0:00:00.527,0:00:03.508 I wonder this, 0:00:03.508,0:00:07.439 whether I'm speaking just now 0:00:07.439,0:00:11.247 to any perhaps young person, 0:00:11.247,0:00:14.127 anybody that's got parents [br]that are Christians here. 0:00:14.127,0:00:18.657 Maybe you're an adult. 0:00:18.657,0:00:20.887 Do you have thoughts - 0:00:20.887,0:00:22.908 this is the question - 0:00:22.908,0:00:25.637 especially you young people, 0:00:25.637,0:00:29.281 do any of you have thoughts in your heart 0:00:29.281,0:00:33.039 that are exactly like the ones 0:00:33.039,0:00:42.637 that Eve had right before she ate? 0:00:42.637,0:00:46.450 "God's holding out." 0:00:46.450,0:00:49.190 You've got some idea God [br]is some sort of monster. 0:00:49.190,0:00:50.997 He's against you. 0:00:50.997,0:00:52.727 "He's against me!" 0:00:52.727,0:00:54.490 "It just feels like He's against me." 0:00:54.490,0:00:55.937 It feels like I can never do right. 0:00:55.937,0:00:58.032 It feels like He's always [br]trying to take away the fun. 0:00:58.032,0:00:59.708 He's always trying to [br]take away the fulfillment. 0:00:59.708,0:01:03.179 He's always trying to spoil [br]the enjoyment of life. 0:01:03.179,0:01:04.707 Do you think to yourself: 0:01:04.707,0:01:06.181 you know what, I'm going to give up 0:01:06.181,0:01:07.887 this Christianity stuff. 0:01:07.887,0:01:09.547 I don't like this. 0:01:09.547,0:01:12.087 I don't like it that my [br]parents bring me here. 0:01:12.087,0:01:15.458 I've got to get away. 0:01:15.458,0:01:17.858 Do you feel like it's holding you down? 0:01:17.858,0:01:19.077 It's so restrictive. 0:01:19.077,0:01:20.586 It's so inconvenient. 0:01:20.586,0:01:22.087 It's robbed you of so much. 0:01:22.087,0:01:24.548 It's so narrow. 0:01:24.548,0:01:29.018 Perhaps you dream about life out there. 0:01:29.018,0:01:31.658 "Oh, I'm missing it!" 0:01:31.658,0:01:32.997 You can watch the movies 0:01:32.997,0:01:34.657 or you can watch the commercials. 0:01:34.657,0:01:38.008 Young people and all the glory, right? 0:01:38.008,0:01:40.158 The beautiful cars and [br]they go to the beach 0:01:40.158,0:01:41.309 and they climb the mountains 0:01:41.309,0:01:42.579 and they're skiing. 0:01:42.579,0:01:44.879 You watch all this and it's like wow, 0:01:44.879,0:01:46.192 I'm being robbed of something! 0:01:46.192,0:01:48.698 I've got to go to that church on Sunday 0:01:48.698,0:01:51.637 with my parents. Ugh! 0:01:51.637,0:01:53.898 Christians look so miserable. 0:01:53.898,0:01:55.191 People out there look like 0:01:55.191,0:01:56.247 they're having such fun 0:01:56.247,0:01:57.639 and they're at the bars. 0:01:57.639,0:01:59.496 They've got all these women 0:01:59.496,0:02:00.517 and all these men 0:02:00.517,0:02:02.485 and everybody's beautiful. 0:02:02.485,0:02:04.298 And I come here. 0:02:04.298,0:02:05.746 It's on the East side 0:02:05.746,0:02:09.137 and it looks like an old warehouse. 0:02:09.137,0:02:10.689 We go in there and we hear this 0:02:10.689,0:02:16.277 and all it is is rules, rules, rules! 0:02:16.277,0:02:18.215 And you see, the devil: 0:02:18.215,0:02:22.458 "Eve, it's just rules." 