Genesis 3:1-15 | The Promise Hidden in the Curse! | The Protoevangelium

0:00All right, dude. Let me minimize my

0:03screens and stuff. I know sometimes we

0:05got to give it a little minute.

0:09A little minute.

0:11[laughter]

0:14Girl, I look and I I keep forgetting

0:16that my face is just It's always

0:18telling, right? [laughter]

0:21I'm always forgetting that, Lord.

0:24Because the bag came halfway open. And I

0:26don't know. Like I don't know how y'all

0:29feel about putting Postits in your Bible

0:32and stuff, but these little ones are my

0:34favorite. These are my favorite. They're

0:36really, really small. They're like 2 by

0:38twos, smaller than 2 by2's. They're real

0:40small. And I like these because I make a

0:42lot of notes a lot. And so my big

0:45postits are they be all my big postit be

0:49all over my page. Like I don't know if

0:50y'all can see that, but it just And I

0:52don't like the transparent ones. I have

0:54those. I don't like those. And so I like

0:57the little ones and I was trying to see

0:58if my stuff was open because I was going

1:01to have to send it back. Amazon be

1:02playing like they be playing too much.

1:06And as a a note taker, we can't be

1:09playing. Okay. [laughter]

1:13Keep playing. My god on today. All right

1:15everybody. Okay. Be tripping sometime.

1:18You know they be jacking up my stuff. So

1:19I had to you know WHAT I'M SAYING Y'ALL.

1:22OKAY Y'ALL. So hello everybody. If you

1:26are new, welcome, welcome, welcome. How

1:27y'all doing? To all of my OG's.

1:31It's so crazy to call y'all the

1:32original.

1:34[laughter]

1:36My OG stamp or original gangster. Can't

1:38be calling y'all that. Find something

1:40else like

1:42I don't know y'all. We got to do

1:43something else cuz look, I don't know if

1:44we can be saying all that. Yeah.

1:46[laughter]

1:47But if you are back, hello. Hello y'all.

1:50I do not like this bi-weekly thing cuz I

1:55be reading so much and I'm like I want

1:57y'all in on everything that I'm studying

1:59and reading. Like we still in Genesis,

2:02but I'm I'm way far off. I'm in the

2:04Bible and other places. I'm just all

2:05over the place. I don't like this. But

2:07y'all, once

2:10my class is over, once this class series

2:12is over, we can get back to weekly. But

2:15I got to get this class series over

2:17with. and the class series is great. So,

2:20you know, I'm having fun with that, too,

2:21because I love teaching. If y'all can't

2:23tell, I love teaching. So,

2:25[clears throat] you know, I love

2:26teaching the word of God, but I

2:27absolutely love counseling and

2:29psychology as well. So, you know, I need

2:32some balance right there. I got to keep

2:34my skills sharp as well, especially from

2:36being on a break from counseling for so

2:38for such

2:40since October.

2:42I don't even I think it's been longer

2:43than that in May. I think maybe October.

2:46Maybe something like that. [laughter]

2:48I'mma get back to weekly. All right,

2:50Kenya, don't be coming here and getting

2:52on my case. I see you. She said we voted

2:53weekly, but you told us no. Just let me,

2:55you know, y'all work with me here, okay?

2:58Just

3:00work with me, y'all. Okay? Cuz y'all, if

3:02y'all can't tell, I study study. Like, I

3:04don't just read a scripture and then be

3:06like, "That's it. I'm about to guess

3:08something." Like, just the same way that

3:09y'all pastors will go a whole week of

3:11study. Sometimes two weeks. I do the

3:14same thing. I go usually more than a

3:16week, but I go a week usually deeply of

3:19studying. I like to like piece it and

3:20then I have to go all throughout the

3:22text and find parallel and supporting

3:24scriptures, especially when it comes to

3:26Genesis. We got to do that cuz the first

3:29gospel is in Genesis and Jesus is all

3:33throughout Genesis. And I like to make

3:35sure that I'm able to tell y'all exactly

3:37where he is. Like where are the hints of

3:39the Messiah? There it is. There it is.

3:41Cuz y'all know how God is. God is clever

3:44with them words, man. You gotta really

3:45pay attention. All right. [laughter]

3:48So, I hope everybody's been good. Um Oh,

3:51baby. What is your name? Alexander.

3:56It's not Danielle. Oh, I I saw your I

3:59saw your email from last week. Um from

4:03the last two weeks, the last Bible

4:04study. I said I was going to reach out

4:06to you. I never got an email from you,

4:08but I saw you forwarded me the email on

4:10the 13th. I was looking for the email

4:11that same night, but I saw your name. I

4:14saw your emails yesterday cuz baby, you

4:16sent them back and forth. I was like,

4:17"Hold on, sugar. I see them. [laughter]

4:19I saw your email. You know who I'm

4:21talking about. I wanted to talk to you

4:24two weeks ago, but it's okay. I'm going

4:26to respond to that email, but I just saw

4:28yesterday and it's just been a chaotic

4:30two days for me." Okay. So, I'm going to

4:32get back to you. I saw you wrote in

4:33here. I think you said something about

4:35your Achilles. I think you said your

4:36baby was sick. You said you were going

4:38to try to worship and dance. And that's

4:40okay. But you know who you who I'm

4:42talking about. So I haven't forgot about

4:44you. I saw your name and I saw your

4:45email. I'm going to get back to you.

4:47Okay.

4:49Okay. Oh, you got friends that's on

4:51YouTube. Hey friends. Tanya Hughes. Hey

4:54friends of Tanya Hughes. [laughter]

4:57Hello. Okay y'all. So before we even get

5:00into prayer, let me go ahead and say

5:02this first. Okay. I know that there are

5:05many of you because I see you all's DMs

5:08now. I can't respond to everybody,

5:10but I see y'all DMs, okay? And I know

5:14that some of you all are not confident

5:16in your prayers, okay? I do not want you

5:20all to wait and rely on me to pray. I

5:23want you all to find your own voice. I

5:26don't want you all to wait and rely on

5:27me to study. I want you all to be in

5:30deep communion with God. Okay? You have

5:34to build that type of habit for it to

5:38for you to become seasoned in it. Like I

5:40tell everybody, if you struggle with

5:42prayer, take a scripture. Okay? Take a

5:45scripture. Take one scripture. Um got

5:48like three bobs around me, but just take

5:49a scripture. It can be anywhere in the

5:51Old Testament or New. I love Isaiah. I

5:55love Hebrews. I love Deuteronomy as

5:57well. Um, I love Proverbs, of course,

6:01Psalms, Songs of Solomon for marriages

6:03and things like that. I love Galatians.

6:06And, you know, I love all of I love

6:08almost every book. It's about two of

6:10them that I be trying to stay away from,

6:11but y'all get what I'm saying. But take

6:13a scripture and just read one over and

6:15over and over again and pray on that

6:18scripture. When I'm anointing my home,

6:21when I'm anointing my children, anything

6:22like that, I'll take a scripture and

6:24I'll meditate and I'll read. eat. And

6:26I'm not talking about meditate that

6:27witchcraft stuff. I ain't talking about

6:28that. I will constantly go over and

6:30receive what it is that I'm reading and

6:32I will pray from that scripture. So if

6:34I'm praying for safety, I will pray from

6:35safety from that scripture. And then

6:37from there, there will be an overflow

6:39that starts to happen. I'll start

6:40connecting the things that I need safety

6:42with. And I'll just flow from that.

6:44Safety of my friends, safety of my

6:46children. So find your scripture. Get

6:48comfortable. You don't have to sound

6:50like everybody else. Okay? I know how

6:53that is. I know how it is to be

6:55intimidated by prayer warriors and

6:57intercessors and stuff and people

6:59speaking in tongues. I know that that

7:01can be extremely intimidating if you

7:03were not raised in that. It can be

7:04intimidating. Don't be intimidated by

7:06it. You have your own voice and God

7:08knows your voice. That's all that

7:09matters.

7:10God knows your voice. If God make it

7:14plain, start praying over your food and

7:16not just saying, "Father God, thank you

7:18for the food that I'm receiving for the

7:19nourishment of my body." Don't keep

7:22praying [laughter] if it's just you and

7:25your food. Father God, thank you for the

7:27food in which I'm receiving for the

7:28nourishment of my body. Father God,

7:30thank you for supplying the needs of

7:32those who have been without. Just let it

7:33flow, okay? And eventually you'll start

7:36getting to where, oh, I'm praying now

7:38for 2 minutes. I'm praying for 3

7:40minutes. I'm praying for 10 minutes. I

7:42prayed for an hour. Eventually, you'll

7:44get to that place, but you got to

7:45practice. Okay? Okay. So, I wanted to

7:47make sure that I say that. Okay. I

7:50wanted to make sure that I let with that

7:51get into your word. This is your armor.

7:54The easiest way for the enemy to get to

7:56you is when you are not covered. Okay?

7:59When you are not covered by the word of

8:01God, when you are just running away from

8:02the word of God, he can get to you.

8:04That's when he can influence the most

8:06doubt. You need your armor. Okay? So,

8:09stay in your word. I don't care if you

8:12like, Kitty, I ain't been having it in

8:14me, baby. If you can read two sentences,

8:16that's good.

8:18That's all it need. That's all you need

8:19is two sentences. Just read the two. If

8:22you struggling, read it even when you're

8:23mad, baby. Okay? This is the reason why

8:25we take a Bible with us everywhere.

8:28Okay? This is the reason why we got a

8:29little Bible with us everywhere. Okay?

8:32[laughter]

8:32Okay? So, I want you all to be

8:34confident. I don't want anyone to be

8:35intimidated. This is our Bible study.

8:38Okay? I may be leading this Bible study,

8:40but this is God assigned. This is God

8:42ordained. This belongs to all of us. and

8:44we are utilizing this together and we

8:46are all learning together as we go.

8:49Okay, so I want to make sure I say that.

8:51Okay, I hope everyone has had an amazing

8:53week. Uh before we pray, we're going to

8:56be in Genesis chapter 3:es

8:591-15. Genesis chapter 3:es 1-15. As much

9:03as I wanted to go through all of chapter

9:053 today because there are so there's so

9:08much we got to cover in the first 15

9:11verses. I could have stopped at seven,

9:13but there's so much that we have to

9:15cover. There's so much that we have to

9:18cover. So, we're going to read it up to

9:2015. Okay? You can continue reading

9:22Genesis on your own time. I encourage

9:24you to do so. Okay? We're studying this

9:27the way that we're studying this because

9:28we need to bring it all together. Okay?

9:30We're going to make the Bible plain as

9:32plain as we can. Okay? So, we're

9:34bringing all of this together. And the

9:36end goal,

9:38the end goal for me is to help you

9:40better understand who the Messiah is,

9:41who Jesus Christ is, and why Jesus had

9:44to come and save us to begin with. Okay?

9:47That's my whole purpose is to help you

9:49grow closer to God, but to learn and

9:51know who the Messiah is. It's so

9:54important that you do. A lot of people

9:56read the Old Testament and they don't

9:58retain nothing.

