Adam 2.0

I'm gonna get right in.

We've been in a series, this is the last week, but we're calling it Eden Talks.

And we're looking at uh Genesis 1 through 3, but I'm gonna kind of actually jump ahead.

I'm gonna look in uh really some related uh concepts and verses into the New Testament, which is just kind of a tip for you, by the way, as you're reading your Bible, 66 books.

There's two divisions, Old and New Testament.

So anytime you're reading something, particularly in the Old Testament, it's just a good habit to get in, to look into the New Testament, uh, to see and how things have evolved and developed and changed based on the way things were up until Jesus and what changed it, Jesus often uh makes helps us understand what's relevant for us today.

And so today we're going to look at um some things from the Old Testament, and then we're going to look at some things and uh essentially what Jesus did as in relation to it.

Where we left off uh is in Genesis 3, and we were looking at Adam and Eve, and God puts them in this garden.

He gives them this great work to do that they're fit to do the work.

He makes them these creative entities that they're not necessarily um, you know, making things like creating light like he did, but they're managing God's ecosystem.

And it's a great work.

He lets them name the, you know, lets Adam name the animals, and and so now they're walking with God in relationship, um, they're doing good work, and then they have companionship.

So God creates Eve, bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, and they're in this wonderful relationship.

And of course they have this one thing they can't do, this bit of forbidden fruit.

Don't eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

And it says in chapter 3 that the serpent, okay, the evil serpent, uh, approaches the uh Eve and essentially says, hey, he distorts God's word.

Hey, God said not to eat any of the fruit.

What?

She's like, No, that's not what God said at all.

He said we can eat any of the fruit except that uh that there.

And he says, Well, God doesn't want you to do that because he doesn't want your eyes to be open.

You know, he doesn't want you to be aware, which again, that's that's the deception is around that if I do something outside of God's path, somehow I'll be enlightened.

And so um she buys it.

You know, it says in verse 6, it says the woman was convinced.

And now look at this.

It says she saw that the tree was beautiful and that its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted wisdom that it would give her.

Those aren't bad things, delicious fruit, not bad things, and certainly wanting wisdom, that's a virtue.

So there's nothing wrong with that.

The problem is the path that she took and the lie that she bought.

And so it says she took some of the fruit and ate it, and of course she gives it to Adam, who was with her, and he ate it too.

And at that moment, look at this.

At that moment, their eyes were opened, suddenly they felt shame at their nakedness, and so then they start taking leaves that were designed by God for photosynthesis and start using them to cover themselves.

What we have here is kind of the first example of that horrible place that all of us have been in, which is the back end of a bad decision.

We've all been there.

Yes, sir.

And it they say, you know, that in the text, you know, there's, it doesn't say it's an apple, but I'll just have this up here to represent the fruit that you're not supposed to eat.

And so she has these natural desires of, frankly, God given good desires for wisdom, and yet the idea of going her own route, going away from what God said, and taking a bite, it says, it says in the text that she saw it, it looked delicious.

And on the front end of the decision, somehow, it feels like a good decision.

It seems like whatever pleasure I'm gonna get from this bite uh will be worth it.

And look, we've all lived this.

We've all lived this.

We've all been in this position where the front end of the decision, we were enticed, we were focused on all that it was gonna produce, we didn't think about what we would lose.

And what it says is in the moment that they took the fruit and they ate the fruit, it's like their eyes were open.

This this happens all the time.

It's like you're so locked in on what you'll gain from the bite, you don't think about the whole garden that it could cost you, the work that it could cost you, the relationship that it could cost you, the death that it can bring into your life.

You're not thinking about that, you're just thinking about how delicious it looks and how bad you want what you think it'll deliver, and so you bite.

Eve's the first, and Adam are the first, but not the last, to have this experience.

We've all been in that horrible place.

You take that bite, and so now we do what they did, which is to try to cover.

And you cover any way you can, right?

I mean, if I gotta throw you under the bus, I'll do it.

If I gotta blame other people, I'll do it.

