Speaker: Robert Lee
Church: Antioch Galveston
Date: May 4, 2025

🧠 Main Idea

This message explores how humanity’s original joy and freedom were fractured through the Fall in Genesis 3—and how even in humanity’s failure, God reveals His mercy and pursuit.

📖 Key Scriptures

• Genesis 3:1 – The serpent's deception

• Genesis 3:7 – Eyes opened to flesh, closed to God

• Genesis 3:8 – Hiding from God's presence

• Genesis 3:9 – God calling out: "Where are you?"

• Genesis 3:10 – Fear enters: Adam hides

• Sin changes perspective:
  Adam and Eve's eyes were opened to their flesh but closed to God's presence—a picture of spiritual death.

• Fear follows shame:
  Adam hears God and hides in fear. His new self-awareness leads to self-rejection:

  • God looked at Adam and said: “Very good.”

  • Adam looked at himself and said: “Not good.”

• God is still pursuing:
  After the fall, God doesn't abandon Adam. He seeks him out with the question, “Where are you?”—not in condemnation, but in pursuit.

God’s heart has always been to walk with humanity, not hide from it. Even in our worst failures, He calls out, “Where are you?”—and offers to clothe us, not condemn us.