10:01They don't retain nothing. I used to be

10:04that person when I was younger. I would

10:06read that Bible through. I'll be sitting

10:07in church. I'll be like, "Yeah, that's

10:08good." And wouldn't retain nothing.

10:10Y'all ever went to church, the pastor

10:12was preaching a good word and then you

10:13got home and said, "I forgot what he

10:15said." Because you ain't take no notes

10:16or none of that. [laughter]

10:18You just sat in church like, "Go ahead

10:20then, pastor.

10:22You just did that. Y'all know what I'm

10:24talking about." Okay. Bishop said on

10:26Sunday at church, he said he he said the

10:29same thing I be saying. I don't care how

10:31fast you can read the Bible. If the

10:33Bible has not read you, don't talk to me

10:37about reading it until the Bible has

10:39read you [laughter]

10:42all the way through. Okay? Cuz if by now

10:45if I studying in Exodus and Genesis, God

10:48ain't read you yet, I I must be doing

10:51something wrong. Lord, you have to help

10:52me on it. But until the Bible reads you,

10:55I'm not gonna tell y'all anything. I'm

10:57not going to run with that. Hey, let's

11:00read the Bible in 365 days and nine

11:02months. I don't care about none of that.

11:04Let's study the word of God because

11:05there are so many gems in the word of

11:07God and there's a lot of hidden things

11:08that you'll miss.

11:11But the word is alive, right?

11:13Absolutely. Absolutely. Okay. So,

11:16Genesis,

11:17excuse me, y'all chapter 3:es

11:201-5. The title is the promise hidden in

11:23the curse.

11:25The promise hidden

11:28in the curse. The title is the promise

11:32hidden

11:34in the curse. Amen. It's going to be a

11:37good study. The promise hidden in the

11:40curse. I'm going to go ahead and get

11:41prayer started and then we are going to

11:45I'm going to be reading out of KJV and

11:47NLT. Uh primarily KJV. I just like to

11:51read the Old Testament in KJV. I know

11:54the old I know reading KJV can be

11:55intimidating too, but I prefer to read

11:58the Old Testament because it has not

12:00been modernized

12:02and it has not been washed and diluted.

12:06I don't Okay, y'all know how I feel.

12:10[clears throat]

12:10King James, New King James, and NLT are

12:13my favorites. When I want to be a little

12:15gangster, I'mma read the message Bible.

12:17When I want to get smacked in my face,

12:18I'll read the message. Okay. Passion

12:21translation. When I really just want to

12:22break it down simple, okay? That's just

12:25the way that I flow. Okay. All right.

12:28Father God, we thank you for bringing us

12:29together, Father God, to fellowship

12:31under your name, God. I'm asking in this

12:34moment, Father God, that whatever it is

12:35that we receive, Father God, whatever it

12:37is that we read and we interpret, Father

12:39God, that you lay it in our hearts that

12:40it may stay with us on this journey,

12:43Father God. In this moment right now,

12:46Father God, we come to you with

12:47gratitude, God. We thank you for this

12:49fellowship. We thank you for holding us.

12:52We thank you for security and safety,

12:54Father God. We thank you for ordering

12:55our steps. We thank you for guiding us

12:58in such a treacherous time, Father God.

13:00And we look to the heels, Father God,

13:02whenever we need help, whenever we need

13:04strength, Father God. So those in this

13:05room right now, Father God, who are

13:07leaning, Father God, in a place of their

13:09own understanding, Father God, I ask

13:11that you make yourself visible, Father

13:13God, that they may receive an

13:14understanding. That they may receive

13:16wisdom and guidance from you, Father

13:18God. That they may hear your voice,

13:20Father God, even in the moments where it

13:22feels like they don't know where you are

13:24and they feel like they are absent of

13:25you, Father God. Make your presence

13:27known, Father God. And I take the time

13:29right now, Father God, as I lead in this

13:32Bible study, Father God, that you give

13:33me clarity, God, and you give me an

13:35understanding as well, Father God.

13:37Whatever distractions that the enemy may

13:39try to present in this room right now,

13:40Father God, I ask that you cast those

13:42distractions out, Father God. Whatever

13:44is weighty in this moment, Father God,

13:46that is trying to prevent us from

13:47receiving the word of God, I ask that

13:49you remove and release that weight,

13:51Father God. Allow our hearts to be

13:53tender, Father God, and receptive to the

13:55word, Father God, knowing that it is

13:57alive and well. Allow that word to

13:59flourish and blossom within us as well,

14:02Father God. So, I take the time right

14:03now, Father God, to extend my love to

14:05everyone in this room, Father God, as a

14:07sister in Christ, Father God, in

14:09reverence to you as well, Father God,

14:11with the fear and the knowledge of who

14:12you are, God. And so, I want to take

14:14this time to tell you that I love you

14:16and I honor you and I worship you. In a

14:18mighty and matchless name we pray. Amen.

14:21All right, [clears throat] y'all. Let's

14:21get into the word of God.

14:26Woo! I love the Lord. Let's get into the

14:29word of God.

14:30That promise that was hidden in that

14:32curse, we got to find it today. I got on

14:35my Inspector Gadget word today.

14:38If y'all do, I play a lot. So, if y'all

14:41want somebody for this, I'm probably not

14:42the person cuz I I play too much. All

14:44right. We got to make it playful

14:46sometimes. It can get it can get a

14:47little heavy. Okay. All right. Let's

14:50talk about the fall.

14:52Let's talk about the fall. Have has

14:54everyone read Genesis 3 before? Has

14:57everyone read Genesis 3 before?

15:00No. Yes. Okay. Okay. It's okay if you

15:04haven't. Good. We here. If you have,

15:07good. We back here. It's absolutely okay

15:09if you have not. I know a lot of people,

15:12they read it and they say, "Oh, man,

15:14just sin." But wow, is it so much more

15:16than that. We want to understand the

15:18pattern of sin. So as we read further in

15:20the word of God in the times

15:22[clears throat] of Noah and after,

15:24you'll understand God's anger. You'll

15:27better understand his anger. A lot of I

15:30always say this all the time. A lot of

15:31people think that God is a monster. He's

15:32not a monster. It's not the God I serve.

15:35He's not a monster. Anger was righteous.

15:38Okay, warranted. Okay, so man falls. Now

15:42the serpent was more subtle than any

15:45beast of the field which the Lord God

15:47had made. And he said unto the woman,

15:49"Ya had God said, Ye shall not eat of

15:53every tree of the garden." And the woman

15:55said unto the serpent, "We may eat of

15:58the fruit of the trees of the garden,

15:59but of the fruit of the tree which is in

16:01the midst of the garden, God had said,

16:03Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye

16:05touch it, lest ye die." I'm reading King

16:07James version. Y'all going to go to NLT.

16:09Okay? Y'all don't got to worry about

16:10that. Don't get mad at me. Okay? And the

16:12serpent said unto the woman, "Ye shall

16:14not surely die, for God do not know the

16:17day, and ye eat thereof. Then your eyes

16:19shall be open, and ye shall be as gods,

16:21knowing good and evil." And when the

16:24woman saw that the tree was good for

16:25food, and that it was pleasant to the

16:27eyes, and the tree to be desired to make

16:29one wise, she took of the fruit thereof,

16:32and did eat, and gave also unto her

16:34husband with her, and he did eat. Okay,

16:38just work with me. I know King James is

16:40a lot. Just work with me, okay? We going

16:42to flow. And the eyes of them were both

16:44opened, and they knew that they were

16:46naked. And they sewed fig leaves

16:48together and made themselves aprons. And

16:51they heard the voice of the Lord God

16:53walking

16:55in the garden in the cool of the day.

16:57And [clears throat] Adam and his wife

16:58hid themselves from the presence of the

17:00Lord God amongst the trees of the

17:01garden. And the Lord God called unto

17:04Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

17:08H. And he said, I heard thy voice in the

17:11garden, and I was afraid because I was

17:13naked, and I hid myself. And he said,

17:17Who told thee that thou was naked? Hast

17:20thou eaten of the tree whereof I

17:22commanded thee that thou shouldest not

17:24eat?

17:25And the man said, The woman whom thou

17:28gavest to me, who thou gavest to be with

17:31me, sorry, she gave me of the tree, and

17:34I did eat. And the Lord God said unto

17:36the woman, "What is this that thou hast

17:39done?" And the woman said, "The serpent

17:41begilled me or beg, however y'all want

17:43to pronounce it, begouted me, and I did

17:46eat." And the Lord God said unto the

17:49serpent, because thou hast done this,

17:51thou art cursed

17:53above all cattle, and above every beast

17:55of the field. Upon thy belly shalt thou

17:58go upon thy belly shalt thou go on your

18:01stomach. That's the most humiliating

18:04position you can be in. Okay.

18:06And dust shalt thou eat all the days of

18:09thy life. Be on your belly and eat dust.

18:13And I will put enmity,

18:16that's a big word. We're going to talk

18:18about that. Between thee and the woman,

18:22between thee and the woman, and between

18:25thy seed, singular, and between thy

18:29seed, singular, and her seed.

18:33We've been nosy since the beginning of

18:34the time. [laughter]

18:36It shall bruise thy head and thou shalt

18:38bruise his heel. All right, that's King

18:40James version. Now, let's make it plain

18:41for a second and then we going to go

18:43over some key terms and then we going to

18:45get into the word of God. We're going to

18:48go over some key terms. Okay, we're

18:50going to go over some key terms. Now,

18:51I'mma read it quickly in NLT because I

18:53know some people like that King James is

18:55a lot. All right. The serpent was the

18:57shudest of all the wild animals. the

18:59shrewest of all the wild animals in the

19:01Lord God had made. One day he asked the

19:03woman, "Did God really say you must not

19:05eat the tree?" Sorry, eat the fruit from

19:08any of the trees in the garden. Of

19:10course, we may eat fruit from the trees

19:12in the garden. The woman replied, "It's

19:14only the fruit from the tree in the

19:15middle of the garden that we are not

19:17allowed to eat." God said, "You must not

19:19eat it or even touch it. If you do, you

19:22will die."

19:25You won't die," the serpent replied to

19:28the woman. "God knows that your eyes

19:30will be open as soon as you eat it, and

19:32you'll be like God, knowing both good

19:34and evil." The woman was convinced.

19:37She was convinced, y'all. My God. She

19:40saw that the tree was beautiful and its

19:42fruit looked delicious,

19:44and she wanted the wisdom it would give

19:46her. So, she took some of the fruit and

19:48ate it. Then she gave some to her

19:50husband who was with her and he ate it

19:54too. Mhm. In that moment their eyes were

19:57open and they suddenly felt shame at

20:00their nakedness. So they sowed fig

20:02leaves together to cover themselves.

20:05When the cool evening breezes were

20:07blowing, the man and his wife heard the

20:08Lord God walking about in the garden. So

20:12they hid from the Lord God among the

20:14trees. Then the Lord God called the man,

20:16"Where are you? Where art thou?" Okay.

