Welcome back to part two of Genesis 3 to 4 and Moses 4 to 5 with Dr. John Hilton the 3rd.

I want to take a look at a couple of different perspectives on the fall.

First of all, I think it's important that we realize we are living in a fallen world and as a result, things are going to be tough.

Adam and Eve are going to have to work for their food.

Things aren't just going to be natural and beautiful.

Hank, I was actually talking with a young adult the other day

who had been in one of your classes,

and she said that you had a really powerful insight

that changed her life around expectations.

I'm going to try to paraphrase it,

but you correct me. It was something like along the lines of doubt your doubts before you doubt

your faith, but you had another line, something about doubt your expectations or something like

that. I was using it in Luke, the two disciples on the road to Amas. I said, analyze your expectations before you leave Jerusalem

and just walk away. They had some expectations about what should happen. If Jesus really was who he

said he was, this such and such things should have happened and he helped them analyze those

expectations on that long walk.

That's really important.

And the fall helps us maybe set an appropriate expectation for what this life is going to be like.

Even if you're keeping the commandments, you're doing everything right, things are not going to go perfectly for you.

In fact, Moses chapter 6 verse 48, this is from Enick, he says,

by the fall came death, and we are made partakers of misery and woe. I've never seen that

on a cross stitch. Don't be surprised when things are hard. There's some natural results of the fall. And Adam may even experience

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