May 10, 2023 • 37 mins
You can have the world at your fingertips and the universe as your world to explore, but would that be enough to satisfy the human cravings of wanting more? The one tree in the Garden of Eden was forbidden to touch, but a deceitful messenger caused havoc in paradise, which caused Adam and Eve to lose the place they once called home.
Have you ever felt overwhelmed or stifled by one of God's commands? How have you responded to this feeling?
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Welcome to blessed to be ends. I'm your
cousin and Christ won trialevent. And this is bougie Bible
study. Yes, I know, I've beengone for two months, I said that
we were going visual. And thebeginning of March March 1 was
the last episode that I droppedfrom our series that we were
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into. And now I said that I wasgoing visuals. So excuse me,
you're going to be lyingsometimes, because I'm not
perfect. And I just want you torealize that I'm not perfect. So
I don't expect anybody else tobe perfect. But the way my life
is set up, I was not reallyready or prepared to jump into
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the visual. I don't know why Iwas so nervous. I don't know why
I was scared. But I'm not goingto be scared anymore. I'm going
to shake this villain off. AndI'm actually going to start
today to go visual into our newseries of becoming a Christian.
Now, if you are new here, I'dlike to welcome you to the best
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Bible study class that you willever come across. If you are not
new here, you already know howwe get down as we dive into the
Bible, and read a chapter aweek, or month, or any other
time. And we just get into thestories of the Bible. And we
realize how important the Bibleis, the stories of the Bible are
and how in debt the word couldbe, and how vital and essential
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it is for our lives to liveevery day and to carry our lives
with Jesus, our anybody that'sconnected to us in ways that we
just want to know the answer, wewant to understand we want to
have a relationship with God.
But we don't know how we want toknow the stories of the Bible
without feeling convicted,condemned or being assaulted by
people and their ways of tellingyou how you should be or how you
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should act or how you shoulddress or how you should talk to
God or interact with God. Andyou know, just trying to put
Christianity over your life andyou really just want a
relationship with God, then youare here at the best podcast
ever. Again, my name is MarciaLovett. I'm your cousin through
Christ. And I'm honored here tobe here to read the Bible. Of
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course, anybody can pick up theBible and read the Bible. It is
your choice. I just make it easyfor people who don't want to
pick up the Bible, and just kindof tune in and listen and see
that you know, we are allconnected. And how important the
Bible is a is for our lives,just like the stories of the
Bible, the Word of God and justget an in depth understanding of
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how God works and how he workswithin us. So I'm not going to
do too much ranting. When weleft off, we were literally what
40 weeks, 42 weeks or somethinglike that. We left off at the
end of 42 weeks. So we alreadycovered like 42 stories of the
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Bible. But the way that my Bibleis set up, it has a tracker
here. And it gives me passagesto follow and things like that.
And since we're visual, I'mgonna go ahead and show you guys
how this works. So all of thatwas checked off because we
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covered all of these episodes.
And now we're going to jump intolet me see if you guys can see
this. Now we're going to jumpinto this side. And yes, I have
these episodes marked off, butI'm gonna go ahead and start
from the beginning. Because Ihave questions and after reading
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a story and reading certainstories and going back in and
reading them again and goingback in and read them again and
just having God's words justresonate into my spirit and
really speak to me. There aresome things that I do question
about stories, but I don'tquestion God. I just question
the people who wrote the storiesor who took out the time to
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deliver the Bible. I havequestions for that because a lot
of it is man written. And sowhen I read over Genesis chapter
three, because that is the storythat we'll be covering Today,
Genesis chapter three, I havesome questions saying a lot. And
I was kind of questioning whatwas being said to me. And so
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last night when I went into myprayer closet and I prayed and I
shared my joyful tears of justknowing that God is working on
my behalf and things like that,and I just asked him to deliver
a message that resonates to hischildren, his children, okay, so
if you are not guys, children,and I'm not talking to you move
along, okay? So I'm solelytalking to his children, the
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ones that want to have arelationship with Him, the ones
that want to know him or herhowever you identify your God.
So that's what I asked for. Andso today, I'm going to jump in
and we are covering Genesischapter three, we already
covered Genesis chapter three, awhile back, but we're going to
cover it again. Okay, so grabyour Bibles, grab your nose,
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grab a pass, whatever it is, youneed to grab, or you can just
slowly listen along and justfollow like that. If you are new
here, you can check out anyepisode before on a podcast is
the first visual episode. So I'mreally excited to see where God
is going to take me and justthis whole podcast and everybody
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that's related to me throughChrist and how we're moving in
life. So again, my name isMarcia LaVette. I am your host,
and I've been gone. But I'mback. And I'm excited to jump
into this episode before I headoff to work. We are covering
Genesis chapter three. So grabyour Bible, I have my Bible here
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and I'm ready, I have my glassestoo, because the Grow came see,
and is very essential for me toknow that I'm reading the Bible
correctly. So if you are ready,I am to Genesis chapter three.
The title of our title of ourepisode today is the first sin
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creates a need. The first sincreates the need. So we're going
to get into it. I went over it.
I looked into it. I read itbefore, but I'm gonna go ahead
and read it again. So if youalready I am. And here we are
Genesis chapter three. It'scalled the fall. All right. So
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now the serpent was more craftythan any of the wild animals the
Lord God gave the Lord God hadmade. He said to the woman, Did
God really say you must not eatfrom any tree in the garden? The
woman said to the serpent, Wemay eat fruit from the trees in
the garden. But God did say youmust not eat fruit from the tree
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that is in the middle of thegarden, and you must not touch
it, or you will die. You willnot certainly die, the serpent
said to the woman, For God knowsthat when you eat from it, your
eyes will be open. And you willbe like God knowing good and
evil. When a woman saw that thefruit of the tree was good for
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food and pleasing to the eye,and also desirable for gaining
wisdom. She took some and ateit. She also gave some to her
husband who was with her and heate it. Then the eyes of both of
them were open. And theyrealized they were naked. So
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they so they sue fig leavestogether and make coverings for
themselves. Then a man and hiswife heard the sound of the Lord
God as he was walking in thegarden in the cool of the day.
And they hid from the LORD Godamong they here they hid from
the LORD God among the trees ofthe garden. But the Lord got
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called to the man, where areyou? He answered, I heard you in
the garden. And I was afraidbecause I was naked, so I hid.
And he said, Who told you thatyou were naked? Have you eaten
from the tree that havecommanded you not to eat from?
The man said, The woman you puthere with me? She gave me some
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fruit from the tree and I ateit. Then the Lord God said to
the woman, what is this have youdone? The woman say, the serpent
deceived me and I ate it. So theLord assets of the surfeit
because you have done is CARSTARyou above all livestock and all
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wild animals. You will crawl onyour belly and you will eat does
all the days of your life and Iwill put enmity between you and
a woman and between youroffspring and hers. He will
crush your head and you willstrike his heel.