If I gotta gaslight, I'll do it.

If I got a reputation savage, I'll do it.

Whatever you've got to do, whatever dysfunctional thing, mechanism that you kicks in to try to cover up my shame.

And of course, it says in Romans that this that this act, in Romans 5, it says that this act created a chain reaction of sin into the world.

So let's look at this.

Romans 5, verse 12 says, when Adam sinned, sin entered the world.

Romans 5:12

Adam's sin brought death.

So look at this.

Death spread to everyone, death spread like a pandemic.

Well, what is that?

What are they talking about?

What does that mean?

Well, it's like this: if we're in a room, right, you're in there with me and my family, and and you attack me, okay, you're gonna upset my wife.

So my wife's gonna slap you, and then you're gonna say something terrible to her, and because you cussed at her, now I'm gonna hit you, and then you hit me, and then my daughter's upset now, and now your daughter's upset at my daughter, because I you you see what I'm saying?

It spreads.

It spreads.

Death hurt people, hurt people, death begets death, and often, you know, and it's it says here in Romans 5 that this all happened before there were even rules.

It was it was happening.

It said, verse 13 says, People sinned before the law was given.

It was not counted as sin.

We didn't put it on their record because there was no law to break.

God had not yet chiseled the law into the stone, and so we didn't have rules, but people were still fouling.

And it said, still everyone died from Adam to the time of Moses, even though they didn't disobey an explicit command of God as Adam did.

Now Adam is a symbol, a representation of Christ who is yet to come.

In other words, before thou shalt not lie, people were breaking their word and were breaking people's trust and were breaking people's hearts.

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

And then it was causing a chain reaction.

So now you have the chaos and the death that comes from that.

And it's in this that Jesus shows up.

Notice here, by the way, that it says that everyone died from Adam to Moses.

You know, if you read, if you keep reading past Genesis 3 and you read of some other characters, you'll see that uh God will begin to form a nation through Abraham.

So you have Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

And so in Genesis 25, we see another story, right?

You think about the this concept of the apple not being worth the garden.

I'm gonna lose a whole garden.

I'm gonna lose, I'm gonna be kicked out of this opportunity, I'm gonna be, you know, cost this relationship.

Like often the back end of the bad decision becomes very clear.

Hindsight's 2020, right?

Well, we see another place in Genesis 25 where you see another really bad exchange.

And so in Genesis 25 is the story of uh Jacob and Esau, summary of the story.

Their father Isaac preferred Esau.

They were fraternal twins.

They were born nearly the same time, uh, Esau just a little bit before, but they were like opposites.

Like they didn't even look alike, they looked totally different, and they were wired totally different.

And Esau was the alpha male.

Esau was the prototype and and ultimately what his dad wanted.

Okay, he fit the profile.

And so it was very obvious to everyone that Esau was his dad's favorite.

And then Jacob, who was more of an indoors type of dude, he he was uh really close with his mom.

And so now you have this dysfunction within the family, and of course, now the the brothers are rivals, and Jacob's always getting the raw end of the deal.

Esau's the guy, he's the guy.

So one day Esau's out hunting and he comes back, and it says in uh Genesis 25, uh 29 One day when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau arrived home from the wilderness.

Look at this, exhausted and hungry, and Esau said to Jacob, I'm starved.

Give me some of that red stew.

All right, Jacob replied.

He's a shrewd guy.

He says, Look at this.

Trade me your rights as a firstborn son.

Trade me your rights as a firstborn son.

Well, what did that mean?

That that was his future.

As the one who came out first, as the oldest, Esau now had the entire family estate.

It represented his entire future, the magnitude of his life.

And he says, Hey, trade it to me for this bowl of stew.

And he says, Look at this, verse 32.

Look, I'm I'm dying.

I'm dying of starvation.

What good is my birthright to me now?

What good is a birthright if I'm dead?

Bro, you walked in here on your own two feet.

What are you talking about?

You missed a meal.

Calm down.

He's being dramatic.

