Paradise Lost
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· 19 viewsThe Lord God, through His Christ, is graciously building a kingdom of redeemed people for their joy and his own glory.
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WHAT DOES THIS PASSAGE TEACH ME ABOUT WHO GOD IS?
WHAT DOES THIS PASSAGE TEACH ME ABOUT WHO GOD IS?
GOD IS RELATIONAL
GOD IS RELATIONAL
He is not a troglodyte (lonely) but Triune. The Trinity did not create out of requisite (need) but reflection.
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
HE PURSUES US
HE PURSUES US
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.
HE IS PATIENT WITH US
HE IS PATIENT WITH US
Genesis 3
An article on NPR claims that we have become "the Impatient Nation." We want quick answers to complex problems. The article puts it this way:
We: Speed date. Eat fast food. Use the self-checkout lines in grocery stores. Try the "one weekend" diet. Pay extra for overnight shipping. Honk when the light turns green. Thrive or dive on quarterly earnings reports. Speak in half sentences. Start things but don't fin ...We tweet stories in 140 characters or less, yet some tweets are too long. We cut corners, take shortcuts. We txt.
We: Send new faces to Washington every two years, then vote the rascals out two years later. Clamor for more safety in the skies, then complain when security takes too long—and is inconvenient. Can't take the time to drive to the video store or to wait for a DVD to arrive in the mail, so we order them on demand or stream them on the Web—well, clips of movies at least.
The Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen?
God is not capricious (given to sudden behavior change). The genealogy of demonstrates His longsuffering. We can calculate a timeline for human history from creation to the flood of 1,500 years.
Within this genealogy is contained a hidden prophecy that further demonstrates God’s patience.
When Enoch had lived 65 years, he fathered Methuselah.
Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
Thus all the days of Enoch were 365 years.
Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
How is that passage prophetic? Methuselah comes from muth, a root that means “death”; and from shalach, which means “to bring”, or “to send forth”. The name Methuselah means, “his death shall bring”.
Methuselah’s father was given a prophecy of the coming Great Flood, and was apparently told that as long as his son was alive, the judgment of the flood would be withheld; but as soon as he died, the flood would be brought or sent forth.
(Can you imagine raising a kid like that? Every time the boy caught a cold, the entire neighborhood must have panicked!)
And, indeed, the year that Methuselah died, the flood came.
It is interesting that Methuselah’s life, in effect, was a symbol of God’s mercy in forestalling the coming judgment of the flood. Therefore, it is fitting that his lifetime is the oldest in the Bible, speaking of the extensiveness of God’s mercy.
GOD IS RIGHTEOUS
GOD IS RIGHTEOUS
HE IS THE JUDGE
HE IS THE JUDGE
And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
He passes judgement on Adam and Eve in , Cain in , the world in , and the world again in . If God were to not judge sin He would fail to be righteous.
The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.
So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.”
Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.”
When the Scripture says that God regretted it does not mean that He had second thoughts about creation. This is anthropomorphic language (ascribing human form or attributes to a deity) which is used in Hebrew language to describe God using human language. This Hebrew expression simply means that God grieved over man’s condition. Did God not know that man was going to sin? Of course he did. Knowing something is going to happen does not remove its effect.
The Judge of the Universe patience is at the point of exhaustion.
Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.”
However, he further demonstrates how long suffering He is by waiting 120 before executing His judgment. During this 120 years God gracious provided a preacher in Noah and a prophecy in Methuselah. The judge stayed man’s punishment in order to provide him salvation.
GOD IS REDEMPTIVE
GOD IS REDEMPTIVE
THE ONE WHO JUDGES IS ALSO THE ONE WHO JUSTIFIES.
THE ONE WHO JUDGES IS ALSO THE ONE WHO JUSTIFIES.
Adam and Eve sinned but God sacrifice an innocent animal to satisfy His judgement against their sin.
And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.
Noah was a sinner who
But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
Verse 9 goes on to tell us
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.
This declaration was not due to something inherit within Noah but it was something that had been imputed to him.
Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.
“Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.
Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”
So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.
Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark.
Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.
WHAT DOES THIS PASSAGE TEACH ME ABOUT WHO I AM?
WHAT DOES THIS PASSAGE TEACH ME ABOUT WHO I AM?
I AM A SINNER.
I AM A SINNER.
BY DECEDENT/DNA
BY DECEDENT/DNA
This means I don’t become a sinner through sinful actions but I am born a sinner.
BY DEFINITION
BY DEFINITION
Sin can be defined as “not your will but mine be done”.
Sin can be defined as “not your will but mine be done”.
And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.
Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.”
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.
I AM DEPRAVED.
I AM DEPRAVED.
Total depravity does not mean that man is as wicked or sinful as he could be, nor does it mean that man is without a conscience or any sense of right or wrong. Neither does it mean that man does not or cannot do things that seem to be good when viewed from a human perspective or measured against a human standard. It does not even mean that man cannot do things that seem to conform outwardly to the law of God. What the Bible does teach and what total depravity does recognize is that even the “good” things man does are tainted by sin because they are not done for the glory of God and out of faith in Him (; ). While man looks upon the outward acts and judges them to be good, God looks upon not only the outward acts but also the inward motives that lie behind them, and because they proceed from a heart that is in rebellion against Him and they are not done for His glory, even these good deeds are like “filthy rags” in His sight. In other words, fallen man’s good deeds are motivated not by a desire to please God but by our own self-interest and are thus corrupted to the point where God declares that there is “no one who does good, no not one!”
