Jeff Cavins

And it changed their relationship with creation.

They no longer looked at themselves as really stewards, but they abused even, you know.

Yeah.

And so it changed every relationship, but God has a plan.

He has a plan of sheer goodness.

And as you see the rest of the early world played out, you run into the beginnings of this great flood.

It's almost like God saying, you know, Ixnay on the first creation, you know, and he wants to start over, but he takes the family of Noah, his wife, and

and their three sons and their wives, and they build an ark.

And while this seems like a children's story in some ways, it's not.

No, it's really a story of reality and the result of sin in our lives, not only in our hiding from God, but in the way that we treat each other.

And this was pretty radical.

But the remedy for the brokenness of mankind is extremely radical.

It is very radical.

And we're going to see that later on in the year where God becomes one of us.

And he takes the place of us and pays the price, as your listeners will learn later about covenants and what those are about.

But this is really giving us, Father, chapters 1 through 11 really gives us a snapshot of

of the plan, the problem with the plan, the remedy for the plan.

And from here on out, we're going to be revisiting some of these themes.

And I'll give you a little hint, a little bit of a hint, and that is that at the end of the story, towards the end of the story, we're going to find the solution to this

which happened in the garden, we're going to find the solution through someone who's in a garden.