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Pastor John kicks off our new sermon series, The Fall, with a powerful message from Genesis 3:1–19, exploring "The First Sin." As we journey through Scripture, we'll see how the first act of disobedience brought devastating consequences, separating humanity from God and introducing sin into the world. This message will reveal the enemy's tactics, the path that leads to sin, and the hope God provides through redemption. Don't miss this essential teaching as we uncover the reality of sin—and the grace that overcomes it!

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Adam (As) The first sin and the first repentance

Fr. Mike explores the hard battle which each and every one of us must face, the battle with sin. Together, we examine the mystery of us being both free and under the power of the Devil. Fr. Mike emphasizes that if we are unaware of our wounded nature, it can lead to grave errors in our own lives. If we have an attitude that, “since I'm made good, then everything I'm drawn to must be good,” we can fall into temptation and evil. We conclude on a hopeful note; however, that even after we sinned, God did not abandon us to the “domain of death,” and with God's grace, evil will never have the last word. Today's readings are Catechism Paragraphs 407-412. This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB. For the complete reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com/ciy Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.

Together, with Fr. Mike, we explore the nature of man's first sin or our “freedom put to the test.” Fr. Mike unpacks the importance of us understanding that freedom is not the power to “do what we want,” but rather, the power to “do what I ought.” Though the story of the first sin is that of our first parents, Fr. Mike emphasizes that we still repeat the grave error of the first sin in our own lives by preferring our own perceived “goods” over the “goods” of our Creator and Father in heaven. Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 396-401. This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB. For the complete reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com/ciy Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.

What was the first sin after the first sin?

Preached on September 1, 2024 from Genesis 3:1-13. For more information about Columbia Christian Church, please visit our website: www.columbiachristian.org

First Sin

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Sermon Outline/Slides: How Satan Sold the First Sin

12th June, 2024 – Join us every Wednesday morning at 8.30am for the Breakfast Show hosted by Fr Billy Swan. This show seeks to engage listeners with lively discussions on the Sundays readings and how all the baptised are called to evangelise the culture in which we live. The content is prayerful, reflective and yet […] The post E332 | RM Breakfast Show – Fr Billy Swan – The Consequences of the First Sin appeared first on Radio Maria Ireland.

Candid Catholic Convos 04-28-2024   SHOW DESCRIPTION:   Back then, it was something I just “did.” I went to church because my parents made me, same thing for Catholic school. It wasn't until I was much older that I realized what they were giving me was a foundation to stand on, a home to come home to no matter how far I travelled. I want to lay the same foundation for my sons. How can we do our best, as parents and caregivers, as the hands and feet of Jesus, to teach the faith to others? Becky Davis, the family ministries coordinator for St. Joseph's Parish in Mechanicsburg sits down with me to unpack all the wonderful resources available to those who want to learn and those who want to support others in their faith journeys.  

On day 58 of Be Quranic, as Ramadan begins, we reflect on the singular mention of Ramadan in the Quran, directly linked to the revelation of the Quran as a guide and criterion for mankind.  This session continues from ayah 32 of Surah al-Baqarah, moving to ayat 34, which depicts Allah's command for angels to prostrate to Adam, highlighting obedience and the sin of arrogance exemplified by Iblis's refusal due to pride, as he was of the jinn, not an angel. The lesson stresses the importance of humility, warning against the spiritual disease of arrogance—defined by denying truth and belittling others—which can prevent one from entering Jannah. Practical advice from Imam al-Ghazali encourages respect for all, regardless of their age or knowledge, as a means to guard against arrogance, urging reflection on our thoughts and actions to cultivate humility.

Developed by FROM SOFTWARE, Dark Souls II is the highly anticipated sequel to the grueling 2011 breakout hit Dark Souls. The unique old-school action RPG experience captivated imaginations of gamers worldwide with incredible challenge and intense emotional reward.Dark Souls II brings the franchise's renowned obscurity & gripping gameplay innovations to both single and multiplayer experiences.Join the dark journey and experience overwhelming enemy encounters, diabolical hazards, and the unrelenting challenge that only FROM SOFTWARE can deliver.Dark Souls II is a 2014 action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware. The second installment of the Dark Souls series, it was released for Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Taking place in the kingdom of Drangleic, the game features both player versus environment (PvE) and player versus player (PvP) gameplay. Dark Souls II was released in March 2014 after some initial delays, with the Windows version being released the following month.It was a critical and commercial success. A remastered version of the game, titled Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin, was released for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows in April 2015. It contains the original game and its downloadable content with upgraded graphics, expanded online multiplayer capacity, and various other changes. A sequel, Dark Souls III, was released in 2016.WEBSITE https://www.fngamers.com/DISCORD https://discord.gg/euhEYZxC58 TWITTERhttps://twitter.com/F_N_GamerzINSTAGRAMhttps://www.instagram.com/yourfriendlyneighborhoodgamers/YOUTUBEhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRgS_YRAM8_PlWNvxrjQshAFANTASY CRITIC LEAGUEhttps://www.fantasycritic.gSupport the show

