1 - In The Beginning Pt. 1

IN THE BEGINNING, Pt. 1

SPEAKER:
In the beginning was the Word.
God spoke into the darkness: “Let there be light,” and there was light.

JOSEPH:
The world was our canvas—packed with possibilities, boundless
Joy, peace, vision, passion, lasting satisfaction in the presence of our God.

MARY:
He walked with us, talked with us, led us and loved us!
Everything we did was with and for
Our Creator, Provider, Friend, and Father—

JOSEPH:
And we, His kids, lived without sin within the single greatest place on earth—
Eden.

SPEAKER:
But even in this land of life,
This country of light and trust and truth and peace the beast was there—
JOSEPH:
There, talking with our parents in the garden—
MARY:
There, tempting Eve to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil—
JOSEPH:
The one fruit forbidden by God to Adam and Eve—
SPEAKER:
Deceived by Satan in the form of a serpent, they disobeyed.

MARY:
Sin—Man’s greatest achievement apart from God.
SPEAKER:
Yes, sin—Man’s natural inclination apart from God.
JOSEPH:
Yes, sin—Our insistence on living apart from God—
But living apart from God is death ‘cause God is life and love and light—
Alright. So what happens next?

SPEAKER:
Redemption.

MARY:
He set apart one nation, the people of Israel, to carry His plan
for man’s salvation throughout their generations.
He promised them a Savior, the Messiah, foreseen
through centuries of prophecies to deliver Israel from their enemies.

JOSEPH:
Then one day, in the midst of human history, His story of redemption,
millennia in the making,
Peeled back the curtain to reveal the Great Hero,
the God-Man who would save humanity from their sins.

SPEAKER:
His entry into our world is earth-shaking in hindsight.
But it started with a young Jewish couple, just beginning to build a life together…
It started in northern Israel, in a backwater region known as Galilee…