Title: Grace and Sin
grace and sin
Text: Genesis 3: 1- 24
“I met great foster parents. After graduating from college, I met a good man, got married, and had a daughter.”
However, Pastor Riesel was not at all happy with the news of her daughter. Because I remembered the man who raped me 26 years ago. The daughter cried and said.
If there are words that churchgoers use the most, it is probably the words “grace” and “sin”. If you use this word a lot, there must be a reason. Because it is none other than the language of our salvation.
So, it is said that there are more than 5 students in one female class with the name Eun Hye. I hope that it will be a time to understand the great love and grace of God by unraveling the salvation God has given us today with the words of grace and sin, how terrible the consequences of sin are and how important and valuable the salvation He has given us.
1. What is the result of man's disobedience to God's word in Genesis 3? (Consequence of sin)
Instead of becoming like God (verse 5) like Satan's temptation, it brought the following results.
(1) Shame: “Then their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together for a skirt (verse 7). Compare “Adam and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed” (Gen. 2: 25)
(2) Fear: “I heard the voice of God in the garden, and I was afraid and hid because I was naked” (3:10).
(3) Avoidance of responsibility: “Adam said, “The woman whom God gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree, and I ate it” (Genesis 3:12).
2. How does God respond to man's sin of disobeying God's Word?
(1) Serpent: ‘The Lord God said to the serpent, ‘Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field, that you may go on your belly and eat dust as long as you live’ (Genesis 3:14).
(2) Woman: ‘And he said to the woman, “I will greatly increase the pain of pregnancy, and you will labor and bear children, and you will desire a husband, and he will rule over you” (Genesis 3:16).
(3) Adam: ‘He said to Adam, ‘Because you have listened to your wife and ate from the tree I told you not to eat, cursed is the land because of you, and you will toil all the days of your life to eat its fruit. and thistles, and you shall eat the vegetables of the field; in the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return” (Genesis 3:17). - 19)
(4) Originally, God’s attitude toward the “tree of the knowledge of good and evil” was firm. “You shall not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for in the day you eat of it you will surely die” (Genesis 2:17).
3. How did God, who declared that he “will surely die” (Genesis 2:17), dealt with fallen human beings?
(1) God who comes to mankind ‘The Lord God called Adam and said to him, ‘Where are you?’ (Genesis 3:9) God’s first cry to humans was to confirm the relationship with humans. God does not immediately judge sinful humans, but gives them ample opportunity to defend themselves and confess their sins.
(2) Genesis 3:15- I will make you hostile to the woman, and your descendants to her seed and enemies; and the offspring of a woman shall bruise you in the head, and you shall bruise her in the heel.
① When Eve followed the temptation of the serpent (the devil), humans form an alliance with the devil
② God broke the friendship between humans and the devil
③ Rather, God changed the relationship between humans and the devil into a relationship of enemies.
(3) Adam was his wife