Every lie, every broken relationship, every disease, every death—Genesis 3 is where it all traces back, and calling it “the fall” doesn’t come close to doing it justice. What went wrong in that garden wasn’t just a mistake; it was a cosmic tragedy, and the question God asks in the wreckage of it has a way of landing personally.
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Where did we lose our way? Our story, born in the light, it was perfect. But we wanted more. Separated from the light, surrounded by darkness. From a garden of intimacy to the fiery kilns of Egypt. But he remembers the promise—the voice in the fire. The nation born in chains, the plagues, the blood. Stand still and watch the sea part.
Well, Harvester, so good to see you. We are in week two of a 20-week series, so super glad that you are here. You’re going to need two things as we walk through this series. The first one is a Bible. If you’ve got a Bible at all of our campuses, go ahead and hold it up. Hold it high. If someone doesn’t have a Bible next to you, hit them in the head with yours. Let them know, bring your Bible next time.
Hey, whether it’s a paper Bible or a digital Bible, grab your Bibles and open up to Genesis chapter three. It’s going to be at the beginning of your Bibles. The other thing you’re going to need with you is your guidebook. Everybody got their guidebook finally? Yeah, got one? We ran out last week, so we got some more available. These are available in the lobby for four bucks. If you’ve got this, you can open up to page 14. That’s where our notes are going to be. This is going to be a valuable resource over the next 20 weeks. Make sure you’re bringing that with you as well.
Now, this is week two. If you were not here for week one, let me catch you up on what we talked about week one. God made everything. That was week one. It took me 40-some minutes to say it last week, but that’s essentially what it was. God made everything, and He made everything, and it was beautiful. It was a beautiful beginning.
When you look at Genesis chapter one and two, it really is a beautiful beginning to what God did. The Bible begins with God, and He is the main character. This is His story. This is what He hopes to accomplish in His creation, and He created everything in creation. The Bible begins with Him in His glory. It begins with Him in His sovereignty. It begins with Him in all of His goodness. And it begins with Him beautifully crafting and creating everything.
Like this master artist, purposefully and intentionally speaking things into existence and making things beautiful. He brings order out of chaos. He inserts light into darkness. He fills all of creation with beauty and life. And then He gets to the end of it. He looks at all that He’s created on days one through six, and He calls it very good. It is very good what He’s done. He’s like, man, I am good at my job. I’m really good at this. And He has all this value in it.
And then He does something else on day six. He doesn’t just create the nature. He then begins to create His masterpiece. And He does so with His hands this time. He crafts and He forms humanity, and He breathes His breath into humanity. And He gives it value and dignity. It says that mankind is made in His image to reflect Him, His character, His heart.
And then mankind, He says, I’m gonna give you a job. Everything that I’ve created, I’m gonna put it in your hands to care for and to tend. We’re gonna do this together. We’re gonna work together to bring my glory to everything that I’ve created.
And Genesis 1 and 2, it really is beautiful because we’ve got God, humanity, and nature all in perfect harmony. Nothing is wrong. There is only light and there is only delight. Light and delight because God is there and God is dwelling with His people. A beautiful beginning.
Now, if your Bible’s like mine, you just flip over a few pages and you get to Genesis chapter four. And things are just messed up. Messed up. Creation is in chaos now. It’s no longer very good. It’s very chaotic. The Garden of Eden, by this point, by the time you get to chapter four, the Garden of Eden is boarded up. There’s boards over the window. Adam and Eve have been evicted. They have children now. But one of their sons is on the run because he just murdered his brother.
Not only that, as this is going on, it says that this wickedness begins to spread to the heart of all mankind like a pandemic. It’s infecting every single human heart. It’s not goodness, it’s evil that’s ruling the day. It’s corruption. There’s darkness all over again, and this darkness is ruling the earth.
So what does God do about it? Well, you read a little bit farther on, and it says that He sends a flood to immerse the entire creation. To immerse the sin. To wipe away the sin and wipe everything else in its path. God’s starting over. But even after a fresh start, the humans who do exist, Noah and his family, the wickedness, the infection of the heart still exists in them. And they start over, but that infection is contagious and it goes to other people and other people and wickedness just begins to sprout weeds of wickedness. Wickedness upon wickedness.
