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The title of this message game.

The title of this message is the title of the oldest game in all of humanity.

It is a game all of us have played probably many times in our life and one in which just two people can play it.

Or I might say about it also that it's not a game that creates the best atmosphere in the world and it is a game that really isn't a whole lot of fun and it's a game that nobody ultimately wins.

And it's a game that was played by the very first family

in the Bible.

And that game, the name of that game,

is the blame game.

All of us at some time of the other have played that game, blaming someone else for our

circumstances or for what they've done to us. And so I want you to read, if you will,

in Genesis chapter 3 in this very first book of the Bible

very first family they played this game and you'll recall for example in this

third chapter that Satan has tempted Eve and she has

a partaken of the tree of good and evil which God forbid her to do and of course

gave it to her husband and so I want to begin reading in this eighth

verse and the scripture says and Adam and Eve now have sinned against God and the

Bible says and they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.

And the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

Then the Lord God called to the man and said to him,

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