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Introduction
According to the Church calendar we are in what we call Palm Sunday.
This is the last week in the life of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Sunday - marks the triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
Thursday - marks the day when he ate the passover meal with his disciples and he instituted the Lord’s Supper.
Friday - he will be arrested, tried, and crucified.
Friday he will die upon the cross.
This is the last week in the life of Jesus Christ.
Luke
Luk
Jesus knew it would be his last week upon the earth.
Shortly, he would suffer at the hands of the Jews and the Romans.
In a few days he would be mocked, whipped, and eventually crucified.
Holy Week is about following Jesus through the events that lead to his crucifixion.
It is an amazing thought to realize who Jesus was and what he was about to experience.
It is amazing to think that the Author of life itself would in a matter of days experience death.
But why?
Why did Jesus have to die?
Was it necessary that he die such a violent death?
Why did he have to give up his own life as a ransom for those who would believe?
To answer these questions we turn our attention to .
I. God’s Perfect Creation
I. La Creación Perfecta de Dios
In we read of God’s perfect creation.
Genesis 5:
We see how God creates man and woman.
They are created in the image and likeness of God.
There is no stain of sin.
There is no sickness.
There is no pain.
They are living in paradise.
Man and woman would live eternally in God’s presence enjoying his good gifts.
Man and woman had an opportunity that no one else in the history of humanity had - they lived in the midst of perfection.
It is difficult for us to understand a world of pristine perfection.
All we know is a world where there is imperfection.
We know a world where there is hate, pain, sickness, and destruction.
Adam and Eve never knew such a world.
What a great privilege!
Surely they would do anything to live in this state forever!
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Man’s Sin
II.
El Pecado del Hombre
However, in verse 3 we read something astonishing.
Notice that we are told their first son was Seth.
However, this is was not their first son.
Their first son was Cain.
Their second son was Abel.
However, they are not mentioned.
Something had happened to them and the author decided to not include them in this genealogy.
Why would the author fail to include them in this list of descendants?
One possibility is this genealogy is dedicated to list the descendants of Seth, the father of the people of Israel.
Something had happened in the first family.
Don’t we all recall that one day while they were in the field Cain killed his brother Abel?
No wonder he is not included in the list of the sons of Adam.
Abel had been killed by his own blood brother.
Cain was the first murderer upon the face of this planet.
He was the first man to spill blood of an innocent victim.
It must have been awful for Adam and Eve to learn of the death of their son Abel.
Can we imagine the pain that Adam and Eve felt as they realized that their oldest son had killed the youngest?
It was not an accident.
Cain purposely killed his brother!
However, this was not the most painful even in the lives of Adam and Eve.
They had experienced something much more painful, something much more awful.
While in paradise God had given to them one commandment:
All they were required to do was to follow God’s instruction.
They were commanded to be faithful to God’s word or face certain death.
However, Adam and Eve may have not understood what death meant.
After all, they were living in paradise where there was no death!
Plants did not die.
Animals did not die.
They did not experience the aging process.
Although, they did not understand what death was or even if they did not understand why God would require such obedience: all they needed to do was walk according to God’s command.
When the serpent comes to tempt Eve we understand why their disobedience was such an offense before God:
Genesis 3:4-5
Genesis 3:4
The serpent caused them to doubt God’s word.
Not only did the serpent have them doubt God but also accused God of lying.
The serpent almost implies that by disobeying God they would actually be just like God.
Why worship God when you can become god yourself!
We know what happens after they ate of the forbidden fruit.
Their eyes are open.
They have disobeyed God.
They have desired to become gods themselves.
They have decided that the serpents word is much more trustworthy than what God, their creator, had commanded.
They have decided to believe that which is not God.
are perhaps one of the most tragic verses in the entire Bible.
Our first parents are banished from the Garden.
They can no longer enjoy the beauty and security of God’s presence.
They are banished from the place of eternal joy to a cursed world.
Their experience would now be tragically different from what they have known to date.
Pretty soon Eve would bare a son and experience pain.
Pretty soon Adam would have to work the fields and face the difficulties of sprouting thorns, drought, and ruined crops.
Pretty soon Eve would have another child who she would name Seth - but in a few years he would be murdered by his own brother.
I can just imagine our first parents longing for the days in Eden.
In their 900 plus years they had experienced pain, the loss of a child to a murderer, the feeling of being cursed by God and living in a cursed world - all a consequence of their sin.
III.
Death Enters The World
III.
La Muerte Entra En El Mundo
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