God create us to:
1. Reflect his reign
2. To share his glory in all the earth
There's sign of brokeness around us. Aggression, mental health. Struggles, family breakdown, natural disasters, discrimination. Divorce, death etc
The problem is 'us'
Big idea:
We rejected God's rule, but Jesus restores us through His obedient life and sacrificial death.
# Royalty commands Loyalty
Sacred space is a place where God is encountered in a special or direct way, by virtue of which the very place becomes holy and set apart from ordinary space
Eden was YHWH's Home, Temple, and Throne
Yahweh laid down house rules
Genesis 2:16-17
And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
The venomous supernatural serpent knows how to exploit human desires
Genesis 3:1-7
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” 2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 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.’” 4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
Serpent was talking to both of them, meaning Adam was all the while standing next to Eve
God gives prohibition to prevent damage
When you doubt God's intention, God's goodness, the tempter made it desirable.... Surely they will not die, they did not die immediately but sacred space was fractured. The harmony they had - become harm only
We have to do it according to God's boundary inside, not outside
Desire on the eyes
Desire of the flesh
Pride of life
Instead of peace is panic
In place of shalom peace they experienced:
Shame
Fear
Blame
Genesis 3:14-19
So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. 15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring[a] and hers; he will crush[b] your head, and you will strike his heel.” 16 To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” 17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”
5 fractures emerged:
1. between the Creator and His creation
2. between the Woman and the serpent
3. between the Woman and the Man
4. between the Man and the ground
5. between the Humans and their King
Before they can start edenic project, they have to now do it without god's glory and his presence
Death will be our ultimate separation
Human rebellion opted the sacred space
Christ came to mediate to show us obedience and taught us that as imager of God,
# The cross precedes the crown
Adam and Eve chose autonomy which is self rule over allegiance
Genesis 3:21
The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
For our brokeness to be healed, the healer must be broken
Genesis 3:22-24
And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” 23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side[a] of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
He reversed the effect of rebellion on two ways:
1. See all kingdom. If you bow to me... Desire of eyes 2. After 40 days. Devil ask Jesus to command... Desire of flesh 3. Devil showed him kingdom... Pride of life Philippians 2:6-11
Who, being in very nature[a] God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; 7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature[b] of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross! 9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
# Jesus chose the cross over the crown
Christ not just live a sinless life, He lives in obedience also through his sacrificial death
De-throne yourself from your own self rule and turn your life to God and said "Lord, come and reign"
Disciple making is the advancement of the kingdom of God, reconciling human, one subject at a time, with her Creator-King!
Even when costly...
I am the sacred space as Holy spirit lives in me
How to?
1. Resist the tempter voice
- whispering lies that question God
- we must be Proficient with the word of God
2. Guard our family
- become the best guard by keeping each other align as husband and wife
- able to set godly boundaries
- guard our marriage
3. Protect the sacred space
- don't quench the spirit that is in you
- keep pure and holy
- don't allow something corrupt to keep us away from God
- cultivate prayer and worship
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