1. The Post-Christian Gospel Message

5. Acts 2:38
38 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins.

6. The Great Question of the Age
If God is all-powerful and good, why is there so much pain and suffering in the world?

7. Genesis 2:16-17
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

8. Genesis 3:1-3
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

9. Genesis 3:4-5
4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

10. Genesis 3:6
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

11. Consequences of Rebellion
Shame, Guilt & Fear

12. Genesis 3:7-8
7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 

13. Consequences of Rebellion
Shame, Guilt & Fear
Pain in Childbearing

14. Genesis 3:16
“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;     with painful labor you will give birth to children.

15. Consequences of Rebellion
Shame, Guilt & Fear
Pain in Childbearing
Thorns and Toil

16. Genesis 3:17-18
“Cursed is the ground because of you;     through painful toil you will eat food from it     all the days of your life. 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,     and you will eat the plants of the field.

17. Consequences of Rebellion
Shame, Guilt & Fear
Pain in Childbearing
Thorns and Toil
Death & Disease

18. Genesis 3:21; 5:5
21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. 5 Altogether, Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.

19. Consequences of Rebellion
Shame, Guilt & Fear
Pain in Childbearing
Thorns and Toil
Death & Disease
Carnivorism, Violence

20. Genesis 1:29-30
29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.

21. Genesis 4:8
8 Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

22. Consequences of Rebellion
Shame, Guilt & Fear
Pain in Childbearing
Thorns and Toil
Death & Disease
Carnivorism, Violence
Natural Disasters

23. Genesis 1:9
9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so.

24. The World Today

25. Genesis 8:21
21 The Lord… said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood.

26. Genesis 6:11-13
11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence.12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.

27. Genesis 6:17
17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.

28. Genesis 8:21
“Never again will I curse the ground because of humans…

29. The World Today

30. Consequences of Rebellion
Shame, Guilt & Fear
Pain in Childbearing
Thorns and Toil
Death & Disease
Carnivorism, Violence
Natural Disasters

31. The Great Question of the Age
If God is all-powerful and good, why is there so much pain and suffering in the world? We Blew it!

32. The Cover-Up
Shame, Guilt & Fear

33. The Cover-Up
Shame, Guilt & Fear
Pain in Childbearing

34. The Cover-Up
Shame, Guilt & Fear
Pain in Childbearing
Thorns and Toil

36. The Cover-Up Shame, Guilt & Fear Pain in Childbearing Thorns and Toil
Death & Disease

38. Hadrosaurs

39. The Cover-Up Shame, Guilt & Fear Pain in Childbearing Thorns and Toil
Death & Disease
Carnivorism, Violence

41. The Cover-Up Shame, Guilt & Fear Pain in Childbearing Thorns and Toil
Death & Disease
Carnivorism, Violence
Natural Disasters

42. The World Today

43. Consequences of Rebellion
Shame, Guilt & Fear
Pain in Childbearing
Thorns and Toil
Death & Disease
Carnivorism, Violence
Natural Disasters

44. Romans 6:23
23 For the wages of sin is death…

45. Genesis 3:1
“Did God really say…”

46. The Great Question of the Age
If God is all-powerful and good, why is there so much pain and suffering in the world?

47. Romans 6:23
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

49. Prayer Available
If you need prayer, the elders are available to pray for you after the service.