Connecting With Jesus

*EVENING WORSHIP AND 777 PRAYER HOUR*


🙏Grateful to God for a Blissful day and brought us up together here tonight 💖 💖 Good Evening, my pleasure to meet you all here, and I am glad to Welcome Everybody to our Worship Hour 🙏

Hiding Before God

Read Genesis 3:7-13. Why did Adam and Eve feel the need to hide before God? Why did God ask the question “Where are you?” How did Adam and Eve seek to justify their behavior?

Before we answer, let’s Pray,

Jodelyn Sembrano Sam Yoo Ku Rose Atuel Rupita Sorina Vidal Ailyn Dominguez Mamalove Nojaqui Zoe Lajo

Dear heavenly Father, grateful for the day, for all the blessings and love from Thee and everybody. Tonight we come to Thee in humble heart, praying for the success of tonight’s worship. Please let us understand our lesson and let everyone to participate in this ministry wholeheartedly and we could glorify Thee, and uplift everyone’s Spiritual journey. Thanks for the participants willingly accept and responded our request. Thanks for being with us, forgiving our weaknesses and unrighteousness, for hearing our petition in Christ’s sake we pray with thanksgiving. Amen

Let’s read,

After they sinned, Adam and Eve felt naked because they lost their garments of glory, which reflected God’s presence (see Ps. 8:5, compare with Ps. 104:1, 2). The image of God had been affected by sin. The verb “make” in the phrase they “made themselves coverings” (Gen. 3:7, NKJV) was so far applied only to God the Creator (Gen. 1:7, 16, 25, etc.). It is as if they replaced the Creator as they attempted to cover their sin, an act that Paul denounces as righteousness by works (Gal. 2:16).

When God approaches, He asks them the rhetorical question “Where are you?” (Gen. 3:9, NKJV), the same kind of question that God will ask Cain (Gen. 4:9). Of course, God knew the answers to the questions. His questions were asked for the benefit of the guilty, to help them realize what they have done and yet, at the same time, to lead them to repentance and salvation. From the moment humans sinned, the Lord was working for their salvation and redemption.

In fact, the whole scenario reflects the idea of the investigative judgment, which begins with the judge, who interrogates the culprit (Gen. 3:9) in order to prepare him for the sentence (Gen. 3:14-19). But He does it also to prompt repentance, which will ultimately lead to salvation (Gen. 3:15). This is a motif seen all through the Bible.

At first, as so common with sinners, Adam and Eve both try to evade the charge, seeking to blame others. To God’s question Adam responds that it was the woman whom God had given to him (Gen. 3:12) — she led him to do it. It was her fault (and, implied, it was God’s as well), not his.

Eve responds that it was the serpent who deceived her. The Hebrew verb nasha’, “deceive” (in Gen. 3:13, NKJV), means to give people false hopes and makes them believe that they are doing the right thing (2 Kings 19:10, Isa. 37:10, Jer. 49:16).

Adam blames the woman, saying that she gave him the fruit (some truth to this), and Eve blames the serpent, saying he deceived her (some truth to this, too). But in the end, they both were guilty.

Trying to blame someone else for what they have done? Why is it so easy for us to fall into the same trap?

Singspiration will follow.

To start our Evening Worship Program this is our Opening Song 🎼 SDAH 281 – I Gave My Life for Thee, please sing along with me.

1
I gave my life for thee,
My precious blood I shed,
That thou might’st ransom be,
And quickened from the dead;
I gave, I gave My life for thee,
What hast thou given for Me?
I gave, I gave My life for thee,
What hast thou given for Me?

2
My Fathers house of light,
My glory circled throne,
I left for earthly night,
For wanderings sad and lone;
I left, I left it all for thee,
Hast thou left aught for Me?
I left, I left it all for thee,
Hast thou left aught for Me?

3
I suffered much for thee,
more than thy tongue can tell,
Of bitterest agony,
To rescue thee from hell;
I’ve borne, I’ve borne it all for thee,
What hast thou borne for Me?
I’ve borne, I’ve borne it all for thee,
What hast thou borne for Me?

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