There’s pride in the human heart. There’s aspirations of grandeur in the human heart. There’s envy and jealousy and evilness in the human heart. And then before long, the earth is repopulated and they gather together to build a tower in Babel, hoping to reach the heights of God themselves. They want to take their wickedness and put it in the place of God and His goodness.
And so God, He decides to, instead of this time flooding the earth, He decides just to scatter them across the earth. And so God scatters all of mankind. He confuses their language, and what once God called very good, He looks at and it just looks very bad.
What in the world happened? We’ve got a beautiful beginning. We’ve got creation in chaos. And then we have something that went wrong in the middle of it all.
What went wrong is obviously chapter 3, the fall. God creates everything beautiful. He makes everything good. And then He hands it to us and He says, rule over it all. And then in our hands, everything goes wrong. And then God stops and looks and says, this is why we can’t have nice things. I gave you something beautiful. I gave you something good. I put it in your hands and you ruined it. You ruined everything.
What I want to do today is look at Genesis chapter 3 and answer this question: What in God’s good name went wrong? Literally, what in God’s good name went wrong? Because things went really wrong.
It’s known as, if you look in your Bible, chapter 3, mine says it’s called the fall. Does yours say that above the number 3 there? The chapter’s known as the fall. But I don’t think that title does it justice for what actually happens. Because it makes it sound like Adam and Eve are carrying God’s good plan and it’s just like a whoops. And things weren’t bad.
It was much worse than just a trip. It was much worse than just a mistake. I think this chapter should be titled, A Cosmic Tragedy. A Cosmic Tragedy. It wasn’t just a fall. What happens here is a travesty. It’s a tragedy.
Everything wrong in the world that exists is rooted in this chapter. What happens in this chapter messes everything up, not just on that day, but on this day as well. Everything wrong within us comes from Genesis chapter 3. Everything wrong around us comes from Genesis chapter 3. Every lie, every injustice, every broken relationship, every disease, cancer, war, fear, failure, sorrow. Every death traces back to Genesis chapter 3.
It’s not just a fall. It’s a cosmic tragedy that happens here.
So what goes wrong? What goes wrong? Well, if we’re going to answer that question in Genesis chapter 3, we actually have to back up a little bit into Genesis chapter 2. Because what begins to turn wrong and the downturn begins with questioning the goodness of God. Questioning the goodness of God and what God has said.
So let’s go to Genesis chapter 2, starting with verse 15, and look at what God has said and what has been questioned. It says this: So the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden. Right now, everything’s wonderful. Everything’s great. Put man in the garden to work it and keep it.
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying this: You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat. For in the day that you eat of it, you shall surely die.
God gives him a command. He says, I’ve created this beautiful thing for us. And I want you to rule over it. And you can eat anything you want. The garden is just full of all kinds of fruit, all kinds of tree. It’s all yours for consumption. Delight in it. But there is one tree.
Stay away from that one. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Stay away from this one thing, but the rest of all of it, it’s yours.
We get to Genesis chapter 3, verses 1 to 4. And a new character is introduced into our story. This is a character who’s going to show up time and time again in the shadows of just about every story of the Bible. We’ve got God. We’ve got humans. And now we get the evil power, Satan, who’s introduced in the form of a serpent.
It says this: Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman,
Notice right off the bat what he’s doing. Satan, he comes to Adam and Eve, and he doesn’t do what we think he would do of saying, Hey, God doesn’t really exist. You should be an atheist. You should be a non-believer in God. Rarely does Satan try to convince us that God doesn’t exist.
What he tries to do is convince us that the God we know isn’t the God that exists. And so he begins to take the God that Adam and Eve knows, and he begins to twist and reform that God into his own image. And he asks them a simple question.
Why did God say you can’t eat of any of the trees in the garden? Notice what he’s doing. God didn’t say you can’t eat of any of the trees in the garden. He said you can delight in all of the trees of the garden except for this one.
Essentially what Satan is doing here is he’s asking this question to Eve: Is God keeping you from good things? It seems like this is really good. Why is he telling you you can’t have it? Is God keeping you from good things?
The woman, she responds to the serpent and says, Well, we may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden. But God said you shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden. And she’s referring to that tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And don’t touch it lest you die. That’s what God told us.
