Our Fallen World Embry Hills – Aug 2021 1 The

Transcript:Our Fallen World Embry Hills – Aug 2021 1 The:
Our Fallen World Embry Hills – Aug 2021 1 The Account of the First Sin (Genesis) Man created in the image of God, including Choice (1:27) One action forbidden (2:9, 16-17; 3:2-3) Easy to obey, easy to disobey (2:9,16) Serious consequences (2:17; 3:3) 2 God’s Options No consequences Instant destruction Take away man’s choice (reduce to an animal) Have significant consequences (Why?) 3 The Account of the First Sin (Genesis) Man created in the image of God, including Choice (1:27) One action forbidden (2:9, 16-17; 3:2-3) Easy to obey, easy to disobey (2:9,16) Serious consequences (2:17; 3:3) Consequences… Fear, Guilt, & Shame – death of an animal (3:10-11, 21) Conflict between the serpent & seed of woman (15) Multiplied sorrow (pain) & conception (16) Broken/difficult relationship between man & woman (16) Cursed ground (thorns & thistles, sweat & toil) (17-19) Return to the dust (death) (19) Driven out of the Garden (23-24) 4 …The Story Continued Gen 4 – Cain & Abel: Corrupted worship, envy, sin seeking to possess us, anger, murder, guilt, deception, self-preservation… Gen 5-6 – Lineage of Cain – decline (due to lusts) to world-wide wickedness (intent & action) Gen 11 – Tower of Babel – man’s ingenuity used for pride and disobedience; limited (“confused”) by God. 5 The Consequences of the Fall on… Man & God Fellowship broken: Unresolved guilt; driven out of God’s presence 6 Consequences of Adam’s Sin (Romans 5) Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned (12) …By the one man’s offense many died…(15) The judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, (16) By the one man’s offense death reigned through the one (17) Through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation… (18) By one man’s disobedience many were made sinners (19) 7 The Consequences of the Fall on… Man & God Fellowship broken: Unresolved guilt; driven out of God’s presence Man & Himself Guilt & shame, with continuing internal struggle with sin Living with death 8 Consequences of Adam’s Sin (Roman 7:18-24) For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. 19 For the good that I will [want] to do, I do not do; but