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Questions God Asks Genesis 3

Questions God Asks Genesis 3. Questions God Asks Genesis 3. 7  At that moment their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves. Questions God Asks Genesis 3.

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Questions God Asks Genesis 3

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  1. Questions God AsksGenesis 3

  2. Questions God AsksGenesis 3 7 At that moment their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves.

  3. Questions God AsksGenesis 3 7 At that moment their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves. “To experience shame is to feel seen in a painfully diminished sense. Our eyes turn inward at the moment of shame, and suddenly we’ve become impaled under the magnifying glass of our own eyes . . . Exposure is what we feel . . . (We) yearn to disappear, to escape all those watching eyes, to find cover.” (Gershon Kaufman)

  4. Questions God AsksGenesis 3 • THEIR SELF-MADE CLOTHING 7 At that moment their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves.

  5. Questions God AsksGenesis 3 • THEIR SELF-MADE CLOTHING • This primal fear of exposure is rooted in shame because of true moral guilt before God 7 At that moment their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves.

  6. Questions God AsksGenesis 3 8 When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man and his wife heard the Lord God walking about in the garden. So they hid from the Lord God among the trees. 9 Then the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”

  7. Questions God AsksGenesis 3 10 He replied, “I heard you walking in the garden, so I hid. I was afraid because I was naked.” 11 “Who told you that you were naked?” the Lord God asked. “Have you eaten from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat?”

  8. Questions God AsksGenesis 3 12 The man replied, “It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit, and I ate it.” 13 Then the Lord God asked the woman, “What have you done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied. “That’s why I ate it.”

  9. Questions God AsksGenesis 3 14 Then the Lord God said to the serpent . . . 15  “I will cause hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.”

  10. Questions God AsksGenesis 3 • GOD’S PROVISION OF CLOTHING 21 And the Lord God made clothing from animal skins for Adam and his wife.

  11. Questions God AsksGenesis 3 • GOD’S PROVISION OF CLOTHING “This indicates . . . that man could not stand before God in his own covering. Rather, he needed a covering from God—a covering of a specific nature—a covering that required sacrifice and death, a covering not provided by man but by God . . . It is my opinion that this was the beginning of the Old Testament sacrificial system looking forward to the coming of the One who would crush Satan’s head . . . God himself provided this picture.” Francis A. Schaeffer, Genesis in Space and Time, The Complete Works, Volume 2 (Westchester, Illinois: Crossway Books, 1982), p. 75.

  12. Questions God AsksGenesis 3 • GOD’S PROVISION OF CLOTHING He was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed. All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all. Isaiah 53:5,6 (c. 700 BC)

  13. Questions God AsksGenesis 3 • GOD’S PROVISION OF CLOTHING I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness. Isaiah 61:10

  14. Questions God AsksGenesis 3 • GOD’S PROVISION OF CLOTHING I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness. Isaiah 61:10 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 2 Corinthians 5:21

  15. Questions God AsksGenesis 3 • PUTTING ON GOD’S CLOTHING

  16. Questions God AsksGenesis 3 • PUTTING ON GOD’S CLOTHING • Renounce your reliance on any means of self-validation

  17. Questions God AsksGenesis 3 • PUTTING ON GOD’S CLOTHING • Renounce your reliance on any means of self-validation • Rely on Christ’s righteousness alone to validate you before God

  18. Questions God AsksGenesis 3 • PUTTING ON GOD’S CLOTHING • “Do I draw near to God with equal confidence regardless of my recent moral record?”

  19. Questions God AsksGenesis 3 • PUTTING ON GOD’S CLOTHING • “How do I respond to exposure of my sins by God &/or other people?”

  20. Questions God AsksGenesis 3 • PUTTING ON GOD’S CLOTHING • “Do I compare myself to certain people as the basis of my approval & validation?”

  21. Questions God AsksGenesis 3 • PUTTING ON GOD’S CLOTHING “For Paul, justification was not only a past event; it was also a daily, present reality. Every day of his life, by faith in Christ, Paul realized . . . he was counted righteous and accepted by God as righteous—because of the perfectly obedient life and death Christ provided for him. He stood solely on the rock-solid righteousness of Christ alone . . .

  22. Questions God AsksGenesis 3 • PUTTING ON GOD’S CLOTHING “We must learn to live like . . . Paul, looking every day outside of ourselves to Christ and seeing ourselves clothed in his perfect righteousness . . . Every day we must re-acknowledge the fact that there’s nothing we can do to make ourselves either more acceptable to God or less acceptable . . .

  23. Questions God AsksGenesis 3 • PUTTING ON GOD’S CLOTHING “. . . Regardless of how much we grow in our Christian lives, we’re accepted for Christ’s sake (alone). It’s reliance on Christ alone, apart from any consideration of our good or bad deeds, that enables us to experience the daily reality of (God’s acceptance and approval), in which (we) find peace and joy and comfort and gratitude.” Jerry Bridges, The Bookends of the Christian Life (Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway Books, 2009), p. 29.

  24. Questions God AsksGenesis 3 • Let’s Pray!

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