The Battle is for Trust

Psalm 145 says,
I will declare your great deeds.
They will talk about the fame of your great kindness
and sing about your justice.
The Lord is merciful and compassionate.
He is patient and demonstrates great loyal love.
The Lord is good to all
and has compassion on all he has made.
All your works will give thanks to you, Lord.
Your loyal followers will praise you.
They will proclaim the splendor of your kingdom.
They will tell about your power
so that mankind might acknowledge your mighty acts
and the majestic splendor of your kingdom.
Your kingdom is an eternal kingdom
and your dominion endures through all generations.
The Lord supports all who fall
and lifts up all who are bent over.
Everything looks to you in anticipation
and you provide them with food on a regular basis.
You open your hand and fill every living being
with the food it desires.
The Lord is just in all his actions
and exhibits love in all he does.
The Lord is near to all who cry out to him,
all who cry out to him sincerely.
He satisfies the desire of his loyal followers.
His hearts, he hears their cry for help
and delivers them.
The Lord protects all those who love him,
but he destroys all the wicked.
My mouth will praise the Lord.
Let all who live praise his holy name forever.
Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for this day.
We rejoice and we're glad in it.
And Lord, we're so thankful that you sent us
a savior named Jesus.
We thank you that you have an answer for everything.
That your wisdom is above human wisdom.
That your solution and your power is above human power.
And Lord, you're the only one that has an answer
to everything.
You have an answer to all of our needs.
You have an answer to all of our questions.
You have an answer to all of our pain,
all of our struggles.
You have answers to the things that we wonder about,
the things that confuse us.
You have answers to the things that keep us up at night.
You have answers to things that we can't fix.
So Lord, we submit our whole lives to you this morning
because you are holy and you are king and Lord over all.
Lord, we just thank you that we get to know you
and participate and just come into your presence this morning.
We thank you for the presence of the power of the Holy Spirit
to save, heal, deliver, and set free in this place.
Lord, we thank you for that, Lord.
And we celebrate you.
And we celebrate the gospel advancing here in Apache Junction.
We celebrate the gospel advancing in Cambodia through missions.
And we celebrate the gospel advancing around the world.
And we thank you, Lord, that you are faithful to us
each and every day.
And all God's people said, amen.
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All right, so we're going to continue in our series
about living in a supernatural world.
And if you want to open your Bibles up,
we'll be in Genesis chapter 3 if you want to join me there.
And before I get into that, while we're paging around,
I just wanted to let everyone know that
Ron went to be with the Lord on Friday,
in case you hadn't heard that.
So we're working on a celebration of life
to celebrate everything that he has done,
the life that he lived.
And we'll be announcing that as soon as we have some information.
And if you guys need someone to talk to,
we're more than glad to meet with you,
talk with you, encourage you.
I know this is going to be a very hard time.
He was close to a lot of us.
So I just want to create that opportunity
and let you guys know that we're working on that.
And we'll be celebrating that in the future.
So we're going to be in Genesis 3 today.
And we've been in this series called
Living in a Supernatural World.
And we've kind of set the stage so far.
We've talked about some of the different characters.
And the next few weeks,
I want to talk about the three rebellions
that we see in Genesis.
We see a rebellion in the Garden of Eden.
We see a rebellion in Genesis 6,
which is a fascinating one.
And then we see this rebellion happening again
at the Tower of Babel.
And they're all very different.
So if you have time this week,
I encourage you to read Genesis 1 through 11.
It's a very quick read.
I think it's one of the most fascinating parts of the Bible.
So today we're going to talk about
what happened in the Garden of Eden in Genesis 3.
I'll read the text and we'll get into it.
So Genesis 3, starting at verse 1.
Now the serpent was shrewder than any of the wild animals
that the Lord God had made.
He said to the woman,
Is it really true that God said,
You must not eat from any tree of the orchard?
The woman said to the serpent,
We may eat of the fruit from the trees of the orchard,
but concerning the fruit of the tree
that is in the middle of the orchard,
God said,
You must not eat from it,
and you must not touch it,
or else you will die.
The serpent said to the woman,
Surely you will not die,
for God knows that when you eat from it,
your eyes will be opened,
and you will be like God,
knowing good and evil.
