Give Me Liberty, and Give Me Stuff
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INTRODUCTION
So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
Freedom of choice, but not the negative consequences
What’s the reason for this - sin and evilness
Academics have spent years trying to determine the reason for evil - or what they perceive the reason to be
Well, one worldly reason can be seen in Greek Mythology.
This is a myth
What is consistent is one person unleashed something terrible that has effected the entire world
Cloud of covering
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
Cloud covering is death. Keeps coming up
Death means separation
Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
Illegitimate separation = death
The day you eat...
Most folk are dead, are dying, or will die
Bible tells us in multiple passages that Sin and death go together
Ezekiel 18:4 (ESV)
Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
6 Kinds of Death
4 Key Takeaways
Key #1 - You cannot sin and not die
Key #1 - You cannot sin and not die
Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths. And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
1. Spiritual Death
1. Spiritual Death
When they ate, their eyes were open and their spiritual relationship with God was closed.
Their conscience, for the first time was exposed to evil.
They would become - AWARE - of something they were never aware of before - THE CONSEQUENCE OF EVIL
At this point they had not known evil - why b/c everything that God made was good.
Once they disobeyed their conscience -which is God’s regulatory system for the soul - they became aware of something they were never supposed to be aware of,
And all of us have had experience in our lives where we can say. I WISH I DIDN’T KNOW THAT - b/c now that I know it, it has messed me up
That’s why we protect our children from seeing certain things or being exposed to certain things so they won’t become aware of the evil for as long as we can.
God said if you stick with me, your conscience will be protected from illegitimate exposure
They cover up because they are exposed and they don’t want God to see them. Fig leaves. what was natural is now immodest
Key #2 Spiritual Death occurs when there is an illegitimate separation from the fellowship of God.
Key #2 Spiritual Death occurs when there is an illegitimate separation from the fellowship of God.
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.
They are dead and don’t know it because they’re wearing fig leaves
Fig leaves of religion
Fig leaves of trying to be a “good” person
Fig leaves of popularity
Fig leaves of trying to look good, sound good, dress good,
They want to look like it’s OK while they hide. Hide behind using the name of God, hide behind being ‘spiritual.
All the while, they are dead because of the separation from God due to disobedience to the revealed will of God.
Fig leaf - trying to patch up a solution.
And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
The sound that drew them, know repels them (a child’s greeting)
The God they used to walk with, now they run from
God asks 3 questions
vs. 9 - Where are you?
vs. 11 - Who told you that you were naked?
vs. 13 - What have you done?
The reason God asks questions is not because he does not know the answer (rhetorical)
Key #3 The reason God asks Questions is to Promote Self-examination
Key #3 The reason God asks Questions is to Promote Self-examination
These questions are for our benefit - He wants to see if you are going to tell the truth about you.
Some say, “All of this over some fruit?” You miss the point.
For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Claiming your godship. I am no longer dependent on You God
2. Emotional Death
2. Emotional Death
And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.”
Adam is now living a life of fear. Fear is an emotion
Now living a life of shame. He now knows guilt - Why because there has be a separation (perception has change). So the sew fig leaves
Fig leaf counselors, entertainment to help us forget the gnawing in our soul trying to forget, trying to find meaning and purpose
We pop pills, Prozac, valuum to help me get over this disruption in my well-being.
We connect with people and drugs, to help me get over .
Adam is an emotional wreck running from God.
3. Relational Death
3. Relational Death
To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”
Because you use your role to entice him
Husband and wife
Wife and child birth and child rearing
Why - vs. 17 “because you listen to your wife”
Key #4 The closest person in your life should never trump God.
Key #4 The closest person in your life should never trump God.
Man is responsible - God came looking for Adam
4. Economic Death
4. Economic Death
And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
You have to break a sweat
your productivity has been interrupted by thorns and thistles
Because of rebellion
Thorns and thistles of people we have to work for, work with,
Sin has effected your career
5. Physical Death
5. Physical Death
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Look in the mirror in the morning and you see dirt
your make be rich dirt, good looking dirt, popular dirt, poor dirt, famous dirt, powerful dirt. But your are still dirt. Not matter how much botox, weeves, face-lifts WE ARE ALL GOING BACK TO THE GRAVE
When you want to be independent from me there are serious repercussions
6. Eternal Death
6. Eternal Death
Pandora’s box - hope
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.