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Before truth can be heard it must be spoken the
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vault Absolute truth all right welcome to the
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vault absolute truth podcast I'm your host Alex
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Ramos, and if you've been joining us lately You've
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probably been introduced to the five simple questions
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that reveal the fullness of scripture I encourage
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you to listen into our last episodes if you haven't
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had an opportunity to our first question was
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why did God create and really we saw and we explained
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right out of scripture what God's Word reveals
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in regards to creation's purpose and what we
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saw was that God's Word and creation began purposed
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and we ended up with God dwelling with man, God
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giving man a purpose God giving man dominion,
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God making man as image bearers and we see all
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of that fulfilled through creation and ultimately
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through God's shaping and forming of man and
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establishing of man as image bearers. So then
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how does scripture end? Well it's a bookend to
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it and it mirrors it or is the fulfillment of
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what creation initially was after redemption
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and it ends the same way that it began. God dwells
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with man and you see that in Revelation 21 and
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22. Not an arbitrary heaven, not a generic idea
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of where we end up, but God coming down and establishing
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his kingdom, restoring man fully and dwelling
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face to face with man as the eternal King on
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the throne. Scripture reveals that. We don't
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need to infer it. It says it plainly and it says
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it clearly. Anything else that we add on top
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of it is taking away from the simple truth that
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God is showing us and the consistency of that
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truth throughout Scripture. Once sin occurred
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and it fractured that relationship, we see shadows
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of the fullness. We see tabernacle, we see the
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temple, we see that Christ Himself, God dwells
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with man during that season and then you see
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that becoming the preparation for cleaning the
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vessels of humanity as the temple of the person
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of the Holy Spirit and God dwelling with man
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in that fashion, dwelling within man in that
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fashion and then ultimately you see full restoration
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and fulfillment. in Revelation through New Jerusalem
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and the New Kingdom. All things made new, God
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dwells with man. So we find all of these items
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and we discuss all of those in that episode and
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then which we touched on in our second episode
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that was related is why does sin matter? And
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that's important. Why does sin matter? It matters
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because it created fracture in the relationship
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and when we understand that God created so that
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he might share himself with us in relationship.
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Well, all of a sudden sin is more than just doing
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something that God said not to do. It becomes
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what breaks communion. It becomes what breaks
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covenant. It becomes what fractures relationship.
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So very important there. And then our last couple
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of questions. Question number three, why did
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God give instruction? Question number four, why
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did Christ come? Question number five, what is
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eternity? When we answer all of those questions,
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what you end up with is one end of the Bible
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to the other, the fullness of scripture, revealing
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the simplicity of God loving us and asking us
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if we would love Him back. That's what the Bible
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is. Alright, so today's episode is going to pick
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up on question number two. Why does sin matter?
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And I just went into it a bit. but sin is not
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just coming against God's commands and God's
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character. Yes, it is those things, but it's
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deeper than that. So when we establish why God
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created and we look at the simplicity of what
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scripture tells us that God dwells with man and
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then you see new creation and New Jerusalem and
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the kingdom and everything restored is again
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God dwelling with man and and we start understanding
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That God loved and creation is relational and
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it's God Sharing himself and sharing his love
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and sharing who he is with humanity well Now
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when you look at it through that vein, you understand
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how simple scripture really is Sin becomes fracture
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It becomes what comes in between God and purpose
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and communion. It becomes the wedge that severers
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relationship, covenant, communion, intimacy,
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presence. And scripture tells us that God is
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perfect. God cannot have anything to do with
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sin. Jesus himself took on our sin and drank
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that cup. And he says, my God, my God, why have
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you forsaken me? Well, it was because of me,
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and it was because of you, and it was because
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of our sin, and it was because God had to turn
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his back for that time in history. You saw...
