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Genesis chapter three is what I like to call the end of the beginning. It is where after God created a beautiful sin-free world and gave it to an innocent humanity, Adam, the father of the human race, ate of the forbidden fruit and caused it all to be plunged into the depths of sin. Without exception we are all fallen products of that fateful choice. Verses 6 through 13 read…
6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.
8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
9 Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?”
10 So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.”
11 And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?”
12 Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”
13 And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
I want to begin with the end of the beginning in order to lay a foundation for what will be considering today. I believe it is clear that we need to be re-introduced to the question God asked Adam. My concern is that many of us are so consumed with the influences of the mundane system of this world that we couldn’t even imagine that God might have such a question for us today.
We think that as long as we do our duties to job, to family, to church, and such, that we are doing just fine. But we must understand that from the beginning of time, God has been continually working to bring people to the place where they are willing to admit to Him and agree with Him from the heart that what they’ve done or failed to do was wrong.
Again, it started with the question, “Adam. Where are you?” And I submit to you that it will all end with the quintessential question, “What have you done with My Son?”
This week on the LiMP, we will look at the ongoing problem of racial strife in America and what the Church has to do with it in order to exhort the saints of God in America to do a 1 John 1:9 While We Still Have Time: The American Church’s Acknowledgment of the Reality of Racism.
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By Keith L. BellGenesis chapter three is what I like to call the end of the beginning. It is where after God created a beautiful sin-free world and gave it to an innocent humanity, Adam, the father of the human race, ate of the forbidden fruit and caused it all to be plunged into the depths of sin. Without exception we are all fallen products of that fateful choice. Verses 6 through 13 read…
6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.
8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
9 Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?”
10 So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.”
11 And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?”
12 Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”
13 And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
I want to begin with the end of the beginning in order to lay a foundation for what will be considering today. I believe it is clear that we need to be re-introduced to the question God asked Adam. My concern is that many of us are so consumed with the influences of the mundane system of this world that we couldn’t even imagine that God might have such a question for us today.
We think that as long as we do our duties to job, to family, to church, and such, that we are doing just fine. But we must understand that from the beginning of time, God has been continually working to bring people to the place where they are willing to admit to Him and agree with Him from the heart that what they’ve done or failed to do was wrong.
Again, it started with the question, “Adam. Where are you?” And I submit to you that it will all end with the quintessential question, “What have you done with My Son?”
This week on the LiMP, we will look at the ongoing problem of racial strife in America and what the Church has to do with it in order to exhort the saints of God in America to do a 1 John 1:9 While We Still Have Time: The American Church’s Acknowledgment of the Reality of Racism.