Where All Our Problems Come From - Nate Clarke - The Book of Genesis

"Where All of Our Problems Come From"
Genesis Chapter 3
The Book of Genesis Series - In The Beginning, God
Pastor Nate Clarke
February 23, 2025


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SERMON NOTES:
- Genesis 3
- Where All of Our Problems Come From
- Roman’s 5:12
- Genesis 3:1
- The recipe for rebellion
- Messing with God’s Word
    - Subtracting from the Word (Genesis 3:1)
- Genesis 3:1 & Genesis 2:15-17
- Messing with God’s Word
   - Subtracting from the Word (Genesis 3:1)
   - Adding to the Word (Genesis 3:3)
- Genesis 3:3 & Genesis 2:17
- Proverbs 30:5-6
- Messing with God’s Word
   - Subtracting from the Word (Genesis 3:1)
   - Adding to the Word (Genesis 3:3)
   - Rejection of the Word (Genesis 3:5) 
- Genesis 3:5 & Genesis 2:17
- Psalm 119:127-128
- John 8:44
- A skewed identity around God and yourself
- A skewed identity always leads you to an inflated view of self and deflated view of God.
- Every sin is a declaration: “I know more than God!” Or “I know better than God!”
- “I’m not really that bad and God isn’t really that good.”
- Sin
- Sin: disobedience to the commands of God
- Sin leads to shame.
- Shame: feeling the same way God does about your sin
- “Sinners can’t find God for the same reason criminals can’t find policeman. They aren’t looking.” Billy Sunday
- Genesis 3:7-8, 10
- Sin makes you stupid and blind
- Genesis 3:10
- Sin tempts you to shift blame
- Genesis 3:11-12
- Genesis 3:13
- Nobody else is responsible for your sin.
- Psalm 51:3-4
- 1 Timothy 1:15
- Sin comes with consequences and ends in death.
- Genesis 3:16-19
- James 1:14-15
- We are the problem and we are not the solution
- Genesis 3:15
- Romans 5:19
- You are either under the head of Adam and dead in your sins, or you are under the head of Jesus , forgiven and made alive in Christ. 
- Adam tried to shift responsibility for his own sin. Jesus took on the responsibility for our sin.
- Adam came from the dust of the earth. Jesus rose from the dust of the earth.
- Adam’s sin brought us thorns. Jesus wore a crown of thorns.
- Adam sinned at a tree. Jesus bore our sins hanging from a tree.
- Adam died as a sinner. Jesus died for sinners.
- Adam was naked and felt no shame. Jesus was stripped nearly naked and bore our shame.
- Adam turned away from from God in the garden. Jesus turned to the Father in a garden.
- Adam substituted himself for God. Jesus was God substituting himself for us.
- Adam, and we, are great sinners. God sent Jesus, a great Savior!

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