How will you respond to God?

Keith Jones

Genesis 1-4:15 • Sermon • Submitted 5 months ago • Presented 5 months ago

Genesis 3:8–13

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How will you respond to God?

Hiding & Blaming

Running after God?

Last week

The Lie

Satan asks deceiving questions

God is holding out

Eat the fruit it will make you wise

Genesis 3:8–13 “8 When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man and his wife heard the Lord God walking about in the garden. So they hid from the Lord God among the trees. 9 Then the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” 10 He replied, “I heard you walking in the garden, so I hid. I was afraid because I was naked.” 11 “Who told you that you were naked?” the Lord God asked. “Have you eaten from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat?” 12 The man replied, “It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit, and I ate it.” 13 Then the Lord God asked the woman, “What have you done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied. “That’s why I ate it.””

v8 - The intimacy and grace offered by God

Opportunity to fully know God unhindered relationship

Hear God walk… God made his presence known.

No trick or surprise. - Kindness - grace

The response of sin is Fear & Hiding.

What was thought of as wise is now stupidity

Moreover Shame filled

Nakedness is a realization of separation from God.

Felt unworthy of being close to God.

When we know we have sinned we Hide

Coldplay concert

The irony of hiding among the trees…

Where is a good place to hid from God?

The issue is the Heart!

v9-11 - God asks a series of questions

This question is totally different than the serpents question.

Snake - question gives false power and accuse God of bad.

God gave - Boundaries and Responsibility. No passive aggressive questions.

not a sarcastic parent tone - I told you so…

Some are so accustom to passive aggressive they don’t realize it’s not true

He knows! Do you know?!?

Where are you?

Who tricked you?

What are you responsible for?

Gods - I know what’s going on do you?

God asked and still today asks questions for the same reason

God asks Cain

Genesis 4:9 “9 Afterward the Lord asked Cain, “Where is your brother? Where is Abel?” “I don’t know,” Cain responded. “Am I my brother’s guardian?””

God asks Abraham

Genesis 18:14 “14 Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return about this time next year, and Sarah will have a son.””

God asks Job

Job 38:4 “4 “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you know so much.”

God asks Jonah

Jonah 4:4 “4 The Lord replied, “Is it right for you to be angry about this?””

Jesus asks the disciples

Mark 8:27 “27 Jesus and his disciples left Galilee and went up to the villages near Caesarea Philippi. As they were walking along, he asked them, “Who do people say I am?””

Jesus asks Peter 3 times

Do you love me

God asks important questions to cut through our hog wash…

He is reminding us of

Who we are

Who He is

What’s really going on

God invites us to see the truth

Sin twists the truth.

God isn’t always good

Your truth is most important

Don’t make opinions truth.

Even theology

Especially those from pain

Pain can point you to the truth, but unless you heal you will see it thought the pain.

What has God asked you? or What is he asking you right now?

Listen!

Bible

Micah 6:8 “8 No, O people, the Lord has told you what is good, and this is what he requires of you: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.”

Not listing and filling your head with stuff is hiding!

Adam responds to God

v12-13 Blame

Instead of asking for forgiveness and saying sorry he

Blames God and the woman

God’s fault

The person you put this person in my life.

The woman’s fault

Remember Adam standing there saying nothing?

God gives the woman a shot

She blames the snake.

What’s missing?

Taking responsibility for sin and asking for forgiveness is the lesson we all need to learn about sin.