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The Deep End
The Deep End
Date: 21 January 2024
Speaker: Eric Atchison
- Created for it (Garden)
- Sin entered (“is God really good?”)
- Barriers to intimacy showed up
- Restoring intimacy
- Laying down our life
- 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)
- 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
- Intimacy requires trust
- You can’t receive anything until you open yourself up
- Intimacy is the reward of commitment
- 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
- Some love their lives
- God:
- Loves us (John 3:16)
- Will work everything for our good (Rom 8:28)
- Therefore, can be trusted when He leads
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