But the serpent replied back to the woman and said, You won’t surely die, will you? You won’t surely die, will you? Notice what he’s doing here. Now he’s saying, well, a good God seems like he’s restricting things from you, keeping things from you. But if he is a good God like you say he is, would a good God really punish you for eating fruit? I don’t think there would be any consequence to you disobeying God if he really is good.
We get the serpent introduced into this story. And we see this person and his character and his lies and deception show up time and time again through the rest of the scriptures. And not just in the scriptures, but I’ve got a feeling you’ve seen him show up in your life as well.
Notice the deception of the serpent here. There’s three things that I noticed right off the bat in this passage. He’s trying to do a few things. The first is this: He’s trying to convince Adam and Eve that God is too restricting.
That God has created all of this earth and all of its beauty and relationship and food and plant and all of this goodness, and then he’s going to try to keep you from it? If God made it, it must be good. So why not just have it? God is too restricting on you.
And if he was good, he would just let you have freedom.
Second thing he’s trying to say is there’s freedom outside of God. God wants you to have freedom. And if that’s the case, then you need to go outside of God to find it. In fact, here’s where you’re going to find freedom.
If you listen to me in my voice, I’ll show you what’s good and I’ll give you access to it. I’ll give you the freedom that you desire.
The third thing that he’s trying to do here is trying to convince them that sin has no consequence. Sin has no consequence. That there is no judgment for sin.
Satan will do this all the time. If God is good, then why would he care that you ate a piece of fruit? And since he is good, just do whatever you want and you’re not really going to die. You’re not really going to have any consequences.
This is the Satan’s deception time and time again. God is not good because he is too restricting. I can offer you something that God will not give you, and that’s freedom to experience the goodness of what God has created.
And three, there is no consequence for sin.
I wonder if maybe you have experienced this in your own journey where Satan’s trying to convince you that man, that thing that looks good and smells good and tastes good, why does God not want me to have that? I’m guessing Satan’s trying to convince you that if you just put aside your faith, put aside your belief in God, then you’ll find more freedom.
I wonder if he’s trying to convince you that well, there really is no consequence for sin, so just live your life however you want to and don’t worry about God because God’s not worried about it at all.
Satan is essentially asking Eve this question: Is God really good? I know in chapter one and two, he says that he’s sovereign, that he’s present and active, that he’s good and he’s right, that he desires to be with you, that he loves you. Is he really this way?
And as he’s asking that question, here’s what Eve should have done. She should have paused him for a moment and said, you know what? God walks in the garden with me. Let’s ask him. Let’s ask him.
Because what I’ve experienced is, man, he’s so good. I’ve walked with him. When my husband and I are walking through the garden, we’re eating the fruit and the fruit that he’s made is so good.
My husband and I, we’re walking through the garden and we feel this cold wind blow through the trees and we know that’s the presence of the Lord with us. And his presence does something in our heart where our heart jumps in delight. Our heart desires to be with him.
We sit on the banks of the river and we look at the water flowing and we see the trees and we see the mountains and we see the stars twinkling in the sky, and from my experience, it’s a good God. A good God who’s made this.
The commentator H.C. Leopold, he says this: The whole of creation formed a strong symphony of protest against any suspicion of God’s good will.
When you look at all that God has created, it stands in protest to the idea that God is not good. Have you ever gone to a riverbank and watched the river flow? Have you ever been to Colorado and seen the Rockies and the snow-capped mountains? Have you ever been in a place outside of the city where you could actually see the stars and all of their beauty? Have you ever sat on the edge of a cliff just looking out over trees? Have you ever been in Alaska and seen the bald eagles fly through and the salmon jumping out?
Have you ever been in one of those moments? I’m guessing you’ve never sat in one of those moments and asked this question: God, are you really good? No, every time you sit in those moments and you know the goodness of God. All of creation stands as a strong symphony against any protest of God’s goodness.
But that’s not what Eve said. In fact, what actually happened was the moment when everything broke.
Genesis chapter three verse six says this: When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes and that there was to be desire to make one wise, she took of its fruit and she ate. And she also gave some to her husband who was there with her, and he ate as well.
Notice, Adam is with her. Hearing all of this, he makes no protest either. He’s there listening. He’s there wondering if God is actually good.
And what happens here is the serpent’s deception actually fools Adam and Eve. The problem is God’s restrictions are good though, but they were fooled. That there is freedom inside of God, not outside of God.
