Sin is a word that most people don’t want to hear today. Today’s Christian Gospel has changed to the point that Christians do not understand the reality and the consequences of sin anymore. Preachers have told their congregations, “God hates sin, but loves the sinner” and that misinterpretation of God’s Word has corrupted the mind […]
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Before the fall, man had fellowship with God. Then, man sinned and became stranged from that fellowship. He could no longer appear before God, because God rejected him and cut him off. Man was left in a terrible predicament. He became spiritually blind and dead. Man has no eyes to see God, or ears to
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To understand the reality of sin, we must first understand the character of God. Among all His qualities, God has revealed to His people that He is holy and righteous. He hates sin and sinners, and all kind of wickedness and abominations. The knowledge of good and evil came to man from the perspective of Satan.
1Co 6:18 “Flee fornication. Every sin that a man commits is outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.” The word “fornication” comes from the Greek “porneia”, from where “porno” also is derived, and it means harlotry, whoredom, sexual immorality. There are 32 verses in the Bible that talk about fornication. At
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There are a number of passages in the Bible that talk about covenants. The very first one we read about is the covenant God made with Noah after the flood (Gen. 9) This was the first time that God mentioned a covenant to a man. It was about not destroying humankind again with a flood as
“I will build my church; and the gates of hell (Hades) shall not prevail against it.” When Jesus said that to Peter in Matthew 16:18, He was referring to the work He came to accomplish on the cross by His Father’s will. Before the fall, Adam had fellowship with God, and God gave Adam dominion over His
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God created Adam “a living soul”. Christ became a “quickening spirit”. The first Adam was from the Earth. The second Adam, Christ, was from Heaven. Thus we read in the Scriptures. Adam was created to fall. Christ was born to redeem the elect of God. Adam believed the voice of Satan; Christ came to destroy the
God created man. In the beginning, after He finished the heavens and the earth, God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness”… (Gen. 1:26) He created Adam perfect. We read in Ecclesiastes 7:29, “Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.”
After the fall, God cursed Satan, man, woman and the Earth. We can read this account in Genesis 3. The curse was so terrible that the whole perspective of man changed. Adam’s fall brought death to all mankind. Before the fall, Adam was perfect. He had free will, was able to live forever because he
God created man in the Garden of Eden. He created man upright (Ecc. 7:29), but he fell through the deception of Satan. Man was in the Garden enjoying God’s company. He was free to walk around, to enjoy the fruits of the Earth, and God had given him the task of taking care of the