0:02:22.458,0:02:28.382 "He won't let you eat of [br]any tree in the garden." 0:02:28.382,0:02:32.367 And you know that's [br]how he put it at first. 0:02:32.367,0:02:36.968 "Has God said you can't eat [br]of any tree in the garden?" 0:02:36.968,0:02:39.554 He just tried to put [br]that thought in there. 0:02:39.554,0:02:41.735 "It's just so restrictive! 0:02:41.735,0:02:43.037 See how restrictive He is? 0:02:43.037,0:02:48.987 He won't let you eat [br]any tree in the garden." 0:02:48.987,0:02:50.843 But she messed up. 0:02:50.843,0:02:54.329 You don't start dialoging with him. 0:02:54.329,0:02:59.520 "Well, no, that's not [br]exactly what He said..." 0:02:59.520,0:03:01.279 Any of you young people, 0:03:01.279,0:03:03.626 you're waiting, 0:03:03.626,0:03:08.387 eager. 0:03:08.387,0:03:12.425 Just waiting to really start living. 0:03:12.425,0:03:15.491 By the way, you wouldn't be 0:03:15.491,0:03:19.327 the first one to feel that way. 0:03:19.327,0:03:21.349 David's over here nodding. 0:03:21.349,0:03:23.127 You know what? 0:03:23.127,0:03:24.786 I was 16 one time. 0:03:24.786,0:03:26.188 I was 18 one time. 0:03:26.188,0:03:33.219 I was 21 one time. 0:03:33.219,0:03:36.496 The sound of the word "Gospel" - 0:03:36.496,0:03:41.697 it's like, that just sounds [br]kind of religious. 0:03:41.697,0:03:43.789 And I don't know what all that means, 0:03:43.789,0:03:47.728 but it doesn't sound [br]like good news in my ears. 0:03:47.728,0:03:49.046 It sounds narrow. 0:03:49.046,0:03:51.678 It sounds like it's going [br]to cramp my style. 0:03:51.678,0:03:53.927 I want the kind of religion [br]where there's a God, 0:03:53.927,0:03:54.886 He smiles on me, 0:03:54.886,0:03:56.369 when I die I'm going to go to heaven, 0:03:56.369,0:03:57.688 but let me have my sin. 0:03:57.688,0:03:58.976 Let me live it up. 0:03:58.976,0:04:01.228 That's what I wanted. 0:04:01.228,0:04:02.258 All that stuff? 0:04:02.258,0:04:04.307 That sounds like rattling chains 0:04:04.307,0:04:06.927 that you're going to tie me up with. 0:04:06.927,0:04:10.666 And seriously, I mean I would have been. 0:04:10.666,0:04:12.598 You put me in a church on a Sunday, 0:04:12.598,0:04:15.628 I would have been like a caged animal. 0:04:15.628,0:04:19.429 Like let me out of here! 0:04:19.429,0:04:21.756 So you wouldn't be the first [br]one that's felt that way. 0:04:21.756,0:04:24.373 Lots of us have felt that way. 0:04:24.373,0:04:27.737 We know. 0:04:27.737,0:04:29.979 Do you imagine somehow God 0:04:29.979,0:04:32.368 and this Christian way of life - 0:04:32.368,0:04:34.719 it's against you? 0:04:34.719,0:04:37.398 "God is against me." 0:04:37.398,0:04:40.505 See, that's what Satan wanted her to feel, 0:04:40.505,0:04:41.980 that God is against you. 0:04:41.980,0:04:43.570 God's an enemy. God's a monster. 0:04:43.570,0:04:47.473 God's jealous. God's small. God's selfish. 0:04:47.473,0:04:50.209 The real issue isn't [br]how shiny the fruit is. 0:04:50.209,0:04:51.754 The real issue is: 0:04:51.754,0:04:54.053 This is a God you've got to get away from, 0:04:54.053,0:04:55.975 break free from. 0:04:55.975,0:05:00.034 This is a God who is opposed 0:05:00.034,0:05:01.205 to your best interests, 0:05:01.205,0:05:03.174 opposed to your joy, opposed to your fun, 0:05:03.174,0:05:06.144 opposed to your happiness. 