     Our salvation is necessary because of the problem of sin. The word sin is found throughout Scripture, and both the Hebrew and Greek share the same basic meaning. The Hebrew word chata (חָטָא) means “to miss the target, or to lose the way,”[1] and the Greek word hamartanō (ἁμαρτάνω) is defined as “miss the mark, err, or do wrong.”[2] In Judges 20:16 the Hebrew word is used of skilled soldiers who do not miss their target, and in Proverbs 19:2 of a man who hurries and misses his way.[3] Sin is when we transgress God's law and depart from His intended path.[4] The apostle John states, “Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness” (1 John 3:4). Sin is a failure to conform to the holy character of God, a deviation from His righteous will.      Divine laws are a reflection of the righteousness of God. The righteousness of God may be defined as the intrinsic, immutable, moral perfection of God, from which He commands all things, in heaven and earth, and declares as good that which conforms to His righteousness and as evil that which deviates. God's character is the basis upon which all just laws derive; either divine laws from God Himself or human laws which conform to His righteousness.[5] Merrill F. Unger states: "The underlying idea of sin is that of law and of a lawgiver. The lawgiver is God. Hence sin is everything in the disposition and purpose and conduct of God's moral creatures that is contrary to the expressed will of God (Rom 3:20; 4:15; 7:7; Jam 4:12, 17). The sinfulness of sin lies in the fact that it is against God, even when the wrong we do is to others or ourselves (Gen 39:9; Psa 51:4)."[6] Robert B. Thieme Jr. states: "Man's sin is disobedience to, or falling away from, God's perfect standard and expressed will. Regardless of the sinner's action or intent, all sin is ultimately directed against God (Gen 39:9; Psa 51:4). The temptation for sin comes from the sin nature, but only when volition consents is the sin committed. Knowingly or unknowingly, man transgresses divine standards because he wills to do so."[7] The First Sin      God is sovereign and permits sin, but is never the author of it. Sin is the expression of a creaturely will that is set against God. The first sin occurred in heaven, by Lucifer, an angel of the class of cherubim.  Scripture reveals that Lucifer “had the seal of perfection, and was full of wisdom and perfect in beauty” (Ezek 28:12). Lucifer personally served in the presence of God (Ezek 28:13-14), until he sinned. God said of him, “You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created until unrighteousness was found in you” (Ezek 28:15). Being the first creature to fall away from God, his sin was purely volitional and self-actuated, as there was no temptation or sin apart from the first sin he committed. And the first sin he committed was a mental attitude sin, as God says of him, “You were internally filled with violence, and you sinned” (Ezek 28:16). Satan's violence was connected with his pride, as the Lord states, “Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor” (Ezek 28:17). Satan is brilliant in mind and appearance, but his pride is his weakness, as it corrupts his ability to reason. And Satan, having an inflated sense of himself, thought he could be God, and sought to usurp the Lord's place over the creation (Isa 14:12-14). Satan also convinced a third of the angels to follow him in his rebellion (Rev 12:4, 7). Satan operates from a base of power, which takes priority over all else. And he will employ reason to the degree that it accommodates his power; however, if his power is threatened, he will abandon reason and resort to lies, manipulation, and brute force if needed. The Fall of Humanity      Satan's kingdom of darkness was expanded to include the earth when he persuaded Adam and Eve to follow him rather than God (Gen 3:1-8). The first human sin occurred in the Garden of Eden. God had warned Adam and Eve, saying, “from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die” (Gen 2:17). The warning was that if they disobeyed God, on that very day, they would die. When Satan came into the Garden of Eden, he engaged Eve through discussion, posing a question, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden?'” (Gen 3:1), and after hearing Eve's reply (Gen 3:2-3), Satan responded, “You surely will not die! For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil” (Gen 3:4-5). Of course, this was a bold lie, and Eve, rather than trust the Lord, trusted Satan, and “she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate” (Gen 3:6). Adam and Eve experienced spiritual death at the moment they disobeyed God (Gen 3:7). Though both sinned, Adam's act of disobedience was greater than Eve's because he was the spiritual head of the marriage, and whereas Eve  was deceived (1 Tim 2:14), Adam was not deceived. Because of Adam's disobedience, sin and death were introduced into the human race (Gen 3:1-7; Rom 5:12, 18-19; 1 Cor 15:22).      At the time of the fall (Gen 3:1-6), the first humans—God's theocratic administrators (Gen 1:26-28)—gave Satan the title deed to the earth (Luke 4:6). This explains why Jesus referred to Satan as “the ruler of this world” (John 12:31; 14:30; 16:11). And other passages of Scripture call Satan “the god of this world” (2 Cor 4:4), and “the prince of the power of the air” (Eph 2:2), informing us “that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one” (1 John 5:19). Satan rules by deception, oppression, and enslavement. Scripture reveals he has “weakened the nations” (Isa 14:12), and currently “deceives the whole world” (Rev 12:9; cf. Rev 20:3). And because he is a finite creature, he relies on others—fallen angels and people—to help him advance his kosmos world-system (1 John 2:15-16), a philosophical and moral structure that is inherently and systemically corrupt, hostile to God, and completely opposed to anything divine.      As Christians living in Satan's world system, who still retain our sinful flesh (Rom 6:6; 13:14; Gal 5:17, 19; Eph 4:22; Col 3:9), we are constantly tempted to sin and act contrary to the character and will of God. The sin we commit may be mental, verbal, or physical. It may be private or public, impacting one or many, with short or lasting results. Below are biblical examples of sin: Adam and Eve disobeyed the command not to eat the fruit from “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” (Gen 2:15-17; 3:1-7). Lot's daughters got him drunk and had sex with him (Gen 19:30-38). Aaron led the Israelites to worship an idol (Ex 32:1-6). Moses struck the rock when the Lord told him to speak to it (Num 20:8-12). Samson slept with prostitutes (Judg 16:1-4). David had an affair with Bathsheba and had her husband, Uriah, murdered (2 Sam 11:1-21). Solomon worshiped idols (1 Ki 11:1-10). James and John (nicknamed Boanerges, or “Sons of Thunder”; Mark 3:17) wanted to call fire down from heaven to kill the residents of a Samaritan city (Luke 9:51-55). The mother of James and John requested special treatment for her sons, that they might have a place of prominence seated on thrones to the right and left of Jesus (Matt 20:20-21). This upset the other disciples (Matt 20:24). The disciples argued amongst themselves as to who was greatest in the kingdom (Luke 9:46). Peter tried to prevent Jesus from going to the cross (Matt 16:21-23). Peter publicly denied the Lord three times (Matt 26:34-35; 69-75). The Christians at Corinth engaged in quarrels (1 Cor 1:11), jealousy and strife (1 Cor 3:1-3), fornication (1 Cor. 5:1-2), selfishness and drunkenness (1 Cor 11:21).  