“A Good World .… What Happened?”
April 24, 2025

Creation, Corruption and Covenant

“A Good World .… What Happened?”

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. —Genesis 1:1 (NLT)
Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good! —Genesis 1:31 (NLT)

1. A Very Good World.
- God created man to be in

with Him.
- God created man with a free moral .
- God had intended that would know about sin through His loving , but not through actually it.

2. A Very Good World Gone Bad.
- Sin produced a union with

.
- Sin tainted their clear consciences with .
Sin stripped God’s from them.
- Sin their relationship with God.

3. God’s Response to Man’s Sin.
- Adam did not seek God after he sinned,

sought him.
- God’s words were bathed in to Adam.
- Adam’s sin made him want to himself from God.
- Adam only to what occurred after his sin.
- God sought an honest and direct .
- Genesis 3:15 This verse gives the first messianic promise of the Bible.