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Living His Story – Week 1(a) – Introduction
Evangelism is an invitation and a summons to switch stories and therefore to change lives.
Adam & the Fall – Conclusion – Gen. 3:20-24
The Lord is full of compassion and mercy, slow to anger and of great kindness. He will not always accuse us, nor will he keep his anger for ever. As a father cares for his children.
Adam & the Fall – Punishment – Gen. 3:8-19
And just as in pain (Heb: itstsabon) does the woman bear children, so also in toil (Heb: itstsabon) will the man bring food from the ground.
Adam & the Fall – Blame – Gen. 3:8-19
The man said, “The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me fruit of the treee, and I ate.”
Adam & the Fall – Sin – Gen.2:25-3:7
The seed, therefore, of sin is in the suggestion, the nourishment of it in delight, its maturity in the consent.
Adam & the Fall – Our Shame – Gen. 2:25-3:7
Once the humans eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, they know that they are mortal and are not God. They know that life is precarious and they will die.
Adam & the Fall – Woman – Gen. 2:18-24
“For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is a profound one, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
Adam & the Fall – It is “not good” – Gen. 2:15-20
God’s creeation is “not good” because the person’s creation is incomplete because the person is alone.
Adam & the Fall – The Trees – Gen. 2:9-17
The Lord God commanded “You may eat of every tree of the garden but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.”
Adam & the Fall – The Garden – Gen. 2:8
And the other criminal said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in the Garden.”
Adam & the Fall – Formation and Animation – Gen. 2:7
As clay in the hand of the potter— for all his ways are as he pleases— so men are in the hand of him who made them, to give them as he decides.
Adam & the Fall – The Beginning – Gen. 2:4b-6
In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up