But they were fooled. Sin does have major consequences, and what God said about sin is true, that sin will lead to death. But the serpent fooled them. And what happens is they eat of the fruit, sin enters the story and infects all of creation from this moment on.
And everything is ruined. And we know it’s ruined because of what immediately happens when they eat the fruit. Immediately, it’s like the darkness comes back. The light is gone, and now all of a sudden they’re feeling guilt. They’re feeling shame.
In fact, it says that they recognize and notice that they’re naked. That’s the first symptom after the sin comes in. They recognize they’re naked. Now why does the text say that? It says that because all of a sudden their eyes are no longer on God. God, where are their eyes? On themselves.
And when my eyes are on myself apart from God, all of a sudden now I’m beginning to notice some things about me. I’m beginning to notice some things about my spouse. And now all of a sudden, I don’t hear the voice of God, I don’t see the heart of God, and now it’s just my heart that’s evaluating everything and now I feel shame. I feel guilt. I feel naked.
They’re fooled by Satan. Eating of that fruit ruins everything.
Now I know what you’re asking. What’s the big deal? It’s just fruit, right? Why in the world would God say, you ate this fruit and therefore everything’s ruined? Everything is gonna die.
Now here’s what I want you to know. Listen to me on this because this is not how we read the story. The fruit wasn’t the issue. The sin actually happened before they ate the fruit.
What happened? It wasn’t the fruit that was the issue. It was their heart and what they believed about God. That was the sin. What they believed about God led them to eating of the fruit.
What happened? Serpent convinces them that, hey, God’s keeping good from you. God’s trying to deceive you. God doesn’t want you to be free. And then immediately what happens is Eve looks at the tree and saw that the tree was good. Not looked to God and saw that God was good.
All of a sudden goodness has been transferred to this tree that has been forbidden. It says she looked at it and the tree was good and the tree was a delight. She wanted to delight in the tree because she saw the tree was good, was willing to risk the goodness of God and delighting in God for the tree.
And so it’s the thing that happened in her heart that then led her to eat the apple. They sinned not when they ate. They sinned when they stopped believing that God was good and they began believing that something better existed outside of God and he was keeping them from it.
And when this happens, everything changed in their hearts. There was a time where they would walk through the garden and they would feel that cool breeze come through the trees and they would know the presence of God was there and their heart was drawn into that presence to delight and to be with God.
It goes on to say that all of a sudden they sense the leaves shifting again, the cool breeze coming into the garden again. Knowing that it’s the presence of God, instead of being drawn into the presence of God, it says this: they hid themselves from the presence of the Lord.
Why would they hide from the Lord? It’s because in their heart they believe that God wasn’t good anymore.
Now if other things are good and I’m questioning God’s goodness, now all of a sudden here I am with my guilt and my shame and my nakedness. And I hear the presence of God walking in, all of a sudden my mindset on God has shifted.
Now if God isn’t good and I am sin and sin is in me, he must be angry. He must be judgmental. He must be coming to take care of me and to take my life.
And so they hide themselves from the presence of the Lord and it’s obvious that something has gone terribly wrong in his masterpiece. It’s obvious. Their peace is gone. All of a sudden they’re hiding. They’re experiencing shame. They’re experiencing guilt. They’re afraid of God. They’re now moving into isolation and they’re being overwhelmed by anxiety. It’s obvious that a tear in the fabric of the created order has just happened.
And in the midst of that gap between God and mankind, the presence of the Lord shows up and he asks one question: Where are you? Where are you?
There seems to be a gap between God and mankind now. The harmony between God, humanity, and nature in this moment is shattered. There’s a gap not just between mankind and God, but between husband and wife and man and his brothers and sisters.
There’s this intimacy that used to be there that now has conflict. There’s a gap between our work and our purpose in life. Work becomes a struggle. God begins to talk about how things are just cursed now for Adam and he talks about the curse for Eve. He talks about the curse for the serpent and he talks about how this humanity is gonna be driven out of the garden, driven from their homes.
And he evicts them from the garden and he closes the gate. And there’s no road in, no way to get inside. There’s no way back to innocence. There’s no way to access the source of life in the tree of life. There’s no returning to the unhindered presence of God. Humanity will now live and die outside of the garden, east of the garden of Eden. They will no longer experience.
This is where all of the rest of the Bible proceeds from. East of Eden.