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separation coming between the fullness of God
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not because of God but because of me and because
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of you because of our sin and that cup that was
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drank but obviously Jesus being perfect and sinless
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could not stand that way the scales had to balance
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but apart from that understanding that sin matters
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for the simple simple and basic premise of it
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is what fractures relationship. So when Adam
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and Eve ate of the forbidden tree and I want
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us to understand that and kind of use that symbolically
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as we understand the purpose of instruction also
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but God was protecting mankind by giving instruction
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and we'll go into that more in depth in our next
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episode but here he gives man choice because
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he loves man and he says you have two trees from
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one tree you have everything that you need you
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have your purpose your image bearers you have
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dominion you have vocation you have each other
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you have everything that I have made and then
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you have me and you have relationship and you
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have intimacy and the other tree don't eat from
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that tree or you surely die you'll surely be
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separated from me eternally and you'll have to
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pay the consequence of that you will surely die
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but the two trees were just dependence on God
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loving him back and autonomy saying no thanks
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God I'll do it myself and when you look at it
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through that simple vein And that simple lens,
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what happens is, you start understanding that
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sin was rebellion. That sin was turning your
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back on God and saying, no thank you God, I don't
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want you. I don't love you. I will do it myself.
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I'll figure it out. I'll be God. It'll be my
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way. It'll be my purpose. what I establish as
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dominion. It'll be what I establish as vocation.
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So it was the opposite of what God had for man
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and what God intended. Not that God made a mistake,
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but God allowed man. He loved man fully and he
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gave man choice because that's what true love
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is. You can't force. You have to love back. And
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man chose poorly. And we had to live out the
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consequence of that. Adam, Eve, creation, the
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serpent, and us. Sin matters because it creates
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fracture. It creates a wedge in between relationship.
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It creates a break in communion between God and
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man. Sin matters. So let's look at the consequence
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of sin. Eden. What happened? Well, where did
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God send him? He sent him away from his presence.
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the relationship, the intimacy, the relationship
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was fractured. First they hid from the presence
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of the Lord, then they were sent away from the
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presence of the Lord East. So then what happened
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with Cain and Abel? What happened with Cain?
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Well, Scripture tells us that he was forced to
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wander the earth, but what else happened? It
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says he was driven from his presence and from
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the land. In Genesis 4, 14, Cain himself says,
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Lord, the penalty... The judgment is too great
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for me. They will surely kill me, but then he
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goes even further. That wasn't the ultimate consequence.
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He says the ultimate consequence. He says, and
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I will surely be away from your presence. Why?
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Because of sin. Israel, they broke covenant,
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they turned away. You see that through Exodus.
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You see it in the exile. They were removed from
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his presence and the land in second Chronicles
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you see You see it throughout that their sin
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mattered because it separated the relationship
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that God created us to enjoy and partake in says
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your inequities have separate have separated
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between you and your God Isaiah 59 to Sin is
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not merely breaking a command. Sin is breaking
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fellowship. And that's something that we have
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to recognize because it goes along with the simplicity
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of what scripture actually reveals to us. And
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what scripture is, the fullness of scripture
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is very simple. God loved first. Do we choose
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to love him back? So the command was never the
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purpose. The command was never the destination.
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the relationship was. And if that's the case
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then sin isn't merely breaking a command. It's
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fracturing the relationship. So why does sin
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matter? Because it fractured the relationship.
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So I encourage you to continue to support us,
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to continue to share. We've got a lot of cool
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stuff coming up. We've got the next The next
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question, why did God give the instruction? That
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one's coming up. And after that, why did Christ
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come? And then after that, what is eternity?
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These five questions have just become very impactful.
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I just have had an opportunity to share them
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with young people and on social media. And we
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just had a great response, not because it's this
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profound thing, but because it's the opposite.