To the woman he said I will makeyour pains and childbearing very
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severe, with painful labor, youwill give birth to children.
Your desire will be for yourhusband, and he will rule over
you. To Adam He said, Becauseyou listened to your wife and
ate fruit from the tree aboutwhich I commanded you, you must
not eat from it. Curse is theground because of you. through
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painful toil, you will eat foodfrom it. And other days of your
life, it will produce thorns andthistles for you, and you will
eat the plants of the field. Bythe sweat of your brow, you will
eat your food until you returnto the ground since from it you
were taken for death, you areinto dust you will return into
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dust you will return. Adam namedhis wife Eve because she will
become the mother of all theliving. The Lord God made
garments of skin for Adam andhis wife and clothe them. In the
Lord God said, The man has nowbecome like one of us, knowing
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good and evil, he must not beallowed to reach out his hand
and take also from the tree oflife and eat and live forever.
So the Lord God banished himfrom the Garden of Eden to work
the ground from which he hadbeen taken. After he drove the
man out, he placed on the eastside of the Garden of Eden
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cherubim, and a flaming swore,flashing back and forth to Garth
away to the tree of life. And asthe end of our chapter, and as
we go into debt, the guided tourof Genesis three breaks down to
help me understand exactly whatis the story, saying to me, what
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is it saying? It could saysomething different to you, just
like you're saying somethingdifferent to me. So as we break
it down, we go into the guidedtour of Genesis three, the
crash, rebellion, nakedness,hiding, and shame. Now whoever
wrote the Bible was I'm going togo dig into and find out and
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realize who wrote Genesis. Idon't know why I do shaman here.
Because I didn't get that theywere ashamed of being naked. I
got that they was just theyrealized that they were naked.
And because they realized thatthey were naked, they covered
themselves in fig leaves. Now, Idon't know if that was the
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wisdom that was brought to themto even know to sow fig leaves
together to use that ascovering, because that's pretty
smart on their behalf Adam andEve, Sue. And at that time, that
name wasn't Eve, it was just, Isuppose they so at that time to
even realize to so fig leavestrees together to make garments.
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That was smart of them. So I'mnot sure if they were ashamed or
if they just realized, Oh, wenaked we got to cover up. And it
kind of triggered me in a waywhen, towards the end of the
passage, it says the Lord Godmade garments of skin for Adam
and his wife and clothing. So ifthey were not already in skin,
what were they were they justspirits were they entity were
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you know, like, I just havequestions about that. And I'm
not a preacher. I'm not aprophesy or I'm not one of
those. So if you're looking foranybody like that, to prophesied
over you or to preach to you,you might want to go find
another channel because this isnot it. This is simply Bible
study, as I'm getting into theBible and reading the stories
and trying to understand whatGod is saying. So the Lord God
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made garments of skin for Adamand his wife and clothed them is
that the skin that we carry onour body, this fleshly skin
that's connected to our souls.
And so that's kind of somethingthat I was questioning and I was
talking to God about last night.
So anyways, let's break it down.
chapter three, verse three, butGod does say you must not eat
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from the tree that is in themiddle of the garden, and you
must not touch it or you willdie. The woman who does the
fall, the alley and the theologyis call it but the event this
chapter describes it's reallymore like a crash. Although Adam
and Eve have everything topeople who want in paradise,
still a thought nags at them,are we somehow missing out? Is
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God keeping something from uslike all of us, they cannot
resist the temptation to reachout for what lies beyond them.
Journalists and author G K.
Chester Chesterton said, thereis only one doctor and that can
be empirically verified. TheDoctrine the doctrine of
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original sin. Genesis give fewdetails about the first thing
many people mistakenly assumesex is involved, but something
far more basic is at stake. Godhas labeled one tree just one
are off limits. The real issueis who will set the rule God or
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human beings, Adam and Evedecide in their own favor in the
world has never been the same.
The underlying message ofgenossen goes against a common
assumption about human historythat the world has been
gradually progressing towards abetter and better state.
According to these chapters,that assumption is not accurate.
On the contrary, humanitycrashed against the rocks of his
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own pride and stubbornness longago and is still doing so today.
This is true they are. neithergod nor anyone else has been
satisfied with human beingssince that time. Genesis helped
us understand why the universeis so strictly lovely. Yes, so
terribly tragic. It is lovelybecause God made it. And it is
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tragic because he entrusted itto us. And we failed. Did God
really say Adam and Eve react totheir sin as anyone reacts to
sin, they rationalize try toexplain themselves and look for
someone else to take the blame.
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The author of Genesis quaintlyknows that they also feel the
need to hide, they hide fromeach other by making coverings
for themselves because theysense for the first time a
feeling of shame about beingnaked. Now, I didn't get that
they felt shame. I just got thatthey was aware of their
surroundings, and it was awarethat they was naked, not sure
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how naked or aware they wasbecause at the time God did not
clothed them with the garmentsof skin. So I'm just thinking of
how openly naked were they werethey naked to see each other
spirits? Were they naked to seethe entity like because they
have not yet been clothed withgarments of skin yet, according
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to Genesis three, now? We wrong.
But I'm still learning and I'mdoing my search. So I'm just
questioning certain things.
Right? So perhaps the greatestchange of all occurs in their
relationship with God.
Previously, they have walked intalk freely with God in the
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Garden, much as one would with afriend. Now when they hear God's
voice, they hide. When Goddiscovers Adam and Eve in hiding
the x three searching questions,where are you? And why are you
hiding from me? Who told youthat you were naked? And why did
you believe somebody else andnot me? Now what is this that
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you have done? And are you readyto take responsibility for it?
Genesis 30 Tails of otherprofound changes that affect the
world because the creatureschose their own way, rather than
their creators. Sufferingmultiplies, work becomes harder,
and a new word death beginstrend in high in a human
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vocabulary. Perfection is spoilforever. All wars, all violence,
all broken relationships, ourgrief and sadness traced back to
this one monumental day in theGarden of Eden. Life question.
Have you ever felt hemmed in? Orstiffled by one of guys come in?
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How have you responded to thisfilm? All right. Let's break it
down. All right, because Iquestion the story. I'm always
questioning the stories ofbecause they're written by man
or woman or home. And I'm alwaysquestioning what is this story
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trying to resonate are tell meand what is God trying to
direct? And tell me now thequestion was, have you ever felt
him in our sinful by one ofGod's commands? How have you
responded to this feeling? SoI gotta tell you to do
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something, do it. Right. But howcan you decide are different?
What God is telling you? I'mgonna talk about me, okay.
There's a lot of things that Igot going on. I have my career.
