Here is Part 2 of our skit on "God's Story". My intent for this continuing theme was for the teens to see and understand God's Story from beginning to end, connecting all the dots in one continuous story.
God’s Story: The Fall
1:
God created everything.
2:
God created a man and a woman
3:
He blessed them
4:
He gave them charge over his creation
5:
They had food
1:
They had work
2:
They had each other
3:
And they had an intimate relationship
with their Creator.
4:
Millions of reasons to enjoy
5:
Millions of opportunities to do good
1:
And millions of chances to soak in
God’s blessings.
2:
God empowered them to be caretakers of
all of creation.
3:
And he told them to be fruitful and
multiply.
4:
Hold on there, they enjoyed
multiplication and fruit?!?! I can
understand the fruit thing but multiplication, really? Math has to be a part of God’s curse!
3:
Are you serious? Being told to multiply
and be fruitful refers to SEX! God told them to make babies and
to enjoy all aspects of their relationship!!
4: OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH . . . I get it now.
I’m just slightly embarrassed now.
Please go on with the story.
5:
Human beings in relationship to the
Creator of the Universe.
1:
Loving God
2:
Loving each other
3:
Loving all that the creation has
to offer.
4:
Only one thing.
5:
Just one bad choice
1:
A single way to disobey God.
2:
Free will needed to be
established
3:
So that God knew that their love was
genuine
4:
The story goes like this . . .
5: Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east,
in Eden;
1:
and
there he put the man he had formed.
2:
The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out
of the ground
3:
trees that were pleasing to the eye and
good for food.
4:
In
the middle of the garden were the tree
of life
3:
and
the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil.
2:
The Lord God took the man
3:
and
put him in the Garden of Eden
4:
to
work it and take care of it.
2:
And
the Lord God commanded the man,
1:
“You
are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat
from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of
it you will certainly die.”
3:
Now
the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made.
4:
He
said to the woman,
5:
“Did
God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
3: The devil
began his attack by QUESTIONING GOD.
2:
The
woman said to the serpent,
4:
“We
may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that
is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
5: “You will not certainly die,”
2:
the
serpent said to the woman.
5: “For God knows that
when you eat of it your eyes will be
opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and
evil.”
3:
The
devil’s next attack came by DISAGREEING
WITH GOD by questioning his motives and consequences.
1:
When
the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food
2:
and pleasing to the eye,
3:
and
also desirable for gaining wisdom,
4:
she took some
5:
and ate it.
1:
She
also gave some to her husband,
2:
who
was with her,
5:
and
he ate it.
3: The
devil’s conversation lead to them
DISOBEYING God.
4: You mean
to tell me that the man was there the whole time and he didn’t protect his woman?!?!
3: Yeah,
this would be the first time in which a guy was a dork by not being a gentleman
and defender of the one he says he
loves.
2: Can
we get back to the story now?
3: Oh
yeah, go ahead, sorry.
1: Then the eyes of both
of them were opened,
4:
and
they realized they were naked;
5:
so
they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
3: At this point, because they
disobeyed, now they are DESERTING GOD
2:
Then
the man and his wife heard the sound
of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the
cool of the day,
4:
and
they hid from the Lord God among the trees
of the garden.
5:
But
the Lord God called to the man,
1:
“Where are
you?”
2:
He
answered,
5:
“I
heard you in the garden, and I was
afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
2:
And
he said,
1:
“Who
told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not
to eat from?”
2:
The
man said,
5:
“The woman you
put here with me - she gave me some
fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
2:
Then
the Lord God said to the woman,
1:
“What
is this you have done?”
2:
The
woman said,
4:
“The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
3:
And
now they DISOWNED God’s
accountability by blaming everyone else but themselves for their mistakes.
2:
So
the Lord God said to the serpent,
1:
“Because
you have done this, “Cursed are you above all
livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust
all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between
you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
2: To the woman he said,
1: “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with pain you will
give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he
will rule over you.”
2: To
Adam he said,
1: “Because you listened to your wife and
ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your
life. It
will produce thorns and thistles for
you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your
food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”
5: Adam named his wife Eve,
3: because she would become the mother of all the living.
4: The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and
his wife and clothed them.
2: And the Lord God said,
1: “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and
evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree
of life and eat, and live forever.”
3: So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden
4: to work the ground from which he had
been taken.
5: After he drove them out,
1: he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim
2: and a flaming sword flashing back and
forth
4: to guard the way to the tree of life.
3:
Finally now they have
become DESERVING of God’s
discipline.
5:
And now all of
creation is infected with sin.
1:
Cain killed Abel.
3:
And things continued
to get worse to the point where God actually regretted making humans.
2:
He created a flood to wipe off all the evil in the
world,
4:
Saving just one family in the process.
5:
For you see, what was
only one bad choice that the first
humans could make,
1:
Has now opened the
door to millions of bad choices for
all of us to make.
2:
Sin grew and grew,
3:
Like an infection
4:
Like a plague.
1:
It is in us,
5:
It is all around us.
3:
Is there an answer?
2:
Is there a way out of this mess?
4:
Does God give up on us humans,
1:
Or does he find a way?