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It's just scripture. Speaking for scripture and
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telling us just how easy it is to understand
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when you get out of the way of it When you allow
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it to speak In its fullness when it witnesses
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to itself When you take the beginning and the
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end and everything in between and you realize
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it's one thing that God is telling us one thing
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that God is accomplishing one thing so I challenge
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you if you have been supporting us continue to
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share we've got Book I've been working on the
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wilderness the exit is the entrance So we've
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got that all wrapped up and we will be having
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a launch date and sending that out for sale through
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Amazon We'll share that here on social media
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encourage you to support that and then even more
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so We got a big big project that I've been working
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on alongside of these other things and that's
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really where these five questions came from kind
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of look at it like Everything I've been working
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on and sharing with you guys are different rooms
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to the same truth that we've been studying in
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scripture. And this next project is kind of the
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hallway that connects them all. So it's what
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I consider kind of a capstone book for the works
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and the books that I've done over the last year
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and a half, going on two years. and the next
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one is it's I don't want to say you know they're
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all my favorite but it's been a great one to
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to work on for several several reasons but I
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think one of the reasons is just kind of it's
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where these five questions came from and I think
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that the deeper that I've gotten in personal
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study the simpler the message of scripture has
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become and the more consistent I've seen every
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aspect of the Bible and how they function together
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so the next project is the fullness of scripture
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the choice to love him back and the book will
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actually be broken up with these five questions
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so they'll be the sections of the book and I
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think that's what's made it really cool is that
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even the breakdown is very simple and then everything
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in between is supporting the simple message so
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the whole premise of this book is that we go
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from the micro to the macro we go to the simple
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of God loved first and the choice is ours will
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we love him back that's the simplest way you
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can break down the Bible in its entirety And
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then you can go from that to the five questions,
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which is kind of expanding outward. And then
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you go from the five questions to really the
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fullness of scripture that all falls into those
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five questions and all falls into that very simple
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statement that God loved first, will we love
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him back. So it's been a really, really fun one
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to just see kind of create itself. And I just
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hope I can do it service and we've got. big hopes
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for it and just want to share it and make sure
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that it's purposeful. So the goal is to make
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this the most accessible book and the most purposeful
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book. So want somebody to be able to pick this
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up and in those five simple questions immediately
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recognize that wow this is all the bottom. Look
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how simple it is and that's really the purpose
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of it. I encourage you to check it out. Follow
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find us there. So continue to support The Vault
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Absolute Truth Podcast. See you soon.
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Before truth can be heard it must be spoken the
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vault Absolute truth all right welcome to the
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vault absolute truth podcast I'm your host Alex
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Ramos, and if you've been joining us lately You've
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probably been introduced to the five simple questions
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that reveal the fullness of scripture I encourage
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you to listen into our last episodes if you haven't
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had an opportunity to our first question was
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why did God create and really we saw and we explained
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right out of scripture what God's Word reveals
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in regards to creation's purpose and what we
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saw was that God's Word and creation began purposed
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and we ended up with God dwelling with man, God
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giving man a purpose God giving man dominion,
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God making man as image bearers and we see all
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of that fulfilled through creation and ultimately
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through God's shaping and forming of man and
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establishing of man as image bearers. So then
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how does scripture end? Well it's a bookend to
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it and it mirrors it or is the fulfillment of
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what creation initially was after redemption
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and it ends the same way that it began. God dwells
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with man and you see that in Revelation 21 and
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22. Not an arbitrary heaven, not a generic idea
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of where we end up, but God coming down and establishing
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his kingdom, restoring man fully and dwelling
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face to face with man as the eternal King on
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the throne. Scripture reveals that. We don't
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need to infer it. It says it plainly and it says
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it clearly. Anything else that we add on top
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of it is taking away from the simple truth that
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God is showing us and the consistency of that
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truth throughout Scripture. Once sin occurred
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and it fractured that relationship, we see shadows
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of the fullness. We see tabernacle, we see the
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temple, we see that Christ Himself, God dwells
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with man during that season and then you see
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that becoming the preparation for cleaning the
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vessels of humanity as the temple of the person
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of the Holy Spirit and God dwelling with man
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in that fashion, dwelling within man in that
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fashion and then ultimately you see full restoration
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and fulfillment. in Revelation through New Jerusalem
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and the New Kingdom. All things made new, God
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dwells with man. So we find all of these items
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and we discuss all of those in that episode and
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then which we touched on in our second episode
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that was related is why does sin matter? And
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that's important. Why does sin matter? It matters
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because it created fracture in the relationship
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and when we understand that God created so that
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he might share himself with us in relationship.
