1 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:07,520 Welcome to Heaven Earth Church. 2 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:09,480 My name is Ross Stackhouse. 3 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:12,480 I'm the founding pastor of Heaven Earth Church. 4 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:16,680 From the beginning, our heart was to be a church for people who 5 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:18,400 don't fit neatly into church. 6 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:22,560 Our heart is to meet people where they are, to learn their stories, 7 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:24,120 to honor their stories. 8 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:27,280 Because in every human story is God's story. 9 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:31,160 In this podcast, you'll hear more about the people who now call 10 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:32,800 Heaven Earth Church home. 11 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:36,840 Their stories, in many cases of misfits who are discovering or 12 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:38,040 rediscovering faith. 13 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:41,560 If you want to know more about us, you can go to heavenorthchurch.org 14 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:45,080 Otherwise, we invite you now into the story. 15 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:48,480 Hello, good people. 16 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:53,160 Brad Miller here, the producer of the Heaven Earth Church podcast. 17 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:57,160 One of the main benefits of being a part of the Heaven Earth 18 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:03,270 Church community is our Sunday morning conversations taught by founding 19 00:01:03,270 --> 00:01:05,590 pastor Ross Stackhouse. 20 00:01:06,470 --> 00:01:11,270 You can watch and participate in the Sunday morning conversation 21 00:01:11,830 --> 00:01:20,310 this Sunday morning, 9:30am Eastern time at YouTube.com heavenerthchurch. 22 00:01:21,270 --> 00:01:26,160 The audio version of the Sunday morning conversation is available 23 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:30,880 here on the podcast, which you can find at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, 24 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:39,760 and on the website, which is heaven earthchurch.org now with the 25 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:46,240 message everybody wants to rule the world is Pastor Ross Stackhouse. 26 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,570 All right, let's pray and have a conversation. 27 00:01:51,770 --> 00:01:54,690 First, I'm going to invite you into a moment of silence, and then 28 00:01:54,690 --> 00:01:55,210 I'll pray. 29 00:01:55,370 --> 00:01:57,690 Embrace the awkwardness of the silence. 30 00:02:02,570 --> 00:02:05,370 Lord, help us to be aware of your presence. 31 00:02:05,770 --> 00:02:09,210 Admittedly, it's hard to see you at work. 32 00:02:09,450 --> 00:02:11,050 It's hard to hear you. 33 00:02:11,210 --> 00:02:13,610 It's hard to understand how it all works. 34 00:02:15,540 --> 00:02:18,580 So help us to have a sense of your presence. 35 00:02:19,060 --> 00:02:25,220 Enlighten our minds and enrich our hearts for the sake of your glory 36 00:02:26,100 --> 00:02:29,540 and our joy and for the renewal of all things. 37 00:02:30,500 --> 00:02:32,580 In Jesus name, amen. 38 00:02:33,460 --> 00:02:35,300 All right, let's start with some trivia. 39 00:02:35,780 --> 00:02:36,980 We have a song lyric. 40 00:02:37,860 --> 00:02:40,990 First person to get it right gets a prize. 41 00:02:41,230 --> 00:02:43,470 Emily's got a prize that she's gonna give you. 42 00:02:43,710 --> 00:02:44,270 Yep. 43 00:02:44,750 --> 00:02:45,190 Yeah. 44 00:02:45,190 --> 00:02:46,750 All right, ready? 45 00:02:46,830 --> 00:02:47,910 Here's a song lyric. 46 00:02:47,910 --> 00:02:50,670 It's only 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 words. 47 00:02:51,710 --> 00:02:54,910 All for freedom and for pleasure. 48 00:02:55,150 --> 00:02:56,510 Oh, wow. 49 00:02:56,830 --> 00:02:59,150 Some of you like, this ain't my music anyways. 50 00:03:00,910 --> 00:03:09,240 All for freedom and for pleasure Everlast forever. 51 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:12,760 Come on, let's do it again. 52 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:16,680 All for freedom and for pleasure. 53 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:20,560 Nothing ever lasts forever. 54 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:22,360 Come on, blast it free. 55 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:30,840 Who's it by? 56 00:03:32,230 --> 00:03:33,350 Let's go, Katie. 57 00:03:33,670 --> 00:03:34,950 Katie gets a prize. 58 00:03:38,870 --> 00:03:39,430 Yeah. 59 00:03:41,030 --> 00:03:42,630 I swear, this matters. 60 00:03:43,830 --> 00:03:45,430 It'll come in here. 61 00:03:46,230 --> 00:03:48,070 Everybody wants to rule the world all right. 62 00:03:48,070 --> 00:03:48,830 Without cheating. 63 00:03:48,830 --> 00:03:50,470 You May not look at your phones. 64 00:03:51,750 --> 00:03:53,190 You may do this as a group. 65 00:03:54,070 --> 00:03:55,430 I need 10 items. 66 00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:59,720 What 10 items might I be looking for in the church if I were 67 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:00,800 going to ask for 10 things? 68 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:01,680 A list of 10. 69 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:03,120 The 10 Commandments. 70 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:05,360 You cannot cheat. 71 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:08,800 You may not look at your phone, but you may do it as a group. 72 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:10,720 So go ahead. 73 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:11,600 Yep. 74 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:12,640 One. 75 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:15,120 No murdering. 76 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:16,160 You got three. 77 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:18,000 I heard covet murdering. 78 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:19,680 No other gods before me? 79 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:20,560 Nope. 80 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:21,600 Steal. 81 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:22,480 There's four. 82 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:23,200 Don't steal. 83 00:04:23,590 --> 00:04:24,390 Honor the Sabbath. 84 00:04:24,390 --> 00:04:25,070 Keep it holy. 85 00:04:25,070 --> 00:04:25,670 There's five. 86 00:04:26,950 --> 00:04:28,310 Honor your father and mother. 87 00:04:28,310 --> 00:04:33,350 Did you hear that, BO on your father, mother. 88 00:04:33,350 --> 00:04:33,750 Six. 89 00:04:34,230 --> 00:04:35,670 Adultery for seven. 90 00:04:35,830 --> 00:04:37,030 Paul has two of them. 91 00:04:37,030 --> 00:04:37,750 Come on now. 92 00:04:38,390 --> 00:04:38,790 What? 93 00:04:39,509 --> 00:04:39,910 What? 94 00:04:40,150 --> 00:04:41,070 No idols. 95 00:04:41,070 --> 00:04:42,750 That's separate than the first one there. 96 00:04:42,750 --> 00:04:45,390 The first two have to do with, like, no other gods and idols. 97 00:04:45,390 --> 00:04:45,990 So there's eight. 98 00:04:46,790 --> 00:04:47,750 You missing two. 99 00:04:47,990 --> 00:04:51,480 You got, thou shalt have no other gods before me. 100 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:53,160 Don't make an idol. 101 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:55,400 Sabbath day. 102 00:04:56,840 --> 00:04:57,760 Father and mother. 