When the woman saw that the tree produced fruit
that was good for food,
was attractive to the eye,
and was desirable for making one wise,
she took some of its fruit and ate it.
She also gave some of it to her husband,
who was with her,
and he ate it.
Then the eyes of both of them were opened,
and they knew they were naked,
so they sewed fig leaves together
and made coverings for themselves.
Then the man and his wife
heard the sound of the Lord God
moving about in the orchard
at the breezy time of the day,
and they hid from the Lord God
among the trees of the orchard.
But the Lord God called to the man
and said to him,
Where are you?
The man replied,
I heard you moving about in the orchard,
and I was afraid,
because I was naked,
so I hid.
So I want to start talking about
two kind of ditches
that are on either side of the road
when you think about this story,
when we think about the spiritual world,
when we think about all these things.
And the first ditch is,
I would call it materialism.
And it's tempting to say that,
well, everything is psychology,
or chemistry, or bad luck,
or politics,
or whatever thing it may be,
and it tempts us to think that,
you know,
the devil's more of a cartoon or an idea.
But the Bible,
he just never describes him
as this red,
thorny guy
with a pointy tail
and a pitchfork.
Like, there's no description
like that in Scripture.
And, you know,
I think it's interesting
because, you know,
the devil is so sneaky.
He's so sneaky,
you might not see him coming
if you're not watching.
Right?
That's why Jesus said,
don't be deceived.
Now, in the other ditch
is some people think
that everything that's bad
is caused by a demon
or is caused by the devil.
And they get a flat tire
and they think there's a demon.
And someone's in a bad mood.
Well, that's definitely a demon.
And you get caught in traffic
and that's like a legion of demons.
Right?
So we can over-obsess
and over-spiritualize
the things in the world
or we can under-spiritualize
the thing in the world.
And sometimes we just give
the devil too much credit.
Amen?
But we do live in a fallen world
where things wear out
and people have real emotions
that God gave them to process.
And, you know,
that doesn't mean that evil
is always behind
everything bad that happens.
And, you know,
the response is, you know,
both ditches can be misleading.
Right?
And the Bible is
a very supernatural book
but it's also very sober.
And, you know,
I'm not talking about this topic
to make people afraid
of what the devil
could be up to.
I'm talking about this topic
so that we can be steady
and that we can be strong
because trusting God
will make you a steady person.
Right?
And I want to show you
that the battle
that's playing out
in this story
is really about trust.
The battle is about trust.
It's a trust in God's goodness.
It's a trust in God's word.
And it's a trust in God's heart.
And we need to be studied
so that we can recognize
the schemes
and resist the schemes
of the devil.
James 7 says,
resist the devil
and he will what?
He will flee from you.
So a spoiler alert
for the whole story
is that the devil loses.
So we'll get to that.
Now, there's this teaching
that has circulated
through the church.
I haven't heard people
talk about it in a while
but I wanted to address it
because I think it's kind of interesting.
That there was this catastrophe
that happened
way before the garden.
That there was this
prehistoric world
that the earth was ruined
and rebuilt
and all this thing.
And then Adam and Eve
kind of showed up later.
Now, I think the idea
behind this explanation,
they call it the gap theory.
There's a couple other names for it.
But I think that what people
are trying to do
is they're trying to harmonize
what they see
in the physical world geologically,
what they see with fossils,
maybe they're trying
to even reconcile
the theory of evolution
which is a very strong
scientific concept.
It's very prevalent
in the scientific community.
And they're trying
to reconcile that
in a way that they can
also harmonize it
with scripture.
And I see what you're
trying to do here.
Right?
And I'm not trying
to pick a fight
about timelines
or new earth
or old earth.
Like that's not even
the point of my conversation today.
But the point of what
I want to say here
is that Genesis is very clear
about the theological
order of things.
And that's what's important.
You see, God made the world
and he calls it good.
And humanity is installed
in the world
as his image bearers,
his representatives.
And then the rebellion
enters the story.
Right?
It's a very
outline format.
And when we start
to think that,
well, maybe there's
a hidden backstory.
Maybe there's this thing
that happened before the garden.
It really muddies
the water, I think.
