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1Genesis 3:16-17 The reason why we cannot live fulfilling the creation command_1


[Genesis] 3:16 And he said to the woman, "I will greatly increase your pain in childbearing; with pain you will bear children; you will desire a husband, and he will rule over you."
Genesis 3:17 He said to Adam, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree to which I told you, 'You shall not eat from it,' cursed is the ground because of you; you will toil all the days of your life, and you will eat from it.


2011.1.9. Sunday morning, ‘New Year’s plan’

God gives us three creative commands in the new year. It means to fill, to conquer, to rule. Also, this is a command that is always given to us not only for the New Year, but also for the twelve months of the year. And it is the most essential and basic command of Christians who serve God. Of course, there is a new commandment that Jesus gave us. To love God and love our neighbor is a new commandment we must keep. However, the command of creation that any human being receives is more essential and fundamental to our lives. Just as God gave Adam and Eve the command to create, God gives this command to all of us so that we can live in this world.
“Be full, conquer, rule”

Where do you fit into this order of creation? Should you fill, conquer, or rule? We may have different levels of effort, different environments, and different domains, but we are all people who must be fulfilled, or conquered, or ruled. That is our life and since we were born into this world, it is something we must always strive for.
A baby born into this world strives to be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth. We constantly experience new things and expand our level of knowledge and experience. Our second daughter, born last year, eagerly explores her father's desk. She eagerly expands her new world, sometimes on her heels and sometimes struggling to climb into her chair. It's amazing to see such an instinctive appearance. No one ever taught us, but our baby is doing God's creative mandate.
The school life that enters after passing the preschool age is overflowing with new conquests every day. From elementary school to middle school to high school, our children struggle to conquer new tasks and new knowledge. These efforts and struggles did not happen only in civilized societies. The same effort and struggle takes place in uncivilized societies.

A recent TV coming-of-age ceremony for indigenous Africans showed how hard they struggle to conquer new challenges. As some of you might have seen, the need to conquer and the fight against it were still unfolding in an uncivilized society that seemed to lead a leisurely life without the need to study or struggle at all. In order to have a coming-of-age ceremony and become an adult, young adults had to jump over a cow. If you couldn't jump over the cow, you weren't an adult, and you couldn't get married. So they were trying so hard to conquer the cow in order to jump over it with energy.

So are our children. They strive to get into college, to graduate from high school, to finish middle school, to pass elementary school. It is what you want to conquer. The object of that conquest is one's own studies, one's own limitations, and one's own weaknesses. And when they finally win the battle against themselves, they take a prominent position and enjoy the fruit that God has given them.

What will you do when you graduate from all your courses and you no longer need to continue the learning process? Of course, after that, you may struggle to conquer the problems of a new life in order to be full again, but in terms of age, after you finish school, the main thing you do is 'ruling'. And the better you manage it, the richer and richer your life will be.
What everyone does after reaching adulthood is to have a job. Everyone has their own job. A housewife is also viewed as a job, and the word 'full-time housewife' is used. You will live with that job for the rest of your life (because that is how you can earn money and live), and at that time, after overcoming difficulties in the beginning, what you will also encounter is ‘ruling work’. The better you govern it, the more fruit it produces, and the more rewarding and beneficial it is.

God made us do these things and live in this world. That's why we are meant to live in constant fulfillment, conquest, or dominion. However, in some moments and under certain circumstances, we may not be able to do the job well. I can't get full anymore. Can't conquer anymore. I can't control it any longer. Originally, we were supposed to live while fulfilling this command of creation, but for some reason, we cannot carry out that command. I am having difficulty with this. I want to be full, but I can't. I'm trying to conquer it, but it doesn't work. I try to control it, but I rarely get it. What the hell happened? Why did we fail to do that command well?

The same thing happened in the Bible. Adam and Eve received the command of creation and lived faithfully carrying out the command. They were meant to live that way full of life, conquering, ruling. But a problem arose with them. Today's Word shows the problems they have. Verse 16.
“16. And he said to the woman, "I will greatly increase your pain in childbearing; with pain you will bear children; you will long for your husband, and he will rule over you."

