How Did Things Go So Wrong?

If you have your Bibles, please turn with me to Genesis chapter 3, verses 1 through 19. It says:

“Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, ‘Has God really said, “You shall not eat of any tree of the garden”?’

The woman said to the serpent, ‘We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden, but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, “You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.”’

The serpent said to the woman, ‘You won’t really die, for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.’

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too. Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.

They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from Yahweh God’s presence among the trees of the garden. Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, ‘Where are you?’

The man said, ‘I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.’

God said, ‘Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?’

The man said, ‘The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.’

Yahweh God said to the woman, ‘What have you done?’

The woman said, ‘The serpent deceived me, and I ate.’

Yahweh God said to the serpent,

‘Because you have done this,
you are cursed above all livestock,
and above every animal of the field.
You shall go on your belly
and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
I will put hostility between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring.
He will bruise your head,
and you will bruise his heel.’

To the woman he said,

‘I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth.
You will bear children in pain.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.’

To Adam he said,

‘Because you have listened to your wife’s voice,
and have eaten from the tree,
about which I commanded you, saying, “You shall not eat of it,”
the ground is cursed for your sake.
You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.
It will yield thorns and thistles to you;
and you will eat the herb of the field.
You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground,
for you were taken out of it.
For you are dust,
and you shall return to dust.’”

—Genesis 3:1–19, WEB

This is the word of the Lord.

A Buffet Ruined Forever

If I can get a quick show of hands, does anybody here like buffets?

I do.

So I’m a buffet guy.

I love a buffet.

I’ve got a high metabolism so I can afford to love a buffet without literally putting myself in danger.

All the men in my family, their metabolism just drops out from under them about the time they turn 40, so I’ve got 10 years left that I can keep going to buffets without major consequences, and you best believe I’m going to enjoy the heck out of those 10 years while they last.

Someday soon we’re gonna get a good buffet here in Louisburg, and all bets are gonna be off, especially if it’s like a Chinese buffet, or something.

But I love buffets.

And what is the number one buffet in America?

Golden Corral.

The people of America love Golden Corral.

That is why there is one in nearly every city in America with a population above about 5000.

It is hard to drive anywhere in the continental US where you’re not within 100 miles or so of a Golden Corral.

It is the number one buffet in the country.

And my extended family is crazy for Golden Corral.

I remember growing up, every family reunion we went to Golden Corral afterwards—at least the members of the family who actually liked each other.

Every time we went to visit for some holiday or something like that, we always ended up at Golden Corral with a table of about 20 people on my mom’s side of the family.

So I have a lot of memories walking through Golden Corral lines, pretending to like their terrible chicken wings, all that.

But as an adult, I have a hard time eating at Golden Corral because of this downright traumatic experience I had.

One time when I was a kid, I was with my mom’s side of the family for a funeral or a reunion or something like that.

And as always, we ended up at Golden Corral.

We got the table, pre-blessed the food, and then they sent all us kids off into the line to go get our food.

And since I was maybe nine years old or something like that, I tried to sneakily get dessert first.

You know how they put the dessert on that same platform where they put the salads? So they have the best food right next to the worst food, right?

So I went over to the salad/dessert station, and I started grabbing cookies and those tiny little disgusting jell-o squares, and all that.

And I was having the time of my life.

But then I looked over and I saw another kid.

This is not a kid who was part of my extended family. He wasn’t one of mine. We didn’t claim him.

But I watched this kid lean his head back, and sneeze directly onto his hands.

And it was a little kid sneeze, so it was just full of stuff straight from his nose.

And he just kind of looked at his hands for a second, then went back to what he was doing.

Now, his dad was right in front of him.

And the kid said, “Daddy look, salad!”

And he shoved his hands straight into the salad, and he grabbed two big handfuls of salad, and he lifted them up, and he shoved one of his fists into his mouth.

Like, he got his mouth around the entire fist and was, like, chewing on the salad and his fist at the same time.