Peter engaged in hypocrisy and was publicly rebuked by Paul (Gal. 2:11-14). The Apostle John twice worshipped an angel and was rebuked for it (Rev 19:10; 22:8-9).      The above list is a just a sampling of sins in the Bible. Biblically, every person is a sinner in God's sight (1 Ki 8:46; Prov 20:9; Isa 53:6; Rom 3:9-10; 23; 5:12, 18-19). Jesus is the single exception. Jesus, because of His divine nature (John 1:1, 14; Col 2:9), and the virgin conception (Isa 7:14; Luke 1:30-35), is the only person ever born without sin and who committed no sin (2 Cor 5:21; Heb 4:15; 1 Pet 2:22; 1 John 3:5). His perfect humanity and sinless life qualified Him to go to the cross and die in our place. Sin separates us from God and renders us helpless to merit God's approval. We are helpless to solve the sin problem and save ourselves (Rom 5:6-10; Eph 2:1-3). Good works have no saving merit before God (Isa 64:6; Eph 2:8-9; Tit 3:5). We cannot save ourselves any more than we can jump across the Grand Canyon or throw rocks and hit the moon. Sadly, many people buy into the lie that they can help save themselves by doing good works. The biblical teaching is that salvation is never based on good works or adherence to law, but by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone (John 3:16; 14:6; Acts 4:12; 16:31). Scripture states, we are “not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified” (Gal 2:16; cf. Rom 3:20, 28), for “if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly” (Gal 2:21).      According to Norman Geisler, “Sin is the precondition for salvation; salvation isn't necessary unless there are sinners in need of being saved. As to the origin of salvation, there is universal agreement among orthodox theologians: God is the author of our salvation, for whereas human sin originated with human beings on earth, salvation originated with God in heaven.”[8] And according to Robert Lightner, “The Bible is explicit about the condition of all who have not been born again. They are lost (Luke 19:10), condemned (John 3:18), under God's wrath (John 3:36), dead in trespasses and sin (Eph 2:1), having no hope, and without God in the world (Eph 2:12), and unrighteous (Rom 1:19-32).”[9] It matters little what people think of themselves. God provides the only true estimation of people, and His Word declares that we are utterly lost in sin and helpless to save ourselves. According to Lewis Chafer: "The greatest problem for the infinite God was to provide the reconciliation of the cross: the greatest problem for man is simply to believe the record in its fulness. To reject the Savior is not only to refuse the gracious love of God, but is to elect, so far as one can do, to remain under the full guilt of every sin as though no Savior had been provided, or no sacrifice had been made. No more terrible sin can be conceived of than the sin of rejecting Christ."[10] Salvation from Sin and its Consequences      Eternal salvation is available to us because Jesus went to the cross and died in our place and bore the punishment that rightfully belongs to us. God is holy, and we are guilty sinners who stand condemned before Him, contaminated by sin and utterly helpless to change our fallen condition (Rom 5:6-8). But God is love (1 John 4:8), and He loves us so much that He sent His Son into the world to pay the sin debt we cannot pay. We're told that “God sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him” (1 John 4:9). And because of Jesus' death on the cross, God “canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross” (Col 2:14). Jesus paid our sin debt in full, “For Christ died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God” (1 Pet 3:18a). There's nothing for us to add to Jesus' work on the cross. The sole condition of salvation is to believe in Christ as our Savior. The good news is that Jesus died for us, was buried, and rose again on the third day (1 Cor 15:3-4). Salvation is not Jesus plus anything we do. It's Jesus alone. He saves. Our contribution to the cross was sin and death, as Jesus took our sin upon Himself and died in our place. Salvation is never what we do for God; rather, it's what He's done for us through the cross of Christ. That's all. It's a gift that is received by faith alone in Christ alone, for “the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom 6:23). And God's gift is available to everyone, for “whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life” (John 3:16). The matter is simple: “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved” (Acts 16:31). Dr. Steven R. Cook   [1] Ludwig Koehler et al., The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, 305. [2] William Arndt et al., A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 49. [3] G. Herbert Livingston, “638 חָטָא,” ed. R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke, Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (Chicago: Moody Press, 1999), 277. [4] Other Hebrew and Greek words related to sin include: evil (רָע ra – Gen 3:5), wicked (רָשָׁע rasha – Prov 15:9), rebel (מָרָה marah – Deut 1:26), transgress (פָּשַׁע pasha – Isa 1:2), iniquity (עָוֹן avon – Isa 53:6), error (שָׁגָה shagah – Lev 4:13), guilt (אָשַׁם asham – Lev 4:22), go astray (תָּעָה taah – Psa 58:3), sin (ἁμαρτία hamartia – 1 Cor 15:3), bad (κακός kakos – Rom 12:17), evil (πονηρός poneros – Matt 7:11), ungodly (ἀσεβής asebes – Rom 4:5), guilty (ἔνοχος enochos – 1 Cor 11:27), unrighteousness (ἀδικία adikia – Rom 1:18), lawless (ἄνομος anomos – 1 Tim 1:9), transgression (παράβασις parabasis – Gal 3:19), ignorance (ἀγνοέω agnoeo – Acts 17:23), go astray (πλανάω planao – 1 Pet 2:25), trespass (παράπτωμα paraptoma – Rom 5:15), and hypocrisy (ὑπόκρισις hupokrisis – 1 Tim 4:2). [5] If there is no God, then there is no absolute standard for right and wrong and we are left with arbitrary laws based on manufactured values. [6] Merrill F. Unger, “Sin,” The New Unger's Bible Dictionary, 1198. [7] Robert B. Thieme, Jr. “Personal Sin”,  Thieme's Bible Doctrine Dictionary, 196. [8] Norman L. Geisler, Systematic Theology, Volume Three: Sin, Salvation, 181. [9] Robert P. Lightner, Handbook of Evangelical Theology, 188. [10] Lewis Sperry Chafer, Salvation, 52–53.

