that out

00:21:53.919 --> 00:21:55.179
 in case you're putting that down in your notes.

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 John 8.44 sheds a little bit of light

00:21:57.939 --> 00:21:58.979
 on what's being said here.

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 You belong to your father.

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 This is Jesus speaking, the devil.

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 And you want to carry out your father's desires.

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 He was a murderer from the beginning,

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 not holding to the truth.

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 For there is no truth in him.

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 When he lies, he speaks his native language,

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 for he is a liar and the father of lies.

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 So the serpent's children, according to John 8.44,

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 the offspring are those who buy into his lie.

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 His lie that God is not good.

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 That lie.

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 And as we saw last week,

00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:43.240
 this lie permeates right through to every human heart

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 that God cannot be trusted.

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 He cannot be trusted.

00:22:50.059 --> 00:22:53.700
 In fact, this is not in your notes.

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 I said, for those of you who are reading it,

00:22:56.180 --> 00:22:58.500
 I said a couple of weeks ago,

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 the language, the name of God changes in Genesis.

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 So from in Genesis chapter one,

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 it is Elohim, almighty God,

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 the creator of all things, Elohim.

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 And then when he creates humanity,

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 it shifts to Elohim Yahweh,

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 the creator almighty God

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 who is in covenant relationship with people.

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 And I said, that is Elohim Yahweh

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 is the dominant name for God

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 in Genesis chapter two,

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 the end of chapter two,

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 right through until later in Genesis.

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 The dominant name.

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 There's only one place in Genesis

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 where once Elohim Yahweh is used,

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 it shifts back to Elohim

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 and Elohim Yahweh is not used.

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 Only one place.

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 In other words,

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 there's only one place in Genesis

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 where the disconnection happens

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 between a powerful God

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 and a relating God.

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 Only one place.

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 And it's in the serpent's dialogue with Eve.

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 The main thing that the serpent does with Eve

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 is he disconnects relationship with God.

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 And that is the impact of sin in our lives.

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 And we buy into that lie here

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 that he is not a good God.

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 That if you obey him,

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 you follow him,

00:24:28.579 --> 00:24:29.680
 you trust in him,

00:24:29.859 --> 00:24:32.259
 you will ruin your life.

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 And we buy into that lie

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 every time we gossip.

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 And every other sin.

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 If you want to be fulfilled and happy,

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 you have to determine

00:24:48.559 --> 00:24:49.740
 how to live your life.

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 And that is the lie

00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:54.339
 that's deep in every human heart.

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 Notice what God says here.

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 I will put enmity

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 between your offspring and hers.

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 First of all,

00:25:05.679 --> 00:25:06.319
 God says,

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 I will take the initiative.

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 I will put.

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 It's not saying here

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 that some are bad

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 and some are good by nature.

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 That's not what it's saying.

00:25:22.140 --> 00:25:25.240
 It says that God will take the initiative

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 and as a result,

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 some will reject the lies

00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:31.820
 of the serpent

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 because of God's initiative.

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 Those are the offspring of Eve.

00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:40.759
 Notice

00:25:40.759 --> 00:25:44.220
 that he doesn't say

00:25:44.220 --> 00:25:46.780
 the offspring of Adam.

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 Have you ever read that

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 and wondered

00:25:49.859 --> 00:25:53.019
 why Eve,

00:25:53.139 --> 00:25:53.699
 not Adam?

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 I mean,

00:25:54.419 --> 00:25:56.019
 this is a patriarchal society

00:25:56.019 --> 00:25:58.059
 where genealogies

00:25:58.059 --> 00:25:59.559
 were all about blokes.

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 So,

00:26:01.119 --> 00:26:01.740
 why

00:26:01.740 --> 00:26:03.799
 mention Eve?

00:26:03.879 --> 00:26:05.299
 Why emphasize Eve?

00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:08.059
 It's a good question.

00:26:08.119 --> 00:26:08.899
 I'm not going to answer just yet.

00:26:08.979 --> 00:26:09.839
 We'll get there in a minute.

00:26:11.619 --> 00:26:13.079
 What is intriguing

00:26:13.079 --> 00:26:16.099
 is the first part of verse 15

00:26:16.099 --> 00:26:18.579
 is that it's all plural.

00:26:18.579 --> 00:26:21.199
 Two groups of people,

00:26:21.559 --> 00:26:22.279
 children of Satan,

00:26:22.559 --> 00:26:23.279
 children of Eve.

00:26:23.980 --> 00:26:24.980
 Then there's a shift

00:26:24.980 --> 00:26:25.699
 to the singular

00:26:25.699 --> 00:26:28.519
 in the original Hebrew language.

