Book of Genesis - Ch. 3, Vs. 1-7 (04/18/2004)

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so If you all will buckle your seatbelts

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We'll go into chapters 3 Why couldn't the devil come to Eve directly?

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joy Now I understand he had to use a beast to come to her

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Or he did use a beast John Greg you under Do you understand the question?

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That's right Greg John I don't know

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Dennis Well David tell us

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Well, those are all good reasons, but they're all wrong as far as Peter Peter was already a fallen man

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We're dealing here with Adam and Eve purely righteous now the devil

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Cannot Enter the heart of a purely righteous person and that's what

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Eve was Yes That's right

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That's that's the answer to the whole thing He will not deal with a heart that he is purely righteous and that's what

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Eve was Now my next question, can he come to us directly?

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And of course the answer is yes And the difference being between Adam and Eve and us is that the fall occurred in between Now This morning

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When did Satan fall Dennis was it before after the creation?

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What? Well, I had never

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As far as the world is concerned. Yes John Debbie Good point great.

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I Don't know Now we'll begin with a verse one

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Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field

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Which the Lord God had made and he said unto the woman Yea, as God said you shall not eat of of every tree of the garden

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What is the first thing David that the devil tries to do He all he wants to do is place a doubt in your mind

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That's right He doesn't place a doubt about anything else, but just God In Romans 5 and 12, we find these words well after the sin of man by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin and So death passed upon all men

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For that all have sinned Now we're about to see that incident the serpent

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The fall of man was affected by sedition Of a beast he could talk he could reason and he could carry on a conversation

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This was a beast and I say beast because I don't think it was a serpent that's real evident from the plain and heartless style of history and From the many allusions made to the

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New Testament in the New Testament Did someone else come in Russell But the material beast was the instrument or tool of a higher agent

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Satan or the devil to whom the sacred writers apply in Revelation 20 and 2 though Paul though Moses Makes no mention of this wicked spirit

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Giving only the history of the visible world now

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Divide the spiritual from the visible and Moses is dealing with the visible world

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He said There's the first reason He said this beast spoke to Eve And he takes it up seems like in the middle of a conversation

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At least she was not startled. I think there is another reason for that, but we'll come to that in a minute

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There being in the end the pure hearts of the first pair no principle of evil to work upon an

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Appeal to sin could come only from the outside or without Eve He had to come and attack physically

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Eve So the first reason was he had to come from the outside Man is either of the devil or of God now we have the luxury of having both

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The sin nature and the godly nature Only we say we are of the godly nature and not the sin nature

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Paul says I am no longer a sinner because I am of God So you're no longer a sinner, but he does resurrect his head every once in a while And as the tempter could not assume the human form

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Why was this John We've already answered it.

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What? Well, why couldn't he assume a human form?

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It's hard for us to think about Adam and Eve being the only people here and being righteous

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We have to get acclimated to that But that's the reason he could not assume a human form because there was only one other human and he was righteous

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You see So the second reason was that there was no possibility of working from the heart of Eve Because she had no sin the beast seemed

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The fittest for this vile purpose and the devil was appointed by him who ordered the trial

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Now David who was it that ordered all of this? God Now the devil had been appointed by the

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Lord For this purpose unknown to the devil

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This prevented him from coming to her directly So if he could not come directly he used the only thing available to him

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Which was this beast? It had to be almost human like the beast able to carry on a conversation

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To reason to be responsible And unto the woman the object of attack

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From his knowledge of her refinement Of her having been but a short time in the world and I say short time

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Compared to now I have no idea how long Adam and Eve were in the garden none whatsoever her

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Limited experience with the animals And above all her being alone

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Unfortified by the presence and counsel of her husband Now I do not understand her being there and Adam not there

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She was a free agent She was liable to be tempted and seduced

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If you want to say something now speak up because I can't see the hands Yea hath

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God said Again, he is implanting a doubt. He's getting a little stronger with it

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Is it true that he has restricted you in using the fruits of this delightful place?

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This is not like the so good and kind Surely there is some mistake.

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You must have misunderstood him Any of this ring a bell

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He insinuated a doubt as to her sense of the divine will and he appeared to be an angel of light

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In 2nd Corinthians 11 14 we find and no marvel for Satan himself is

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Transformed into an angel of light so She was not startled by the presence of this beast.