20:19He replied, "I heard you walking in the

20:22garden, so I hid. I was afraid because I

20:24was naked." "Who told you that you were

20:27naked?" The Lord God asked, "Have you

20:29eaten from the tree whose fruit I

20:31commanded you not to eat?" The man

20:33replied, "It was the woman you gave me

20:36who gave me the fruit, and I ate it."

20:40Mhm.

20:42It was a woman you gave me. Okay. Then

20:45the Lord asked the woman, "What have you

20:47done?" The serpent deceived me. She

20:50replied, "That's why I ate it." Then the

20:53Lord God said to the serpent, "Because

20:55you have done this, you are cursed more

20:58than all animals domestic and wild, you

21:00will crawl on your belly, growling in

21:03the dust as long as you live. And I will

21:05cause hostility between you and the

21:08woman, and between your offspring and

21:11her offspring. He will strike your head

21:13and you will strike his heel. Okay, now

21:16let's get into some key terms. Let's get

21:17into this because I want y'all to

21:18understand why I led with King James

21:20version. There is some important text in

21:22King James version that as you all can

21:24see, it is diluted in NLT.

21:28It is diluted in NLT. There are certain

21:31terms that we have to make sure that we

21:33give respect to that will open up our

21:35eyes to the coming Messiah. Okay? But if

21:40you read NLT or NIV or ESV or any of the

21:45other translations, they have probably

21:47watered it down.

21:49Okay, we're in Genesis 3:es 1-15. Let's

21:53go. Key terms. N KJV. The first word you

21:56see is subtle. It is spelled S U B T I

21:59L. It is spelled S U B T I L. That is

22:03the first word that you see is

22:05something. Let me move this out the way,

22:06y'all. Okay. It means crafty,

22:10treacherous, shrewd, strategic or

22:14calculating.

22:17In the word of God, it said, "Now the

22:19serpent was more subtle, was more

22:22crafty, was more treacherous, was more

22:25shrewd, was more strategic, was more

22:28calculating

22:29than any beast of the field."

22:32Okay.

22:34Now, further down, which I'm going to

22:37pull it up first because we didn't we're

22:39not going to see this until the next

22:40study, but I want y'all to understand

22:41the word sorrow, too. So, just write it

22:43down because the next study we're going

22:44to talk about sorrow. The word sorrow,

22:46just write it down, okay? Painful toll,

22:51mental anguish,

22:53distress,

22:54hardship, and emotional grief. Just

22:57write it down because I changed my mind

22:59of reading all of three. Okay. Now,

23:02serpent. Now, a lot of times people have

23:04read serpent and they've read fruit and

23:06they thought that it was an apple and

23:08they just came up with all kinds of

23:09things. Serpent in this text, okay, in

23:12all of the texts, okay, when we talk

23:14about Satan, a highly intelligent,

23:17cunning, a highly intelligent, he ain't

23:19dumb.

23:21In order for you to be calculating, you

23:23got to be intelligent. a highly

23:25intelligent, cunning, and deceptive

23:28creature in the Garden of Eden that

23:31tempts Eve to disobey God.

23:36Now, in Revelation,

23:38if you go to Revelation 20

23:41verse two, the serpent refers directly

23:45to Satan. If you go back to Revelation

23:47all the way at the end, we going from

23:49the beginning to the end. If you go to

23:51Revelation, that is when it says the

23:53serpent is Satan.

23:56Satan was defined as the old or ancient

23:58serpent. Okay?

24:02So, he was the same deceitful in all of

24:04the book, all of the Bible, he is the

24:06same deceitful entity from the Garden of

24:08Eden. Okay? Enone say that enmity.

24:13Enmity. Have you want to say it? Enmity.

24:16Now, this is a deep hatred. I remember

24:18the first time I learned this word, I

24:20was a little girl and that I learned

24:22envy and enmity because my mom used to

24:23make me read dictionaries and it was a I

24:28always remembered it as a deep hatred.

24:31It is an ordained

24:33deepseated

24:35hostility,

24:37animosity or intense hatred. That's the

24:41word. Okay, now let's flow. All right,

24:44let's talk about this revelation. Mhm.

24:47[clears throat]

24:48Revelation 20. Is it verse 20?

24:53Is Revelation verse 20? Oh, wait. That's

24:56too much going on right there. That's my

24:58concordance. Hold on. Want to make sure

25:00I give y'all the right I think it's

25:02verse 20. Is it verse 20? Was it Was it

25:05verse 20?

25:10I think that's I that's all. Hold on. I

25:13should have put a sticky note right

25:14there.

25:21Yeah. Yeah. I know I wasn't tripping.

25:22Yeah, y'all hear me off a little bit.

25:24I'm like, I know I ain't tripping. Okay,

25:26let's get ready to highlight. All right,

25:27so in chapter 3, verse one, highlight

25:31subtle.

25:33Highlight subtle.

25:35In verse two, go down and highlight

25:37serpent.

25:39Okay, highlight serpent in verse two.

25:43Okay. In verse three, you're going to

25:45highlight a statement. Okay. Ye shall

25:48not eat of it, neither shall ye touch

25:50it, lest ye die. That's King James

25:52version. So in verse three, 3B, the

25:56second end of that verse. Ye shall not

25:58eat of it.

25:59What Eve is saying, highlight that.

26:01That's important. Ye shall not eat of

26:04it, neither shall you touch it, lest ye

26:06die. Okay, highlight that.

26:10Got that? Okay, go down to verse 12

26:16and highlight where Adam says, "The

26:19woman whom thou gavest to be with me,

26:21she gave me of the tree, and I did eat."

26:24Whatever your translation says.

26:29Go down to verse 13 and highlight Eve's

26:32response to God. The serpent begaled me

26:36and I did eat. Begal, be have y'all

26:39said. Verse 15 is where you say where

26:41you see enmity.

26:45Take it down. All right. Now, let's talk

26:47because it's the next the next one is

26:49going to be a whole lot of highlighting

26:50y'all the next Bible study. Okay. So,

26:52let's talk about the anatomy of

26:53temptation first.

26:56What did we see happening there? The

26:59enemy is clever. He is calculated and he

27:02is strategic. He did not come right in

27:06and say and point at the tree and say,

27:07"Did God tell you not to eat from that

27:09tree?" He didn't do that. He used word

27:11play. It said he was subtle. He's

27:14tricky. He's conniving. He's deceptive.

27:17So, what he did was use word play first.

27:20Have y'all ever heard Have y'all ever

27:21been gas lit? Anybody in here ever

27:25been gas lit and a person uses word play

27:29and it makes you think? It makes you

27:31think like,

27:33am I tripping? Y'all ever had that? So

27:37that's what the enemy did. He used word

27:38play and that was the way he was able to

27:41manipulate Eve. And he knew to go to

27:43Eve,

27:45not because she was less than Adam. I'm

27:46going to tell you why. We going to get

27:48to that. What the enemy is going to do,

27:50what he does, even to this day. Excuse

27:52me y'all. I don't know why I'm belching

27:53again.

27:56What the enemy what he loves to do which

27:59is why a lot of people have such a hate

28:00towards God. He loves to accuse God's

28:03character.

28:05He loves to do that. If he can distort

28:06the word of God, if he can distort the

28:09truth, then he then can slander and

28:12accuse God's character. The first time

28:14that we see slander in the word of God

28:16is right here in Genesis 3 where the

28:19enemy is outright lying and trying to

28:21present God to be something that he's

28:23not. first time we see it, right? This

28:26is the reason why God don't like

28:27slander. This is the re reason why the

28:29word of God speaks against slander

28:31because it's deceptive. Okay? It's

28:34divisive. Y'all don't like that. Okay? I

28:37don't have [laughter] my water. I'm okay

28:39though. Okay? So, the temptation began

28:43with questioning God's word. Did God

28:46really say that? That's where the

28:48temptation was. And so, that's how the

28:50enemy gets to us as well. That's the

28:52reason why we have to guard our brains.

28:54And that's the reason why we have to

28:55constantly read the word of God. Guard

28:57our hearts, guard our minds, because the

28:59enemy knows if I can get in your head,

29:03if I can make you start questioning the

29:06word of God, I got you.

29:09Did God really say that? That's just

29:12like a person who gaslights you and say,

29:13"Did I did I really say that? Did I

29:15really do that?" And now you trying to

29:18recall. You like, "Matter of fact, I

29:20don't

29:22I don't I don't even know if you really

29:24did that. I don't have anything to back

29:25up what I'm saying right now. This the

29:28reason why we have to be strong in the

29:29word of God. Okay. So, what he did was

29:31he began with questioning God's word and

29:34the truth of God's word. Satan basically

29:37took God's command and he just reframed

29:40it. That's it.

29:42Which is what he's good at doing. We

29:44know when we talk about spiritual

29:46manipulation, the pastors and people who

29:49are spiritual abusive, they do the same

29:50thing, right? He perverted. I like the

29:52way you said that. God said you may

29:55freely eat of every tree

29:58but one.

30:00God said you have the abundantly all the

30:04fruit, everything that you need. It's in

30:06the garden. You can eat of everything.

30:07Just don't touch that tree. If God is

30:10saying, hey, you can eat of every tree.

30:12Just don't touch that one. Cuz if you

30:14what? Not don't touch that one. Don't

30:15eat from that one. Sorry y'all. Don't

30:17eat from that one. Because if you eat

30:19from that one, like you can look at it.

30:20It's beautiful. But if you eat from that

30:22tree right there, you'll die.

30:27God said, "Just don't eat from that

30:28tree." But you have abundance

30:32all through this garden. They had the

30:34perfect life. There was no toil or

30:37anything. They were good. They had the

30:39perfect It was a mist that came from the

30:42bottom.

30:43And everything sprouted from that mist.

30:46Like they were good, y'all. They had

30:48abundance.

30:50God say you may freely eat of every tree

30:52but one.

30:55And Satan said,

30:57did God say you can't eat of every tree?

31:00Is that what he said? And y'all know

31:04we're going to get to what Eve said cuz

31:05she didn't she a she couldn't even

31:06recall.

31:08So it was this tactic from the subtle

31:10serpent that we talked about. this

31:11tactic that caused Eve's attention to

31:13now focus on one tree. Is that not what

31:15the enemy does to us? He gets in our

31:18head. He uses word play and he makes us

31:20focus on the one thing that God is

31:22trying to rescue us from. And God tells

31:23us, "Do not mess with that. Don't go

31:25back to it. Don't turn and look at it.

31:27Don't do none of that." And then the

31:29enemy comes in and says, "Well," and it

31:33turns our attention and our focus to

31:35what we ain't supposed to be tapping

31:37into.

31:38So that was a tactic that he used with

31:40Eve. He turned her attention and her

31:43focus to one tree and he made what God

31:46said seem like now there's a

31:48restriction. So now it looks like God's

31:51a hypocrite. It looks like God is

31:52stingy. It looks like God is a liar.

31:55Why won't he let me eat from all the

31:57trees? Why can't why you restricting me

32:00from that one tree?

