Questions God Asks Genesis 3

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Questions God AsksGenesis 3
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Questions God AsksGenesis 3
7 At that moment their eyes were opened, and they
suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they
sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves.
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Questions God AsksGenesis 3
7 At that moment their eyes were opened, and they
suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they
sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves.
To experience shame is to feel seen in a
painfully diminished sense. Our eyes turn inward
at the moment of shame, and suddenly weve become
impaled under the magnifying glass of our own
eyes . . . Exposure is what we feel . . . (We)
yearn to disappear, to escape all those watching
eyes, to find cover. (Gershon Kaufman)
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• THEIR SELF-MADE CLOTHING

7 At that moment their eyes were opened, and they
suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they
sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves.
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Questions God AsksGenesis 3

• THEIR SELF-MADE CLOTHING
• This primal fear of exposure is rooted in shame
  because of true moral guilt before God

7 At that moment their eyes were opened, and they
suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they
sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves.
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8 When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the
man and his wife heard the Lord God walking about
in the garden. So they hid from the Lord God
among the trees. 9 Then the Lord God called to
the man, Where are you?
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10 He replied, I heard you walking in the
garden, so I hid. I was afraid because I was
naked. 11 Who told you that you were naked?
the Lord God asked. Have you eaten from the tree
whose fruit I commanded you not to eat?
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12 The man replied, It was the woman you gave me
who gave me the fruit, and I ate it. 13 Then the
Lord God asked the woman, What have you done?
The serpent deceived me, she replied. Thats
why I ate it.
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14 Then the Lord God said to the serpent . . .
15  I will cause hostility between you and the
woman, and between your offspring and her
offspring. He will strike your head, and you will
strike his heel.
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• GODS PROVISION OF CLOTHING

21 And the Lord God made clothing from animal
skins for Adam and his wife.
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• GODS PROVISION OF CLOTHING

This indicates . . . that man could not stand
before God in his own covering. Rather, he
needed a covering from Goda covering of a
specific naturea covering that required
sacrifice and death, a covering not provided by
man but by God . . . It is my opinion that this
was the beginning of the Old Testament
sacrificial system looking forward to the coming
of the One who would crush Satans head . . . God
himself provided this picture. Francis A.
Schaeffer, Genesis in Space and Time, The
Complete Works, Volume 2 (Westchester, Illinois
Crossway Books, 1982), p. 75.
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• GODS PROVISION OF CLOTHING

He was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our
sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was
whipped so we could be healed. All of us, like
sheep, have strayed away. We have left Gods
paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him
the sins of us all. Isaiah 535,6 (c. 700
BC)
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• GODS PROVISION OF CLOTHING

I delight greatly in the Lord my soul rejoices
in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of
salvation and arrayed me in a robe of
righteousness. Isaiah 6110
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• GODS PROVISION OF CLOTHING

I delight greatly in the Lord my soul rejoices
in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of
salvation and arrayed me in a robe of
righteousness. Isaiah 6110
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so
that in him we might become the righteousness of
God. 2 Corinthians 521
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• PUTTING ON GODS CLOTHING

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• PUTTING ON GODS CLOTHING
• Renounce your reliance on any means of
  self-validation

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• PUTTING ON GODS CLOTHING
• Renounce your reliance on any means of
  self-validation
• Rely on Christs righteousness alone to validate
  you before God

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• PUTTING ON GODS CLOTHING
• Do I draw near to God with equal confidence
  regardless of my recent moral record?

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• PUTTING ON GODS CLOTHING
• How do I respond to exposure of my sins by God
  /or other people?

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• PUTTING ON GODS CLOTHING
• Do I compare myself to certain people as the
  basis of my approval validation?

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• PUTTING ON GODS CLOTHING

For Paul, justification was not only a past
event it was also a daily, present reality.
Every day of his life, by faith in Christ, Paul
realized . . . he was counted righteous and
accepted by God as righteousbecause of the
perfectly obedient life and death Christ provided
for him. He stood solely on the rock-solid
righteousness of Christ alone . . .
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• PUTTING ON GODS CLOTHING

We must learn to live like . . . Paul, looking
every day outside of ourselves to Christ and
seeing ourselves clothed in his perfect
righteousness . . . Every day we must
re-acknowledge the fact that theres nothing we
can do to make ourselves either more acceptable
to God or less acceptable . . .
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• PUTTING ON GODS CLOTHING

. . . Regardless of how much we grow in our
Christian lives, were accepted for Christs sake
(alone). Its reliance on Christ alone, apart
from any consideration of our good or bad deeds,
that enables us to experience the daily reality
of (Gods acceptance and approval), in which (we)
find peace and joy and comfort and gratitude.
Jerry Bridges, The Bookends of the Christian
Life (Wheaton, Illinois Crossway Books, 2009),
p. 29.
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• Lets Pray!