The Fall of Man: Understanding Sin and Redemption

1) "The fall of man is found in the free act of Adam and Eve by which they turned away from God. In their fall, Adam and Eve corrupted themselves, became objects of God's wrath, and brought themselves under the penalties of law. When they turned away from God, they corrupted themselves and their descendants. We'll study that in depth next week when we talk about original sin. But they first corrupted themselves, and in two weeks, Caleb's gonna be talking about this corruption that we called the depravity of mankind. The fall affects everything from our mind, from our will, from our affections. It radically is pervasive within the human soul. Every bit of us is corrupted by sin." [02:28] (48 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2) "When we sin, who do we turn away from? Yeah. We're making a choice when we sin. I'm not going to do it God's way. I'm going to follow my own. I'm going to follow the devil's path. I'm going to follow the ways of the world when we sin. So it's a very personal thing. It's a who that we're turning away from. It's not that, oh, we're turning away from the Ten Commandments and abstract of God, or we're turning away from the teachings of the church and abstract from God. We're turning away from God himself when we sin." [08:29] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3) "Eve excluded herself from both Adam and God in listening to the tempter instead of rebuking him and fleeing. Satan was a fallen being. Adam and Eve knew who he was. They knew that he was a murderer from the beginning. They knew that he was a liar. So she excluded herself from Adam, who was her covenantal head, and from God by even entertaining or listening to the tempter. She should have rebuked him, right? And should have flee from the devil. That's what we should do, right? When we are faced with temptation, should not we rebuke the devil and run? Get out of there, right?" [09:27] (60 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4) "Eve entertained doubt by listening to the cunning servant who said, has God indeed said, you shall not eat of every tree of the garden? We see Satan already twisting God's words and he's trying to plant a seed of doubt about God's veracity and about God's nature. In Eve, right? So what do we, what happens when she listens to that? Isn't the seed of doubt being planted there? That's why we don't listen to the devil, right? That's why we resist and get out of there." [19:15] (60 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5) "Eve evidenced unbelief in heeding the serpent in Genesis 3, 4. Eve's doubt and resentment of God led her to believe the serpent and disbelieve God. So her doubt and resentment led her to unbelief, led her to believe the serpent over God. Look what it says in Genesis 3, 4. Then the serpent said to the woman, you shall not surely die. In other words, if you break his command, you're not going to die. Now, is this something that Eve believed? Yes. She chose to believe the testimony of a cunning serpent rather than the testimony of her holy creator, right?" [30:10] (55 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6) "Eve embraced pride in believing the serpent in Genesis 3 -5. Not only do we see unbelief, but we see pride welling up in Eve. Eve thought that she should be God's equal in every respect, and no longer his subject. She should no longer have to obey God and follow his will. Instead, she should follow her own will. She thought that she should be equal with God. Let's look at Genesis 3 -5. Satan says, For God knows that the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." [33:36] (52 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7) "Eve engaged in evil desire for the forbidden fruit as a means of independence and knowledge in Genesis 3 .6. She desired that fruit because it would make her free from God and it would give her the mind of God, so she believed. Eve was persuaded by her appetites, eyes, and pride. We'll look at that when we read the verse here in just a second. It was her desires, her appetites, her eyes, and her pride that persuaded her. However, mankind thus chose not to believe God and willfully began to serve himself. Man's heart and desires became corrupt." [40:20] (46 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8) "Eve entered into outright disobedience along with Adam. Sin revealed their wills as thoroughly corrupted and alienated from God. They had already fallen inwardly. They were already distrusting God. They were already thinking God was their adversary and not for them. He was withholding something good from them. And they were choosing willfully, to believe the devil over God. And they were welled up with pride, ready to take God's place. And so the sin, their outward sin, revealed what was in their heart, right? That they had already become corrupted and alienated from God." [47:25] (47 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


9) "Man alone is responsible for his sin. God can't be sin's author. By creating man to necessarily, or withdrawing a supernatural grace necessary for holiness. Let me stop right there. There are some theologians that have taught that God created man to be sinners. That he made us with a bent of the affections, not towards God, but a bent of affections towards evil. If you're a man, if that's true, and it's not, it's contrary to scripture's testimony, but that's true. Does that not make God the author of sin by creating mankind to be sinners?" [53:36] (53 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)