And his dad turned around, and he saw what his son was doing, and I’ll never forget what he said.

Because he grabbed hold of his son’s color, and he yelled at the top of his lungs, “Put that back!”

So the kid pulled his fist full of salad out of his mouth, reached over, and put the salad back down into the container, and then ran off somewhere else in the store to wreak more havoc.

I near-about threw up right there on the spot. I should have thrown up in the salad, I’d have been saving everybody from the contamination, right?

And I’m not a germaphobe by any stretch of the imagination. I will eat something off the floor as long as I get it fast enough and there’s no hair on it.

But that moment just ruined Golden Corral for me.

From that moment, I could never eat at a Golden Corral again unless there was a gun to my head.

It was tainted in my mind.

It was soiled in my mind.

From that point on, Golden Corral was permanently damaged in my mind, and I could never set foot in one again.

No matter how much I love buffets, Golden Corral was just permanently ruined for me.

A World Ruined by the Fall

And as we continue on in our What is the Gospel series this morning, we’re learning about something called “the Fall.”

We’re learning about the way that our world is Fallen.

Our world is broken.

Our world has been short circuited and ripped away from God’s good original design.

As silly as it sounds, there’s a sense in which, kinda like Golden Corral was ruined for me, our world has been ruined by the Fall.

And the ruinous effects of the Fall have fundamentally shaped every part of our lives living here in this Fallen and broken world.

And the grand storyline of the Bible is the story of how, ever since the Fall, the God of the Bible has been working to redeem and restore our Fallen world and us along with it.

And we’re gonna zero in on what all of this means as we continue our What is the Gospel series this morning.

The Good World God Created

Now, last week, we began by asking the question, “Where did we come from?”

Why are we here? What do we exist for? What is life supposed to be like?

And what we learned last week was that a good God created a good world full of good things for his good purposes.

He created the world in joy and for joy.

God created all things so that he could share his eternal joy with all of creation.

And in that process, he created us in His image with an infinite and immeasurable value and worth.

And he placed us in this world that he created to be both useful and enjoyable, and he gave us dominion over it.

He gave us authority over it.

He placed us here to be stewards of creation, cultivators of creation, innovators of creation.

We were created to spend eternity, basking in the perfect peace and joy of this good world God created, and to contribute our own stewardship and dominion and creativity on to it.

So last week we got this beautiful picture of what life was like in this good world created by this good God for His good purpose.

But because of the beauty of the beginning, we have to ask a very important question.

How Did Things Go So Wrong?

We have to ask, “How did things go so wrong?”

How did the beauty of the beginning give way to the ugliness of the present?

How did the beauty of creation get swept up by the horrors of the Fall?

How did this good world created by a good God for good purposes become Fallen and broken and filled with grief and suffering and injustice?

That’s the question we have to answer this morning: How did things go so wrong?

But in order to answer that question, we once again have to rewind back to the book of Genesis. We have to pick up exactly where we left off last week. Listen to what Genesis 3 says:

“Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, ‘Has God really said, “You shall not eat of any tree of the garden”?’

The woman said to the serpent, ‘We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden, but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, “You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.”’

The serpent said to the woman, ‘You won’t really die, for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.’

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too. Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.

They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from Yahweh God’s presence among the trees of the garden. Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, ‘Where are you?’

The man said, ‘I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.’

God said, ‘Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?’

The man said, ‘The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.’

Yahweh God said to the woman, ‘What have you done?’

The woman said, ‘The serpent deceived me, and I ate.’

Yahweh God said to the serpent,

‘Because you have done this,
you are cursed above all livestock,
and above every animal of the field.
You shall go on your belly
and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
I will put hostility between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring.
He will bruise your head,
and you will bruise his heel.’

To the woman he said,

‘I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth.
You will bear children in pain.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.’