And it really muddies
the Bible's logic
that says that the wages
of sin is death.
That is really the core
problem of this teaching.
And it can also make
the Bible sound
like a conspiracy theory.
And I think that
that makes me uncomfortable.
That there's, you know,
some secret prologue
that, you know,
only smart people
can figure out.
You know, the Bible
doesn't begin
with a conspiracy.
And I think that
scripture is true
and I believe that
scripture is more than
sufficient to teach us
what we need to know
about God.
And, you know,
if it's not in the text,
I'm not going to build
my life around it.
You see,
the battle here
is for trust
and for trust
in the text.
See, and I think
that you can build
a great life
just following
the word of God.
You can know God.
You can have eternal life.
You can become wise
just from the word
of God.
I love God's word.
I love studying it.
I love reading it.
I like discussing it
with people that maybe
have a different
perspective than me.
I just think it's
a fascinating topic.
And I hope that,
if anything,
I can impart that
onto every person here
that, you know,
the word of God
is fascinating
and I hope that you
have a love
and a desire
to understand
and appreciate
the word of God.
So Genesis 3,
verse 1,
it says,
Now, there's an
important point here.
You see,
God didn't create evil.
You see,
God created
these spiritual beings
in a state of goodness
and we'll get to
more detail on that.
But they were also
created with a free will.
And in the ancient world,
the serpent imagery
often overlaps
with supernatural chaos
and themes of rebellion
and things like that.
And I think that
there's so much more
to Genesis
than just a historical record
or a zoology lesson
about this snake.
You see,
Genesis is a theological
story first.
So everything kind of
has to be seen
through that concept
that it's telling
a theological truth
and it's showing
that there is
a supernatural rebel
coming into this place
where humans
were meeting God.
And it's more than a snake.
It's so much more
than a snake.
We see a snake,
the story describes
a snake,
but there's so much more.
There's a spiritual aspect
of this snake
that is not just
a snake that talks.
There is so much
more happening here.
And this is the first time
that we see
a voice of deception
aimed at humans.
You see,
the battle here,
again,
it's for trust.
And the way
that the serpent
comes in
and attacks
and tries to deceive,
it's not with signs
and wonders
and lightning
and a big show.
it's through
a conversation.
Verse 4,
the serpent said
to the woman,
surely you will not die.
For God knows
that when you eat
from it,
your eyes will open
and you will be like God,
knowing good and evil.
So this is his strategy.
He makes rebellion
feel like wisdom.
He doesn't start
by telling them
to hate God.
That would be a good way
to get found out real fast.
Well,
you should just hate God.
Wait a second.
He put everything here.
He gave this all to me.
So he starts
by making them
just a little bit suspicious.
He says,
you will not die.
God knows this
and you'll be like God.
And he says,
you'll know good and evil.
Now,
I don't know about you.
I don't want to know evil.
I don't want to know.
They didn't know.
They only knew good.
They only saw God.
They were in this beautiful place.
They were in paradise
with God.
They only knew good.
All they knew
was good.
See, the lie
isn't about the fruit.
It's not about the fruit.
The lie
is about the character
of God.
And the serpent
is suggesting,
you know,
God is holding out on you.
God is trying to control you.
God is holding back.
God is threatened
by maybe what you
could become.
So maybe you could
do this little thing
and you could get
on his level.
So the first
spiritual attack
is this thought
that God
is not trustworthy.
And
I want you
to hear this
very clearly.
You know,
you can read the text
with a religious spirit.
You can read it
and read it
with a religious spirit
that just wants
to do the right things
and say the right things
and all this
and just think,
well,
the serpent just
wanted them
to break the rules.
rules.
But it's so much,
it's so much deeper
than a rule.
And if you learn
anything today,
I hope that you take
this into the core
of your being
that it's not
about the rules,
it's about trust.
The battle is for trust.
verse 6 says,
When the woman
saw that the tree
produced fruit
that was good
for food,
was attractive
to the eye,
and was desirable
for making one wise,
she took some
of its fruit
and ate it.
She also gave
some of it
to her husband
who was with her
and he ate it.
Then the eyes
of both of them
were open
and they knew
they were naked.
