Title: How Sin Entered The World
Text: Genesis 3:1-19
Date: February 9, 2025
Introduction: Genesis 3 explains what happened to God’s good creation. The chapter reveals how mankind was created for fellowship with God but lost that fellowship. In addition, the chapter records how God’s original creation was distorted.
Let’s remember the setting! The first two chapters of Genesis show Adam and Eve in circumstances which seemed to be ideal. They were at peace with their environment. Adam was cultivating and keeping the garden according to Genesis 2:15. Genesis 2:20 says that Adam was naming the animals and relating to them. Man was at peace with his environment.
They were at peace with God. Genesis 3:8 speaks of God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. The implication is that God did this regularly. He manifested himself to Adam and Eve personally, and they were enjoying a happy relationship with Him. They were at peace with God.
They were at peace with each other. God saw that it was not good for Adam to be alone, so He created Eve as his companion. When Adam saw her, he exclaimed, “This is it!” (Genesis 2:23, TLB) implying that she perfectly met his needs. Genesis 2:25 records that Adam and Eve were naked and were not ashamed, displaying a complete openness to each other.
Circumstantially, things could not have been better. However, something dreadful happened to Adam and Eve, something which shattered their peace with the environment, disturbed their peace with God, and removed their peace with themselves. Genesis 3 relates what happened.
Theologians refer to this event as the “fall.” With the exception of creation, this is the most far-reaching event in world history: How sin entered the world. “The record in Genesis 3 is not a myth. If the fall of man didn’t actually occur, then the Christian faith is built on fables, not fact, and Jesus Christ suffered needlessly on the cross. From Genesis 3 to Revelation 21, the Bible records the conflict between God and Satan, sin and righteousness, and pleads with sinners to repent to trust God.” (The Wiersbe Bible Commentary, Warren W. Wiersbe, p.26)
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Larry Gipson
First Baptist Church Oneonta