Like Adam and Eve, we live in a broken world - as strangers in the devil's realm

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00:00 - hey guys so today we are picking up
00:03 - in lesson two of our study of the
00:05 - satanic rebellion series
00:07 - in particular part four talking about
00:09 - satan’s world system
00:11 - so this week we are going to go through
00:13 - the introduction section of the study
00:16 - which kind of discusses adam and eve and
00:18 - their situation
00:20 - and then how we compare to them as a
00:22 - method of framing what we are going to
00:24 - be talking about for the rest of the
00:26 - study
00:27 - so here is the outline of the points
00:30 - that we are going to be going through
00:32 - today
00:32 - so first we’re going to be talking about
00:34 - the title of the introduction
00:36 - which includes this concept of satan’s
00:38 - rebellion and fall
00:40 - and perhaps why this is in the title of
00:42 - the introduction even though not much
00:44 - time is spent on it
00:45 - in the body of the introduction then
00:47 - we’re going to go through
00:48 - what the introduction to the study
00:50 - actually talks about
00:52 - which is the life that adam and eve
00:54 - lived after the fall
00:56 - and then our situation and how it is
00:58 - parallel to that
00:59 - so we’re going to talk about the
01:01 - contrast between pre-fall paradise and
01:03 - post-fall realities
01:05 - god’s promise of deliverance so that
01:07 - applies to adam and eve
01:08 - in context but also us and then talk
01:11 - about
01:12 - how we are now in our practical life
01:15 - circumstances
01:16 - versus how they were after they were
01:18 - evicted from the garden of eden
01:20 - after this we’re going to go ahead and
01:23 - outline the first big section in the
01:26 - study
01:26 - which is titled strangers in the devil’s
01:28 - realm so this week
01:30 - we will just be going over the
01:34 - points in this section at a very high
01:37 - level so we are going to introduce these
01:39 - points
01:40 - and then in future weeks we are going to
01:42 - come back and hit all of these things
01:44 - in much more depth so as i mentioned
01:47 - even though the introduction of the
01:50 - study that we are going through here in
01:51 - sr4
01:52 - doesn’t really talk too much explicitly
01:54 - about satan’s rebellion and fall
01:56 - i want to talk about why this is
01:58 - actually in the title of the
01:59 - introduction
02:00 - and perhaps why in our study here
02:04 - satan’s rebellion is mentioned even
02:06 - before we talk about anything else
02:08 - so this might seem a little bit
02:11 - confusing
02:11 - um inasmuch as the introduction itself
02:14 - as we will examine
02:16 - in the coming minutes mostly talks about
02:19 - how we compare to adam and eve then and
02:21 - now if you will
02:23 - while i certainly can’t speak for dr
02:25 - logan bill my guess as to why
02:27 - this is the leading point in the title
02:30 - of the introduction
02:31 - is just because this is the wider
02:32 - context of the whole series
02:34 - so the series that this particular study
02:36 - is in is called the satanic rebellion
02:38 - series
02:39 - and so in terms of this series it is the
02:42 - first segment of the study
02:44 - that actually talks about satan’s
02:45 - initial state and then his fall
02:48 - however today um we are going to be
02:51 - going
02:51 - through uh the outline of the first
02:55 - section in this study dealing with how
02:57 - we actually live in this present world
02:59 - um so the reason why this would be
03:02 - included then is
03:04 - for a manner of context so if
03:07 - our existence is a war on a battlefield
03:10 - then
03:11 - this creation turned into a battlefield
03:13 - at the point when satan rebelled against
03:15 - god
03:16 - at the point when he lifted his hand
03:17 - against his creator and so
03:19 - as we’ll see on the next slide it really
03:22 - is sort of
03:23 - a method of framing everything that we
