But I did get a lot done, so I've got to praise the Lord for that. I don't mind. I'm so excited. I've been praying for several years, kind of indirectly mentoring to this particular guy. Just out of Clear Blue, Jerry comes to me last night and says, guess who we're going to pick up tomorrow on the way to church? I said, who? Carl. He called and said, can I go to church with you? Whoa. Praise the Lord. So today's going to be a make it or break it. We'll see. Amen. All the praise that I have is that Gavin and I got to work on his car when he was here this week. He designed the car. We sat down together and he picked out the shape of the car and so then we drew a couple of shapes and finally come down to one he liked. And then we transferred that to a practice block and took it to the scroll saw and cut it out and got that done. He liked it so it was approved. Then this week, when he came down, we cut the other block. Then we designed the profile from the side, and then we took a top-down profile. I asked him, I said, do you want to just look cool, or do you want to win? Did he say both? Yeah. So we designed it based on the YouTube videos I've watched. We got it all the way cut out, sanded, and painted. And we dipped it in the paint, so it's going to take about a week to dry. But it's looking pretty good. We'll see how it runs. So who else? Gotta be a couple more praises around here. Denise? I'm thankful for my church family. I guess I have felt more friendliness and more at home here than I have in a long time with churches. And it's a really good feeling to know that you can really trust what people say if you need a hand. just give me a call. So I'm really thankful for my church family. I'm thankful for my physical family. Anywhere you live, any little city you live in, if your family's around and you get along with them, it feels like home. It was until Cabela's opened anyway. Oh, yes, definitely. Apartment living is probably the worst kind of living you could ever have. I've never really gotten a good apartment. The one I'm living in is the worst. But, you know, sometimes you do what you gotta do and be thankful that you can do it till God gives you what you want. I'm learning a lot about living financially responsible. Amen. And it's teaching me a lot. Cool. Actually, I enjoyed apartment living for a while. You gotta look at the blessing side of it. There's no grass to mow, no flower beds to deal with. If you want to go swimming, there's somebody else that's going to take care of the pool. You leave, you come home, you crash, you go do what you got to do, and there's nothing else that you got to worry about. Who else? Got to praise. Thank you, God, for this wonderful weather. Amen. Carl's got one. It is pretty. It cooled down, and all the bad stuff went around us. Yeah, we got some fantastic weather. All right, Wes, what's great? We got a customer that got a boat with a Honda marine engine on it, and they did some rewiring on it and stuff, and then they wouldn't get any spark out of it anymore, couldn't get it to crank with the ignition. Better than a sharp stick and I all right Genesis, we're gonna start today in chapter 2 and We have learned a lot of stuff so far We're going to start with fifteen verse fifteen. We got Adam. We got all the animals we've got we've got all these things going on but there's one thing we don't have yet. And it says the Lord took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. Let's keep in mind. That we have looked at a lot of evidence so far. We have talked about the time of creation and the reality of creation. And we have a mountain of evidence. In conjunction with the scriptures that creation is literal. How long did it take God to create the heavens and the earth. This plan. Six days. How long were those days. Twenty four hour days. All of this is real. Even people that don't. Understand this or been led to disbelieve it if God can create the world What would be a limitation on anyone who could do that as to how long it would take Well, I just don't believe God could do that in 24 hours in six days Well, how long you think it would take anyone that could do that? And we tell you something if he's smart enough to do it he's smart enough to do it in six days It's just logical. So God is the creator. There is no doubt about it. There is no lack of evidence for it. And we've seen this and now Adam is alive. He's very young. He's full grown though. He's created a full grown man. He's alive but he's alone. And God's going to tell us a couple of things that are basically through all the time their principles and one of them as we read through this tell me what principles that you see here other than just events that are pointed out. God took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And God commanded the man saying of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it. For in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. And the Lord God said, it is not good that the man should be alone. I will make and help meet for him. And out of the ground, the Lord God formed every beast of the field, every fowl of the air, and he brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them. And whatsoever