Sermons About Garden
The Archetype of the Damned
All people in Adam are lost, and apart from God's mercy will actively oppose Him.
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In the Beginning, Part 3
What is your best life now? Living for the worship of Jesus. Adam and Eve had perfect fellowship with God/Jesus and they chose idolatry.
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From the Gospel to the Garden
There are only two ways to relate to God: on the basis of God's promise which leads to eternal life, or on the basis of your performance which leads to eternal death.
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Surrendering in Freedom-Faith - Galatians #14
What makes the Christian faith like no other? The good news of God’s grace is the bold claim that we are accepted by God not because we “follow the rules” or “fit the mold” but because Jesus gave his own life to rescue us. But many of us are still trying to earn God’s love with our performance rather than living in the freedom that Jesus has provided for us. In Galatians, Paul warns against the danger of religious systems that value people on grounds of accomplishment or status or cultural agreement. These things lock away our freedom in the futility of legalism, moral superiority and cultural arrogance. Focusing on either the racial/ethnic/cultural superiority or the moral successes of good works denies the gospel and divides Jesus’ followers. Join us as we explore how God offers us true freedom in Jesus and how the freedom of Christ transforms our hearts, our minds and lives.
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Now We Know
Jesus faced the ultimate test in the garden before he was arrested. This was his chance to go another way, but he chose the Father's will. Now we know... that Jesus is truly faithful.
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Jesus in The Garden of Eden
I don't know about all of you, but I enjoy reading novels for relaxation. But I'll be honest with you. Unless I'm reading a novel out of recommendation, I'm not going to trudge through it without it grabbing my attention. Even from the beginning, it has got to bring the goods for me to keep going. Thinking about that, I went through a few novels in our collection to see how the very first line read. Of the novels that I thought were worth reading or owning, I wondered if their first lines jumped off the page. Many of them did. For example: - "One winter morning in the long ago, four year old days of my life I found myself standing before a fireplace, warming my hands over a mound of glowing coals, listening to the wind whistle past the house outside." "American Hunger" by Richard Wright - "You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter." "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain - "Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board." "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston - "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." "The Gunslinger" by Stephen King Truly, the way books start cast an expectation for the rest of novel. It makes you want to keep going or it can turn you off completely. I suppose there is no grander beginning to any writing than, "Genesis 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." This beginning is the foundation for not only all of Biblical history but all of history itself. God establishes Himself as the starting point of all things. Throughout the Bible, we find references to this moment (e.g., Psalms 8; 104; 148; John 1:1-3; 1 Cor. 8:6; Col. 1:15-17; Heb. 1:2; 11:3; 1 John 1:5-7) and the Gospel of John goes as far as to give us the complete picture of what happened. 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made...14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. Now, the Gospel of John is either audacious in hijacking all of creation and making it about Jesus or it is continuing the unfurling of Jesus in every weave and fabric of existence. I say it is the latter. A student's look of the Old Testament finds not only Jesus in type and shadow but also in clear and overt in every book. What we want to do Sunday and over the next couple of weeks is to walk through the Old Testament and see Jesus on every page. As we celebrate the Christmas season and participate in all that goes with it, we want to walk backwards into scripture and see a grand plan orchestrated by a sovereign Lord who left nothing to chance. In that we will see an ancient faith which finds its pinnacle and purpose in the eternal son, Jesus Christ.
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Are You Hiding From God?
Are You Hiding From God? In Genesis chapter 3, Eve was beguiled by the serpent and ate of the forbidden fruit! Adam had a choice, and also ate of the fruit. 8: And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. 9: And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? 10: And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. 11: And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? 12: And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. As Adam did, we also blame others for our sin. Sin starts when we saw something, desired it, knew it was wrong, took it, and then gave it to someone else. Adam blamed God! The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. Eve blamed the serpent! The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. They were ashamed of their sin and hid from God! Are you hiding from God? Now is the time to confess your sins, recognize that Jesus died on the cross for your sins and your salvation. Ask Him to forgive you of your sin, and be your Lord and Savior and you will be saved.
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Advent: Peace 2008
What we need with God is shalom. We need peace with Him. We need our hearts to raise the white flag and surrender. We need the war between us to end. And that is exactly what Jesus was sent here to accomplish for us. He came as the ultimate olive branch. He came as the dove of God. He came as the very Prince of Peace. Since this is the case, what we see today is that it isn’t so much a need for God to prove His love to you more than He has by sending the gift of His Son, but our learning of and understanding what He’s done for us brings us this peace. In other words, the more you realize that God’s favor rests upon you (v. 14), the more you’ll experience peace. The favor of the only eyes in the universe that matter is calling you to great joy at this good news. God desires that we would join the angels in crying out to God, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace.†And we could finish this by saying, “because God’s favor rests on us—on me!â€
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