This is not how God intended it. And if humanity is ever going to return home, someone’s gonna have to restore what was broken. If humanity is ever going to return back into the presence of God, someone is gonna have to open that gate and open the door that is now closed.
If humanity and mankind and God are ever gonna be back together, someone is gonna have to bring life where now death reigns.
And we’re gonna get to that. But right now, all seems lost. This is the lower story of Genesis chapter three. That in this moment, these are all the things that are happening.
But what I love about Genesis chapter three, there’s these beautiful moments, and I don’t know if you’ve seen it in here, where God actually raises us out of the lower story and gives us a peek at what’s to come in his story of what he’s gonna be doing for all time.
God’s playing the long game. God knows what’s just happened, but let me remind you, God is sovereign over all things and God is never losing.
And so God, he actually speaks some words of hope in the middle of all of this chaos that’s happening.
One of the first things that he says is in Genesis chapter three, verse 15, it’s while he’s talking to the serpent. He’s cursing the serpent and saying, hey, you’re gonna go down on your belly for the rest of your life, you snake.
And he begins to talk about how the serpent is going to be the enemy of Eve’s children, and he says it this way:
He says, I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your offspring and her offspring. He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel.
Essentially what he’s describing here is this cosmic battle that’s gonna be going forward from now on between mankind and their offspring and Satan and the demons, the dark powers of the world who are constantly gonna be trying to convince humanity that God is not good.
There’s gonna be this wrestling match. There’s just gonna be these wars that happen. There’s gonna be these battles and there are gonna be moments in this battle where it’s gonna look like the serpent is winning, where he is going to make attacks, successful attacks on humanity.
But what God says is, you may strike his heel, but there’s coming a seed of Eve, an offspring of Eve, a child of Eve’s that is going to crush your head.
You may strike his heel, but he’s gonna strike your head. Essentially telling him this, a victory is promised over even this situation.
In the lower story, darkness may win battles. In your story, there are gonna be days where it looks like darkness is winning battles.
But for those who put their trust in God, there’s an upper story. An upper story that says, God has already promised who will win the war.
A battle has just begun between humanity and the powers of darkness. The serpent will wound the woman’s offspring, but one day, there’s an offspring of hers coming that will crush his head. The victory is promised.
We get another peek at what God is doing in the long game in Genesis chapter three, verse 20, when this happens.
It says, the man called his wife’s name Eve because she was the mother of all living.
Now, this is the response to God passing down the curses. This is the very next sentence in the chapter, which is really interesting.
God says, you know, this is the curse of the serpent. This is the curse of Eve. This is the curse of Adam. And then the response of mankind, they get an opportunity to say something. And what we get said was a one-word prophecy of hope.
Adam speaks up and he says, that’s his response. Well, he doesn’t say, well, God, that seems unfair. Shouldn’t we get a redo? God, that just doesn’t seem fair. Like, tell me more. What do you mean by all of this?
Adam’s response was this. One word. Eve. Eve.
Now, that may not mean much on the surface, but let me remind you what’s just happened. God has promised that their sin will lead to death. He’s talked about that death. He’s talked about a serpent who will bruise the heel of the woman’s seed.
And then he says that there is an offspring coming from the woman who will win the day. And so Adam, he names his wife in this moment. This is the very first time her name is spoken.
And he names her Eve because, here’s what I think. I think he believes God. Based on what you’ve just said, God, I believe there’s coming a day when a child of hers will not deliver us unto death but will deliver us unto life.
She is not the mother of those who are destined to die. She’s the mother of those who are destined to live through the power of God. There’s hope, and Adam has faith in it.
The next verse, verse 21, says this:
After God names them Eve, God sees them standing there still with their fig leaves around them.
It says the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skin and clothed them.
Adam and Eve, through their own power, they made themselves garments whenever they felt guilt. It says that they used fig leaves.
Some people have asked, what is the apple or what is the fruit that Adam and Eve ate? Is it an apple or what kind of fruit is it?
It doesn’t say in the text. I think it was probably a fig, that that was the fruit that they ate because that’s the leaves that they used to cover themselves up.
And they used the thing that they were drawn to and delighted in to make that their identity and to wear that.
God comes along and says that’s not good enough. You’re trying to cover your own guilt and shame yourself through your own power, your own works, but the only way you will ever be covered is if I cover you.
