WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.120 So, you can please turn in your Bible to Genesis chapter 3. 00:00:09.120 --> 00:00:12.679 All the way back at the beginning, Genesis chapter 3. 00:00:15.140 --> 00:00:19.140 We're beginning this semester a series on covenant theology. 00:00:20.019 --> 00:00:23.820 So, it's an approach to understanding and interpreting the Bible 00:00:23.820 --> 00:00:30.039 that focuses on how God has made a relationship or a covenant with people. 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:32.880 The divine covenants throughout the scriptures. 00:00:34.039 --> 00:00:37.579 The first covenant that we're looking at, it's how we received it in God's word. 00:00:37.579 --> 00:00:40.840 It's how the story is told in Genesis 1, 2, and 3. 00:00:41.620 --> 00:00:47.519 And over time, the church has come to call it the covenant of works with our first king, Adam. 00:00:48.179 --> 00:00:50.640 So, last week was part one on the covenant of works. 00:00:50.700 --> 00:00:51.920 This week is part two. 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:56.460 Our sermon text today begins with Genesis chapter 3, verse 6. 00:00:57.740 --> 00:01:00.400 I'll try to call out where we're reading next, 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:03.260 and we'll catch the key verses through these chapters. 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:12.219 As I read this, remember that this is God's inspired, inerrant, infallible, clear, and sufficient word. 00:01:12.320 --> 00:01:14.799 It's God's very own word for you and me, His people. 00:01:15.579 --> 00:01:19.700 So, after we've heard God's word, let's respond with the word of the Lord. 00:01:19.820 --> 00:01:20.599 Thanks be to God. 00:01:20.599 --> 00:01:23.419 All right, Genesis chapter 3, verse 6. 00:01:23.420 --> 00:01:45.040 Verse 7. 00:01:45.040 --> 00:02:15.040 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:29.319 Now look at verse 17. 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:33.000 To Adam, God said, 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:38.580 Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 00:02:38.939 --> 00:02:40.000 you shall not eat of it. 00:02:40.419 --> 00:02:42.759 Cursed is the ground because of you. 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:46.520 In pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life. 00:02:47.219 --> 00:02:50.420 Thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to you, 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:52.439 and you shall eat the plants of the field. 00:02:52.900 --> 00:02:57.420 By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground. 00:02:57.419 --> 00:03:02.859 For out of it you were taken, for you are dust, and to dust you shall return. 00:03:04.280 --> 00:03:06.159 Look at verse 23 next. 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:14.959 Therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:24.300 He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that returned, 00:03:24.860 --> 00:03:30.240 I'm sorry, a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life. 00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:34.260 Genesis chapter 4 verse 1. 00:03:35.100 --> 00:03:40.640 Now Adam knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, 00:03:40.900 --> 00:03:43.580 I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord. 00:03:44.219 --> 00:03:46.360 And again she bore his brother Abel. 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:51.960 Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground. 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:57.460 In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, 00:03:57.460 --> 00:04:02.760 and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. 00:04:03.480 --> 00:04:09.300 And the Lord had regard for Abel in his offering, but for Cain in his offering he had no regard. 00:04:10.200 --> 00:04:13.960 So Cain was very angry, and his face fell. 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:17.019 The Lord said to Cain, Why are you angry? 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:19.100 Why is your face fallen? 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:22.939 If you do well, will not you be accepted? 