Sermons on Genesis (II) - The Fall of Man and The Perfect Salvation of God

Today’s Scripture passage tells us that while God created the whole universe, it is through this planet earth in particular, where mankind lives, that God has given us His blessings. Scientists are endlessly searching this universe for life outside the planet earth, wondering if mankind could live in another planet. However, what is more important for us is to know and believe is that it is God who, indeed, made this planet.

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In today’s Scripture passage, our Lord said, “Before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground; but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.”

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Let us first turn to Ephesians 5:31-32 here: “‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.” That a man should leave his parents and become one flesh joined with his wife is the Word that reveals the mystery about the relationship between Christ and His Church.
Marriage is the union of a man and a woman into one body. The Bible says that for someone to leave his parents and become one with Jesus Christ, he must believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. We believe that we are made God’s children and the people of His Kingdom by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. God’s Church is “Ekklesia” in Greek, meaning the gathering of those whom God called from the world.

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Galileo Galilei is famous for saying, “Yet the earth still moves.” He was born in 1564, at a time when the authority of the Catholic Church extended all over Europe. Before Galilei, there actually was someone else, a man named Copernicus, who had argued that the earth revolved around the sun. At that time, however, Copernicus’ theory was not accepted at all. Later on, as Galilei observed the heavenly bodies with his telescope, he came to discover the validity of Copernicus’ heliocentric theory.

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Through chapter three of the Book of Genesis, God is telling us that Satan does exist, and that as Satan tempted and deceived man, the Devil prevented him from believing in God and made him fall into sin, thus introducing sin into the human heart.
When we read chapter one and two of Genesis, we see how God made each animal according to its kind, but it does not say that God made Satan. Nor does it say that God made angels.
However, when we turn to chapter three, it does speak of the serpent, and we can see how the serpent led Adam and Eve to disobey the Word of God and eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. At this point we are now acquainted with the Devil, whose work is to stand against God. It is written, “He said to the woman, ‘Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?’”

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When it comes to a life of faith, anyone who emphasizes his own works has been fooled by Satan’s schemes. Anyone who now argues that one must reach sanctification by himself through his own prayers of repentance is someone who has already been fooled by the Devil’s plan. The Devil’s strategy is to encourage people to do good deeds and devote all their efforts into edifying their own works rather than believing in God’s Word. Yet despite this, many Christians still claim that one can attain eternal life and receive his salvation only if he believes in Jesus, lives virtuously, and serves God faithfully as well. But those who emphasize their own human works like this will not be saved from their sins, but, on the contrary, they will end up falling even deeper into sin.

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Through today’s Scripture passage, God is telling us that for us to fight and overcome Satan, we must use the weapon of our faith in God’s Word.
The serpent, more cunning than any beast, asked the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?’” The woman then answered the serpent by saying, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’”

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First of all, we need to know who Satan is and what he does to mankind. Satan is an evil spirit that wants to bring suffering upon and destroy mankind. He tries everything possible to make man drift away from the Word of God. That’s why Satan, appearing as a serpent to Eve, said to her, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”
The serpent asked Eve not just a simple question, but he put in motion an evil scheme to destroy Adam and Eve. His purpose in approaching Eve was to make her doubt the Word of God and to lead her to ultimately eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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The Bible says that Satan is cunning and wily. When people fall into Satan’s cunning deception, they come to commit acts of hypocrisy. The very fact that Adam made garments of fig leaves and put them on is one such instance. The more one acts as a hypocrite, the farther he drifts away from God, for he would be relying on his own strength and trying to establish his own righteousness, rather than seeking God’s grace in his life and placing his faith in God’s righteousness.
Chapter three of Genesis describes how Adam and Eve fell deceived by Satan, and how they were cursed by God as a result. The serpent said to Eve, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?” The cunning serpent used the word “indeed” here, and because of this word, Eve was ensnared by Satan’s devious trap. Satan deliberately phrased his question like this to distort God’s Word and raise doubts in Eve’s mind, thus ensuring that she would respond and luring her into his trap.

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