00:26:28.619 --> 00:26:29.679
 At the end of verse 15,

00:26:30.259 --> 00:26:32.299
 he will crush your head

00:26:32.299 --> 00:26:35.759
 and you will strike his heel.

00:26:35.759 --> 00:26:39.359
 That is,

00:26:39.500 --> 00:26:40.980
 there is an individual

00:26:40.980 --> 00:26:43.579
 who will crush the serpent

00:26:43.579 --> 00:26:44.819
 and his lies.

00:26:45.980 --> 00:26:47.799
 And as he crushes

00:26:47.799 --> 00:26:49.079
 the serpent's head,

00:26:49.619 --> 00:26:51.140
 the serpent will be

00:26:51.140 --> 00:26:52.000
 in an attempt

00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:52.920
 to destroy,

00:26:53.480 --> 00:26:55.099
 to destroy him.

00:26:56.420 --> 00:26:56.779
 The he.

00:26:57.920 --> 00:26:59.000
 This person

00:26:59.000 --> 00:27:00.000
 is the offspring

00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:00.879
 of the woman.

00:27:01.660 --> 00:27:02.680
 Why not the man?

00:27:03.500 --> 00:27:04.519
 Why is it Eve

00:27:04.519 --> 00:27:05.180
 and not Adam?

00:27:07.299 --> 00:27:09.060
 There is only one person

00:27:09.060 --> 00:27:10.000
 in the history

00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:10.940
 of humanity

00:27:10.940 --> 00:27:13.120
 that was the,

00:27:13.640 --> 00:27:14.779
 who was only

00:27:14.779 --> 00:27:15.660
 an offspring

00:27:15.660 --> 00:27:16.580
 of a woman.

00:27:17.860 --> 00:27:18.779
 Only one person

00:27:18.779 --> 00:27:19.299
 in history

00:27:19.299 --> 00:27:20.539
 who was only ever

00:27:20.539 --> 00:27:21.019
 offspring

00:27:21.019 --> 00:27:22.100
 of just a woman.

00:27:23.740 --> 00:27:23.840
 Not,

00:27:23.980 --> 00:27:24.720
 I'm an offspring

00:27:24.720 --> 00:27:25.160
 of a man

00:27:25.160 --> 00:27:25.580
 and a woman

00:27:25.580 --> 00:27:26.500
 as you all are.

00:27:26.500 --> 00:27:29.339
 but not Jesus.

00:27:31.240 --> 00:27:32.359
 And we celebrate

00:27:32.359 --> 00:27:34.740
 the offspring

00:27:34.740 --> 00:27:37.259
 of a woman,

00:27:38.119 --> 00:27:38.700
 a virgin,

00:27:39.000 --> 00:27:39.559
 will conceive

00:27:39.559 --> 00:27:40.259
 and give birth

00:27:40.259 --> 00:27:40.900
 to a boy

00:27:40.900 --> 00:27:42.640
 and his name

00:27:42.640 --> 00:27:43.200
 will be called

00:27:43.200 --> 00:27:43.740
 Emmanuel,

00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:45.880
 God with us.

00:27:48.200 --> 00:27:48.519
 You see,

00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:49.839
 Genesis 3.15

00:27:49.839 --> 00:27:52.380
 is the earliest account

00:27:52.380 --> 00:27:53.480
 looking forward

00:27:53.480 --> 00:27:54.160
 to the coming

00:27:54.160 --> 00:27:55.200
 of Jesus Christ

00:27:55.200 --> 00:27:56.180
 who will destroy

00:27:56.180 --> 00:27:57.340
 the works,

00:27:57.500 --> 00:27:58.279
 the lies

00:27:58.279 --> 00:27:59.180
 of Satan.

00:28:00.620 --> 00:28:02.080
 When the creator God,

00:28:02.180 --> 00:28:03.279
 the rule of the universe

00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:04.019
 comes,

00:28:04.500 --> 00:28:05.279
 he's going to come

00:28:05.279 --> 00:28:06.039
 to bring blessing.

00:28:06.160 --> 00:28:06.819
 He's coming

00:28:06.819 --> 00:28:08.160
 to undo

00:28:08.160 --> 00:28:10.120
 all aspects

00:28:10.120 --> 00:28:11.360
 of the curse.

00:28:13.860 --> 00:28:14.940
 All aspects

00:28:14.940 --> 00:28:15.840
 of the curse.

