Connecting With God Series

Relationships Series

Connecting with God #1

Selected verses Genesis 2-3

Good morning and welcome- glad that you have joined us this morning.

We start a new series this morning on relationships. We connect or have relationships in many ways.

Mother father

Brother sister

Boy friend Girlfriend

Husband wife

Friends / Good friends/Best friends

Acquaintances

Co workers

Marriage/ Divorce

Step families

You get the idea… there are a lot of ways to connect with each other.

There are other ways that people could connect. I am talking about connections from the word of God. As a believer, one who has professed Jesus as Lord of their life and one who allows the Lord to direct our path. The word of God is our guide.

What does the Lord say about relationships and what does he say is or is not a healthy or even an acceptable relationship?

So as we look in our lives at these different connections of relationships we are looking to the Holy Bible to be our guide.

There has to be an authority otherwise it would be everyone’s opinion and if you have not noticed everyone has an opinion on everything said and done today.

If you do not take the bible to be the authority of your decision making and you are one who believes that your opinion is over God’s Word there could be circumstances that you will not line up with God’s Word.

Tolerance- (my definition)

The ability or willingness to disagree with other people’s opinions and behavior either partially or at all.

Tolerance is not always agreeing with someone- it is letting them make their own decision without hating them for it. So if you go through this series and you at some point disagree with me and I am soundly standing on the word of God then you must take up your argument with the Lord and not try to fight me to sway me to your way of thinking. We can be tolerant of each ones decision.

Question

Does God intersect into our lives?

The short answer is yes- the longer answer would be on how much of your life will you allow God into your life and does what He says have authority in your life.

Remember- two roads crossing each other is an intersection

Two roads going in opposite direction and they at one point come to the same spot for a moment.

At that point of intersect for a believer the Lord speaks to us and directs our path when we go off the rails and away from Him.

For an unbeliever, these same cross over take place and a person has to decide wither they will be listening to what the Lord says or go their own way if they disagree.

Perspective

“Drawing the right objective from at least 2 positions”

My perspective may be different than your perspective.

If we throw in how many times people throw emotions in their decision making process-perspective can become muddy.

As a believer, the perspective we take must line up with God’s Word even at times when our feelings are saying different and we would rather it be another way.

God has a perfect plan how man was created and how we are to get along with each other.

Genesis 2:7

“Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man become a living being.”

We see from the beginning of time for man (Because God is eternal and always was) that our existence is a God thing!

God took the dust of the earth (dirt) and created man and breathed life into him.

He took life (Himself) and breathed life into man.(Man could not have done life without God)

He put man in a perfect garden. (Area of life)

He took a rib from Adam and formed Eve.

On this perfect Garden there was everything man and women needed to exist and flourish.

In this garden was two trees forbidden of God- the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (Genesis 2)

“You are free to eat from any tree in the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

Genesis 2:25- “Adam and his wife were both naked and they felt no shame.”

Adam received life from God

Eve born from a rib of Adam

Both placed in a garden of perfection to live and multiply because of the goodness of God.

Then the fall of mankind Genesis chapter 3

God from heaven throws out Satan from heaven, Satan the worship leader of God thrown out for trying to take the place as being God. 1/3 of all the angels in heaven were thrown out of heaven for joining the coup (cue) attempt. (Isaiah14)