Geneis: Where It All Began Series

Adam Eve disobeyed God. In defiance they found not that they would become ‘gods’ as Satan had led them to believe…but rather they found destruction, fear and they would know death.

They discovered the consequences of sin. Their perfect marriage was “no more”.

v 10 fear

v 12 the first fight…and your children have learned the words so well. “It’s not my fault” Can you imagine the look Eve gave to Adam? Men, have you ever experienced that look?

The harmony and peace they had experienced with each other, and with God was not gone. There was fear. They paid the price of their disobedience. It is a fact of sin with which we still live….sin always affects some one else. The consequences of their sin which began in the Garden pursued them relentlessly. In Genesis 4 their oldest son Cain in a jealous rage murdered his brother Abel.

Evil continues to stalk the earth seeking to dominate and destroy God’s creation. Every man, woman, boy or girl who has ever lived, who lives or who will live is caught in the crossfire. All we need do is look at the destructiveness that sin has wrought in our lives…hurt feelings, loss of friendships, pain and death.

God’s plan was disrupted, the consequences remain… but God’s power was not destroyed. Death does not have the final say. God was on the scene in the garden to condemn their disobedience. He also promised redemption and restoration because His love for His creation had not changed. His holiness, his righteousness demanded that they be banished from the garden.

In His love he covered their shame. He forgave them. Gen. 3:21 “Where did God get the skins of the animals?” Two passages will provide the answer. Leviticus 17:11 and Hebrews 9:22 (read)

God began to display His plan to bring His creation back into fellowship, harmony and peace with His holy character. The cost was staggering…it required the death of His only Son, Jesus, as an atonement for our sin.

God’s plan for His universe, His plan for intimate friendship and peace with mankind has been thwarted by Satan and remains under continual attack by Satan. Satan knows he cannot dethrone the Almighty God, but his greatest desire is to disrupt God’s well ordered universe and plunge people into darkness, despair, emptiness and rebellion.

God promised a Savior. He covered Adam and Eve’s shame. And when the fullness of time had come God sent His only Son into the world. Not to condemn the world but to save the world through him. (John 3:17) And “since we the children have flesh and blood he too share in our humanity so that by His death he might destroy him who holds the power of death…that is the devil…and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.” (Hebrews 2:14)

Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life… he who believe sin me will life.” “The wages of sin is death but thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”