WHAT AN EPISODE! Brendan Hesse from the Crawl, a series regular, returns to talk a whole bunch of stuff with Murph and Bro.We talk about Shiren 6, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Arzette, Void Stranger, and Lysfanga! Then we ask ourselves the essential question: what was the first sin of gaming? The answer may surprise you!After that we talk about a game Bro always loves to yap on about, Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin. The real question is, does Murph like the game?Time stamps0:30 Brendan is back!!!!1:50 Shiren 6 (2024)15:00 Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore (2024)20:30 Yeah! You Want "Those Games," Right? So Here You Go! Now, Let's See You Clear Them! (2023)26:30 Ed in Street Fighter 631:00 Lysfanga (2024)36:00 Void Stranger (2023)42:10 Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (2024)Variety Minute1:13:40 The Original Sin of GamingGame of the Week1:35:30 Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin (2015)

Fr. Mike explores the hard battle which each and every one of us must face, the battle with sin. Together, we examine the mystery of us being both free and under the power of the Devil. Fr. Mike emphasizes that if we are unaware of our wounded nature, it can lead to grave errors in our own lives. If we have an attitude that, “since I'm made good, then everything I'm drawn to must be good,” we can fall into temptation and evil. We conclude on a hopeful note; however, that even after we sinned, God did not abandon us to the “domain of death,” and with God's grace, evil will never have the last word. Today's readings are Catechism Paragraphs 407-412. This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB. For the complete reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com/ciy Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.

Together, with Fr. Mike, we explore the nature of man's first sin or our “freedom put to the test.” Fr. Mike unpacks the importance of us understanding that freedom is not the power to “do what we want,” but rather, the power to “do what I ought.” Though the story of the first sin is that of our first parents, Fr. Mike emphasizes that we still repeat the grave error of the first sin in our own lives by preferring our own perceived “goods” over the “goods” of our Creator and Father in heaven. Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 396-401. This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB. For the complete reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com/ciy Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.

God's answer to a universal problem.Could there be a more basic problem in our lives than our battle with pride? The good news: for this universal problem, a universal spiritual solution is available through Jesus Christ.Support the show

Bill Allen - Thursday, January 4, 2024

Bill Allen - Thursday, January 4, 2024

The Idol Of Power! Jeremiah 10:5 NIV I. The Power Problem. The First Sin. Genesis 3:1-5 1) The original temptation was to resent the limits God put on us. II. The King Who Got It All Wrong. 1) He begins well and is blessed by the Lord. 2 Chronicles 26:1-5 2) As he becomes powerful, pride leads to his ruin. 2 Chronicles 26:15-21 Three lessons from the life of Uzziah: 1) The issue is not with power itself but with our corrupt heart. 2) A creeping sense of entitlement is an indication that power is becoming an idol. 3) A lack of accountability is a sure sign a wreck is about to occur. III. The Idol Of Power Will Wreck Your Life. 1) It will wreck your relationship with God. 2)It will wreck your relationship with others. 3) And lastly, it will wreck you. Thank you for listening!

The Idol Of Power! Jeremiah 10:5 NIV I. The Power Problem. The First Sin. Genesis 3:1-5 1) The original temptation was to resent the limits God put on us. II. The King Who Got It All Wrong. 1) He begins well and is blessed by the Lord. 2 Chronicles 26:1-5 2) As he becomes powerful, pride leads to his ruin. 2 Chronicles 26:15-21 Three lessons from the life of Uzziah: 1) The issue is not with power itself but with our corrupt heart. 2) A creeping sense of entitlement is an indication that power is becoming an idol. 3) A lack of accountability is a sure sign a wreck is about to occur. III. The Idol Of Power Will Wreck Your Life. 1) It will wreck your relationship with God. 2)It will wreck your relationship with others. 3) And lastly, it will wreck you. Thank you for listening!

What can we learn from the first sin? Can it give us insight into the way temptation works upon us? Can we see and understand how to recognize it when it comes? Listen as the Preacher Dad explains how Adam and Eve responded to temptation and what we can do about sin once it happens. […] The post 064 – The First Sin – Foundations 16 appeared first on Preacher Dad.