To Adam he said,

‘Because you have listened to your wife’s voice,
and have eaten from the tree,
about which I commanded you, saying, “You shall not eat of it,”
the ground is cursed for your sake.
You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.
It will yield thorns and thistles to you;
and you will eat the herb of the field.
You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground,
for you were taken out of it.
For you are dust,
and you shall return to dust.’”

—Genesis 3:1–19, WEB

Cosmic Mutiny

Now, to understand what’s going on here, we have to the decision Adam and Eve are making here in Genesis 3.

Because they’re not just making a decision about a fruit.

They’re making a decision about who to serve.

They’re making the decision to follow the serpent instead of the Lord.

They chose to rebel against His Kingship, against his Godhood, against his authority—but more than anything, they rebelled against his rule and his ways and his design.

What Adam and Eve are doing here is committing cosmic mutiny against the good God who created this good world for his good purposes.

And in the process, they subvert his good purposes, and they break his good world.

They break the original shalom of God’s creation.

And the result is that this world that God created no longer works the way God made it to.

This world that God created no longer functions the way God designed it to.

You can still see glimmers of the goodness of creation all over the place, but they are just glimmers, they’re just glimpses.

Rather than the overwhelming beauty of God’s original creative design, we now live in a distorted world.

A poisoned world.

A tainted world.

You could say that our world is sick.

Our world is diseased.

Our world is held captive.

Our world is in bondage to sin and brokenness.

Our world is enslaved to darkness.

All because of the cosmic mutiny that humanity embarked on in Genesis three.

And the result is that our world is Fallen and broken now in a way that it was never meant to be.

And we’re gonna spend this morning talking about what that looks like.

Are you ready?

Okay.

The World Around Us Is Broken

First things first, the world around us is broken.

The rest of the world is broken.

The environment is broken.

The ecosystem is broken.

It sounds silly, but you could literally say the weather patterns are broken.

There’s not supposed to be hurricanes.

There’s not supposed to be wildfires.

I grew up in Tornado Alley, so every few months, you had to go somewhere underground, because the wind just decided it wanted to kill you.

There’s not supposed to be tornadoes.

There’s not supposed to be droughts.

There’s not supposed to be diseases like malaria.

There’s not supposed to be parasitic organisms that can only grow inside the human eye.

There’s not supposed to be flesh eating diseases that pool up on lake water, so a bunch of teenagers go out for spring break and come back home with only half a face.

Human cells are not supposed to turn into cancer and multiply uncontrollably and eat you from the inside.

None of these things are supposed to exist.

This is not part of God’s created design.

This is a distortion of God’s created design.

But it’s the inevitable result of our cosmic rebellion.

We rebelled against the good God who made the world good for his good purposes, and what we got as a result of our rebellion was a broken world.

And so now where it’s meant to bless us, it curses us.

It cuts us.

The environment itself is broken and out of control.

And so we have natural disasters, disease, tragedy because when we brought sin into the world, we broke the world.

The Human Body Is Broken

But we are just getting started, because at exactly the same time, the human body is broken.

Know what I’m talking about?

The human body is broken.

It’s harder to stand up when you’re 80 than when you’re 18, because your body’s been wearing down throughout your life.

Every time winter comes, you either get the cold or the flu or some other virus or infection or something like that.

Some of us are going to experience the truly gut wrenching horror of Alzheimer’s, dementia.

A day is going to come when you’re going to look at your firstborn child and you’re not going to know who they are, because your brain has degenerated to that point.

That’s not supposed to happen.

That is not part of God’s original design.

We weren’t meant to break down. We weren’t meant to lose control of our bodies. We weren’t meant to get devastatingly sick. And we weren’t meant to die.

We were meant to live forever.

We were meant to be eternal like God is eternal. We are meant to be permanent like God is permanent.

But now we cannot escape death.

We eventually return to dust—because when we brought sin into the world, it broke God’s design for human bodies.

Our Relationship with the Future Is Broken

But we are still just getting started, because even our relationship with the future is broken.