But but in his mind, he it is so skewed, and and you think he's being hyperbolic.

You think he's like being dramatic.

But look, no, he's for real.

As Jacob said, first swear that your birthright is mine.

So Esau swore an oath, thereby selling all of his rights, selling his future to his brother Jacob.

And then Jacob gave Esau, check this out, some bread and lentil stew.

Esau ate the meal and then got up and left.

My man, you were not on death's doorstep.

You were not on death's doorstep.

If a little bit of bread and lentil stew is enough to get you back, you're not on life support, my guy, but he thought he was.

What is going on?

Because here's what I'm gonna say.

We can read these stories and quickly sort of poo-poo these stories of, you know, Eve takes a bite of the apple and she's out of the garden, and Esau eats the stew and he loses his birthright.

It's like, well, who's that dumb?

You mean friend, people do it every day.

Who would trade quantity and quality time with their children for a pill?

Come on now.

Who would trade emotional intimacy for a pay raise?

Who would trade a functional family for their pride?

It happens every day.

Every single day.

Let's talk about how this happens.

Why does this happen?

Because we know it happens.

We see it happen to other people.

Frankly, we've all had our version of it, and it can get worse from here.

We sit between two decisions.

You're on the back end of some decisions and you're on the front end of a bunch more.

Let's not waste this opportunity because we're sitting in between.

And so let's analyze.

How do we get, how do you get to where you'll do the apple or the stew instead of the garden and the birthright?

Here's how.

Two psychological vocabulary words I want to give you that we're gonna work off of.

The first one is what's called impact bias.

Bring up the definition, leave it up for at least 30 seconds so the folks can get this, all right?

This is impact bias.

This is what's going on in your brain.

Impact bias.

Impact bias is a cognitive bias.

It's the tendency to overestimate the intensity or duration of future emotions and states of being.

In other words, the immediate gratification, whatever apple is in front of you, you totally have a tendency, every human being, this doesn't make you bad, it just makes you a person, that that bite of that apple, you do not accurately assess how pleasurable and how long the pleasure will last.

And so you think this is gonna be a satisfying, you you intensify how satisfying, how great it's gonna be, but the reality is it doesn't ever measure up.

It's like when you were a little kid and you thought, if I just get that toy, it'll be my favorite toy forever and all time, and I'll never want another toy again as long as I live.

You remember this?

Right?

And somebody went in and bought the toy, and you did, and and you were done with it in like two weeks.

But you know, you go, oh yeah, I learned that lesson when I was seven.

No, no, because there's something about impact bias in our brain that even every new apple somehow is seductive.

The new bowl of stew somehow feels like it this one, I know the last one wasn't worth my birthright, but this one just might be.

The second is what's called focalism, all right?

Focalism.

And and focalism is the tendency to place too much focus or emphasis on a single factor or piece of information.

In other words, to lock in on one thing, to get so focused on one thing when you're decision making and making judgments and predictions.

So I'm gonna get show you how this showed up in my life.

Uh, a few weeks ago, I took a few weeks off and I was gonna do some fun things with my family.

So we went to Florida.

I took my daughter to Miami and we spent a few days in Miami.

My wife took my boys to Disney and they were to spend a few days there, and then we all met up together in Jupiter.

While I was in Miami, okay, I decided uh my daughter was calling me sabbatical Greg.

She's like, I like sabbatical Greg, right?

I just decided to let my hair down a little bit, all right?

And so this is what I decided.

I'm usually very um um pretty meticulous and austere about my diet, okay.

So I've taken blood tests, I've taken the Everly Well tests, I know what food causes inflammation for me, I know um what food makes me feel bad.

I know all that stuff.

So I'm I'm pretty meticulous.

I'm not perfect, but I'm pretty close to legalistic about it.

And then I exercise pretty regularly, and but I decided you know what, man, I'm going on vacation, I'm gonna be gone for a while, my body's not gonna fall apart in a few weeks, I'll be fine, okay?

And so I'm going to just eat whatever I feel like.