103 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:01,160 Oh, clicked on an ad for a shoe. 104 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:01,880 Hold on. 105 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:05,640 Honor your dad and your mom. 106 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:11,400 Don't kill, don't commit adultery, don't steal, and don't 107 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:11,960 covet. 108 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:12,680 Boom. 109 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:16,120 Michael is such a ringer with trivia. 110 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:19,950 Like, if you're going to any bar for trivia, take Michael Windsor 111 00:05:19,950 --> 00:05:20,510 with you. 112 00:05:21,230 --> 00:05:24,830 One more Lord's name in vain. 113 00:05:25,070 --> 00:05:28,670 Okay, here's my question for you. 114 00:05:29,070 --> 00:05:35,470 What, in your experience, which of those commands God has received 115 00:05:35,630 --> 00:05:41,070 the most emphasis either in your religious background or culturally? 116 00:05:41,710 --> 00:05:43,070 What would you say is one? 117 00:05:43,070 --> 00:05:46,310 That, like, man, this one got a lot of emphasis. 118 00:05:46,310 --> 00:05:47,230 Or you could say two. 119 00:05:47,230 --> 00:05:49,100 I guess I'll allow it. 120 00:05:50,620 --> 00:05:51,380 Which one got. 121 00:05:51,380 --> 00:05:53,580 Which one of those got the most emphasis? 122 00:05:54,380 --> 00:05:56,180 Joanna says no murdering. 123 00:05:56,180 --> 00:05:57,420 Got a lot of emphasis. 124 00:05:57,660 --> 00:05:58,220 Okay. 125 00:05:58,620 --> 00:05:59,820 The tangible ones. 126 00:05:59,820 --> 00:06:01,100 Okay, okay. 127 00:06:02,380 --> 00:06:03,100 Adultery. 128 00:06:03,100 --> 00:06:03,980 Got a lot of play. 129 00:06:04,860 --> 00:06:05,500 Those are the. 130 00:06:05,500 --> 00:06:08,620 Those are two that Jesus mentions in his Sermon on the Mount. 131 00:06:08,940 --> 00:06:12,260 Because remember, he says you've heard it said, don't commit 132 00:06:12,260 --> 00:06:12,660 adultery. 133 00:06:12,660 --> 00:06:15,780 But I tell you, if you're desiring to someone in your heart, 134 00:06:15,780 --> 00:06:16,500 you're lusting. 135 00:06:16,500 --> 00:06:17,940 You're committing adultery in your heart. 136 00:06:18,020 --> 00:06:20,180 He says you've heard it said, don't commit murder. 137 00:06:20,180 --> 00:06:22,540 But I tell you, if you harbor anger in your heart against your 138 00:06:22,540 --> 00:06:23,780 neighbor, you've committed murder. 139 00:06:23,780 --> 00:06:24,820 So he mentions, too. 140 00:06:24,980 --> 00:06:26,700 He mentions other ones elsewhere. 141 00:06:26,700 --> 00:06:27,380 But what else? 142 00:06:27,380 --> 00:06:28,660 What got into this, Charles? 143 00:06:32,020 --> 00:06:34,500 Idolatry has been very much emphasized. 144 00:06:35,380 --> 00:06:38,580 Yeah, yeah, we actually mentioned it last week. 145 00:06:38,820 --> 00:06:39,860 We talked about it a lot. 146 00:06:39,860 --> 00:06:40,600 How we. 147 00:06:40,670 --> 00:06:42,830 There's a Bible project video about the image of God. 148 00:06:42,830 --> 00:06:46,870 And this video says, like, God asks us not to make any images of 149 00:06:46,870 --> 00:06:49,390 himself because he already has made images of himself. 150 00:06:49,870 --> 00:06:52,590 And those images are you. 151 00:06:53,790 --> 00:06:55,710 Let us make humankind in our image. 152 00:06:56,830 --> 00:06:58,430 That one got used a lot. 153 00:06:58,910 --> 00:07:00,670 Don't use God's name in vain. 154 00:07:00,670 --> 00:07:02,870 Which, by the way, is a reference to the name of God. 155 00:07:02,870 --> 00:07:06,590 Maybe you don't like the actual Hebrew name of God if you're 156 00:07:06,590 --> 00:07:06,910 like man. 157 00:07:06,910 --> 00:07:08,180 What does that mean? 158 00:07:08,500 --> 00:07:12,940 There's a moment in Exodus where God asks Moses to go rescue 159 00:07:12,940 --> 00:07:13,220 people. 160 00:07:13,540 --> 00:07:15,460 And he says, well, what's your name, pal? 161 00:07:15,860 --> 00:07:18,100 So I can tell them who's rescuing them. 162 00:07:18,100 --> 00:07:22,420 And God responds with this Hebrew phrase that there are four 163 00:07:22,420 --> 00:07:24,580 letters that correspond to that phrase. 164 00:07:25,460 --> 00:07:28,580 Y, H, W, H, Yahweh. 165 00:07:29,460 --> 00:07:31,660 That is the sacred name of God. 166 00:07:31,660 --> 00:07:35,630 So when Jesus says, our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be your. 167 00:07:36,350 --> 00:07:36,830 He's. 168 00:07:36,830 --> 00:07:42,230 He's referring specifically to this phrase, I am who I am or I will 169 00:07:42,230 --> 00:07:42,670 be there. 170 00:07:42,670 --> 00:07:44,110 Howsoever, I will be there. 171 00:07:44,430 --> 00:07:47,230 Moses, go tell them that's the person who's sending you. 172 00:07:47,390 --> 00:07:50,350 Moses is like, repeat that really quick. 173 00:07:50,430 --> 00:07:50,990 Sorry. 174 00:07:53,870 --> 00:07:55,390 Yeah, what else? 175 00:07:55,390 --> 00:07:55,550 What? 176 00:07:55,550 --> 00:07:56,830 What one's got emphasis. 177 00:07:57,230 --> 00:07:59,550 Okay, which one's got the least emphasis? 178 00:08:01,660 --> 00:08:02,460 Sabbath day. 179 00:08:02,860 --> 00:08:03,420 Yes. 180 00:08:05,180 --> 00:08:06,220 Not emphasize. 181 00:08:06,220 --> 00:08:07,740 Or I would. 182 00:08:07,740 --> 00:08:09,980 I would argue like distorted. 183 00:08:10,220 --> 00:08:11,100 Exactly. 184 00:08:11,660 --> 00:08:13,100 That sounds so exciting. 185 00:08:13,100 --> 00:08:14,540 Practice of Sabbath, right? 186 00:08:14,620 --> 00:08:15,100 Yeah. 187 00:08:15,420 --> 00:08:17,860 Heather says, yeah, it's keeping the Sabbath. 188 00:08:17,860 --> 00:08:21,500 Just go to church on Sunday morning when Sabbath is. 189 00:08:22,380 --> 00:08:25,140 I would argue we'll have a whole other series about this. 190 00:08:25,140 --> 00:08:28,510 One of the most most important spiritual practices that followers 191 00:08:28,510 --> 00:08:30,950 of Jesus need in our time is Sabbath. 192 00:08:31,830 --> 00:08:35,030 A reinvigorated practice of Sabbath. 193 00:08:35,190 --> 00:08:38,350 Eugene Peterson, who wrote the message translation, said it was 194 00:08:38,350 --> 00:08:40,870 the most radical thing he practiced in his life. 195 00:08:41,749 --> 00:08:45,430 He and his wife would go on like a two or three hour hike every 196 00:08:45,910 --> 00:08:46,790 Sabbath day. 197 00:08:47,030 --> 00:08:49,790 That one got very little emphasis where it was distorted. 198 00:08:49,790 --> 00:08:50,190 What else? 199 00:08:50,190 --> 00:08:50,590 What got. 200 00:08:50,590 --> 00:08:52,150 What wasn't emphasized very much. 201 00:08:53,210 --> 00:08:53,850 Anything else? 202 00:08:53,930 --> 00:08:55,050 Honoring your parents. 203 00:08:55,770 --> 00:08:58,530 Okay, your mom's sitting right next to you. 204 00:08:58,530 --> 00:08:58,890 Paul. 205 00:08:59,130 --> 00:09:00,210 Is that is like a thing? 206 00:09:00,210 --> 00:09:02,090 Is that like a confession or something, man? 207 00:09:02,090 --> 00:09:03,250 No, no, no, no, no. 208 00:09:03,250 --> 00:09:06,090 Okay, yeah, sure. 209 00:09:07,290 --> 00:09:07,930 Okay. 210 00:09:09,130 --> 00:09:09,610 Nick. 211 00:09:10,010 --> 00:09:10,810 Coveting. 212 00:09:11,370 --> 00:09:13,450 So honestly, for me, we're going to get back to this. 213 00:09:13,450 --> 00:09:17,330 The one that got emphasized the least in every circle I've ever 214 00:09:17,330 --> 00:09:19,840 been a part of is the coveting one. 215 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:23,360 I would wager that some of our politicians want nine commandments 216 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:24,000 up in school. 