03:25 - go through here
03:26 - to just keep in the back of our heads
03:28 - that
03:29 - the chain of causality leading to where
03:31 - we are today
03:33 - was kicked off in creature history by
03:35 - satan’s initial rebellion
03:37 - so just as we are sort of starting in
03:40 - mediastress here in the study so
03:42 - into the middle of things we are born
03:44 - into this world in the middle of a grand
03:46 - spiritual conflict
03:48 - that greatly transcends our own
03:49 - individual lives so what i mean by that
03:52 - is that while it may be very easy for us
03:54 - to get focused on
03:55 - our personal circumstances or the things
03:58 - in our lives
03:59 - specifically we as christians are
04:01 - actually
04:02 - born into this world being part of
04:05 - a battle raging between god and satan
04:07 - that has been going on
04:08 - ever since satan rebelled against god a
04:11 - very long time ago
04:12 - so the beginning of this narrative and
04:15 - this narrative
04:16 - this story if you will will end with
04:19 - satan’s complete and total defeat at the
04:21 - end of this present creation
04:23 - and then the establishment of a new
04:24 - glorious universe
04:26 - where only righteousness and uprightness
04:28 - dwells
04:29 - god dwelling with us as men and also
04:32 - angels in perfect unity
04:34 - so this story started all that long time
04:36 - ago
04:37 - when satan who was the preeminent
04:39 - guardian angel of god’s holiness
04:42 - vainly thought in his mind to usurp
04:44 - god’s place
04:45 - on the throne of the universe and so
04:48 - all that time ago was when the rebellion
04:51 - kicked off
04:52 - and when the universe positionally
04:54 - became broken
04:55 - this separation between perfect god and
04:58 - our present creation
05:00 - now the earlier parts in the satanic
05:03 - rebellion series so we are
05:05 - in part four right now but the earlier
05:07 - parts get us
05:08 - from there so satan’s initial fall
05:11 - to the genesis gap that’s what the
05:14 - second part talks about so god’s
05:15 - judgment
05:16 - of the fallen universe after satan’s
05:18 - rebellion and then
05:20 - the creation of man in part three
05:23 - talking about
05:24 - man’s purpose in this wider conflict and
05:27 - of course we’re in part four
05:28 - but part five will take us even further
05:30 - by outlining
05:31 - god’s plan for human history in terms of
05:34 - the seven millennial days
05:35 - and this includes how the rest of
05:38 - history
05:39 - past where we are at present will unfold
05:42 - however
05:42 - what we’re talking about right here in
05:44 - the study is an examination of how satan
05:47 - exerts his control
05:48 - over the world so this is kind of where
05:51 - the rubber hits the road for us as
05:52 - christians at present
05:54 - because we are studying what the world
05:56 - is really like for us
05:57 - now today and with all this said
06:00 - we are spending time talking about this
06:02 - up front here
06:04 - and we will continue to re-examine it
06:06 - just because this wider context
06:08 - so the echoes of satan’s initial
06:10 - rebellion and fall that
06:11 - set the world into motion how it is now
06:14 - and then also just in general this
06:16 - idea that existence is playing out on a
06:19 - grand spiritual stage
06:21 - you know there are elements in play much
06:23 - larger than us
06:24 - in the background um we as we keep these
06:27 - things in mind
06:28 - uh it can help us in the study because
06:31 - keeping that big picture in our heads
06:33 - can be one of the best way for one of
06:35 - the best ways for us
06:37 - to see through some of the illusions
06:39 - that the world puts before us
06:41 - so having now talked a little bit about
06:44 - why this might be in the title of the
06:45 - introduction
06:46 - and why we should keep the wider context
06:48 - of satan’s rebellion and fall in mind
06:51 - not only as we talk about these things
06:52 - today but also as we move forward from