Adam called every living creature that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle and to the fowl of the air and to every beast of the But for Adam there was not found and help meet for him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept. And he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib which the Lord God had taken from man made he a woman and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked and the man and his wife and were not ashamed. Now the serpent was more subtle than any base of the field which the Lord God had made and he said unto the woman and he said unto the woman Yeah have God said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden. And the woman said to the serpent We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden God has said you shall not eat of it neither shall you touch it lest you die And the serpent said unto the woman You shall not surely die For God doeth know that in the day you eat thereof then your eyes shall be opened and you shall be as God's knowing good and evil And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired, to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And then the first thing that Eve said was what? Don't give a joke. No? And the first thing Eve said after that was what? Come on, we learned this the other day. She said, do these leaves make me look fat? Of course. We're going to have some fun and games along the way. All right. Now, what in the way of principles did you notice as we read through that, as you listened to that? Give me a principle. Something that's still true right now is true as it was when God said it then. Obedience? Marriage? Marriage is there. There was a marriage taking place. Does it come to temptation? Yeah, temptation is there. The method of how the temptation was yielded to is basically the same. So there's a principle there. Anybody else? Any others? What about it's not good for the man to be alone? Is that true? Has that changed? Still the same. How many of you have heard this terminology read, and God made a helpmeet for Adam, and people refer to her as a helpmeet. That's common. Well, what's the word meet mean? Fit for. Fit for. It's not a name, it's a helper fit for the man. The word that is there that all of that is translated from is a counterpart. The woman is the counterpart of the man. If you look it up, that's the definition you'll find there. He's the counterpart. I've never used that. It never made any sense for me to say she was a helpmate, a helper fit for. Well, she's a helper. And she's the proper counterpart to do the job. She's made to be that helper. A lot of women don't really like the idea that the woman, generally speaking, is made specifically to be an aid, a helper, a counterpart for the man. How do you ladies feel about that? You okay with that? as long as we're treated the way God wants the man to treat us. Well now, a lot of women today really don't like the idea. That's one of the reasons they want to reject creation because they don't like the implications of it. Let's go over and read in the New Testament some of the way that this position is explained position one doesn't go with me to first Corinthians chapter eleven it says in this chapter quite a few things about man and woman but it talks about that original position it's expounded and expanded quite a bit here in this particular chapter we're going to start in verse three But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ. Fellows you have any problem with that. And the head of the woman is the man. And the head of Christ is God. Obviously talking about the father. So you've got an order here of authority. Is that what you're seeing in this. There is a definite order of authority. Every man praying or prophesying having his head covered dishonored his head. We're not going to get into trying to explain all this today but we're going to read through it. But every woman that prays or prophesied with her head uncovered dishonored her head for that is even all one as if she were shaven. But if the woman be not covered let her also be shorn. But if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, then let her be covered. This is dealing with demonstrations, outward positions or showing of authority. For a man, indeed, ought not to cover his head, for as he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man. Now, fellows, there's something that would be worthy of remembering, don't you think? She holds a pretty high position there. and it says for this cause the woman ought to have power on her head because of the angel that may mean that the angels have long hair I'm assuming nevertheless neither is the man without the woman neither the woman without the man in the Lord so even though woman was made for man you can't have more men without women kind of moves the position of the ladder a little bit doesn't This would be a good Mother's Day passage. For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman, but all things of God. Judging yourselves, is it comely or proper that a woman pray unto God uncovered? Doeth not even nature itself teach you that if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given her for