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Central Papua Conference

Randy Skeete

The Blame Game

Loving Father in heaven, I stand before you as your servant.

I offer myself to you, dear God, as an instrument.

My desire is to present the truth as clearly as I can.

And in so doing, dear God, bring glory to your name and to the name of your Son, Jesus Christ.

Because I'm a human being, dear God, because I'm made of dust, I am weak.

And so I ask you, dear Father, as you took dust and made Adam, take this dust and make me an effective loud speaker of the truth.

Father, let the Spirit speaking through me be the Spirit that enlightens everyone listening tonight.

Please, Father, let lives change as a result of tonight's message.

Thank you, dear God, for the high honor of speaking for you.

Thank you, dear God, for the blessed privilege of being in Papua New Guinea, this blessed land.

Now that God received this prayer, I've offered it in Jesus' name.

We're reading from the King James Version of the Bible.

The Bible says, and the Lord God commanded the man saying, of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it.

For in the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die.

When God made Adam, Genesis 2, 7, and the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul, Adam was made an adult.

Adam is the only human being on this earth who ever began as an adult.

He was made a full-grown intelligent man and so of course was Eve.

So I should say Adam and Eve were the only human beings that began as adults.

Even Jesus began as a child, a baby, an infant.

Because of this, Adam understood the limitations God placed on him in Genesis 2, 16, of Every tree of the garden thou may freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it." Adam as an adult, a grown man, if I may use that expression, With mature faculties, he understood what God meant when he said, do not eat of that tree.

The Bible says, Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.

And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

And this woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it lest ye die.

And the serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not surely die.

For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

Now the devil said in Genesis 3 verse 4, you shall not surely die.

God said in Genesis 2 17, thou shall surely die.

Adam and Eve had to choose God's Word or the devil's Word.

Let me show you what Adam did, which people do today, Adam and Eve.

The Bible says, By the word of the Lord were the heavens made and all the hosts of them by the breath of his mouth.

He commanded, and it stood fast." Psalm 33, verses 6 and 9.

The Bible says in Hebrews 11, verse 3, Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God.

So heaven and earth were made by God's Word.

In Bible Commentary Volume 1, page 1081, paragraph 1, Elowite writes, God spoke and his words created his works in the natural world.

The Word of God created, which means that the tree in which the serpent perhaps was sitting was proof of the power of God's Word.

The very tree in which the serpent was coiled was proof that God's Word could be trusted.

The very grass on which Eve stood as she gazed into that tree was proof of the power of God's Word.

Genesis 111, the Bible says, and God said, let the earth bring forth grass.

Verse 12, and the earth brought forth grass.

And so Eve was surrounded by evidence of the power and the reliability and the truthfulness of the Word of God.

The very serpent was a result of the Word of God.

Genesis 1.24, and God said, let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth after his kind.

The serpent did not creep before it was cursed, But it was 1 of the beasts of the earth.

The serpent itself was proof of the power of God's Word.

Now follow me closely as I press on with the blame game.

That same Word said, in the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die.

The same word from the same source the mouth of God Now here comes another word from another mouth he shall not surely die There was no evidence at all anywhere in the universe But let's stick to earth no proof visual or otherwise, that the devil's word had power.

Let me slow down, try to convince myself you're listening.

Was there evidence that God's Word could be trusted?

All of creation was proof of the power of God's Word.

What existed to demonstrate the power of Satan's word?

I don't want to preach 2 sermons, but since I'm living on on sunday, I want to say a lot of things Do you know that's how people keep sunday today?

Have you ever found a text in the Bible that says the first day of the week is holy?

The same thing Adam did and Eve did, taking someone's word that has no power and placing it above God's word.

I don't want to make anyone upset or angry with me, but this must cause us to stop and think.

And this is not a Sunday sermon, don't get me, don't misunderstand me, but the Spirit just told me to say it.

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