Weekly Sunday Sermon - 29 Sep: Sin and Fall (Genesis 3)

 Hello! This week I learned about the fall and sin. We'll be focusing on two main points: the cause of sin and sin's consequences, and another point: about how God has a plan.

1. Sin is because we don't trust God enough.

This point can be affirmed when we read Genesis 3:6. This verse follows a conservation between the woman (Eve) and the serpent. The serpent says to Eve that if the woman eats it, she will become like God, rather than dying (which God said would happen if they ate it). Eve then saw the fruit and it looked appealing, so she ate. Here, Eve is trusting her own senses - not God! This is the cause of sin - our lack of trust in God. 

2. Sin hurts three of our relationships.

After Adam and Eve rebelled, three of their relationships: their relationship with God, one another, and creation, which used to be perfect, was broken. Adam and Eve also had their consequences such as having to bear with fights, childbearing, and diffuculty of picking food from the soil. 

2a. Relationship with God

Before the fall, Adam and Eve had a flawless relationship with God where they could talk and have fellowship with Him. In Genesis 3:8, we see that God was walking in the garden, meaning that He probably would walk around! But when they sinned, their relationship with God was broken and they died spiritually. Their relationship was so broken that after they sinned, they hid from God when he was walking

2b. Relationship with One Another

Before the fall, Adam and Eve had a flawless relationship with one another. There was no dispute and  Genesis 2:23, we can see that Adam was happy with Eve and was not dissappointed. But just in the following chapter, Genesis 3, we can see they blamed one another, passing the blame on rather than confessing. Also, in Genesis 3:16, we see int he last few sentences that Adam and Eve will disagree and fight, because they both want power.

2c. Relationship with Creation

Before the fall, Adam and Eve had a flawless relationship with Creation. There was no problems in creation, no death, and they could live and eat from a beautiful garden - the Garden of Eden. But after the fall, the soil was cursed so humanity would have diffuculties to pick food from it, and even today we see pollution as another creation problem.

3. God's Plan

But the Bible does not end just with the fall. There is hope and God has a plan, a plan of redemption and restoration. But God's plan is not to just simply forgive and forget it ever happened! God cannot say to them, "That's fine, just don't do it next time.". He shuns evil and is righteous, and there must be punishment. But his plan is to redeem humanity through a human - one of the offspring of Adam and Eve. In Genesis 3:15 we hear that God says there will be enmity between humanity and Satan, the offspring of man and the offspring of Satan, and that one of the offspring will crush the serpent's head, but his (one of the offspring) heel will be struck. And this certain offspring we already know of - Jesus. But the question is, are we willing to believe and have faith? If so, we may have hope, but if not, we do not have hope.

That's all for today.

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