06:55 - week to week
06:56 - now we’ll actually get into the section
06:59 - of what is in the introduction
07:01 - to this study so if we go there here in
07:04 - from that table of contents link you can
07:07 - see that this
07:07 - is the first part of the study and
07:10 - there’s several paragraphs here
07:11 - and i’ve broken them out into slides to
07:13 - make the content easier for us to look
07:16 - at things one at a time but the
07:18 - introduction primarily deals
07:20 - with how adam and eve lived after the
07:24 - fall
07:25 - and how that compares to the
07:26 - circumstances that we now find ourselves
07:28 - in
07:29 - so these are the points that we’re going
07:32 - to hit
07:33 - because these are the things the
07:34 - introduction mostly talks about
07:36 - so the first thing is going to be the
07:37 - contrast between pre-fall paradise in
07:40 - the garden of eden
07:41 - and post-fall realities after they were
07:44 - evicted from the garden
07:45 - god’s promise of deliverance so this is
07:48 - through the prophecy
07:49 - in genesis 3 15 which we’ll get to when
07:51 - we actually talk about this
07:53 - and then the so-called proto-evangelium
07:56 - or the first gospel
07:57 - when god gave adam and eve skins of
08:00 - animals
08:00 - to clothes themselves well this blood
08:03 - sacrifice
08:04 - foreshadows christ’s death for us on the
08:07 - cross that ultimately saves us from our
08:09 - sins
08:10 - and then finally we’re going to talk
08:11 - about how their situation
08:13 - um as the points that we make up here
08:16 - compares to how we find ourselves living
08:18 - in this broken and fallen world
08:20 - even up until this day so this first
08:23 - point
08:23 - talking about the pre-fall paradise
08:26 - versus post-fall realities
08:28 - mostly centers on the things that
08:30 - changed after adam and eve found
08:32 - themselves
08:33 - out of the perfect garden so one thing
08:36 - that changed
08:37 - is rather than having everything
08:38 - provided for them and
08:40 - living this life of leisure
08:43 - everything suddenly started requiring
08:46 - them to work
08:47 - so instead of abundant prosperity ready
08:50 - at hand
08:51 - they had entered a world of limitation
08:53 - shortage and scarcity
08:55 - and instead of a world where all their
08:57 - needs were instantly provided for
08:59 - without any effort on their part
09:01 - now back-breaking toil was necessary for
09:03 - survival
09:05 - so these are elements of the so-called
09:08 - genesis curse placed upon man after
09:11 - adam and eve disobeyed god
09:15 - and were subsequently kicked out of the
09:17 - garden of eden
09:18 - so aside from having to work and toil on
09:21 - this earth
09:23 - our ancient parents would now also
09:26 - experience for the first time
09:28 - all of the destructive and sinful
09:29 - emotions like
09:31 - fear jealousy and hostility because now
09:34 - life was suddenly no longer perfect for
09:36 - them
09:37 - and of course as early chapters in
09:39 - genesis make clear
09:41 - the domestic tranquility so the the
09:44 - peace between men
09:45 - as it were would soon become shattered
09:48 - as
09:49 - kane murdered his brother abel out of
09:51 - jealousy
09:52 - and resentment and so all of these
09:54 - things
09:55 - are coming together to show the very
09:58 - different picture
09:59 - of how life in this world operated
10:02 - after the fall as opposed to how it was
10:05 - before the fall
10:06 - and to top all of this off after
10:10 - this life of pain and toil and now all
10:13 - these other negative things
10:14 - that we face well after all this adam
10:17 - and eve would now experience physical
10:19 - death
10:20 - this is the consequence of eating that
10:22 - fruit of the sin and separation from god
10:25 - which is a form of immediate spiritual
10:28 - death for us
10:29 - but our parents would now also face
10:32 - physical death so after going through
10:35 - all of these hard things
