THE TEMPTION IN THE FALL: Satan told Adam and Eve that they could become like God.
- Genesis 3:5.
SIDE NOTE: This was also the issue in Satan’s fall.
- Isaiah 14:12-15; Ezekiel 28:11-19; 1 Timothy 3:6.
- His pride and desire to lift himself up.
- Look up Isaiah 14:12-14.
THE GREAT REVERSAL: The Fall happened because man wanted to become like God; salvation happened because God was willing to become man.
- John 19:6-7.
- John 1:1-3; John 5:18; John 8:57-58; John 10:30-33; Philippians 2:5-11.
- Note in John 19:6-7 the ironic statement about them complaining that Jesus claimed to be the Son of God.
WHY DID JESUS NEED TO DO THAT?
- Can’t fully unpack all the elements of this, but let’s hit a few highlights.
- Look up the two Matthew verses.
1. I can’t perfectly live up to God’s standard.
- Matthew 5:17.
2. I couldn’t pay the price for my sin.
- Matthew 20:28; 1 Corinthians 6:20.
WHAT THAT OPENS UP TO US: It does not open up that we might “know . . . good and evil” “like God” but rather that we be good like God.
- Genesis 3:5.
- 2 Corinthians 3:18; Philippians 3:21; 2 Peter 1:4; 1 John 3:2.
