Redeemer Promised Series

Text: Genesis 3:1-15

Theme: Redeemer Promised

Greetings: The Lord is good and his love endures forever! I greet you in the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Introduction: We are dealing with the Privileges of the redeemed. the redeemed enjoy the sonship, friendship, and stewardship in Christ. The redeemed have the restoration of the Love of God, eternal life in Christ, and the restoration of the Joy of salvation. we are redeemed to worship the eternal living God. We are redeemed from the clutches of Sin, even if we fall, he redeems us to the original state of relationship with God. He ascertained to the redeemed during their trials and temptations, failures, and fears that he has redeemed and therefore he is there to deal with every situation of the present life struggles of the redeemed. Today, I would like to meditate with you on the theme ‘The redeemer is Promised’ while the punishment was sentenced upon the fallen humanity.

From this given passage, let us think of three valid points for our spiritual strengthening: Crucial rebellious act committed, colossal punishment awarded, and Celestial liberation assured.

1. A crucial rebellious act committed: (Genesis 3:1-7)

Crimes are divided into commissions and omissions. Knowingly and unknowingly are the two words we use for sins. The rebellious act committed by Adam and Eve was very serious, grave, dangerous, and life-threatening. Their one act of rebellion had taken them to the extremity of their glorious and greenery life. A sudden storm had made their entire life upside down their whole life plans God. Humanity had ruined the plan of God and destroyed the mirror house of God beyond conciliation. Their disobedience was the betrayal of the trust of God, trodden the love of God and trespassing their freedom of will, exercising their arrogance over God’s command, and doubting the integrity of God.

God told Adam to eat everything in the Garden of Eden except the fruit of the Knowledge of the Good and Bad (Genesis 2:15-17). It is interesting to note that God had explained to Adam about that Tree as the tree of Knowledge. The fruit had the vitamins of Good and Evil. The vitamins of Evil will overpower the vitamins of God. Adam had a clear knowledge of what would happen to him after he ate the fruit. So, it was a grave REBELLION.

Adam and Eve are the first to actualize the potential for evil, which was part of the cosmic structure that God had created from the beginning. The Genesis account suggests that evil and temptation were a potential presence in the world. The knowledge of good and evil is crucial thing. But knowledge is destructive for humans. The Hebrew meaning is ‘yd’ or yada.’ It is not an abstract conceptual knowledge but an intimate experience than an intellectual acquaintance. Such knowledge gives its knower a certain set of skills and a certain kind of flawed maturity. This knowledge is both an accomplishment and a burden, a blessing, and a curse. A rivalry was created by a rebellious friend of God (ref: Wondrium).

Adam sinned against the knowledge he had. “To desire what God has forbidden is to prefer self to God, and this is to sin.” Adam knew what he was doing but Eve was deceived (I Tim. 2:14). So, in rejecting God Adam established himself as the authority; he exercised selfish and self-centered sovereignty, declaring himself free of God, and by his action asserting his freedom from God, His word, and His rule. (ref: Embraced by Truth). Adam made the wrong choice because of his love and devotion to his wife Eve rather than to God and his command.

The study of the scriptures reveals the following truths. Rebellion against God’s authority originated with Lucifer or Satan who was in Eden (Isaiah 14:13-14; Ezekiel 28:12-19). He convinced many angels to follow him (Revelation 12:4,9), and he created a kingdom of darkness (Acts 26:18; Colossians 1:13). Satan is the ruler over the kingdom of darkness and has fallen angels. “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places” (Ephesians 6:12). Satan’s kingdom firsts consist of his governance over those angelic beings in the spiritual realm against God. Now expanded to the human race through Adam and Eve (Genesis 3:1-7). (ref: Thinking on Scripture with Dr. Steven R. Cook).

With the fall of Adam and Eve, Satan has had dominion over Adam and the world and is called “the ruler of this world” (John 14:30; 16:11), “the prince of the power of the air” (Ephesians 2:2), and “the god of this world” (2 Corinthians 4:4). Satan’s scope of influence is universal “who deceives the whole world” (Revelation 12:9), and who deceives “the nations” of the world (Revelation 20:3, 8). When tempting Jesus, Satan offered Him “the kingdoms of the world” (Matthew 4:8-9) (ref: Thinking on Scripture with Dr. Steven R. Cook). The sin wrote an end note to the friendship of Satan and Eve and brought enmity, there is a natural fear of death, and Satan (Enduring Word).