Pine Cones and Yard Work #28

Our troubles on earth extend far beyond the annoyances posed by the yard work Adam and Eve left us.

An episode of the Beyond the Walls Radio podcast, hosted by Cary Gordon, titled "Pine Cones and Yard Work #28" was published on January 22, 2018 and runs 28 minutes.

January 22, 2018 ·28m · Beyond the Walls Radio

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Summary

In Genesis, we learn that dominion was (and remains to be) very important to God. God created mankind to take dominion of the earth, on His divine terms, through the power of His grace. Things went very wrong at the moment that Adam and Eve decided to take dominion of the earth on their own terms, outside the boundaries that God had given them. We correctly refer to that moment of disobedience as "a fall from grace." So here we are many thousands of years later, and we are all reaping the consequences of their decision in Eden to do things their own way. However, we have little moral authority to complain about what they did to the world if we are principally doing the same thing ourselves - living in what Pastor Gordon describes as "dysfunctional dominion." It is true enough to say that it is Adam and Eve's fault that every property owner who wishes to maintain green grass beneath a pine tree will be forced to rake the needles and pick up the pine cones, but our trouble goes far beyond the annoyances posed by routine yard work. The struggle is that every element reaches toward man to kill him. The sun would burn us. The water would drown us. The winter would freeze us. The plants would poison us. The animals would bite us. The wind would drive us. The lightning would electrocute us. The germs would infect us. We struggle across our lifespan (originally created to live forever) just to stay alive on a peaceful planet turned hostile. The incipient death doesn't go away after we accept Christ either. Faith does not eliminate the struggles but serves as a tool to help us overcome them all. Find out how to navigate incipient death and all the struggles that earth dishes out in this excellent sermon on the human condition and its corresponding salvation solution.