covering. That's a scripture that a lot of people shy away from. King of Bees has long hair in Maine, and the lioness doesn't. Well, maybe there's a... Nature tells us that it's a male, you know, like the peacock and everything. If it's a male peacock, it's all, you know, a reed with all the bright feathers and a little plumage and all. You might want to think that over if it didn't specifically say that it's a shame of a man have long hair. So if a man has long hair what's it implying that he's looking like a woman. That's what's there. Like I said we're not going to get off into that today. It's too much. It's too much to bite off. But what you do see here is that position of the woman in agreement with exactly what God said her purpose was in Genesis. She is created for the man man is created for God men bring glory to God women do by virtue of their position bring glory to their husbands but the woman is the glory of the man so there's a lot there but I just wanted you to see that the idea that set forth in Genesis isn't something that's confused later it's continuing just exactly like God explained it here in the beginning So we've got a marriage taking place we've got the warning given. Now there's another principle that you're going to find in this chapter approach from a back door instead of a front door type of way and that is the principle that's in the last chapter of Revelation which says that we're not to add or take away from what God said. Remember that principle laid out in Revelation. God said you know mess with my word you don't add to it you don't take away from it. It was one of the first sins. Perhaps not so much a sin as a mistake. All mistakes are not sins and all sins definitely are mistakes but there's some issue with that. What did what do you see here as a difference between what God told Adam and what Adam told Eve. God told Adam. that there's a tree that's a tree of knowledge of good and evil that he's not to eat there eat from that fruit now what did Eve say now you got to realize something God did not tell Eve not to eat of that tree he told Adam and Adam knew the consequences so Adam told Eve not to eat of that tree Now Adam told Eve and you can tell by what she said in chapter three. Adam told Eve see that tree. Don't eat of that tree. And he told her something else. What was it. And matter of fact don't even touch it. Fellas in that exactly what we would do. Eve don't eat of that tree. Just don't even touch it. I mean don't go over there. Leave that tree alone. So Adams expanding on this and he tells Eve Don't eat of that tree. Neither shall you touch it. Now God didn't say that touching it was a sinner was going to kill you or you would die. But this is something as innocent as that was. This is something that Satan exploited. He does exploit every little detail he can. Let me take you back over to the Corinthian church for a minute and second Corinthians chapter eleven and this will be a will this will be beginning in verse number three as we started in first Corinthians as well second Corinthians eleven. It's interesting that the same chapters have the same subject starting out in them Paul says to the Corinthian church but I fear less by any means And that's that's not just a little addition in a sentence that's literally what Satan will use any means anything he can but I fear less by any means as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety. So your mind should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. And then he goes and talks to us about false prophets. He says if he that cometh preaches another Jesus which we have not preached. You didn't know there was another Jesus, did you? Not a real Jesus. There's only one. Well, it's the Jesus that can save you if you do good work and, you know, live good enough. That's another Jesus. Because the Jesus that the real one can save you completely all by himself. And it's not on you're not dependent on your work. You say All this all these Jesus's that being preached out here and all these different things that being touted as what he represents. You'll figure this out in just a moment what he's saying. It says or if you receive another spirit which you have not received. What what happens when you put your trust in Christ. You receive the spirit you receive the spirit of God the Holy Spirit to dwell within you. What happens if after that you receive another spirit. Is it possible. It is or he wouldn't be to warn us about it. If that other spirit that you didn't already receive is that is that the Holy Spirit coming back or is that some other spirit. Exactly the see what he's talking about is a counterfeit here or another gospel which you have not accepted. The gospels in First Corinthians 15. how the Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures and was buried and the third day raised from the dead according to the scriptures. If the penalty of sin is death and Christ died for your sin and that payment has been applied to you, what's your position in Christ? What about your debt of sin? Is it paid for or not? It's paid for. Christ's death can't pay for your sins, what can? And how is your good work going to add anything to that or take anything