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Where Heaven Meets Earth
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- Feb 9, 2026
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- 2153
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Transcript generated by AI. The sermon was not. Please comment if you notice any errors. Ever since our first parents fell, Adam and Eve, and were cast east of the Garden of Eden, human beings have been trying to return. We've been trying to get back, back to the Garden, back to the Mountain of the Lord, back to the Tree of Life, or sometimes we call it the Fountain of Youth. We've been trying to get back into the presence of God. And that explains the irrepressible religiosity of humans across time and across space. Every part of the world, human beings are religious creatures. Aristotle called mankind a rational animal, but it would be just as accurate to call mankind a religious animal. We develop systems of worship. We build temples. We go to high places. We appoint mediators, religious leaders, officials, priests, and the like. We develop cultic practices. Human beings from our very earliest days have been religious, trying to find some way to get back to what we lost in Genesis 3. The psalmist asks, who shall ascend the mountain of the Lord? And we all know deep down that on our own we can't. So that's why we develop these practices to try to get some way there. This text this morning starts us into God's answer for how can a human being come into his presence. So let's read it. It's Genesis chapter 28, beginning in verse 1. Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and directed him. You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women. Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and take as your wife from there one of the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother. God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you so that you may become a company of peoples. May he give the blessing of Abraham to you and to your offspring with…