Episode 227 – Seriousness of Sin – Part 6 – The First Sin Continues Welcome to Anchored by Truth brought to you by Crystal Sea Books. In John 14:6, Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” The goal of Anchored by Truth is to encourage everyone to grow in the Christian faith by anchoring themselves to the secure truth found in the inspired, inerrant, and infallible word of God. Script: The LORD said to the man, “…the ground will be under a curse because of what you did. As long as you live, you will have to struggle to grow enough food. Genesis, Chapter 3, verse 17, Contemporary English Version ******** VK: Hi! Welcome to Anchored by Truth brought to you by Crystal Sea Books. I’m Victoria K. We’re so happy that you are able to join us today on Anchored by Truth as we continue with the series we are calling “The Seriousness of Sin.” Thus far in this series we have seen that despite the world’s desire to deny the reality of sin the denials are always unsuccessful. The world can deny that sin exists but they cannot escape the consequences of its existence. As he has been throughout this series, to help us continue to think through hard truths that accompany sin’s existence we have RD Fierro. RD is an author and the founder of Crystal Sea Books. RD, how can we all be sure for ourselves that sin exists? RD: People can readily determine that everything the Bible says about God, sin, and judgment is true for themselves by thinking about one word. Guilt. As we mentioned in one episode guilt is God’s gift to man to assure us that He exists, that sin is real, and that there is a coming judgment. VK: For most people the emotion of guilt is not very pleasant and it can produce all kinds of very unpleasant sensations and even painful behavior. Most people probably don’t think of guilt as being a gift from God. RD: But it is. Think about what the concept of guilt implies. For guilt to be present there must first of all be an offense. For an offense to occur there must be a law or standard that defines permissible behavior or activity. And for there to be a law or standard there must be a lawgiver or standard maker. And none of that would be perceptible if human beings did not possess the ability to understand the existence of laws or standards and the implications of violations. So, guilt assures us that somewhere there is a lawgiver who has established standards so pervasive that when we violate them we have a keen awareness that we have violated them. None of that would be possible if we were all just the result of the random collision of inanimate bits of matter. VK: Guilt is an emotion experienced by a personal being who isn’t just aware of their environment but also aware of moral and ethical obligations. Lesser animals can and do respond to stimuli in their environments including emotional stimuli. Your pet dog or cat can detect when you are happy or sad and can even act to provide a comforting response. But your pet does not know whether you are sad because a friend of yours just died or you’re miserable because you just got caught breaking the law and now you’re facing the consequences. But another person can know and can understand the difference. Another person shares the awareness that we all have moral and ethical obligations. We may try to deny that we do but even the denial is self-defeating. If the obligation isn’t there what would be the point of denying it? RD: Right. Moral and ethical obligations to which we are all subject are real. So is the fact that we all fail to live up to those obligations. We are all aware of the obligations and we are all aware of our failure. Guilt is the consequence of that awareness. Guilt is therefore evidence of sin because sin is our failure to honor the obligations that our Creator has established for us. We can deny the Creator. We can deny the obligations. But what we can’t deny successfully is the experience of guilt. VK: And guilt has been present ever since the first sin in the Garden of Eden. Chapter 3 of Genesis is clear that Adam and Eve immediately experienced regret which is why they tried to cover themselves and subsequently hide from God. Guilt is the awareness of wickedness within us. Adam and Eve hid just as Proverbs, chapter 28, verse 1 says. “The wicked flee though no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.” Adam and Eve fled from God’s presence even before God pursued them. RD: Correct. The introduction of guilt in their minds was one of the consequences of that first sin but, of course, there were many other consequences. In our last episode we talked about the fact that the introduction of death into the created order was another of the consequences of that first sin. VK: And that episode of Anchored by Truth is available from our website, crystalseabooks.com as are all of the episodes of Anchored by Truth. RD: But death and guilt were by no means the only consequences of that first sin. VK: And that’s what we want to spend some time discussing today – some of those other consequences of the first sin. So, what is another of those consequences? RD: Well, we heard about two of the other consequences of the first sin in our opening scripture – man’s labor, man’s work was cursed and even the ground, the created order was cursed because of that sin. VK: We have been living in a “sin-stained” world for so long that it’s hard to remember sometime that work was not always a burden to people. When Adam and Eve were first placed in the garden they were given the job of tending it. Tending the garden was their work, their job. But, initially, their work was not cursed. Their work was for them as God’s work was for Him when He created the heavens and the earth and shaped everything to be suitable for mankind. God is creative and productive and He created people to be creative and productive. But the burdensome nature of work did not arrive until after Adam and Eve sinned. We see that in God’s pronouncement to our first parents that “As long as you live, you will have to struggle to grow enough food.” Before the first sin Adam and Eve could eat freely from the trees in the garden except from one tree. After the first sin they now had to struggle to get enough food. RD: Yes. So, we see that it makes sense that God cursed the “ground” as well as man’s labor. If the ground, the created order, had remained the same it would have continued to supply the same fruit and other food as before. And it’s not hard to see that would easily have contributed to man being able to multiply his sin, his rebellion, even further. VK: I am reminded of one of the verses from one of your poems, The Genesis Saga. One of the stanzas in The Genesis Saga says, “Fertile soil [that] had been so friendly now brought forth noxious weed. Only by sweat of weary brow would man be able to feed.” I love that phrase – “noxious weed.” What you are saying is that if the ground had not started bringing forth, in the words of Genesis, chapter 3, verse 18, “thorns and thistles” Adam and Eve would have had a lot more free time on their hands. Anyone who has ever tried to grow a garden knows how much time and effort it takes to control the weeds. RD: Exactly. Part of the reason God made Adam have to spend more time supplying their food was because that reduced the amount of time and energy he would have on mischief. And those patterns continue today thousands of years later. Think about it. It is very hard to get tomatoes, peppers, beans, corn, etc. to grow to maturity and be suitable for food. But it takes no effort whatsoever for weeds to cover every vacant inch of ground in a yard, or park, or forest. Why is that? Why is it so hard to grow food crops but it takes no effort for weeds, thorns, and thistles to come forth? No one cultivates weeds yet they appear everywhere. The ground bringing forth noxious plants without any encouragement as does the need for man to struggle to produce enough food to sustain people. Genesis, chapter 3, provides a very clear explanation for why that is true. VK: And we see this awareness of the cursed nature of creation continued in other parts of scripture. For instance, in Romans, chapter 8, verse 22 the Apostle Paul writes, “We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.” We know that this idea is objectionable to our contemporary society but the entire fabric and operation of our world is entirely consistent with scripture. The fact that God cursed the ground so Adam and Eve would have to struggle for their daily existence would certainly have limited their time for – as you said – mischief. But it would also have limited their energy for mischief. Just about every person who transitions into adulthood realizes that one reason your lifestyle changes is that it takes a lot of energy to hold down a job, manage a house, and put meals on the table. So, in a way God’s curse on the ground was part of God’s plan of redemption – to limit sin and to promote man’s dependence on God. RD: Yes. And God’s curse on the ground also had another benefit for man. Hard work is the best physical fitness program there is. In an agrarian society - which is certainly what existed in Adam’s time - growing food, building shelters, making tools, caring for animals was hard physical labor. That would have helped Adam, Eve, and their children stay in good physical condition. VK: I see where you are going. Before the first sin death didn’t exist in the created order. So, in a certain sense, Adam and Eve didn’t have to worry about their health. But that changed when death became a part of their world. Now things could go wrong with their bodies. So, they needed to be concerned that would never have troubled them before sin. RD: Exactly. Despite the claims by some popular pop-culture preachers we really have no idea what Adam and Eve looked like. It’s reasonable to believe that before the first sin they were the best possible specimens of the human beings possible. Though many do, it is useless to speculate about their size, skin color, eye and hair color, etc. They were probably beautiful insofar as our standards of human beauty were concerned but we have no idea what their actual appearance was. But we can, I think, be fairly sure that they were very physically fit and their bodies were healthy initially. This is before many pollutants and contaminants entered the world, before bacteria and viruses had mutated into causing sickness, and before genetic mutations in their own DNA had started posing problems. VK: Well, according to Genesis, chapter 5, verses 3 and 4 Adam did live to be 930 years old. That’s a pretty good run – especially by our standards. RD: Right. So, Adam and Eve would have been healthy initially. But if they didn’t have to work physically to supply their needs, that could have changed pretty quickly. Imagine how most of us would look if we had all the food we wanted available at no cost and didn’t have to do any work to get it. VK: So, by cursing the ground God was actually teaching Adam and Eve some valuable lessons – lessons that we’re necessarily pleasant ones but things they needed to know for the future they had created for themselves by sinning. RD: So, a couple of immediate consequences of that first sin was that work was now cursed and the ground by which food would be produced was also cursed. In time that would have produced other impacts on Adam and Eve. VK: Like blisters, sore backs, aching knees, bruises, scrapes, etc. That wouldn’t have been any fun for people used to living in a paradise whether nothing could hurt them. RD: No it wouldn’t. So, the consequences of that first sin were going to continue to multiply as time went by. But another immediate consequence of the