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:26.860 If you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. 00:04:27.520 --> 00:04:33.199 Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it. 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:38.800 Cain spoke to Abel his brother, and when they were in the field, 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:42.040 Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him. 00:04:42.860 --> 00:04:45.660 Then the Lord said to Cain, Where is your brother? 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:48.020 He said, I do not know. 00:04:48.259 --> 00:04:49.400 Am I my brother's keeper? 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:52.319 And the Lord said, What have you done? 00:04:52.319 --> 00:04:56.159 The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground, 00:04:56.279 --> 00:04:59.860 and you are now cursed from the ground, 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:04.500 which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:08.680 When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. 00:05:09.060 --> 00:05:12.379 You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth. 00:05:12.379 --> 00:05:17.000 Cain said to the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. 00:05:17.659 --> 00:05:20.899 Behold, you have driven me today away from the ground, 00:05:21.139 --> 00:05:23.060 and from your face I shall be hidden. 00:05:23.779 --> 00:05:27.019 I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, 00:05:27.199 --> 00:05:29.219 and whoever finds me will kill me. 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:31.939 Then the Lord said to him, Not so. 00:05:32.719 --> 00:05:36.899 If anyone kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. 00:05:36.899 --> 00:05:42.299 And the Lord put a mark on Cain, lest any who found him should attack him. 00:05:42.979 --> 00:05:45.979 Then Cain went away from the presence of the Lord 00:05:45.979 --> 00:05:49.819 and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. 00:05:50.519 --> 00:05:51.859 This is the word of the Lord. 00:05:53.379 --> 00:05:54.339 Thanks be to God. 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:55.000 You may be seated. 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:01.699 The Bible says that the grass withers and the flower fades, 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:04.000 but the word of the Lord endures forever. 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:06.459 Let's pray. 00:06:06.899 --> 00:06:14.039 O Lord, your word is effectual. 00:06:15.779 --> 00:06:19.620 When your word goes forth, what you declare happens. 00:06:20.279 --> 00:06:22.159 You spoke this world into existence, 00:06:22.899 --> 00:06:25.459 and your word goes forth and it regenerates. 00:06:26.019 --> 00:06:30.359 It does not return to you void, but it does prosper in your purpose. 00:06:31.179 --> 00:06:34.060 May your word go forth today, Lord, for your glory. 00:06:34.060 --> 00:06:39.280 May all who have an ear to hear from their creator hear your word clearly. 00:06:39.899 --> 00:06:41.019 Please guard my lips, 00:06:41.280 --> 00:06:46.980 and may your Holy Spirit press into the souls of each one today your truth. 00:06:46.980 --> 00:06:50.160 We ask this in Jesus' name and for your glory alone. 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:50.920 Amen. 00:06:50.920 --> 00:06:51.060 Amen. 00:06:55.060 --> 00:06:58.379 Well, some call winter restlessness cabin fever, 00:06:58.740 --> 00:06:59.660 but it doesn't get better. 00:06:59.740 --> 00:07:02.340 We get to the spring and then we complain about spring fever. 00:07:02.339 --> 00:07:07.719 Mark Twain pointed something out about the human soul that's insightful. 00:07:08.279 --> 00:07:13.000 He says, when you've got it, you want, oh, you don't know quite what you want. 00:07:13.799 --> 00:07:15.239 You do know you want something, 00:07:15.599 --> 00:07:20.099 and it just fairly makes your heart ache that you want it so badly. 00:07:20.100 --> 00:07:21.700 That's what it is. 00:07:22.200 --> 00:07:23.480 It's a restless heart. 00:07:25.560 --> 00:07:28.700 We saw last time how the Lord God created this world. 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:32.480 He said it was very good, and then the Lord rested. 