217 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:25,200 Not that one. 218 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:26,000 Oh, Nick. 219 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:27,600 Bearing false witness. 220 00:09:27,680 --> 00:09:28,080 Yeah. 221 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:31,520 Another one that maybe, like, even when it got talked about it, 222 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:32,440 it kind of didn't. 223 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:34,160 You didn't really capture the beauty of it. 224 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:38,320 Which, by the way, if you put commandments up in school, it doesn't 225 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:41,760 make you any more righteous just because you put up a sign Somewhere 226 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:45,240 doesn't make you any more favorable in God's eyes anyways. 227 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:46,160 That was a sidetrack. 228 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:46,520 Ross. 229 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:47,200 Come on, man. 230 00:09:47,670 --> 00:09:48,310 Don't do that. 231 00:09:48,710 --> 00:09:49,510 Don't do that. 232 00:09:50,070 --> 00:09:51,630 Here's what I want to talk to you about today. 233 00:09:51,630 --> 00:09:53,990 That last week, I talked about, like, how everything. 234 00:09:53,990 --> 00:09:55,830 We're in a series called Growing what is Good. 235 00:09:56,310 --> 00:10:00,350 We're kind of building off of Easter, this idea that, like, God's 236 00:10:00,350 --> 00:10:04,550 glory has broken in in a new way into God's creation. 237 00:10:05,190 --> 00:10:09,790 And the end game of all this, like, where this is heading, as Habakkuk 238 00:10:09,790 --> 00:10:12,670 says that the knowledge of the Lord's glory is going to cover the 239 00:10:12,670 --> 00:10:14,790 earth as surely as the waters cover the sea. 240 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:17,840 Like God's glory is making a comeback on Earth. 241 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:22,560 In the beginning, humankind and everything was made to reflect 242 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:23,360 God. 243 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:28,800 And we defined how good equals anything that reflects God. 244 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:29,560 Why do we say that? 245 00:10:29,560 --> 00:10:32,600 Because after every day when God is creating, God sees it and 246 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:33,600 says that it was. 247 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:39,560 And after the sixth day, when God creates humankind, God said it 248 00:10:39,560 --> 00:10:42,100 was, like, supremely good. 249 00:10:42,100 --> 00:10:43,860 The Ninja Turtles will be like, tubular. 250 00:10:44,100 --> 00:10:45,940 Like, awesome. 251 00:10:46,100 --> 00:10:48,580 I want to talk to you today about, like, I want to just step 252 00:10:48,580 --> 00:10:52,020 forward a little bit by saying that we are made to multiply what 253 00:10:52,020 --> 00:10:54,900 is good with God and with each other. 254 00:10:55,060 --> 00:11:00,660 We are made to multiply what is good with God and with each other. 255 00:11:00,820 --> 00:11:03,460 Like, that is our life's purpose. 256 00:11:03,860 --> 00:11:09,060 Jesus comes to restore the image of God in us, to restore our 257 00:11:09,060 --> 00:11:13,540 sense of goodness and to mobilize us and send us out to multiply 258 00:11:13,540 --> 00:11:15,260 what is good with God and with each other. 259 00:11:15,260 --> 00:11:16,180 Are you with me? 260 00:11:18,340 --> 00:11:19,460 Sounds too simple. 261 00:11:21,140 --> 00:11:21,660 I want to. 262 00:11:21,660 --> 00:11:26,180 I want to show you really quick, like, how this, like, the 263 00:11:26,180 --> 00:11:30,340 poetry of goodness is in the first chapters, first couple chapters 264 00:11:31,060 --> 00:11:32,580 of Genesis. 265 00:11:32,980 --> 00:11:33,620 So really quick. 266 00:11:33,620 --> 00:11:35,620 This may seem like a diversion, but one of the things 267 00:11:35,620 --> 00:11:39,820 that trips people up in my experiences, our students even asked 268 00:11:39,820 --> 00:11:40,140 it. 269 00:11:40,380 --> 00:11:43,940 How do I reconcile what's going on in the Bible with what I 270 00:11:43,940 --> 00:11:45,660 read or what I've studied in science? 271 00:11:45,900 --> 00:11:50,180 Well, some of us came from the background that we got told the Bible 272 00:11:50,180 --> 00:11:51,580 is a science book. 273 00:11:51,740 --> 00:11:53,020 I want to tell you that. 274 00:11:53,500 --> 00:11:54,140 Shocking. 275 00:11:54,540 --> 00:11:55,260 It isn't. 276 00:11:55,340 --> 00:11:56,940 I know some of you are like, what? 277 00:11:58,940 --> 00:12:02,220 Especially Genesis. 278 00:12:03,100 --> 00:12:04,220 The Bible is a. 279 00:12:04,680 --> 00:12:05,600 Wait, what am I going to say? 280 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:08,240 There's a phrase I always say, the Bible is not a book, but it's 281 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:08,520 a. 282 00:12:08,680 --> 00:12:14,280 It's a library of books with just as you'd walk into a library 283 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:16,480 and there'd be different sections and genres, and you would 284 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:17,360 read things differently. 285 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:20,719 You wouldn't pick up barefoot contessa's Cookbook and read it the 286 00:12:20,719 --> 00:12:22,200 way that you read Lord Byron. 287 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:22,600 Right? 288 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:23,880 What's that gal's name? 289 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:24,680 Ina Garn. 290 00:12:24,680 --> 00:12:25,040 Thank you. 291 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:25,480 Thank you. 292 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:27,320 What are we doing? 293 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:29,000 What are we doing? 294 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:30,760 This is not my notes. 295 00:12:31,550 --> 00:12:36,430 Genesis is like beautiful poetry, and it's poetry about how 296 00:12:36,430 --> 00:12:41,430 God speaks and light and all things that reflect God's light are 297 00:12:41,430 --> 00:12:41,790 born. 298 00:12:41,870 --> 00:12:46,350 Genesis is not an explanation of how the Earth, the creation, was 299 00:12:46,350 --> 00:12:47,230 made in six days. 300 00:12:48,270 --> 00:12:48,990 It isn't. 301 00:12:50,350 --> 00:12:50,910 You want. 302 00:12:50,910 --> 00:12:51,390 I'll. 303 00:12:52,190 --> 00:12:54,830 If you go to Hebrews 11, 3. 304 00:12:56,190 --> 00:12:57,830 If I would have it up on the screen right now. 305 00:12:57,830 --> 00:12:58,450 I don't know. 306 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:00,840 My slide game was way behind this week. 307 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:05,960 There's a section on faith, and it says, by faith, we understand 308 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:10,520 that God spoke and all these beautiful things came into existence. 309 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:16,680 That person is showing us that Hebrew folks didn't read Genesis 310 00:13:16,680 --> 00:13:17,800 as a science book. 311 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:23,480 They read it as a testimony to how there's this being God who speaks 312 00:13:24,210 --> 00:13:25,250 and beauty is born. 313 00:13:25,490 --> 00:13:30,610 Genesis is poetry about who, not how are you with me? 314 00:13:30,770 --> 00:13:34,850 And so all of it is about, like, God speaking and goodness is 315 00:13:34,850 --> 00:13:35,250 born. 316 00:13:35,570 --> 00:13:37,330 Good, good, good stuff. 