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the earth, and every tree, in the which is Unfortunately, in the Garden of
the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it Eden that God and created and man as his
shall be for meat. 30 And to every beast of dwelling place, there was this thing called
the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and the serpent. And just as rust sneaks up on
to everything creepeth upon the earth, sheet metal, that serpent was conniving
wherein there is live, I have given every deceived Eve into committing the one
green herb for meat; and it was so. 31 And thing that God clearly instructed them not
God saw every thing that He had made, to do, eat from the tree of good and evil.
and behold, it was very good. And the
evening and the morning were the sixth Adam and Eve neglected to obey
day.” Gen 1:26-31 God and abused their rights given by God
resulting in their relationship with God
Notice that after God had finished being destroyed and caused them to fall
His creation, He stepped back to observe away from His presence. From that day in
His creation and then placed a value upon which Adam and Eve fell, we are all born
it. He looked at man and not only valued in this state of sin and destruction. But
his as good, but as very good. He there is good news because according to
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complimented mans value even further by His Word, in our time something new
entrusting him with the entire earth that has been added. What Moses and the
He had created and provided all that man prophets witnessed to all those years has
would ever need. happened. The God-setting-things-right
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that we read about has become Jesus-
Let's go back for a moment and setting-things-right for us. And not only for
remember that beautiful piece of us, but for everyone who believes in him.
machinery that the engineers designed For there is no difference between us and
that came off that assembly line in the them in this. Since we've compiled this
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form of a new automobile. It's been long and sorry record as sinners (both us
sometime since that automobile was and them) and proved that we are utterly
created, perhaps a few years, perhaps incapable of living the glorious lives God
decades and it’s suffered a few accidents wills for us, God did it for us. Out of
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over its lifetime. And if you live anywhere sheer generosity he put us in right standing
that has a lot of snow you know there's with himself. A pure gift. He got us out of
this thing called rust that is the silent killer the mess we're in and restored us to
of the sheet metal on the body of a car. It where he always wanted us to be. And he
sneaks up slowly overtime and literally did it by means of
rots away the body of an automobile. Most Jesus Christ. 25 God sacrificed Jesus on
automobiles were hauled away to finish the altar of the world to clear that world of
there demise in salvage yards. sin. Having faith in Him sets us in the clear.
God decided on this course of action in full
