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Act Two: Rebellion in the Kingdom: Fall

Act Two: Rebellion in the Kingdom: Fall. A catastrophe has occurred. We are no longer in continuity with our good beginning. We have been separated from it by a disaster. We are also, of course, separated from our good end. We are, in other words, in the middle of a mess. -Eugene Peterson.

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Act Two: Rebellion in the Kingdom: Fall

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  1. Act Two: Rebellion in the Kingdom: Fall

  2. A catastrophe has occurred.We are no longer in continuity withour good beginning. We have been separated from it by a disaster.We are also, of course, separated from our good end. We are, in other words,in the middle of a mess. -Eugene Peterson

  3. Shalom in Eden • Harmony with God • Harmony with each other • Harmony with creation

  4. Genesis3:1-6 • Satanic temptation • Freedom to choose • Tree of Knowledge ofGood and Evil • choose to live byGod’s word • orchoose to live by Satan’s word 4th c. mosaic from Caesarea

  5. Nature of Sin • Autonomy: making oneself source of right/wrong, good/bad, true/false • Covenant rebellion: refusing allegiance to rightful king

  6. Genesis 3:1-6 • Doubt (v.1-3) • Divine Source • Fairness • Unbelief (v.4-5) • Imagining life in disobedience toGod’s word (v.6) • Wilful disobedience (v.6)

  7. Consequences of Sin • Alienated from God (3:8,23) • Damaged relations with each other (v.12,16) • Death (v.19) • Non-human creation cursed (v.17) • Creational task burdened (v.16-19)

  8. All spheres of life—marriage and family, work and worship, school and state,our play and art—bear the wounds of our rebellion. Sin is present everywhere—in pride of race, in arrogance of nations,in abuse of the weak and helpless,in disregard for water, air, and soil,in destruction of living creatures, in slavery, deceit, terror, and war, in worship of false gods, and frantic escape from reality.We have become victims of our own sin. -Contemporary Testimony, 17

  9. Effects of Sin The Lord God Fellow humans Self The World

  10. Is the Story Over? • No! • Clothes Adam and Eve • Gives promise (Gen 3:15)

  11. While justly angry God did not turn his back on a world bent on destruction; he turned his face to it in love. With patience and tender care he set out on the long road of redemption to reclaim the lost as his people and the world as his kingdom.Although Adam and Eve were expelled from the garden and their work was burdened by sin’s effects, God held on to them in love. He promised to crush the evil forces they unleashed. -Contemporary Testimony, 19-20

  12. End of Act Two

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