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Service: Women and the Work of God, Part 2
As promised at the end of our last workout session, we are back to finish what we started in our exercise on Service: Women and the Work of God. There, in Part One, in pursuit of a better understanding of the role God intends for Women to play in the Service of His Kingdom, we once again went back to the story of Adam and Eve, looking at it to determine… God’s Purposes for the Sexes; God’s Punishment of the Sexes; and, God’s Promise to the Sexes. As a result, we discovered that in His quest for a Family to love, God created Man as a Spirit Being, a Spirit…
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The Perils of Personal Autonomy
When the last installment of God’s One Big Story ended, here is where we were in the Story: God had created a beautiful world and designed it perfectly to sustain the lives of the people He would soon be creating. When this earthly home was completed, God created Man, a being so much like Himself that he would have no problem in being adopted as one of God’s Sons. Next, God created a Garden Sanctuary where He and the Man could meet regularly for fellowship, and upon its completion, He placed the man in the Garden and designated it as his new home. As it was a grace gift…
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And Now the Drama Begins…
When our last meeting ended, we were left waiting, poised for the drama of the ages that was about to unfold before us. Today, this is how we find the stage set before us: the first Man and Woman have been created, they are living in a garden paradise which has been prepared especially for them, in an idyllic state of innocence, and they have been entrusted with a specific word of instruction from God concerning the tree that was growing in the center of their garden. As we learned last time, Man was created for the express purpose of becoming a Son–a Child of God–however, before that could happen,…