0:05:06.144,0:05:09.115 God's unfair. 0:05:09.115,0:05:16.953 He wants you to doubt His goodness. 0:05:16.953,0:05:20.875 You see this for what it is. 0:05:20.875,0:05:23.306 It's the same old thing 0:05:23.306,0:05:25.444 that Adam and Eve did then, 0:05:25.444,0:05:28.884 and it just gets repeated today. 0:05:28.884,0:05:31.601 You say what do you mean? 0:05:31.601,0:05:35.645 Do you know what God did for them? 0:05:35.645,0:05:39.523 There's a peach tree. 0:05:39.523,0:05:42.873 No worms. 0:05:42.873,0:05:45.584 Try that. 0:05:45.584,0:05:47.093 I don't know how it was, 0:05:47.093,0:05:49.364 but can you imagine the [br]Lord walking with them 0:05:49.364,0:05:50.494 in the cool of the garden. 0:05:50.494,0:05:51.964 He takes them over to the peach tree 0:05:51.964,0:05:57.414 and He says, "Adam, Eve, try this one." 0:05:57.414,0:06:01.425 "I designed this one and it's good." 0:06:01.425,0:06:02.874 "Try this one." 0:06:02.874,0:06:07.813 Like, "wow! That's really good!" 0:06:07.813,0:06:09.850 "Have you ever had a strawberry?" 0:06:09.850,0:06:11.333 "What's that?" 0:06:11.333,0:06:13.004 "Come over here!" 0:06:13.004,0:06:17.073 "Try that!" 0:06:17.073,0:06:20.953 In spite of all that God had done for them 0:06:20.953,0:06:24.024 they believed the lie. 0:06:24.024,0:06:27.665 And that's what people [br]go on believing today. 0:06:27.665,0:06:31.953 People look at family. 0:06:31.953,0:06:34.105 I have family. 0:06:34.105,0:06:35.954 I get together with them 0:06:35.954,0:06:37.851 at Thanksgiving or Christmas. 0:06:37.851,0:06:42.375 I have family. (incomplete thought) 0:06:42.375,0:06:44.506 A man gets married - God created sex. 0:06:44.506,0:06:46.563 The devil didn't create that. 0:06:46.563,0:06:50.275 Intimacy, warmth. 0:06:50.275,0:06:52.815 A home. 0:06:52.815,0:06:55.315 A place you go in when [br]it's cold and it's warm, 0:06:55.315,0:07:00.025 or you go in when it's hot and it's cool. 0:07:00.025,0:07:02.644 And there's food. 0:07:02.644,0:07:07.925 We can walk into an HEB or a Costco today 0:07:07.925,0:07:11.324 and the food! 0:07:11.324,0:07:14.174 Look what God has given to us. 0:07:14.174,0:07:16.843 And see, you young people, 0:07:16.843,0:07:21.114 you've got clothing on. 0:07:21.114,0:07:23.013 I remember one time 0:07:23.013,0:07:25.673 we were down at the homeless shelter 0:07:25.673,0:07:28.423 and we had a Korean family with us. 0:07:28.423,0:07:30.600 And the husband looked. 0:07:30.600,0:07:34.471 Do you know what a lot [br]of the homeless people do? 0:07:34.471,0:07:37.753 Clothes are so abundant 0:07:37.753,0:07:40.025 that they get brand new clothes, 0:07:40.025,0:07:41.854 they wear them, and when they're dirty, 0:07:41.854,0:07:43.575 they just throw them away. 0:07:43.575,0:07:45.704 That's what a lot of homeless people do 0:07:45.704,0:07:47.515 because clothing is so abundant. 