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Well, all of a sudden sin is more than just doing
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something that God said not to do. It becomes
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what breaks communion. It becomes what breaks
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covenant. It becomes what fractures relationship.
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So very important there. And then our last couple
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of questions. Question number three, why did
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God give instruction? Question number four, why
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did Christ come? Question number five, what is
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eternity? When we answer all of those questions,
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what you end up with is one end of the Bible
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to the other, the fullness of scripture, revealing
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the simplicity of God loving us and asking us
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if we would love Him back. That's what the Bible
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is. Alright, so today's episode is going to pick
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up on question number two. Why does sin matter?
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And I just went into it a bit. but sin is not
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just coming against God's commands and God's
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character. Yes, it is those things, but it's
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deeper than that. So when we establish why God
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created and we look at the simplicity of what
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scripture tells us that God dwells with man and
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then you see new creation and New Jerusalem and
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the kingdom and everything restored is again
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God dwelling with man and and we start understanding
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That God loved and creation is relational and
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it's God Sharing himself and sharing his love
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and sharing who he is with humanity well Now
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when you look at it through that vein, you understand
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how simple scripture really is Sin becomes fracture
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It becomes what comes in between God and purpose
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and communion. It becomes the wedge that severers
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relationship, covenant, communion, intimacy,
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presence. And scripture tells us that God is
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perfect. God cannot have anything to do with
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sin. Jesus himself took on our sin and drank
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that cup. And he says, my God, my God, why have
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you forsaken me? Well, it was because of me,
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and it was because of you, and it was because
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of our sin, and it was because God had to turn
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his back for that time in history. You saw...
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separation coming between the fullness of God
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not because of God but because of me and because
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of you because of our sin and that cup that was
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drank but obviously Jesus being perfect and sinless
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could not stand that way the scales had to balance
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but apart from that understanding that sin matters
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for the simple simple and basic premise of it
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is what fractures relationship. So when Adam
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and Eve ate of the forbidden tree and I want
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us to understand that and kind of use that symbolically
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as we understand the purpose of instruction also
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but God was protecting mankind by giving instruction
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and we'll go into that more in depth in our next
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episode but here he gives man choice because
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he loves man and he says you have two trees from
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one tree you have everything that you need you
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have your purpose your image bearers you have
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dominion you have vocation you have each other
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you have everything that I have made and then
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you have me and you have relationship and you
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have intimacy and the other tree don't eat from
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that tree or you surely die you'll surely be
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separated from me eternally and you'll have to
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pay the consequence of that you will surely die
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but the two trees were just dependence on God
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loving him back and autonomy saying no thanks
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God I'll do it myself and when you look at it
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through that simple vein And that simple lens,
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what happens is, you start understanding that
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sin was rebellion. That sin was turning your
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back on God and saying, no thank you God, I don't
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want you. I don't love you. I will do it myself.
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I'll figure it out. I'll be God. It'll be my
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way. It'll be my purpose. what I establish as
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dominion. It'll be what I establish as vocation.
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So it was the opposite of what God had for man
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and what God intended. Not that God made a mistake,
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but God allowed man. He loved man fully and he
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gave man choice because that's what true love
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is. You can't force. You have to love back. And
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man chose poorly. And we had to live out the
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consequence of that. Adam, Eve, creation, the
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serpent, and us. Sin matters because it creates
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fracture. It creates a wedge in between relationship.
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It creates a break in communion between God and
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man. Sin matters. So let's look at the consequence
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of sin. Eden. What happened? Well, where did
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God send him? He sent him away from his presence.
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the relationship, the intimacy, the relationship
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was fractured. First they hid from the presence
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of the Lord, then they were sent away from the
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presence of the Lord East. So then what happened
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with Cain and Abel? What happened with Cain?