00:07:33.900 --> 00:07:35.660 So the Lord rests. 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:38.400 He sits enthroned over his creation, 00:07:38.780 --> 00:07:41.900 but yet we, his creatures, even though we were made good, 00:07:41.980 --> 00:07:43.080 we are so restless. 00:07:44.340 --> 00:07:45.320 Why is that? 00:07:45.319 --> 00:07:50.060 I feel like today the purpose is really to answer that question. 00:07:51.300 --> 00:07:54.139 We are in a broken curse. 00:07:54.439 --> 00:07:57.500 You know, the covenant with Adam was a tripwire, 00:07:57.779 --> 00:08:00.159 and all of the effects are still at play 00:08:00.159 --> 00:08:03.579 on those born into this fallen, broken world. 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:08.560 We were created to share in God's rest, 00:08:09.060 --> 00:08:11.980 but we know that we don't have that fully yet, 00:08:12.019 --> 00:08:13.439 and we desire that, don't we? 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:16.439 Some days we desire that more than anything else. 00:08:17.719 --> 00:08:20.360 So one way to describe this restless state 00:08:20.360 --> 00:08:21.699 that all the world is in 00:08:21.699 --> 00:08:24.540 is that we are east of Eden. 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:28.639 We saw last week how the garden was the temple, 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:29.819 presence of the Lord. 00:08:30.860 --> 00:08:34.240 Did you pick up on that phrase that was repeated twice 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:36.000 in our sermon text today? 00:08:36.179 --> 00:08:38.279 Look at chapter 3, verse 24. 00:08:38.279 --> 00:08:43.220 Therefore, God drove out the man 00:08:43.220 --> 00:08:46.419 east of the garden of Eden. 00:08:47.419 --> 00:08:50.079 And then look again at the very end of our sermon text, 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:51.720 chapter 4, verse 16. 00:08:52.620 --> 00:08:53.600 The next generation, 00:08:54.659 --> 00:08:56.779 Cain went away from the presence of the Lord, 00:08:56.839 --> 00:08:58.179 and he settled in the land. 00:08:59.000 --> 00:08:59.819 What direction? 00:09:00.819 --> 00:09:01.959 East of Eden. 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:04.780 So in Hebrew narrative, 00:09:04.780 --> 00:09:06.420 when we get a phrase like that repeated, 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:07.840 it bookends a passage. 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:09.540 That's why our sermon text is a bit longer, 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:10.680 because it all goes together. 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:12.800 We're supposed to pick up on that clue. 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:14.320 That means something. 00:09:15.220 --> 00:09:16.720 And as God's word unfolds, 00:09:16.780 --> 00:09:17.680 we know that the temple 00:09:17.680 --> 00:09:19.720 was to face a certain direction, 00:09:19.840 --> 00:09:21.460 the same direction as the tabernacle. 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:25.900 What direction does the door of the temple face? 00:09:26.780 --> 00:09:27.980 It faced east. 00:09:27.980 --> 00:09:32.019 So to the extent that the garden of Eden 00:09:32.019 --> 00:09:36.440 was a prototypical dwelling presence of God, 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:38.399 it's facing east, 00:09:38.500 --> 00:09:41.960 and man is being driven out of that holy presence of God. 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:45.800 So as we walk through that, 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:47.560 I want to try to answer for you 00:09:47.560 --> 00:09:49.759 Covenant of Works Part 2, 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:51.000 what are we born into? 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:54.279 You were born into a world 00:09:54.279 --> 00:09:56.220 that's east of Eden, 00:09:56.220 --> 00:09:58.180 and it affects everything. 00:09:59.160 --> 00:09:59.660 Number one, 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:03.279 God's holy presence filled Eden, 00:10:04.360 --> 00:10:06.620 leaving no room for sin. 00:10:08.820 --> 00:10:11.759 God's holy presence filled Eden, 00:10:12.500 --> 00:10:14.519 leaving no room for sin. 00:10:16.620 --> 00:10:18.220 Eden was a garden temple, 00:10:18.460 --> 00:10:20.660 but when Adam and Eve sinned, 00:10:21.540 --> 00:10:24.300 it changed their relationship 00:10:24.299 --> 00:10:25.359 and their standing 00:10:25.359 --> 00:10:26.759 and even their inner being. 