The Great Rebellion

Notes

Verses

{In the beginning God… Genesis 1:1 NLT}{In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth… Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them… And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. Genesis 1:1, 26-27, 31 NIV}{You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. Psalm 139:13-14 NLT}{Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.
Genesis 2:25 NLT}{The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”

“Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,” the woman replied. “It’s only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God said, ‘You must not eat it or even touch it; if you do, you will die.’”

“You won’t die!” the serpent replied to the woman. “God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be like God, knowing both good and evil.”

The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too. At that moment their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they sewed fig leaves Genesis 3:1-7 NLT}{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. Then the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” He replied, “I heard you walking in the garden, so I hid. I was afraid because I was naked.” “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?... And 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.
Genesis 3:8-10,15 NLT}{Christ suffered for our sins once for all time. He never sinned, but he died for sinners to bring you safely home to God.
1 Peter 3:18 NLT}

Quotes

G.K. Chesterton : I had always felt life first as a story – and if there is a story there is a story teller. (); Daniel Taylor : Our stories tell us who we are, why we are here, and what we are to do. They give us our best answers to all of life’s biggest questions, and to most of the small ones as well. (Tell Me a Story: The Life-Shaping Power of Our Stories); John Eldredge : Life does not come to us like a math problem. It comes to us the way that a story does, scene by scene. Life unfolds like a drama. Each day has a beginning and an end. There are all sorts of characters, all sorts of settings. Sometimes it seems like a tragedy. Sometimes like a comedy. Most of it feels like a soap opera. (Epic); Samwise Gamgee : I wonder what sort of tale we’ve fallen into? (Lord of the Rings); William Kilpatrick : The same impulse that makes us want our books to have a plot makes us want our lives to have a plot. We need to feel that we are getting somewhere, making progress. There is something in us that is not satisfied with a merely psychological explanation of our lives. The central question for us should not be, 'What personality dynamics explain my behavior?' but rather, 'What sort of story am I in?' (Why Johnny Can’t Tell Right from Wrong); Tim Keller : The whole story of the world – and how we fit into it – is most clearly understood through a careful, direct look at the story of Jesus… how beautifully His life makes sense of ours. (Kings Cross); Rick Warren : You were made for God, not vice versa, and life is about letting God use you for His purposes, not you using Him for your own purposes. (Purpose Driven Life); Justin Buzzard : If you don’t find your identity in what God says, in His words, you’ll be forced to build it upon what other people say about you – you’ll try to prove that you’re ‘very good.’ (The BIG Story); C.S. Lewis : One of the things that surprised me when I first read the New Testament seriously was that it talked so much about a Dark Power in the universe—a mighty evil spirit who was held to be the Power behind death and disease, and sin… Christianity thinks this Dark Power was created by God, and was good when he was created, and went wrong… Christianity agrees… this world is at war.
(Mere Christianity ); C.S. Lewis : What Satan put into the heads of our remote ancestors was the idea that they could 'be like gods'—could set up on their own as if they had created themselves...invent some sort of happiness for themselves outside God, apart from God. And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
(Mere Christianity );