32:02That's how the enemy turned it. cuz now

32:04she's turning her focus and she's like,

32:06"Why can't we eat from that tree? That's

32:08what he wanted." Right now it doesn't

32:10look like the God of abundance and the

32:12given God that we know. Right? So this

32:14tactic was made out to show or to prove

32:19to Eve, a lie that God was a limiting

32:22God. We know that God's not a limiting

32:25God instead of the abundant God that we

32:27know. Mhm. Instead of that, God had

32:31given them everything. How greedy can

32:33you be? God had given them everything.

32:36But the enemy made it about one thing

32:38that they could not have.

32:41And I know that a lot of us have been in

32:43a situation like that before where God

32:45has given us everything. But the one

32:47thing we can't have, then the enemy

32:49makes us focus on that one thing. Then

32:52we start saying, "Well, God, don't you

32:54love me? Why I can't have that? Won't

32:56you give me the desires of my heart?"

32:58Which is not that ain't what he said,

33:00but I'm just saying. Why won't you give

33:02me the desires of my heart instead of us

33:04acknowledging that he's given us

33:06everything, but this one thing is off

33:08limits?

33:10I hope y'all follow me cuz we going to

33:11get deeper into it. We got we got some

33:13time to go. Y'all rock with me. Okay.

33:15So, it was this tactic that redirected

33:18Eve's attention to the forbidden tree

33:21and subtly portrayed God as limiting

33:25instead of generous. Okay. Now, if we go

33:29back to Genesis chapter 2, verse 17,

33:33y'all, we were just there.

33:36God said, "But of the tree of the

33:38knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt

33:40not eat of it. For in the day that thou

33:42eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die."

33:45God said, "Don't eat from that tree."

33:48Thank you, April. God said, "Do not eat

33:52from that tree." Then Eve comes back in

33:57chapter 3:3 and said, "God said not to

34:00eat of the tree nor touch the tree." And

34:02Satan said, "Hold on, there we go. You

34:05can't even recall God's command." That's

34:08why he didn't go to Adam cuz Adam had

34:10the the command that was directly given

34:13to him. So, he knew it. It was directly

34:16given to him. Eve didn't have the

34:18confidence.

34:20Poor recall. Eve, come on. She just

34:22messed it all up just doing stuff.

34:25Anybody got some beef with Eve? I got

34:26beef with Eve. I've always had beef with

34:28her. Me and her got a real issue,

34:30especially as a woman. She said God said

34:32don't eat of it nor touch it. And Satan

34:34said

34:36got her.

34:39God never said not to touch the tree. He

34:42never said not to touch the tree. So the

34:44enemy used her poor recall

34:47and her lacking confidence, her lack of

34:49confidence in God's word. and he knew

34:52exactly how to attack her mind. This is

34:54the reason why we have to keep our heads

34:57in the word of God. So the same way the

35:00enemy tried to use scripture in the New

35:03Testament, he's not going to be able to

35:04do that to us. If you know the word of

35:06God, he can't shake your confident if

35:09you are confident in the word of God.

35:10This is the reason why we study the word

35:12of God. Know it

35:15so he can't get to you cuz he knows

35:18exactly who to get to. Satan is paying

35:21attention. He's paying attention. He

35:22know who ain't in their word.

35:24He know who ain't living Christ life. He

35:27know who don't follow the commands. He's

35:29watching it. So, he used her poor recall

35:31in her lack of confidence in God's word.

35:32He knew how to attack her mind. Okay.

35:35So, the distortion that we see in the

35:37word of God in Genesis 3 doesn't start

35:40off with the serpent. It it don't come

35:43only from the serpent. It came from Eve

35:47misremembering or adding to God's word.

35:50That's where it started. You would have

35:52started the word first. You changed it.

35:54GOD DID NOT SAY NOT TO TOUCH that tree.

35:58[laughter]

36:00It It just came from her adding to God's

36:03word. And God said this, "No, he

36:05didn't."

36:07M

36:08so when the word becomes slightly

36:10altered the word once the word becomes

36:13slightly altered now we see there's her

36:16weak point if the word becomes altered

36:19our confidence would become weakened

36:22that's the flow

36:25so what exactly was it that the enemy

36:27did first he exploited her weakness

36:30he exploited the fact that she altered

36:33the word of God and she couldn't

36:34remember it exploited did that first.

36:38That was his initial attack. He's

36:39tackful. He exploited her

36:43and he exploited her in certainty. She

36:45wasn't certain of what the word was, of

36:47what God's command was. Okay?

36:50I'm bashing Eve and Adam. I'm bashing

36:53them both of them. I'm bashing both. I

36:55got a real problem with Eve for my own

36:57reason. You know, I'm a woman, so I got

36:59I got my own issue with her. Okay? It's

37:01a little jokey joke. Ain't no harm. No

37:03foul, no heart.

37:06But I'm a woman, so me and her got a

37:07real issue. Okay.

37:10Verse four says, "You shall not surely

37:13die." That's what the serpent said. "You

37:15you shall not surely die."

37:19So now the serpent moves from what's

37:21simply a suggestion to open

37:23contradiction. Now wait a minute. But

37:25God said, "I will die." You You won't

37:27surely die.

37:29That's That's not how it goes.

37:31He directly opposes God's statement.

37:36So now to Eve, it appears that God ain't

37:38telling the truth.

37:40It appears that God's a liar. It appears

37:43that God is a hypocrite.

37:49This moment right here in Genesis 3

37:53makes God appear to be unreliable.

37:59Doesn't the enemy like to do that to us?

38:00believers. He likes to make us think

38:02that God is not reliable. But if God

38:04loves you, why you broke? If you got If

38:07God loves you, why you going through

38:09financial problems? If God loves you,

38:11why did that person die?

38:14He likes us to believe that God is

38:16unreliable

38:18and to believe that God is deceptive.

38:21Same old tricks. Same serpent, same

38:24serpent, same tricks.

38:27He the same all the way around. Okay.

38:30Mhm. So what Satan did, which is what he

38:33always does, and I'm about to make that

38:34I'm about to make that practical. Excuse

38:36me. I'm belching a lot. What Satan does,

38:39which is what he always does, is he

38:42minimizes the consequence of sin,

38:46you won't surely die.

38:49You won't surely go to hell.

38:52You He minimizes the impact of what the

38:56consequence is going to be from the sin

38:58that you commit. He always reduces the

39:01perceived cost and exaggerates the

39:04perceived benefit. You can have it all.

39:07You're just going you're just going to

39:08lose a little one thing, but you can

39:10have everything else. You can you can

39:12sleep with that person.

39:14It's not it's not going to be that bad,

39:16but at least you got some comfort. At

39:18least you're not lonely anymore. You can

39:20have all the riches in the world. You

39:23just got to give up something. You may

39:25get in a little trouble, but at least

39:27you can have it all. Exactly. It's

39:29always a cost to pay and he likes to

39:33reduce the perceived cost and exaggerate

39:35the benefit. So he told Eve basically,

39:37you're going to be like God. You're

39:40going to have this divine wisdom.

39:43You're going to be free from having to

39:45be dependent of God. So you won't surely

39:48die. Maybe a little chance, but it may

39:52come a little later, but at least you'll

39:54be like God.

39:59All in all, the way I look at it is

40:01Satan has always used the same tactic

40:04and he likes to humiliate people.

40:07He likes to make you believe that you'll

40:09be okay cuz he was once humiliated.

40:12He tries to humiliate us in our

40:15relationship with God

40:17by making us doubt the very God that we

40:20can't trust. That's exactly what he did

40:21to Eve and Adam.

40:24He still humiliated them. You fools.

40:27Y'all had it all. And I came in and told

40:30you that you can have more. I told you

40:33that you didn't have to rely on God.

40:34You'll be like God and you listen to me.

40:38That's that's how he does this as well.

40:40He does it. He's It's the same thing.

40:42Verse five. Okay. For God knows that in

40:46the day you eat of it, your eyes will be

40:47open and you will be like God, knowing

40:49good and evil. Let's look at the lie and

40:52attack him.

40:54Satan attacked God's motive.

40:57He implied that God is holding power.

41:00He's withholding power and he's

41:02withholding potential from both you,

41:04Adam, and Eve. He's withholding it from

41:06both of y'all. Started off with Eve.

41:08That's it. I'm telling y'all, he does us

41:11the same way.

41:17So, this passage now reveals that

41:19temptation, Listen to what I'm about to

41:21say, y'all.

41:24Temptation

41:26begins with dialogue.

41:30If we look at what was happening,

41:33Eve was talking back to Satan. She was

41:36talking back to the serpent.

41:38It starts with dialogue.

41:42That's that's that's where the

41:43temptation starts. When somebody talks,

41:45this is why we have to be mindful of the

41:47people that we hold these type of

41:49conversations with. When the enemy gets

41:50in your head, turn it off. Stop talking

41:52back to him.

41:54What we talking back for? When the enemy

41:56gets in your head, this is why you have

41:57the word of God to begin with. Go back

42:00to your source. This is why we have to

42:02stay in communion with God. This is why

42:04we have to stay personal with God.

42:06Because the enemy knows if I just get

42:08you in dialogue where you talk back to

42:11me, I got you. The enemy does not, he is

42:13not all knowing. He does not know all of

42:15your thoughts. He does not know

42:17everything. He is not God. You give it

42:20away. I am a witness to that because I

42:22have done it time and time again. I know

42:25the difference in God's voice, the

42:27enemy's voice, and my voice. Because

42:29trust me, in the past week, the enemy

42:31was trying to turn me up. I was like,

42:33"Oh, I know. Oh, I hear you." Yeah,

42:36we're not doing that.

42:38No. And took it straight to prayer. Go

42:41ahead and silence that right now.

42:43Because the temptation would be if I

42:45have something birectional, if it is a

42:48back and forth, because then the enemy

42:49is going to believe we have a

42:50relationship cuz we talking, we don't.

42:53The enemy, what he did was he engaged a

42:56conversation and he planted a suggestion

42:58to Eve. Does he not do that to us? He

43:01engaged this conversation by that person

43:04that wasn't supposed to be back in your

43:05life, by that person you not supposed to

43:07be entertaining, by that business

43:08partner that God warned you about. by

43:10that person in the past that God said

43:12don't let them come back in. As soon as

43:14you engage in a conversation, there is a

43:16there's a suggestion now this planet.

43:21This is why I don't go back and forth

43:22with people who have it out not to

43:24believe in God. What I'm talking to you

43:25for, I don't need to evangelize to you.

43:28You got it out not to believe God. This

43:29ain't my battle unless God say it is my

43:31battle. Why? I'm not going to go to war

43:34with no witches.

43:36I without talking about the young lady,

43:39I have to bring the baby up. The the

43:41young woman I believe she's an

43:43evangelist maybe I think she's an

43:46evangelist cuz I see her do street work

43:48and I I remember months ago last year

43:50sometime maybe last year the year before

43:51that she was on a a Tik Tok live with a

43:55woman who was openly a witch brags about

43:57being a witch. That witch was raised in

44:00a church.

44:02That which knew the word of God and that

44:05evangelist didn't.