10:36 - life sort of robs you of any meaning
10:40 - by not letting you take anything with
10:42 - you so you work for all of these things
10:45 - and then you cannot take anything out of
10:48 - this world
10:50 - all right so the second point made in
10:52 - this section
10:53 - is that even despite all of this god did
10:55 - not leave adam and eve as orphans on the
10:57 - earth
10:58 - completely bereft of all hope and
11:00 - separate from him
11:01 - so in the first judgment that rendered
11:04 - our first parents mortal
11:05 - that condemned them to die a physical
11:09 - death
11:09 - out of their separation from god god
11:12 - also promised them
11:13 - in the prophecy of genesis 3 15 the seed
11:16 - who would one day crush the head of the
11:17 - serpent who had deceit them
11:19 - so we’re going to go ahead and read
11:20 - genesis 3 15 here
11:22 - and i will put enmity between you and
11:24 - the woman and between your seed and her
11:26 - seed
11:27 - he shall bruise you on the head and you
11:28 - shall bruise him on the heel
11:31 - so this prophecy was fulfilled on the
11:33 - cross
11:34 - when jesus christ defeated death
11:38 - and redeemed us our fallen humanity
11:42 - back to god uh mending the rift
11:45 - caused by the initial fall of adam and
11:48 - eve
11:49 - so that humans have now been reconciled
11:52 - to god
11:53 - and the sacrifice here that
11:57 - god speaks of you know the the
11:58 - fulfillment of jesus crushing satan’s
12:01 - head
12:02 - actually also shows up in genesis
12:05 - foreshadowed
12:06 - by the clothes that god gave adam and
12:08 - eve after they recognize their nakedness
12:11 - and the giving of the clothes is often
12:13 - called the proto-evangelium
12:14 - which literally translates as first
12:17 - gospel
12:18 - so god gives them these clothes to
12:21 - replace their own inadequate efforts and
12:24 - this represents
12:26 - symbolically the sacrifice that jesus
12:29 - would come to make for us on the cross
12:31 - by dying in our place
12:32 - and so before adam and eve even left
12:34 - eden so even though
12:36 - they had sinned and were now subject to
12:38 - god’s judgment upon them
12:40 - and faced these these curses of
12:43 - toil and physical death god had already
12:46 - given them
12:47 - a new tree of life as it were to replace
12:49 - the one that they had
12:51 - voluntarily forsaken and so that would
12:53 - be
12:54 - the cross of jesus christ foreshadowed
12:56 - in the two ways that we’ve just talked
12:58 - about
12:58 - that will or not will already has
13:02 - given us humans the chance for eternal
13:04 - life if we just accept
13:06 - what god has already done for us and so
13:09 - adam and eve only had to accept god’s
13:12 - generous offer of grace
13:14 - trusting him for their deliverance after
13:17 - they would face physical death because
13:20 - physical death is now the reality after
13:21 - the fall
13:23 - that cannot be avoided in this world so
13:26 - this was the state that adam and eve
13:29 - found themselves in
13:30 - after the fall but for us life hasn’t
13:32 - actually changed all that much
13:34 - in the 6 000 years or so since then um
13:37 - the critical issue for every human being
13:40 - is identical now to what it was
13:41 - then we must all choose whether or not
13:44 - to accept through faith
13:45 - god’s solution to the problem of sin and
13:47 - death
13:48 - in the person of jesus christ and what
13:50 - he’s done for us on the cross
13:52 - moreover just as adam and eve were left
13:55 - in the world beyond the point of faith
13:58 - so also we today are not immediately
14:00 - transferred
14:01 - to our heavenly home after salvation but
14:03 - remain here in the world to prove our
14:05 - faith
14:05 - to grow in it and to help others do the
14:07 - same and so that is to say
14:10 - after being kicked out of eden adam and
14:12 - eve
14:13 - were not immediately taken up to heaven
14:15 - after believing nor were they
14:16 - immediately killed on the spot
