Impact Discipleship Notes | Young Disciple Series Video

The world now compared to when Christ walked the earth is very different. Life is less survival mode than it was. It is good! We can travel faster, store food easier, anything we need is just one click away shipped right to our door with money we haven’t even made yet. While the world may seem advanced externally, internally many of us have become worse. Slaves to addictions humans before us never had to deal with. Why? Well unlike 2000 years ago, you want to be a glutton? Fast food is on every street corner and is cheap. buy alcohol? Easier than ever to get drunk. You don’t even have to seek lust, we live in a world where lust seeks YOU! Through our phones. We don’t even need to leave the house to cheat on our spouse, many people do it from their phones every night. All of this advancement. All of this corruption, yet Jesus UNDERSTANDS! He understood this would happen to you and I when he made the decision to sacrifice himself on the cross. He knew we would be struggling with what we are struggling with when He called upon our name all those years ago. And He still loves us! If you knew that your future spouse was going to lie, cheat, steal, kill, be a drunkard, be a glutton, lust after others, leave you and then come back asking for forgiveness only to leave again, on your wedding day would you go through with it?

From the human perspective in order to truly feel like you know something or understand what someone is going through, we had to have experienced it. It’s much easier to forgive someone for a mistake if you’ve yourself had that very same mistake. So how is it possible that God forgives us and loves us more than any human ever could and he never sinned?

This is because we were made in His image. Perfect. When did sin start? When Adam and Eve ate from the tree of KNOWLEDGE of good and evil. So by eating it they gained knowledge of something that already existed. Sin was not created out of this act, but simply made them aware of what was already there and possible. This realization would taint us all for millennium.

If Yahweh is perfectly good in every way, why create evil at all? Why create the devil at all? Wouldn’t God desire everyone to just be happy and feel good all the time? Good vibes. No sin. No temptation.