00:28:16.779 --> 00:28:17.380
 He went

00:28:17.380 --> 00:28:18.279
 to the cross,

00:28:19.420 --> 00:28:20.740
 was abandoned

00:28:20.740 --> 00:28:21.799
 by his father,

00:28:22.279 --> 00:28:22.700
 rejected

00:28:22.700 --> 00:28:24.140
 by his friends

00:28:24.140 --> 00:28:25.500
 in turmoil

00:28:25.500 --> 00:28:26.279
 in the garden

00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:27.000
 beforehand.

00:28:27.539 --> 00:28:28.600
 Every single

00:28:28.600 --> 00:28:29.299
 aspect

00:28:29.299 --> 00:28:30.500
 of the cross,

00:28:32.100 --> 00:28:32.900
 every single

00:28:32.900 --> 00:28:33.960
 aspect of the cross,

00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:35.819
 of the,

00:28:35.900 --> 00:28:36.019
 sorry,

00:28:36.100 --> 00:28:36.720
 of the curse

00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:37.259
 is dealt

00:28:37.259 --> 00:28:39.000
 with at the cross.

00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:42.100
 And we sing

00:28:42.100 --> 00:28:42.519
 about it

00:28:42.519 --> 00:28:43.240
 Christmas

00:28:43.240 --> 00:28:44.279
 every year.

00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:46.019
 The Christmas

00:28:46.019 --> 00:28:46.440
 carol,

00:28:46.539 --> 00:28:47.400
 Joy to the World,

00:28:47.799 --> 00:28:48.380
 was written

00:28:48.380 --> 00:28:49.640
 by Watts,

00:28:50.560 --> 00:28:51.360
 based on

00:28:51.360 --> 00:28:52.740
 Psalm 98

00:28:52.740 --> 00:28:55.160
 and Genesis 3.

00:28:56.420 --> 00:28:57.340
 Joy to the World.

00:28:57.440 --> 00:28:57.840
 It's the one

00:28:57.840 --> 00:28:58.540
 we always end

00:28:58.540 --> 00:28:59.900
 with every year,

00:28:59.980 --> 00:29:00.720
 Joy to the World.

00:29:01.360 --> 00:29:02.440
 Joy to the World,

00:29:02.540 --> 00:29:04.040
 the Lord is come.

00:29:04.580 --> 00:29:05.240
 Let earth

00:29:05.240 --> 00:29:06.360
 receive her king.

00:29:07.020 --> 00:29:08.080
 Let every heart

00:29:08.080 --> 00:29:09.280
 prepare him room

00:29:09.280 --> 00:29:09.920
 and heaven

00:29:09.920 --> 00:29:11.140
 and nature

00:29:11.140 --> 00:29:11.780
 sing.

00:29:12.680 --> 00:29:13.280
 No more

00:29:13.280 --> 00:29:13.980
 let sins

00:29:13.980 --> 00:29:14.660
 and sorrows

00:29:14.660 --> 00:29:15.080
 grow,

00:29:15.240 --> 00:29:15.940
 nor thorns

00:29:15.940 --> 00:29:17.060
 infest the ground.

00:29:17.059 --> 00:29:18.299
 He comes

00:29:18.299 --> 00:29:18.940
 to make

00:29:18.940 --> 00:29:19.679
 his blessings

00:29:19.679 --> 00:29:20.220
 flow

00:29:20.220 --> 00:29:21.579
 as far

00:29:21.579 --> 00:29:22.960
 as the curse

00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:24.419
 is found.

00:29:27.179 --> 00:29:27.940
 Comprehensive

00:29:27.940 --> 00:29:28.419
 healing.

00:29:29.700 --> 00:29:30.159
 So first

00:29:30.159 --> 00:29:30.879
 application,

00:29:32.700 --> 00:29:34.399
 right in front

00:29:34.399 --> 00:29:34.639
 of you

00:29:34.639 --> 00:29:35.240
 in your seats

00:29:35.240 --> 00:29:35.879
 is invites

00:29:35.879 --> 00:29:36.579
 to bring people,

00:29:37.940 --> 00:29:38.480
 invite them

00:29:38.480 --> 00:29:38.980
 to Christmas.

00:29:39.940 --> 00:29:40.720
 It's all

00:29:40.720 --> 00:29:41.179
 about the

00:29:41.179 --> 00:29:41.579
 reversal

00:29:41.579 --> 00:29:42.399
 of the curse

00:29:42.399 --> 00:29:43.359
 that they

00:29:43.359 --> 00:29:44.139
 are experiencing

00:29:44.139 --> 00:29:45.819
 every single

00:29:45.819 --> 00:29:46.500
 day of their

00:29:46.500 --> 00:29:47.000
 life.