44:07She didn't. She wasn't confident in the

44:09word of God. That which ran a number on

44:12her. I said, "You don't fool with

44:15witches if you don't know the word of

44:18God. If you don't know that, they will

44:20run numbers on you and they will get you

44:22right there. That's all Satan needs to

44:25know is that you're not confident in the

44:27word of God." Okay. Oh, we can't hear

44:30you, darling. It's okay. Everybody's I

44:32can't hear I can't hear y'all. You're

44:33okay. You're okay. So, the enemy engages

44:35conversation and he plants a suggestion.

44:37Let me keep on rolling. Okay. Where

44:39there is a belief I was just talking to

44:42my class about this Tuesday. If you in

44:44my class, you heard me say it. Where

44:45there is a belief, there is an

44:48expectation. Where there is an

44:50expectation, there is a behavior.

44:54So, all Satan has to do is plant a

44:56belief. He just got to give you a

44:58suggestion and now it becomes a belief.

45:01Now you have an expectation. Now you're

45:03acting because of that expectation.

45:05Okay? Satan promised that they'd be like

45:08God.

45:10They were already made in the image of

45:12God. Did we not read that?

45:16Satan promised

45:18they'd be like God.

45:21They were already made in the image of

45:23God. Remember when we talked about the

45:24likeness in the image of God? We were

45:26already made with certain

45:28characteristics and capabilities and

45:30capacities already. We were already made

45:33in the image of God. However, Satan

45:36said, "Y'all be like God." Well, when we

45:38think of what a a god is, little G,

45:41reverent to God's name, little G, being

45:44a God means that you're independent of

45:46God. It means that you are autonomous.

45:49It means that you are self-governed,

45:51self- sovereign, self-defining,

45:54independent of God. And he said you'll

45:57be like God.

45:59In other words, Eve, I know that in your

46:01heart you have been thinking about and

46:03you have been feeling. What would it be

46:05like if we didn't have to rely on God?

46:11What would it be like if we can just

46:13Ooh, Lord, I hear you.

46:16What would it Oh, Jesus. Don't take it

46:19there, Kitty. What would it be like? Bur

46:21it in. What would it be like

46:26if we can make all decisions oursel?

46:30What would it be like if we were the

46:31creator? What would it be like if we

46:34were the king? What would it be like if

46:36we were sovereign?

46:38If we made all the decisions ourself,

46:41what would it be like?

46:44Huh?

46:46It was already in Eve. He just exploited

46:50it.

46:51It was there. He just exploited it.

46:56So if you think about what's in your

46:57heart

46:59and you think about what the enemy uses

47:01against you and what he uses as a

47:02weapon,

47:04think about that.

47:08Yeah.

47:10What is happening in the chat on on

47:13Zoom? Is it what what's happening over

47:15here?

47:17Is it I I I'm seeing I'm seeing dialogue

47:21that's getting in the way of us

47:22receiving the word of God. Do are we

47:24having an issue in the chat?

47:28I I I see

47:31I I'm seeing where there is some some

47:33distraction.

47:39Please, let's just stick to the word of

47:40God.

47:43Please do that. I don't want to have to

47:45block anybody.

47:48So, can we not do that?

47:51Please. Thank you. Okay. Verse six. So,

47:56the enemy influence a desire

47:59to be as a god and to be wise.

48:02Okay. It was to influence an autonomous

48:06way of thinking. I'm sure the enemy has

48:08probably got on one of you all before

48:09and made you think that you were above

48:10God's program. I know cuz he tried to

48:12make me feel like I was above God's

48:14program.

48:17Okay.

48:20Okay.

48:26We going to talk about that. Elena, just

48:28just let me flow through cuz this is

48:30long. Okay. Okay. So, I've done that

48:33before. I tried to do things my way, my

48:35own way. So it was to influence an

48:37autonomous way of thinking. Once her

48:39perception changed,

48:42once Eve's perception changed, her

48:44desire followed that perception. Okay?

48:48She wanted wisdom detached from her

48:51relying on God.

48:53Because if that wasn't the case, then

48:55why she eat the fruit?

48:57The temptation was to think that I can

48:59determine good and evil for myself.

49:04There's a lot of people that do that in

49:05society right now. That was the

49:06temptation that I can determine good and

49:09evil for myself. So once now her desire

49:13was justified,

49:15which is what a lot of people do. Once

49:17her desire was justified, now her

49:20actions, her eating from the tree seemed

49:22like it was reasonable because I can

49:23justify why I did it.

49:26That's Eve H

49:29going verses 7-10. Okay. Their eyes were

49:32opened. Just flow with me. Their eyes

49:35were open. The serpent promised

49:38enlightenment. He did. He promised

49:42enlightenment.

49:43And they did experience that

49:46just not the way he promised it. He

49:49said, "Y'all be like gods."

49:52They didn't experience the enlightenment

49:53in the way he promised. But

49:56he did promise enlightenment.

49:59What they became is self-conscious and

50:01aware.

50:03They didn't get no divine godlike

50:05wisdom. They didn't get that. What they

50:06got was self-consciousness

50:09and self-awareness. They didn't get they

50:12didn't gain the divine wisdom that they

50:13thought were going they were going to

50:14get.

50:16Now they realize that they were naked

50:20and they felt ashamed.

50:23They felt exposed. Now,

50:26if we go back to chapter 2, Genesis

50:29chapter 2, verse 25, it says, "And they

50:32were both naked, the man and his wife,

50:35and were not ashamed." That's KJV. They

50:38were both naked, the man and his wife,

50:40and they were not ashamed.

50:43They were not ashamed. Now, we hear

50:47verse 7. Now, we hear in chapter 3,

50:50verse 7. And the eyes of them were, I'm

50:54sorry, and the eyes of them both were

50:55opened, and they knew that they were

50:57naked. And they sewed fig leaves

50:59together, and made themselves aprons.

51:09Their eyes were open and they realized

51:11they were naked. And the first thing

51:13they tried to do was hide their

51:15nakedness because of the guilt.

51:16Absolutely, Amanda. Beautiful. So they

51:18sewed fig leaves together and made

51:21coverings for themselves.

51:24What would make you cover something you

51:26once had no problem having uncovered?

51:30Shame.

51:32Shame makes you hide. Has anyone ever

51:34hid from shame? Shame was was my

51:36identity for a long time and I hid from

51:38a lot.

51:40Mhm. Shame makes you hide.

51:44What they did, what we see in Genesis 3

51:46is they gained an insecurity.

51:50I want y'all to follow me. They gained

51:52an insecurity because shame is deeply

51:56connected to insecurity.

52:01They gained an insecurity.

52:04Shame acts as an intense, painful form

52:10of insecurity.

52:12No, it's not evil to feel shame. No, no,

52:14no. It's not evil. No, I'm not saying

52:16that. It's not evil to feel shame.

52:18[clears throat] That's human nature.

52:19It's not evil to feel shame.

52:22But shame acts as an intense painful

52:25form of insecurity that stemmed from a

52:28perceived devaluation of oneself.

52:32So when we felt shame and we felt that

52:35deep insecurity there was a devaluation

52:38that we did amongst oursel or we thought

52:40people did to us. Either we believe

52:42people were devaluing us or we did the

52:44same thing.

52:46Now while insecurity involves feelings

52:49of inadequacy or uncertainty.

52:53Shame is what escalates this to a belief

52:57that we're fundamentally flawed. So now

53:00they had an insecurity and it was shame

53:02that escalated

53:04to them being flawed.

53:07They were perfect. Did Did God not say

53:09that when he made the man? He said, "Oh

53:12yeah, perfect."

53:14He said, "This is good. This is very

53:16good." He said, "This right here." Mhm.

53:20This is it. They weren't flawed. Not in

53:22God's eyes.

53:24They were without flaw.

53:27They were without flaw.

53:30Now there's a belief that they were

53:32flawed, which is why they had to cover

53:33themselves. Are y'all following me? I

53:35know I'm going a lot. It's going to be

53:37This going to be on YouTube. I It's

53:38going to be saved. Are y'all following

53:40me? We still got some ways to go. Y'all

53:41just rock with me. I'm trying to get

53:42through it the best that I can. Okay.

53:44They sewed fig leaves together.

53:48Adam and Eve in verse seven. Adam and

53:50Eve were sewing fig leaves

53:54together.

53:56The first response, the first human

53:58response that we have to sin is a

54:01desperate attempt to cover their

54:04nakedness. It's a desperate attempt to

54:06cover what makes them vulnerable. It was

54:09a desperate attempt to cover their

54:11shame. It was a desperate attempt to

54:13cover their guilt through self-made

54:16human work related efforts.

54:23It was a futile it was a pointless a

54:27futile it was a pointless

54:32attempt at self-s salvation to save

54:36themselves and hide from God. It was

54:38pointless. You can't hide from God. What

54:40you doing? Okay. It was pointless.

54:43Mhm.

54:46Verse eight. They hear from the Lord

54:48amongst the trees of the garden.

54:52They're hiding from God, y'all.

54:55The same God who they had the presence

54:59of. They were in the presence of God

55:02relationally had an intimate

55:04relationship with God,

55:07the creator, the father, Lord God. Not

55:10just Lord, not just God, the Lord God.

55:15They had that. So now we see that

55:17they're hiding from God. So now their

55:20relationship with God is warped and

55:22distorted.

55:24Now their relationship is warped and

55:26distorted. Before they sinned, the

55:29walking in the garden was communion with

55:32God. Not communion like what you take at

55:34church when you take the bread and the

55:36grape juice. Not that. Not that. We

55:39ain't talking about that. They the they

55:41were in communion with God. That means

55:43that there was a sharing or an

55:45exchanging

55:47of feelings and thoughts amongst the

55:50presence of God. That was the original

55:52relationship.

55:54And then when they sin, the

55:56relationship, this vertical relationship

55:57that they have with God is now fractured

56:00and warped. So after they sin, when God

56:04was walking in the garden, now when he

56:07is walking in the garden, there is fear.

56:10their perception of God was altered. The

56:14the integrity of that relationship had

56:16changed.

56:19In verse eight, it says, "And they heard

56:21the voice of the Lord God walking in the

56:24garden." Walking in the garden. This is

56:27a theophony. Again, I talked to you all

56:29about that before. I think this is when

56:30we were doing Bible study in Acts. I

56:32talked shortly on theophonyies. This

56:34right here, right now, we see this

56:35manifestation of a theophony right here.

56:37There is an appearance of God in human

56:40form in this garden.

56:43He's with them at a personal level. Now,

56:45this is not saying that God is a man. We

56:47know that God is not a man. We know that

56:49he does not have human weaknesses. But

56:51this is the one of the This is actually

56:53the first theophony that we witnessed

56:55right here where we actually get to see

56:57God

57:00personal. He's changed his form. He he

57:03he presented himself in human form. said

57:06he was walking the garden.

57:09This is a theophony. I love seeing

57:10theophies in the word of God. It's fun

57:12seeing it.

57:14And then so so God made it personal.

57:17He's like, "Let me He already knew what

57:18they did. It's not like he didn't know."

57:21Mhm.