WHAT DOES THIS PASSAGE TEACH ME ABOUT WHAT GOD DOES?
WHAT DOES THIS PASSAGE TEACH ME ABOUT WHAT GOD DOES?
GOD KEEPS HIS PROMISES.
GOD KEEPS HIS PROMISES.
GOD SAVES PEOPLE.
GOD SAVES PEOPLE.
By grace through faith.
But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.
There was once a young man from Chicago who went down to the bluegrass regions of Kentucky where he met and wooed a young woman who ultimately came back to Chicago as his bride. They enjoyed three lovely years of marriage, and then one day in the midst of a sickness in a seizure of pain the young woman lost her mind. When she was at her best, she was a bit demented. At her worst, she would scream, and neighbors complained because the screams cut the air and it was hard to live with.
And so the young businessman left his home in the middle of Chicago, went out to one of the western suburbs, built a house, determined that there he would try to nurse his wife back to health and sanity again. One day the family physician suggested that perhaps if he were to take his wife back to her Kentucky home that something in those familiar surroundings would help her restore her sanity, and so they went back to the old homestead. Hand in hand they walked through the old house where memories hung on every corner. They went down to the garden and walked down by the riverside where the first cowslips and violets were in bloom. But after several days nothing seemed to happen.
So, defeated and discouraged, the young man put his wife back in the car, and they headed back to Chicago. When they got close to the house, he looked over and discovered that his wife was asleep. It was the first deep, restful sleep she had had in many weeks. When he got to the house, he lifted her from the car, took her inside, placed her on the bed, and realized she wanted to sleep some more. So he placed a cover over her and then just sat by her side and watched her through the midnight hour, watched her until the first rays of the sun reached through the curtain and touched her face. The young woman awoke, and she saw her husband seated by her side. She said, "I seem to have been on a long journey. Where have you been?" And that man, speaking out of days and weeks and months of patient waiting and watching said, "My sweetheart, I've been right here waiting for you all this time."
And if you ask me, "Where is God?" the answer is very much the same. He's right here, right here waiting for you to respond with love to love, waiting for you to respond with trust to promise, waiting for you to cast yourself with a reckless abandon upon the grace of God, and waiting for you to discover what it means to be loved by God.
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WHAT DOES THIS PASSAGE TEACH ME THAT I SHOULD DO?
WHAT DOES THIS PASSAGE TEACH ME THAT I SHOULD DO?
I SHOULD NOT PRESUME UPON GOD PATIENCE.
I SHOULD NOT PRESUME UPON GOD PATIENCE.
Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.”
I SHOULD WALK BY FAITH
I SHOULD WALK BY FAITH
Hebrews 11
By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.
By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God.
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
I SHOULD WALK BY FAITH NO MATTER MY CIRCUMSTANCES
I SHOULD WALK BY FAITH NO MATTER MY CIRCUMSTANCES
Circumstances will not make walking by faith any easier or more difficult. My sight not my surrounding influence my walk of faith.
I SHOULD WALK BY FAITH NO MATTER MY CULTURE
I SHOULD WALK BY FAITH NO MATTER MY CULTURE
I SHOULD WALK BY FAITH BECAUSE I AM A CHRIST FOLLOWER
I SHOULD WALK BY FAITH BECAUSE I AM A CHRIST FOLLOWER
FLORENCE Chadwick was a world-class swimmer. She had already been successful in swimming the English Channel. Now she wanted to take on the twenty-six-mile trek from Catalina Island, California, to the California mainland, as no woman had ever done that before. So Florence went into the Pacific with a number of boats surrounding her as she made the trip. She swam. Hour after hour, she swam. It was a very foggy night when she tried to do this. As darkness set in, she could barely see her hand in front of her face as she stroked. After swimming fifteen hours and fifty-five minutes, she waved to the boats and said, “I can go no farther. I quit.”
They hoisted her out of the water, and they asked her, “Why can’t you keep going?” She said, “Because I can’t see. The fog is just too thick.” After getting on the boat, she discovered that she was only one-half mile from the coast of California. All that hard work, and she was ever so close but she didn’t quite make it.
Florence Chadwick decided to try again two months later. She got in the water. It looked bright and sunny, but after about twelve hours, fog set in once more. This time the fog was even worse than before. Again, she couldn’t see, but this time she kept swimming. She kept going. This time she not only swam from Catalina Island to the coast, but she swam there and beat the world record by two and a half hours.
When she arrived at the California coastline, she was interviewed and asked, “Last time you tried this, you quit. How did you make it this time?” She said, “This time it was easy because I kept a mental picture of the California coastline in my mind. And as long as I didn’t lose sight of where I was going, I could handle the trip getting there.”
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Evans, Tony. Tony Evans' Book of Illustrations: Stories, Quotes, and Anecdotes from More Than 30 Years of Preaching and Public Speaking (p. 88). Moody Publishers. Kindle Edition.
Evans, Tony. Tony Evans' Book of Illustrations: Stories, Quotes, and Anecdotes from More Than 30 Years of Preaching and Public Speaking (p. 88). Moody Publishers. Kindle Edition.