Our ability to reproduce is broken. Our ability to propagate our species is broken.

Because bringing new children into the world was meant to be one of the greatest joys we could ever experience.

Creating new life is meant to be one of the most beautiful things in the world.

But now it’s dangerous.

Now it’s painful, sometimes excruciating.

To the point that most of the time when you go to deliver your baby, they literally have to inject a bunch of epidural needles into your spine to numb you from the often unbearable pain that comes with it.

And sometimes childbirth is even deadly to the mother or the child.

That is not the way it’s supposed to be.

That is not how God designed it childbearing to work.

The Fall Warps Us Within

But when we introduced sin into the world through our cosmic mutiny against the Lord, it broke God’s design for child bearing.

The world around us is a radically Fallen and broken world.

But the Fall doesn’t just warp the world around us. It also warps us within.

It’s not just the world that’s broken. We are broken.

There’s not just something wrong with the world we live in. There’s something wrong with us.

I like the way the prophet Jeremiah puts it. He says:

“The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?”

—Jeremiah 17:9, WEB

Listen to that. He’s saying that because of the Fall, our hearts are warped and sinful.

If you’ve ever seen a Disney movie, the constant message that they send us is, “Follow your heart.”

But our hearts will actually often lie to us.

Our hearts will often want the wrong things.

Our hearts are often foolish.

Rather than wanting the good things God created us for we want destructive things that harm us.

Rather than wanting God’s good and benevolent will for us, we get caught in this loop of chasing after deceitful lies.

We get caught up in our own selfishness.

We make excuses for ourselves.

We chase after our own desires so desperately that at a certain point we become willing to throw anybody we need to under the bus to get them.

We reject the authority of the God who created us and try to make ourselves into the final authority.

And we lie to ourselves again and again to quiet down the voice of the Spirit working to draw us back to the Lord.

Why do we keep getting stuck in that cycle?

It’s because our own hearts are Fallen and broken. Our hearts are warped and sinful.

Our Foundational Relationships Are Broken

And because of our inner brokenness, all of our foundational relationships are broken.

You know what I’m talking about?

Because of our inner brokenness, all of our foundational relationships are broken.

Here’s what I’m talking about.

Humans are meant to live in peace.

Humans are meant to live as equals.

Humans are meant to live as brothers and sisters.

We’re meant to live a life of cooperation and harmony and love.

But because of the Fall, our Fallen and broken nature drives us to live in constant competition.

It drives us to try to dominate each other.

It drives us to try to enslave each other.

Our Fallen nature is a nature of domination.

It’s the nature of lording our power over other people.

It’s a nature of trying to conquer others.

And the result is that our world is constantly at war.

Our world is constantly filled with oppression.

Our world is constantly filled with injustice and wickedness.

Our relationship to each other as humans has been radically broken by the Fall.

Right down to the most basic human relationship—the relationship between men and women.

Because of the Fall, that foundational relationship between men and women is broken.

Know where I’m going with this?

Men and women were created to be complementary partners.

That’s the best way to describe what God’s Word says.

Women are not created to be subordinate to men.

Men are not created to be subordinate to women.

No. Men and women were created to be co-equal partners in creation, complementary partners in creation.

God created men and women to be different from each other, and that’s a good thing.

We were created in a way where we often play different roles, and that’s a good thing.

We were created with this beautiful symmetry and complementarity, where together we steward God’s world as equals and partners.

And yet, if you look at history since the Fall, no society has ever lived up to that created design.

No. Throughout history, cultures almost always Fall into one of two categories—either patriarchies, or matriarchies.

All of history since the Fall, every single society has either elevated men and degraded women, or it’s elevated women and degraded men.

But neither of those two things are good.

Both of those two things are sinful.

Both of those are products of the Fall that break from God’s creative design.

God created men and women to be co-equal, complementary partners, but now because of the Fall, so often they are at odds with each other, right?