00:10:27.839 --> 00:10:28.519 So first, 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:30.099 sin makes you feel exposed 00:10:30.099 --> 00:10:31.240 before the holy God. 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:33.620 Take a look again at chapter 3, verse 6. 00:10:34.500 --> 00:10:35.079 They ate. 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:36.899 Verse 7 then says, 00:10:37.359 --> 00:10:38.620 their eyes were opened. 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:40.939 They knew that they were naked. 00:10:41.659 --> 00:10:43.759 That's because sin makes you feel exposed 00:10:43.759 --> 00:10:45.120 before the all-knowing, 00:10:45.479 --> 00:10:46.379 omniscient God. 00:10:46.379 --> 00:10:49.419 And then what comes next? 00:10:49.539 --> 00:10:49.620 Well, 00:10:49.720 --> 00:10:50.820 feeling exposed, 00:10:51.740 --> 00:10:55.320 man works to cover himself up. 00:10:56.799 --> 00:10:58.580 They sewed fig leaves together 00:10:58.580 --> 00:11:01.419 and made themselves loincloths. 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:02.320 They get to work. 00:11:02.740 --> 00:11:03.759 We got to make this right. 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:08.860 Sinful man tries to then hide himself from God, 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:11.379 but notice where they're trying to hide. 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:14.840 They're trying to hide within God's own temple. 00:11:14.840 --> 00:11:16.840 It's in Eden. 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:17.720 Look at verse 8. 00:11:18.280 --> 00:11:20.200 They heard the sound of the Lord God, 00:11:20.580 --> 00:11:22.300 and where was the Lord God walking, 00:11:22.620 --> 00:11:23.220 so to speak? 00:11:23.740 --> 00:11:26.040 He was walking in the garden 00:11:26.040 --> 00:11:28.540 in the cool of the day. 00:11:29.420 --> 00:11:31.300 The man and his wife hid themselves 00:11:31.300 --> 00:11:33.259 from the presence of the Lord God, 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:34.500 and where did they try to hide? 00:11:35.100 --> 00:11:37.000 Among the trees of the garden. 00:11:37.879 --> 00:11:39.720 They're still inside Eden. 00:11:41.160 --> 00:11:42.180 Now that word, 00:11:42.759 --> 00:11:43.960 the cool of the day, 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:46.879 the word is ruach, 00:11:47.460 --> 00:11:48.820 and that means wind, 00:11:49.379 --> 00:11:49.780 spirit, 00:11:50.220 --> 00:11:50.940 or breath. 00:11:53.280 --> 00:11:53.840 Literally, 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:57.080 verse 8 is translated this way, 00:11:57.220 --> 00:11:58.480 Yahweh Elohim 00:11:58.480 --> 00:11:59.639 walking 00:11:59.639 --> 00:12:01.980 in the wind, 00:12:02.720 --> 00:12:03.460 the spirit 00:12:03.460 --> 00:12:05.200 of the day. 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:08.980 So here's the temple presence of God 00:12:08.980 --> 00:12:10.000 in the garden of Eden, 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:12.480 and here comes the great wind 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:13.580 that they hear. 00:12:14.060 --> 00:12:16.020 It's rustling the leaves and the grass. 00:12:17.700 --> 00:12:20.259 And this represents the presence of God 00:12:20.259 --> 00:12:22.140 filling up his temple, 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:25.060 leaving no room for their sin. 00:12:26.040 --> 00:12:27.700 That same word is used 00:12:27.700 --> 00:12:29.980 associated with new creation. 00:12:30.820 --> 00:12:31.860 Remember at the very beginning, 00:12:31.860 --> 00:12:33.460 the spirit of God hovered. 