Here's the outline for what he taught on Sunday..
- Without Him we can do nothing.
He is our shepherd. He leads, we follow. Not we lead, He follows.
Genesis 4
Men has the capacity to do things
God gave men the capacity to do anything.
- Adam - the partaker of God's divine nature
Adam fell into sin & his capacity became the fallen, corrupted, peverted form..
Adam, although fallen, is still not totally lost.
He still had redemptive value!
God wastes nothing!
When God looks at a sinner, although in their fallen nature, they still have redemptive value.
God doesn't strip a sinner of their personality, their gifts etc.. but bring them back to their original purpose.
Adam had 2 sons - Cain & Abel
Abel represented the good, Cain represented the evil. There's a conflict btwn good & evil..
Cain still has the capacity to do the things he has been brought up to do.
But he is gonna do it his way.
He established his 1st city & he
1) institutionalized - raised livestock Genesis 4:20
2) started early development - live in tents Genesis 4:21
3) started the Arts & Entertainment - play the harp & flute Genesis 4:22
4) forged tools made of bronze & iron
Social Institution of : fallen condition
- family
- church
- education
- politics
- economics
- Arts & Entertainment
The whole idea is KRISTOS KAI KOSMOS - to redeem the value in every institution
- redeem the culture
We are sent into the world to do all the above.
Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world.
I am here, not what am I here for but for who am I here for..
Culture, no matter how, is fallen..
It is still redeemable..
A junkyard exists because there is still value in junk..
Not because of what it is, but the value of what it can become..
Something or someone whom we were.. were junk..
But God is the junk collector..
We were junk.. We were destroyed but He saw the value left in us..
He took us from the junkyard & redeemed us & made us new & put us back to our original beautiful selves..
He redeemed us back into our full value..
From junk to treasure..
In His eyes, we are now treasures.. & He displays us for the world to see..
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