Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder
Be With Me is a daily 7 minute chronological walk through the New Testament hosted by Michael Smith. It is for everyone who is curious about what Jesus actually said and did in the gospels. Most episodes will leave you with at least one good thought to chew on for the rest of the day. We start with the Bible and hopefully end with Awe. We are walking through the chronological events of Jesus' life and then thoughtfully considering them. It is meant to spur the devotional life of the Christian and the not-yet-Christian. We occasionally venture into the Old Testament when it helps our understanding of the New Testament events. Everybody has 7 minutes. Everybody needs to wonder. Be With Me is hosted by Michael Smith who has absolutely no special qualifications to do a podcast. He is not a pastor. He has not been to seminary. He does not lead a mega-church. He is not a professional and he has no more credentials than you do. He does, however, follow a great God with an observant eye and a curious heart. Each day, he starts with a study bible and aims for astonishment. ‘be with him’ for 7 minutes as he sets out daily to discover the God who invites us to ‘Be With Me.’
Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder
A SERIAL KILLER in the Garden s1e21 Gen3:1
Every serial killer has his first kill. Satan gets the first KILL of BILLIONS in the garden called Eden. He is a "murderer from the beginning." Well, Eden is the beginning.
Adam was there. Adam was silent. Adam allowed his beloved to be beguiled by a serial killer. He allowed the clear command to be doubted. He allowed her to eat with a serial killer. Adam fails Eve and God in thought, in wordlessness, and in deed. He eats.
Eve knew enough. She quoted God, and His prohibition. She just didn't obey it.
Let's not be beguiled today by the same serial killer. bewithme.us Google podcasts.
A SERIAL KILLER in the Garden s1e21 Gen3:1
John 8:44
44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Murderer from the beginning.
Here is the beginning.
He is the murderer who is here.
He comes lying ABOUT murdering.
He comes lying: saying there is no death
Did God say? Questioning
Contradicting: You will not surely die.
Comes actually with Billions of deaths, every on with tears, tragedy, mourning, questioning, and often: the doubing of God
Is there a God. Maybe not
Is God GOOD? It doesn’t look like it at the moment when baby died, somebody got hit by a car, suffering with cancer, how can He take this mother out of her family?
Listening to bad advice: of a murderer who is hunting first kill.
Every serial killer started by killing a first victim: here is Satans: eve and adam
Always go to the neighbor, he didn’t seem that bad to me…
3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.
He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” 2
Crafty: shrewd, cunning clever
Not exactly a beast without will.
Quantify: created by, and rebel to God. Ultimately, not “on par”
Story of one of the 19th century church fathers spurgeon had a dream he walked downstairs and saw Satan, his reply was, “Oh, it’s only you”.
There is some Good theology there: He knows God, He knows who made who and who has the ultimate power.
But, have you ever been to a funeral? Wept at a loss? Grieved the tragedy or the pain? Watched a child suffer? Watch a mother lose a child?
This is a horrible story today:
And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, 3 but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ” 4 But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate
Created image bearing married team exercising DOMINION
Do this…don’t do this.
Yes domininon over fish, and livestock… and most importantly ONESELF. Master of. Your domain of
Heart: doubt: did God actually say?
God did NOT SAY THAT. No she wasn’t there.
Adam
Caution was to Adam15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
Brain: mis-remebers: neither shall you touch it. Adds to God’s words. Caution was to ADAM only. Communicate, express the truths of God to others in our domain, circle of responsibility.
Exposing mis communication. Doubt in marriage.
Questioning the other. Unreliability.
Big problem here.
Adam was given this command. Called command. Pretty clear.
In mileau of walking withGod, fellowshiop, contact, intimacy
This is what we will long for until either paradise or kingdom comes down and we get new heaven and new earth.
Adam was there at the interaction
Adam did not express dominion over the first order of dominion:
HIMSELF
Adam did not express dominion, care over that which also was in his circle of responsiblitily: his family; his wife
Allowed her to doubt
Allowed a serial killer to be friends with her
Allowed her to eat
Eve eating was a failure of ADAM for sure
Husband WHO WAS WITH HER
And HE ATE
and eve : ““We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, 3 but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die
Eve knew too
she knew enough about the commands to obey and trust in them and in the character of the Lord
We will have an opportunity to have dominion, in a holy way, over the thoughts, or people or resources in our domain. Let’s honor and trust God.
Let’s do a beeter Job thatn adam and eve. Let’s not listen to a serial killer.