00:12:33.659 --> 00:12:35.240 There's the picture like a great eagle 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:36.320 hovering its wings, 00:12:36.879 --> 00:12:38.019 the flapping in the wind, 00:12:38.800 --> 00:12:40.379 hovering over the waters of the deep. 00:12:41.180 --> 00:12:42.259 And then we're told later 00:12:42.259 --> 00:12:43.759 in Genesis chapter 8, 00:12:44.580 --> 00:12:46.700 after the world had been destroyed, 00:12:47.519 --> 00:12:48.460 a ruach, 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:49.240 a wind, 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:49.680 spirit, 00:12:49.800 --> 00:12:50.180 breath, 00:12:50.419 --> 00:12:51.919 blows away the waters 00:12:51.919 --> 00:12:52.800 of the flood. 00:12:53.639 --> 00:12:54.659 And this allows them 00:12:54.659 --> 00:12:55.519 the dove of peace 00:12:55.519 --> 00:12:56.039 to settle 00:12:56.039 --> 00:12:56.759 and bring back 00:12:56.759 --> 00:12:58.519 life to show 00:12:58.519 --> 00:12:59.080 there's going to be 00:12:59.080 --> 00:13:00.200 a new beginning for mankind. 00:13:02.160 --> 00:13:03.180 We can go all the way 00:13:03.180 --> 00:13:03.920 to the new covenant. 00:13:04.660 --> 00:13:05.740 Remember in Acts 2, 00:13:06.540 --> 00:13:07.600 there's a wind, 00:13:08.340 --> 00:13:08.860 a ruach, 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:09.740 that fills up 00:13:09.740 --> 00:13:11.040 the early church. 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:12.879 And the spirit of God 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:13.879 says, 00:13:14.120 --> 00:13:14.560 these people 00:13:14.560 --> 00:13:15.580 are my temple. 00:13:16.100 --> 00:13:17.180 I dwell with them. 00:13:19.820 --> 00:13:20.440 And Adam 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:22.840 gives a priest's report 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:23.920 of what he experienced 00:13:23.920 --> 00:13:24.620 in verse 10. 00:13:24.700 --> 00:13:25.100 Look at that. 00:13:25.180 --> 00:13:25.660 He said, 00:13:25.659 --> 00:13:27.339 I heard the sound 00:13:27.339 --> 00:13:28.079 of you, 00:13:28.860 --> 00:13:29.339 God, 00:13:29.600 --> 00:13:30.519 in the garden. 00:13:31.379 --> 00:13:32.039 And what effect 00:13:32.039 --> 00:13:32.939 did it have on Adam? 00:13:33.179 --> 00:13:34.419 I was afraid. 00:13:34.839 --> 00:13:35.139 Why? 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:37.219 Because I was naked. 00:13:38.299 --> 00:13:39.199 What did you do? 00:13:39.439 --> 00:13:40.620 I hid myself 00:13:40.620 --> 00:13:41.899 anywhere I could, 00:13:41.959 --> 00:13:42.980 even within the temple, 00:13:43.659 --> 00:13:44.379 garden of Eden. 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:48.399 Do you see the curses 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:49.980 of this broken covenant 00:13:49.980 --> 00:13:50.639 of works 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:51.919 changing 00:13:51.919 --> 00:13:53.179 these humans, 00:13:53.379 --> 00:13:54.459 these image bearers? 00:13:54.460 --> 00:13:55.960 man is afraid. 00:13:56.420 --> 00:13:57.400 Man feels naked. 00:13:58.820 --> 00:13:59.820 He's working 00:13:59.820 --> 00:14:00.680 himself 00:14:00.680 --> 00:14:01.980 to cover up 00:14:01.980 --> 00:14:02.740 his own shame. 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:04.540 And he feels like 00:14:04.540 --> 00:14:05.080 he's got to 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:05.879 get out of here 00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:06.879 and hide somehow, 00:14:07.100 --> 00:14:07.500 somewhere, 00:14:07.700 --> 00:14:08.879 from this glory 00:14:08.879 --> 00:14:09.460 presence 00:14:09.460 --> 00:14:10.460 of God. 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:13.139 Well, 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:13.780 east of Eden, 00:14:13.940 --> 00:14:14.720 God still makes 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:15.180 the weight 00:14:15.180 --> 00:14:16.100 of his glory 00:14:16.100 --> 00:14:16.700 known. 