from that? See, there's all kinds of different gospels that, yeah, Christ died to save you, but you've got to live good to get there. Salvation is not a work, lest any man should boast. There's so many different little twists put on this. There's a lot of different gospels out there. And then he explains to this and this is say Satan's plan is subtlety. He takes the truth. And he adds to it or takes a little water from. To change it. So the. Doesn't matter to him how much you know as long as you don't know enough to stay out of hell. You see the difference it's subtle it's never will come worship me I'm Satan. Let's be bad together. Oh I realize there's a segment of people that's just first thing I'd love to get into and there are but most people would never go for that but they'll go for the other gospel and they'll go for the other spirit and they'll listen to this other Jesus subtlety he said as a serpent beguiled Eve. This is how he's going to try to get to you and he tells them that these preachers are false apostles that they are preaching works verse fourteen no marvel Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness whose end shall be according to their works. Well my end is not going to be according to my works because Jesus. Took care all that for me. See there's the truth that's all the way through the scripture but it's subtlety now I want you to look. at the subtlety that we find back in Genesis. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shall not eat of it. If you eat of it you'll die. When Adam ate the fruit did he fall down dead. God said in the day that you eat thereof you're going to die. What died. It's over in Ezekiel the soul that shinneth sinneth shall die. The spirit became dead and sins. And we were born in sin because of Adam's transgression and we end up with the same problem. That's how we all became sinners over Romans it said for by one man sin entered into the world and so death passed upon all men for that all of sin. I'll ask Carl Carl brand new and he's already speaking up so I know he's not shy. Carl, did you wake up one morning and decide to be a sinner? No, it just happened that way. You just kind of osmosis into it or something? I mean, you just kind of melded into it, didn't you? I think that we're all pure at heart when we're kids. As we begin to learn the world and how Satan controls or puts this stuff out there, we become unpure and so we have to find our way back to God. All right, well, let's talk about that a minute. How many of you have kids? Ooh, boy, lots of kids. Let's take a two-year-old. Would you say a two-year-old is pretty innocent, generally? There's something that you've all seen happen with two-year-olds. And I'm using two-year-olds because that's about the time when they can actually talk and tell you something. They were testing. Yeah. You ever walk into the room and see crayon marks all over the wall? And you said, Who did this? Did you do that? And your innocent two year old, pure of heart, said what? Lied like a little dog. Who taught that child to lie? Satan. Who teaches a bird dog pup? Anybody ever had a bird dog pup? I'm the only one. You've heard about them, all right? You can take a bird dog pup. I've been that long. Put him out in the front yard, get him out there, and he'll see a butterfly or grasshopper. What'll he do? Lock up on it. Who taught that bird dog to point. Nobody it's in him. Well that's saying is in us. We inherited it from Adam and it's there in the beginning. God says we're not accountable until the knowledge of right and wrong. And then we're accountable. But it's still there and. Boy, I have a question. Sure. Well, I'm trying to get back into faith. I have been out of faith for a while I've recently got it back and My question is like if Jesus died for us for all of us Like what? What about the people who are good out there, but worship other things? Like do they not go to heaven? What it says the fact is that God has brought the gospel the knowledge of it to every man he starts in Romans explains it to us he starts by observation of creation God says that we all see God's handiwork and it causes in us one or two things a desire to know more a gratitude for it or the counterpart of that which is that don't even want the knowledge of God leave me alone I will live my life don't tell me what to do I'm not interested. The fear of it. And God says that to the one, he gives more light and more understanding, and to the other, he sends darkness in its place. So it's basically, it's a desire of the heart. You have to make a choice. God's gonna show you who he is, he's gonna show you his power, he's gonna show you a lot of stuff about him, and then you're gonna decide, do I want him, or do I just want it my own way? Well, and then my next question is, like, once I do accept Jesus into my heart, can I believe in other stuff? Well, let's look at that. Right here in 2 Corinthians 11, he's warning Christians, genuine believers in the church in Corinth, about accepting this preaching about another Jesus. He's warning them about accepting receiving another spirit that they didn't receive when they got saved it's a it's a false spirit he's warning them about