Bible, Faith, Creation, Genesis, Jesus

How The World Went From Good To Broken

Why do we so often feel like we are chasing after something more? Like no matter what we achieve or acquire, there’s this lingering sense of dissatisfaction or emptiness? The truth is, we all live in a broken world, and the weight of our own brokenness causes us to combat the feelings of guilt, shame, and disconnection and seek for something to bring wholeness and purpose. But what if most often we’re just looking in the wrong places? In this video, we are headed back to the beginning of recorded history to see what the ancient stories of the Bible reveal about our struggles and how we find answers to our lingering questions and gain greater understanding of our purpose and responsibility in this world that God created.

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MESSAGE NOTES

[Luke 24:27 NLT]
Then Jesus took them through the writings of Moses and all the prophets, explaining from all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
1. GOD MADE ALL THINGS, GOOD
[Genesis 1:1-4 NLT]
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. 3 Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 And God saw that the light was good. Then he separated the light from the darkness.
[John 1:1-3, 14 NLT]
In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He existed in the beginning with God. 3 God created everything through him, and nothing was created except through him. … 14 So the Word became human and made his home among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness. And we have seen his glory, the glory of the Father’s one and only Son.
[Genesis 2:2 NLT]
On the seventh day God had finished his work of creation, so he rested from all his work.
[Genesis 1:26-28 NLT]
Then God said, ‘Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground. 27 So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. 28 Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.”
2. MANKIND REJECTS AUTHORITY OF GOD
[Genesis 2:7 NLT]
Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person.
[Genesis 2:18, 21-24 NLT]
Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.” … 21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While the man slept, the LORD God took out one of the man’s ribs and closed up the opening. 22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib, and he brought her to the man. 23 “At last!” the man exclaimed. “This one is bone from my bone, and flesh from my flesh! She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken from ‘man.'” 24 This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.
[Genesis 2:15-17 NLT]
The LORD God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it. 16 But the LORD God warned him, “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden– 17 except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.”
[Genesis 3:1-8 NLT]
The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the LORD God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?” 2 “Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,” the woman replied. 3 “It’s only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God said, ‘You must not eat it or even touch it; if you do, you will die.'” 4 “You won’t die!” the serpent replied to the woman. 5 “God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be like God, knowing both good and evil.” 6 The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too. 7 At that moment their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves. 8 When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man and his wife heard the LORD God walking about in the garden. So they hid from the LORD God among the trees.
3. GOD RESTORES MANKIND, TO HIMSELF and EACH OTHER
[Genesis 3:9-21 NLT]
Then the LORD God called to the man, “Where are you?” 10 He replied, “I heard you walking in the garden, so I hid. I was afraid because I was naked.” 11 “Who told you that you were naked?” the LORD God asked. “Have you eaten from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat?” 12 The man replied, “It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit, and I ate it.” 13 Then the LORD God asked the woman, “What have you done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied. “That’s why I ate it.” 14 Then the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all animals, domestic and wild. You will crawl on your belly, groveling in the dust as long as you live. 15 And I will cause hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.” 16 Then he said to the woman, “I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy, and in pain you will give birth. And you will desire to control your husband, but he will rule over you.” 17 And to the man he said, “Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat, the ground is cursed because of you. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it. 18 It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains. 19 By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return.” 20 Then the man–Adam–named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all who live. 21 And the LORD God made clothing from animal skins for Adam and his wife.

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Application Questions

  1. What stood out to you from this message and why?
  2. What is one thing God is telling you to START doing because of this message?
  3. What is one thing God is telling you to STOP doing because of this message?
  4. How will this message change how you act at home, at work, and in your relationships?

Why do we so often feel like we are chasing after something more? Like no matter what we achieve or acquire, there’s this lingering sense of dissatisfaction or emptiness? The truth is, we all live in a broken world, and the weight of our own brokenness causes us to combat the feelings of guilt, shame, and disconnection and seek for something to bring wholeness and purpose. But what if most often we’re just looking in the wrong places? In this video, we are headed back to the beginning of recorded history to see what the ancient stories of the Bible reveal about our struggles and how we find answers to our lingering questions and gain greater understanding of our purpose and responsibility in this world that God created.

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