I have a job. I'm a parent. I'ma friend. And I'm all of these
things, right? But first andforemost, I'm a child of God.
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And five years ago, I decided totake this spiritual journey to
get closer to God. I grew up inchurch, I grew up and around
people, Baptists and all of thisand I grew up with that already
installed in me but nothing wasresonated to me as to when I got
an adult and I became an adult.
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And I decided to take thisspiritual journey on my own
because I wanted to search forGod. Even though God is always
with me. It lives in me. It'sme, I needed to search within
me, and my surroundings andeverything to know that God was
right here with me. So I'malways question I'm always
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asking him, what is it that youwant me to do? How do you want
me to do it? Who do you want meto connect with? How do you want
me to speak? How do you want meto talk? How do you want me to
act? Because I never wantsociety or people to put their
things on me making me feel thatI need to be a certain type of
way or a certain type of person,to have a relationship with God.
So as I started to take thisjourney, God started to break
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things down for me, he startedto remove things, he started to
move people, he started toreveal himself or herself to me.
And I just started to get closerand closer to wanting to open
and share the Bible with peoplenot just closer to wanting to
open and share the Bible withpeople, not just share the Bible
with people, but share myexperience that I've been on
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with the Lord, our Creator. Now,I say the Lord our Creator,
because that's exactly how weare connected. We're connected,
connected to a Creator, whocreated all things, Heaven and
Earth. Good and bad, evil andgood. So I'm just like, okay,
Laura, you know, what is it thatyou want me to do? Now, if you
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guys can recall and remember,and go back to March 1 episode,
I literally said that I wasgoing to be doing a visual
episode, that next week, thatnext week came, and I was not
around, I was not even on apodcast, I was not in front of
the camera. I was not even doingwhat I'm supposed to be doing.
And I never, I never want to belike I'm a liar, right? But I'm
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gonna keep it real with youguys. Like, I'd be lying. Okay.
And so that was working on me,in this midst of this two months
span, I'm gonna say like, twomonths, yes, because it was
March and April. And this wholetime, I was thinking to myself,
Oh, my God, I gotta get this, Igotta have this, I gotta do this
to go visual, I gotta do this, Igotta do this, I gotta do that.
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And I'm literally ripping andtearing myself apart. And God,
it's like, you don't have to doany of that. You don't have to
be any of that, get your camera,set it up and read the Bible,
like I instructed you to do. SoI was battling with that for
this past two months, you guys.
And that's why I have not beenon my podcast or haven't put out
an episode. But it was so vitaland important to me to do this.
Now, because I'm like, You knowwhat, I need to listen to what
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my Creator is telling me to do,because he's trying to take,
it's trying to take me places,and I can't get there. If I'm
stuck on my own fleshly desiresand my own fleshly mindset of
thinking that I got to havethings figured out, I gotta have
it, I gotta have this. And whenGod tells you to do something,
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or tell you not to do somethingis very important and vital for
you to actually listen. Now noteverybody is going to be able to
listen or have the capacity tounderstand what is it that God
is trying to tell you? Or whatis he trying to tell you to stay
away from? Or what is he tryingto tell you to go to? I'm just
speaking on me. So when I readthe story of Genesis chapter
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three, yes, of course I questioncertain things. But one thing
stood out to me a God commandedsomething. You can have
everything in this garden ofEden. I mean, everything you can
have this you have that you havethis, but I just commanded you
to do one thing and it's nottouched this tree not eat from
it, or else you will die. Theserpent came along and trick not
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saying that he tricked the womanbecause he literally did not
trick her. He said, You surelywhen I die? You know, God knows
that your eyes will be open andyou'll have wisdom. So you
really wouldn't die. And justlike any other fleshly desire of
human, we're going to want totry to find out. Like if I was
Eve, I would have been like, Oh,I'm not gonna die. Oh, I'm gonna
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get some wisdom. I'm gonna belike a god. Why not? Because it
looks good. I think is good. Solet me go ahead and try the
fruit. I also would have donethe same thing. It's just no
human nature to do not sayingthat she set the tone for all
humanity. Because the man he didnot even have to eat the fruit.
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But he did. And I don't see himquestion her asking her what a
fruit came from. Or did you getthis from the fruit that God
told us not to eat from? Fromthe tree? That guy told us not
to eat from like, he didn'tquestion her like he lives he
literally just went and all andate it. And then we got came and
spoke to him. He tried to putthe blame on her. She tried to
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put the blame on a serpent. Andeverybody was curse, right? So
that's how I look at it. When Itell you to do something or not
to do something, just do it.
It's hard. But the outcome isgoing to be for the greater good
of you now why he cursed themand banned him out of the Garden
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of Eden. He literally gave themto the earth and was like here,
you're going to work, thegrounds that you came from,
you're going to eat from thefood that comes from the ground,
because as soon as you're donewith life, that's exactly where
you're going to go back to thatshe was made to dust you will go
back to God did not abandon Adamand Eve, he just kicked them out
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of the garden of paradise, to bekicked out of the garden of
paradise of heaven. Everythingthat you want and desire, it
makes you question and think orwonder, why did not listen to
what the Lord had commanded. Weall go through this, we all go
through this, I don't care rich,poor, happy, sad, mad, we all go
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through a phase where God isactually talking to us telling
us what to do and what not todo. And if you are a true
believer, or a person who want arelationship with Christ, or
God, you're gonna hear thingsand see things and feel things
because God actually works inour lives. Right? Me, for
instance, this podcast I wassupposed to do this visual two
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months ago. Why didn't I have onhere to do it two months ago, I
didn't have the confidence, Ididn't feel like I had
everything that I need. I didn'tfeel like I was prepared and
ready because I'm not apreacher. I'm not somebody who
just, you know, go out here andpreach the Word of God. And he's
like, No, but I am a believer,and I truly do have a
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relationship with the Creator.
And he assigned me to do this,not not just for myself, but for
other people too, but for mainlyfor me, because I wanted a
relationship with God. And Ineeded to know that no matter
what it is that I do, or what Igo through, I can be a dancer, I
can be a bartender, I can be astreet, street walker, I can be
a real estate agent, licensedagent, licensed esthetician, I
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can be anything in his world,yet God has still chose to use
me. And all I gotta do is openthis Bible and read it, read it
for me, read it for you. Andreally for anybody else who
wants to understand that ourrelationship with God matters,
our relationship with ourselvesmatters. And when God is
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speaking to you, and talking toyou, and telling you what to do,
or telling you what not to do,it's up for us, as people to
take that.
