Malice In Wonderland Wk 1
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Intro
Intro
Tweedle Dee OR Tweedle DUMB?
What is the name of Alice’s Cat?(Dinah)
What did Alice lose falling down the rabbit hole?(Necklace)
What color is Alice’s dress?(Blue)
What creature was always late(Rabbit)
What was the creature late for(A very important date)
Fill in the blank “The _______ Cat”
How tall is the caterpillar(3 Inches)
According to the Cheshire Cat, Where is everybody Mad?(Wonderland)
What lesson is Alice learning when she falls from the tree?(history)
What game do Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum offer to play with Alice?(Hide and Seek)
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Begin new series “Malice in Wonderland.”
Define malice: The desire to do harm or mischief
Talking about Garden of Eden and the Fallout that comes from sin.
Do you ever look around the world and think, “Man, this place is jacked up.”
How many of you have ever heard someone say hey don’t believe in god because they don’t think God would allow such an awful world of sickness and pain?
Next time you hear that, you will have an answer because that’s what we are talking about tonight!
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Genesis 2:4
First thing is first, something cool happens after God creates everything.
and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground—
What? God creates the Garden of Eden with its own irrigation system. No rain, springs from the ground!
When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground—
then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
The original man, we know him as Adam, was literally handcrafted by God Himself. Again, evolution, creation, or big bang … we’ll save that for later. But this man was formed by God’s hands, and the breath that he had was given to him by God Himself. That’s pretty special!
the original man, we know him as Adam, was literally handcrafted by God Himself. Again, evolution, creation, or big bang … we’ll save that for later. But this man was formed by God’s hands, and the breath that he had was given to him by God Himself. That’s pretty special!
So far, we have no rain, springs of water, and a man crafted by God Himself. It gets better:
And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:
So, this man was handcrafted by God, placed in a perfect garden with the most beautiful of trees that had the tastiest of fruits, and not only that but it was a self-watering garden. Man, this place sounds awesome!
Genesis 2:10-
A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush. And the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
This place was loaded down with gold and other precious resources, and it had four different rivers flowing through it. Any of you think this sounds like a place you’d like to live? I know I would! And it gets even better:
This place was loaded down with gold and other precious resources, and it had four different rivers flowing through it. Any of you think this sounds like a place you’d like to live? I know I would! And it gets even better:
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
We finally come across something that we may perceive as negative: work. Adam had a job to do. Let’s read a little further to see what his job description is:
We finally come across something that we may perceive as negative: work. Adam had a job to do. Let’s read a little further to see what his job description is:
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.”
First on the job description list: eat whatever you want! “Eat anything and everything, except for that ONE in the middle. Other than that, have at it!” I’m digging it!
genesis 2:
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
Second on the job description list: name the animals, and whatever you say goes!
Second on the job description list: name the animals, and whatever you say goes!
What an awesome job! Eat anything you want, and decide what all the animals are going to be called!
The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said,
“This at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man.”
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
genesis 2:20-24
This man was in the perfect place with the perfect job, and yet he was still missing something. And when God saw that the man had something that wasn’t just absolutely perfect, He fixed it right away!
Then the man said,
“This at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man.”
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
genesis 2:23-24
Wow. Could this have gotten any better?
Wow. Could this have gotten any better?
Let’s take a few seconds to recap.
Adam handcrafted by God
Lived in a perfect and beautiful place made by God himself
Never rained because it had a self watering spring/stream system
Trees were beautiful, fruit was awesome.
Gold and other precious resources
Four rivers.
Job: Eat fruit, name the animals, live with Eve.
Both naked. Why is that important? PERFECT Temperatures!
It was a wonderland!
Application
Application
Lets go back to our question about how God could create a world with such evil. After reading this, it doesn’t really look like he did, does it?
It looks like he created a Wonderland.
God didn’t create a world full of brokenness and pain. God created a perfect world full of rest and pleasure! God’s original plan was for mankind to live in perfect harmony together with no pain, no death, no work, no storms, and no struggles! But unfortunately, something happened to mess up that plan.
God didn’t create a world full of brokenness and pain. God created a perfect world full of rest and pleasure! God’s original plan was for mankind to live in perfect harmony together with no pain, no death, no work, no storms, and no struggles! But unfortunately, something happened to mess up that plan.
We brought in sin. And sin ruined it all. But the same God that created everything made a plan to save it and recreate this paradise.
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?
In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.