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I Say beast and we immediately think of Some unwanted creature that's not true

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Offering to lead her to the true interpretation of that which

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God spoke to you now He's going to give her the true interpretation.

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Do you see how he's sneaking up on getting her to do this? It was evidently from her regarding him as specially sent on that errand

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That instead of being startled by Satan speaking She received him as a heavenly messenger now

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This is possible Eve Thought that this was a messenger direct from God and her

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Not being experienced in such things would believe that I Believe that this beast was the long -lost cave man

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That's why we have not found the quote missing link There is none

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They were banished from the earth as soon as their species ran out with death

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But that's just what I think and the woman said unto the servant

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We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden the woman said

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She is the first to speak Now we know the beast was talking to her but the first of Adam and Eve To be recorded in speech,

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I'm sure they have talked before Eve extolled of the large extent of their

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Liberty they enjoyed in Ranging at will among all of the trees one only exempted and that was

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The tree of knowledge of good and evil with respect to which she declared there was no doubt either of the prohibition or the penalty but there is reason to think that Adam had told her not to eat of the tree and Using the words lest ye die instead of ye shall surely die

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She spoke as if the tree had been forbidden the tempter perceiving this immediately became bolder in his actions

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Now it is possible We don't know. We do know that Adam had to tell

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Eve because the the The command was given to Adam.

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Adam could have embellished and told her not to eat of that tree or you die We don't know that Three But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden

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God has said ye shall not eat of it. Neither. Shall you touch it lest you die

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And doubting God's warnings she yielded to Satan. Do you see how?

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That took place Every time we doubt we also

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Do what? Yield to Satan that's only what he wants

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He wants us to doubt For and the serpent said unto the woman you shall not surely die

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Yes That's right

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You're you're that's a good point the politicians could took their cue directly from that verse

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If it's quoted Good in the first place, then

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I can embellish and make it even better Well the serpent or the beast told her you're not going to die

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You shall not surely die This is Satan's chiefest cunning to cause us not to fear

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God's warnings Think about it He'll do whatever is needed to get you to not fear the warnings of God This is the first lie recorded in the

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Bible And it is by the devil And he is the father of lies

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The devil tries to make men disbelieve God's declarations in order to lead them to break the commandments

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Liars Resemble Satan Do the work and partake of his torments also

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Here the father of lies that once appears and appears to and flatly contradicting the

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Word of God So he has snuck up on it He has little by little

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Gotten into the position in the conversation that he can say

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God lied to you Maybe not in those terms But you didn't understand him rightly same thing the tempter through this beast attenuates the possibility of her dying

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As It had been said God has created the immortal Thy death therefore is impossible

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And God knows this For as thou livest by the tree of life

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So shalt thou get increase of wisdom by the tree of knowledge

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Now that sounds perfectly normal If you live by one you'll get wisdom by the other

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Dennis did God create our first parents mortal or immortal

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Let me see the hands on those that say immortal Let me see the hands of those that say mortal

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Did you? Okay One to about ten and the one is right now what

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Dennis said was true But They had the possibility of sinning

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So as long as that possibility is there They're not immortal

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Think about it. That's true.

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No No, they were mortal from mortal from the beginning

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Because God gave them a choice from the beginning Do you see that?

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And if they have a choice It's immortal that is mortal.

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I Get the two words confused Immortality means there's no choice

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Well, think about it Come back next week Yes That's true, but she did

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That's right Well God made them

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God made them in the beginning to have a choice Did he not?

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Okay, okay You answered your own question It's not if you do or later on I did

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Yes, did you have a choice? Yes Five for God doth know

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That in the day you eat thereof then your eyes shall be opened.

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That's true And you shall be as God's knowing good from evil and notice the little

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G I think that Moses or someone made a mistake here

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How much Knowledge did Eve have Of idols

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No So what's the word? little G in here God's Your eyes shall be opened.

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I think that should read your understanding shall be greatly enlightened and improved like God That's what happened

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What would our first parents have had in the way of knowledge regarding idols or or gods?

