WHO TOLD YOU THAT YOU WERE NAKED? Adam Where Are You? Genesis 3

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THERE’S NOTHING WORSE FOR A LIAR THAN TO BE INTERROGATED

Those who love the truth, other people, and humility, expose their shame to be covered by mercy, forgiveness and grace. We’ve all seen this tap-dancing and have performed a few moves of our own.Do you remember the look on someone’s face who knows you are lying?

(The narcissist has no empathy, and no sense of shame which causes you to surrender to truth. So, they never see the other person’s face–they don’t care. The only pain being protected is their own.) What did Adam become? God knew where he was, but did Adam know?

Listen to the interrogation. With each question Adam drifts further away from God. In fact, this is the last we will here of his relationship with God.

The narcissistic personality type, always asks: “why all the questions? You don’t trust me?”  From his or her perspective, the only stake in the relationship is theirs. They are the only one with something to lose. What’s yours is theirs, and what’s theirs is theirs. They think to themselves, why are you acting as though you are entitled to anything in this relationship? You are here to serve me.

Adam, where are you? WHO TOLD YOU THAT YOU WERE NAKED AND NEED TO HIDE? Did you eat of the fruit I told you was off limits in our relationship?

Just a few insights and considerations in this drama.

POWERFUL RESISTANCE ON THE BATTLE FIELD, 2Tim.1

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“Share in afflictions? According to the POWER OF GOD”???
Isn’t that a contradiction? Doesn’t the WEAK one experience the pain, and the POWERFUL experience victory, and peace? What is Paul taking about? He’s taking a beating from God’s enemies—literally–and talking about. “…according to the power of God”?


As we learned in Romans 1: the gospel is the “POWER of God; the FORCE of God unto salvation.” Rom. 1:16 (a parallel verse.)


Therefore the forces in the world are soo powerful that God must use FORCE to accomplish salvation!

  • FORCE is necessary to overcome the enemy and rescue the captives. 2Tim. 2:9-12, 15, 3:8, 11, 12, 4:2-8
  • FORCE is necessary to give life, sight, and faith to those being rescued. 2:25-26
  • POWER is necessary for the children of God to overcome during this life and receive the inheritance. 1:6-14, 2:3-6, 4:2-8
  • The GOSPEL is that power/force: “And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise UNTO SALVATION through faith which is in Christ Jesus.  All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is PROFITABLE for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:  That the man of God may be PERFECT, THOROUGHLY FURNISHED unto ALL good works.
    2 Timothy 3:15‭-‬17 KJV

“Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. And the Lord SHALL DELIVER ME from every evil work, and will PRESERVE me [POWER TO RESIST CORROSION] unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. –2 Timothy 4:17‭-‬18 KJV 


YOU SEE, THE POWER IS NOT WITH THE OPPRESSOR, THE POWER IS WITH THE OVERCOMER. AFFLICTIONS ARE MERELY RESISTANCE ON THE BATTLE FIELD.

” be thou partaker of the AFFLICTIONS of the gospel ACCORDING to the POWER of God;” 2 Timothy 1:‬8 KJV