entertaining the idea of a second gospel yes a matter of fact you can believe a lot of things but if it's not according to the word of God you just believe in wrong things God's Word is true it's it's the one standard by which all things can be judged And it's the only standard by which all things can be judged is the word of God. So how does different religions tie in with this? Well, they come from a corruption of the truth. I mean, it's one thing the Buddhists and Islam and all this, they don't believe in Jesus Christ at all. Islam claims to believe that he was a prophet, but Not much of one that's you know but Mohammed was better even though they say that Jesus rose from the dead and Mohammed still in the grave they can't figure out that Jesus would have been a little better. Jesus performed miracles and Mohammed didn't. But aside from all that just look at the Christian denominations with all their different methods of how you're going to get to heaven. Yeah. Where do you think they came from. There was only one to begin with There was only one church when Jesus ascended into heaven and left that church to be with the command to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. There was only one church. And it wasn't Catholic it wasn't Methodist it wasn't Presbyterian it wasn't even Baptist except by practice. It wasn't by name yet. How did all of these others get to be where they are today. One person got offended and went off and started another church. You're dead on. That's right. I've done a real brief study on that. It is so interesting. Well, the Bible says they went out from us because they were not of us. Every member of that first church was a genuine believer and indwelled with the Holy Spirit. Thousands of people attached themselves, some properly, some improperly, to that church along the way. Some became a part of the group. Do you believe that here in Lighthouse, as small as we are, that there's somebody on the membership role who's probably not saved? Yes. The Bible tells us that that's true, and it has borne out to show itself many times throughout the years. And so when somebody who looks like a Christian, sounds like a Christian, but doesn't believe quite like a Christian, and certainly doesn't act like one, When they go off get offended whatever or and they go off start one of their own. Is that a real church. No they don't adhere to the original doctrines lot of it but that's how they all got here. Who was the first big success at the false churches. And by the way the one heading that up is behind the scenes and it's just exactly like what we're reading right here. As a serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, even so your mind should be corrupted by Satan himself. What was the first major corruption that historically became very large? Catholicism. How long did it take from the first church to the first Catholic church? Anybody know? Two and a half times the age of our country. roughly five hundred years. There's only one church that goes historically church to church to church back to the original church. Do you have any idea which one that is? Because there is one. It better be, or I'm going to be something else. I hope so. What is it? Baptist. Read Trail of Blood. I think it's important to point out, too, that even though you might know people that are in other religions, and that they are doing good things, and they're good people, quote, unquote, that really none of us are good people. There are no good people. We have to come to that understanding, and that Jesus is the only way. You can read Trail of Blood online for free. I know. So many people believe they're good people, you know, and that's what keeps them from being saved. Well, we all fall short of the glory of God. You surely want your pastor to be a good person, wouldn't you? Well, yeah, but I want you to realize that you're a sinner. Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you, but it's not going to happen. Yeah, Tracy. I don't know, this keeps coming back to me, teaching in Awana. The TNT books, if anybody can get their hands on TNT books, and anybody in here has questions, just basic questions, it answers it, it gives biblical references, and helps you learn why did God give us the Bible. What am I supposed to do with that? It's historically correct, that's why. You can check your facts. He gave us the Bible so we can know how to live. All these basic questions, what does God want me to do with the Bible and my family? All these simple things that really, I mean, we all think about. Those are some great books, and that's a good resource if anybody had time to look through those books. Yeah, they're excellent. Of course, we try to always use That's that's the whole point of everything that we do is to get those answers out there. Carl basic Bible truth one five one hour classes per private fuel if you allow us to take you through that course every question you've got to be answered in full. My last question is if God's love is infinite then why can't you love all of us. He does. That's why he sent his son to die for all of us. And I guess, do angels come into your life and try to push you back to God, or if you're lost your way? In