00:14:20.920 --> 00:14:21.920 Without God, 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:22.580 we know 00:14:22.580 --> 00:14:23.480 we are lost. 00:14:23.480 --> 00:14:24.519 we know 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:25.340 we need to hide 00:14:25.340 --> 00:14:26.139 when we encounter 00:14:26.139 --> 00:14:26.700 him, 00:14:26.980 --> 00:14:27.960 the sacred creator, 00:14:28.600 --> 00:14:29.720 without a mediator 00:14:29.720 --> 00:14:30.879 to stand between us. 00:14:32.220 --> 00:14:33.180 We can look at 00:14:33.180 --> 00:14:33.940 our own lives, 00:14:34.019 --> 00:14:34.720 our own past, 00:14:34.860 --> 00:14:36.920 and many buildings 00:14:36.920 --> 00:14:37.759 that call themselves 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:38.920 churches of all 00:14:38.920 --> 00:14:39.360 different, 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:40.379 you know, 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:41.620 sects that are 00:14:41.620 --> 00:14:42.940 working to make 00:14:42.940 --> 00:14:43.580 things right 00:14:43.580 --> 00:14:44.519 for themselves 00:14:44.519 --> 00:14:45.220 with God. 00:14:45.720 --> 00:14:46.600 It's a religion 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:47.700 based on man's 00:14:47.700 --> 00:14:48.340 work, 00:14:48.620 --> 00:14:49.519 man trying to 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:50.060 cover up 00:14:50.059 --> 00:14:51.599 the shame 00:14:51.599 --> 00:14:52.419 of sin. 00:14:54.259 --> 00:14:55.139 2 Corinthians 00:14:55.139 --> 00:14:56.199 4.17 00:14:56.199 --> 00:14:57.039 says that this 00:14:57.039 --> 00:14:57.399 light, 00:14:57.639 --> 00:14:58.239 momentary 00:14:58.239 --> 00:14:58.799 affliction 00:14:58.799 --> 00:14:59.619 that Christians 00:14:59.619 --> 00:15:00.319 in this world 00:15:00.319 --> 00:15:00.879 east of Eden 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:01.679 experienced, 00:15:02.039 --> 00:15:03.239 it prepares us 00:15:03.239 --> 00:15:04.719 for an eternal 00:15:04.719 --> 00:15:06.539 weight of glory 00:15:06.539 --> 00:15:08.099 beyond all 00:15:08.099 --> 00:15:08.919 comparison. 00:15:08.919 --> 00:15:09.039 sin. 00:15:11.459 --> 00:15:12.500 This first point 00:15:12.500 --> 00:15:13.259 is that God's 00:15:13.259 --> 00:15:14.099 holy presence 00:15:14.099 --> 00:15:15.839 filled Eden, 00:15:16.439 --> 00:15:17.219 leaving no room 00:15:17.219 --> 00:15:17.899 for sin. 00:15:19.659 --> 00:15:20.519 The best 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:21.419 illustration I've 00:15:21.419 --> 00:15:21.939 ever heard 00:15:21.939 --> 00:15:22.939 is from 00:15:22.939 --> 00:15:23.679 Newton's first 00:15:23.679 --> 00:15:24.899 law of motion. 00:15:25.639 --> 00:15:26.679 To paraphrase it, 00:15:26.759 --> 00:15:27.360 it says that a 00:15:27.360 --> 00:15:28.399 greater external 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:30.539 force will move 00:15:30.539 --> 00:15:31.519 in to set 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:32.399 lesser things 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:32.879 in motion. 00:15:32.879 --> 00:15:35.059 So let's 00:15:35.059 --> 00:15:35.399 try to 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:36.240 visualize this. 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:36.779 If we had a 00:15:36.779 --> 00:15:37.460 big cylinder 00:15:37.460 --> 00:15:38.159 right here 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:39.399 full of water, 00:15:39.980 --> 00:15:40.360 let's put 00:15:40.360 --> 00:15:41.059 something of 00:15:41.059 --> 00:15:41.759 lesser weight 00:15:41.759 --> 00:15:42.100 in there. 00:15:42.200 --> 00:15:42.820 Let's put 00:15:42.820 --> 00:15:43.340 petals, 00:15:43.620 --> 00:15:44.220 flower petals 00:15:44.220 --> 00:15:44.620 in there. 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:45.779 And then we 00:15:45.779 --> 00:15:46.259 took something 00:15:46.259 --> 00:15:46.679 a little bit 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:47.139 heavier like 00:15:47.139 --> 00:15:47.539 raisins. 00:15:47.639 --> 00:15:47.980 We dropped 00:15:47.980 --> 00:15:48.639 raisins in. 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:49.360 As that 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:49.939 raisin goes 00:15:49.939 --> 00:15:50.159 down, 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:50.580 you'd be able 00:15:50.580 --> 00:15:51.139 to see those 00:15:51.139 --> 00:15:52.179 petals being 00:15:52.179 --> 00:15:52.840 put in motion 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:53.620 because the 00:15:53.620 --> 00:15:54.200 raisin is a 00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:54.519 little bit 00:15:54.519 --> 00:15:55.179 more weighty 00:15:55.179 --> 00:15:56.139 and it sets 00:15:56.139 --> 00:15:57.000 those lesser 00:15:57.000 --> 00:15:57.860 things in motion. 