Serious to take it and be like,You know what, I'm going to
listen. Because if I don't, I'mgoing to lose the opportunity to
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be in the kingdom. To be inparadise, I'm going to lose the
opportunity to start wealth formy family, I'm going to lose the
opportunity to gain insight andget myself out of depression,
I'm going to lose theopportunity to heal be healed
from the Creator who created allthings I'm gonna lose the
opportunity to gainrelationships with other people
and bigger places and betterplaces and higher positions with
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me all because I'm not listeningat all because I want to take
initiative on my own or dothings on my own and go this way
when God is telling me to gothis way. So it's telling me to
go this way. So when I readGenesis three, it just made me
think about me, it made me thinkabout humanity, me think about
people and it made me thinkabout how Sam was created. He
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told him to do not do one thinghe gave him the whole garden of
Eden. He said don't touch thistree, don't eat it. Maybe don't
even look at it. Right. But ascurious as humans are, and
ambition and you know, feelinglike we got to have it on No at
all one at all. Unfortunately,in the first beginning of the
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Bible, sin was created. Thewoman did something by not
listening to God, by followingsomeone else is worried but not
believing what God told her andcaused them to be banished from
the Garden of Eden. Now, I doquestion certain things because
it was very wise of them tocreate garments for themselves.
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fig leaves, like, how did theyget the tools and material to
sell fig leaves? You know, I'msaying I watched Naked and
Afraid and I'd be like, Okay,that's creative, but you got to
have the tools. You got to havecertain things but the knowledge
is like the mindset, your wisdomlike that, that comes from the
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Lord that comes from theCreator. And so for them to be
able to do that. I'm like, Oh,that was smart. Oh, that was the
wisdom from the tree. thatunderstanding, so fig leaves
together. And you know, whenthey hid from God and things
like that, to me, it's not like,oh, they were ashamed or they
were, they were shameful. No, itwas more like so they did
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something that they shouldn't bedoing, and they feel bad for it.
Or not even knowing how God willreact to them for doing such
crazy things. Like you listen tosomebody else, you listen to me,
or whatever. So, but it's veryinteresting and intriguing to me
as I go into the Bible andresearch stories and just
understand how God works, youknow, and it's just talking to
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me, because I see you know, fromthe stories how you could try to
put the blame on somebody but inall initiative, the man did what
he did. The woman did where hewas she did in a certain day
with what he what he did, andthey all got cursed the woman
got hers she we give likechildbirth is like super
painful. Our periods and stuffsuper painful. The man gawkers,
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he always got to work, he got towork from the ground, he got to
support his family. Like it'salways been in key the ground
state that God said you willwork from the ground that you
come from. So man beingproviders is like it's in the
Bible, but Angola too much tothat, because we got into how
the fall and how sand was justcreated. It was created by not
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listening. And I don't know likethem. What I know like me, I
don't always listen, here I amtwo months later, don't have
visual when I should have beendoing is two months ago. But I
know for a fact that God isdoing something great in my
life. So I'm going to startright here where I'm at. And I'm
going to use what he gave mebecause I know that he's going
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to provide for me. And I'm justso grateful and happy to have
this platform that I'm creating,that God has given me the
opportunity to create, so that Ican touch his people to talk to
his people and know that we'reall in this together. It is
literally the relationship ofChrist, not religion, because
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the story is just touch anddeath of so many people in so
many things all over the world.
You don't have to be Muslim,Catholic, Christian, or whatever
it is have relationship with Godbecause God is for all of us.
It's within us. It's however youidentify your God, whether man
or woman, him Shem Wim themhowever you want to pronounce
our call it pronouns or whateveryou want to say, God is the
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Creator of all things. And whenhe tells us to do something, and
he tells us not to do something,we as people have the
opportunity to listen toappreciate to, you know, just
sometimes not touch it or not gofor it or not. Leave it in God's
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hands, you know, don't eat fromthe tree that he's telling you
not to eat from and I'm justtalking just hypothetically
doesn't have to be the tree ofgarden, the tree of Eden. The
Tree of Life. When you tell youdon't hang with certain people,
or don't go certain places, anddon't talk about certain things,
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you know, like this all is inconnection to what the stories
are trying to relate to. So youguys, this was our first episode
of visual and I'm so excitedthat I actually got on here
excuse my hair excuse what'sgoing on. I'm actually about to
go into work. But I'm excited tojump into this and go visual and
start start reading the Bibleout in visually so that you can
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see how it to me off all realshort of sometimes listening to
God. I was supposed to do thistwo months ago. And here I am on
March. March amalan, March shit,shoot, here I am. May 3, try to
do my visual. And yeah, I gotsome work to do. I got some
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catching up to do. But I'mexcited to be here. And I hope
you guys are excited to be here.
Do not be a stranger, click onthe links, follow my Instagram
follow you to follow everythingas I put things into order, as I
get my team into order as I getmy cousin's through Christ in
order as I build on thisrelationship with God and just
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continue to listen to what Godis telling me to do. Continue to
walk this journey with God andfront and not do anything for
cloud or to chase or it's to belike, Hey, look at me like I
love the Lord like no, if youdon't love the Lord, that's your
business. But I do love the Lordand I love exactly what he's
putting me through and taking methrough because I don't look
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like what I've been through. AndI'll get into the more stories
about that in depth later on.
But you can listen to anyepisode, you can go on to the
podcast and listen to anyepisode. Let's see how far this
podcast has come and how far isgoing. I'm super excited to
touch base back with mylisteners and I'm super excited
to get things in order. Tostart, like, coming together and
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really just create a communityof people who are related
through Christ, and who actuallywant a relationship with God,
and don't have a problem withsharing the Word of God with
other people not to put God onpeople, because I don't like
when people do that. You don'tknow when people want to do it,
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you don't know what God istrying to talk to people about.
So to try to tell me how Ishouldn't be or how I should
act, or all this good stuff, andall of this great stuff, I leave
that up to God, my job is tosimply just read the Bible and
just showed you how God isworking in my life. He has
brought me super, super far. AndI know this is just the pre
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beginning of where He's takingme. And I'm excited to see where
it's going. And I'm excited tobring all my clients hell and
people that's connected to me tojust know that God is amazing,
okay. And I'm excited to behere. Not all the time, will I
show up with this personalityand his attitude, but I will
show up to show you how andwho's in control of my life. And
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that is the Creator who createdall things both good and bad,
however, you want to identifyour Creator. So this is blessed
to be as on your cousin toChrist launch. I love that and
you have been rocking with mefor the past 30 minutes. And I'm
excited to take this visuallyand go on YouTube. So don't be a
stranger press Like, share,comment. And yeah, just keep me
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posted. And come back with meand share another story next
week. As I dive in to Isaiahchapter 52. Salvation
prophesied. Again, I'm not aprophesy and I'm not a preacher.
So if you're looking forsomebody to do that, go ahead
and follow one of these great,great preachers speakers that I
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also listened to as well.
