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The Deep End

The Deep End

Date: 21 January 2024

Speaker: Eric Atchison

Overall Flow: Intimacy
  • Created for it (Garden)
  • Sin entered (“is God really good?”)
  • Barriers to intimacy showed up
  • Restoring intimacy
    • Laying down our life
Greatest desire: Being fully seen, known, and loved
Greatest fear: Being fully seen & known, and NOT loved
  • Back to the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:25)
  • Sin enters in “Is God withholding from you?” (Genesis 3:1-6)
  • Barriers to intimacy showed up (Genesis 3:7-10)
 
Barriers to intimacy
  • Fear
    • Self-protection…
    • Bible Verses
      • Perfect love casts out fear
  • Shame
    • Self-doubt…belief in the wrong identity about myself
    • Worldly sorrow: 2 Corinthians 7:8-10
    • Bible verses
      • Isaiah 54:4
      • 1 John 1:9
      • 1 John 2:1
  • Pride
    • Self-reliance…which is idolatry
    • Bible Verses
      • God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble
  1. Intimacy requires trust
  2. You can’t receive anything until you open yourself up
  3. Intimacy is the reward of commitment
 
Restoring intimacy
  • Lay down your life, whatever it looks like
    • Some love their lives
      • Matthew 19:16-30 (Rich Young Ruler)
    • Some hate their lives, but venturing into the unknown is even worse than the familiar hard
  • God:
    • Loves us (John 3:16)
    • Will work everything for our good (Rom 8:28)
    • Therefore, can be trusted when He leads
 
End in repentence!!
 

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