00:29:47.059 --> 00:29:49.019
 Joy to the

00:29:49.019 --> 00:29:49.980
 World declares

00:29:49.980 --> 00:29:50.819
 as the Bible

00:29:50.819 --> 00:29:51.259
 declares

00:29:51.259 --> 00:29:51.619
 that when

00:29:51.619 --> 00:29:52.359
 Jesus comes

00:29:52.359 --> 00:29:52.899
 to crush

00:29:52.899 --> 00:29:53.599
 the serpent

00:29:53.599 --> 00:29:55.500
 he is crushing

00:29:55.500 --> 00:29:56.859
 all the effects

00:29:56.859 --> 00:29:57.819
 of the serpent's

00:29:57.819 --> 00:29:58.259
 lies.

00:30:02.139 --> 00:30:02.740
 Satan

00:30:02.740 --> 00:30:03.639
 attacked him.

00:30:04.399 --> 00:30:04.779
 Satan

00:30:04.779 --> 00:30:06.059
 participated

00:30:06.059 --> 00:30:07.460
 and was in

00:30:07.460 --> 00:30:08.539
 great joy

00:30:08.539 --> 00:30:09.319
 as Christ

00:30:09.319 --> 00:30:09.859
 was nailed

00:30:09.859 --> 00:30:10.519
 to the cross.

00:30:10.700 --> 00:30:11.079
 Finally,

00:30:11.579 --> 00:30:12.319
 I'm killing

00:30:12.319 --> 00:30:12.940
 God,

00:30:13.159 --> 00:30:14.019
 not realizing

00:30:14.019 --> 00:30:14.559
 that at the

00:30:14.559 --> 00:30:15.440
 time his head

00:30:15.440 --> 00:30:15.919
 was being

00:30:15.919 --> 00:30:16.279
 crushed.

00:30:16.279 --> 00:30:19.660
 he came

00:30:19.660 --> 00:30:20.339
 to make

00:30:20.339 --> 00:30:21.200
 his blessings

00:30:21.200 --> 00:30:21.940
 flow

00:30:21.940 --> 00:30:23.799
 as far

00:30:23.799 --> 00:30:24.799
 as the

00:30:24.799 --> 00:30:25.379
 curse

00:30:25.379 --> 00:30:27.139
 has gone.

00:30:28.579 --> 00:30:28.960
 And so

00:30:28.960 --> 00:30:29.599
 as a Christian

00:30:29.599 --> 00:30:30.299
 church,

00:30:30.299 --> 00:30:31.720
 we seek

00:30:31.720 --> 00:30:32.660
 to make

00:30:32.660 --> 00:30:33.359
 an impact

00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:34.000
 in every

00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:35.200
 aspect of

00:30:35.200 --> 00:30:35.859
 the curse

00:30:35.859 --> 00:30:36.420
 and as far

00:30:36.420 --> 00:30:36.740
 as it's

00:30:36.740 --> 00:30:37.079
 gone.

00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:38.339
 As a Christian

00:30:38.339 --> 00:30:38.779
 church,

00:30:38.859 --> 00:30:39.359
 we welcome

00:30:39.359 --> 00:30:40.079
 everyone

00:30:40.079 --> 00:30:41.039
 here.

00:30:41.839 --> 00:30:42.359
 Everyone,

00:30:42.359 --> 00:30:43.740
 however sin

00:30:43.740 --> 00:30:44.679
 has touched

00:30:44.679 --> 00:30:45.459
 your life,

00:30:46.039 --> 00:30:47.279
 including

00:30:47.279 --> 00:30:47.919
 if you're

00:30:47.919 --> 00:30:49.819
 a habitual

00:30:49.819 --> 00:30:50.539
 gossip,

00:30:51.779 --> 00:30:52.679
 however sin

00:30:52.679 --> 00:30:53.219
 has touched

00:30:53.219 --> 00:30:53.779
 your life,

00:30:53.839 --> 00:30:54.339
 we welcome

00:30:54.339 --> 00:30:54.740
 you.

00:30:56.419 --> 00:30:57.019
 Whatever

00:30:57.019 --> 00:30:57.799
 impact,

00:30:57.899 --> 00:30:58.079
 it doesn't

00:30:58.079 --> 00:30:58.399
 matter who

00:30:58.399 --> 00:30:59.019
 you are,

00:30:59.139 --> 00:30:59.859
 there's not a

00:30:59.859 --> 00:31:00.839
 single person

00:31:00.839 --> 00:31:02.240
 who's excluded

00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:02.839
 from this

00:31:02.839 --> 00:31:03.379
 church.