There's a lot of people that Itake heed and listen to, but
there is one Creator who Iactually follow and that is the
board and so I encourage youguys to do the same. So until
next time, you guys I will talkto you next time. Bye
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Welcome to blessed to be ends. I'm your
cousin and Christ won trialevent. And this is bougie Bible
study. Yes, I know, I've beengone for two months, I said that
we were going visual. And thebeginning of March March 1 was
the last episode that I droppedfrom our series that we were
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into. And now I said that I wasgoing visuals. So excuse me,
you're going to be lyingsometimes, because I'm not
perfect. And I just want you torealize that I'm not perfect. So
I don't expect anybody else tobe perfect. But the way my life
is set up, I was not reallyready or prepared to jump into
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the visual. I don't know why Iwas so nervous. I don't know why
I was scared. But I'm not goingto be scared anymore. I'm going
to shake this villain off. AndI'm actually going to start
today to go visual into our newseries of becoming a Christian.
Now, if you are new here, I'dlike to welcome you to the best
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Bible study class that you willever come across. If you are not
new here, you already know howwe get down as we dive into the
Bible, and read a chapter aweek, or month, or any other
time. And we just get into thestories of the Bible. And we
realize how important the Bibleis, the stories of the Bible are
and how in debt the word couldbe, and how vital and essential
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it is for our lives to liveevery day and to carry our lives
with Jesus, our anybody that'sconnected to us in ways that we
just want to know the answer, wewant to understand we want to
have a relationship with God.
But we don't know how we want toknow the stories of the Bible
without feeling convicted,condemned or being assaulted by
people and their ways of tellingyou how you should be or how you
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should act or how you shoulddress or how you should talk to
God or interact with God. Andyou know, just trying to put
Christianity over your life andyou really just want a
relationship with God, then youare here at the best podcast
ever. Again, my name is MarciaLovett. I'm your cousin through
Christ. And I'm honored here tobe here to read the Bible. Of
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course, anybody can pick up theBible and read the Bible. It is
your choice. I just make it easyfor people who don't want to
pick up the Bible, and just kindof tune in and listen and see
that you know, we are allconnected. And how important the
Bible is a is for our lives,just like the stories of the
Bible, the Word of God and justget an in depth understanding of
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how God works and how he workswithin us. So I'm not going to
do too much ranting. When weleft off, we were literally what
40 weeks, 42 weeks or somethinglike that. We left off at the
end of 42 weeks. So we alreadycovered like 42 stories of the
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Bible. But the way that my Bibleis set up, it has a tracker
here. And it gives me passagesto follow and things like that.
And since we're visual, I'mgonna go ahead and show you guys
how this works. So all of thatwas checked off because we
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covered all of these episodes.
And now we're going to jump intolet me see if you guys can see
this. Now we're going to jumpinto this side. And yes, I have
these episodes marked off, butI'm gonna go ahead and start
from the beginning. Because Ihave questions and after reading
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a story and reading certainstories and going back in and
reading them again and goingback in and read them again and
just having God's words justresonate into my spirit and
really speak to me. There aresome things that I do question
about stories, but I don'tquestion God. I just question
the people who wrote the storiesor who took out the time to
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deliver the Bible. I havequestions for that because a lot
of it is man written. And sowhen I read over Genesis chapter
three, because that is the storythat we'll be covering Today,
Genesis chapter three, I havesome questions saying a lot. And
I was kind of questioning whatwas being said to me. And so
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last night when I went into myprayer closet and I prayed and I
shared my joyful tears of justknowing that God is working on
my behalf and things like that,and I just asked him to deliver
a message that resonates to hischildren, his children, okay, so
if you are not guys, children,and I'm not talking to you move
along, okay? So I'm solelytalking to his children, the
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ones that want to have arelationship with Him, the ones
that want to know him or herhowever you identify your God.
So that's what I asked for. Andso today, I'm going to jump in
and we are covering Genesischapter three, we already
covered Genesis chapter three, awhile back, but we're going to
cover it again. Okay, so grabyour Bibles, grab your nose,
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grab a pass, whatever it is, youneed to grab, or you can just
slowly listen along and justfollow like that. If you are new
here, you can check out anyepisode before on a podcast is
the first visual episode. So I'mreally excited to see where God
is going to take me and justthis whole podcast and everybody
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that's related to me throughChrist and how we're moving in
life. So again, my name isMarcia LaVette. I am your host,
and I've been gone. But I'mback. And I'm excited to jump
into this episode before I headoff to work. We are covering
Genesis chapter three. So grabyour Bible, I have my Bible here
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and I'm ready, I have my glassestoo, because the Grow came see,
and is very essential for me toknow that I'm reading the Bible
correctly. So if you are ready,I am to Genesis chapter three.
The title of our title of ourepisode today is the first sin
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creates a need. The first sincreates the need. So we're going
to get into it. I went over it.
I looked into it. I read itbefore, but I'm gonna go ahead
and read it again. So if youalready I am. And here we are
Genesis chapter three. It'scalled the fall. All right. So
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now the serpent was more craftythan any of the wild animals the
Lord God gave the Lord God hadmade. He said to the woman, Did
God really say you must not eatfrom any tree in the garden? The
woman said to the serpent, Wemay eat fruit from the trees in
the garden. But God did say youmust not eat fruit from the tree
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that is in the middle of thegarden, and you must not touch
it, or you will die. You willnot certainly die, the serpent
said to the woman, For God knowsthat when you eat from it, your
eyes will be open. And you willbe like God knowing good and
evil. When a woman saw that thefruit of the tree was good for
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food and pleasing to the eye,and also desirable for gaining
wisdom. She took some and ateit. She also gave some to her
husband who was with her and heate it. Then the eyes of both of
them were open. And theyrealized they were naked. So
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they so they sue fig leavestogether and make coverings for
themselves. Then a man and hiswife heard the sound of the Lord
God as he was walking in thegarden in the cool of the day.
And they hid from the LORD Godamong they here they hid from
the LORD God among the trees ofthe garden. But the Lord got
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called to the man, where areyou? He answered, I heard you in
the garden. And I was afraidbecause I was naked, so I hid.
And he said, Who told you thatyou were naked? Have you eaten
from the tree that havecommanded you not to eat from?
The man said, The woman you puthere with me? She gave me some
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fruit from the tree and I ateit. Then the Lord God said to
the woman, what is this have youdone? The woman say, the serpent
deceived me and I ate it. So theLord assets of the surfeit
because you have done is CARSTARyou above all livestock and all
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wild animals. You will crawl onyour belly and you will eat does
all the days of your life and Iwill put enmity between you and
a woman and between youroffspring and hers. He will
crush your head and you willstrike his heel.
