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The triune God, in perfect harmony and out of an overflow of love, burst forth in creation. One of the things that makes the Christian creation narrative different from all other religions is all other religions believe that the universe was formed because of some power struggle. So the universe was formed because these two gods got in a fight and wrestled and then mountains appeared and the sun was made. So they believe that the universe was birthed our of angst and power and violence. Our
narrative says the universe was created out of an overflow of love, which is why we come to our God like we do. God creates everything in that creative order to have a higher purpose. He creates everything so that when we partake in it, it stirs in us gratitude and worship for His name and His renown, so that nothing terminates on itself but that everything creates worship for Him, because that’s what we were created for. So He creates food and food is supposed to be one of those things that doesn’t just terminate by going into our belly but in that eating we are to be filled with gratitude in the flavors that He’s created, in the abundance that He’s given and the provision that He’s given to us. And out of a simple meal, worship would be born. That out of a man and a woman coming together in marriage, out of that relationship, worship would be born. That out of sex, worship would be born. The purpose behind everything is to create gratitude that flows out of our hearts into worship for His name. Which is why when sin enters the world and fractures that, those things begin to terminate on themselves, which leaves us insatiable because none of that was supposed to terminate on itself. Which is why we can eat and eat and eat and all we want to do eat and eat and eat more. It’s why sex, although pleasurable, doesn’t bring the fulfillment that it was created, the worship it was created for and marriage becomes combative. And on and on and on we go, because everything was designed to have a greater purpose and have a greater flow than it currently does, which sticks us in a level of superficiality that’s frustrating to our souls. Because according to Romans 8, our souls remember what it was like before that happened.

So sin enters the world, pride and idolatry enter the world, it fractures that and our relationship with God is severed so that everything loses its taste. God in His ferocious, holy love comes as a man, Jesus Christ comes as a man and lives perfectly, sinlessly until He is arrested, beaten and murdered. And in His crucifixion, all the requirements of the Law are fulfilled for those who would believe and all the wrath towards sinners was absorbed in Jesus Christ. He goes into the ground and three days later God raises Him from the dead. The resurrection is the objective evidence that the Law has been fulfilled and that all of the wrath of God was spent. If there is no resurrection, we don’t know that the Law is fulfilled and we don’t know that the wrath is gone for those who would believe. But because of the resurrection, we have the objective evidence that both of those occurred. So that if we would believe and put our faith in Christ and Him alone as the forgiver of our sins and we would repent, we would have full life here on earth and eternal life in that perfect union with God. That’s the gospel.