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00:00The book of Genesis. It's the first book of the Bible and its storyline divides into two main parts.

00:09There's chapters 1 through 11, which tell the story of God and the whole world.

00:13And then there's chapters 12 through 50, which zoom in and tell the story of God and just one man, Abraham, and then his family.

00:20And these two parts are connected by a hinge story at the beginning of chapter 12.

00:25And this design, it gives us a clue to how to understand the message of the book as a whole and how it introduces the story of the whole Bible.

00:33So the book begins with God taking the disorder and the darkness described in the second sentence of the Bible.

00:40And God brings out of it order and beauty and goodness. He makes a world where life can flourish.

00:46And God makes these creatures called humans or Adam in Hebrew.

00:50He makes them in his image, which has to do with their role and purpose in God's world.

00:56So the humans are made to be reflections of God's character out into the world.

01:01And they're appointed as God's representatives to rule his world on his behalf.

01:06Which in context means to harness all of its potential, to care for it, and make it a place where even more life can flourish.

01:14God blesses the humans. It's a key word in this book.

01:17And he gives them a garden, like a place from which they begin starting to build this new world.

01:23Now the key is that the humans have a choice about how they're going to go about building this world.

01:28And that's represented by the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

01:31Up till now, God has provided and defined what is good and what is not good.

01:36But now God is giving the humans the dignity and the freedom of a choice.

01:40Are they going to trust God's definition of good and evil?

01:43Or are they going to seize autonomy and define good and evil for themselves?

01:47And the stakes are really high.

01:49To rebel against God is to embrace death.

01:53Because you're turning away from the giver of life himself.

01:56This is represented by the tree of life.

01:59And so in chapter 3, a mysterious figure, a snake, enters into the story.

02:03The snake's given no introduction other than it's a creature that God made.

02:08And it becomes clear that it's a creature in rebellion against God.

02:11And it wants to lead the humans into rebellion and their death.

02:15The snake tells a different story about the tree and the choice.

02:19It says that seizing the knowledge of good and evil are not going to bring death.

02:24That it's actually the way to life and becoming like God themselves.

02:28Now the irony of this is tragic.

02:30Because we know the humans, they're already like God.

02:33They were made to reflect God's image.

02:35But instead of trusting God, the human sees autonomy.

02:39They take the knowledge of good and evil for themselves.

02:42And in an instant, the whole story spirals out of control.

02:46The first casualty is human relationships.

02:48The man and the woman, they suddenly realize how vulnerable they are now.

02:52They can't even trust each other.

02:53And so they make clothes and they hide their bodies from one another.

02:57The second casualty is that intimacy between God and the humans is lost.

03:02So they go and run and hide from God.

03:05And then when God finds them, they start this game of blame shifting about who rebelled first.

03:10Now right here, the story stops.

03:11And there's a series of short poems where God declares to the snake and then to the humans

03:16the tragic consequences of their actions.

03:19God first tells the snake that despite its apparent victory, it is destined for defeat to eat dust.

03:26God promises that one day a seed or a descendant will come from the woman

03:31who's going to deliver a lethal strike to the snake's head.

03:35Which sounds like great news, but this victory is going to come with a cost

03:39because the snake too will deliver a lethal strike to the descendant's heel as it's being crushed.

03:45It's a very mysterious promise of this wounded victor.

03:49But in the flow of the story so far, you see this is an act of God's grace.

03:53The humans, they've just rebelled.

03:55And what does God do?

03:56He promises to rescue them.

03:59But this doesn't erase the consequences of the humans' decision.

04:03So God informs them that now every aspect of their life together at home and out in the field,

04:08it's going to be fraught with grief and pain because of the rebellion, all leading to their death.

04:15From here, the story then spirals downward.

04:17Chapters 3 through 11, they trace the widening ripple effect of the rebellion

04:22and of human relationships fracturing at every level.

04:26So there's a story about two brothers, Cain and Abel.

04:29Cain's so jealous of his brother that he wants to murder him.

04:32And God warns him not to give in to the temptation, but he does anyway.

04:36He murders him in the field.

04:38So Cain then goes on to build a city where violence and oppression reign.

04:43And this is all epitomized in the story of Lamech.

04:45He's the first man in the Bible to have more than one wife.

04:49He's accumulating them like property.

04:51And then he goes on to sing a short song about how he's more violent and vengeful than Cain ever was.

04:57After this, we get an odd story about the sons of God,

05:01which could refer to evil angelic beings,

05:05or it could refer to ancient kings who claimed that they descended from the gods.

05:11And like Lamech, they acquire as many wives as they wanted,

05:14and they produced the Nephilim, these great warriors of old.

05:17Whichever view is right, the point is that humans are building kingdoms

05:21that fill God's world with violence and even more corruption.

05:25In response, we're told that God is broken with grief.

05:28Humanity is ruining his good world, and they're ruining each other.

05:32And so out of a passion to protect the goodness of his world,

05:35he washes it clean of humanity's evil with a great flood.

05:39But he protects one blameless human, Noah, and his family.

05:43And he commissions him as a new Adam.

05:46He repeats the divine blessing and commissions him to go out into the world.

05:50And so our hopes are really high, but then Noah fails too, and also in a garden.

05:55He goes and he plants a vineyard, and he gets drunk out of his mind.

05:59And then one of his sons, Ham, does something shameful to his father in the tent.

06:04And so here we have our new Adam, naked and ashamed, just like the first.

06:10And the downward spiral begins again.

06:13It all leads to the foundation of the city of Babylon.

06:16The people of ancient Mesopotamia, they come together around this new technology they have, the brick.

06:21And they can make cities and towers bigger and faster than anybody's ever done before.

06:26And they want to build a new kind of tower that will reach up to the gods,

06:30and they will make a great name for themselves.

06:32It's an image of human rebellion and arrogance.

06:36It's the garden rebellion now writ large.

06:40And so God humbles their pride and scatters them.

06:44Now this is a diverse group of stories, but you can see they're all exploring the same basic point.

06:50God keeps giving humans the chance to do the right thing with his world, and humans keep ruining it.

06:57These stories are making a claim that we live in a good world that we have turned bad,

07:03that we've all chosen to define good and evil for ourselves,

07:06and so we all contribute to this world of broken relationships leading to conflict and violence and ultimately death.

07:15But there's hope.

07:17God promised that one day a descendant would come,

07:20the wounded victor who will defeat evil at its source.

07:23And so despite humanity's evil, God is determined to bless and rescue his world.

07:29And so the big question, of course, is what is God going to do?

07:33And the next story, the hinge, offers the answer.

07:36But for now, that's what Genesis 1 through 11 is all about.

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