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Well, Scripture tells us that he was forced to
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wander the earth, but what else happened? It
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says he was driven from his presence and from
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the land. In Genesis 4, 14, Cain himself says,
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Lord, the penalty... The judgment is too great
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for me. They will surely kill me, but then he
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goes even further. That wasn't the ultimate consequence.
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He says the ultimate consequence. He says, and
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I will surely be away from your presence. Why?
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Because of sin. Israel, they broke covenant,
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they turned away. You see that through Exodus.
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You see it in the exile. They were removed from
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his presence and the land in second Chronicles
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you see You see it throughout that their sin
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mattered because it separated the relationship
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that God created us to enjoy and partake in says
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your inequities have separate have separated
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between you and your God Isaiah 59 to Sin is
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not merely breaking a command. Sin is breaking
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fellowship. And that's something that we have
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to recognize because it goes along with the simplicity
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of what scripture actually reveals to us. And
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what scripture is, the fullness of scripture
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is very simple. God loved first. Do we choose
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to love him back? So the command was never the
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purpose. The command was never the destination.
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the relationship was. And if that's the case
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then sin isn't merely breaking a command. It's
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fracturing the relationship. So why does sin
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matter? Because it fractured the relationship.
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So I encourage you to continue to support us,
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to continue to share. We've got a lot of cool
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stuff coming up. We've got the next The next
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question, why did God give the instruction? That
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one's coming up. And after that, why did Christ
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come? And then after that, what is eternity?
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These five questions have just become very impactful.
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I just have had an opportunity to share them
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with young people and on social media. And we
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just had a great response, not because it's this
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profound thing, but because it's the opposite.
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It's just scripture. Speaking for scripture and
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telling us just how easy it is to understand
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when you get out of the way of it When you allow
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it to speak In its fullness when it witnesses
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to itself When you take the beginning and the
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end and everything in between and you realize
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it's one thing that God is telling us one thing
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that God is accomplishing one thing so I challenge
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you if you have been supporting us continue to
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share we've got Book I've been working on the
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wilderness the exit is the entrance So we've
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got that all wrapped up and we will be having
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a launch date and sending that out for sale through
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Amazon We'll share that here on social media
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encourage you to support that and then even more
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so We got a big big project that I've been working
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on alongside of these other things and that's
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really where these five questions came from kind
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of look at it like Everything I've been working
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on and sharing with you guys are different rooms
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to the same truth that we've been studying in
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scripture. And this next project is kind of the
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hallway that connects them all. So it's what
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I consider kind of a capstone book for the works
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and the books that I've done over the last year
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and a half, going on two years. and the next
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one is it's I don't want to say you know they're
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all my favorite but it's been a great one to
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to work on for several several reasons but I
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think one of the reasons is just kind of it's
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where these five questions came from and I think
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that the deeper that I've gotten in personal
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study the simpler the message of scripture has
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become and the more consistent I've seen every
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aspect of the Bible and how they function together
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so the next project is the fullness of scripture
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the choice to love him back and the book will
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actually be broken up with these five questions
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so they'll be the sections of the book and I
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think that's what's made it really cool is that
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even the breakdown is very simple and then everything
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in between is supporting the simple message so
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the whole premise of this book is that we go
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from the micro to the macro we go to the simple
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of God loved first and the choice is ours will
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we love him back that's the simplest way you
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can break down the Bible in its entirety And
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then you can go from that to the five questions,
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which is kind of expanding outward. And then
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you go from the five questions to really the
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fullness of scripture that all falls into those
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five questions and all falls into that very simple
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statement that God loved first, will we love
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him back. So it's been a really, really fun one
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to just see kind of create itself. And I just
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hope I can do it service and we've got. big hopes
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for it and just want to share it and make sure
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that it's purposeful. So the goal is to make
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this the most accessible book and the most purposeful
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book. So want somebody to be able to pick this
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up and in those five simple questions immediately
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recognize that wow this is all the bottom. Look
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how simple it is and that's really the purpose
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of it. I encourage you to check it out. Follow
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us on social media. Check us out. Most of our
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