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Welcome and Announcements

No Youth Fellowship this evening, However, we still have an evening service.

Join us to hear our very own Ben Rush open the word of God.

One other announcement, The Wilson family covets your prayers.

Earlier in the week, Sara’s aunt died from a sickness that she has had for quite some time.

Tragically, her uncle took his own life that night as well.

Sara was very close to her Aunt and Uncle and I know that this has not been easy for them.

They are having the funerals today and desire that we pray for them.

If we have no other announcements, let us continue to prepare for worship.

Preparation for Worship and Prelude

Call to Worship

1  Shout for joy to God, all the earth;

2  sing the glory of his name;

give to him glorious praise!

3  Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds!

So great is your power that your enemies come cringing to you.

4  All the earth worships you

and sings praises to you;

they sing praises to your name.”

Hymn 53 “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty

Hymn 76 Pra

Invocation w/ Lord’s Prayer

Eternal, immortal, and invisible God, You are infinite in power, wisdom, and goodness.

You’re so holy and righteous that you are unapproachable without Christ.

In your Majesty you are served by thousand upon thousands.

Yet in your dwelling you humbly take pleasure in calling us your people.

You have made for us a new identity lord, and have given us a new way of living.

We can now enter your presence with boldness by the blood of our savior.

Therefore, we come to you by your call and worship you with gladness.

See us in your tender mercy.

While we are unworthy, do not despise us.

For we recognize our unworthiness and confess our sins to you this morning.

We have not lived in a manner worthy of the gospel.

We have not loved our neighbor how we ought and we fail to exult you in a manner worthy of your name.

So with all humility instill Christ in us as we learn to be your people.

Let us draw near to your heart this morning.

As we approach your throne of grace, let your word be spoken and heard.

Give us attentive ears.

Give us hearts that understand.

So that we will no longer reject your call in our lives.

Place your law into our hearts as we worship you this morning.

Write them on our minds and let us all be taught the ways of God.

Let your word be for us living and active and powerful.

Raise our knowledge of God by taking every thought captive in our minds.

You are most holy is all of these things.

Therefore, let us magnify your name with thanksgiving and triumph in your praise.

Let us rejoice in your salvation and glorify in your Holy name.

Open our mouths and let our mouths show forth your praise.

Let the words of our mouths, and the meditation of our hearts, be acceptable in your sight, through Jesus Christ our Lord and savior.

Even as he taught us to pray, saying,/ Our Father who art in heaven// Hollowed be thy name// Thy kingdom come/ Thy will be done in earth//, as it is in heaven// Give us this day our daily bread// And forgive us our debts,/ as we forgive our debtors// And lead us not into temptation,/ but delivers us from evil,//For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory,// forever.

Amen

Old Testament Lesson:

Our Old Testament lesson comes from the very beginning of bible.

It is the fall of mankind into sin.

We are looking at this text this morning, because Paul draws heavily on this text in .

We have heard it: Take off the Old self and put on the new self.

Well Paul gets that idea from .

Adam and Eve eat from the tree of the knowledge of Good and evil.

Upon doing so they realize this own nakedness and experience shame.

In order to remedy this, they create their own clothing and cloth themselves in their own self righteousness.

This is the Old Self that Paul talks about.

But God, who is rich in grace and mercy removes those clothes from them and replaces them with new clothes that were divinely made by God.

Paul calls this the new self.

Notice in the text this morning that the removal of the old clothes and the gift of the new clothes are not chosen by Adam, but given by the will of God alone.

Hear the Word of God:

3 Now the serpent/ was more crafty than any other beast of the field/ that the LORD God had made.//

He said to the woman/ “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”/ 2 And the woman said to the serpent,/ “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden,/ 3 but God said, /‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’ /” 4 But the serpent said to the woman,/ “You will not surely die.

5/ For God knows/ that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened,/ and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”/

6 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.

/7 Then the eyes of both were opened, / they knew that they were naked.

/And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths./

8 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./

9 But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” 10 And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, /and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.”

/11 He said, “Who told you that you were naked?

/Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”/ 12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me,/ she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.” /13 Then the LORD God said to the woman,/ “What is this that you have done?”/

The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” /

14 The LORD God said to the serpent, / “Because you have done this, /cursed are you above all livestock,/ and above all beasts of the field; /on your belly you shall go,/ and dust you shall eat/ all the days of your life.

“Because you have done this,

cursed are you above all livestock

and above all beasts of the field;

15 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.”

on your belly you shall go,

and dust you shall eat

all the days of your life.

15  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.”

16 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.”

16 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.”

17 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;/ 18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;/ and you shall eat the plants of the field.

/19 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.”

17 And to Adam he said,

“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife

and have eaten of the tree