God made us to work…and sometimes it’s satisfying, but lots of the time it can be pretty frustrating!

Ever had a day at work like this…

Genesis 2:2-3,15
2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3 And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done…15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
Genesis 3:17-19
17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of 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. 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”

So is that it? Work sucks and then you die?
Thankfully no. We were made for much more than that!
Instead of looking for the prefect job, or an endless holiday, what you’re really yearning for is to enter the rest God has for His people…now, and into eternity.

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Genesis 2:2-3,15; 3:17-19

“Everyone should be able to choose what’s right and wrong for themselves. People’s morals are their own private choice. It’s my life and I’ll live it my own way”

Looks like it wasn’t just Adam and Eve who’s been listening to the serpent…

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’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 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.’ ” “You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 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. 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. (Genesis 3:1-7)

The world is not as it should be because we are not as we should be…

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Genesis 3:1-24

God made us male and female.
He invented sex and marriage.
He made men and women equal,
but different.
And he has greater purposes for our relationships than our own satisfaction or happiness.
Will you listen to your Creator about gender roles, sex and marriage and trust that his purposes are good?

Genesis 2:18-25
The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”…Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib He had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. the man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame. (Genesis 2:18-25)

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“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1)
What about evolution?
And what significance (if any) does mankind have in a universe as big as this?
Does it really matter where we came from?

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Genesis 1:1-2:3

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The night before Jesus died one of his disciples chopped the ear off one of the men who came to arrest Him. But Jesus said: “Put your sword away! Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me?”

What was in the cup?
And what’s that got to do with me?

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John 18:1-14

God is sovereign over all things – he’s in control of the universe (and all the events in our lives). Jesus taught that part of God’s sovereignty is that He chooses who He will give eternal life to, and who He won’t. He said: “You did not choose me, but I chose you” – so it’s not our choice, but his.
This is known as predestination.
But what about free will?
And how is it fair that he’d choose some, but not all?
And if God is the one who chooses who’ll be saved from his judgment, why bother sharing the gospel and praying for unbelievers to accept the gospel (if it’s all been predestined)?

What does Jesus teach about predestination in the gospel of John?

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*sorry about the sound quality – we were meeting ‘unplugged’ in the scout hall and experienced a few glitches with the recording….but hey, God is sovereign

Why does God want his people to be unified?
Jesus prayed: “May they be bought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me”
God wants his church to be unified for the sake of His mission.
Are you on board with that?
Are your relationships with other believers a visible demonstration of God’s love and the unity that exists within the Trinity?

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John 17:20-26

Check out the Word on the street:
What does God want the church to be like?

Do you stand out, or blend in?
Jesus prayed: “My prayer is not that you take them out of the world…Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world.”
How’s that going for you?
Are you living out your Sent-ness and your Sanctification?

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John 17:1-19