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InVerse, 4th Quarter 2020: Education

Justin Kim

Israel Ramos

Jonathan Walter

Callie Williams

01 Acquaint Yourself with God

Sebastien Braxton

Sikhu Daco

02 Knowing God as Creator

03 Knowing God as Redeemer

04 Higher than the Highest

05 Unselfishness and True Development

06 Adventist Education

07 Education and Character

08 Education and Faith

09 Education and Sabbath

10 The School of the Sanctuary

11 The Schools of the Prophets

12 The School of Life

13 The Revolution of Jesus Christ

We hear the cliche all the time, I've been saved, I've been saved, I was saved on November whatever, whatever.

What are we saved from and who are we saved to on this episode of Inverse?

Coming to you from Silver Spring, Maryland, welcome to Inverse, a Bible-based conversation on life principles, contemporary issues, and thought-provoking perspectives.

Now here's your host, Justin Kim, with Inverse.

In this topic of education, we've been looking at different aspects of education.

Not education in the book sense, not education in the curriculum sense, not education in the school sense, but education in the spiritual sense.

Thanks so much for joining us on this episode of Inverse.

We are in this arc of education and we have our friends in the studio and we want to welcome you to take a deeper look at education, whether you're educated or not, whether you have a degree or not.

And this is a topic that's kind of abstract and we've been kind of floating around, but so far, I think the last 2 episodes have been very, very, very good.

And I've been very, very blessed by them.

We're going to have a prayer by Brother Sebastian.

And that sounds different in a different way.

Anyway, let's, please pray for us because we need it right now.

Our Father, we thank You so much for Your Word.

And we especially want to thank you for being our Redeemer.

And we ask that you may guide us in this discussion and we pray with David that you would open our eyes that we may behold wondrous things.

So, we're looking at this topic of God, knowing God as Redeemer, Redeemer.

And some themes are going to be repeated, but I think that's good because some of these things are kind of up there and we don't want to be just kind of waxing eloquently and living in ivory towers, but repetition is good for the soul.

Let's go to Genesis 3, Genesis 3 chapter 3 verses 1 through 15, and then Callie, if you can read that for us, That'd be great.

Starting in verse 1, Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.

And he said to the woman, Has God indeed said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, you shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.

Then the serpent said to the woman, You will not surely die, For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.

So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make 1 wise, she took of its fruit and ate.

She also gave to her husband with her and he ate.

Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they knew that they were naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.

And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, Where are you?

So he said, I heard your voice in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid myself.

And he said, who told you that you were naked?

Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?

Then the woman said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.

And the Lord God said to the woman, what is this you have done?

The woman said, the serpent deceived me, and I ate.

So the Lord God said to the serpent, because you have done this, You are cursed more than all cattle and more than every beast of the field.

On your belly you shall go and you shall eat dust all the days of your life and I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed.

He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel.

That was a long passage, but I think this was very foundational to what we're trying to do or trying to talk about here, especially that last verse, verse 15.

So for those of you who are reading along with us, and if you may have zonked out or if you are paying attention to your phone, we want you to go back to the text and read it over because it's good to get this in your mind.

So Siku, maybe we can rewind a little bit and in the last 2 episodes, what are some things, what are some points that you remember or kind of fly over and catch us up to speed on this episode?

Okay, well, like you said, we've talked about being acquainted with God as the foundational thing in our education, an acquaintance with God, and then in the next episode, we're talking with being acquainted with Him as Creator, because this gives us insight into who God is and the way that Who he is impacts our education?

Him as a creator and Coming to now so we were Genesis chapter 1 and chapter 2 he creates everything He creates humanity and He creates us in His image.

I'll call the beginning, especially the beginning verses in chapter 3, the fall of man, the miseducation of humanity.

We always want to make sure that that is established because there are some people out there, oh, it was just the man that fell on her.

But I just, I don't know, the narrative does point out that the woman was the first to be tempted.

Yes, and yet it was Adam's fall that plunged us into all this.

This conversation must take place in every church, in every youth group.

For Thousands of years after this this is Adam and Eve has cut yeah So the fall of humanity, okay, the fall of humanity out of nothing out term the miseducation of humanity because you have, I mean, you have right there the serpent saying, did God say this?

But God said this because He's trying to withhold knowledge from you.

And so there's this element of God is trying to withhold some kind of knowledge or information from you that can be granted to you outside of the confines of His will.

So, and that's how we fall into this whole mess.

Yeah, that was a very, very profound point, brought up a couple episodes, I don't know which episode, but that there is...

I mean these individuals had unadulterated contact with God.

They had access to all infinity, everything, And the temptation wasn't for them to like, hey, follow me, or, I mean, there was all those components too, but the main thing was, hey, there's some information that's being withheld from you.

There is some knowledge, there's some education, if you will, that's outside the purview and that will make you better, more, or whatever, you know, we read the text.

That's a very profound point because that is the temptation that all of us encounter on a daily basis in terms of our lifetimes as well.

And going off of your point is it causes us to undermine this idea that more is always better.

And we kind of get into the, you know, what 1 researcher calls the paradox of choice, that more options actually leads to greater happiness.

But the research shows that's the opposite, right?

It's the fewer the options, the greater the limitations, the more satisfaction with the choices that are made.

So when God comes in and says, yeah, don't eat of this tree, the restriction is so small compared to the freedom that exists.

But yet the devil is like, no, any restriction is a bad restriction.

But in the biblical concept of how to develop a person, it lets us know that no, only certain information is useful and valuable.

You don't need to know evil in order to do good and to pursue good and to live according to God's purpose.

And in terms of quantity, the irony is that that which is evil is 1 tree.

That which is good are all the trees at rest.

And so in terms of quantity, it's not even a really a statistical Negligible number but that is what what Satan won with Statistic but as I say the lie comes to actually a distrust of God's character.

So it's saying, yes, God has withheld this 1 thing from you, but it's because his character is malicious.

So if you're going to trust God as your educator or as the 1 who is going to develop you, you can't trust him because he has withheld this from you.

So it really comes down to a trust of God's character, which interestingly enough, like in any educational situation it really does come down to trust.

Do you trust the person who is giving you this information?

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InVerse, 4th Quarter 2020: Education

03 Knowing God as Redeemer

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InVerse, 4th Quarter 2020: Education

01 Acquaint Yourself with God

27m

InVerse, 1st Quarter 2021: Romans

06 Dead to Sin!

27m

How YOU can Study the Bible with Seekers

1h 32m

InVerse, 2nd Quarter 2020: How to Know God’s Will for Your Life

05-Career or Calling?

27m

InVerse, 2nd Quarter 2022: James

13 Faith That Works

26m

Laodicea Study

Laodicea Study Recap

30m

Sabbath School 2nd Quarter 2026: Growing in a Relationship With God

01 Reality Check

20m

Talking Points 3rd Quarter 2024: The Book of Mark

09 Jerusalem Controversies

29m

InVerse, 2nd Quarter 2019: Family Seasons

02-The Choices We Make

28m

To Jesus by Night

59m

InVerse 2nd Quarter 2024: The Great Controversy

03 The Choice is Yours

29m

Sound Doctrine