00:15:58.580 --> 00:15:59.200 Now picture 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:00.279 a great boulder, 00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:02.179 rock of ages, 00:16:02.179 --> 00:16:03.399 cleft for me 00:16:03.399 --> 00:16:04.419 dropped in here. 00:16:05.059 --> 00:16:05.739 That rock, 00:16:05.939 --> 00:16:06.439 the weight of 00:16:06.439 --> 00:16:07.079 God's glory, 00:16:07.159 --> 00:16:07.819 as it pushes 00:16:07.819 --> 00:16:08.399 down, 00:16:08.859 --> 00:16:09.239 it sets 00:16:09.239 --> 00:16:10.199 everything into 00:16:10.199 --> 00:16:11.239 upheaval and 00:16:11.239 --> 00:16:11.919 into motion. 00:16:12.959 --> 00:16:13.459 And then when 00:16:13.459 --> 00:16:14.079 it's settling, 00:16:14.759 --> 00:16:15.179 it's the 00:16:15.179 --> 00:16:16.000 weightiest thing 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:17.079 upon which 00:16:17.079 --> 00:16:17.879 everything else 00:16:17.879 --> 00:16:18.699 will find its 00:16:18.699 --> 00:16:19.120 rest. 00:16:20.439 --> 00:16:21.579 So here's the 00:16:21.579 --> 00:16:21.939 temple, 00:16:22.179 --> 00:16:23.039 Garden of Eden. 00:16:24.299 --> 00:16:25.039 And as the 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:25.859 glory presence 00:16:25.859 --> 00:16:26.759 of God moves 00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:27.059 in, 00:16:27.439 --> 00:16:27.959 Adam and Eve 00:16:27.959 --> 00:16:28.519 are like those 00:16:28.519 --> 00:16:29.219 petals and those 00:16:29.219 --> 00:16:30.039 raisins set in 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:30.879 motion trying to 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:31.799 cover themselves 00:16:31.799 --> 00:16:32.259 and hide 00:16:32.259 --> 00:16:32.740 wherever they 00:16:32.740 --> 00:16:33.039 can, 00:16:33.359 --> 00:16:33.879 the weight 00:16:33.879 --> 00:16:34.319 of God's 00:16:34.319 --> 00:16:34.879 glory so 00:16:34.879 --> 00:16:36.120 fills His 00:16:36.120 --> 00:16:37.039 dwelling place 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:38.500 that there's no 00:16:38.500 --> 00:16:39.399 room for sin. 00:16:39.819 --> 00:16:40.419 It's going to be 00:16:40.419 --> 00:16:41.459 drawn up and 00:16:41.459 --> 00:16:42.079 stirred and 00:16:42.079 --> 00:16:42.620 pushed out. 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:46.219 So when you 00:16:46.219 --> 00:16:46.799 and I as 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:48.699 saved sinners, 00:16:48.899 --> 00:16:49.399 if you're a 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:49.679 believer, 00:16:50.299 --> 00:16:51.279 when we encounter 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:52.179 the Holy God, 00:16:52.559 --> 00:16:53.639 it's that same 00:16:53.639 --> 00:16:54.839 weight of God's 00:16:54.839 --> 00:16:56.579 glory filling 00:16:56.579 --> 00:16:57.319 His temple, 00:16:58.679 --> 00:16:59.579 leaving no room 00:16:59.579 --> 00:17:01.019 for sin in us 00:17:01.019 --> 00:17:01.500 His people. 00:17:02.259 --> 00:17:02.879 Praise God, 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:03.120 right? 00:17:03.879 --> 00:17:04.759 It's slow and 00:17:04.759 --> 00:17:05.099 gradual, 00:17:05.279 --> 00:17:06.279 but we want 00:17:06.279 --> 00:17:06.920 the weight of 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:08.160 God's glory to 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:08.900 push everything 00:17:08.900 --> 00:17:10.400 else into its 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:11.220 proper place. 00:17:13.099 --> 00:17:13.839 Number two, 00:17:13.940 --> 00:17:14.400 in Eden, 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:15.779 Adam broke 00:17:15.779 --> 00:17:16.879 God's moral 00:17:16.879 --> 00:17:18.759 law that was 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:19.639 written on his 00:17:19.639 --> 00:17:20.019 heart. 