The Fall Deepens (ii) The Lord does not forgive excuses; He forgives sin. He is always ready to forgive us if we repent. To repent is to acknowledge that it is our fault, and we made a mistake. Blame-shifting instead of repentance is to further build the barriers between ourselves and God, and ourselves and […]
The Fall Deepens And the man said, “The woman whom Thou gavest 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” (Gen 3:12-13). The three major
The Voices (iii). He is also the Bridegroom. The quality of any relationship can be measured by the quality of its communication. What bride would like to hear from her bridegroom that he has written a book for her, and the only way he is going to communicate with her again is for her to
The Voices (ii) The Lord did not say that the lambs knew His voice, but rather the sheep. Sheep will follow their shepherd while the lambs will follow the sheep. Likewise, the spiritually young usually do need to follow more mature believers until they have grown to know the Lord\’s voice for themselves. However, it
The Voices And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” (Gen 3:11) It is interesting to note that Adam and Eve did not think it was strange that a serpent spoke to them. From this we can deduct that
Fear (ii) And he (Adam) said, “I heard the sound of Thee in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself ” (Gen 3:10). Unholy fear is rooted especially in the fear of rejection. Because man was created to have fellowship with God and one another, rejection is one
Fear And he (Adam) said, “I heard the sound of Thee in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself ” (Gen 3:10). The first mention of fear in the Bible is in the above verse. There is a pure and holy fear of God, and there is an
The Delusion And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. Then the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, “Where
The Cover-Up 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 loin coverings (Gen 3:7). Here the sin goes a little deeper. As we have studied, Adam and Eve\’s first response to sin was for them to look at
The Fall She took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate (see Gen 3:6). If we listen to the devil, and give serious consideration to what he says, we will almost surely fall into his trap and sin. Those who fall into sin almost never
The Deception (iii) We read in Phil 4:8: “Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things.” In 2 Cor 10:5 it says, “We
The Deception.(ii) When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise (see Gen 3:6). The deadly tree is called the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil for a reason. The “good” side
