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Welcome to Day 2199 of Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom What Does God Want \u2013 God Still Wanted A Family \u2013 Daily Wisdom Putnam Church Message \u2013 01/29/2023 What Does God Want? -\xa0 God Still Wanted A Family Last week, we began a new series, which should take us close to Easter in our messages. The overall theme of this series is to answer the question: What does God want? The answer we discovered was that God wants you along with every person who will ever live. In other words, God wanted a family. God wants co-workers. God wants you to know who you are/ and why your life has value to him. /He loves you and desires that you also love Him. In last week\u2019s message, I made the point that God equipped people to image Him on earth. He did that by sharing his attributes (his qualities and abilities) with all humans. Now, both the supernatural beings in the unseen realm (angels) and humans are to be an imager of God. As wonderful as that was (and is), it\u2019s where things get interesting\u2014and scary. One of God\u2019s qualities is freedom\u2014what we often call free will. Because humans have free choice,/ it resulted in three major rebellions in the first 11 chapters of Genesis. So, if you\u2019ve ever wondered why there\u2019s evil in the world, here\u2019s the Bible\u2019s answer. We have much to cover today, so hold on to your hats. (Grab Hat) Rebellion #1 \u2013 Stand Up #1 God knew what it meant when he decided to share his attributes with his children. God knows everything, so he understood clearly what would happen. God had made the same decision earlier with the heavenly family he had created. They have abilities like intelligence and freedom. They got those gifts from their Creator. Sooner or later, God knew that his gifts would be misused or abused. /He knew full well that, /though his children (in the spiritual world and on earth) were like him,/ they were not him. They were less than him. They were imperfect, whereas He is perfect. So, at some point, one (or more) of his children would either make a horrible mistake or act in thoughtless self-interest, rebelling against something God wanted to be done (or not done). \xa0 That\u2019s precisely what happened in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve rebelled. They violated God\u2019s command not to eat from one of the trees in the garden. As a result, they sinned and lost eternal life in God\u2019s presence. Every human born after that was born outside Eden, estranged from God. The apostle Paul summed it up well: \u201cFor the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.\u201d (Romans 6:23). \xa0 An even earlier rebellion brought on the Eden tragedy. One of God\u2019s supernatural children chose to dishonor God\u2019s decision to have a human family by tempting Eve, hoping God would destroy her and Adam. (Bulletin) Listen as I read Genesis 3:1-7. The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the\xa0Lord\xa0God had made. One day he asked the woman, \u201cDid God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?\u201d 2\xa0\u201cOf course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,\u201d...