first sin was Adam and Eve’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden. And, believe it or not, that was necessary for God’s plan of redemption. VK: Why is that? RD: Because the Bible tells us that “the wages of sin is death.” Said differently, ultimately for restoration and redemption to be possible Adam and Eve’s rebellion against God was going to have to be punished by death. We had the first hint of what was coming when the first innocent animals were killed to make clothing for Adam and Eve. VK: That’s Genesis, chapter 3, verse 21 which says “Then the LORD God made clothes out of animal skins for the man and his wife.” It’s important to note that even from the beginning God initiated the sacrifices that would be necessary to redeem man. God sacrificed one of His animals that He had made to make clothes for the people who had sinned. God had made the animals. The animals that were sacrificed belong to God not Adam and Eve. So, God took the first action to remediate sin and made the first sacrifice. This is a strong statement that salvation originates with God and is completed by God. Man is the beneficiary, but salvation from first to last is an activity of God’s. RD: Right. So, God making the first clothes for Adam and Eve was a foretaste of what was to come. Death was going to be a necessity to cover Adam and Eve’s sin. Ultimately it was going to have to be the death of God’s anointed Son who was going to have to be able to represent man as well as God. That’s why Jesus had to come in the flesh to make the final, perfect sacrifice for sin. But Jesus couldn’t have died if Adam and Eve had remained in the Garden. VK: We learn that from verses 22 through 24 of Genesis, chapter 3. Those verses say, “The LORD said, ‘They now know the difference between right and wrong, just as we do. But they must not be allowed to eat fruit from the tree that lets them live forever.’ So the LORD God sent them out of the Garden of Eden, where they would have to work the ground from which the man had been made. Then God put winged creatures at the entrance to the garden and a flaming, flashing sword to guard the way to the life-giving tree.” That’s from the Contemporary English Version. If Adam and Eve had remained in the Garden of Eden and eaten from the Tree of Life they could not have experienced physical death. In effect, they would have lived perpetually in their sinful state – estranged from God because spiritual death had come upon them. But the fact that they were expelled from the garden and would experience a physical death meant that physical death would also be possible for their descendants – including the One who would die an atoning death to save His people from their sin. RD: Yes. So, God expelling Adam and Eve from the Garden that contained the Tree of Life was a necessary step in the plan of redemption. They would experience a physical death for their own sin. But their far distant descendant would experience a physical death for the sins of others because Jesus had no sins of His own. No other human being could ever atone for the sins of anyone else because as Romans, chapter 3, verse 23 says, “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” Everyone but Jesus dies for their own sins. Jesus committed no sin. So, in the plan of God which had existed before the foundation of the world Jesus could offer to die for the sins of others. VK: It’s important to remember that we are only still talking about the consequences of the first sin. We rarely stop and think about the enormous price that has been paid just because of that one sin. Death entered the created order because of the first sin. Man’s labor was cursed because of the first sin. The ground, the created order itself, was cursed because of the first sin. And the first sin set in motion a plan that would someday require the death of God’s only Son, the second Person of the Holy Trinity, in order to redeem fallen sinners and creation. This is a staggering price when you think about it. RD: Which is exactly why we wanted to do this “Seriousness of Sin” series. We rarely think about all of the consequences that attach to sin. But in the next few episodes we are going to take a look at other examples from the Bible that God has given us to tell us how seriously God takes sin – examples such as the flood described in chapter 6 through 9 of Genesis and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. VK: But before we close for today are there any other consequences that you want to point out that resulted from that first sin. RD: Well, so far we’ve talked about the entrance of death into the created order, the curses that God put on the ground and on man’s labor to produce food, and the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden. And even though we’ve covered these consequences I want to point out that we have done so quickly because we only have so much time in our broadcast and podcast episodes. But there is a great deal more that could be said about what happened as a result of that first sin. From a purely physical standpoint we can see that pain, illness, and disease entered creation as a result of that first sin. From an intellectual and emotional standpoint we can see that worry, misery, and guilt came from that first sin. VK: And all those sad consequences weren’t limited to mankind. Initially men and all the animals were to live on a vegetarian diet. In Genesis, chapter 1, verses 29 and 30 God said to Adam, “I have provided all kinds of fruit and grain for you to eat. And I have given the green plants as food for everything else that breathes, including animals, both wild and tame, and birds. And so it was.” That’s from the Contemporary English Version. But, as time went by, all that changed. Animals eventually began to kill and eat other animals and after the worldwide flood God told Noah that certain animals were now suitable food for people. So, a world initially at peace became a world filled with violence and aggression. RD: Yes. It’s accurate to say that everything in the physical creation changed as a consequence of that first sin. But things also changed in the spiritual realm as well. In ways that we probably can’t fully comprehend that first sin probably made it possible for Satan and the demons to have increased access to this creation and especially to people. At a minimum that first sin certainly opened the door to increased warfare between humans and the demonic order. VK: Well, Genesis, chapter 3, verse 15 does record God speaking to Satan and saying, “Because you have done this, I will put enmity (open hostility) Between you and the woman, And between your seed (offspring) and her Seed; He shall [fatally] bruise your head, And you shall [only] bruise His heel.” So, God tells us that because of the first sin he was going to put hostility between people and Satan and his followers. There are many passages in the Bible such as Ephesians, chapter 6, verse 12 that tell us about the war. That verse says, “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this [present] darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) places.” Both of those verses are from the Amplified Bible. RD: Scholars debate when the angelic order, which includes the holy angels as well as the demons, was created. It seems highly likely that the angels were in existence before humans and we can be certain that Satan had already fallen before he encountered Eve. But note that Satan’s temptation to Eve came from the outside. Satan spoke to Eve using some kind of language. But later in the Bible we have clear descriptions of demons being able to “possess” people – meaning the demons now have the ability to interact with people’s minds and emotions rather than being limited to acting outside of them. Demons can now tempt people from the inside rather than just the outside. We don’t have any information about the mechanics of how that happened but that change certainly followed the first sin. VK: And, if nothing else, it seems quite likely that the pace of warfare between the holy angels and the demons likely escalated after the first sin. Certainly, the remainder of the Bible contains descriptions of confrontations within the angelic realm that are tied to actions occurring on earth. The book of Revelation is filled with descriptions of things occurring in heaven that are tied to events taking place on earth. And Daniel, chapter 10 contains a description of an angelic messenger that was sent to Daniel but was held up for 21 days by a demon who is described as “the prince of the kingdom of Persia.” Many scholars think that both the demons and the angels seem to have special spheres of authority for parts of earth. The archangel Michael seems to have, or at least had, some special responsibility for Israel. RD: So, that first sin didn’t just affect things on the earth. It also affected the heavenly realm. We can’t know what would have happened if Adam and Eve had resisted temptation but we can be very sure that profound changes occurred throughout earth and heaven because of the first choice to disobey God. Such is the seriousness of sin. Satan’s sin had apparently compromised the harmony of heaven before he came into the garden. Adam and Eve had a chance to avoid importing that conflict into the physical creation but they didn’t. They drew Satan’s spirit of rebellion into a cosmos that had been created pure and good. Sin compromised the peace and harmony of this earth just as it had previously compromised the perfect peace of heaven. We rarely think about sin’s tendrils but the plain fact is that sin is never just an isolated act without repercussions. As we will see in our next few episodes sin is a viral contagion that once it occurs sweeps multitudes to destruction. The first sin did that. All sin does that. That’s why we need to seek the Lord’s power to quench sin in our own lives. VK: So, the big idea that we wanted to introduced last time and continued today is that to properly understand the seriousness of sin we must look at where sin started. The first sin in the garden had a multitude of consequences, none of them good. The first consequence was the admission of death into a creation that had been very good. That was followed by curses on work and the land and the expulsion of Adam and Eve from paradise. And the effects of that first sin continued to ripple outward reaching even into the heavenly realm. Sin is serious. We must acknowledge sin as being serious if we ever want to be able to effectively combat it in our own lives. This sounds like a great time to pray. Today let’s listen to a prayer of adoration for the Creator God who originated a very good creation and one day will restore its perfection. The restored creation will then remain untainted by sin for all eternity and everyone who has accepted Christ as their Savior will live in that eternally blessed land. ---- PRAYER FOR ADORATION OF THE CREATOR (GWEN) VK: We’d like to remind our audience that a lot of our radio episodes are linked together in series of topics so if they missed any episodes or if they just want to hear one again, all of these episodes are available on your favorite podcast app. To find them just search on “Anchored by Truth by Crystal Sea Books.” If you’d like to hear more, try out crystalseabooks.com where “We’re not perfect but our Boss is!” (Opening Bible Quote from the Contemporary English Version) Genesis, Chapter 3, verse 17, Contemporary English Version What is the noetic effect of sin? What is the effect of sin on the mind? (carm.org) The Noetic Effects of Sin | Reformed Bible Studies & Devotionals at Ligonier.org | Reformed Bible Studies & Devotionals at Ligonier.org