So they sewed
fig leaves together
and made coverings
for themselves.
Have you ever noticed
evil always advertises
some type of freedom?
You can get
what you want,
you can have it
your way,
you don't have to
listen to these people
or that people.
You see,
evil advertises
a sense of freedom
or a sense of
having something
you didn't have before,
but it always
delivers shame.
It always delivers shame.
And the immediate effect
is not enlightenment,
it's not freedom,
it might feel that way
for a second,
but really it's shame
and it's exposure.
And they do what shame
always makes you do,
they go hide.
Verse 8 says,
Then the man and his wife
heard the sound
of the Lord God
moving about in the orchard
at the breezy time
of the day
and they hid from
the Lord God
among the trees
of the orchard.
But the Lord God
called to the man
and said to him,
Where are you?
Now, you ever realize
God doesn't ask questions
because he's looking
for information.
He never is,
I don't know
the answer to this.
I'm going to go
ask this human
and I'm going to see
if they have
the answer to this.
God never has
to ask a question.
He already knows
the answer.
So the man replied,
I heard you
moving about
in the orchard
and I was afraid
because I was naked
so I hid.
And this is
the enemy's
favorite outcome
right here.
This is his favorite outcome.
It's not just
breaking the rule.
It's not just
the disobedience.
It's the distance.
It's the separation.
It's the fear.
It's the hiding.
Because if the enemy
can get you into hiding,
he can keep you
from healing.
And he can keep you
from God.
He can keep you
from your destiny.
And sin always
leads to hiding.
And you've got to
ask yourself,
what am I hiding?
Am I hiding bottles?
Am I hiding text messages?
Am I hiding money?
Am I hiding things
from my spouse?
Am I hiding things
from my boss?
Am I hiding
my internet history?
Maybe you're hiding
something from God.
Or you think you are.
You see,
it says that
they covered
themselves.
They realized
they were naked
and they covered
themselves.
And then as soon
as God came along,
what did they say?
I was naked,
so I hid.
It didn't work.
But you did all this
because you were
deceived into thinking
that doing this
would make your life
better and you thought
maybe you'd be
enlightened
because evil
advertises freedom
and it always
delivers shame.
And the reason
you're hiding
is because of shame
and really what
happens, you guys,
is when we hide
our stuff,
we really are
hiding ourselves.
We are really
hiding ourselves.
And we're afraid
that, well,
people are going to
know my secret.
They're going to
find out what kind
of person I really
am.
and just like
Adam and Eve,
if people knew,
you'd be exposed.
Now, we talked
about the image
of God and how
God delegated
authority to humans,
this whole idea of
being created in the
image of God.
So he places his
image bearers on the
earth.
And you see,
the devil is not
just this naughty,
kind of benevolent
thing, you know,
the devil made me do
it.
It's kind of this joke
kid say, you know,
it's so much more
than that.
He is actively
resisting God's
plan.
You see, he can't
take God's place,
which is what he
wanted to do.
We'll get to that
scripture in a minute.
So he attacks God's
image bearers because
they carry his
authority.
And the thing that
he aims more than
anything else is the
thing that's most
dangerous to him,
and that's their
relationship with God.
And I believe that,
you know, the devil
can handle you being
religious-sounding.
He's okay with that.
He can handle you
being moral, maybe
being churchy.
You know, I think
that the devil loves
empty religion a lot
because it's so
deceptive.
You know, we can feel
like, well, I'm
praising God, I'm in
church.
But if it's not filled
with a relationship
with God, it's empty.
And you see, the devil
cannot handle you being
connected to God.
That is the thing that
he is coming after.
You see, people who
are connected to God
are dangerous.
You see, when I call
on Jesus, all things
are possible.
And that's why the
first attack is aimed
at God's character.
Because if you believe
God is holding out on
you, you turn on him.
And if you believe God
is not safe, what are
you going to do?
You're going to hide.
And what will happen is
the devil will disconnect
you from the promises
of God and the
relationship that you
can have with God.
He will disconnect you
and he will disconnect
you from God's people.
And if you believe that
God is against you, you
become your own God.
And that's the serpent's
desire for people is that
they reject God, they
take things into their
own hands because the
battle is for trust.
