History – WK2 (7-11-21)

History
In the Beginning
July 11, 2021

Have you ever experienced a broken relationship?

{Garden}
Oneness —> Otherness

Genesis 3:7-11
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. ⁸ Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. ⁹ But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” ¹⁰ He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.” ¹¹ And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

Words have the power to create new worlds.

{Cain & Abel}

Genesis 4:7
If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”

חטאת to fail or miss the goal

Genesis 4:16
So Cain went out from the Lord’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

{A Fallen World}

Newton’s 1st Law of Motion
An object in motion will remain in motion unless acted upon by an external force.

Genesis 6:5–8
The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. ⁶ The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. ⁷ So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” ⁸ But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. 

{Noah}

{Babel}

Genesis 11:1-2
Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.  As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

Make a name for ourselves…

{Sin}

Sinner = a bad person

Sin

1. Breaks down relationship with God
2. Breaks down relationship with others

Where and how we begin the story shapes and forms the story we are actually telling.