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Text for the Day: Genesis 3:8-10
PRAY....
What happens to people who are raised by unbelievers?
An interesting study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life revealed that 14 percent of people raised Catholic and 13 percent of people raised Protestant abandon the faith of their childhood.
At the other extreme, over 50 percent of people raised in “staunchly atheistic or agnostic households” have abandoned the non-faith of their childhood.
These people have abandoned disbelief and have embraced faith.
What moved them to faith?
Over half of those who abandoned unbelief say they had unmet spiritual needs in their lives.
We were created to be spiritual people.
If we are open and honest with ourselves, we recognize there are some uniquely human needs that cannot be met apart from God.
The Spirit then will move us toward Christ.
Secure Interest:
What happens to people who are raised by unbelievers?
There was a study done by the Pew research forum which shows the following:
14% of those raised Catholic abandon their faith.
13% of those raised Protestant abandon their faith.
Yet, 50% of those raised in Atheistic homes abandon their non-faith.
These people have abandoned their disbelief and have embraced faith.
What moved them to faith?
Almost all of them said the reason was that they had unmet spiritual needs in their lives.
We as a people, no matter where or how we are raised are created to be a spiritual people.
If we are open and honest with ourselves, we recognize that we have unique needs that cannot be met apart from God.
No matter how far we run from these internal needs, we desire for them to be met.
This is because we, all of creation are desiring that which we through our forefather Adam had.
Flesh and Blood Scenario:
You find this all throughout Scripture.
When the people of the Lord ran to the false god of baal,
this was their internal desire to pursue that which belongs.
This is why the story of Elijah and the prophets of baal even exists.
Because there is engrained in the heart of man a desire for that which we once had.
Vital Personal Questions:
So the question I have for you this morning Pastor is this:
Are you pointing people back to this internal desire of the heart?
Are you fighting tooth and nail against that which they suppress?
Crucial Assertions:
My assertion would be that most of us would have to say no.
Not that we don’t point our own to their Lord.
But that instead, we don’t focus on searching out the 1.
We instead merely focus on the 99.
Not that the 99 do not matter because they do.
But you should be the most trained man in the Scripture within your Church.
Who better to seek out the one than you?
Determinative Difference:
If you will apply what we find in this passage of Scripture to your own ministry;
You will begin to desire to show the unbelieving world the beauty of the fellowship with the Triune God.
Purpose:
My purpose in examining this text this evening is to show the Paradise man once inhabited as a foretaste of what we will one day have again.
Contextualization:
Connection to previous sermon:
Where am I in the outline of the book:
Restatement of PNP and Theological Principles:
I want to give you three imperatives concerning how man’s bond with the Trinity has been broken and you must do to restore that bond.
Man was and is removed from the presence of the Divine Trinity.
It is man’s nature to hide from the Trinity after the fall.
It is your command Pastor to call them back to the Divine Trinity.
Restate PNP:
Once again, I want to give you three imperatives concerning how man’s bond with the Trinity has been broken and what you must do to restore that bond.
Body of Sermon:
Body of Sermon:
PNP:
I. Theological Principle:
Man was and is removed from the presence of the Divine Trinity.
a. Look with me at where mankind was prior to the fall.
(Verse 8)
Prior to the fall of man, there was a time when the presence of the Lord was not hidden from man.
A time where man was able to walk with the Lord.
A sanctuary if you will.
Where man was able to have sweet communion with the Triune God.
With nothing separating them from the Three-in-One.
Just a few verses prior to this we find Adam interacting with the Lord in a remarkable way.
Back in 2:22 you find God bringing to Adam the most wonderful present his eyes had known at that moment.
Apart from the more miraculous which was that it was the Triune God who brought him the woman.
All through the Creation account of Scripture you find an interaction between man and God.
And this interaction took place in what I would call the Sanctuary of Israel.
They were in the Garden.
That miraculous place the Lord established for His communion and revealing of Himself to the people.
The very first place where the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit would commune with man.
A place of safety and refuge for God’s creation.
Yet it was not the physical place which made this place safe.
Look back at verse 8.
The Garden was the safe haven of man because of who was in their midst.
Who in this room today would not long for this?
Long for this interaction that this text reveals to us?
Long for the day when we would need to be like Moses.
Begging for the Lord to let us see merely a glimpse of who He is?
Yet, Adam and Eve had that.
They had sweet communion with God in such a way that we today cannot begin to comprehend.
We get a glimpse of this through our salvation.
We get a peek of fellowship with the Father.
We get a glance of forgiveness through the Son.
We get a partial view of this through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
Yet this all falls short in showing us what was truly taking place in the Garden.
Our Glimpse is impaired with the attributes of the fall.
Our understanding of this is truly hindered by the marring of sin in our own lives.
We cannot truly begin to understand.
We speak about the Triune God.
That’s why we’re all here.
Yet none of us have ever seen this.
Not with our eyes.
We get a glimpse of this in our imagination.
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