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… with a passive, spineless abdication of his responsibility. This is the essence of what Adam did in Genesis chapter 3, verse 1 through 5. You say, well, Adam didn't do anything in the first five verses of this story. Precisely. He stands by and does nothing. Notice how the serpent. In the very way that he tempts this couple, he is subverting the design of God. He does not come to the head. He does not come to man. He comes to woman. From all we can tell, man just sitting idly by. And he's saying to woman, why don't you lead the way? Why don't you make this decision? The serpent undercutting the design of God in the very way that he is tempting. And then you get to verse 17 when God speaks directly to Adam. What does he say? Adam, because you have listened to the voice of your wife. Before he even addresses the fact that Adam ate the piece of fruit, direct disobedience to the command of God that Adam had been given, he says, fundamentally, you listened instead of leading. …
wow look at that wow look at that real quick I gotta teach it but look at that God immediately is connecting his dysfunction to his disobedience Thank you. He doesn't even litigate all of the confusion. He's saying there's a one-stop shop for your confusion, and it's disobedience. and your disobedience has opened now a Pandora's box, and more specifically, not just your disobedience, but your disobedience to the word I spoke. then the man said it gets even more dysfunctional then the man said the woman who you gave to be with me now he's blaming the lord he's so dysfunctional he is now accusing god of being dysfunctional it was a bad idea god you giving me that woman was a terrible idea god you ought to be look at how crazy we get how insane we get when we disconnect from the word. And the man said to the woman, the man said, the woman whom you gave to me with me, she gave me of the tree and I ate. …
… Help us get better and help us get the word out. But let's jump into this week's message called, Where Are You? Genesis together, the first book of the Bible. And I want to read to you Genesis chapter 3, verse 1. Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, did God really say you must not eat from any tree in the garden? And the woman said to the serpent, we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden from Trader Joe's, but God did say you must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden and you must not touch it or you will die. You will not certainly die. The serpent said to the woman, for God knows that when you eat from it, your eyes will be open and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye and desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and she ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were open and they realized they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the …