57:23But now when they communed and when they

57:25walked in the garden, now instead of the

57:28exchange of thoughts and feelings and

57:30things like that, this loving intimate

57:31relationship with God, now it's a

57:33relationship of fear. Anybody ever had

57:35that?

57:37Is Has anyone ever had that where,

57:41and I'm not talking about the healthy

57:43fear that the reverent fear that we're

57:45supposed to have of God. I'm talking

57:46about where you made a mistake and you

57:49hid from God. I hid from God from for a

57:52long time. I was like, "Oo, I can't face

57:54you. Nope. Not after this. I can't face

57:58you."

57:59And that's what the enemy wants. He

58:02wants our relationship with God to be

58:03distorted.

58:05It's why we got to stay at the foot of

58:06God, at the feet of God. Okay, so let's

58:09keep going. Verses 9-10.

58:12But the Lord God called to the man,

58:13"Where are you?"

58:17I don't know why this make me emotional.

58:18Jesus, I'm starting to think, y'all.

58:19Sorry. And he answered, "I heard you in

58:22a garden and I was afraid

58:25because I was naked. So I hid it. I

58:27think this is emotional for me because I

58:28remember a time where I hid from God. I

58:31was too afraid to face him. I knew the

58:34life I was living in. And it's just a

58:36icky feeling, right? Yeah. So, now we

58:39have sin that fractured.

58:42Y'all follow me. We We almost done. You

58:44had sin that fractured

58:48the vertical relationship that they had

58:51with God.

58:52>> I want to talk about when we say the

58:54word fracture. Let's put this in medical

58:56terms for a little bit. I know y'all

58:57know what a fracture is, right? I I'm

58:59sure somebody may have fractured a bone

59:01before. You all know what the the term

59:04fracture means, right? In medical terms,

59:07fracture and and break are used

59:10interchangeably to describe any loss of

59:13integrity in a bone. Any loss of

59:17integrity of the bone. So if it is a

59:20minor fracture,

59:23a a paper fracture, a very thin

59:24fracture, or it it is a breaking, it is

59:29still a loss of in are y'all following

59:31me? It's still a loss of integrity in a

59:35bone. When we think of the word

59:37fracture,

59:39so now if we look at this word fracture,

59:41sin fractured the vertical relationship

59:43with God. That means that there was a

59:44loss of integrity in the relationship

59:47between them and God.

59:50It was evidenced by how Adam responded

59:52in fear. Are y'all following me?

59:56So for us, it's the same way when we

59:59sin. Come on, Holy Spirit. When we sin,

1:00:03there's now a loss of integrity in our

1:00:07relationship

1:00:08with God. It doesn't mean we are

1:00:10perfect, but this is the reason why we

1:00:11have a heart of repentance and the

1:00:13reason why we repent to restore the

1:00:15integrity that we have in the

1:00:17relationship that we have with God. Do

1:00:18y'all are y'all following me?

1:00:22Are y'all are y'all following me here?

1:00:26So, I want y'all to think about that.

1:00:30The sin fractured the relationship they

1:00:33had with God.

1:00:36It trickles down to every relationship

1:00:38that you have once your relationship

1:00:40with God is fractured

1:00:42and you start looking at your other

1:00:43relationships.

1:00:45The relationships where God is not the

1:00:47center of those relationships and it is

1:00:48a trickling effect.

1:00:50Let's keep going y'all. I'm sorry. We I

1:00:53know it's long. I'm trying to Are y'all

1:00:55okay? Are y'all good? We We still going?

1:00:57Y'all with me? Okay. So now we see in

1:01:00verse 11 through13 that Adam blames Eve

1:01:04and then indirectly blames God. This is

1:01:06more than you just blaming Eve. You said

1:01:08the woman that you gave to me,

1:01:11she made me do it and that's the woman

1:01:13you gave to me. And then Eve blamed the

1:01:16servant.

1:01:20What would have happened if they would

1:01:21have confessed first?

1:01:26What would have what would happen if we

1:01:28confess first? Instead of shifting the

1:01:30blame to everything else, that person

1:01:32didn't force you to sin, Satan put that

1:01:34person right there in front of you

1:01:36because they knew that was going to be

1:01:36your weakness.

1:01:39That drink didn't cause you to sin. The

1:01:41weed didn't cause you to sin. The porn

1:01:43didn't cause you to sin. It was placed

1:01:45strategically strategically in front of

1:01:47you

1:01:49by this enemy of tactic, this conniving,

1:01:52deceptive enemy. It wasn't it wasn't

1:01:54that. You can't put the blame and say it

1:01:56was put in front of me. The desire was

1:01:59placed in front of you and you gave in.

1:02:02I'm guilty of that. Right?

1:02:04They both blamed everybody but

1:02:07themselves.

1:02:09We had a fractured relationship that

1:02:11they had with God. Now you got these

1:02:14two. Adam blamed her.

1:02:18She blamed the serpent. Adam said, "God,

1:02:20you gave me her."

1:02:23Now we have this trickling that becomes

1:02:24now horizontal between the two wed the

1:02:27two married people. Now we see contempt.

1:02:30Now we see conflict. Now we see a

1:02:33fractured relationship between these

1:02:36two. This is this is a marriage we

1:02:38talking about. I'm not going to go too

1:02:39deep in this one because I have to I

1:02:41have to take this on another route when

1:02:43we get deeper into the word of God when

1:02:44it talks about marriage. But we're

1:02:46talking about two who are wed these two

1:02:48are married. Whenever you get set in

1:02:50your own ways

1:02:53and you blame everybody but yourself,

1:02:58you will now have conflict between you

1:03:01and the person you are with. The the

1:03:03more we fracture the relationship that

1:03:05we have with God. The more we sin and

1:03:08get away from God's way, the more we

1:03:10take God out of the center of our

1:03:12friendships and our relationships and

1:03:15all of our relationships. I'm going to

1:03:16make this more than about marriage. The

1:03:18relationship that we have now becomes

1:03:20fractured with that person when two try

1:03:23to navigate a relationship set in their

1:03:25own ways.

1:03:27Okay, we going to keep going. I'm sorry

1:03:28y'all. Neither of them confessed to

1:03:30their sin initially.

1:03:34They shifted blame.

1:03:37So now one flesh that Adam said,

1:03:41one flesh is what Adam said.

1:03:45Now one flesh is now fractured.

1:03:49That's what sin does. Sin destabilizes

1:03:51everything in our lives. Us our

1:03:54relationship with God. It sets us apart.

1:03:56It separates us from God. It

1:03:58destabilizes us and all the

1:04:00relationships around us. So sin

1:04:02fractured the relationship with God and

1:04:06then it fractured the marital

1:04:07relationship between Adam and Eve, which

1:04:09is when we get to verses 16 and 17, we

1:04:11going to understand why God said what he

1:04:13said. Okay, I'm about to bring this one

1:04:14in, y'all. And then we finn going to be

1:04:16done. We about to go through 14 through

1:04:1815. Okay,

1:04:2014 through 15. Then I promise y'all we

1:04:22done. Okay, now we want to talk about

1:04:25where hope enters. Now we can put a

1:04:26heart in our Bible. Y'all just draw a

1:04:28heart right there. Just where? Draw

1:04:31y'all heart

1:04:33right where 15 is where you draw the

1:04:37heart because this is another

1:04:40seed.

1:04:42This is

1:04:45another foreshadowing of the coming of

1:04:47Jesus

1:04:48right there. Okay.

1:04:51God curses the serpent and declares war

1:04:54right here.

1:04:56Right there in verse 14.

1:05:02This is a proto evangelo.

1:05:05This is the first gospel that we see.

1:05:08Proto beginning first proto. This is the

1:05:13first evangelium evangelist. Y'all know

1:05:16the gospel spreading of the first

1:05:17gospel. Right

1:05:20here lies the seed of the entire Bible

1:05:23right here. This is verse 15.

1:05:26I will put enmity between you and the

1:05:29woman. This is why we read this in KJV.

1:05:33and between your seed

1:05:37and her seed. Verse 15. Mhm. And between

1:05:43your seed and her seed, if you

1:05:47capitalize

1:05:49seed, when it says her seed, if you

1:05:52capitalize seed, that'll give you a

1:05:55hint. I will put in between enmity

1:05:57between you and the woman. And I will

1:06:00put animosity and a deep hatred between

1:06:02you and a woman and between your seed

1:06:04and her seed. He shall bruise your head

1:06:08and you shall bruise his heel.

1:06:12Proto evangelum. Let's talk about that

1:06:13for a minute. [clears throat] This shows

1:06:16us that God always had the plan of

1:06:19salvation in mind. He always had the

1:06:22plan of salvation in mind and he

1:06:25informed us of his plan as soon as sin

1:06:28entered the world.

1:06:30God is outside of time. Okay, this is

1:06:33where the gospel thread starts in

1:06:36Genesis 3:15.

1:06:38It flows through 3:15 to Abraham to

1:06:42David to Christ to the cross to the

1:06:46resurrection to the Revelation. It's a

1:06:48flow. This is the first gospel or the

1:06:52first promise of a savior.

1:06:55Keep flowing with me, y'all. Keep going.

1:06:57It promises that the seed of the woman,

1:07:01the seed of the woman, I'mma give y'all

1:07:03parallel supporting scripture so y'all

1:07:04know I'm not making it up. The seed of

1:07:06the woman will crush the serpent's head,

1:07:08signaling

1:07:10humanity's ultimate victory over the

1:07:12sin, which is through Christ Jesus,

1:07:14right? Following the disobedience that

1:07:16took place in Eden.

1:07:18Mhm.

1:07:20God curses the serpent, Satan, and he

1:07:24declares war between the serpent and

1:07:26humanity. Let's look at some some deeper

1:07:28stuff real quick. Okay. A coming seed.

1:07:30Let's talk about the epistle to the

1:07:32Galatians. If you look in Galatians

1:07:343:16, y'all just go over to Galatians

1:07:363:16. I'mma pull that up in my NLT.

1:07:38Where in the world is my NLT? Galatians

1:07:413:16. Cuz I don't want y'all to think,

1:07:42Kitty, you just making this up. I'm not.

1:07:44I study too much to make it up. And I

1:07:46pray before I study, so I know God be

1:07:47with me. He ain't going to let me make

1:07:48it up. I can't mislead y'all cuz then

1:07:50I'll get in trouble. I don't like to be

1:07:52in trouble. Where we at?

1:07:56God gave the promises to Abraham and his

1:07:58child. I should have read it in King in

1:08:00King James version. Should have read it

1:08:02that way.

1:08:03And notice that the scripture doesn't

1:08:05say to his children as if it meant many

1:08:08descendants. Rather, it says to his

1:08:10child. And that of course means Christ.

1:08:12Let's keep going. In Galatians 3:16,

1:08:17in Galatians 3:16, [clears throat] it

1:08:20states that the promises regarding

1:08:22salvation were spoken to Abram, Abraham,

1:08:25and his seed offspring. We about to go

1:08:27there in case y'all don't believe me,

1:08:29emphasizing that this refers to one

1:08:31specific descendant, Christ rather than

1:08:35many. The many, the serpent crushing

1:08:38promise narrows now to a lineage.