317 00:13:37,730 --> 00:13:41,970 And then you get to Genesis 2, and it's still, like, good. 318 00:13:42,210 --> 00:13:48,050 Like, this poetry of, like, of life that is really just spellbound. 319 00:13:48,610 --> 00:13:49,610 It's unbelievable. 320 00:13:49,610 --> 00:13:50,530 Like, look at this. 321 00:13:51,670 --> 00:13:53,750 Did you know that there are two accounts of creation? 322 00:13:53,910 --> 00:13:57,990 In the second one, this is the account of the heavens and the earth 323 00:13:57,990 --> 00:13:58,710 when they were created. 324 00:13:58,790 --> 00:14:00,310 And if you're paying attention, you're like, we already 325 00:14:00,310 --> 00:14:00,950 heard that account. 326 00:14:01,350 --> 00:14:02,790 Well, this is a different poem. 327 00:14:02,950 --> 00:14:08,150 But look at the poetry, like, the beauty, like, look at how connected 328 00:14:08,310 --> 00:14:09,750 everything is in here. 329 00:14:10,150 --> 00:14:12,390 In Genesis 1, I'll tell you, there's a pattern. 330 00:14:12,790 --> 00:14:14,710 If you're like, I'm not much of a poetry person. 331 00:14:15,270 --> 00:14:17,990 When you get to the end of Genesis 1, there's a pattern. 332 00:14:19,330 --> 00:14:26,410 God creates humankind in God's image to subdue or take charge of 333 00:14:26,410 --> 00:14:27,010 the earth. 334 00:14:27,250 --> 00:14:29,490 So the end of the poem ends with this order. 335 00:14:30,130 --> 00:14:32,770 Humans, God, Earth. 336 00:14:33,650 --> 00:14:37,250 Genesis 2 reverses starts with Earth. 337 00:14:39,170 --> 00:14:40,610 So human, gods, earth. 338 00:14:40,610 --> 00:14:41,410 Now watch this. 339 00:14:41,570 --> 00:14:42,810 The poetry is so beautiful. 340 00:14:42,810 --> 00:14:45,990 On the day the Lord God made the earth and the sky through a stream 341 00:14:45,990 --> 00:14:47,990 rose from the earth and water, all the fertile land. 342 00:14:48,310 --> 00:14:54,430 Look at this earth from the beginning in this poem, God is a 343 00:14:54,430 --> 00:14:57,030 sculptor, and God is digging into the earth. 344 00:14:57,510 --> 00:15:02,470 The word for earth is adama in Hebrew. 345 00:15:03,190 --> 00:15:07,830 And the first human is Adam of the earth. 346 00:15:08,550 --> 00:15:10,630 Do you see how everything is connected? 347 00:15:11,390 --> 00:15:14,190 Earth, God, humans. 348 00:15:14,510 --> 00:15:18,750 In Genesis 1, it's humankind in God's image. 349 00:15:18,830 --> 00:15:20,030 Take charge of the Earth. 350 00:15:20,030 --> 00:15:23,630 Genesis 2 starts out Earth God forming the earth. 351 00:15:25,230 --> 00:15:25,630 Human. 352 00:15:26,430 --> 00:15:29,310 God breathes life's breath. 353 00:15:29,710 --> 00:15:32,990 The same Hebrew word for wind and breath and spirit. 354 00:15:32,990 --> 00:15:33,790 It's the same. 355 00:15:34,750 --> 00:15:36,510 And the human came to. 356 00:15:37,090 --> 00:15:38,370 The human came to. 357 00:15:40,130 --> 00:15:41,010 Do you see this? 358 00:15:41,490 --> 00:15:43,730 The glorious connection between things. 359 00:15:44,290 --> 00:15:49,290 Humans sacredly connected to the earth, Mysteriously connected 360 00:15:49,290 --> 00:15:50,290 to God's breath. 361 00:15:50,770 --> 00:15:56,290 Humankind filled with the breath of God, Connected to the earth 362 00:15:56,290 --> 00:16:01,330 that was formed by God so that humans multiply. 363 00:16:01,330 --> 00:16:02,610 What is good with God? 364 00:16:02,610 --> 00:16:03,250 Are you with me? 365 00:16:03,630 --> 00:16:04,670 It's so beautiful. 366 00:16:05,870 --> 00:16:08,110 And here's the purpose it's outlined. 367 00:16:08,110 --> 00:16:10,590 God planted a garden in Eden in the east. 368 00:16:10,590 --> 00:16:12,150 You're going to need these notes here in a minute. 369 00:16:12,150 --> 00:16:12,750 Pay attention. 370 00:16:13,550 --> 00:16:16,590 In the fertile land, the Lord grew every beautiful tree with edible 371 00:16:16,590 --> 00:16:16,870 fruit. 372 00:16:16,870 --> 00:16:17,350 Do you see that? 373 00:16:17,350 --> 00:16:18,110 What God does? 374 00:16:18,350 --> 00:16:18,830 Beauty. 375 00:16:18,830 --> 00:16:19,870 Beauty, beauty. 376 00:16:20,270 --> 00:16:23,430 And also he grew the Tree of Life in the middle of the garden. 377 00:16:23,430 --> 00:16:24,990 And the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil. 378 00:16:24,990 --> 00:16:26,830 How many trees are in the middle of the garden? 379 00:16:28,590 --> 00:16:29,950 One plus one is. 380 00:16:30,810 --> 00:16:31,290 Okay. 381 00:16:31,530 --> 00:16:32,650 There's a tree of. 382 00:16:33,690 --> 00:16:34,730 And a tree of. 383 00:16:35,610 --> 00:16:36,450 Okay, good. 384 00:16:36,450 --> 00:16:37,370 All right, you're with me. 385 00:16:37,370 --> 00:16:38,010 I like this. 386 00:16:38,490 --> 00:16:39,290 This is nice. 387 00:16:39,930 --> 00:16:40,770 There's a river. 388 00:16:40,770 --> 00:16:43,130 Like, there's life flowing through the garden. 389 00:16:43,370 --> 00:16:44,410 There are these rivers. 390 00:16:45,530 --> 00:16:48,490 In between these rivers is a land that's in the middle of the 391 00:16:48,490 --> 00:16:48,810 rivers. 392 00:16:48,810 --> 00:16:49,690 That's the word. 393 00:16:49,690 --> 00:16:50,650 Mesopotamia. 394 00:16:51,130 --> 00:16:52,970 You can now go crush it on Jeopardy. 395 00:16:52,970 --> 00:16:56,390 It just means in the middle of the rivers, that little spot, this 396 00:16:56,390 --> 00:16:57,830 beautiful fertile spot. 397 00:16:59,270 --> 00:16:59,910 Beautiful. 398 00:17:00,470 --> 00:17:04,790 Look at this picture of, like, beauty and humankind existing in 399 00:17:04,790 --> 00:17:05,830 harmony with God. 400 00:17:06,870 --> 00:17:07,990 God settled the human. 401 00:17:08,550 --> 00:17:09,590 I want you to read this. 402 00:17:09,590 --> 00:17:11,430 This is your life purpose right here. 403 00:17:11,430 --> 00:17:12,469 Go ahead and read it. 404 00:17:12,470 --> 00:17:12,870 The. 405 00:17:13,990 --> 00:17:16,190 I feel like I'm in second grade again, and we're all, like, 406 00:17:16,190 --> 00:17:17,110 reading this book together. 407 00:17:17,350 --> 00:17:17,790 That's. 408 00:17:17,790 --> 00:17:18,110 That's. 409 00:17:18,110 --> 00:17:20,950 That's our whole life purpose right there. 410 00:17:21,110 --> 00:17:22,550 Did you know you're a farmer? 411 00:17:22,749 --> 00:17:25,949 Emily and I were touring something that we needed to look 412 00:17:25,949 --> 00:17:27,469 at, and she. 413 00:17:27,629 --> 00:17:32,829 Emily, got the unique privilege of touring southern Shelby 414 00:17:32,829 --> 00:17:34,749 county, like, Bogstown, Indiana. 415 00:17:34,909 --> 00:17:35,949 Oh, my goodness. 416 00:17:36,749 --> 00:17:41,589 And you just look forever, and it's just flat land with grain elevators 417 00:17:41,589 --> 00:17:43,549 and silos and farms. 418 00:17:44,109 --> 00:17:44,989 And like, I was. 419 00:17:44,989 --> 00:17:49,640 I had this nostalgia feeling, but it made me think about us. 420 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:51,920 Like, Jason, you're a farmer. 421 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:53,400 And you are, too, Josh. 422 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:54,360 Yeah. 423 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:55,480 Michael Windsor. 424 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:56,920 Did you know you're a farmer? 425 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:01,480 Did you know Christy laughed at that? 426 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:03,400 That's. 427 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:08,320 Mark, I know you're a ninja turtle, as we've talked about your 428 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:10,280 personality test, but you're also a farmer. 429 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:11,400 That's our whole purpose. 