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They would have had none Yes Well, it's a pretty weak thought

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But All right

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Well Someday we're going to have to discuss that very question

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Did he feel as powerful as God or as powerful as Christ? There is a difference, but we won't go into that right now

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All right The original word

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That he used for God's Is the same as was used in Genesis 1 1

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Elohim? That's why I Took the position

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I did Yes Yes Well his

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Object was to persuade our first parents that they should by eating of this fruit become wise and powerful as God for knowledge is power

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And be able to exist forever independently of God That's where he's headed

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And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and That it was pleasant to the eyes

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And a tree to be desired to make one wise She took the fruit thereof and did eat and gave also unto her husband

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With her and he did eat Now her husband wasn't there but he was later now

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How is it? That Eve saw that this fruit was good

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To eat joy You know, we read over so many little words and just skip them and don't think anything about it

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All right, maybe she hadn't even looked at the tree before All right, baby, all right

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Dennis joy

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All right, that's possible Fred well she

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She's beginning to think that But less

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Mm -hmm

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Yes, it's always for show To convince you to get you to doubt

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God and says nothing about the effects Well this beast under the influence of the devil

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Did not have any restrictions placed on him so He stood there eating one

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And she saw that it's good she had never looked before Maybe they had been eating of the tree the animals but after Adam Came home from a cattle sale

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She said Do you know what I discovered today?

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You know that tree that you said we should not eat of well, it's delicious

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Adam said well, give me a bite and we will see So she did and he did they did and they were and man

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Has not trusted woman to this day Her imagination and feeling were completely one and the fall of Eve was soon followed by that of Adam the history of every temptation and Of every sin is the same the outward object of attraction the inward chaos of mind the increase and triumph of Passionate desire ending in the degradation slavery and ruin of the soul

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Not ruin of the spirit But of the soul of the life The devil can't touch your spirit

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All of this and everything else was a direct outworking of the plan of God As Strange as it may seem

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This is hard to digest But it has to be because God controls everything

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Now Debbie, how is it that the fall of Eve was the plan of God How many of you think it you understand it?

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How many of you think you do not understand it Well, some of you didn't put up your hand all of this

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Was a direct outworking of the plan of God Now we have to understand this

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We can't just skip it and go on Because their eyes are about to be opened as the devil told him it would

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That's good We would have never known that grace What else would we have not known?

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All right Russell what else would not have known been known to us if this

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Fall of Eve had not taken place You're right

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We would have known there was good and evil, but we would not have known the difference

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Russell Yes What all right well, we'll take one more verse the eyes of them both were opened and They knew that they were naked and They sewed fig leaves together and made of them aprons

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Why Dennis? All right.

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All right So how did how did they know fear?

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All right All right, so shame and a guilty conscience came into being right here, is that right and the fear of God David enlightened us some up to this point

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All right, I believe I Think that this is the moment of time

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When time began to run backwards up to this point

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Everything was going upward getting better and better And it is here that they begin to get worse

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And corrupt all time is decaying all things are dying

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Decomposing and becoming inferior from this moment on Now There was not a great upheaval of earth there wasn't a blast of trumpets there was nothing

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It is as though We turned around and our backing through this world

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We can see only what is behind us not what is in front Looking backwards, which we think is frontwards

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We no longer look at God we look at Satan We come into this world looking at Satan not

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God It is here that begin that we begin to get fat ugly rich Poor and begin to die

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All the world keeps on spinning But time is running backwards think about it

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And Satan did not have to tell anybody That's the way of sin he doesn't have to tell

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They had never felt like this never felt this way before Now they were ashamed and they did not see

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God for a remedy This is like a sinner

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I Want to stop right there We'll take up the same thing next

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Sunday, and I want you to think more about this verse verse 7

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It is as though we turned around I like that Even if I did say it

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We had been looking at God everything was increasing everything was better And better and better and better and all of a sudden you turned around You didn't see

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God Now I have Little experiment for you

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John if you'll come up here I Want to pass out or have passed out some little things that I don't want you to look at the other side

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Just look at the white side Hold them where they can't see that Now that everybody get one a man looking at God Turn it over That occurred at this point in this verse

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He can't look at God because he sees nothing He sees darkness

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Blackness before on the other side it was all white light

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Enjoy Enjoyment of each other and of God No, they could see the

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Lord No, no man has ever seen God well

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Without getting into a long discussion. The scripture says no man has ever seen

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God God the Father but the Lord Christ they have because he was walking in the garden and he made everything

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So there could have been a shining about him. I don't know But now they see blackness

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That's true today You come into this world And you're looking at darkness

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Christ is the light Have not seen what

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Well, it's impossible to see the Father God And the

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Bible says that I don't understand your question

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Well, we're even then all right, is there any questions

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Think about this lesson. I think it is a powerful powerful lesson the changing of the world