So we get there, I start eating a little bit, uh, start eating a big bit, and then eventually we go to this place on Miami Beach called Prime Italian.

One of the things I don't eat a lot of is carbs, although I do eat tortilla chips because God gave us those.

So a lot of the other stuff.

I try to minimize my bread and whatever, but so I don't eat a lot of carbs.

I eat some, I don't eat a lot.

But I go in there and I'm like, you know, it's been a while, man, you know, since I've had carbs.

And so I go in, I'm just like, anything with gluten, bring it.

Bring it.

And so so I eat this thing of bread, and then I eat a bunch of pasta, and then and then the waiter comes out and I did what you do, new restaurant.

I'm like, what's great?

You know, what do you recommend, man?

And he goes, the chicken parm.

Just telling the truth, I've not had chicken parm in years.

Years.

And when he said chicken parmesan, I went straight into focalism.

It's all I could see.

It's all I could see on the menu.

I'm looking around, nothing else mattered.

Just the chicken parm.

And so then I started to remember how chicken parm tasted.

And then I went into impact bias, which was I started to fantasize about how it might taste right now.

And I thought two things.

One, my taste was, I haven't experienced this in a while, and I feel like it's time.

The second is I I like feeling full, and so I want to feel full.

And so I couldn't get past it, and so I said, bring the chicken par.

What I didn't know was the quantity.

Dude, they bring this chicken parm out.

It looks like they sewed five together.

It's the biggest chicken parm I've ever seen in my life.

And I have certain values.

Like, I don't send food back.

Like I got focalism and impact bias, but I also have competitivism, and I'm not gonna lose to a chicken parm.

You know what I'm saying?

Anybody else?

I got any plate cleaners in the house?

I'm gonna clean this plate.

Few reasons.

One, stewardship.

You can't be faithful with the chicken parm.

How's God gonna bring you anything else?

By the way, also applies to chicken wings.

You ever seen somebody take a bite of a chicken wing, call that a win?

Come on now.

You gotta get down to the gristle, man.

You gotta get some bone in there.

Like, yeah, I mean, all the way down.

So it's a stewardship issue.

It's also honoring the chef.

This person went to school for this.

They worked hard for this.

And they're I'm gonna send it back half eaten.

I think not.

And then the third is I just don't take L's to food.

I was in so much pain.

Okay.

I finished this chicken part.

I'm not making this up.

You can ask my daughter.

My daughter's sitting there.

The waiter comes out and is gone.

And I had wiped the plate down with the bread.

So it looked like someone had washed the dish.

The waiter came out and goes, no one finishes that.

He's like, I've been here years, I've never seen anyone finish it.

I'm like, well, tell him the kid is here, you know.

The chef's like peeking around the corner, like.

I go back to my hotel room and I just laid in bed and moaned.

It's 8 p.m.

I'm just like, oh, fall into a deep sleep.

I wake up at 8 a.m.

feeling like death.

Body's inflamed.

My back was hurting.

I don't know why my why would my back even be hurting.

I'm not kidding.

My back was hurting.

I felt lethargic.

I didn't want to go hang, gliding, parasailing, jet ski.

I didn't want to do anything.

I just wanted to lay in bed.

I felt awful.

And I knew better.

I took the tests.

I've had chicken parm before.

I know what dairy does to me.

I know what gluten does to me.

I know what this stuff does.

I knew I should have had the chopped salad.

But I went in on the farm.

I knew better.

What was it?

Focalism, impact bias.

Somehow my brain wanted it so I was so focused on it, and I over-inflated that what I did was I chose the pleasure of the taste bud and the feeling of full at 8 p.m.

versus the inflammation at 8 a.m.

And I knew better.

Yes, sir.

I knew better.

Why do we do this?

And how do we get out?

This is where we jump ahead to Romans.

Um, one of the let me give you a little tip.

When you're reading your Bible, okay, one of the things you want to think about when you're reading is think about and be asking yourself, what point is the author making here?

