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Today we are going to take a posture of peace by crushing this common peace stealer accusation.

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Posture is a short audible fist bump to remind you God is with you in everything.

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Together we're going to be emboldened to take a daily posture of perfect peace.

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In Genesis chapter 3 verse 1 it says this, Now the serpent was more crafty than any wild

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animal that the Lord God had made.

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And he said to the woman, did God really say you must not eat from any tree in the garden?

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Now I spoke recently about peace stealing offense and I want to talk today about another

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common peace stealer accusation, lies and accusations.

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That is really all our enemy Satan has to try to use against us.

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The Bible says in John 8 44 that he is the father of lies and in Revelation 12 10 it

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says he is the accuser of God's people.

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And way back in the garden in Genesis chapter 3 an accusing question was planted in the

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hearts of humanity.

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Did God really say?

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And humanity has been questioning God's word, his promises, his goodness, his very nature

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ever since.

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Now when we carry an accusation against God's nature, we actually carry an accusation against

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ourselves.

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Remember Genesis 1 26 tells us God's primary purpose when he says, let us make man male

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and female in our image and likeness.

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And when we question God's nature, when we question his word, we find ourselves living

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a lie.

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We find ourselves in an identity crisis, living outside of our true selves.

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If we can't trust who God is, if we can't trust what he said, we can't trust who he

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made.

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We can't trust his plan or his purpose for us, especially his primary purpose for us,

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which is to make us in his image and likeness for his nature to become our nature.

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You know, this wasn't a flippant question that the enemy asked.

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This was a seed of accusation that he intended to plant deep in the hearts of humanity to

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steal our peace with God.

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Satan doesn't want you sad, anxious, depressed.

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He wants you dead.

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And he knows that your life is sourced through your relationship with your heavenly father.

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So this question he asked, did God really say, was his way of trying to cause relational

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death between you and your heavenly father.

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Because without relationship with God, there is no purpose.

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And without purpose, there's no reason to live.

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And as humans, we instinctively know this.

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And that is why so many try, outside of God, to try to create their own purpose through

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worldly success, worldly causes, you know, accumulating finance and wealth.

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But purpose outside of that Genesis 126 is so short lived, it can never replace the abundant

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life that we have in relationship with the three, Father, Jesus, Holy Spirit.

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Now, what was God's response to all of this?

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How did God respond to that accusing question?

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Did God really say?

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Some will be shortsighted and they'll look at this and they'll say, well, he kicked Adam

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and Eve out of the garden.

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He punished them.

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He cursed them.

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No, no, no.

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God in his loving kindness protected Adam and Eve from their own self-destruction by

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taking them out of the garden.

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Because if they stayed, they would have eaten from the tree of life and lived forever in

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their sin, separated from God and in perpetual relational death.

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But God had different plans.

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So let's go back to Genesis 3 and let's go to verse 15, where God curses not Adam and

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Eve, but the serpent, the enemy, by prophesying a Messiah, a redeemer.

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God says this to the serpent.

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He says, I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your offspring and her

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offspring.

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He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel.

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Now let's go to John 1 and I'm going to read John chapter 1 verses 1 through 5.

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In the beginning was the word.

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This is all about Jesus.

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In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God.

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He was in the beginning with God.

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All things were made through him and without him was not anything made that was made.

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In him was life and the life was the light of men.

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The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.

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Let's skip down to verse 14.

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And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of

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the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

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How did God respond to the accusing question, did God really say?

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He sent his Word, Jesus, in bodily form to dwell among us, to demonstrate his nature.

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Everything Jesus did here on earth revealed the heart of the Father towards us, reminding

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humanity of their worth, their authority, their purpose.

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Genesis 3.15, God says this to the serpent, who you, Father, is going to nip at humanity's

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heels, but who I, Father, is going to crush your head.

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Who is your Father?

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Now if you're questioning, did God really say?

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If you're holding questions in your heart like, does he really love me?

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Does he really want me healed?

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Is he really good?

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Is he really faithful?

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Even in this hard circumstance, even in this painful situation, I want to encourage you

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to look to Jesus.

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Father God held nothing back when he sent his Word, his Son.

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Our relationship with God is restored through Jesus forever.

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We became sons and daughters.

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We walk in newness of life and fullness in Christ.

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So remember this today, no matter the circumstance that you may be facing, it's just a nip at

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your heel, but you, through accepting Jesus as your Savior, living in restored relationship

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with your Heavenly Father, filled with the Holy Spirit, you have crushed your enemy's

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head.