We see in the prophets
that this rebellion
pattern shows up through
human rulers.
Ezekiel 28 and Isaiah
14, I'll touch on those.
They come in and I want
to be a little careful
here.
Ezekiel 28 and Isaiah
14 are both directly
addressed to human kings.
But the prophets are
using kind of a
heightened imagery.
They use this garden
imagery, this original
sin imagery to expose
what pride really is.
Because the prophetic is
really about the spirit
behind things.
You know, we see what's
happening, but the
prophets would come in
and they would reveal
people's motives and
they would reveal their
hearts and the cause of
what was going on and
give them a chance to
repent.
So Ezekiel pulls this
Eden story into God's
judgment that's being
proclaimed on a ruler.
And the whole point is
like, you know, there's
no full like autobiography
in the Bible of Satan.
There's pieces here and
there.
We can pick up a lot of
things.
But the point is that
this arrogance that this
king is portraying, it's
the same ancient rebellion
that happened in the
garden and it happens
again and again and
again.
So Ezekiel is giving this
prophecy and here's where
it starts to reveal some
really interesting things.
It's Ezekiel 28, starting
at verse 13.
It says,
You were in Eden, the
garden of God.
Every precious stone was
your covering, the ruby,
the topaz, and emerald,
the crystallite, the onyx,
and jasper, the sapphire,
turquoise, and beryl.
Your settings and mounts
were made of gold.
On the day you were
created, they were
prepared.
I placed you there with
an anointed guardian
cherub.
You were on the holy
mountain of God.
You walked about amidst
fiery stones.
You were blameless in
your behavior from the
day you were created
until sin was discovered
in you.
So that teaches us right
there that God didn't
create the devil as an
evil, malevolent being
just to play out some
kind of agenda or some
kind of thing that he
actually made the devil
or this spiritual being
that became the devil, I
will say, good.
It says he was
blameless.
And then it says,
verse 16,
In the abundance of
your trade, you were
filled with violence and
you sinned.
You sinned.
So I defiled you and
banished you from the
mountain of God.
The guardian cherub
expelled you from the
midst of the stones of
fire.
Your heart was proud
because of your beauty
and you corrupted your
wisdom on account of your
splendor.
Isaiah reveals a little
bit more.
Isaiah 14, starting at
verse 13, says,
You said to yourself,
I will climb up to the
sky above the stars of El.
I will set up my throne.
I will rule on the
mountain of assembly, on
the remote slopes of
Zaffron.
I will climb to the
tops of the clouds.
I will make myself like
the most high.
And this is the essence
of rebellion.
You know, it's not just
breaking the rules.
It's so much deeper than
that.
It's refusing to submit.
It's refusing to
acknowledge God.
And it's instead
insisting that I will be
God.
And you see, pride isn't
just like an attitude.
It's not a personality
quirk.
It's rebellion.
It's spiritual alignment
with what the devil wants
to do.
It's that I will ascend.
I will raise my throne.
I will be like the most
high.
But Proverbs says that
pride goes before
destruction and a haughty
spirit before the fall.
But then comes Jesus.
And you see Jesus in
Genesis 3 so clearly if
you just look.
And it announces that
there's going to be a
solution to all of this.
Right in the middle of
this whole story in the
garden, God drops this
little promise.
And in Genesis 3, verse
15, he says, this is the
curse that's actually being
pronounced on the serpent.
God says,
You see, this is the first gospel
promises.
You know, the serpent can get
the heel, it can wound, right?
You can limp around a little
bit, but you can get where you're
going, right?
But you get your head struck,
that's a whole other thing.
And when the head was struck in
an ancient story, that meant that
death.
That's what that meant.
And this teaches us that the
enemy is very real.
He has the ability to inflict
some pain, but the real
victory is clear right from
this story in Genesis, right
from the moment that all of
this went wrong.
There's God.
There's God right there saying
that in the end, that Jesus
will be victorious over the
devil, that he will put him to
open shame, and that there will
be victory.
And if you are in Christ, you
can walk in that victory every
single moment of your life.
And you can just learn to live
from this place of the promise
that the devil's been defeated,
and that we can live, and that
we can move, and we can have our
being in the finished work of
Christ.
