Title: Where Are You?/Genesis 3:1-10
content where are you
Genesis 3:1-10, 1 John 1:9-10
There is a book called "Prepared Tooth Changes Your Life". It is said that academic research has been around for over 30 years, and it is said that people share love through touch and feel happiness through contact. In fact, whether we are happy or sad, hugging each other doubles our joy and halves our sadness. This kind of contact is something that happens to animals as well as humans, and they show affection or love by bumping their bodies into each other.
According to the theory of contact, modern children are quick-tempered or hot-tempered, and hard-hearted and rough-hearted because they lack contact with their parents. In general, it is said that children learn the love of their mother through strong skin contact through the vagina for a few hours from the mother's womb. It is said that the child feels love through the feeling of a mother's warm embrace throughout the life of the child. However, in recent years, many women have had a cesarean section, so the process of contact is omitted, so they cannot taste the hot touch with the mother, and it is said that the emotions of the children are rough.
A touch is an encounter. Touch is love. Faith is also a contact with God. Worship is an important process of making this contact. We must learn and practice this beautiful contact, singing God's love and spreading the love of Jesus. Your warm religious contact will give hope and hope to those in need.
The text is the story of those whose relationship with God is broken. God created Eden and made Adam and Eve fruitful, multiply, and live to the fullest. They had plenty to eat, plenty of animals, and plenty of fruit. But he told them not to eat the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. One day, a serpent came to Eve and said, “Eat, you will not die.” I was tempted to do it, and seeing the fruit made me feel emotions I had never felt before.
It was good for food, pleasing to the eye, and desirable enough to make one wise. Eve could not resist the temptation, so she reached out and ate it, and gave it to Adam as well, and they sinned together. Now that they knew they were naked, they covered themselves with fig leaves and hid among the trees. But God came to them.
“Adam, where are you?” This question is the voice of the Lord calling to those who have lost their relationship with God. Today, the Lord is calling us. “Where are you?”, “Where are you?”, “Where is your faith?” We will have to respond to that call, look back at what is standing between us and God, and return to God.
1. It is a weakness to easily fall for the senses of the body.
It could be something nice to look at, something appealing to the taste buds, something like splendor, things like material things, fame or reason. Even though you know clearly that you shouldn't like these things more than the Lord, you like them more than God and fall into those feelings. While running a Bible study class, I asked women what they liked the most. When I asked them to be more honest when they answered things like love, clothes, and cosmetics, they all said “Money!” in unison.
That's right. Ultimately, money is the best thing because you can buy clothes, cosmetics, eat and play only if you have money. But if the saints answer yes, they just can't do that because they look like snobs. How much do people struggle to get money? Do you work from dawn to late at night, and do not hesitate to do bad things, even day and night, or do you not care whether things are good or bad? They all do it to get the good things in this life.
Therefore, we must recognize that it is impossible for us to follow the holy path without relying on the Holy Spirit for our lives. We must realize that we cannot survive without the Holy Spirit's help, and that if the Holy Spirit does not sustain us, we will have to be dragged away. However, we are not saying that we stand still, saying that the Holy Spirit will do it. You must have the determination to beat yourself up and submit to the voice of the Holy Spirit.
2. We must always listen to God's voice.
Eve knew the voice of God and also the voice of the serpent. I should have thought of God's voice when the serpent asked, "Did God really say that?" But Eve listened more to the serpent's voice. At that moment, disobedience began. We have voices to hear and voices we must not hear. However, there is a tendency not to listen carefully to the voice of God. On the contrary, we tend to listen easily to the words of half-truths, untruths, pseudo-speaks, and heresies.
Because our hearts are already dirty. Even today, evil spirits secretly make us question God's Word. Even theologians say that Christianity is a way of salvation, that there is no Jesus, and that the Jesus event is a myth. These days, these false truths and untruths are at odds. People easily fall for other sounds, unheard sounds, and mysterious sounds. If you are vigilant, you will listen to these sounds, and those who have been hurt in the church are more likely to fall into such a place.
You must always keep close to the Word of God and know it. When Jesus was also tempted (Matthew 4:37, 16:22), he overcame it with the word. “Satan, step back from me! you are the one who makes me fall Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” Can you do that too? When you are tempted, can you tell whether it is Satan's voice or God's voice? How many are the sounds, noises, and calls of evil spirits in the world? It is difficult to overcome the world without fixing your eyes on the Bible.
If we do not keep our ears open to the Word of God, other sounds will fill our hearts. That is why it is so important to listen to God with all your heart at every worship service and to meditate on the Word of God in your daily life every day. “Incline your ear and come to me and hear. Then your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure grace of David (Isaiah 55:3). Listen to the Word of God in every sermon. Listen to the voice of the Lord speaking in the Bible every day. Then your soul will be enriched. Truly, it will not be a life of sorrow apart from God. Let the Word live in your heart.
3. Repentance is the way to restore our relationship with God.
Sin is painful. You don't know how dark a heart that has sinned is. Those who have sinned cannot raise their faces. Those who have sinned are always insecure because of sin. Looking for a place to hide, unable to get out in the sun. King Herod was always anxious after he killed John the Baptist. When Jesus got up, healed the sick, and preached the gospel of repentance, Herod was terrified enough to say that John the Baptist had risen from the dead. Sin not only darkens the mind, but it also makes the body sick. In the end, death reigns. Paul said, “The wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23).
Repentance is the way to restore your relationship with God. John the Baptist’s advice was “repent,” Jesus’ advice was also repentance, and the advice of the apostles of the early church was also repentance. Because repentance restores your relationship with God. Repentance is not repentance. It's not just thinking about your mistakes and regretting them. It is to turn from the wrong way and go the way God wants us to go. God loved Adam and Eve first. He made leather clothes and put them on. Although Adam had to sweat and cultivate to eat, and Eve had the pain of conception and longing for her husband to be governed by him, I could be happy when I thought of God's search for me and giving me grace. If we come to God and repent, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9).