The Fall Of Man
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Intro
Title - The Fall Of Man
Series - The Foundation Of Our Faith
Text - Romans 3.23;
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Purpose of the Series
Purpose of the Series
Provide our new members with a summarized view of the fundamentals doctrines of the Christian faith
Questions to answer:
How did sin begin?
What was the sin committed in the Garden?
What are the consequences of sin?
What is God’s solution for sin?
The Origin of Sin
The Origin of Sin
Question: How did sin begin?
The Bible did not create the problem of sin
even without the Bible we would still have the problem of sin
Neither is God the author of sin
just because God is the creator of all things
there is no unrighteousness in God
4 He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He.
15 To declare that the Lord is upright; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.
The first sin was not committed here on earth.
44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.
8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.
6 And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day;
When man was first placed in Eden, Satan was already active
The first sin was committed in heaven
12 “Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “You were the seal of perfection, Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering: The sardius, topaz, and diamond, Beryl, onyx, and jasper, Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold. The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes Was prepared for you on the day you were created.
14 “You were the anointed cherub who covers; I established you; You were on the holy mountain of God; You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones.
15 You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, Till iniquity was found in you.
16 “By the abundance of your trading You became filled with violence within, And you sinned; Therefore I cast you as a profane thing Out of the mountain of God; And I destroyed you, O covering cherub, From the midst of the fiery stones.
17 “Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor; I cast you to the ground, I laid you before kings, That they might gaze at you.
anointed cherub
perfect in wisdom and beauy
inquity was found - pride
12 “How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations!
13 For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north;
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’
15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To the lowest depths of the Pit.
Lucifer - light bearer
Lucifer aspired greatness beyond God’s desire for him
I will ascend above the stars of God
I will set my throne on high
I will on the moun ot assembly
I will ascend above the heihts of the clouds (glory)
I will make myself like the Most High (God)
The nature of Sin
The nature of Sin
Sin as a condition
sin is unrighteousness
23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith; for whatever is not from faith is sin.
Sin as an act
sin is transgression of God’s righteousness
disobedience of God’s will
4 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.
- lawlessness
14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.
- transgression
All sin is committed against God
because God is the author of what is right or righteous
The problem of man is -
not - we sinners because we commit sins
but - we commit sins because we are sinners
The Sin Committed in the Garden
The Sin Committed in the Garden
Questions: What was the sin committed in the garden of Eden?
1 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”
2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden;
3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ”
4 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.
5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.
7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.
The story was but a narrative that reflects the real event in symbolism
no reference looks back to the eating of a fruit
The event actually happened
3 But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.
The results of their sin
they found themselves naked
7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.
their bodies were cursed -
14 So the Lord God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.”
16 To the woman He said: “I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; In pain you shall bring forth children; Your desire shall be for your husband, And he shall rule over you.”
enmity between two seeds -
15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.”
serpent’s seed
woman’s seed
“spiritual” seeds
the pharisees
Jesus Christ
“natural” seeds
Cain and Abel
11 For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another,
12 not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous.
Eve committed the sin of adultery by giving her body to the serpent
serpent was upright, smart, and can speak
the serpent was an animal with near-human capacity
the serpent was used by Satan to corrupt the human race and use it to establish his own kingdom on earth
Adam sinned by listening to the woman
17 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.
Adam was responsible, being the head of the human family
The difference between the sins committed by Satan and the first humans
the sin committed by Lucifer originated in their own errors
the sin committed by the first human was a result of deception
the sin committed by the first man was a transgression
The Consequence of Sin
The Consequence of Sin
Question: What are the consequenes f sin?
God had warned man of the consequence of sin
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;
17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
Immediate consequence of sin
Immediate consequence of sin
man was separated from God
22 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—
23 therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.
24 So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
man died - did not live more a “day” before God
3 And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
4 After he begot Seth, the days of Adam were eight hundred years; and he had sons and daughters.
5 So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.
Long-term consequence of sin
Long-term consequence of sin
the whole human race was condemned to sinful existence
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—
13 (For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
14 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.
Original sin
the first sin of Adam
the sinful natured possessed by every man since Adam
also called “depravity”
completely voice of oiginal righteousness
5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.
has no affection toward God
25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
defiled from the inside
15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
contnuied bias toward evil
5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Guilt from sin
it is the acknowledgment that one has committed sin against God
it is the acknowledgement that one deserves to be penalized for one’s sins
Adam and Eve sewed fig leaves - to hide the fruit of sin and somehow dismiss the guilt
the Penalty of sin
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
20 The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.
Death is separation from Life (God)
1 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,
physical death
17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
second death - the lake of fire
8 But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
9 These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,
28 Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice
29 and come forth—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.
The Solution for Sin
The Solution for Sin
Question: What was God’s solution for sin?
Why did God allow sin
Sin is sin in light of the righteousness of God
God allowed man to sin so that His righteousness may be fully expressed in man’s sinfulness and in God’s gracious act
Illustration
God allowed Israel to sin against Him, with warnings and exhortation so that His righteousness may be magnified
first, in their sinfulness
second, in His saving grace
The only solution for sin is in God
knowing the extent of the result of sin, God has provided the solution for sin
8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,
5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,
6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.
13 But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth,
Just the sin came by the free will of man
Salvation comes to us by the free will of God!
Conclusion
Conclusion