The Fall

THE FALL

When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned.    Romans 5:12 (NLT)  

“Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’” 

Genesis 3:1b (NIV)

“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” Genesis 3:4 - 5 (NIV)

When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 

Genesis 3:6 (NIV) 

When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned.   Romans 5:12 (NLT) 

TRUTHS ABOUT SIN:

SIN ENTERED THE WORLD 

SIN BROUGHT DEATH 

SIN SPREAD TO EVERYONE 

…so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned.    Romans 5:12b (NLT)  

Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. Genesis 3:7 (NIV)  

THE AFTERMATH OF SIN:

PEACE WITH GOD WAS BROKEN 

Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.   Genesis 3:8 (NIV)

PEACE WITH EACH OTHER WAS BROKEN 

“Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” 

Genesis 3:16b (NIV)  

PEACE WITHIN OURSELVES WAS BROKEN 

“…through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.” Genesis 3:17b (NIV)  

PEACE WITH OUR WORLD WAS BROKEN 

“Cursed is the ground because of you.”   Genesis 3:17a (NIV)

The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.  Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.” Genesis 4:10 - 11 (NIV) 

…to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.   Hebrews 12:24 (NIV)  

“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”   John 10:10 (NIV)  

The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. Genesis 3:21 (NIV)

For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!   Romans 5:17 (NIV)