1:08:43Paul argues that the singular wording

1:08:45[clears throat] in Genesis seed not

1:08:48seeds seed singular seed highlights

1:08:52Jesus as the ultimate fulfillment of the

1:08:54covenant. Now go to Genesis chapter 1.

1:08:58Go to Genesis chapter 1 cuz I ain't

1:09:00going to lie to you. Go to Genesis

1:09:02chapter 1. This is why I love the word

1:09:04of God. Not chapter 1, sorry. Chapter

1:09:0612, sorry. Genesis 12, verse one. Sorry.

1:09:09Genesis 12 verse one. Where we at? Where

1:09:13we at? Where we at? All right. The call

1:09:15of Abram.

1:09:17Okay. The Lord has said to Abram, "Leave

1:09:20your native country, your relatives, and

1:09:21your father's family, and go to the land

1:09:23that I will show you. I will make you

1:09:25into a great nation. I will bless you

1:09:27and make you famous, and you will be a

1:09:29blessing to others. I will bless those

1:09:31who bless you and curse those who treat

1:09:33you with contempt. All the families on

1:09:35earth will be blessed through you.

1:09:38Okay. All the families on earth will be

1:09:41blessed through you. In thee, should

1:09:44have read it in King James. In thee

1:09:46shall all families of the earth be

1:09:48blessed.

1:09:51When you read Genesis 12 1-3:es

1:09:541-3, it records God's call to Abram to

1:09:58leave his home for a new land, promising

1:10:01to make him a great nation. Bless him,

1:10:04make his name great, and through him

1:10:07bless all families on earth. The promise

1:10:09of Genesis 3:15 begins to move through

1:10:13Abraham.

1:10:15Born of a woman,

1:10:17born of a woman, the born of a woman,

1:10:21the seed will crush the serpent, but

1:10:23will himself suffer. Keep I'm going to

1:10:25keep going for a minute, y'all, cuz I

1:10:26want to make sure you got that. Now the

1:10:28Bible in verses in chapter 3, Genesis

1:10:313:15, first gospel. Now the Bible

1:10:34becomes a search for the seed

1:10:36[clears throat] or a singular deliverer.

1:10:38Just keep going. The promise narrowed

1:10:40down with Abraham.

1:10:43We have a lineage now. Now the promise

1:10:45was given the throne to David.

1:10:48If you go to 2 Samuel's, I ain't gonna

1:10:50read all that y'all because I know we

1:10:52cutting for time. If you go to 2

1:10:53Samuel's chapter 7 12-6,

1:10:58God promises David a royal descendant

1:11:01and an eternal throne. Just go with me

1:11:04because I'm going to get back to

1:11:05Abraham. He promised, we went down from

1:11:073:15 to Abraham where a covenant was

1:11:10made, a promise was made. And then we

1:11:13get to David where a promise was made

1:11:15again and he said, "You will have a

1:11:17royal descendant and an eternal throne.

1:11:20The seed, capital S, will be royal and

1:11:23reign eternally.

1:11:26The deliverer will be king. Mhm. That's

1:11:29confirmed in Isaiah 9:es 6-7. A child

1:11:36will reign forever. It's basically what

1:11:38Isaiah 9:es 6-7 says. This is now we are

1:11:43searching for a seed. Who's the seed? We

1:11:45are searching for a singular deliverer

1:11:47in the word of God. If you keep reading,

1:11:49you'll find it. Okay. So, now let's talk

1:11:51about the promise born of a woman. I'mma

1:11:53take us to Matthew 1. This one I am

1:11:55going to read cuz I know y'all going to

1:11:56see them names and say, "Kitty, you got

1:11:59to read the names, y'all." Or any of

1:12:01y'all guilty of not reading the names.

1:12:03You got to read the names. You have to

1:12:06read the lineage. It was 2 Samuel 7

1:12:1012-6.

1:12:122 Sam 2 Samuel 7 12-6.

1:12:16The promise born of a woman. The promise

1:12:19incarnated. The promise in human form.

1:12:21Born of a woman. This said in the word

1:12:24of God in Genesis, seed of a woman.

1:12:27Where do you typically see the word of

1:12:29God talking about a seed of a woman?

1:12:33That's an unusual phrasing

1:12:36because lineage is typically traced

1:12:39through men.

1:12:40If you read through all of the lineage,

1:12:45it rarely says mother of. It rarely says

1:12:48daughter of. It typically says father

1:12:50of, father of, son of. It's going to say

1:12:53something. Lineage is usually traced

1:12:54through man. The seed usually refers to

1:12:58a man's offspring.

1:13:00It says seed of a woman. That's unusual.

1:13:03Matthew 1, I'm going to read it if y'all

1:13:06need examples. when it talks about man's

1:13:08offspring, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David

1:13:12in 2 Samuel in the book of Deuteronomy,

1:13:15I think it's like chapter 25, something

1:13:17like that, it talks about that. And then

1:13:18we have the Gospel of Matthew that

1:13:21traces Jesus as the son of Abraham and

1:13:23the son of David.

1:13:27Take us back.

1:13:30Now you have Jesus.

1:13:34It says in Matthew 1, "This is a record

1:13:36of the ancestors of Jesus the Messiah, a

1:13:39descendant of David and Abraham." A

1:13:41descendant of David and Abraham. So when

1:13:45we go through the word of God and we go

1:13:47from Genesis 3:15 and then we going to

1:13:50go through Genesis 12 and you going to

1:13:52get to Abraham. Once again, we are

1:13:55talking about a descendant.

1:13:57Now we there's a descendant. And then

1:13:59when you get to 2 Samuel, you talk to

1:14:01talk about David. There's a royal

1:14:03descendant. There's an eternal throne

1:14:06that's promised. We still have a king.

1:14:08We have a deliverer.

1:14:11We have a miracle.

1:14:14So now when you read the word of God, if

1:14:16you actually take the time to read the

1:14:18word of God and you really, really,

1:14:20really, really, really, really start

1:14:22paying attention, the whole time Jesus

1:14:25is talked about. If you ever say, "Well,

1:14:27Jesus didn't come to the New Testament."

1:14:29Yeah, whatever.

1:14:33Exactly. I like that. Jasma, I think

1:14:35it's Jasma. Yeah. Okay. Just I I want to

1:14:38make sure we got that because I'm going

1:14:39to keep talking about this in the next

1:14:41couple of Bible studies. This is the

1:14:42record of the ancestors of Jesus, the

1:14:44Messiah, a descendant of David

1:14:47and Abraham. Abraham was the father of

1:14:49Isaac.

1:14:51Y, if y'all just read it,

1:14:54you may see a couple times where we see

1:14:55the mother of something. You may see a

1:14:58couple of times where you see that. for

1:14:59Abraham. It starts off with Abraham and

1:15:02then it continues to flow. And if you

1:15:04flow long enough, you gonna get right

1:15:07down to Mary gave birth to Jesus who is

1:15:11called the Messiah.

1:15:14You'll start off with Abraham. As you

1:15:17flow and you keep going, you got

1:15:20Solomon, you got all of them, you got

1:15:23the whole shebang. And you keep on

1:15:25flowing. You going to get right down

1:15:26there to Jesus.

1:15:30So if you go through all of Genesis and

1:15:34you read the Old Testament,

1:15:36you're going to understand why Jesus had

1:15:38to come. The first gospel was 3:15.

1:15:44That was a proto evangelism. That was

1:15:45the first gospel.

1:15:48If you keep reading, there are going to

1:15:49be hints of the Messiah, hints of a

1:15:52coming savior, hints of the coming

1:15:54Messiah, hints of a deliverer. Because

1:15:57when sin entered into the world, God

1:15:59said, "I already have a plan of

1:16:00salvation.

1:16:03God didn't wait." If you constantly read

1:16:05through Genesis, you're going to see the

1:16:07promises that God made all point right

1:16:10to Jesus.

1:16:12It all points down to Jesus. Abraham,

1:16:16you're going to have a lineage.

1:16:19And from that is going to flow the

1:16:20Messiah. It's all coming from those that

1:16:22I entered into a covenant with. Nothing

1:16:25is wasted in the word of God. I wanted

1:16:27to make sure I could have held out on

1:16:28putting uh on talking about 3:15, but I

1:16:30wanted to make sure that we talked about

1:16:31that. Okay? I wanted to make sure we

1:16:33talked about that. So, I want y'all to

1:16:35take some time, go back and read about

1:16:36that. A coming seed. Even Paul said that

1:16:39in Galatians, he said that.

1:16:42He said the coming seed was Christ all

1:16:44along. What you saw in the Old Testament

1:16:48was Christ all along. So, even with sin

1:16:50entered into the world, God already had

1:16:53a plan to save us.

1:16:57Okay. [laughter]

1:16:59Okay, y'all. I know that was a lot. I

1:17:01wanted to try to get done before 8:00

1:17:03p.m. Central Standard Time. But y'all

1:17:05take that as you will. I'll make sure

1:17:07that on the YouTube that I put all of

1:17:10the parallel scriptures because they are

1:17:11important. But go back over it. 3:15 is

1:17:15where it really is highlighted. If you

1:17:16want to look, that is the first gospel.

1:17:18That's the first promise of a savior. It

1:17:21said the seed of a woman will crush the

1:17:23serpent's head.

1:17:25There's one of those evidence of Jesus

1:17:27Christ.

1:17:29One of those evidence.

1:17:32Mhm.

1:17:34So if you go back and you read of the

1:17:37crucifixion

1:17:39and after, you'll be surprised what you

1:17:41get.

1:17:45That's why Satan had went up there

1:17:47talking to Jesus. He was trying to take

1:17:48him out. He said, "Whoa.

1:17:50You're that person, huh? No, no, no.

1:17:53Mhm.

1:17:55Seed was singular. And if y'all need to

1:17:58go back, Genesis 3:15,

1:18:02Galatians 3:16 is a reference point as

1:18:04well. Genesis 12 1-3 is a reference

1:18:08point as well. That's when God was

1:18:10talking to Abram and he entered into the

1:18:11covenant there. That was a promise that

1:18:13was made. And then you have um David,

1:18:17sorry about that. In 2 Samuel chapter 7

1:18:2012-6 the verses where God promises David

1:18:24a royal descendant and an eternal

1:18:25throne. The seed is going to be royal

1:18:28king, right? And reign eternally. The

1:18:30deliverer is going to be king. And then

1:18:32that's confirmed in Isaiah chapter 9

1:18:356-7.

1:18:37A child will reign forever.

1:18:42And then if you go back, excuse me, and

1:18:45you read over Matthew 1, you're going to

1:18:48see the lineage,

1:18:50Abraham all the way down to Jesus

1:18:53Christ.

1:18:54You'll see the lineage. And then they

1:18:57purposely put in the word of God. It was

1:19:00purposely put that Mary was a virgin.

1:19:04It was purposely put because we're not

1:19:06talking about the way that God worded it

1:19:08in the word of God. The phrasing was so

1:19:10unusual that it makes your eyes open up.

