There Is Therefore Series

There is Therefore

Through certain experiences in my life, I constantly felt guilty and therefore condemned myself. I felt inferior to others and I felt that there were perfect and able people who could be ministers of God. I was not good enough.

The very word condemnation means you are written off. A condemned building cannot be used other than be bulldozed and removed. Condemned food cannot be eaten and must be thrown away else it will poison whoever eats it.

Romans 8:1 There is therefore no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Firstly, let’s go and see why therefore is, therefore.

Romans 7:25-26 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

Paul says that he is a wretched man needing to be delivered from the body of death. Where did this body of death come from?

Genesis 2 after God had formed man and breathed into his nostrils and man had become a living being. God put man into the Garden of Eden to tend and keep it. God commanded Adam that he could freely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil he must not eat. In the day that he ate of the tree, he would surely die.

Eve, Adams's wife bumps into the serpent and he has a discussion with Eve. We read in Genesis 3 how the serpent sows doubt with the question, “Has God really said that you should not eat of the fruit of every tree in the Garden”? Eve says, “Of the tree of knowledge good and evil we should not eat, for if we eat of it we shall surely die”. He then tells her that they will not die but have knowledge of good and evil and be like God.

Eve then sees that the fruit looks good to eat. She takes the fruit and eats then gives it to Adam who eats.

Immediately their eyes are opened, and they see that they are naked and are ashamed. They sowed fig leaves to cover their nakedness and hide from God. God looks for them and calls Adam. He asks them how they know they are naked; did they eat of the tree? Adam answered, “The woman you gave me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate”. The woman blames the snake.

God then curses the snake, and He curses Eve.

Genesis 3:17-19 Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:

“Cursed is the ground for your sake;

In toil you shall eat of it

All the days of your life.

18 Both thorns and thistles it shall [a]bring forth for you,

And you shall eat the herb of the field.

19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread

Till you return to the ground,

For out of it you were taken;

For dust you are,

And to dust you shall return.”

God pronounces the curse of death on Adam and all mankind that will come from Adams's line.

Romans 5:14-19 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.

Adam did not believe God’s Word and as a result disobeyed, later in Genesis we read of Moses falling into the same trap of unbelief.

After the people of Israel were led by Moses, out of Egypt they grumbled because they had no water. Moses approaches God and God tells him to hit the rock with Aron’s rod and water comes out of the rock. The people grumble again on another occasion that they have no water. This time God tells Moses to speak to the rock but out of frustration Moses hits the rock. God is still gracious, and water comes out of the rock, but God is not pleased with Moses.

Numbers 20:12 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”

Adam lost life and Moses lost going into the promised land.

Hebrews 3:7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:

“Today, if you will hear His voice,

8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,