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So the question we're dealing with today is,

why is the world so broken?

And it totally completely is.

If we learned anything the last two years,

it's number one that the world is more interconnected and smaller than we anticipated and everything is just broken and it doesn't matter

What we do it doesn't get any better.

And so as we deal with this painful reality,

we come to Genesis 3, the Bible's the most important book

ever written.

Genesis 3 is one of its most significant chapters and as we look at the world and the

brokenness what happens is people have one of three responses there is the

hopeful optimist you people are adorable we find you're like, oh, it's going to be awesome. Just wait. It's going to about wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, here. Six feet, jab, mask, election. It's all going to be better. No, it's not. it's not. It's not any better. Then there's the

hopeless pessim, like it's terrible, it's awful, we're all going to die, tell

your kids there's no hope. you are the depressed it's kind of angry

frustrated people are like it's just terrible and getting worse and there is a third

option that's the Christian way and is, as we get into Genesis 3, that we broke the world,

and so there's not hope in the world, but there's hope for the world, for the God who rules

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