0:07:47.515,0:07:51.086 And this Korean man looked at a shirt 0:07:51.086,0:07:53.804 that a homeless person [br]just cast on the ground. 0:07:53.804,0:07:57.774 He said in Korea, you'd never see that. 0:07:57.774,0:07:59.714 We have so much. 0:07:59.714,0:08:01.624 God has given you so much 0:08:01.624,0:08:08.113 and you say God's against me. 0:08:08.113,0:08:10.665 The sunset, the pleasures of this world, 0:08:10.665,0:08:14.499 the beauties, the comforts. 0:08:14.499,0:08:17.665 "But God's against me!" 0:08:17.665,0:08:19.445 Look at Golgotha! 0:08:19.445,0:08:21.204 Hear the Son of God: 0:08:21.204,0:08:24.249 "My God, My God, why [br]have You forsaken Me?" 0:08:24.249,0:08:26.853 God sent His Son into this world 0:08:26.853,0:08:28.104 to die for sinners. 0:08:28.104,0:08:30.604 "But God's against me!" 0:08:30.604,0:08:34.354 "God's against me!" 0:08:34.354,0:08:36.498 You need to wake up to the facts! 0:08:36.498,0:08:37.999 That's insanity! 0:08:37.999,0:08:39.604 He's not against you! 0:08:39.604,0:08:42.497 God's kindness is meant 0:08:42.497,0:08:46.355 to lead you to repentance. 0:08:46.355,0:08:48.721 It's the lie of the devil. 0:08:48.721,0:08:50.544 He's not against you. 0:08:50.544,0:08:52.296 And His commandments 0:08:52.296,0:08:55.174 are meant for your safety. 0:08:55.174,0:08:57.664 Repent - change your mind 0:08:57.664,0:09:00.394 about the way you're running to hell. 0:09:00.394,0:09:01.714 Is that so bad? 0:09:01.714,0:09:03.424 Is that so offensive to you? 0:09:03.424,0:09:04.495 Change your mind. 0:09:04.495,0:09:06.424 Change your mind about this. 0:09:06.424,0:09:09.342 Change! Turn! 0:09:09.342,0:09:11.471 Turn from running over the cliff. 0:09:11.471,0:09:12.837 It's so perilous. 0:09:12.837,0:09:15.337 It's leading to your destruction. 0:09:15.337,0:09:16.774 Embrace My Son. 0:09:16.774,0:09:18.233 He'll take you to paradise. 0:09:18.233,0:09:20.124 He'll be a Husband to you. 0:09:20.124,0:09:22.694 Oh, there are joys and [br]pleasures forevermore 0:09:22.694,0:09:28.249 at His right hand. 0:09:28.249,0:09:31.273 The devil told our first parents: 0:09:31.273,0:09:33.415 "Don't believe it. 0:09:33.415,0:09:34.722 Don't trust God. 0:09:34.722,0:09:37.088 He can't be trusted. 0:09:37.088,0:09:38.874 Trust me. 0:09:38.874,0:09:42.425 I'll tell you the truth." 0:09:42.425,0:09:45.755 But it wasn't the truth. 0:09:45.755,0:09:47.970 He murdered them. 0:09:47.970,0:09:50.837 And he's been a murderer [br]from the beginning. 0:09:50.837,0:09:53.223 And they did die. 0:09:53.223,0:09:54.884 He said, "eat it." 0:09:54.884,0:09:57.145 "Eat as much as you like." 0:09:57.145,0:09:59.676 "You won't die." 0:09:59.676,0:10:02.424 But they did die. 0:10:02.424,0:10:05.303 And you see God is bidding you: 0:10:05.303,0:10:11.055 Life. Life. Eternal life. 0:10:11.055,0:10:13.424 I offer it to you. 0:10:13.424,0:10:16.424 An abundance of life. 0:10:16.424,0:10:22.293 A paradise of life. 0:10:22.293,0:10:25.054 This excerpt was taken [br]from the full sermon: 0:10:25.054,0:10:28.284 The Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil 0:10:28.284,0:10:31.465 by Tim Conway from Genesis 2.