Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder

How can a podcaster talk about the same thing for four mornings in a row?  Perhaps it is worth our attention because it has affected us every day since then.  

I'm struck with the grievousness of the fall today.  I'm thinking of all the lives it has cost: billions of humans, and then the precious rescue/redeeming/restoring life of Jesus. 

Listen with a little tear as you hear about the tears being taken away forever.

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Every serial killer has his first kill.  Satan gets the first KILL of BILLIONS in the garden called Eden.  He is a "murderer from the beginning." Well, Eden is the beginning.

Adam was there. Adam was silent. Adam allowed his beloved to be beguiled by a serial killer.  He allowed the clear command to be doubted. He allowed her to eat with a serial killer.  Adam fails Eve and God in thought, in wordlessness, and in deed. He eats.

Eve knew enough. She quoted God, and His prohibition. She just didn't obey it. 

Let's not be beguiled today by the same serial killer. bewithme.us Google podcasts.

God creates Eden for man, woman, and Himself.  But there is another sentient being found there in Genesis 3:1.  It is the serpent. Satan.  Think on this:There was room for him in Eden, or at least he was allowed. Temptation for our great grandparents was allowed.  Free will, for good and for bad was allowed, JUST LIKE TODAY.

Wherever this podcast finds you today, you are in an environment where evil, temptation and choice is allowed by God. We have control over our little acre: what we chose to think about, speak out loud, view with our eyes and do with our hands. 

Help! Lord, lead us not into temptation. Deliver us from evil.! Amen.

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Of all the paragraphs in the Bible, this one might be the saddest. 

God has allowed choice in His Eden garden, even the choice for rebelling against Him. He has allowed Eve and Adam to surf with the serpent.  This results in asking some accusing questions of God and even denying His clear truths. The serpent's arguments are:

• He didn't really say that
• He said it, but He didn't really MEAN it.

Underlying it all is the pride of accusatorially questioning God, when God has made Himself clear.

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Leaving, Cleaving and Sex. What could be more fun? Welcome to Marriage 101.

Our society is more and more confused about their identities and liberties of sexual behavior. However, God is not confused.  He's given some exceptionally clear principles for gender, for marriage, and for sex.  It all starts right here in the book of Genesis. Join me for a 7 minute primer.

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I'm a big fan of the RESCUE MISSION that God sends to help with the big problems of Sin and Death.  But the FIRST RESCUE mission sent by God to address a certain need, "aloneness" , is EVE.

Join me for 7 minutes as we look at the problem and the wonderful answer that is Eve and eventually the rest of her female kin. She is fabulously designed, made for a purpose and answers the first great need.

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The first big problem arises on the created earth: ALONENESS.  Adam was alone. To bring emphasis to the point, God brings him every animal, probably in pairs. There is no suitable helper in the animal kingdom.

But God is not finished. He makes an ultimate creation from man and for man: WOMAN. She is designed specifically to a purpose and to a person.  She is made of him and for him.  She solves the first problem  on PLANET LONELINESS. 

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Let's talk about WORK:

1. Work is created BEFORE the FALL, before sin.
2. Work is not the result of sin
3. Work is commissioned by God
4. Work IS A BLESSING
5. We are to be Gardener and Guardians; Cultivators and Keepers.

This podcast is only 7 minutes. Why? Because it is ENOUGH.  Enough to get you started each day in a spiritual thought or two.  And, because I know that you gotta go WORK. See you tomorrow bewithme.us google podcasts. 

There is a great battle at The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.  God sets a limitation, a boundary,  and a line not to cross.  There the CHARACTER of God is questioned. The tree is never again heard from...or is it?

We bristle at the same battle line. We scream or whisper to God: "I don't like borders. I'll make my own.  I'll do it MY WAY!"

Let us today be aware of the same battle line at which Eve and Adam wrestled. May God dull our heart to the forbidden and quicken our desire to His limitations. We are better with borders. For another reminder tomorrow, bewithme.us to subscribe or Apple Podcasts.

Smack dab in the middle of Eden is the "BUT" tree.  All the other trees are good for food and pleasing to the eye, BUT...It is the CAUTION tree, the FORBIDDEN tree, the COMMANDMENT tree and the TRUST tree.

This "do NOT" tree is the central object of mankind's rebellion against God.  It is at this object where not only the cautions of God are questioned, but the character  of God is doubted.  Listen 7 minutes with me as we go back to the "tree that is never heard from" again. Subscribe and be offered another 7 minutes tomorrow at bewithme.us or write and I'll email you. [email protected]