1. The Plague of Every Relationship image: maeen ~Genesis
3:1-13~
2. Love, Marriage, & Sexuality image: maeen ~ How the
Gospel Shapes Our Relationships ~
3. The Plague
4. The Plague of Every Relationship image: maeen ~Genesis
3:1-13~
5. 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty Genesis 3:1-13 than any
other beast of the eld that the Lord God had made. He said the
woman, Did God really say, You shall not eat from any tree in the
garden.
6. 2 And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit
of the trees of the garden, 3 but God said, You all not eat of the
fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall
you touch it, lest you die. Genesis 3:1-13
7. 4 But the serpent said, You will not surely die. 5 For God
knows that when you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you
shall be like God, knowing good and evil. Genesis 3:1-13
8. 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and
that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be
desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she
also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Genesis
3:1-13
9. 7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they
were naked. And they sewed g leaves together and made themselves
loincloths. Genesis 3:1-13
10. 8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the
garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid
themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the
garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man Genesis 3:1-13
11. and said to him, Where are you? 10 And he said, I heard the
sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked,
and I hid myself. Genesis 3:1-13
12. Genesis 3:1-13 11 He said, Who told you that you were
naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to
eat?
13. Genesis 3:1-13 said to the woman, What is this you have
done? The woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate. 12 The
man said, The woman you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of
the tree, and I ate. 13 Then the Lord God
14. homo incurvatus in se a person curved in on oneself
Narcissus Caravaggio (1594-1596)
15. Like salvation, sin is a word that belongs to the
traditional Christian vocabulary. I am not a sinner, people often
say, because they seem to be associating sin with specific and
rather sensational misdeeds like murder, adultery, and theft. ~
John Stott (1921-2011)Anglican Minister
16. But sin has a much wider connotation than that. What the
Bible means by sin is primarily self-centredness. For Gods two
great commandments are first that we love him with all our being
and secondly that we love our neighbour as we love ourself. ~ John
Stott (1921-2011)Anglican Minister
17. Sin, then, is the reversal of this order. It is to put
ourselves firstour neighbour next when it suits our convenience,
and God some-where in the background. ~ John Stott
(1921-2011)Anglican Minister
18. = agap LOVE self-sacrice in the service of others
19. people will be lovers of self rather than lovers of God. ~
The Apostle Paul in 1 Timothy 3:1 & 4
20. The Way You Make Me Feel ~ Michael Jackson
21. I Love The Way You Love Me ~ John Michael Montgomery
22. The Greatest Love of All ~ Whitney Houston
23. Loveis not self-seeking. ~ 1 Corinthians 13:5
24. Indeed, the myths we load into weddings almost doom
marriages to fail. Weddings are centered around the romantic
coupling of two star-crossed lovers, as if marriage was an extended
exercise of staring deep into one anothers eyeswith benets. But
even then, my spouse is one whoseesme, will meet my needs, will
fulll my wants, will complete me. Even our romantic coupling
becomes a form of self-love. ~ James KA Smith
25. The most dicult lie I have ever contended with is this:
Life is a story about me. ~ Donald MillerBlue Like Jazz
26. The plague of every relationship is the epidemic of
self-centredness.
27. Receive the diagnosis1
28. for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. ~
The Apostle Paul in Romans 3:23
29. the hearts of people, moreover, are full of evil and there
is madness in their hearts while they live. ~ Ecclesiastes 9:3
(NIV)
30. Self-centerednessis the ever-present enemy of every
marriage. It is the cancer in the centre of a marriage when it
begins, and it has to be dealt with.
31. One of the best weddings gifts God gave you was a
full-length mirror called your spouse. Had there been a card
attached, it would have said, Heres to helping you discover what
youre really like.
32. Seek the Great Physician 2
33. many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus
and his disciples. And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw
that he was eating with tax collectors, said to his disciples, Why
does he eat with tax collectors and sinners? And when Jesus heard
it, he said to the, Those who are well have no need of a physician,
but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but
sinners. ~ The Gospel of Mark, 2:15-16
34. Apply the Remedy of the Gospel 3
35. image: Christopher Brown And he died for all, that those
who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died
for them and was raised again. ~ The Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians
5:15
36. The Christian principle that needs to be at work is Spirit-
generated selessness not thinking less of yourself or more of
yourself but thinking of yourself less. ~ Tim Keller, Pastor The
Meaning of Marriage
37. as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive one
another. ~ The Apostle Paul in Colossians 3:13
38. Love, Marriage, & Sexuality image: maeen ~ How the
Gospel Shapes Our Relationships ~
39. Q & A
40. Next Week Redeemed Sexuality
41. Next Week Redeemed Sexuality In Two Weeks The Gift of
Singleness
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