14:18 - but they were given a chance to live out
14:21 - the remainder of their lives
14:23 - trusting god in faith to demonstrate
14:25 - that they did trust him
14:27 - to that they did trust the promises that
14:30 - he had given them
14:31 - and so this is kind of going to tie us
14:34 - all of this discussion that we’ve
14:36 - talked about adam and eve and their
14:37 - situation and how our situation today
14:40 - is still actually really parallel
14:42 - because we still live in the same broken
14:44 - world
14:46 - now we’re now going to kind of tie that
14:47 - into where we’re going to be going
14:49 - for the next few weeks in the study so
14:51 - i’m just going to go ahead and read this
14:53 - um this paragraph here which kind of
14:55 - comes at the end of the introduction
14:57 - so thus as followers of god and
15:00 - believers in jesus christ
15:01 - we can be forgiven for feeling ill at
15:04 - ease in this present world where we are
15:05 - scarcely even seen to be long
15:07 - for it is not a place where the
15:09 - knowledge of god abounds and the will of
15:10 - god is always done
15:12 - on the contrary this perilous world
15:14 - through which we pass
15:15 - lies largely under the influence of the
15:17 - evil one
15:18 - and so last week i had brought up this
15:21 - uh verse in ephesians chapter two in the
15:24 - questions and answers video
15:26 - um as support that satan really is the
15:29 - ruler of this world
15:30 - um and this section actually mentions
15:32 - first john
15:33 - chapter 5 verse 19 which actually states
15:35 - it even more explicitly um this was just
15:37 - the cross reference i happen to remember
15:39 - off the top of my
15:40 - head but we know that the whole world
15:43 - lies in the power of the evil one so
15:44 - it’s not just
15:45 - bits of the world it’s the whole world
15:48 - and so with this in mind
15:50 - just how adam and eve found themselves
15:53 - in this fallen broken world after they
15:56 - were evicted from the garden
15:57 - this world now under the control of
15:59 - satan so too do we find ourselves there
16:02 - and just as adam and eve no doubt
16:06 - felt alienated from this world as if
16:08 - they did not belong in it because
16:10 - it is only our temporary home until we
16:13 - go to be with our creator
16:15 - so too will we now find ourselves as
16:17 - strangers in this land
16:19 - and that’s what we’re going to talk
16:20 - about in the next section
16:22 - and probably for the next few weeks in
16:24 - the study
16:25 - all right so as i mentioned this is the
16:27 - first big point
16:28 - that we are going to be going through in
16:30 - the study this idea that we as
16:31 - christians are strangers
16:33 - in the devil’s realm um and so as you
16:35 - can see here
16:36 - we have some sub points to this section
16:38 - and so these
16:39 - are the things that we are going to be
16:41 - going over now this week
16:43 - just due to time constraints and just
16:45 - because this is going to be an
16:46 - introduction
16:47 - i’m just going to go over the
16:49 - subsections at a high level
16:50 - so the things that we’re going to go
16:51 - over are how we are soldiers in the
16:53 - devil’s world
16:55 - uh the vanity of life the hostility of
16:57 - the world
16:58 - the battlefield we now find ourselves on
17:00 - spiritually and then the enemy
17:02 - which is to say satan so the first of
17:05 - these sub-sections
17:06 - is talking about the concept of us as
17:08 - sojourners in the devil’s world
17:10 - so just like adam and eve before us as
17:12 - we just talked about
17:14 - we’ve been left in this strange and
17:16 - alien world
17:17 - where the blinding reality of god is
17:19 - largely obscured from view
17:21 - revealed almost exclusively in his word
17:23 - to those who seek him out
17:25 - so until the time that god comes again
17:29 - and redeems us in the world in total
17:31 - victory over satan
17:33 - we wait for something better as homeless