You see, it's the devil's
strategy to produce shame, to
produce hiding.
And I think that one of the most
spiritual things that we can do
is to come out of hiding.
You know, it's to stop hiding
from God.
It's to stop hiding from prayer.
To stop hiding from God's
people.
To stop hiding from our own shame
and our past.
Because shame is like this leash.
It's like this leash that Satan
can pull on.
And it can control us.
And you can break that shame by
stepping back into trusting God.
Because you see, the battle is
for trust.
And the question today is, who do
you trust?
What do you trust?
What do you put your faith in?
1 John 1.9 says,
But if we confess our sins, he is
faithful and righteous,
forgiving us our sins and
cleansing us from all
unrighteousness.
I think it's interesting that
Adam and Eve, they saw God,
they walked with God,
and yet, it doesn't seem that
it ever occurred to him,
to either of them, to go talk
to God.
It never happens in the story.
You wonder, why didn't they just
go talk to God?
Why didn't they just say,
Oh, hey God.
I kind of got mixed up with this
serpent over here, and this
apple, and this whole thing.
And they could have come to,
I don't know, but that didn't
happen.
But here's the great news,
is that Jesus was given, and
he lived a perfect life, and he
died on the cross, and he was
raised from the dead so that we
could have perfect communication
and fellowship and relationship
with God.
And the answer here is, if we
confess our sins, he is faithful
and righteous, forgiving us our
sins and cleansing us from all
unrighteousness.
Not some, all.
And you can trust Jesus with
your sins, you can trust him
with the secret stuff, you can
trust him with your shame, you can
trust him with your very life.
Because the battle is not over
rules and religion, and do this
and don't do that, and look this
way, and wear this, and don't wear
that, and don't say this word, and
don't say that word, and don't
think like this, and don't act
like them, and don't watch this.
It's not about that, you guys.
That's religion.
And religion will always separate
you from that relationship, because
what we do through religion is we
try to please God, and we think,
well, if I just do these things, if I
just check these boxes, that I can
know God, and God will somehow be
happy with me, and then he'll accept
me.
But you can never do enough.
You can never do enough to please
God.
We need Jesus.
We need a perfect Savior, and that's
what he's offering.
He's offering a way out.
So you can trust God with everything,
because the battle is for trust.
You can trust that God is always for
you.
You can trust that God, that every
promise in Scripture is for you.
You can trust that God is never
against you.
So you can say no.
You can say no to the shame.
You can say no to the past.
Your past doesn't have to have
anything to do with what happens
from this moment on.
You can be completely free from
everything that has ever happened
in your entire life through Christ.
That's a beautiful thing.
So we can say no to being suspicious
about God being good.
We can say no to, you know, wondering,
well, is God really in this?
We can say no to all of that.
We can say no to the shame and no to
the hiding, and we can come into his
presence knowing that, like this verse
says, he is faithful and he is
righteous, and he's forgiving us our
sins and cleansing us from all
unrighteousness.
And if you have never believed that,
today is a great day to accept that
and to walk in that and to walk in that
joy and know that you have eternal life.
And I'd love to pray with anybody who
wants to accept that.
I'd love to pray with anyone this
morning who wants to just get
something out and receive forgiveness.
So we'd be glad to pray with you after
the service.
If not, dear Heavenly Father, we just
thank you for everything that you do
for us.
We thank you that you're a good God,
that you're faithful to us each and
every day of our life.
And we thank you that we can come to
you freely, that we can confess our
sins and that we can be cleansed.
We thank you that you made a way for
us, that we can know that we have
eternal life and know that we're on
our way to heaven.
So Lord, we accept every good promise
in your word, promises of a hope and a
future, promises of provision,
promises of healing, Lord, that you
will provide exceedingly abundantly
beyond, way beyond anything that we
could come up with in our own
imaginations, that you have the
capability of providing that.
So Lord, I just thank you for each
and every person here.
I thank you that we're just a big
family here.
And I pray that you can bless every
household represented here this
week.
I pray that you can bless everyone's
hands, that the things that they set
their hands to are successful.
Lord, I pray for peace and joy and
hope this week in every household.
And all God's people said,
Amen.