09/21/2008 - The Fall, It's Consequences and the Cross

The Fall, Its Consequences and the Cross as Punishment of Sin

The Fall
Genesis 3:1-13

The Consequences of the Fall
Romans 5:12-19

Psalm 51:5
“Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.”

Genesis 2:17
“… but the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

1 Corinthians 15:21
“For as by a man (Adam) came death, by a man (Jesus) has come also the resurrection of the dead.” Parenthesis Mine

Ephesians 2:1-3
“And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience – among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.”

Romans 6:16, 20
“Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?”

1 Corinthians 2:14
“The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.”

Romans 8:7-8
“For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.”

Deuteronomy 29:4
“But to this day the Lord had not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.”

As a result of the fall:
1. We are conceived with Adam’s sin and thus guilty before God prior to committing acts
of sin. (This is the doctrine of “original sin” or “inherited sin”)
2. God’s image is distorted (Genesis 9:6, there is still consequence for murder because
man is in God’s image post fall)
3. We are dead toward God.
4. We are slaves of unrighteousness
5. We are hostile toward God.
6. We are incapable of understanding the truths of God.
7. We are not able to see or hear the truth of God.
8. We are incapable of pleasing God.
9. We are followers of the evil one and enslaved to him.
10. Moral purity is lost (we are unclean in our affections)
11. Our character does not display the holiness of God (we are corrupt in our character
and are prone to lie, cheat, steal etc.)
12. Our intellect is corrupted by falsehood and misunderstanding (error is easy)
13. Our speech often does not glorify God (we have the tendency to speak with an atheist
worldview, treat each other harshly and degrade others)
14. Our relationships are often governed by selfishness rather than love

The Cross as Punishment of Sin
Romans 3:21-26