17:35 - wanderers in a world which finds our
17:37 - perspective and our hope worthless
17:39 - even foolish or idiotic so the belief we
17:42 - have in jesus christ
17:44 - what sets us apart from unbelievers may
17:46 - seem to all the world
17:47 - badness but nonetheless the world will
17:50 - not accept us as its own
17:52 - because we truly do not belong here our
17:54 - hearts
17:55 - are with the kingdom of god which is not
17:58 - of this present world
17:59 - so we will always find ourselves
18:01 - alienated from the world
18:02 - and living as strangers and foreigners
18:04 - here right second high level point in
18:06 - this section is talking about the vanity
18:08 - of life
18:09 - um and so we mentioned when talking
18:12 - about the effects of the curse that
18:14 - we now toil because of the the genesis
18:17 - curse we now
18:18 - have to break our our backs to earn our
18:20 - bread
18:21 - so to speak but even after all that
18:24 - at the end of our lives no man can
18:27 - escape death
18:28 - so we work and we work for what
18:32 - to face physical death at the end of our
18:34 - lives as an unavoidable reality
18:36 - and so this this existential
18:39 - pointlessness if you will
18:41 - is something that we now face in life
18:44 - because we can’t escape our own
18:46 - sinfulness and we can’t escape
18:48 - death and so this is
18:51 - the effect here um in the verse that
18:54 - comes right after the promise that god
18:55 - gave
18:56 - god lays down the effects
18:59 - that are going to come from the fall and
19:02 - so it is just as we’ve said here
19:04 - that we now must work and that our lives
19:07 - will be
19:08 - difficult and short and then we perish
19:10 - after that
19:12 - facing a perfect god with our own
19:13 - sinfulness and so this idea
19:16 - of a difficult life upon which you can’t
19:19 - escape death this
19:20 - is the vanity of life that is under
19:23 - discussion in this point
19:24 - and there’s there’s more as well of
19:26 - course the book of ecclesiastes talks
19:28 - about
19:28 - other pointlessness in the world such as
19:31 - when you die
19:32 - you don’t necessarily choose whom your
19:34 - wealth goes to or
19:36 - maybe not everything goes how you want
19:38 - in life there are uncontrollable things
19:39 - out of your control but
19:41 - primarily here we have our focus on
19:44 - the effects of the fall and what that
19:46 - means for us
19:48 - in terms of life being essentially vain
19:51 - and pointless
19:52 - because all of us will eventually face
19:56 - physical death all right so the third
19:58 - point here so we talked about
20:00 - how we are essentially sojourners and
20:02 - aliens in this strange
20:04 - world controlled by the devil and the
20:06 - essential vanity of life
20:07 - because we all face death as an
20:10 - unavoidable reality
20:11 - so the third point is talking about the
20:13 - hostility of the world
20:14 - and so anyone who’s been watching the
20:16 - other series we have going on
20:18 - peripoteology will know that we’ve been
20:20 - talking about life as a
20:22 - spiritual battlefield and basically the
20:24 - world treating us as enemies but we’ve
20:26 - been on that subject for a long time in
20:28 - that study
20:29 - um but if we but turn towards god
20:34 - having been reconciled to him through
20:36 - jesus christ
20:39 - we will unavoidably be alienated from
20:41 - the world
20:42 - and we cannot in any way serve two
20:45 - masters
20:46 - so either we are friends of god or
20:48 - friends of the world and this verse from
20:50 - james chapter 4 so james 4 4 says this
20:53 - very explicitly that friendship with the
20:54 - world is hostility towards god
20:56 - therefore whoever wishes to be a friend
20:58 - of the world makes himself an enemy of
21:00 - god
21:00 - it truly is that black and white and on
21:03 - the flip side
21:04 - if we consider ourselves friends of god
21:06 - we will earn the world’s hostility
21:09 - um jesus talks about this in john
21:11 - chapter 15.