Episode 226 – Seriousness of Sin – Part 5 – The First Sin Welcome to Anchored by Truth brought to you by Crystal Sea Books. In John 14:6, Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” The goal of Anchored by Truth is to encourage everyone to grow in the Christian faith by anchoring themselves to the secure truth found in the inspired, inerrant, and infallible word of God. Script: The LORD said to the man, “You listened to your wife and ate the fruit I told you not to eat. Genesis, Chapter 3, verse 17, Contemporary English Version ******** VK: Hello! Welcome to Anchored by Truth brought to you by Crystal Sea Books. I’m Victoria K. Thank you for joining us today on Anchored by Truth as we continue to pursue a very important discussion series we call “The Seriousness of Sin.” We’re doing this series because sin is a “real and present” danger to our lives and eternal salvation. Many people today try to resist that thought or even deny it all together but that doesn’t affect the reality that we are all sinners in need of a Savior. If we confess our sin the Apostle John tells that “he is faithful and just to forgive our sin.” But if we deny our sin it still remains with us and it puts us in eternal danger. In the studio today to help us grapple with what are, admittedly, hard truths we have RD Fierro who is an author and the founder of Crystal Sea Books. RD, for the first few episodes of this series we have been considering the danger that sin poses to the eternal destiny of men. But you said that today you want to switch perspectives. What do you have in mind? RD: Well, in our first few episodes in this “Seriousness of Sin” series we’ve looked at sin from man’s standpoint. We have been looking at the stakes of sin for people – about the consequences on this earth when we commit sin and the eternal consequences we would face if we do not accept Christ as our Savior. One of the truly amazing things about accepting Christ is that doing so inaugurates a cosmic transaction that is almost beyond belief. The sinner gets Christ’s righteousness in exchange for Christ getting (having borne) the consequences of our sin. VK: As you say in your book The Prodigal’s Advocate the Christian faith is not fair. But the person it’s not fair to is Jesus. Jesus lived a sinless life but died for the sins of others. We live sinful lives but when we accept Christ’s sacrifice for us we will enjoy rewards that we did not earn for all eternity. God would have been perfectly just to condemn everyone who has rebelled against Him to eternal punishment but He didn’t. God made a way for us to be redeemed but it cost God an immeasurable amount – an amount no human being will ever fully understand. RD: Right. So, we’ve been looking at the seriousness of sin from the standpoint of how sin affects us as individuals – our lives, our futures, our salvation. And it is serious. But today I want to take a look at the broader consequences of sin – because remember that the entire Bible is a single story about the saga of creation, fall, and redemption. The creation and fall take up the first 3 chapters of the first book of the Bible. The other 47 chapters of Genesis and the other 65 books of the Bible are the story of redemption. VK: And without the first sin in the garden the story of redemption never would have been necessary. RD: Correct. RC Sproul used to say that “sin is cosmic treason.” That means then that there are two sides to the sin transaction. There is man’s side. VK: And there is God’s side. You know we tend to forget that. I mean we know that our sin can injure other people like when a drunk driver runs into another car that just happens to be in the drunk’s path. The other driver is a victim of the sin. But if we commit “cosmic treason” we have also offended God. That reminds me of Psalm 51, verses 3 and 4 where King David wrote: “I know about my sins, and I cannot forget the burden of my guilt. You are really the one I have sinned against; I have disobeyed you and have done wrong. So it is right and fair for you to correct and punish me.” That’s from the Contemporary English Version. David wrote Psalm 51 after he had an adulterous night with Bathsheba. David then tricked his army commander, Joab, into getting Bathsheba’s husband Uriah killed during a battle. So, David had clearly injured Bathsheba and Uriah. Yet he wrote to God that God was the one he had really sinned against. RD: Yep. All sins, whether they have a specific human victim or not, are offenses against an Almighty God. Now God is certainly in a different category than a human victim. VK: Because God is all-powerful, all-knowing, and everlasting and all. RD: Right. God is not like a human being who can suffer when we sin against them. God is more like a king whose subject has offended them or a parent whose child has injured them. God is not damaged per se but God is definitely offended. And God who, in addition to being omnipotent and omniscient, is also perfectly just holy cannot let intentional offenses go un-redressed. So, when we start taking a look at God’s side of the transaction we can see even more clearly how serious sin really is. VK: Now, we live a world where sin abounds even in our lives. We are so used to sin we sometimes don’t even notice anymore. It’s like walking in your house and noticing a musty smell. Stay there long enough and eventually your nose gets used to it. RD: Yes. We have been desensitized to sin because as sinners it feels familiar. And living in a world of sin we don’t know any difference. As somebody once said, “if a man falls in the water he knows he’s wet because that’s not his natural state. Same thing with a dog or cat. A dog or cat that gets wet will shake off the water as soon as it gets a chance. But a fish doesn’t know it’s wet because it’s wet all the time. Being wet is a fish’s natural state. So, a fish doesn’t notice the wetness.” VK: And, living as we do thousands of years after the fall, sin is now our natural state. In effect, we have become immersed in sin. Not only do we sin but we are surrounded by sin. And especially in the western cultures sin is actively pushed in just about every medium possible. Advertisers routinely use blatantly sinful images and appeals in their commercials. So-called entertainment producers feature and glamorize sin in movies, tv shows, music, and books. The old advertising slogan was that “sex sells” so sex has become a staple of the images that surround us constantly. Schools, government meetings, and even churches have become hotbeds, no pun intended, of the proliferation of sin. We are so immersed in sin that now we really only notice the “big” sins – robberies, murder, adultery, child pornography etc. Far too many of us have given up the effort to shake off our sins. RD: Yes. But it was not always that way. In Genesis, chapter 1, verse 31, God surveyed everything He had created and pronounced that it was “very good.” God couldn’t have and wouldn’t have called creation very good if sin existed in that world at that time. VK: But then we come to Genesis, chapter 3, and that’s where we here the description of the first sin – Adam and Eve eating from the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. And in our opening scripture we heard about God confronting Adam and Eve after they committed the first sin. You know it is interesting. God didn’t confront Adam and Eve immediately after they committed that sin. He didn’t immediately send a booming voice from heaven shouting “what did you just do” the way my mother would have. According to verses 7 and 8 of Genesis, chapter 3, “At once [Adam and Eve] saw what they had done, and they realized they were naked. Then they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves. Late in the afternoon, when the breeze began to blow, the man and woman heard the LORD God walking in the garden. So they hid behind some trees.” So, God waited some time before confronting them. Why did He do that? RD: Well, probably for a lot of reasons but I think one was that God let them marinate in their misery before He confronted them. During that interval they obviously had a growing awareness that they had really messed up. I might go so far as to say God was giving them a chance to think about the “seriousness” of their sin. VK: Oh. I see what you did there. And now I see why you named this series “The Seriousness of Sin.” RD: God was like a smart earthly parent. He let Adam and Eve begin to develop a real appreciation for what they had done - because the consequences of that first sin of Adam and Eve were truly beyond their comprehension or the comprehension of any subsequent person. And that’s what I want to contemplate for the rest of this episode and probably the next episode of Anchored by Truth as well. And in our discussion we are really only going to be skimming the surface of the consequences of that first sin – because they were really serious. Let’s start by noting that as a result of that first sin death entered the created order. VK: The book of Romans, chapter 5, verse 17 tells us that “For the sin of this one man, Adam, caused death to rule over many.” That’s the New Living Translation. Just as we live in a world where sin is so commonplace that we often don’t see it around us, we live in a world where death is so commonplace that we rarely think about the fact that death is an intruder in our creation. RD: Right. There was no death in the created order that God pronounced “very good.” Death entered creation as a consequence of that first sin. And not just death for men and women, but death for the animals as well. VK: In Genesis, chapter 3, verse 21 we hear, “And the LORD God made clothing from animal skins for Adam and his wife.” The first death recorded in scripture was the death of an innocent animal. This was a foretaste of the sacrificial system to come. RD: So, one immediate consequence of that first sin was death and death has present within the created order ever since. Now death is not a permanent part of creation but it is a present part of the creation. VK: The Apostle Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians, chapter 15, verse 26 that “The last enemy to be destroyed is death.” One day death will just be a distant memory for the redeemed. But it will be an ever present reality for the unredeemed. RD: The kind of death with which we are so familiar was one consequence of that first sin. No sin. No death. Death came quickly for the animals that God used to make the first clothing for Adam and Eve. And while physical death did not occur for some time for Adam and Eve, at that moment they died spiritually and their eventual physical death became a certainty. Adam lived for a total of 930 years which is a really long time to us, but his death had been assured from the moment he and Eve committed the first sin. VK: So, what did Adam and Eve’s spiritual death look like? RD: It’s probably impossible for us to know how they perceived the change within themselves but there are a few things we can say for certain because we are all born “spiritually dead.” VK: That’s Ephesians, chapter 2, verses 1 and 2. Paul writes to the Ephesians “As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.” RD: Right. Some people question whether Paul is trying to be dramatic when he tells the Ephesians that they were “dead in [their] transgressions and sins” but as one theologian used to say “dead does not mean a little alive.” Well, clearly the recipients of Paul’s letter weren’t physically dead – otherwise they wouldn’t have been reading any letters. But they were spiritually dead before the Holy Spirit began His regenerating work. So, let’s think about this for a second. Death is a form of alienation or separation. In fact, it’s the most dramatic form of