SATAN'S GONNA GET IT (1 OF 8)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Genesis 3:1-19
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Satan's Gonna Get It (1 of 8)
Series: The Last Chapter
Jeff Strite
Genesis 3:1-19
OPEN: I read the true story of a little girl who was sick and home from school. She and her mother got to talking about what they'd learned in Sunday School the day before and the little girl said: ''If it weren't for Adam and Eve, I wouldn't be sick.''
Her mother was about to comment on that when the daughter then said:
''But, come to think about it, if they hadn't eaten that apple, we'd still be sitting around naked.''
(Sarah Ames, Kobe, Japan)
ILLUS: One night, a father heard his son in his bedroom saying: ''You're gonna get it... you're gonna get it.''
Curious, the father opened his son's door and asked what was going on and he saw his son laying on the bed reading a book. ''Everything ok?'' he asked.
The boy looked up from a book he was reading and said: ''Oh, I just get so frustrated with this story.
The bad guy always seems to take advantage of the good guy. It so disturbed me that yesterday I turned to the back of the book and read the last chapter. And you know what? The hero wins. Now whenever I read about the bad guy beating up my hero it makes me feel better to yell 'You're gonna get it.'''
NOW that he knew the end of the story - that young boy wasn't so upset when his hero appeared to be losing.
And you know, the Bible is like that.
It's filled with stories that - if you didn't read the last chapter - you'd wonder what was going on.
Because it sounds so often like God's people are losing.
One such story is the one we're reading today.
Adam and Eve had been given a beautiful garden and they have everything they could possibly want. Their life is filled with purpose and pleasure and they get to talk to God every day.
But then, on to the scene comes the enemy.
The serpent.
Satan.
And Satan has destroyed everything God had created.
The Garden was gone.
The tree of life was gone.
Adam and Eve began to die.
And the world they onc ...
Series: The Last Chapter
Jeff Strite
Genesis 3:1-19
OPEN: I read the true story of a little girl who was sick and home from school. She and her mother got to talking about what they'd learned in Sunday School the day before and the little girl said: ''If it weren't for Adam and Eve, I wouldn't be sick.''
Her mother was about to comment on that when the daughter then said:
''But, come to think about it, if they hadn't eaten that apple, we'd still be sitting around naked.''
(Sarah Ames, Kobe, Japan)
ILLUS: One night, a father heard his son in his bedroom saying: ''You're gonna get it... you're gonna get it.''
Curious, the father opened his son's door and asked what was going on and he saw his son laying on the bed reading a book. ''Everything ok?'' he asked.
The boy looked up from a book he was reading and said: ''Oh, I just get so frustrated with this story.
The bad guy always seems to take advantage of the good guy. It so disturbed me that yesterday I turned to the back of the book and read the last chapter. And you know what? The hero wins. Now whenever I read about the bad guy beating up my hero it makes me feel better to yell 'You're gonna get it.'''
NOW that he knew the end of the story - that young boy wasn't so upset when his hero appeared to be losing.
And you know, the Bible is like that.
It's filled with stories that - if you didn't read the last chapter - you'd wonder what was going on.
Because it sounds so often like God's people are losing.
One such story is the one we're reading today.
Adam and Eve had been given a beautiful garden and they have everything they could possibly want. Their life is filled with purpose and pleasure and they get to talk to God every day.
But then, on to the scene comes the enemy.
The serpent.
Satan.
And Satan has destroyed everything God had created.
The Garden was gone.
The tree of life was gone.
Adam and Eve began to die.
And the world they onc ...
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