The Importance of Origins
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Our objective up to this point has been to prepare our minds for continual change. We want to be transformed in our way of looking at the world so that it agrees with God’s view. As we saw in our last lesson God’s viewpoint does not coincide with man’s. Man may harden his heart to God, but this does not change the truth of God and His final authority.

Remember how God confronted Adam and Even in the garden? He came to them in hiding and approached them with the question, “where are you?” God used a question to help Adam and Eve think through their own HVP. He then took them back to the historical command that He had given them, specifically not eating from the tree of good and evil.

Adam and Eve had considered themselves as the final authority of what was right and wrong. They wanted to weigh out what they thought best; to believe God (the Creator) or to believe Satan (a creature). In the end they made the decision and they followed Satan’s direction. We will talk more about this in future lessons, but we need to realize that God did not accept their attempt to be a final authority. Nor did he accept that they could appeal to some neutral ground in which there was no responsibility. Rather God held them responsible and judged them according to their sin. In the end, Adam and Eve changed their HVP to reflect God’s DVP.

We want to change our HVP as well. Our desire is to see our HVP overcome by a deep trust in DVP. By studying God’s Word in the present we can prepare ourselves for the stressful situations that are sure to come in the future. Rather than waiting for a difficult circumstance to come and take us off guard, we want to think through our DVP strategy now. Establishing what God has said on the major areas of life is where we will start; remembering to apply what we learn through the ReConnecT drill.

Faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ. (Romans 10:17)

We also discussed the importance of being prepared with a DVP strategy in order to respond to the questioning unbeliever. When you apply the ReConnecT Drill in your life, there will be a time when others notice how you respond to difficult circumstances. This will bring questions from the unbeliever about how you are able to deal with this or that. 1 Peter 3:15 tells us to be ready to respond to these questions giving a reason for the hope that we have with gentleness and respect.

In this lesson we want to begin to look at the importance of studying origins and how these truths effect the foundations for making sense of the world around us. Download the full lesson