Yes, again! I will never get enough!
Just a short recap of our sermon this AM...
September 8, 2013
EPIC--our sermon series beginning September 8 and leading through Easter.
Epic starts out in Genesis. This is a series hitting those epic stories of the Bible that show us that glimpse of Christ.
Genesis makes me giddy. Like a school girl at show and tell, bringing my stuffed oversized spotted turtle that my aunt gave me, ready to show the world my treasured gift, so is Genesis to my soul. Reading the story of creation, hearing of the gifts God gave us, the perfectness, the simplicity, the ease in our being brings about a hope and love that can only be given by the Holy Spirit. And even as I walk through Genesis and we only make it a mere 3 chapters before we twist the paradise and my heart is breaking, I am still in awe because I know that just a few more verses, not even chapters but only verses, God gives us our first glimpse of Jesus and the gospel. Even as I scream at Eve to not eat, Adam to tell her to stop, scream at Adam to just answer God, tell him the truth, repent, just REPENT, I still have hope because God gave us that hope first.
Now while I fully believe that pride is at the center of our every sin--this thinking that we know better, we are better, we are capable of better--our pastor taught that Adam and Eve had grown complacent. I could see that. But again, I would say that pride is at the center of our complacency. Pastor Himaya pointed out that complacency leads to complaining which leads to discontentment and this leads to an untrusting. Adam and Eve had everything. Their work was easy. They could enjoy all of the fruits of the garden except for one. They had a direct relationship, no I would say friendship, with God. But they grew complacent with the blessing of God and this led them to lacking the trust in God that they had once had. So when the serpent came to them, they were already susceptible to believing the lie. And since this time, we have constantly wanted to do what we want. Genesis shows us that God is willing to hurt us for own good. Pastor Himaya demonstrated this same hurt in the way that if a car was barreling down the road toward your child, you would without a second thought push your child down on the pavement as you pushed him out of the way. You would risk skinning a knee or an elbow, bruising a tush or a hand. You would risk fracturing a bone to save your child from getting pummeled by a moving car. Genesis brings us the curse but Genesis also shows that God loves us. Genesis brings us the fall but Genesis brings us Jesus. What a beautiful picture of Jesus.
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