To the woman he said I will makeyour pains and childbearing very
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severe, with painful labor, youwill give birth to children.
Your desire will be for yourhusband, and he will rule over
you. To Adam He said, Becauseyou listened to your wife and
ate fruit from the tree aboutwhich I commanded you, you must
not eat from it. Curse is theground because of you. through
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painful toil, you will eat foodfrom it. And other days of your
life, it will produce thorns andthistles for you, and you will
eat the plants of the field. Bythe sweat of your brow, you will
eat your food until you returnto the ground since from it you
were taken for death, you areinto dust you will return into
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dust you will return. Adam namedhis wife Eve because she will
become the mother of all theliving. The Lord God made
garments of skin for Adam andhis wife and clothe them. In the
Lord God said, The man has nowbecome like one of us, knowing
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good and evil, he must not beallowed to reach out his hand
and take also from the tree oflife and eat and live forever.
So the Lord God banished himfrom the Garden of Eden to work
the ground from which he hadbeen taken. After he drove the
man out, he placed on the eastside of the Garden of Eden
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cherubim, and a flaming swore,flashing back and forth to Garth
away to the tree of life. And asthe end of our chapter, and as
we go into debt, the guided tourof Genesis three breaks down to
help me understand exactly whatis the story, saying to me, what
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is it saying? It could saysomething different to you, just
like you're saying somethingdifferent to me. So as we break
it down, we go into the guidedtour of Genesis three, the
crash, rebellion, nakedness,hiding, and shame. Now whoever
wrote the Bible was I'm going togo dig into and find out and
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realize who wrote Genesis. Idon't know why I do shaman here.
Because I didn't get that theywere ashamed of being naked. I
got that they was just theyrealized that they were naked.
And because they realized thatthey were naked, they covered
themselves in fig leaves. Now, Idon't know if that was the
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wisdom that was brought to themto even know to sow fig leaves
together to use that ascovering, because that's pretty
smart on their behalf Adam andEve, Sue. And at that time, that
name wasn't Eve, it was just, Isuppose they so at that time to
even realize to so fig leavestrees together to make garments.
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That was smart of them. So I'mnot sure if they were ashamed or
if they just realized, Oh, wenaked we got to cover up. And it
kind of triggered me in a waywhen, towards the end of the
passage, it says the Lord Godmade garments of skin for Adam
and his wife and clothing. So ifthey were not already in skin,
what were they were they justspirits were they entity were
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you know, like, I just havequestions about that. And I'm
not a preacher. I'm not aprophesy or I'm not one of
those. So if you're looking foranybody like that, to prophesied
over you or to preach to you,you might want to go find
another channel because this isnot it. This is simply Bible
study, as I'm getting into theBible and reading the stories
and trying to understand whatGod is saying. So the Lord God
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made garments of skin for Adamand his wife and clothed them is
that the skin that we carry onour body, this fleshly skin
that's connected to our souls.
And so that's kind of somethingthat I was questioning and I was
talking to God about last night.
So anyways, let's break it down.
chapter three, verse three, butGod does say you must not eat
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from the tree that is in themiddle of the garden, and you
must not touch it or you willdie. The woman who does the
fall, the alley and the theologyis call it but the event this
chapter describes it's reallymore like a crash. Although Adam
and Eve have everything topeople who want in paradise,
still a thought nags at them,are we somehow missing out? Is
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God keeping something from uslike all of us, they cannot
resist the temptation to reachout for what lies beyond them.
Journalists and author G K.
Chester Chesterton said, thereis only one doctor and that can
be empirically verified. TheDoctrine the doctrine of
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original sin. Genesis give fewdetails about the first thing
many people mistakenly assumesex is involved, but something
far more basic is at stake. Godhas labeled one tree just one
are off limits. The real issueis who will set the rule God or
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human beings, Adam and Evedecide in their own favor in the
world has never been the same.
The underlying message ofgenossen goes against a common
assumption about human historythat the world has been
gradually progressing towards abetter and better state.
According to these chapters,that assumption is not accurate.
On the contrary, humanitycrashed against the rocks of his
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own pride and stubbornness longago and is still doing so today.
This is true they are. neithergod nor anyone else has been
satisfied with human beingssince that time. Genesis helped
us understand why the universeis so strictly lovely. Yes, so
terribly tragic. It is lovelybecause God made it. And it is
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tragic because he entrusted itto us. And we failed. Did God
really say Adam and Eve react totheir sin as anyone reacts to
sin, they rationalize try toexplain themselves and look for
someone else to take the blame.
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The author of Genesis quaintlyknows that they also feel the
need to hide, they hide fromeach other by making coverings
for themselves because theysense for the first time a
feeling of shame about beingnaked. Now, I didn't get that
they felt shame. I just got thatthey was aware of their
surroundings, and it was awarethat they was naked, not sure
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how naked or aware they wasbecause at the time God did not
clothed them with the garmentsof skin. So I'm just thinking of
how openly naked were they werethey naked to see each other
spirits? Were they naked to seethe entity like because they
have not yet been clothed withgarments of skin yet, according
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to Genesis three, now? We wrong.
But I'm still learning and I'mdoing my search. So I'm just
questioning certain things.
Right? So perhaps the greatestchange of all occurs in their
relationship with God.
Previously, they have walked intalk freely with God in the
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Garden, much as one would with afriend. Now when they hear God's
voice, they hide. When Goddiscovers Adam and Eve in hiding
the x three searching questions,where are you? And why are you
hiding from me? Who told youthat you were naked? And why did
you believe somebody else andnot me? Now what is this that
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you have done? And are you readyto take responsibility for it?
Genesis 30 Tails of otherprofound changes that affect the
world because the creatureschose their own way, rather than
their creators. Sufferingmultiplies, work becomes harder,
and a new word death beginstrend in high in a human
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vocabulary. Perfection is spoilforever. All wars, all violence,
all broken relationships, ourgrief and sadness traced back to
this one monumental day in theGarden of Eden. Life question.
Have you ever felt hemmed in? Orstiffled by one of guys come in?
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How have you responded to thisfilm? All right. Let's break it
down. All right, because Iquestion the story. I'm always
questioning the stories ofbecause they're written by man
or woman or home. And I'm alwaysquestioning what is this story
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trying to resonate are tell meand what is God trying to
direct? And tell me now thequestion was, have you ever felt
him in our sinful by one ofGod's commands? How have you
responded to this feeling? SoI gotta tell you to do
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something, do it. Right. But howcan you decide are different?
What God is telling you? I'mgonna talk about me, okay.
There's a lot of things that Igot going on. I have my career.
I have a job. I'm a parent. I'ma friend. And I'm all of these
things, right? But first andforemost, I'm a child of God.
