Fall: The Kingdom Rebels Against the King | The Story of God E1
John Mark Comer Teachings
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 6 September 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Why is the world so messed up? John Mark reflects on the reality of the world's dysfunction and how the story of the Fall in Genesis explains humanity's descent into chaos. He challenges us to reconsider our understanding of sin, its origins, and its impact on our lives, ultimately pointing to Jesus as our only hope for overcoming sin and its consequences.
Key Scripture Passage: Genesis 3v1-21
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Mark Coma Teaching's Podcast. I'm Strawn Coleman, your host and part of the teaching team here at practicing the way. |
| 0:11.0 | Each week on the podcast we share a teaching from John Mark or other |
| 0:14.5 | trusted voices in the formation space and it's great to have you with us. In |
| 0:20.9 | today's teaching John Mark explores the fall with three different ways of viewing sin and the |
| 0:26.6 | harm it causes. |
| 0:28.6 | Sin is so much more than just rule-breaking, he teaches. |
| 0:33.1 | It's a disease. |
| 0:35.2 | As you listen, you may like to consider the question, |
| 0:38.1 | do I view sin primarily through the framework of rules |
| 0:42.0 | or relationship? Here's John Mark. |
| 0:47.0 | This morning I woke up and as is my Sunday morning routine I went for a run in Forest Park. |
| 0:54.0 | And it was so beautiful. Forest Park in the winter is kind of laid bare and the sun was breaking through for a very short time. |
| 1:02.0 | And you come up over a rise and you see the city spread out |
| 1:06.4 | and it was just such a good moment I just felt at peace with God and with myself and even with the earth and it was beautiful until it |
| 1:16.8 | started raining and I was stopping wet and freezing cold but that's the other thing. |
| 1:21.2 | But then after my run after a quick shower and such, I read the news. And I was offline |
| 1:29.1 | yesterday for my Sabbath and so I was kind of playing catch up and I read a story about a gunman in Michigan killing six people, a father and a son, a teenage girl, innocent people, nothing to do with the man at all senseless violence. |
| 1:44.2 | Write about a terrorist bombing in Turkey. |
| 1:46.8 | I read about political infighting here in the States. |
| 1:49.2 | I read that bizarre story about the 97-year-old and the 100- 100 year old woman in the retirement home in |
| 1:54.3 | Massachusetts and the 97 year old woman murdered her roommate with a plastic bag |
| 1:58.6 | overhead and it was just so gnarly and so I was just after this beautiful morning I was just wrecked by the |
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