21:12 - i believe it picks up in verse 18 that
21:14 - talks about this as
21:16 - just previously mentioned in that other
21:18 - study we’ve been talking about
21:19 - this point very specifically as well
21:21 - life for us as christians
21:23 - as a spiritual battlefield and so beyond
21:27 - our alienation from the world beyond its
21:29 - essential futility
21:30 - and even beyond the enmity that is
21:32 - between
21:33 - the world and us this world is also a
21:36 - battlefield where the struggle between
21:38 - satan’s present kingdom
21:40 - and the coming kingdom of heaven
21:41 - continues to be played out in deadly
21:43 - earnest
21:44 - so this is the wider spiritual conflict
21:47 - behind everything that happens in this
21:49 - world
21:50 - and we would do well to remember that
21:52 - this is the case that we
21:54 - are in a fight in this life we are in a
21:58 - constant struggle
21:59 - and that that is actually
22:02 - the sort of mindset that we should adopt
22:05 - as we move forward
22:06 - so we have no chance to catch our breath
22:09 - no time to rest because we are fighting
22:12 - for
22:13 - our spiritual lives as christians in
22:15 - this world
22:17 - okay so last high level point that we’re
22:19 - going to go over here introducing
22:21 - the points that we will be talking about
22:23 - in this section on
22:24 - us as strangers in the devil’s realm is
22:27 - the idea of satan
22:28 - as our enemy so having been evicted from
22:31 - the family of god and cast down to rule
22:33 - this kingdom of dust
22:34 - but only for a short time because the
22:37 - lake of fire is always positionally
22:39 - imminent
22:40 - for satan well given all of this of
22:42 - course satan is going to be anything but
22:44 - friendly towards those of us who follow
22:46 - god
22:47 - so as we humans continue to replace him
22:50 - and his followers in the family of god
22:52 - it actually would be quite strange if
22:55 - satan did not pour out his wrath upon us
22:57 - like a boxton animal raging against the
22:59 - end it knows is coming
23:01 - so satan knows that his end is sealed
23:04 - and the time is short for him and so
23:07 - just as cornered animals
23:09 - become all the more vicious in that so
23:12 - too does satan
23:13 - pour out his wrath upon us in the world
23:15 - and so in fact
23:17 - in the not so distant future god will
23:19 - put down
23:20 - satan before or forever
23:23 - but in the meantime we as believers in
23:25 - this world will face his wrath
23:27 - and this is actually completely
23:28 - unavoidable because we are a target that
23:31 - satan can actually
23:32 - touch in this world although not without
23:35 - god limiting
23:36 - what he can do to us substantially
23:39 - all right so that is our high level
23:42 - introduction
23:42 - to what we will be talking about in the
23:44 - coming weeks this section on how we are
23:46 - strangers in the devil’s world
23:48 - so we will come back and talk about all
23:49 - these points in more depth
23:51 - but today we just gave just a a couple
23:54 - sentences overview for each of these
23:57 - about
23:57 - the points that we will be going over in
24:00 - the time to come
24:02 - so today we started by talking about how
24:05 - it is good and useful for us to keep
24:07 - satan’s rebellion and fall
24:08 - in the back of our head as we talk only
24:11 - not about this section but just most of
24:13 - the
24:13 - satanic rebellion series in general
24:15 - because that is the wider context
24:18 - the thing that’s set in motion the
24:20 - present state of the universe
24:22 - after that we talked about the actual
24:24 - introduction to this study
24:25 - which dealt with using the example of
24:28 - adam and eve
24:30 - in their state after being kicked out of
24:32 - the garden
24:33 - as a framing example for us in our own
24:36 - lives and how we face the same things
24:38 - that they faced after being kicked out
24:40 - of paradise so
24:42 - specifically we talked about all of the
24:44 - realities
24:45 - and the negative things that adam and
24:46 - eve faced after the fall
24:49 - we talked about god’s promise of
24:50 - deliverance as
24:52 - given in the prophecy in genesis 3 15
24:55 - and also as foreshadowed by the robes of
24:58 - animals
24:59 - that god gave to adam and eve the
25:01 - so-called proto-evangelium
25:03 - and then we talked about how we are sort
25:06 - of in
25:07 - the same parallel situation that they
25:09 - found themselves in so the same
25:10 - spiritual realities that held back then
25:13 - namely that we face a life of sin and
25:15 - then inevitable death
25:17 - bringing us face to face with the
25:18 - creator well that still holds for us
25:21 - to this day and then after all this we
25:24 - went through
25:25 - the high level points in the
25:28 - first section in the study talking about
25:31 - our identity as strangers in the devil’s
25:32 - world
25:33 - so that is what we did today and next
25:36 - time we will pick up
25:37 - talking about this first point
25:39 - sojourners in the devil
25:40 - devil’s world in a great deal more depth