Image of God and the Fall
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Image of God and the Fall
Image of God and the Fall
We are created to be stewards of the earth, the world. We have covered a variety of areas this includes (Science, reason, creativity, work). We are called to develop the earth, create, establish culture, etc.
However there is a problem right? Sin came into the world and tainted everything and anything. We had everything we needed and yet Adam and Eve lusted after the fruit forbidden and they failed. They betrayed God with open rebellion.
We looked at this last week in Genesis 3 and what the results were...As a result we have shame, broken relationships with God, blame, lost blessings, pain in childbirth, broken relationships, hard work, etc.
I have a list of statements and I want you to tell me who it is about:
He is the object of his father’s special love.
He had promises of divine exaltation.
He was mocked by his family.
He was sold for pieces of silver.
He was stripped of his clothes.
He was delivered up to the Gentiles.
He was falsely accused.
He was faithful amid temptation.
He was thrown into prison.
He stood before rulers.
His power was acknowledged by those in authority.
He saves people from death before they even know who he is.
He is exalted after and through humiliation.
He embraces God’s purpose even though it brings him intense physical harm.
He is the instrument God uses at the hands of the Gentiles to bless his people.
He welcomes Gentiles to be part of his family.
He gives hungry people food.
People must bow their knee before him.
Who can this be said about? Jesus and Joseph
Last time we looked at Genesis 3 and the results of the fall. You could do this with just about any passage. I want you to break into groups and read through Genesis 37. This is the beginning of the story of Jospeh. Take a sheet of paper and write down the results of the fall that you see in chapter 37. There are a lot of them.
Jacob lived in the land of his father’s sojournings, in the land of Canaan. These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father. Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors. But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him. Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more. He said to them, “Hear this dream that I have dreamed: Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.” His brothers said to him, “Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words. Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, “Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.” But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?” And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind. Now his brothers went to pasture their father’s flock near Shechem. And Israel said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flock at Shechem? Come, I will send you to them.” And he said to him, “Here I am.” So he said to him, “Go now, see if it is well with your brothers and with the flock, and bring me word.” So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem. And a man found him wandering in the fields. And the man asked him, “What are you seeking?” “I am seeking my brothers,” he said. “Tell me, please, where they are pasturing the flock.” And the man said, “They have gone away, for I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’ ” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan. They saw him from afar, and before he came near to them they conspired against him to kill him. They said to one another, “Here comes this dreamer. Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. Then we will say that a fierce animal has devoured him, and we will see what will become of his dreams.” But when Reuben heard it, he rescued him out of their hands, saying, “Let us not take his life.” And Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood; throw him into this pit here in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him”—that he might rescue him out of their hand to restore him to his father. So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the robe of many colors that he wore. And they took him and threw him into a pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it. Then they sat down to eat. And looking up they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing gum, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry it down to Egypt. Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And his brothers listened to him. Then Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. They took Joseph to Egypt. When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he tore his clothes and returned to his brothers and said, “The boy is gone, and I, where shall I go?” Then they took Joseph’s robe and slaughtered a goat and dipped the robe in the blood. And they sent the robe of many colors and brought it to their father and said, “This we have found; please identify whether it is your son’s robe or not.” And he identified it and said, “It is my son’s robe. A fierce animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn to pieces.” Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days. All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, “No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” Thus his father wept for him. Meanwhile the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard.
Some that I saw:
Wandering (lack of home)
work
multiple wives
bad report
hatred
jealousy
disobenice (were supposed to be in Shecham but were in Dothan)
murder
harm
human trafficking
greed
lying
mourning
sorrow
pain
death
deceit
Think this is the great-grandson of Abraham (Joseph’s father was Jacob who’s father was Isaac who’s father was Abraham)
We are three generations removed from the father of many nations and everything is so messed up.
We see in Genesis sin come into the world because of Adam. But we also see it in Jospeh and his brothers.
This problem isn’t limited to just Adam. Adam’s sin changed all mankind because it changed the desires of man for things of the flesh. It established a nature of depravity and separation from God.
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
The curse in the garden was not just for Adam and Eve, it is for every person ever. We are now born with a sin nature and it doesn’t take long for a child to show that depraved nature.
Sin breaks fellowship with God.
We are created to live in the image of God and sin corrupts that. It has all sorts of affects on how it was supposed to be. It damages our bodies. It corrupts our desires.
We have talked about creativity, science, work, reason, marriage, gender. All of these have been tainted by the fall. They are broken, evil, hard, difficult because of the fall. We use creativity and science and reason to justify or dwell in our sin. Marriage and gender is distorted and corrupt by the fall, it is now hard and unclear.
The fall totally corrupted the way things were meant to be. The only way to remedy it is the gospel, Jesus Christ.
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous. Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.