430 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:16,770 God says, hey, farm this and take care of it. 431 00:18:16,850 --> 00:18:17,970 God created us. 432 00:18:18,210 --> 00:18:19,810 Everything is made to reflect God's. 433 00:18:19,810 --> 00:18:20,210 Glory. 434 00:18:20,290 --> 00:18:26,650 And God has made you to multiply what is good with God and 435 00:18:26,650 --> 00:18:27,410 with each other. 436 00:18:27,490 --> 00:18:29,010 Your whole life is for it. 437 00:18:29,810 --> 00:18:32,170 The three simple rules that Wesley came up with. 438 00:18:32,170 --> 00:18:34,770 John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist movement. 439 00:18:34,850 --> 00:18:39,490 Do no harm, do good, and stay in love with God. 440 00:18:39,820 --> 00:18:42,860 Do no harm, do good and stay in love with God. 441 00:18:42,940 --> 00:18:44,300 That simple and that hard. 442 00:18:45,260 --> 00:18:46,380 But here's the problem. 443 00:18:47,020 --> 00:18:49,820 All for freedom and for. 444 00:18:49,820 --> 00:18:50,380 Come on. 445 00:18:51,100 --> 00:18:54,700 Nothing ever lasts forever. 446 00:18:54,860 --> 00:18:55,500 Sing it. 447 00:19:01,180 --> 00:19:02,780 We all want to rule the world. 448 00:19:02,860 --> 00:19:04,940 And so we're like, no, Ross, I actually don't. 449 00:19:04,940 --> 00:19:05,200 You. 450 00:19:05,270 --> 00:19:09,190 You may not want to rule the world, but you want to rule your 451 00:19:09,190 --> 00:19:09,590 world. 452 00:19:10,390 --> 00:19:11,510 You don't want to rule. 453 00:19:11,670 --> 00:19:15,190 Maybe rule the world, but you want to rule your world. 454 00:19:15,350 --> 00:19:18,630 Joanna said at the beginning, God lays out these boundaries. 455 00:19:21,190 --> 00:19:21,710 Show you. 456 00:19:21,710 --> 00:19:23,430 Here, look at this. 457 00:19:23,590 --> 00:19:25,910 Eat your fill from all the garden. 458 00:19:26,310 --> 00:19:30,710 Part of your purpose in life is to enjoy what God has made. 459 00:19:31,710 --> 00:19:33,790 I didn't hear that in my Christian upbringing. 460 00:19:34,190 --> 00:19:36,030 Well, I did from some folks. 461 00:19:36,430 --> 00:19:39,950 Like, my dad taught me that life is about enjoyment of things, 462 00:19:39,950 --> 00:19:42,110 with people, relationships. 463 00:19:42,190 --> 00:19:44,550 But some Christian circles are being. 464 00:19:44,550 --> 00:19:46,950 They didn't say this explicitly, but implicitly they were 465 00:19:46,950 --> 00:19:48,110 like, you look too happy. 466 00:19:48,190 --> 00:19:49,390 You don't feel bad enough. 467 00:19:49,710 --> 00:19:52,750 You need to be a little bit more guilty about your situation. 468 00:19:53,150 --> 00:19:53,710 Look at this. 469 00:19:53,710 --> 00:19:54,830 Eat your fill. 470 00:19:55,470 --> 00:19:56,510 Enjoy this. 471 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:01,520 There's one thing you can't have. 472 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:02,480 There's one. 473 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:06,920 And this has frustrated us from the start, from the very beginning. 474 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:12,320 The one thing we just can't stand not to know is why is evil 475 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:14,880 in our situation the way that it is? 476 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:18,600 If God is all good and all powerful, like, why is evil here 477 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:19,440 the way it is? 478 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:22,160 How do good and evil work out? 479 00:20:22,890 --> 00:20:25,050 God's kind of saying, like, this is mine. 480 00:20:25,050 --> 00:20:26,370 I own this tree. 481 00:20:26,370 --> 00:20:28,330 The rest of the trees, have them. 482 00:20:28,890 --> 00:20:30,090 Have this tree of life. 483 00:20:30,090 --> 00:20:30,850 Eat from it. 484 00:20:30,850 --> 00:20:31,690 Eat your fill. 485 00:20:31,930 --> 00:20:34,970 God creates more connection, creates a help mate. 486 00:20:35,690 --> 00:20:41,210 No, this isn't about how women are submissive and to men, despite 487 00:20:41,210 --> 00:20:42,410 what may have. 488 00:20:43,370 --> 00:20:47,370 No, this is about connection, collaboration between this human 489 00:20:47,370 --> 00:20:48,650 and the human's helpmate. 490 00:20:49,630 --> 00:20:51,230 Sorry, I'm going down rabbit holes. 491 00:20:51,710 --> 00:20:52,990 What if I told you what. 492 00:20:52,990 --> 00:20:54,110 Last question for today. 493 00:20:54,110 --> 00:20:54,750 This is where. 494 00:20:55,310 --> 00:20:58,830 Well, actually, two, before I read you this, it's called the Fall 495 00:20:59,070 --> 00:20:59,470 story. 496 00:20:59,950 --> 00:21:02,830 We're gonna go a little bit into the Fall story in Genesis 3 497 00:21:03,950 --> 00:21:06,190 to talk about, like, how did we get off track? 498 00:21:06,350 --> 00:21:10,790 How do we get off track from living our purpose to multiply what 499 00:21:10,790 --> 00:21:12,150 is good with God and each other? 500 00:21:12,150 --> 00:21:12,910 How did we get. 501 00:21:12,910 --> 00:21:13,950 How did we get off track? 502 00:21:13,950 --> 00:21:15,150 How do we get off track? 503 00:21:15,470 --> 00:21:21,410 So I ask you now, what was the very first sin that was ever committed 504 00:21:21,570 --> 00:21:22,690 in this garden? 505 00:21:22,690 --> 00:21:23,570 What was it? 506 00:21:24,130 --> 00:21:24,770 Was it. 507 00:21:26,130 --> 00:21:28,690 Okay, I might shoehorn that in. 508 00:21:29,570 --> 00:21:30,370 That might count. 509 00:21:30,530 --> 00:21:32,690 No, no, man, I think I'm gonna count it. 510 00:21:32,930 --> 00:21:34,370 Something related to the ego. 511 00:21:35,250 --> 00:21:35,970 Yeah, dude. 512 00:21:36,610 --> 00:21:39,090 What would you say, though, maybe you're not with that. 513 00:21:39,250 --> 00:21:40,290 What was the first sin? 514 00:21:40,290 --> 00:21:40,850 What happened? 515 00:21:41,410 --> 00:21:45,100 How'd you characterize it for we listening to someone other than 516 00:21:45,100 --> 00:21:45,340 God? 517 00:21:45,340 --> 00:21:46,380 And who is that someone? 518 00:21:46,540 --> 00:21:46,860 Who. 519 00:21:46,860 --> 00:21:47,140 Who. 520 00:21:47,140 --> 00:21:47,500 Who. 521 00:21:47,500 --> 00:21:48,860 Who what? 522 00:21:49,740 --> 00:21:50,700 The evil one. 523 00:21:50,700 --> 00:21:51,060 Hmm. 524 00:21:51,060 --> 00:21:51,580 Okay. 525 00:21:51,580 --> 00:21:52,940 Who was formed into a snake? 526 00:21:52,940 --> 00:21:53,420 Okay. 527 00:21:53,660 --> 00:21:54,300 All right. 528 00:21:54,300 --> 00:21:55,900 What was the first sin about who. 529 00:21:55,900 --> 00:21:56,180 What. 530 00:21:56,180 --> 00:21:57,020 What they do. 531 00:21:57,100 --> 00:21:57,980 They ate from that. 532 00:21:57,980 --> 00:21:58,500 So how. 533 00:21:58,500 --> 00:21:59,700 How would you describe that sin? 534 00:21:59,700 --> 00:22:00,220 What's that? 535 00:22:00,220 --> 00:22:02,100 Sin of gluttony. 536 00:22:02,100 --> 00:22:03,660 Okay, what else? 537 00:22:03,740 --> 00:22:06,220 I've heard the word disobedience. 538 00:22:06,940 --> 00:22:09,910 She's disobedience. 539 00:22:11,670 --> 00:22:13,590 You're not honoring Father God, your father. 540 00:22:13,590 --> 00:22:15,110 Okay, okay, I like that. 541 00:22:15,110 --> 00:22:18,710 Creativity, disobedience. 542 00:22:19,590 --> 00:22:23,270 Dude, Christians in the west were obsessed with this word pride. 543 00:22:24,389 --> 00:22:25,910 This is a sin of pride. 544 00:22:26,550 --> 00:22:27,030 Yeah. 545 00:22:27,190 --> 00:22:30,790 I'm going to throw out a theory today about what the sin is, 546 00:22:31,110 --> 00:22:37,360 what got us off track, and what gets us off track from. 547 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:38,800 From what? 548 00:22:39,360 --> 00:22:40,080 Temptation. 549 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:40,520 Okay. 550 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:42,400 Temptation's part of it for sure, Paul. 551 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:42,960 Yep. 552 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:46,560 Yeah, man, it is the temptation. 