And then pay attention when you're looking at the totality of a book to the flow of the thoughts.

So for example, Romans is 16 chapters.

Imagine you and I are having a conversation and you're talking, you go, Greg, I got something I want to share with you.

It's gonna take me 16 minutes.

Don't interrupt me until I finish.

And then we'll go back and talk about minute two.

Does that make sense?

If you went into minute two and I interrupted you, it's like, well, hold on a second.

Now you said that.

Let me get my 16 minutes out.

And I'll take you through this entire flow of the thought, and then we'll come back to minute two, and we can talk about what I said.

We'll come back to minute three, but you got to hear what I'm about to say.

A minute twelve is gonna affect minute two.

Are you with me?

So so this is how, as you're reading, and what I want to do, and I don't have time for 16, uh all 16 chapters, but I want to show you a flow of thought from Romans 5 through Romans 8 that will help us as we are trying to sit in between decisions, to eat fewer apples that cost us gardens, and to quit trading our birthright for things that are fleeting.

I can't wait to hear what I got to say, brother.

It's gonna be good.

Romans 5:14.

Romans 5:14

So still everyone died from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even those who did not obey or disobey, excuse me, an explicit command of God, as Adam did.

Now, Adam is a symbol, a representation of the people.

Now look at this.

There is a great difference.

There is a great difference between Adam's sin and God's gracious gift.

For the sin of this one man Adam brought death to many.

But even greater is God's wonderful gift and his gift of forgiveness to many through this other man Jesus Christ.

And the result of God's gracious gift is very different from the result of the one man sin.

The result of God's, I'm gonna say it again, verse 16, the result of God's gracious gift is very, very different.

Now notice these things like great difference, even greater, very different.

When you look into even the original Greek language of what Paul is saying, he's using adverbs and he's using language to demonstrate that it's not even close.

So Adam 1.0 represents the sin of us.

Us.

Sin entered the world, therefore all sinned.

Somebody slapped you, you slapped them back.

They said this to you, you clap back.

We end up in this chaos of sin.

It entered the world and it created death and it created bondage.

And he says, hey, the one through the one guy, he did a work that brought chaos and sin and death.

The second was a greater work of grace and forgiveness for many.

And he's like, and and and the it's not a competition, it's not even close.

Here's the question I want to I want to put before you.

Do you believe that God's grace is far greater than your sin, or do you believe that it's a really close race?

I'm convinced even people who could articulate the good news that know John 3.16 and the like still somehow psychologically and emotionally feel like there's this really tight race between God's grace and your sin.

You know?

We're like slugging it out.

And and I'm just hoping that at the finish line, Jesus.

Photo finish.

Run it back.

Let's see.

Cut on the tape now.

Let's see, did he did he get him?

It's not even close.

Paul wants you to understand, and he uses he uses vivid language.

He's like, he's like, it's more, more, more, more greater.

Do you understand?

Adam 1.0 and Adam 2.0 are not in competition.

Adam 2.0 won by a landslide.

By a landslide.

I knew this word wasn't gonna hit you like it hit me when God gave it to me.

I'm serious.

I what as I was reading this, it hit me.

I I couldn't even sit still.

And I was praying.

I'm like, Lord, help it hit the people like this.

Help it hit the people like this.

It's not even close.

I've given my life to study God's word.

I I preach every single week, and yet there are days I wake up and I feel I feel like I'm just hoping that Jesus will nip my sin and just beat him back.

He just nose him out.

It's not even close.

It's not even close.

Think of the song we just sang.

What a beautiful name.

Did you feel what happened in the room we that that's not that's not about notes?

My sin was greater.

Your love was greater.

Not even close.

You have no rival.

You sang that.

I'm preaching it, you sang it.

Do you believe it?

You have no rival, you have no equal.

It's not even close.

You won by a landslide.

Adam 2.0 beat the brakes off Adam 1.0.

Ran up the score.

Verse 18, yes, Adam's one sin brings condemnation for everyone.

But Christ's one act of righteousness brings a right relationship with God and new life for everyone.