There’s this war of the sexes.

There is this literal resentment between men and women.

If you don’t believe me, spend literally five minutes scrolling through Facebook reels—all that “couple comedy” stuff, it’s always dudes joking about how much they hate their girl, and women joking about how much they hate their man.

There is this seething resentment between men and women in almost every culture throughout all of history, but it is not meant to be that way.

We were created for each other.

We were created to be partners with each other.

We were created to beautifully illustrate the goodness of God’s creation and design by working together, and learning how to flourish together, and learning how to serve each other.

But our cosmic rebellion brought sin into the world, and it broke the most fundamental human relationship of all—between men and women.

Our inner brokenness has broken all of our foundational relationships as humans.

When we look at the world around us, and we look at our own lives, we see the shrapnel and the battle scars and the devastation that’s come from our Fallen and broken and sinful nature at work.

Following in Adam and Eve’s Footsteps

And here’s the most important thing for us to understand together: When we act out of our sinful nature today, we are following in the footsteps of Adam and Eve’s rebellion.

Know what I’m talking about?

When we act out of our sinful nature today, we are following in the footsteps of Adam and Eve’s rebellion.

We may look at Adam and Eve and say, “How could you do that? How could you take the fruit? How could you rebel against the Lord? How could you plunge the world into brokenness?”

But before you cast the first stone at Adam and Eve, look at your own life.

How many ways are you rebelling against God today?

How many areas of your life are in rebellion against God’s will for you?

How many parts of your life have you been making excuses for while continuing to sleepwalk into disobedience against God’s good will for you?

We follow in Adam and Eve’s footsteps every time we sin against the Lord.

We follow in Adam and Eve’s footsteps every time we disobey his good commands.

And that means that we’re not just suffering from the brokenness of this world, we’re also keeping this world broken.

We’re not just victims of the brokenness of this world, we’re contributing to the brokenness of this world through our own sin.

God’s Righteous Response to Rebellion

And that’s a major problem for us, because God’s righteous response against rebellion is wrath.

I’m gonna say that again: God’s righteous response to rebellion is wrath.

Rebelling against the Lord makes you the Lord’s enemy.

Rebelling against the God of the universe makes you an enemy of God.

Listen to the way Paul describes this in his letter to the Ephesians. He says:

“You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience. We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.”

—Ephesians 2:1–3, WEB

Our rebellion stirs up God’s righteous wrath against us, because God’s righteous character means that he cannot leave the guilty unpunished.

Have you ever thought about that before?

A righteous God cannot tolerate unrighteousness.

A just God cannot tolerate injustice.

A holy God cannot tolerate unholiness.

A good God cannot tolerate wickedness.

God’s righteous character means that he cannot just leave the guilty unpunished.

And we instinctively know this we.

Because every time we see someone commit some terrible crime and get away with it, we go into an uproar, right?

Every time we see someone who steals from their employees, or pollutes a small town’s water supply, or sexually assaults or harasses bunch of women that they had power over, and who gets away with it scott free, we immediately point and say, “No, you cannot leave that person unpunished.”

We understand perfectly that a good and righteous and just and holy God cannot leave the guilty unpunished—we just start to take an issue when it dawns on us that the guilty includes us.

But God’s righteous character means that he cannot leave the guilty unpunished, and that means that our rebellion against God stirs up God’s righteous wrath.

And that means that not only do we live in a Fallen and broken world, with a Fallen and broken nature, filled with suffering and injustice and grief and sorrow, but on top of all of that, we are headed for a judgment that is not going to go well for us.

Because of our sin and rebellion, we are headed for condemnation.

We are going to stand before the Lord one day and receive a guilty verdict.

We will be punished for the ways that we have contributed to the brokenness of this world.

We will be condemned for the ways that we have further contributed to the wickedness of this world.