The woman's pains in childbirth increased, making it difficult for her to be fruitful and multiply. Also, originally, women were supposed to live as men's helpers, but now they are governed instead. It has become difficult for women to carry out God's command of creation. How did you end up like that? Why did God say this to the woman and let her live this kind of life? Not only that. See verse 17.
“17. He said to Adam, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree of which I told you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; you will toil all the days of your life and eat from it."

Adam also suffered a similar punishment. Because the ground was cursed, Adam had to work hard all his life to eat. In the past, God commanded us to subdue the earth, but now it has become difficult to subdue and difficult to govern, so we have to work hard to do it. If you let go of your mind even a little bit and lose sight of it, you will be conquered again and you will lose control again, making it difficult to make a living. Why did this happen to Adam? How did Adam come to live such a difficult life?

All of this is because of sin. Because Eve sinned and Adam sinned. And God paid the price for their specific sins. So, because of that sin, it has become difficult for them to easily carry out the command of creation. What were their sins? What the hell did they do to get punished so severely? Regarding this, the content of the sin He said to Adam was the same as what He said to Eve. Because they are equally guilty. Their sins were like this.
“He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree of which I told you not to eat.”
Similarly, although not specifically mentioned, Eve's sin can be explained as follows.
“He said to Eve, “Because you listened to the serpent and ate from the tree I told you not to eat.”

Even though Eve did not hear the direct command from God not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, she had already heard from Adam about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, so she herself also violated God's word. Since she already knew the contents of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, she said that when the snake first spoke about the tree of knowledge of good and evil, she said, 'God says, don't eat it or touch it, lest you die'. Because of these sins, God paid the price for them. The price of sin that God properly gave to Eve, the woman, was the pain that made it difficult for her to be fulfilled. that made it difficult.

Then, what was the meaning of their sins and why did they receive the price for these sins? The content of sin is eating the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which God said not to eat, but isn't there a meaning of sin contained in it? That is why, in the end, Adam and Eve didn't just die, they died slowly, and being slow dieers made it difficult to carry out the command of creation. It's not that you can't fulfill that order at all. If it did, I would have just died. To die means to be no longer fulfilled, conquered, or ruled. They die because the meaning and value of living disappears. However, it is not that Adam and Eve cannot fulfill the command at all, but it is more difficult than before. What was the meaning of the act of eating the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?
The reason Eve ate the forbidden fruit was not because the serpent tempted her. The snake only made them think of the knowledge of good and evil and encouraged temptation. The reason Eve finally ate the tree of knowledge of good and evil was because she seemed able to make the fruit look like God. Do you know how the serpent tempted Eve? Look at Genesis 3:5.
“5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Eve wanted to be like God. So, I wanted to avoid God's interference, let go of dependence on God, and go beyond God's experience and live freely according to my own will. That is why they ate the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Even looking at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, it was delicious and pleasing to the eye and desirable enough to make one wise.
Why did Adam listen to Eve? Because he preferred to listen to Eve rather than listen to God. Then he thought he could live without God like Eve. Then he wondered if he could live without being full, conquering, ruling. It was so easy for them to carry out the command of creation without committing sin, but Adam, who struggled even with that, wanted to become God in his life so that he could abandon the command and overcome it. . Because Eve and Adam were the same human beings, Adam did not participate in eating the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil because he had a better motive or purpose. In the end, I wanted to live away from God.

Are we different? no. We are the same. The reason we can't keep the commandments of creation is because of sin. Because you sin, you should be full, but you are not full. You must conquer, but you cannot conquer. I need to control it, but I can't control it. What are our sins? What is sin and what is not sin? Of course, the Ten Commandments show us what sin is, but there is a greater evidence of sin than that. It's the guilt we have. That's the shame we have. Guilt and shame are evidence of our sins. If you haven't sinned, you don't have to feel guilty and you don't have to feel shame, but because you sinned, you feel guilty and ashamed.

I had a brief chat with a man who had been in a gang before and had left that world. He had guilt and shame about his own past. So I could see that he was having a very hard time talking about the past. That is the evidence of our sin. Because we do things that make us feel so guilty and ashamed, we fail to fulfill the God-given command of creation. By committing a sin once and practicing that sin over and over again, you will not be able to fulfill, conquer, and rule the work that God wants you to do.
And in that sin, we are gradually getting farther away from God. Because we ourselves want to be God and the rulers of our lives, we abandon obeying God, relying on God, and praying to God, and live a life that does not require doing so, and continue to commit sins.

When Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit and were living in guilt and shame, the Lord came to them. God came to them when they were living in darkness, covering themselves with fig leaves out of shame and avoiding God. So he punishes them for their sins. They didn't die right away. It was just dying. But until they die, God gives them the command to create again. The penalty God gave them was that they had to work hard to fulfill the command of creation. But this shows God's amazing grace. It is to awaken them again in the midst of that difficulty. He commands them to be filled in pain, to conquer in difficulty, and to rule in fear.

In that life, God expects them. He expects them to depend on God. They tried to become God themselves and get away from God, but God calls them back and makes them live harder and harder to fulfill the command in God. They themselves have sinned and turned away from God, but God does not forsake them. Although sin has separated them from God and caused pain and suffering, God still wants to fulfill the creation command. In it, God wanted to meet Adam and Eve again.

The same goes for us. We sometimes find it difficult to carry out the mandate of creation. I feel pain, frustration and anguish. It is because we have sinned. Because that sin separated us from God. We wanted to live away from God in that sin. But God holds us up despite the sins we commit. And even in all the hardships, he wants to rely on and hold on to the Lord. He wants us to carry out the command of creation more powerfully, more strongly, and more graciously in the Lord. For Adam and Eve, and for us, God wants this very thing.

Last week, we gave this year's prayer topic to God through Songgu Youngshin Service. I looked at your prayer topics because I will also pray for that prayer topic for a year. Some were prayer topics to really go to God, and some were prayer topics to get farther away from God. My heart ached as I saw some of the prayer topics to get further away from God. My heart hurts even more when I think about how many sins that wish will bring in the future. The prayer topic to get away from God will make more and more sins this year. It will make you eat more of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. As a result, more sins will come. In the end, my heart feels full when I think that the lives of some saints will become more difficult due to the price of sin.

Sometimes when I put my second daughter, Ji-in, in her car, she hates seat belts and wants to run away. But she can't help it, in case she is familiar with her car seat, she must have a seat belt on. Because it is safe. Also, now that she's grown up a lot, when she goes outside, she leaves her mom and dad and goes alone. Then she will chase and catch you. I want to live more freely, more vigorously, and more freely, but my parents cannot do that. Because then you will surely be hurt, sick, and suffering. She has to hold him back until he refuses to leave her parents.

No matter what you wish for, it's not all good. There are wishes that are harmful to us and there are wishes that make God sad. But we do have a wish. Even if we want to be like God and want to stay away from God, God will not forsake us. Just as Adam and Eve did not die because they ate the forbidden fruit, God does not kill us because we sinned. He just wants us to come to our senses as soon as possible and become people who rely on God. And it needs God and wants to do the bidding of creation, looking to God.
God, our eternal Father, wants us to constantly come to God in the midst of our sins without trying to get away from Him because of our sins. Whenever we try to get away from God, we try not to be full, not to conquer, not to rule. It's a command, but I don't want to keep it because I'm trying to get away from God.
However, just as God called Adam and Eve to pay for their sins and make them carry out the command of creation again, God sends us to the world again this year. Realizing that sending, we must rely on the Lord with a repentant heart and carry out the command of creation again. There may be times when it is difficult and difficult due to not seeking God due to sin, but there may be times when there is no special income, but do not give up. Because God wants us to come closer to Him by doing that work.

I wish you all who carry out this command of creation more this year. I pray that you do not become weak due to sin and do not stumble due to unbelief, but realize that we can live as long as we carry out this command, and do our best to fill, conquer, and rule. I pray that you do not repeat the sins of the past and rely on God to fulfill the command of perfect creation once again.



*Overview {1 history book} <1 application> <3 analysis> [2 categories]~[0 gospels], [5-1 plan]
1. The reason why we cannot carry out God's commands is because of sin.
2. Eve sinned against Adam, and Adam sinned against Eve, and God paid for it.
3. God feels sorry for us when we commit sins in each area of his life, giving us the appropriate price.
4. We must strive to fulfill God's commands while fearing sin.