553 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:48,800 Specifically, here's what I want to show you. 554 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:50,160 My primary mentor. 555 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:51,760 Her name's Amy. 556 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:52,240 Jillian. 557 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:56,720 My New Testament teacher was an Orthodox Jewish woman. 558 00:22:57,360 --> 00:22:57,760 What? 559 00:22:58,240 --> 00:22:58,960 Fabulous. 560 00:22:59,850 --> 00:23:03,130 Help me see Jesus in a fuller light like I'd never seen, because 561 00:23:03,130 --> 00:23:06,570 Jesus was shocker Jewish. 562 00:23:06,810 --> 00:23:09,210 And she said, you know, Christians have missed this just 563 00:23:09,210 --> 00:23:13,770 a little bit because I want to show you how the snake was the most. 564 00:23:14,330 --> 00:23:14,890 Say it again. 565 00:23:14,890 --> 00:23:16,010 The snake was the most. 566 00:23:16,490 --> 00:23:18,410 First of all, this is just a snake. 567 00:23:18,650 --> 00:23:19,530 This is poetry. 568 00:23:19,530 --> 00:23:22,570 Remind you, this is a story with a talking animal in it. 569 00:23:22,730 --> 00:23:26,210 Now, later, Christians said that this snake is, as my father 570 00:23:26,210 --> 00:23:28,100 said, the evil one. 571 00:23:28,580 --> 00:23:30,380 Like, so, since it's May the fourth be with. 572 00:23:30,380 --> 00:23:34,500 You know, this is like Darth Vader in a snake or Palpatine or 573 00:23:34,500 --> 00:23:34,900 whatever. 574 00:23:35,620 --> 00:23:36,100 Yeah. 575 00:23:38,020 --> 00:23:39,300 The snake was the most. 576 00:23:40,020 --> 00:23:42,980 Jesus once said, hey, when he sent out his people, I want you to 577 00:23:42,980 --> 00:23:48,820 be as gentle in his innocence, innocent as a dove, and as wise as 578 00:23:48,820 --> 00:23:49,140 a. 579 00:23:50,180 --> 00:23:51,460 As wise as a. 580 00:23:51,620 --> 00:23:56,970 In Hebrew tradition, the serpent is a symbol of wisdom. 581 00:23:57,930 --> 00:23:59,450 The snake was the most. 582 00:23:59,930 --> 00:24:01,850 The serpent is a symbol of. 583 00:24:04,650 --> 00:24:07,210 Now, here's my next question really quick. 584 00:24:08,650 --> 00:24:09,050 Who. 585 00:24:09,850 --> 00:24:11,770 Who lied in the garden? 586 00:24:14,410 --> 00:24:15,850 Who lied in the garden? 587 00:24:17,290 --> 00:24:18,250 Adam and Eve. 588 00:24:18,490 --> 00:24:19,450 There's blame. 589 00:24:19,770 --> 00:24:21,290 Who distorted the truth? 590 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:25,160 Technically, they could all be true. 591 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:27,520 That was a little bit of a trick question, but I want to show 592 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:27,800 you how. 593 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:29,520 The answer is not as Easy as you think. 594 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,360 See where this serpent does? 595 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:34,480 I will give you this. 596 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:39,920 The serpent is a little bit like Satan or the devil. 597 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:45,360 The Hebrew word hasatan just means like the accuser in the Bible. 598 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:49,160 Satan is basically like a prosecutor who's cross examining 599 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:54,530 you and using the facts of the case to mess with you. 600 00:24:54,610 --> 00:25:00,170 The prosecutor doesn't lie, but the prosecutor uses the facts 601 00:25:00,170 --> 00:25:04,930 of the case to get a verdict or result that the prosecutor wants. 602 00:25:05,090 --> 00:25:06,570 For example, I watched the O.J. 603 00:25:06,570 --> 00:25:06,970 simpson. 604 00:25:06,970 --> 00:25:07,850 I'm obsessed with the O.J. 605 00:25:07,850 --> 00:25:08,330 simpson trial. 606 00:25:08,330 --> 00:25:09,090 Like, how did this happen? 607 00:25:09,250 --> 00:25:12,370 The defense, they said all we did was use the facts of the case. 608 00:25:12,690 --> 00:25:13,650 That's all they did. 609 00:25:14,450 --> 00:25:18,170 That's all that, like the serpent does in this story. 610 00:25:18,170 --> 00:25:18,570 Watch. 611 00:25:19,210 --> 00:25:20,570 It's so fascinating. 612 00:25:21,130 --> 00:25:21,690 Snake. 613 00:25:21,770 --> 00:25:22,130 Wait. 614 00:25:22,130 --> 00:25:23,090 The snake was the most. 615 00:25:23,090 --> 00:25:23,450 What? 616 00:25:24,330 --> 00:25:26,010 Okay, I want to make sure we got that. 617 00:25:26,010 --> 00:25:30,290 The woman said to the snake asked, did God really say that you 618 00:25:30,290 --> 00:25:32,010 shouldn't eat from any tree in the garden? 619 00:25:32,170 --> 00:25:33,210 Is that a lie? 620 00:25:33,290 --> 00:25:34,410 Michael, is that a lie? 621 00:25:35,130 --> 00:25:35,850 What is it? 622 00:25:35,850 --> 00:25:36,370 Yes. 623 00:25:36,370 --> 00:25:37,210 It's not trick question. 624 00:25:37,210 --> 00:25:37,770 It's a question. 625 00:25:37,930 --> 00:25:38,810 It's just a question. 626 00:25:39,290 --> 00:25:43,010 All day, every day in our lives, do we not have questions that 627 00:25:43,010 --> 00:25:43,930 are just entering our. 628 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:48,000 There's a voice with a question like, hey, isn't it true 629 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:49,200 that this is on your record? 630 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:53,120 Isn't it true that this is what you've actually been up to recently? 631 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:58,320 Isn't it true that you've been projecting this image to people, 632 00:25:58,320 --> 00:25:59,760 but this is really what you're doing? 633 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:02,320 Isn't it true that you're actually an imposter? 634 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:03,640 Oftentimes? 635 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:07,200 It's not like the devil who knocks us off course. 636 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:08,800 It's us. 637 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:13,220 We hear the question from the prosecutor and then we get knocked 638 00:26:13,220 --> 00:26:15,340 off course with what is true and what is good. 639 00:26:15,500 --> 00:26:18,020 Did God really say that you shouldn't eat from any tree in the 640 00:26:18,020 --> 00:26:18,380 garden? 641 00:26:18,380 --> 00:26:20,620 And what does this person said? 642 00:26:21,260 --> 00:26:27,020 We may eat the fruit of the garden's trees, but not the fruit 643 00:26:27,020 --> 00:26:27,739 of the. 644 00:26:28,780 --> 00:26:29,420 In the. 645 00:26:29,820 --> 00:26:31,820 How many trees are there in the middle of the garden? 646 00:26:31,900 --> 00:26:32,780 Is she right? 647 00:26:33,900 --> 00:26:37,350 You can eat the fruit of the tree in the middle, in the middle 648 00:26:37,350 --> 00:26:38,070 of the garden. 649 00:26:38,550 --> 00:26:39,510 Just one of them. 650 00:26:40,310 --> 00:26:45,150 You can eat the fruit from the Tree of Life all day long, all day, 651 00:26:45,150 --> 00:26:45,750 every day. 652 00:26:45,910 --> 00:26:47,670 The prosecutor just asked a question. 653 00:26:48,390 --> 00:26:51,230 The serpent just asked a question and the human was like, 654 00:26:51,230 --> 00:26:54,630 now wait a minute, wait a minute, let me go back over this. 655 00:26:54,870 --> 00:26:56,110 Don't eat from it and touch it. 656 00:26:56,110 --> 00:26:56,790 You will die. 657 00:26:58,070 --> 00:27:00,390 The snake actually tells the truth. 