And the way he chooses to cover them is through garments of skin, which means there was an animal in that garden that had to die. Its blood was spilled and its flesh and its body was given in order to cover the sins of Adam and Eve.
And what we’re told here is that God has a plan to cover the shame of not just Adam and Eve, but their children as well. God, he’s going to deal with it himself. He’s going to provide the covering. It’s a covering that we can’t provide on our own. And it’s a covering that’s going to come through flesh and blood.
And one day, all of this sin will be forgiven for good because of the promise that God is a winner, that there is a person who is coming who will defeat death and bring us unto life.
And they will do that by giving their own body and blood.
Again, I can’t ruin the story, but it’s going to happen in here. And it’s a great story.
But for now, Genesis chapter 3 and 4 and 5 and 6 and 7, all the way through the rest of the scriptures, that’s not the case. Nothing is better yet.
Centuries of chaos is about to ensue. A lot of darkness is about to come into the story.
But what we see in Genesis chapter 3 is there’s hope on the horizon. There’s hope on the horizon. And it all started with one question.
And it’s a question that I want to leave with you today. It’s a question that I think every single person in here needs to answer because it’s easy to point to Adam and Eve and say, ah, you messed it up for all of us. You messed it up for all of us.
But I’m guessing every single one of us has done something a little worse than eating a piece of fruit. And so it’s not just them to blame. I think we’re to blame as well.
We have sinned. We have listened to the voice of Satan who has said that the restrictions of God are too restricting. And there’s goodness that exists that God has warned me of. But I’ve believed Satan that God is too restricting and I should have this. I should experience this. I should do this. I should say this. I should pursue this.
And I think there’s many, many of us that sit in this moment and we’ve experienced what God has told us not to experience and we sit here now in guilt, in shame, and in fear.
And in the middle of that, you need to hear the question that God asked Adam and Eve. And the question is this: Where are you? Where are you?
If you were to know that the Lord was in the space, if God came into the room, how would your heart experience that? In that moment, would you be captivated by His goodness or would you be afraid of Him and hide?
I think most of us, we want to be near God, but we’re so afraid to be near God because we’ve been convinced that God is not good.
And what we learn in this story about Adam and Eve is true of us as well. We are a hiding people. We are a hiding people.
I think some of you are hiding. You’re hiding your sin, hoping nobody sees it because you’re afraid of what comes next.
You’re hiding from God because you know that He is too good for you and He wants nothing to do with you.
That may not be His voice telling you that. We are a hiding people.
So the question is, where are you? And I’m not asking a geographical question. I’m asking a proximity question.
Have you turned and walked away from the Lord? Notice in the middle of sin, God walks in towards Adam and Eve. They walk away.
So the gap is not because God put the gap there.
I think so many of us sit in the silence and we’re like, God, why did you leave me? Why have you abandoned me? Why have you forsaken me?
And all the while, God is coming in.
We are a hiding people, but God is a searching God. God is always taking steps towards us while we’re taking steps away from Him.
And so He’s got to ask the question, where are you?
Stop for a moment and know the gap in our proximity.
Why are you hiding? Why are you running the other way?
Is it because of your sin? Is it because of the chaos of your life? Why are you hiding?
Is it because you’re disappointed in God? Have you maybe chased something that the serpent told you was good and delightful only to discover that you’ve been deceived and now you’re in guilt and shame?
And do you now find yourself covered in guilt and shame, trying to cover up your own mistakes by your own power, hiding from God?
You know, God isn’t just asking Adam and Eve. He’s asking you as well.
Where are you?
It’s our nature. It’s in our nature to hide.
But it’s in God’s nature to come searching.
And so here’s how I want to end the message.
I want to put you in the garden.
You’ve just committed your sin.
And the question is not, have you sinned? I know every single one of you have sinned.
The question is, what’s the name of your sin?
It’s probably different than Adam and Eve’s. It’s probably different than mine.
But all of us sit here in a space where we have chosen something else thinking it was good and delightful.
Where has that sin taken you? How are you hiding it? What does your guilt and shame feel like?
As you sit face to face with the Lord right now, I want you to hear him ask a question.
And this is the question I want you to meditate on in quietness.
So with every eye closed and head bowed at all of our campuses, I want you to hear the Lord ask you a question.
Take a moment of silence, but then I want you to respond to him.
Are you ready?
Where are you?
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