Title: Humanity and Crime
Contents
(Gen. 03:01~19) (2012,01,29, afternoon)
humanity and crime
God created the world very beautifully.
He created it so that there is no shortage of human beings.
Then, when he entrusted the beautiful world to man - ①Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth ②Subdue the whole earth ③Have dominion over all living things - He gave great blessings and great authority.
Mankind was created to live a life in which there is nothing lacking if we live only by serving God well.
Such mankind lost their happiness and became unhappy because they sinned against God.
What caused man to sin?
Although we are already sinners born with sin - why did our ancestor Adam sin? Knowing - so that we can live with fewer such sins - we must find out the cause of sin and be careful, and learn the consequences of sin and avoid it.
1. The starting point of sin.
How did Adam and Eve, who lived as innocent people in a sinless world, fall into the swamp of sin?
1) vain curiosity lured them into crime.
Eve, who was living in peace, was approached by Satan using a snake.
And she stimulated her curiosity with new words she had never heard of.
(3:1) - “But the serpent is the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God has made.” The serpent asked the woman, “Did God really tell you not to eat from any tree in the garden?”
*God never told us not to eat all the fruit. He told us not to eat only the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. - However, the devil made up a word that God had not even said, and drew Eve's curiosity with it.
*If it is different from God's Word - it is enough to ignore it. You don't even need to respond. But Eve responds.
Why? - Proof that the snake's horse has developed curiosity.
*Even now, heretics do not attack with words that are completely different from the Bible - similar to the Bible but slightly different to stimulate people's curiosity
*Like Eve - when you become curious about things that are not the truth - you soon fall into the abyss of sin.
Please do not even be curious about things that are not the truth.
2) Disbelief in God.
When he began to show curiosity about the serpent's lies, the serpent took it up a notch and tested Eve.
(3:5) - “God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
He tempted them to become like God if they ate the forbidden fruit.
Because he was afraid that people would become like God - the narrow-minded God deceived them - he said that he did not allow them to eat the fruit, so he made a difference between God and man.
*Should you believe the Word of God? *Should you believe the devil's words?
*Should you believe in God now? - Should we believe in the devil who makes us not believe in God?
*Should I believe according to the Bible? - Should I believe in other claims than the Bible?
*If you do not believe in God 100% and do not believe in God's Word 100%, your sin is already very deep.
3) Greed.
When you show curiosity about the devil's temptations and lose your perfect faith in God - from that point on, human greed will be activated.
(3:6) - "When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasing to the eye, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and gave it to her husband with her, and he also ate.
Until now, I had no interest in the tree. I didn't care because God told me not to eat.
However, after hearing the devil's words, I started to be interested in the tree.
*Looking at the tree - the fruits look appetizing - I think it would be good to eat for the body.
*It looked cute - I got greedy for my eyes.
*Eating it seemed to make you wise - vain greed and greed have arisen.
(1 John 2:16) says the same thing - "For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not from the Father, but from the world."
*The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life - these are the three greed that lead people to sin.
*(James 1:15) - “When lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.”
2. Humanity incapable of sin.
If you have sinned inevitably, you have to solve your sins quickly. - Do people have the ability to solve their sins? - Unfortunately, people have no ability to solve their sins on their own.
1) Even if it is covered, it cannot be solved.
(3:7) - “Then their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together and made them a skirt.”
After the crime, I tried to cover it with a tree leaf, but the sin was not covered. The shame caused by sin does not go away by covering it up.
2) Even if you hide, you cannot solve it.
(3:8) - “And when the wind blew that day, they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.”
After the crime, I couldn't see God and hid from seeing God because of fear. - Fear did not go away by avoiding and hiding.
3) It cannot be solved with excuses.
(3:12) - "Adam said, "The woman whom God gave to be with me. She gave me the fruit of the tree, and I ate it." It is not that sin is removed.
When a person commits a sin - he cannot hide it, he cannot avoid it, he cannot make an excuse - he cannot solve his sin on his own, no matter what he does.
3. Punishment for sin.
When a person commits a sin, the penalty for that sin has come as a severe punishment.
1) Pain has come.
(3:16) - "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."
*The pain of pregnancy and childbirth - the pain that came as a result of sin - had mankind not sinned - Pregnancy would be enjoyable and childbirth would have been possible with a smile.
(3:17)-“...Cursed is the earth for you, and you will eat of its fruit in toil all the days of your life.”
*The land was fertile before - but after the crime, the land lost its energy and the harvest was reduced - so they had to work hard to make a living.
2) Death has come.
(3:19)-“...Dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”- The greatest punishment is death. Because of sin, the body dies, and because of sin, the soul goes to hell.
*Sin begins with petty curiosity, petty doubt, petty greed - but the result of sin is suffering and death. - Not only that, but man can't even solve this terrible sin on his own - Knowing that he won't be swept away by curiosity, distrust and greed so that he doesn't commit many more sins - Please strengthen your faith.