Sin has Consequences

The Consequence of Sin

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Genesis 3:12–24 NASB95

The man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate.” Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, Cursed are you more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you will go, And dust you will eat All the days of your life; And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel.” To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth, In pain you will bring forth children; Yet your desire will be for your husband, And he will rule over you.” Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life. “Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field; By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return.” Now the man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living. The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them. Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken. So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.

Genesis 3:12–24 NASB95

The man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate.” Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, Cursed are you more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you will go, And dust you will eat All the days of your life; And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel.” To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth, In pain you will bring forth children; Yet your desire will be for your husband, And he will rule over you.” Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life. “Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field; By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return.” Now the man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living. The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them. Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken. So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.

I. Sin is a violation of God’s righteous character ()

I. Sin is a violation of God’s righteous character ()

I. Sin is a violation of God’s righteous character ()

I. Sin is a violation of God’s righteous character ()

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I. Sin Brings Separation from God ()

A. Transgression (PARABRASIS) means overstepping the limits.

I. God confronts man promptly

Genesis 3:9 NASB95

Then the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”

Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible Sin

to miss the mark, fail in duty

Genesis 3:9

II. Sin

Genesis

I. God confronts in love and questions each one

a. Sin is to violate God’s righteous standard

Did God not know where they were?

1 John 5:17 NASB95

All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.

1 John 3:4 NASB95

Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.

1 john 3:4

Ezekiel 18:4 NASB95

“Behold, all souls are Mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is Mine. The soul who sins will die.

Sin brings with it tragic consequences.

b. Sin cannot go unseen by God

Numbers 32:23 NASB95

“But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out.

i. So I hid myself...Adam thought he could hide ()

II. Sin brings with it tragic consequences

ii. The serpent deceived me...Eve thought she could play the victim ()

The serpent deceived me thought she could play the victim ()

II. Sin must be Accounted for to God ()

Ezekiel 18:20 NASB95

“The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the father’s iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son’s iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself.

a. God requires there to be confession yet none is to be heard.

Job 31:33 NASB95

“Have I covered my transgressions like Adam, By hiding my iniquity in my bosom,

b. Adam is asked first because he had been placed responsible of the garden

i. “The woman who you gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate”...Adam admits to having done it but puts the blame on the woman.

c. Eve is questioned, why did she not help Adam to keep God’s command?

i. The serpent deceived me, and I ate...Eve admits to eating but passes the blame to the serpent.

III. - Sin is treated individually by God

A. - The serpent is found guilty without possible restoration

i. - Because you have done...God does not question the serpent. He knows it is under the control of Satan.

God makes it abundantly clear that the curse will fall upon him because he was guilty not because God was unfair.

ii. - done this…what had the serpent done?

a. “You surely will not die!” The serpent’s sin was to lie, slander, gossip against God. ,

John 8:44 NASB95

“You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

1 John 3:8 NASB95

the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.

2 Corinthians 12:20–21 NASB95

For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you to be not what I wish and may be found by you to be not what you wish; that perhaps there will be strife, jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slanders, gossip, arrogance, disturbances; I am afraid that when I come again my God may humiliate me before you, and I may mourn over many of those who have sinned in the past and not repented of the impurity, immorality and sensuality which they have practiced.

2 Corinthians 2:20-21

ii. Cursed are you more than all cattle...The serpent is cursed more than all other animals as a reminder of the curse.

all the animal kingdom is cursed, the serpent event more.

iii. God removes any possible future alliance between the woman and Satan.

Satan may have been thinking that him and Eve might go places to gain more popularity in his quest to become like God.

B. - (What is this you have done)? Eve is tried and found guilty and must now suffer the consequences

i. - I will greatly multiply your pain...She will now suffer pain

Eve (representing all women) will suffer pain in general, especially in childbirth.

ii. - There is some confusion as to the meaning of your desire will be for your husband... if Eve would desire to rule over her husband or if she would desire to have her husband’s affection yet the curse brings pain in the husband/wife relationship.

C. Because you...have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you...Adam is found guilty and must suffer the penalty of his sin

i. Cursed is the ground...His short-lived fiasco would have long enduring results…all the days of your life.

IV. - A promise of God to give Hope

A. You will surely die...The first promise had come true. ()

B. He shall bruise you on the head...Mankind could know this promise would too!

V. - the man called his wife’s name Eve...Man responds to God’s promise by naming his wife Eve

VI. - The LORD GOD made garments of skin...an animal’s life was taken, to signify the future importance of the fulfillment to his promise through the person of His Son

VII. - Sin has an Eternal Penalty

A. - the man has become like one of Us...

B. - the LORD God sent him out…God removes man from the garden.

C. - He station the cherubim and the flaming sword…to guard the way...God secures anyone from accessing the tree of life

D. There is no way for Adam to get back what he once had been given by God. Their disobedience alienated them from God and each other.

E. The consequences would last his whole life, the life of his children and for generations to come.

in fact, it has been over 6000 years, and the consequences of Adam’s sin go on!!

1. Question, didn’t Adam weigh the consequences?

Question, didn’t Adam weigh the consequences of his sin?

Evidently not. How could he foresee the travesty and devastation that would result.

Their disobedience alienated them from God and each other.

Dockery, D. S., Butler, T. C., Church, C. L., Scott, L. L., Ellis Smith, M. A., White, J. E., & Holman Bible Publishers (Nashville, T. . (1992). Holman Bible Handbook (p. 124). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.

What about today, surely it’s not the same is it?

Though we aren’t guilty of Adam’s sin, we do suffer the consequences of Adam’s sin. This shows us how seriously God looks at sin.

Didn’t Jesus pay for the sins of the world?

Jesus paid for the sins of the world, but it only covers those who have been forgiven, that is, those who have placed their faith in the finished work of Christ.

Is God keeping a record of sins today?

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2 Corinthians 5:10–15 NASB95

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest to God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences. We are not again commending ourselves to you but are giving you an occasion to be proud of us, so that you will have an answer for those who take pride in appearance and not in heart. For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you. For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.

Romans 8:18–25 NASB95

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body. For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it.