658 00:27:01,030 --> 00:27:01,990 You won't die. 659 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,240 They don't drop dead, like right on the spot after eating the 660 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:06,080 fruit, they don't. 661 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,320 The snake is actually telling nothing but the truth. 662 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:10,320 So help you God. 663 00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:11,680 And what? 664 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:12,560 Ooh, here it is. 665 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:13,520 Here's the first sinner. 666 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:14,160 You ready? 667 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:15,640 You'll see clearly. 668 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:19,520 The snake says, the woman saw that the tree was beautiful with 669 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:21,440 delicious food and that the tree would provide. 670 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:22,400 What's the next word? 671 00:27:23,360 --> 00:27:25,960 The woman saw that the tree was beautiful with delicious food 672 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:27,040 and that the tree would provide. 673 00:27:27,360 --> 00:27:29,040 What's the serpent a symbol of? 674 00:27:29,370 --> 00:27:29,610 And. 675 00:27:29,610 --> 00:27:31,170 And this serpent is the most. 676 00:27:31,170 --> 00:27:31,530 What? 677 00:27:31,850 --> 00:27:36,410 So it would appear that this woman wants something that she does 678 00:27:36,410 --> 00:27:37,050 not possess. 679 00:27:37,290 --> 00:27:38,410 What sin is that? 680 00:27:38,570 --> 00:27:39,770 Thou shalt not. 681 00:27:40,410 --> 00:27:42,250 She wants what she does not have. 682 00:27:42,970 --> 00:27:43,930 She has everything. 683 00:27:44,490 --> 00:27:46,650 She and Adam have everything. 684 00:27:47,290 --> 00:27:51,570 All these trees, they can eat from every fruit. 685 00:27:51,570 --> 00:27:53,210 God says, eat your fill. 686 00:27:54,170 --> 00:27:55,530 Take charge of this. 687 00:27:56,010 --> 00:27:58,180 Work the land, farm it. 688 00:27:58,580 --> 00:28:01,300 You have all these things abundantly from me. 689 00:28:01,700 --> 00:28:02,620 Work with me. 690 00:28:02,620 --> 00:28:03,380 Be with me. 691 00:28:03,380 --> 00:28:04,740 There's only one tree. 692 00:28:04,820 --> 00:28:06,420 I'm asking you not to eat. 693 00:28:06,500 --> 00:28:11,420 The serpent comes along super wise, very intelligent, says, when 694 00:28:11,420 --> 00:28:15,460 you eat from that tree, you'll see things clearly like I do. 695 00:28:16,260 --> 00:28:18,820 And the woman's like, this serpent's right. 696 00:28:19,060 --> 00:28:23,860 If I eat this fruit, I will be wise like the serpent is wise. 697 00:28:24,700 --> 00:28:25,900 And so what does she do? 698 00:28:26,380 --> 00:28:31,940 She creates her own kingdom to get what she does not have and wants 699 00:28:31,940 --> 00:28:32,620 so desperately. 700 00:28:32,620 --> 00:28:36,620 She creates her new kingdom with new boundaries, new rules. 701 00:28:36,860 --> 00:28:38,700 She puts the crown on her own head. 702 00:28:38,780 --> 00:28:40,620 Oh, by the way, Adam does it too. 703 00:28:40,700 --> 00:28:41,180 Hello. 704 00:28:41,420 --> 00:28:42,460 She becomes her. 705 00:28:42,540 --> 00:28:42,940 Her. 706 00:28:43,020 --> 00:28:48,620 And she becomes all for freedom and for pleasure. 707 00:28:48,620 --> 00:28:49,260 Come on. 708 00:28:50,630 --> 00:28:52,870 Everlast forever. 709 00:28:53,590 --> 00:28:53,990 Every. 710 00:28:55,190 --> 00:28:58,590 You maybe don't want to rule the world, but you want to rule your 711 00:28:58,590 --> 00:28:58,950 world. 712 00:28:59,110 --> 00:29:03,190 One of the things that's killing us is we see nothing of the 713 00:29:03,190 --> 00:29:06,710 abundance that God has already given us. 714 00:29:06,950 --> 00:29:09,750 We do not notice what we have in God. 715 00:29:10,150 --> 00:29:11,990 We do not see the abundance. 716 00:29:13,110 --> 00:29:16,310 We're not finding our joy in what God provides. 717 00:29:17,670 --> 00:29:23,270 We see and we lock into what we do not have and we want so desperately. 718 00:29:23,510 --> 00:29:26,910 And then we create our own kingdom with a new set of rules of 719 00:29:26,910 --> 00:29:31,430 which we are the rulers, to get what we want but do not have. 720 00:29:31,670 --> 00:29:33,750 And then we get off course with our purpose. 721 00:29:33,990 --> 00:29:37,430 And look at the fruits of this decision. 722 00:29:37,910 --> 00:29:38,470 Boom. 723 00:29:38,790 --> 00:29:41,910 If Brene Brown describes vulnerability as the willingness 724 00:29:42,070 --> 00:29:42,870 to be seen. 725 00:29:43,790 --> 00:29:46,670 Before they ate the fruit, they were happy to be a nudist colony. 726 00:29:46,750 --> 00:29:48,030 I'm not saying like that. 727 00:29:48,190 --> 00:29:49,470 We're not going to be doing that. 728 00:29:49,790 --> 00:29:50,430 Okay. 729 00:29:53,630 --> 00:29:59,229 But before this happened, they were perfectly dandy and happy to 730 00:29:59,229 --> 00:29:59,790 be seen. 731 00:30:00,030 --> 00:30:00,750 No shame. 732 00:30:00,910 --> 00:30:03,630 They enjoyed who God had made them to be. 733 00:30:04,430 --> 00:30:07,230 They enjoyed the fruits of all These trees, the tree of life. 734 00:30:07,630 --> 00:30:09,070 They enjoyed each other's company. 735 00:30:09,070 --> 00:30:09,950 They enjoyed God. 736 00:30:09,950 --> 00:30:12,510 They enjoyed farming and taking care of this plot of land. 737 00:30:13,030 --> 00:30:13,990 And then they ate this one. 738 00:30:13,990 --> 00:30:15,030 They coveted this. 739 00:30:15,110 --> 00:30:16,150 Let me have that. 740 00:30:16,310 --> 00:30:18,310 Let me have what I do not have now. 741 00:30:18,950 --> 00:30:20,710 Shame, hiding. 742 00:30:20,950 --> 00:30:22,790 Ooh, and ego. 743 00:30:24,470 --> 00:30:25,750 I want what I want. 744 00:30:26,710 --> 00:30:27,270 Look at this. 745 00:30:27,270 --> 00:30:28,550 God's trying to find them. 746 00:30:29,270 --> 00:30:30,230 They're hiding. 747 00:30:31,270 --> 00:30:35,510 The man's like, oh, God, I didn't know you were there. 748 00:30:36,790 --> 00:30:37,670 How's it going? 749 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:40,080 Deception, self deception. 750 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:42,080 God's like, what's been going on? 751 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:43,840 What you been up to? 752 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:45,200 Did you break the one rule? 753 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:52,080 Oh, shame, hiding, disconnection, self deception and 754 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:54,000 blame. 755 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:57,560 Brene Brown, I'm quoting a lot of Bernie Brown. 756 00:30:57,560 --> 00:30:59,840 She says, blame is simply a discharge of pain. 757 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,720 Like, I just want somebody else to take. 758 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:03,920 To take my pain. 759 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:07,080 I don't want to deal with my own pain, so I'll put it on somebody 760 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:07,440 else. 761 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,120 This man's like, I don't deal with this. 762 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:11,120 I'll just put it on her. 763 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:13,360 Where was he when she was being. 764 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:15,600 When this snake was slithering around? 765 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:18,320 Why wasn't he there to support her? 766 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:19,440 They're help mates. 767 00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:20,520 They're meant to be connected. 