
Not Good Enough
May 31, 2025
1 Corinthians 10:3-5
Genesis 3:1-11
· “You won’t die” (implies that God can’t be trusted. His word and his provision isn’t good enough)
· “God knows your eyes will be opened” (implies that she was blind and God wanted her to stay that way)
· “You will be like God” (implies that she was somehow substandard and God wanted to keep her that way)
· “…knowing good and evil” (implies that she was ignorant and God wanted her to stay that way)
It’s all the same
Genesis 3:7
Genesis 2:25
Shame is the sickness that always leads to hiding. Hiding doesn’t heal.
James 5:14-18
What is rehearsed in the mind will always filter down to the heart.
Psalm 119:11
Deuteronomy 27:26
Romans 3:23
”This is the gospel: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared to believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.”
― Timothy Keller
You are more
Something’s
What was paid for you?
You are worth the
Stop
Isaiah 45:9
From the foundations of the world:
Revelation 12:10-11