1:19:14It It makes your eyes pop open because

1:19:16if you look at that, it said seed of a

1:19:19woman. What do you mean of a woman? If

1:19:21you read the word of God, one thing that

1:19:24God purposely places is that most of the

1:19:27lineage is talking about is tracing

1:19:31through the men. So when we look at the

1:19:33word of God when it comes to Jesus,

1:19:36the emphasis was Mary, not Joseph. Cuz

1:19:39Mary was a virgin. Y'all get that?

1:19:43Mary was a virgin.

1:19:46Absolutely. I love Luke. Luke is how you

1:19:48make it plain. If y'all want to make it

1:19:49plainer than that, Luke is good. But

1:19:51Mary was a virgin, so it had to put

1:19:54emphasis on her seat

1:19:57because Joseph didn't impregnate her

1:19:58with Jesus.

1:20:01We got that.

1:20:03[laughter]

1:20:04Okay, there we go, y'all. That was a

1:20:05lot. That was a whole lot. We've been in

1:20:07here for an hour and 20. That was good.

1:20:10I want to make sure that y'all got that.

1:20:12I hope that wasn't too much, y'all. But

1:20:14we'll just go over it cuz I know that

1:20:16was a lot, but we got to get through

1:20:18Genesis. I should have waited to do the

1:20:21first gospel, but I had to put it in

1:20:22there cuz I need y'all to see it. I need

1:20:25to make it plain because it's gonna be a

1:20:28lot of other moments in Genesis where

1:20:29it's going to be plain about the

1:20:31Messiah. Y'all going to be like, "Hold

1:20:32on.

1:20:34Hold up."

1:20:36Yeah. Especially Especially the next

1:20:39Bible study when it talks about us

1:20:40again. When God references us again,

1:20:46Jesus was always there. So whenever

1:20:48people say, "No, Jesus came in the New

1:20:50Testament."

1:20:52What? Read the New Testament again. you

1:20:54going to see that Jesus always been

1:20:55there. He's always been there. Okay.

1:21:00Always. Okay. We love Jesus around here.

1:21:04Amen. Okay. So, I hope y'all got as much

1:21:07information. I hope y'all take some time

1:21:09to really go in and piece the puzzle

1:21:10together. Piece it together the best way

1:21:12that y'all can. Okay. Piece the puzzle

1:21:16together with the scriptures that I gave

1:21:17y'all. Okay. Piece the puzzle together.

1:21:20All right.

1:21:21I hope that Okay. What are y'all going

1:21:22to take from today? I'm sorry about

1:21:23that. What are we going to take from

1:21:24today? We're learning about sin for one.

1:21:27And we're going to talk about the flow

1:21:28of sin. We're going to talk about the

1:21:30patterns in the next one in our next

1:21:32study. We're going to be talking about

1:21:33Jesus again in the next study, too.

1:21:36We're going to be talking about that in

1:21:37the next one. But what are y'all taking

1:21:38from today? Cuz yeah, we got to talk

1:21:40about sorrow and the curses and all of

1:21:42that stuff on the next one.

1:21:45It's um that's a good study, too.

1:21:49Always been written throughout the

1:21:50Bible. I love Jesus.

1:21:53I love Jesus. He's amazing.

1:21:57Not have any dialogue. You better come

1:21:59on in here. Sin fractures. And remember

1:22:02what fractures mean. Y'all got the

1:22:04theophony. I love that. Remember what

1:22:06fractures mean, right? There's a loss of

1:22:08integrity. So, think about that before

1:22:10you all

1:22:12willingly and consciously sin.

1:22:15Remember that there will be a fracture

1:22:17in the relationship that you have with

1:22:18God because there is a separation.

1:22:20There's a loss of integrity. So remember

1:22:22that and if you for any reason you fall

1:22:24short, repent. Take it back to God, but

1:22:27stay in communion with God. Because if

1:22:28you're not in communion with God, even

1:22:31in that position of repentance,

1:22:34uh the enemy is going to come for you

1:22:37cuz you'll be vulnerable. So we don't

1:22:39want to be vulnerable. Okay?

1:22:48You don't want to be vulnerable. Okay?

1:22:50What was she talking about? Nothing is

1:22:53wasted. All right, so I hope you all

1:22:54took something today. Let's go ahead and

1:22:57get ready to close out. And thank y'all

1:22:59so much for joining. Thank y'all so

1:23:02much. And thank y'all for trusting me to

1:23:03help you all in Bible study. And oh

1:23:06wait, cuz y'all had some y'all had some

1:23:07nasty pictures of me last time. So take

1:23:09a good one, okay? Cuz y'all be posting

1:23:12on the story, baby. I was like, now

1:23:13look, y'all could have told your girl to

1:23:15smile for a picture, okay? So, if y'all

1:23:18gonna post it.

1:23:24Amen. All right. Glory. Cuz y'all y'all

1:23:26had me on there in a deep word. I said,

1:23:27"Now, y'all, why y'all post that picture

1:23:29of me over there making me look like a

1:23:31fool?" [snorts]

1:23:34All right, y'all. So, exactly. Know

1:23:36them. I saw that. Know them words better

1:23:37than the witches do. I'm telling y'all,

1:23:39them witches be It's witches in a

1:23:40church. Y'all better, baby. I've been in

1:23:43church my whole life. It's witches in

1:23:44the church. You better know your word of

1:23:46God cuz they know when you don't.

1:23:49Mhm. If you ain't confident, let

1:23:52somebody else do it.

1:23:54All right. All right. Father God, thank

1:23:56you so much for this Bible study, my

1:23:59God, on today. This was a really,

1:24:01really, really insightful Bible study,

1:24:04Father God. And I want to take the time

1:24:06right now to position myself

1:24:10and continue to position myself in a

1:24:12posture of repentance, Father God, for

1:24:14you know my heart, God. And if there has

1:24:17been any mistakes that I have made

1:24:18unknowingly, Father God, I openly repent

1:24:20for the mistakes that I have made. I

1:24:22openly repent for any sinful thoughts

1:24:24that I have had, any sinful acts that I

1:24:25have committed, Father God. And I hope

1:24:27that my brothers and sisters in Christ

1:24:29will do the same, Father God. But I

1:24:31thank you for your patience. I thank you

1:24:33for your grace and your mercy as we walk

1:24:35hand in hand with you, Father God,

1:24:37because the enemy has used many tactics

1:24:40against us, but we will stay at the feet

1:24:43of the throne, Father God. We will stay

1:24:44beside you, Father God, knowing that it

1:24:46is you who will guide our way, God. I

1:24:49thank you for showing us just how

1:24:51amazing Jesus Christ is, Father God. And

1:24:53I thank you for our savior. I thank you

1:24:55for our counselor, Father God. I thank

1:24:58you for our provider. I thank you for

1:24:59our king. And I love you for all of the

1:25:02things that you have done for me, Father

1:25:04God. And we thank you for the abundance.

1:25:05And if there has ever been a selfish

1:25:07moment, Father God, where we focus on

1:25:08the things that we did not had, did not

1:25:10have, and we disregarded the things that

1:25:12we do have. Father God, forgive us,

1:25:14Father God. Forgive us, Father God. We

1:25:17are walking this life, Father God. And

1:25:19there has been toil in this life. There

1:25:20has been anguish. There has been

1:25:22distress, God. But we are staying with

1:25:24you. And we are committed to stay with

1:25:26you, Father God. If there is anyone who

1:25:27is still confused from this Bible study,

1:25:29Father God, let them reach the replay,

1:25:31Father God. Let them be in the place of

1:25:33privacy and secrecy with you, Father

1:25:35God, and store it in their hearts,

1:25:37Father God, and rewrite all that needs

1:25:38to be rewritten on their hearts, God,

1:25:40and let them carry it throughout their

1:25:42days, Father God. I want to take the

1:25:44time to extend my gratitude to everyone

1:25:47who has been in here and extend my love

1:25:48for everyone who has been in the

1:25:50studies. For all of the people who are

1:25:51new, for all the people who have been

1:25:53here, who have continued to walk with me

1:25:55alongside you, Father God, because there

1:25:57have been more and more revelations and

1:25:59our relationship with you is growing

1:26:00stronger and stronger. Let no one who is

1:26:04used by the enemy be able to get into

1:26:06our head, Father God. Let no one be able

1:26:09to enter into dialogue and change and

1:26:12distort our view of you, Father God,

1:26:13because we know you are the one true

1:26:15God. We know you are the God that we can

1:26:18count on. The God who sees all, the God

1:26:20who knows all, Father God. We know that

1:26:22you are the beginning and the end,

1:26:24Father God. And you know today,

1:26:26tomorrow, and the day after, Father God.

1:26:28And I take the time right now, Father

1:26:30God, to stretch my heart and to stretch

1:26:32my hands to thee, Father God,

1:26:34positioning myself in worship, Father

1:26:37God, in a reverent worship, Father God,

1:26:40knowing that when I come to you, Father

1:26:41God, I know that you are the highest.

1:26:43You are the sovereign God. You are the

1:26:45holy, righteous God who is set apart,

1:26:47Father God. So continue to walk with us

1:26:49on this journey, God. Continue to have

1:26:51your way in our life, Father God. We

1:26:53surrender it all, Father God. And for

1:26:56those of you all who are struggling to

1:26:57say yes, Father God, that you will

1:26:59position them, Father God, to see that

1:27:01you are the God who provides,

1:27:03that there is nothing that they would

1:27:05need from anybody else but you. And that

1:27:07it is okay to give a yes, Father God.

1:27:09Because in that yes will be our

1:27:11strength, it will be our guidance, our

1:27:14future, our destiny, our purpose is in

1:27:17our obedience and that yes. And so I

1:27:19love you God. I thank you for Christ

1:27:21Jesus. I thank you for the blood. I

1:27:24thank you for your sacrifices, God.

1:27:28Thank you so much for Jesus's Yes.

1:27:30Father God, I thank you for the

1:27:32crucififor love, God, that we may carry

1:27:35that same love, that same love of

1:27:38sacrifice, and that we may carry our

1:27:40cross throughout all of our days. Father

1:27:41God, keep us nailed to the cross when we

1:27:44want to go left, when we want to go the

1:27:46wrong way, Father God, that you keep us

1:27:48upright, Father God, at and with Christ,

1:27:50Father God. So we love you in a mighty

1:27:54in matchless name we pray. Amen. Amen

1:27:59and amen again. It is done. We sealed it

1:28:01y'all. I love you all. You all have a

1:28:04beautiful night. I will see you all in

1:28:06two weeks. I will see some of you all

1:28:07next Tuesday. I love you all. Y'all make

1:28:10sure that y'all go ahead and read the

1:28:11word of God. And don't forget to wake up

1:28:13in the morning and say y'all prayer. Say

1:28:15y'all prayer. Okay. And we coming back.

1:28:19Genesis chapter I mean chapter 16.

1:28:20Genesis 3 16.

1:28:24About to get some more of that work,

1:28:25y'all. Y'all go get y'all some rest.