SLIDE 1 – THE STORY OF ALL OF US
Innocence, Comfort, Ease, Privilege
Dissonance, Decisions
Identity, Position
Consequences
Broken relationship with Father
Removal from privilege
Exile from ease
Hard yakka
Grace of God
SLIDE 2 – What kind of human did Jesus become?
Heb 2:11 – Both the One who makes people holy [ie Jesus] and those who are made holy [ie us] are henos pantes = one all = one & the same. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers.
Heb 2:14 – He too shared in their humanity.
Heb 2:17 – He had to be made like his brothers in every way.
Heb 4:15 – [Jesus]…suffer[ed] with our weakness because he was tempted in every respect just as we are.
SLIDE 3 – What kind of human did Jesus become? This kind?
Slide 4 – Or this kind?
Slide 5 – What kind of human did Jesus become? This kind?
Slide 6 – Or this kind?
Slide 7 – A view of the Fall that’s done the rounds…
Before the fall humans were inherently good. Human nature was essentially good.
After the fall humans became inherently bad. The fall changed human nature into a sinful nature, incapable of anything good.
Slide 8 – THE CHANGES IN THE HUMAN CONDITION MAPPED BY GENESIS 3-11
Innocence > Responsibility, Consequences
Nakedness > Self-Consciousness, Covering up
Harmony > Gender Conflict
Ease > Pain, Hard Yakka
Mortality + Cure > Mortality
Harmony > Competition, Jealousy, Murder, Enmity
Humanity > Interference
Longevity > 120 years
Harmony > We eat animals, they eat us
Sibling society > Oppressors & Slaves
Harmony > Separation of cultures and languages
Harmony > Separation of cultures and languages
People can’t understand one another
Slide 9 – As your model / exemplar, what is Jesus asking of you?
Take something up?
Surrender something?
Suffer something?
Heal something?
Silently accept something?
Combat / fight something?
Endure something?
Transform it?
Paul Anthony Wallis 