Because one person disobeyed God, many became sinners.

But what but because one other person obeyed God, many will be made righteous.

Verse 21.

So just as sin ruled over all people, look at this.

Just as sin ruled over all people, just as sin was powerful to bring death and destroy and brought death, he said, but God's wonderful grace now rules instead, giving us right standing with God, resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

I I could go on in in Romans 5, he goes on to say, look, I know it's provocative and it's kind of like, where's the line?

Because he's like, you know, it's at one point, essentially, the what do we do when I sin?

Well, I sacrifice because you shed blood, and so you say sacrifice an animal to sin.

Why?

Well, I mean, you sacrifice the blood of an animal, you see, like death is costly and it's painful, and I don't want to just keep bringing death.

And so, in a sense, you realize that the debt's been paid, but you've got to look at the blood and go, but that's not good.

I don't want to keep doing that.

He's like, But people were sinning and just killing animals like crazy.

There's just blood everywhere.

And it's like, he's like, and and here's the crazy thing is God's grace still won.

And God's grace was still bigger.

He was still bigger.

He goes, but, but let's quit killing stuff.

So that's okay, let's follow the flow of thought.

So that's chapter five, chapter six, verse one.

So should I keep on sinning?

Is it up?

Well, then should we keep on sinning so that God can show us more and more of this wonderful grace?

No, quit killing these animals.

Quit killing your wife, quit killing your husband, quit quit killing your neighbor, quit, quit destroying people with your tongue.

Quit taking the apple, quit eating the stew.

Wise up.

Don't let focalism and impact bias ruin and run your life.

That's right, that's right.

Do it God's way.

How many people do you know because of impact bias and focalism?

In a relationship, married to Mrs.

80%.

And with focalism, what do you focus on, Mrs.

80%?

No, you focus on 20% that you're not getting.

Because 20% looks like 80% when you're not getting it, and you focus on it.

So you trade Mrs.

80% for Miss 20%, and then all of a sudden you realize she ain't got 80%, but you already blew it with Mrs.

80%, she ain't talking to you anymore.

And now the focalism is worn off and reality has set in.

He's going, don't do this anymore.

You don't do this anymore.

He said, We don't sin so the grace may abound.

Of course not.

Since we have died to sin, why would how can we continue to live in it?

In other words, why would you want to?

It's not that that's not the type of humanity you want to live in.

That's not the type of neighborhood, the type of home, the type of relationship.

So that's chapter six is essentially don't wink at sin and don't take God's grace for granted.

Ingest it, but don't take it for granted.

And then watch this, just keep flowing here.

Chapter 7.

He says, essentially, expect to struggle.

He said, I want to do what's right, but I can't.

I want to do what's good, but I don't.

I want to do, I don't want to do what's wrong, but I do.

In other words, and we can all bear witness, it doesn't matter whether you're a child or or you've been around a while, we all know that there's something about this apple and this stew that promised the same thing the last one does.

And although I've been there and done that and I know better, maybe, maybe this one, maybe this one.

He's like, you're expect to struggle.

Expect.

Even though you know Adam 2.0 cleaned Adam 1.0's clock, and you know that you don't want to sin so that grace will abound.

There's still a time where you're standing there, and it would feel so good to just open your mouth and say all of the deathly, destructive things that you feel to let off the steam of your anger, because it would hit your taste bud and it would make you feel full.

But as you say it, it tastes good, and it's a pleasurable experience to go off on somebody.

It's a pleasurable experience to shred somebody with your mouth.

And then you wake up the next morning and you're like, oh yes, sir.

That's good.

That's good.

It's like, so don't be thrown off when you still want to go off or when the apple still looks good.

You're going to struggle, you're going to battle.

And sometimes you might take a bite, you might do what you shouldn't have done.

And so then he says, keep with the flow.

Chapter 8.

So there's therefore no condemnation to those who belong to Christ.

Verse 26 says, the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness.

Verse 35 says, Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love?

Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity or persecuted or hungry or destitute or parmesan or apples or 35 says, I'm convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love.

Neither death nor life, nor angels, nor demons, he's painting the edges.

Fears for today or worries about tomorrow.

Not even the powers above can separate us from God's love.

No power in the sky above or earth below.

Indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Adam.

Let's get crazy practical.

Crazy practical.

So what do I do?

What do I do?

I start with the belief that the race is not close.

Adam 2.01 by a landslide.

And that and his spirit is living inside of me.

I will not take his grace for granted, I will not wink at sin.

I do not want to live and create death.

I want to live in as little death as possible.

And so it's his forgiveness and grace for me that gives me the ability to forgive me also, and to forgive you also.

And then I expect to struggle.

The apple still looks good.

The stew seems like I'm starving.

Don't dude calm down.

You're not starving.

You're hungry and tired.

And what when I mess up?

Why would I mess up?

What about when I mess up?

Therefore, no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.

He won the are you with me?

And throughout time, what you start to do is you learn how to think on the front end of a decision better.

To call the focalism and the impact bias out for the lie that it is.

To recognize the deception on the front end.

And so we are not perfect, but we make fewer and fewer of these decisions.

We get wiser and wiser so that I spend less time in that horrible place of the back end of a decision.

I say this last thing, and then I'll get out of your way.

Because if you get out of here fairly soon, you will beat the Baptist of the buffet.

So I'll just I'm just a couple minutes left, and then you're gonna have to go.

Alright, but here's what I'm gonna say.

Wouldn't you, wouldn't you love, wouldn't you love to get be able to get in a time machine, get in a DeLorean, and to go back in time and to go up to Esau.

And Esau's in here, he's all and he's about to make an oath.

And he's about to eat this, these lentils and this bread.

Wouldn't you love to my man?

It's a free country.

You can do what you want, but here just let me just let me let me help you count the cost.

Tell him a little bit about focalism, tell them a little bit about impact bias, and then to say, listen, man, you're about to have 12 sons.

Your 12 sons, these families will form a nation.

And that nation's gonna end up in captivity 400 years.

And God's gonna send a deliverer named Moses.

And when he shows up to deliver his people, he's gonna announce himself as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Esau.

The stew is not that good, my guy.

It's really not, and that's not it.

In 2,000 years, God's gonna send his son Jesus.

His son Jesus is gonna come die for the whole world.

And Matthew's gonna write about it so that people never forget it.

And everybody knows what they have in Adam 2.0.

And when he writes, he's gonna write his genealogy.

The stock he came from, the line he came through.

He's gonna say, This Jesus came through Abraham, Isaac, and Esau.

Don't trade.

I can't go back in time.

I can't talk Esau out of his next decision.

But here we are.

Let's not blow it.

Let's not waste it.

You're about to determine your next decision will determine your new past.

Think about that.

You talk about your past.

Oh, my past, my past.

Can't change the past.

That's right.

But your past isn't done being made.

So your next decision is soon going to be your past.

Stand today, confident in Adam 2.0.

Praise God.

Stand today.

Don't go soft on sin.

Don't take it for granted.

You don't want to live in death.

That's right.

That's right, doc.

That's right.

Expect to struggle, but don't walk in condemnation.

Refuse to walk in condemnation.

Let's take a moment.

I I asked our team to play this song.

You know, we sang it a moment ago.

My sin was great.

Your love was greater.

You need to hear that.

It's over there for some of you that you just be you you've just been feeling like it's a dead heat.

It's very, very close between God's grace and my sin.

And today, maybe God brought you here today to remind you that it's not even close.

God's grace is so much greater.

And then there are some of you, maybe you're on the verge of a decision.

You're on the verge of a decision.

And no matter how many bad decisions you've been or how many promises you've made, there's something about this apple, there's something about this stew that's got you in this focalism, impact bias, lie.

And maybe God brought you here to just shout the truth in your ear while there's still time.

Why don't you take a moment and allow the word to seep into your heart?