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And five years ago, I decided totake this spiritual journey to
get closer to God. I grew up inchurch, I grew up and around
people, Baptists and all of thisand I grew up with that already
installed in me but nothing wasresonated to me as to when I got
an adult and I became an adult.
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And I decided to take thisspiritual journey on my own
because I wanted to search forGod. Even though God is always
with me. It lives in me. It'sme, I needed to search within
me, and my surroundings andeverything to know that God was
right here with me. So I'malways question I'm always
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asking him, what is it that youwant me to do? How do you want
me to do it? Who do you want meto connect with? How do you want
me to speak? How do you want meto talk? How do you want me to
act? Because I never wantsociety or people to put their
things on me making me feel thatI need to be a certain type of
way or a certain type of person,to have a relationship with God.
So as I started to take thisjourney, God started to break
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things down for me, he startedto remove things, he started to
move people, he started toreveal himself or herself to me.
And I just started to get closerand closer to wanting to open
and share the Bible with peoplenot just closer to wanting to
open and share the Bible withpeople, not just share the Bible
with people, but share myexperience that I've been on
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with the Lord, our Creator. Now,I say the Lord our Creator,
because that's exactly how weare connected. We're connected,
connected to a Creator, whocreated all things, Heaven and
Earth. Good and bad, evil andgood. So I'm just like, okay,
Laura, you know, what is it thatyou want me to do? Now, if you
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guys can recall and remember,and go back to March 1 episode,
I literally said that I wasgoing to be doing a visual
episode, that next week, thatnext week came, and I was not
around, I was not even on apodcast, I was not in front of
the camera. I was not even doingwhat I'm supposed to be doing.
And I never, I never want to belike I'm a liar, right? But I'm
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gonna keep it real with youguys. Like, I'd be lying. Okay.
And so that was working on me,in this midst of this two months
span, I'm gonna say like, twomonths, yes, because it was
March and April. And this wholetime, I was thinking to myself,
Oh, my God, I gotta get this, Igotta have this, I gotta do this
to go visual, I gotta do this, Igotta do this, I gotta do that.
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And I'm literally ripping andtearing myself apart. And God,
it's like, you don't have to doany of that. You don't have to
be any of that, get your camera,set it up and read the Bible,
like I instructed you to do. SoI was battling with that for
this past two months, you guys.
And that's why I have not beenon my podcast or haven't put out
an episode. But it was so vitaland important to me to do this.
Now, because I'm like, You knowwhat, I need to listen to what
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my Creator is telling me to do,because he's trying to take,
it's trying to take me places,and I can't get there. If I'm
stuck on my own fleshly desiresand my own fleshly mindset of
thinking that I got to havethings figured out, I gotta have
it, I gotta have this. And whenGod tells you to do something,
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or tell you not to do somethingis very important and vital for
you to actually listen. Now noteverybody is going to be able to
listen or have the capacity tounderstand what is it that God
is trying to tell you? Or whatis he trying to tell you to stay
away from? Or what is he tryingto tell you to go to? I'm just
speaking on me. So when I readthe story of Genesis chapter
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three, yes, of course I questioncertain things. But one thing
stood out to me a God commandedsomething. You can have
everything in this garden ofEden. I mean, everything you can
have this you have that you havethis, but I just commanded you
to do one thing and it's nottouched this tree not eat from
it, or else you will die. Theserpent came along and trick not
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saying that he tricked the womanbecause he literally did not
trick her. He said, You surelywhen I die? You know, God knows
that your eyes will be open andyou'll have wisdom. So you
really wouldn't die. And justlike any other fleshly desire of
human, we're going to want totry to find out. Like if I was
Eve, I would have been like, Oh,I'm not gonna die. Oh, I'm gonna
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get some wisdom. I'm gonna belike a god. Why not? Because it
looks good. I think is good. Solet me go ahead and try the
fruit. I also would have donethe same thing. It's just no
human nature to do not sayingthat she set the tone for all
humanity. Because the man he didnot even have to eat the fruit.
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But he did. And I don't see himquestion her asking her what a
fruit came from. Or did you getthis from the fruit that God
told us not to eat from? Fromthe tree? That guy told us not
to eat from like, he didn'tquestion her like he lives he
literally just went and all andate it. And then we got came and
spoke to him. He tried to putthe blame on her. She tried to
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put the blame on a serpent. Andeverybody was curse, right? So
that's how I look at it. When Itell you to do something or not
to do something, just do it.
It's hard. But the outcome isgoing to be for the greater good
of you now why he cursed themand banned him out of the Garden
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of Eden. He literally gave themto the earth and was like here,
you're going to work, thegrounds that you came from,
you're going to eat from thefood that comes from the ground,
because as soon as you're donewith life, that's exactly where
you're going to go back to thatshe was made to dust you will go
back to God did not abandon Adamand Eve, he just kicked them out
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of the garden of paradise, to bekicked out of the garden of
paradise of heaven. Everythingthat you want and desire, it
makes you question and think orwonder, why did not listen to
what the Lord had commanded. Weall go through this, we all go
through this, I don't care rich,poor, happy, sad, mad, we all go
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through a phase where God isactually talking to us telling
us what to do and what not todo. And if you are a true
believer, or a person who want arelationship with Christ, or
God, you're gonna hear thingsand see things and feel things
because God actually works inour lives. Right? Me, for
instance, this podcast I wassupposed to do this visual two
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months ago. Why didn't I have onhere to do it two months ago, I
didn't have the confidence, Ididn't feel like I had
everything that I need. I didn'tfeel like I was prepared and
ready because I'm not apreacher. I'm not somebody who
just, you know, go out here andpreach the Word of God. And he's
like, No, but I am a believer,and I truly do have a
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relationship with the Creator.
And he assigned me to do this,not not just for myself, but for
other people too, but for mainlyfor me, because I wanted a
relationship with God. And Ineeded to know that no matter
what it is that I do, or what Igo through, I can be a dancer, I
can be a bartender, I can be astreet, street walker, I can be
a real estate agent, licensedagent, licensed esthetician, I
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can be anything in his world,yet God has still chose to use
me. And all I gotta do is openthis Bible and read it, read it
for me, read it for you. Andreally for anybody else who
wants to understand that ourrelationship with God matters,
our relationship with ourselvesmatters. And when God is
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speaking to you, and talking toyou, and telling you what to do,
or telling you what not to do,it's up for us, as people to
take that.