00:31:03.380 --> 00:31:03.440
 church,

00:31:04.320 --> 00:31:05.760
 it doesn't

00:31:05.760 --> 00:31:06.060
 matter who

00:31:06.060 --> 00:31:06.760
 you are,

00:31:06.760 --> 00:31:07.760
 it doesn't

00:31:07.760 --> 00:31:08.340
 matter who you are,

00:31:08.340 --> 00:31:10.760
 it doesn't matter

00:31:10.760 --> 00:31:12.160
 whether you're

00:31:12.160 --> 00:31:12.980
 white-collar,

00:31:13.080 --> 00:31:13.960
 you're blue-collar,

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 it doesn't matter

00:31:14.540 --> 00:31:16.000
 whether you're

00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:17.600
 neurotypical or

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 neurodiverse like

00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:19.500
 me, it doesn't

00:31:19.500 --> 00:31:20.100
 matter who you

00:31:20.100 --> 00:31:21.820
 are, you are

00:31:21.820 --> 00:31:22.820
 welcome in this

00:31:22.820 --> 00:31:23.260
 church.

00:31:24.800 --> 00:31:25.780
 But we want to

00:31:25.780 --> 00:31:26.440
 bring healing to

00:31:26.440 --> 00:31:27.040
 your life,

00:31:28.240 --> 00:31:29.020
 healing to your

00:31:29.020 --> 00:31:29.400
 life.

00:31:29.400 --> 00:31:31.700
 we welcome

00:31:31.700 --> 00:31:33.640
 you, but we

00:31:33.640 --> 00:31:34.720
 do not affirm

00:31:34.720 --> 00:31:35.460
 your sin.

00:31:36.820 --> 00:31:37.780
 We do not

00:31:37.780 --> 00:31:40.000
 affirm it, but

00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:40.380
 we welcome

00:31:40.380 --> 00:31:40.640
 you.

00:31:41.500 --> 00:31:42.220
 We want you

00:31:42.220 --> 00:31:43.180
 to embrace,

00:31:44.220 --> 00:31:45.259
 embrace the

00:31:45.259 --> 00:31:45.980
 healing of

00:31:45.980 --> 00:31:46.780
 Jesus Christ

00:31:46.780 --> 00:31:47.800
 in your life.

00:31:50.920 --> 00:31:51.860
 Because that's

00:31:51.860 --> 00:31:52.460
 what the

00:31:52.460 --> 00:31:54.220
 offspring of

00:31:54.220 --> 00:31:55.280
 Eve do in

00:31:55.280 --> 00:31:55.800
 the world.

00:31:56.880 --> 00:31:57.820
 We spread

00:31:57.820 --> 00:31:58.880
 joy as we

00:31:58.880 --> 00:31:59.380
 seek to

00:31:59.380 --> 00:31:59.800
 work to

00:31:59.800 --> 00:32:00.340
 undo the

00:32:00.340 --> 00:32:01.580
 curse and

00:32:01.580 --> 00:32:02.760
 to spread

00:32:02.760 --> 00:32:03.400
 the blessing.

00:32:04.320 --> 00:32:04.900
 Not that we

00:32:04.900 --> 00:32:05.260
 all do

00:32:05.260 --> 00:32:05.960
 everything,

00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:07.380
 not that we

00:32:07.380 --> 00:32:07.740
 all do

00:32:07.740 --> 00:32:08.180
 everything,

00:32:08.360 --> 00:32:08.740
 each is

00:32:08.740 --> 00:32:09.200
 gifted in

00:32:09.200 --> 00:32:09.500
 our own

00:32:09.500 --> 00:32:09.840
 way and

00:32:09.840 --> 00:32:10.260
 have our

00:32:10.260 --> 00:32:10.500
 own

00:32:10.500 --> 00:32:10.880
 particular

00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:11.360
 unique

00:32:11.360 --> 00:32:12.080
 opportunities,

00:32:12.800 --> 00:32:13.580
 but this

00:32:13.580 --> 00:32:14.580
 is the

00:32:14.580 --> 00:32:15.180
 work of

00:32:15.180 --> 00:32:15.840
 the King

00:32:15.840 --> 00:32:17.000
 that we

00:32:17.000 --> 00:32:17.340
 at St.

00:32:17.380 --> 00:32:17.780
 Paul's are

00:32:17.780 --> 00:32:18.420
 committed to.

00:32:18.960 --> 00:32:20.060
 We treasure

00:32:20.060 --> 00:32:20.760
 Jesus

00:32:20.760 --> 00:32:23.480
 together for

00:32:23.480 --> 00:32:24.340
 the joy of

00:32:24.340 --> 00:32:24.960
 all people.