The curse of sin for the rebellion of man pits him in an antithesis with the world he is called to subdue.

While the task is now much more difficult, the original mission and mandate of humanity to be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, has not been abrogated or cancelled.

By grace we resist and war against the world, the flesh, and the devil, but

also against the curse. Join us now as we discuss how Christians should think about pushing

back on the curse.

All right. Well, welcome back to another Wednesday discussion. Really looking forward to this one,

we'll hit some theological categories that are really important for having an understanding of

reform theology, understanding man's mission, but then also practically applying it, as the title says, to things like

Neurlink. How do we think about what Elon Musk is doing, putting chips in people's brains that are high-powered?

And so to start off with, for a little bit of background, we talk about the curse, we talk about Adam, we talk about man's mission.

Man is placed in the garden, he's placed upright, and he's given a task. Adam is not in the garden taking a siesta.

I think growing up, I used to have this idea that, man, it's just, it's five o'clock

all the time in Eden.

The sun is shining.

He's got his wife near him.

He's having pinocaladas.

No, Adam is put in the garden and he's giving a task.

He's given the mission of probably the whole world around him.

It wasn't full of wickedness, but it was untamed.

It was chaos.

And so Adam is in what would be Ezekiel 28, a mountain garden that is a temple to living God.

And he said, you are to go out and you're to take all the chaos and the woods and the disorder around,

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