a sense, yes. Because the word angel in the Bible means messenger. In Revelation, the pastors of those seven churches are called angels, and it simply means they're the messengers. The messenger that God sends, sometimes it's back to God, sometimes it's to God for the first time. First of all there is no falling away from the Lord once you're saved. You can't lose it. You can't. It doesn't happen. It never happened. Never will happen. Whether you're out of fellowship with God and you're reestablishing that or whether there's a need of a first time genuine relationship that the scriptures and only the scriptures can show you. and that's one of the things we do in basic Bible truth take you to let you see that in the scriptures for yourself and you'll know exactly where you are for sure and a lot of testimony to that guy right behind you was one that he was wanting to come back to God but anyway it'll it'll make a huge difference you get one right here that accepted Jesus into his heart twice at age seven eight thirteen and was saved until I was 45. See, this is one of the things, Carl, that we're talking about here. The subtlety. All the different things that are said, all of the different things people are told to do. Ask Jesus into your heart, for example. How would you do that? I mean, is there a scripture in the Bible that says to do that? There's not. There's no scripture there. There's no scripture that tells you to ask anything to be saved. Anywhere in the scriptures. Yet it's preached over and over and over you can't turn on the TV without somebody preaching that. Well that's it's Saturday you know or whatever but you're going to hear that every time. But what does the Bible really say. Those are the things that each individual needs to see firsthand for themselves. If I tell you. Well no you need to do this to be saved. I'm just one of a dozen. It says told you well he told me this he told me this and then now you're telling me this and so where's the authority there. But if I open the scriptures and I show you in context of scripture and you see it for yourself about fifteen twenty times you know that God's not you know you're not going to say something twenty times and then change his mind later then you know for sure what God says and you act upon it. That's why these people are saying you'll never be the same. There won't be any falling away and coming back there won't be any change in I've never seen anyone who's gone through this process and this is the way God said it's got to be we go to teach them that has ever afterwards doubted that they're safe. Not even one time. I mean that's pretty that's a pretty good track record but anyway that's available to you and we'll talk more about it later if you're interested. Adam told Eve he said don't eat of it and don't touch it. That had to have happened then say did it but it had to have happened for her to say that when Satan Satan comes along and he says Did God say you should not eat of every tree of the garden. On woman said Yeah we can eat the trees of the garden but that one over there. God has said you shall not eat of it neither shall you touch it lest you die. Did God say that. Eve said this is what God said did God say that. Now God didn't say that he said don't eat of it. It wasn't God that told Eve it was Adam. Now can't you just I would just paint a picture for you got to serpent here. Here's the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. By the way he had arms and legs and I suppose because he wasn't he wasn't cursed on his belly. Yeah. Eve has God said you shouldn't. Eat of every fruit of the tree of the garden? Because Adam didn't tell her necessarily. I mean, they're sitting there talking about this tree, and this guy's, I can just see him leaning on the tree, touching the tree. Well, obviously, that must not be true. You don't see me falling down dead here, do you? No, he's sly. God didn't say you can't touch it. He said you don't eat of it. I don't know that that's what happened, but I know how he works. And that's exactly how he works. Well, looky here. I'll slap you on the forehead and you'll just get healed. I must be of God. It's just this. But subtlety, a little truth mixed in with a lie. That's it. I mean, just, you know, excuse me, a little lie mixed in with a lot of truth, usually. Very seldom, very seldom does Satan become blatant with his deception. It's almost always just a little mixture, just a little living, living it to the whole lump. If salvation is not by works, and I preach, well, you're going to need a little works. And well if you're saying you could lose your salvation. If you're saying well how much sin. If we all say and have we all lost our no no no just. Well how big a sin does it got to be. Well what sense is it. None of that makes any sense at all. But thousands and thousands multitudes of people are dependent on their goodness. Oh, they were believing in Jesus, right? Well, we'll get into that a little bit more. Aren't you glad you know the truth? Amen. Aren't you glad you're free? Amen. You can still walk around with sucker tattooed on your forehead if you listen to too much outside the word of God, but we do know the truth. Amen? Amen.