And on that day we might say, “Hey, look, I know I did some bad things, but at least I’m not Hitler. At least I’m not one of the Columbine shooters. At least I’m not a child molester. At least I’m not Derek Chauvin. At least I’m not one of those guys.”

And God is gonna say, “That’s true. You’re not as bad as them. But you are still accountable for all the ways you contributed to the brokenness of the world. You are still accountable for all the ways you rebelled against my good rule. You are still accountable for all the ways you have participated in this cosmic mutiny against me.”

God will judge you fairly. He will judge you justly. He will judge you righteously. He will be measured and balanced and compassionate in his judgment—but that does not mean that judgment is going to go well for you.

God’s righteous and just and holy character means that he cannot leave the guilty unpunished, and the inescapable result of our cosmic rebellion against the Lord is his righteous wrath.

The Bad News That Sets the Stage for the Gospel

This is the bad news that sets the stage for the good news of the gospel.

The bad news is that we rebelled against God in the beginning, and it broke the good world that God created, and that we have followed in the footsteps of Adam and Eve’s rebellion every day of our lives in a way that brings on God’s righteous wrath against us.

We have continued in that cosmic mutiny against the Lord with our sin in a way that brings God’s just condemnation onto us, so that one day when we stand before the Lord it will not go well for us.

But into this bad news about us, the gospel breaks in with the gloriously good news that even though our sin condemned us, the cross of Jesus redeemed us.

Even though our rebellion brought God’s wrath, the cross of Jesus brings God’s mercy.

The God that we rebelled against in the garden saw our sin, and he saw the condemnation that we brought on ourselves, and he saw the eternity in hell that we had earned through our rebellion, and he said, “No.”

He said, “I am going to save them.”

He said, “I am going to pull them off the executioner’s block.”

He said, “I am going to undo their condemnation no matter what it costs.”

So he came down from heaven and He took our place on the cross.

He took our sin onto his own shoulders.

He took the punishment that we deserved, and he nailed it to the cross.

He paid our debt in full.

He washed away the stain our sin had put on us.

He erased the condemnation we accrued, so that now we are forgiven fully and freely and forever, and there is no condemnation for us.

God Saves Sinners

The way we’ve put this over the course of this series together is that the heart of the gospel is that “God saves sinners.”

And just like we have these past couple weeks, I want to say this together so it cements itself even deeper into our minds and our hearts this morning. Are you ready?

The heart of the gospel is that “God saves sinners.”

Now, in two weeks, we’re going dive deep into the heart of the gospel message, we’re gonna talk in depth about the good news of the cross.

But for this morning, we want to camp out here and seriously meditate on how the Fall affects us all.

We want to lean into the really uncomfortable reality of the Fall.

We want to sit here and seriously marinate on the unpleasant reality that we are Fallen and broken people, living in a Fallen and broken world.

How Can I See the Damaging Effects of the Fall in My Own Life?

So the question that we want to ask ourselves this morning as we meditate on the dark reality of the Fall is, “How can I see the damaging effects of the Fall in my own life?”

First, look at your past.

Where have I been a victim of the Fall?

Where have I been burned by the brokenness of others?

Where can I see the devastating effects of the Fall spilling over and harming me?

And then look at yourself.

How can I see the destructive effects of the Fall in my own behavior?

In my own choices?

Look at your life, and ask yourself, “What parts of my life are still broken?”

Which parts of my life are still in rebellion against God’s good design and desire for me?

Where am I still contributing to the brokenness of this world?

Where have I allowed my own Fallenness and brokenness to harm others?

Where have I been following in the footsteps of Adam and Eve’s rebellion?

Where have I been trying to live as my own God and King?

Where have I been rebelling against God’s good design and desire for my life, my relationships, my work, my purpose, my worship, in my marriage, with my kids, with my friends?

Ask yourself, “How can I see the damaging effects of the Fall in my own life?” and then watch the way the Lord uses that question to begin to transform your life and set you free from so many of these chains of brokenness.

Let’s join together in prayer.