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The Bible is a book full of great stories
David and Goliath
Sampson
Esther
The Exodus
And what this tells us is that our God, the creator of all things, has revealed himself by scripture as the great story teller.
Not only is the bible full of great stories, but the bible itself is one great, awesome, and magnificent love story.
And Easter is a day that we celebrate the climax of this great love story, When Jesus rose from the grave conquering evil and saving his people.
We see how this love story ends in the book of Revelation where Jesus feasts with his glorified bride in the marriage supper of the lamb.
Now, what tends to happen with great stories, especially ones we are really familiar with is we tend to get bored.
We feel like we have heard it over and over and it loses its excitement.
I am sure you can agree with me, when you watch a great movie for the first time its gripping, its exciting, its amazing.
And you might go back and watch it again.
But after seeing it multiple times, we often become bored with the movie and it loses its grip on us.
And this happens so often when we hear or read stories in the bible.
Polls have been taken and you know what one of the greatest challenges is in reading the bible?
Its boring.
Especially stories that get told so often like the Christmas story and the Easter story.
So this morning we are going to look at the greatest story ever told, and my prayer is that it will not be seen as boring, but as truly life-changing.
And any good story needs a good title.
So I have entitled this sermon
Killing the Dragon & Saving the Girl
This title comes from a catechism I have developed for my children.
And it is also the catechism Karis and Owen said for at their baptisms.
It goes like this: (page two of the kids handout)
Q: What is the chief end of man?
A: To glorify God and enjoy him forever
Q: How do we learn to glorify God?
A: By reading the Bible
Q: What is the Bible about?
A: Killing the dragon and saving the girl
Q: Who is the dragon?
A: Satan, Sin and Death
Q: Who is the girl?
A: The Bride of Christ!
Q: Who is the Christ?
A: The Savior of the world and the Savior of me!
This story of killing the dragon and saving the girl starts back in the first few chapters of Genesis and it begins with a man named Adam or what we will call him in this story Dirtbag
Adam aka “Dirtbag”
Like with any good story we must first explain the context… a little background
God begins by creating kingdoms and then filling those kingdoms with rulers
Day 1 - Day and Night - Day 4 - Sun, Moon, and Stars
Day 2 - Separated the waters to make space - Day 5 - fish and birds
Day 3 - Makes dry ground and Vegetation - Day 6 - Animals and Man
With the creation of man and woman in we see...
Made in the image of God
What does this mean?
It means that they was made to reflect God in every way - this was their mission.
To bring the glory of God to all the earth
Given dominion over all things
And God declared that his creation was good
Creation of Man in (rewind and Zoomed in)
This is where we are going to really begin the story, of Adam, or as we can call him “dirtbag”
Formed from the dust (dirt bag)
So how was Adam made? from the dust, or from the dirt.
- so to call him dirtbag is not derogatory - and all God’s creation was good.
So this is not a mean name
After forming Adam from dirt God breathed life into his nostrils
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After forming Adam from dirt God breathed life into his nostrils
The Bible then tells us that God not only created man but that he created a Garden for him to work in.
The Bible then tells us that God not only created man but that he created a Garden for him to work in.
Look at Gen. 2.8-9
Genesis 2:8-
So here we see that God made a land which he calls Eden,
he then planted a Garden in Eden,
and in the midst of the Garden he planted two sacred trees.
The Tree of Life
The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil - which they were not to eat of.
{Garden Temple Slide}
Eden
Tree
Garden
East à
Tree
The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil - which they were not to eat of.
If we keep reading in the bible we will soon find out that the Garden is actually a temple.
And is the prototype for the Tabernacle and Temple which comes later in the bible
This sketch of the garden on the screen resembles the architecture of both the Temple and the Tabernacle
Eden is the outer court of the temple
The Garden is the Holy Place
And the Tree’s represent the Holy of Holies
So God put Dirtbag in the Garden and made him priest of the garden temple
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Part of Adam’s priestly work was to name all the animals
This was part of his mission in taking dominion over all things.
God had the animals come to him and whatever Adam called them would be their names
Look at
Adam names all the livestock, birds, and beasts
Kids, imagine if God gave you this job… if you could name all the animals
If a fun little furry critter came up to you with floppy and ears and said “woof, woof” What would you name it?
How about a big silly looking animal with black and white spots that said “mooooooo” what would you name it?
So God had all the animals coming to Adam and he is naming each of them.
Adam noticed a pattern that there were boy animals and girl animals and that they helped each other.
The boy dogs and the girls dogs were together.
The boy cows (bulls) were with the girl cows
But Adam did not have a girl of his own.
He didn’t have a helper like the animals did.
Adam is not the only one who noticed that he didn’t have a helper, he didn’t have a girl of his own… Look back at
Genesis 2:18
God also see’s that its not good for Adam to be alone, so he said he would make a helper for him.
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