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Dad Jokes
I’m a Dad…and I tell jokes…therefore...
I really like telling Dad jokes.
Sometimes he laughs.
I think it's wield to call childbirth delivery when it’s really take out.
Speaking of...
Glad to be out…I was running out of WOMB.
Lance isn’t a common name these days, but in medieval times, people were named Lance a lot.
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Not only do I love telling Dad Jokes,
I also love the title of this weekend’s focus: His Design, My Purpose.
The ONE who created us certainly knows WHY He created us.
And when we find the PURPOSE for which He has designed us, there will be hope and joy and a desire to live every day with passion and purity.
Some of you guys have met my sons.
Others haven’t.
Here’s what they look like now.
My sons look like me.
They often act like me.
That makes sense because they have my DNA.
They are made in my image.
They often say the things I say and do the things I do.
The same is true about me and my Dad.
I’ve had people who know my Dad say, “Jackie, you remind me so much of your father!” (I can hear my Dad’s response if he were standing there: “Tell them thank you, Jackie”) Funny.
That’s the same thing I say to my boys.
Genesis 1:27–28 (NET 2nd ed.)
God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply!
Fill the earth and subdue it!
Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.”
God created the first people for…Dignity & Dominion
Dignity: Human life is to be protected above all others as it is valued above all others.
Humans have a moral code written in them, knowing right from wrong (unlike animals).
Humans are, like God, creative, relational, communicative, reasoning, and eternal (live on after death).
Dominion: Humans are to rule over other creatures (1:26, 28) and the earth (2:15).
See Psalm 8:6.
The Latin Vulgate uses the phrase “Imago Dei”, meaning image of God.
And that wasn’t just true for Adam & Eve, but for ALL humans.
When God destroys the disobedient in the flood, He reestablishes the rules for Noah & his family to teach their future family.
God again affirms that God created mankind in His image and warns of death for anyone who murders another human.
Genesis 9:6 (NET 2nd ed.)
“Whoever sheds human blood, by other humans must his blood be shed; for in God’s image God has made humankind.”
We - YOU & ME - were meant to be God’s image bearers.
As the moon’s shiny appearance is because of its reflection of the sun, so too we are to be “the light of the world” as we reflect God’s glorious image.
We are made to not only KNOW God, but to make Him KNOWN.
Of course, then came the FALL of mankind, when Adam & Eve questioned God’s goodness & bought into the lie that they could become like God, and be the authority of their own lives.
Genesis 3:1 (CSB)
Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made.
He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?”
You see what happened here?
This lying, deceiving spirit speaking through this animal began to hint that God’s command should be questioned.
Genesis 3:2–5 (CSB)
The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden.
But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.’
” “No!
You will certainly not die,” the serpent said to the woman.
“In fact, God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
There’s the lie: you will be like God.
You don’t have to submit to HIS authority.
You rule over ever other animal.
YOU should rule over YOU too!
Eve bought the lie and then it happened...
Genesis 3:6 (CSB)
The woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom.
So she took some of its fruit and ate it;
It tasted good.
It looked good.
It was going to make her feel good.
she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
Wait a second!
Was Adam there when she was tempted?
If so, why didn’t he stand up and tell the serpent to shut up!?
Why didn’t he lead his wife to obey what God commanded?
If he wasn’t there when Eve was tempted, then the question remains - WHY did he choose to follow her lead & disobey God’s clear command?
Genesis 3:7 (CSB)
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
Suddenly there’s a sense of shame that they needed to cover up.
Yet, before they sinned against God the Scriptures note they had a very different outlook.
Genesis 2:25 (CSB)
Both the man and his wife were naked, yet felt no shame.
But now that they have disobeyed God, just look at the difference.
Genesis 3:8–11 (CSB)
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze,
How cool would THAT be?!?
To know that your Creator was coming to visit you?
But this time was different...
and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
So the Lord God called out to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”
That was NOT a geographical question.
This wasn’t hide n seek and God had no clue where they were.
This was a spiritual question.
God is essentially wanting Adam to answer this question: “Where are you WITHOUT Me?”
And He said, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”
Then He asked, “Who told you that you were naked?
Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
Sin’s immediate price tag is SEPARATION from the God they once walked and talked with.
Instead of fearlessness there was fearFULness.
Instead of enjoying God’s Presence, they were hiding from Him.
A. W. Tozer says it well.
“Man was created to know God but he chose the gutter.
That is why he is like a bird shut away in a cage or like a fish taken from the water.”
We sin too.
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