THE ROOT OF SIN

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Our issues with human authority are ultimately issues with divine authority.

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• OUR REBELLION
• THE KING'S CALL
• THE KING'S OFFER

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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.
Genesis 2:17

ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE

• sin and death entered
• good gifts became gods
• our lives were shattered
• our relationships were fractured
• our relationship to God was severed

The moment you have a self at all, there is a possibility of putting yourself first—wanting to be the centre —wanting to be God, in fact. That was the sin of Satan: and that was the sin he taught the human race.

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—be their own masters— invent some sort of happiness for themselves outside God, apart from God.
--C.S. Lewis

Sin inserts me into the middle of my universe, the one place reserved for God and God alone.

- Paul Tripp

If we are ultimate rulers, we will naturally expect others to bow to our authority...and regularly be frustrated when they don’t listen to us.

THE KING'S CALL

The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; REPENT and believe in the gospel.

Mark 1:15

If the essence of sin is dethroning God, then the essence of repentance is dethroning ourselves.

THE KING'S OFFER

The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and BELIEVE IN THE GOSPEL.

Mark 1:15

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Matt 11:28-30

You have made us for yourself,O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.
- St. Augustine