separation. Now, as we have said before on Anchored by Truth we can distinguish between two things without separating them. VK: We can distinguish between the soul and spirit and the body and we haven’t done any harm. But if we separate the soul and spirit from the body we have killed them. Now, that’s pretty serious. RD: Yes. So, when Adam and Eve committed that first sin a separation, an alienation, occurred. They didn’t die physically so their souls and spirits weren’t separated from their bodies but they did break their previously unbroken communion with God. VK: We know that because when God first called out to them after they sinned they tried to hide themselves. RD: Exactly. From the context of the story we know that God had previously walked through the garden with some kind of a physical manifestation and that Adam and Eve were accustomed to His presence. But now they hid themselves. VK: And people have been trying to hide their sin ever since. RD: But of course it is futile to try to hide from an omnipresent being. Adam and Eve’s consciousness of their guilt had produced a change in them. They had lost the ability to have a continuous, intimate connection with Almighty God. So, one thing we can say for sure about the spiritual death they experienced was that it produced a change in their emotional state – in their feelings – in how they felt about God and in how they felt about themselves. VK: Genesis, chapter 3, verses 7 through 10 say this. “At once [Adam and Eve] saw what they had done, and they realized they were naked. Then they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves. Late in the afternoon, when the breeze began to blow, the man and woman heard the LORD God walking in the garden. So they hid behind some trees. The LORD God called out to the man and asked, “Where are you?” The man answered, “I was naked, and when I heard you walking through the garden, I was frightened and hid!” RD: Yes. After their sin Adam and Eve began to experience shame and fear. Before the sin they had lived in perfect contentment, harmony, and peace. But they lost all that. They felt guilt, dismay, remorse, and regret for the first time. So, their spiritual death produced an emotional change within them. And, as we well know, in the human body changed emotions result in physiological changes. VK: When we get scared our hearts pump faster. Our bodies produce various chemicals like cortisol as part of what is labeled “the fight or flight” response. We can start to tremble or shake when we get strong emotions and it’s not uncommon for people to get dizzy, confused, or even faint in times of extreme stress. The point is while Adam and Eve’s souls and spirits had not yet separated from their bodies (they were still physically alive) they immediately began to experience some of the unpleasant physical sensations that would remain them for the rest of their physical lives – and that they might very well experience as they were approaching physical death. RD: Yes. We need to guard against the temptation to believe that even though Adam and Eve did not die physically immediately that somehow they didn’t know a massive change had taken place. They, more than any other people in humanity’s history, would have known the difference between perfect peace and joy and the shame, terror, guilt, and pain that sin produces. Adam and Eve clearly noticed the change. The text tells us so. But in addition to the emotional change that came because of their spiritual death, they also experienced what is often termed “the noetic effect of sin.” VK: According to an article on the website for the Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry, carm.org, “The noetic effect of sin is the effect upon the mind. The Greek word for “mind” is “nous.” Therefore, ‘noetic’ deals with the mind, or the rational aspect of the person. This effect means that our reasoning abilities are no longer pure and proper all the time. But, it does not mean we will always reason improperly. We can think rationally, use mathematics, make proper judgments, etc. But, as is obvious, there are many false religions in the world that are believed and defended intellectually. So, the noetic effect of sin upon the mind … manifests itself in the belief of false gods, false Christ, false gospels, etc. When sin entered the world … our minds were corrupted. … the result [is] spiritual blindness and, ultimately, irrationality.” RD: So, that first sin didn’t just affect Adam and Eve’s emotions, it also affected their minds – and those effects were passed down to all of their descendants – which, of course, include us. Many theologians speculate that Adam and Eve had a form of perfect knowledge before the fall. They were not omniscient. They were not all knowing. Only God is omniscient. But their knowledge of everything in their world was clear and untainted. They knew every tree, every animal, and how to properly care for them. And their thought processes weren’t affected by fatigue, irritation, frustration, or so many other things that affect us. They could reason clearly and arrive at the correct conclusion all the time. They would have scored 100 on every test they were given. But they lost all that with the fall. VK: I see what you’re saying. Even today as we try to contemplate what the effects of that first sin were we can only have an imperfect understanding because we still suffer from that loss of perfect reasoning. We do the best that we can, but there is no way for our minds to be free of the effects of the fall. RD: Exactly. We all still suffer the noetic effect of sin just as we all still experience the negative emotions that we see exhibited in Adam and Eve after they sinned. That is one of the ways we can be so sure that the Bible is conveying literal history when it describes the fall. The Bible provides a clear, coherent explanation for why we are the way we are – why we experience guilt, anger, confusion, and fear. If we were all just random aggregations of molecules those emotions would have no more meaning to us that a flower experiences when a rock falls on it. VK: So, what you are saying is that even though Adam and Eve didn’t die physically the spiritual death they experienced had real and immediate consequences for their lives. They experienced real loss and a real change. RD: Right. And the entrance of death into creation, and Adam and Eve’s immediate spiritual death was only the beginning of the consequences of that first sin. And we will continue this discussion more in our next episode of Anchored by Truth. But there is at least one other topic I want to introduce before we close for today. VK: Which is? RD: Some people will ask “why is this discussion of the seriousness of sin so important?” VK: I’m sure some people would wonder that. RD: And a partial answer is that if we don’t understand the seriousness of sin we cannot properly appreciate grace. Just as we are immersed in sin and so hardly notice it, the church today is so familiar with grace and mercy that we can easily take it for granted. VK: In Shakespeare’s famous words “familiarity breeds contempt.” RD: Right. Those in the church are so used to the availability of grace we can forget why it is amazing. When we forget what Adam and Eve lost, what they gave away, we have a diminished appreciation for what Jesus did when he came to repair the consequences of sin for us. No one alive today has yet reaped the full benefits of Jesus’ transaction on our behalf. The damage to our emotions and the noetic effects of sin impact our ability to full comprehend all that Jesus did. But we should at least try. We don’t want to be like the ungrateful guests at the feast who eat heartily but have no regard for the effort that went into preparing the feast. And there are other reasons we should carefully contemplate the seriousness of sin. Sin is the biggest impediment to spiritual maturity and therefore spiritual power. We hear a lot by some ministers about how to exercise spiritual power. But one sure way to destroy any spiritual power we might hope to possess is to not understand the seriousness of sin, the enormity of the destruction that Adam and Eve produced when they ate the forbidden fruit, and therefore the magnitude of the grace that God extended when He sent Jesus to remedy the effects of the fall. VK: So, the big idea that we wanted to introduce today is that to properly understand the seriousness of sin we must look at where sin started and look at it from God’s perspective – as best we can – as well as our own. The first sin in the garden had a multitude of consequences. None of them good. The first consequence was the admission of death into a creation that had been very good. That was only the first effect and we’ll get into more in our next episode of Anchored by Truth. This sounds like a great time to pray. Today let’s listen to a prayer for children who will shortly be beginning a new school year. And let’s remember that today many schools may be passing along the sinful messages of the broader culture and parents may need to prayerfully consider whether a change is necessary. As one guest on Anchored by Truth has said, “the mission is not to get our kids into college, it’s to get them into heaven.” ---- PRAYER FOR CHILDREN STARTING SCHOOL (RANNI) VK: We’d like to remind our audience that a lot of our radio episodes are linked together in series of topics so if they missed any episodes or if they just want to hear one again, all of these episodes are available on your favorite podcast app. To find them just search on “Anchored by Truth by Crystal Sea Books.” If you’d like to hear more, try out crystalseabooks.com where “We’re not perfect but our Boss is!” (Opening Bible Quote from the Contemporary English Version) Genesis, Chapter 3, verse 17, Contemporary English Version What is the noetic effect of sin? What is the effect of sin on the mind? (carm.org) The Noetic Effects of Sin | Reformed Bible Studies & Devotionals at Ligonier.org | Reformed Bible Studies & Devotionals at Ligonier.org

As believers we have a common enemy. Our enemy is powerful, determined, and ruthless. His ultimate goal is to leave all mankind in ruin, separated from God. Listen as Pastor Jake dives into the story of 'The First Sin' in hopes we can better understand exactly what our enemy, Satan, looks for in order to tempt man. Because if we can better understand Satan and what he is looking for, then maybe we can be prepared.

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Pastor John teaches how the first sin displayed a heart that did not trust nor treasure God.

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A new MP3 sermon from Answers in Genesis Ministries is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Pride—the First Sin Subtitle: Answers with Ken Ham Speaker: Ken Ham Broadcaster: Answers in Genesis Ministries Event: Radio Broadcast Date: 6/6/2023 Length: 1 min.

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Together, with Fr. Mike, we explore the nature of man's first sin or our “freedom put to the test.” Fr. Mike unpacks the importance of us understanding that freedom is not the power to “do what we want,” but rather, the power to “do what I ought.” Though the story of the first sin is that of our first parents, Fr. Mike emphasizes that we still repeat the grave error of the first sin in our own lives by preferring our own perceived “goods” over the “goods” of our Creator and Father in heaven. Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 396-401. For the complete reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com/ciy Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised. This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB.

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