768 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:21,920 She was left alone by him. 769 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:22,880 So. 770 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:25,200 And so on. 771 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:27,040 There's the story. 772 00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,680 And then it continued all from there. 773 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:33,800 First Samuel 8, fast forward. 774 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:38,120 In the Old Testament, God is the ruler of the Israelites. 775 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:43,240 The Israelites say, hey, Samuel, we don't want this situation 776 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:43,720 anymore. 777 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,520 We want a king like everybody else has. 778 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,400 What's that a sin of coveting? 779 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,760 All these people have something we want but don't have. 780 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:54,280 We want it like they have it. 781 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:55,800 And Samuel's like, this stinks. 782 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:56,320 I don't like this. 783 00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:57,320 God says, why are you mad? 784 00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,000 They're not rejecting you, they're rejecting me. 785 00:32:00,660 --> 00:32:02,420 They don't enjoy what God has given them. 786 00:32:02,500 --> 00:32:03,860 They don't trust God. 787 00:32:03,940 --> 00:32:05,740 They don't look for what God provides. 788 00:32:05,740 --> 00:32:07,300 They want what somebody else has. 789 00:32:07,540 --> 00:32:10,060 So they create their own kingdom with a new set of rules where 790 00:32:10,060 --> 00:32:12,300 they get to be the ruler so they can go get what they want but 791 00:32:12,300 --> 00:32:12,980 do not have. 792 00:32:14,020 --> 00:32:17,540 And that's why we're at the end now. 793 00:32:18,260 --> 00:32:19,540 That's why Jesus came. 794 00:32:20,260 --> 00:32:25,100 Jesus came to restore us to God's definition of goodness, to 795 00:32:25,100 --> 00:32:25,900 God's glory. 796 00:32:26,300 --> 00:32:30,060 God said, hey, though you've been, you're in this legacy of generations 797 00:32:30,060 --> 00:32:34,500 of coveting and creating your own kingdom and becoming the ruler 798 00:32:34,500 --> 00:32:35,340 of your kingdom. 799 00:32:35,980 --> 00:32:40,060 Ironically, God actually created you, Charles, to be a ruler. 800 00:32:40,060 --> 00:32:41,420 And you too, Angie. 801 00:32:41,500 --> 00:32:43,820 Dad, you've been created to be a ruler. 802 00:32:47,660 --> 00:32:50,860 Patty, you've been created to be a ruler too. 803 00:32:52,890 --> 00:32:53,610 But guess what? 804 00:32:54,890 --> 00:32:58,410 You don't get to make the rules for how you rule. 805 00:32:58,570 --> 00:32:59,690 They've already been made. 806 00:32:59,850 --> 00:33:05,050 They've already been made and the rules are presented so clearly 807 00:33:05,130 --> 00:33:06,490 in one person's life. 808 00:33:07,450 --> 00:33:08,730 His name is Jesus. 809 00:33:08,970 --> 00:33:12,850 He comes to so he comes to bring us back to the garden to help 810 00:33:12,850 --> 00:33:14,810 us farm and take care of it again. 811 00:33:15,370 --> 00:33:16,890 So that's what we're talking about next week. 812 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,680 How does Jesus rule and how do we rule? 813 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:25,560 Likewise My so what for today it goes back to the spiritual practice 814 00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:26,160 of wonder. 815 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:29,760 I understand that everything isn't well in your life. 816 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:32,320 I know that both two things can be true. 817 00:33:33,119 --> 00:33:34,560 Life can be very hard. 818 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:38,720 You can be in a hard season right now and you can still search 819 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:44,460 for God in it and see how God is showing up in a way that maybe 820 00:33:44,460 --> 00:33:48,860 you're not seeing because you're locked in to the control that 821 00:33:48,860 --> 00:33:51,060 you want to exert over your own kingdom. 822 00:33:52,820 --> 00:34:01,180 So I invite you this week to turn from this to this and say a 823 00:34:01,180 --> 00:34:04,580 simple prayer every day, as often as you can see it. 824 00:34:04,740 --> 00:34:08,180 God, help me to see your abundance. 825 00:34:08,740 --> 00:34:11,620 Help me to see your abundance and be joyful. 826 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:14,680 It doesn't mean that you're saying you have no suffering going 827 00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:15,000 on. 828 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:16,760 Two things can be true. 829 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,720 You can be going through suffering and you can see God in 830 00:34:19,720 --> 00:34:20,760 the midst of suffering. 831 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:22,600 Pay attention to it this week. 832 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:23,720 Don't covet. 833 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:25,800 Don't want what other people want. 834 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:29,000 They may look like it's glamorous and wonderful, but behind 835 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:30,600 closed doors it's not. 836 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:31,640 You know that. 837 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:37,120 Stay in your little plot, look for God in it and be grateful and 838 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:40,800 rule the world the way God asks you to, not the way you want 839 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:41,120 to. 840 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:41,920 Let's pray. 841 00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:48,000 Lord, help us with just that. 842 00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:52,000 Whatever trials that we may have going on, help us not turn to 843 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,160 our own numbing techniques. 844 00:34:54,240 --> 00:34:56,160 Help us not to turn to substances. 845 00:34:56,720 --> 00:35:00,280 Help us not to start kingdom building and empire building so we 846 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:01,840 can be the rulers we want to be. 847 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,800 Help us not to keep our attention toward anything. 848 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:08,970 But that is not the tree of life that you've given us, the tree 849 00:35:08,970 --> 00:35:10,970 that became a person in Jesus. 850 00:35:11,610 --> 00:35:15,410 Help us to spend time with him, to see him and to see you in 851 00:35:15,410 --> 00:35:17,530 all things in Jesus name. 852 00:35:17,690 --> 00:35:18,330 Amen. 853 00:35:20,170 --> 00:35:24,690 Thank you for participating in the conversation happening at Heaven 854 00:35:24,690 --> 00:35:25,770 Earth Church. 855 00:35:26,250 --> 00:35:31,017 Your next opportunity to do so live is this Sunday morning, 9:30am 856 00:35:31,143 --> 00:35:31,710 a.m. 857 00:35:32,670 --> 00:35:37,150 eastern Time, either at the main campus at 309 East Main in Whiteland, 858 00:35:37,150 --> 00:35:41,150 Indiana, or online at YouTube Live. 859 00:35:41,550 --> 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