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DON'T BUY THE LIE (1 OF 2)

by Bob Ingle

Scripture: Genesis 2:24-25
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Don't Buy the Lie (1 of 2)
Series: It's Just Sex
Bob Ingle
Genesis 2:24-25


In 1980, a movie came out that I'm sure most of you have never seen or ever heard of. I'm not recommending it to you this morning, but it did have an interesting theme. The title of the movie was

'The God's Must Be Crazy'. (Show cover on screens.) It was a movie made in kind of a documentary form, and it had an African tribesman walking in a very deserted, unpopulated area of Africa. He's out in the middle of nowhere Africa. At the same time, an airplane is flying over his head, and the camera shows the pilot taking his last swig of coke and then throwing the bottle out his little window. The bottle lands right in front of this African tribesman. He's never seen anything like it. He's afraid of it at first, so he pokes at it with his stick. He's never seen glass or anything close to the shape of this bottle. Finally, he picks it up and looks at it, but he has no idea what it is or what it does. So he takes it back to his small tribe, and for the next ten minutes of the movie, they show the various ways that they use this bottle.

-One man beats fruit with it and that fruit splits right open for him to eat.

-The women use it to crush and roll out cornmeal for bread they want to make.

-Another man uses it as a musical instrument to entertain his family.

-The kids use it as an object to play games.

So everyone uses this amazing new discovery in all kinds of ways except for the real purpose for which it was crafted. The whole tribe loves this bottle and they believe because it fell from the sky that it was a gift from the gods. So everyone is excited about bottle, until one day a couple of women start fighting over who got to use it. They were tussling for the bottle when one woman turned it around and cracked the other woman on the head with the bottle. That was definitely a turning point. The man who found the bottle saw the whole thing and realized this bottle was ca ...

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