Five Questions

Thinking on Genesis chapter 3, so it will help if you this first to refresh your memory...

Where Are You?

• Running and hiding from God?  - avoidance
• Numbing?  - substance abuse, sex, money, anything to deaden the pain
• Denial?  - God does not exist, intellectually
• Faking?  - God is not authoratative

Whose Voice Do You Listen To?

• Guilt - know pain for what I've done
• Shame - felt for what I've done
• Child of God
• Made in the image of God
• Crowned in glory and honor
• Precious in His sight
• God rejoices with me
• Loved, with eternal life
• Nothing can separate me from God's love

Did You Do It?

• On the Left - avoidance, blame the environment for your deeds
• On the Right - blame contributing factors
• Own up! - God already knows you did

Implications?

• Spiritual Death is separation from God
• From order to disorder
• Man separated from God
• Man separated from woman
• The soul separated from the body
• Your mind from yourself
• Man separated from God forever

Where Is Your Payment?

• Animals
• To make clothing to cover the knowledge of their nakedness
• To make substitute for Issac
• Sacrifice for our sins annually
• Jesus
• Proclaimed by John the Baptist
• The final sacrifice for each of us for our rebellion to God

So, interesting things for me to think on this week, seeing Genesis 3 in terms of how we really are no different than Adam and Eve.  And I thought on how each of these question areas really measures you can use upon yourself:

• What is your distance from God?
• Where is your identity found?
• Did you take responsibility for your actions?
• What is your legacy?
• Who/what is your intervention before God?

Something to think on ...