Serious to take it and be like,You know what, I'm going to
listen. Because if I don't, I'mgoing to lose the opportunity to
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be in the kingdom. To be inparadise, I'm going to lose the
opportunity to start wealth formy family, I'm going to lose the
opportunity to gain insight andget myself out of depression,
I'm going to lose theopportunity to heal be healed
from the Creator who created allthings I'm gonna lose the
opportunity to gainrelationships with other people
and bigger places and betterplaces and higher positions with
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me all because I'm not listeningat all because I want to take
initiative on my own or dothings on my own and go this way
when God is telling me to gothis way. So it's telling me to
go this way. So when I readGenesis three, it just made me
think about me, it made me thinkabout humanity, me think about
people and it made me thinkabout how Sam was created. He
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told him to do not do one thinghe gave him the whole garden of
Eden. He said don't touch thistree, don't eat it. Maybe don't
even look at it. Right. But ascurious as humans are, and
ambition and you know, feelinglike we got to have it on No at
all one at all. Unfortunately,in the first beginning of the
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Bible, sin was created. Thewoman did something by not
listening to God, by followingsomeone else is worried but not
believing what God told her andcaused them to be banished from
the Garden of Eden. Now, I doquestion certain things because
it was very wise of them tocreate garments for themselves.
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fig leaves, like, how did theyget the tools and material to
sell fig leaves? You know, I'msaying I watched Naked and
Afraid and I'd be like, Okay,that's creative, but you got to
have the tools. You got to havecertain things but the knowledge
is like the mindset, your wisdomlike that, that comes from the
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Lord that comes from theCreator. And so for them to be
able to do that. I'm like, Oh,that was smart. Oh, that was the
wisdom from the tree. thatunderstanding, so fig leaves
together. And you know, whenthey hid from God and things
like that, to me, it's not like,oh, they were ashamed or they
were, they were shameful. No, itwas more like so they did
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something that they shouldn't bedoing, and they feel bad for it.
Or not even knowing how God willreact to them for doing such
crazy things. Like you listen tosomebody else, you listen to me,
or whatever. So, but it's veryinteresting and intriguing to me
as I go into the Bible andresearch stories and just
understand how God works, youknow, and it's just talking to
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me, because I see you know, fromthe stories how you could try to
put the blame on somebody but inall initiative, the man did what
he did. The woman did where hewas she did in a certain day
with what he what he did, andthey all got cursed the woman
got hers she we give likechildbirth is like super
painful. Our periods and stuffsuper painful. The man gawkers,
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he always got to work, he got towork from the ground, he got to
support his family. Like it'salways been in key the ground
state that God said you willwork from the ground that you
come from. So man beingproviders is like it's in the
Bible, but Angola too much tothat, because we got into how
the fall and how sand was justcreated. It was created by not
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listening. And I don't know likethem. What I know like me, I
don't always listen, here I amtwo months later, don't have
visual when I should have beendoing is two months ago. But I
know for a fact that God isdoing something great in my
life. So I'm going to startright here where I'm at. And I'm
going to use what he gave mebecause I know that he's going
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to provide for me. And I'm justso grateful and happy to have
this platform that I'm creating,that God has given me the
opportunity to create, so that Ican touch his people to talk to
his people and know that we'reall in this together. It is
literally the relationship ofChrist, not religion, because
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the story is just touch anddeath of so many people in so
many things all over the world.
You don't have to be Muslim,Catholic, Christian, or whatever
it is have relationship with Godbecause God is for all of us.
It's within us. It's however youidentify your God, whether man
or woman, him Shem Wim themhowever you want to pronounce
our call it pronouns or whateveryou want to say, God is the
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Creator of all things. And whenhe tells us to do something, and
he tells us not to do something,we as people have the
opportunity to listen toappreciate to, you know, just
sometimes not touch it or not gofor it or not. Leave it in God's
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hands, you know, don't eat fromthe tree that he's telling you
not to eat from and I'm justtalking just hypothetically
doesn't have to be the tree ofgarden, the tree of Eden. The
Tree of Life. When you tell youdon't hang with certain people,
or don't go certain places, anddon't talk about certain things,
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you know, like this all is inconnection to what the stories
are trying to relate to. So youguys, this was our first episode
of visual and I'm so excitedthat I actually got on here
excuse my hair excuse what'sgoing on. I'm actually about to
go into work. But I'm excited tojump into this and go visual and
start start reading the Bibleout in visually so that you can
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see how it to me off all realshort of sometimes listening to
God. I was supposed to do thistwo months ago. And here I am on
March. March amalan, March shit,shoot, here I am. May 3, try to
do my visual. And yeah, I gotsome work to do. I got some
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catching up to do. But I'mexcited to be here. And I hope
you guys are excited to be here.
Do not be a stranger, click onthe links, follow my Instagram
follow you to follow everythingas I put things into order, as I
get my team into order as I getmy cousin's through Christ in
order as I build on thisrelationship with God and just
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continue to listen to what Godis telling me to do. Continue to
walk this journey with God andfront and not do anything for
cloud or to chase or it's to belike, Hey, look at me like I
love the Lord like no, if youdon't love the Lord, that's your
business. But I do love the Lordand I love exactly what he's
putting me through and taking methrough because I don't look
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like what I've been through. AndI'll get into the more stories
about that in depth later on.
But you can listen to anyepisode, you can go on to the
podcast and listen to anyepisode. Let's see how far this
podcast has come and how far isgoing. I'm super excited to
touch base back with mylisteners and I'm super excited
to get things in order. Tostart, like, coming together and
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really just create a communityof people who are related
through Christ, and who actuallywant a relationship with God,
and don't have a problem withsharing the Word of God with
other people not to put God onpeople, because I don't like
when people do that. You don'tknow when people want to do it,
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you don't know what God istrying to talk to people about.
So to try to tell me how Ishouldn't be or how I should
act, or all this good stuff, andall of this great stuff, I leave
that up to God, my job is tosimply just read the Bible and
just showed you how God isworking in my life. He has
brought me super, super far. AndI know this is just the pre
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beginning of where He's takingme. And I'm excited to see where
it's going. And I'm excited tobring all my clients hell and
people that's connected to me tojust know that God is amazing,
okay. And I'm excited to behere. Not all the time, will I
show up with this personalityand his attitude, but I will
show up to show you how andwho's in control of my life. And
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that is the Creator who createdall things both good and bad,
however, you want to identifyour Creator. So this is blessed
to be as on your cousin toChrist launch. I love that and
you have been rocking with mefor the past 30 minutes. And I'm
excited to take this visuallyand go on YouTube. So don't be a
stranger press Like, share,comment. And yeah, just keep me
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posted. And come back with meand share another story next
week. As I dive in to Isaiahchapter 52. Salvation
prophesied. Again, I'm not aprophesy and I'm not a preacher.
So if you're looking forsomebody to do that, go ahead
and follow one of these great,great preachers speakers that I
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also listened to as well.
There's a lot of people that Itake heed and listen to, but
there is one Creator who Iactually follow and that is the
board and so I encourage youguys to do the same. So until
next time, you guys I will talkto you next time. Bye
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