00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:22.319 We're trying to 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:23.059 understand what it 00:17:23.059 --> 00:17:24.059 is to be east 00:17:24.059 --> 00:17:24.740 of Eden, in this 00:17:24.740 --> 00:17:25.379 world, east of 00:17:25.379 --> 00:17:25.700 Eden, but we 00:17:25.700 --> 00:17:26.420 got to start back 00:17:26.420 --> 00:17:26.799 in Eden. 00:17:27.740 --> 00:17:28.599 And what was it 00:17:28.599 --> 00:17:29.759 that was in the 00:17:29.759 --> 00:17:30.460 conscience and the 00:17:30.460 --> 00:17:31.039 heart that so 00:17:31.039 --> 00:17:32.160 stirred up Adam? 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:34.599 Well, let's shed 00:17:34.599 --> 00:17:36.259 some light on this 00:17:36.259 --> 00:17:37.140 shadowy part of the 00:17:37.140 --> 00:17:38.480 Bible from Romans 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:39.799 chapter 2, verses 00:17:39.799 --> 00:17:41.299 14 and 15, which 00:17:41.299 --> 00:17:41.640 say, 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:43.940 lawless pagans, so 00:17:43.940 --> 00:17:44.640 those east of 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:45.480 Eden that know 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:46.539 nothing about God, 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:48.759 they do by nature 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:50.180 what the law 00:17:50.180 --> 00:17:51.039 requires. 00:17:51.879 --> 00:17:52.619 You got to stop 00:17:52.619 --> 00:17:53.200 right there and ask 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:54.099 yourself, what law 00:17:54.099 --> 00:17:54.619 is this? 00:17:55.480 --> 00:17:56.579 What law is it that 00:17:56.579 --> 00:17:57.799 pagans do by nature? 00:17:57.799 --> 00:17:59.339 It's not the 00:17:59.339 --> 00:18:00.339 ceremonial law of 00:18:00.339 --> 00:18:01.720 killing a lamb on 00:18:01.720 --> 00:18:02.399 a Passover or 00:18:02.399 --> 00:18:03.099 something like that. 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:04.180 And it's not 00:18:04.180 --> 00:18:04.940 necessarily the 00:18:04.940 --> 00:18:05.519 civil law. 00:18:06.339 --> 00:18:07.359 It's referring to 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:08.359 what the church has 00:18:08.359 --> 00:18:09.019 called over time 00:18:09.019 --> 00:18:10.119 the moral law. 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:10.940 It's the law that 00:18:10.940 --> 00:18:12.399 is attached to the 00:18:12.399 --> 00:18:13.139 character and the 00:18:13.139 --> 00:18:14.000 attributes of God 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:14.339 himself. 00:18:14.559 --> 00:18:15.319 It's what has 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:16.399 always pleased God 00:18:16.399 --> 00:18:17.039 and always will 00:18:17.039 --> 00:18:17.619 please him. 00:18:17.919 --> 00:18:18.819 It's the moral law 00:18:18.819 --> 00:18:19.279 of God. 00:18:20.399 --> 00:18:21.359 And this shows, 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:22.240 says Romans 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:23.180 chapter 2, that 00:18:23.180 --> 00:18:24.539 the work of the 00:18:24.539 --> 00:18:25.539 law is written 00:18:25.539 --> 00:18:27.259 on their hearts. 00:18:27.259 --> 00:18:28.099 while their 00:18:28.099 --> 00:18:29.400 conscience also 00:18:29.400 --> 00:18:30.240 bears witness. 00:18:30.819 --> 00:18:31.579 So in the inner 00:18:31.579 --> 00:18:32.519 man, the heart 00:18:32.519 --> 00:18:33.259 and the conscience, 00:18:33.740 --> 00:18:34.500 God has written 00:18:34.500 --> 00:18:35.839 his moral law. 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:37.940 Well, we can take 00:18:37.940 --> 00:18:39.480 that truth and we 00:18:39.480 --> 00:18:40.099 can try to make 00:18:40.099 --> 00:18:41.140 more sense now of 00:18:41.140 --> 00:18:42.940 what was it on 00:18:42.940 --> 00:18:44.720 Adam's heart that 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:45.240 was written. 00:18:46.440 --> 00:18:47.240 The church has 00:18:47.240 --> 00:18:47.900 wrestled with it. 00:18:47.980 --> 00:18:48.759 I think there was a 00:18:48.759 --> 00:18:49.660 really helpful clarity 00:18:49.660 --> 00:18:50.879 in the 1800s in 00:18:50.879 --> 00:18:51.279 Scotland. 00:18:51.420 --> 00:18:52.000 It was called the 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:53.240 Marrow Controversy. 00:18:53.859 --> 00:18:54.420 And in this little 00:18:54.420 --> 00:18:55.180 book on law and 00:18:55.180 --> 00:18:57.099 gospel, one author, 00:18:57.259 --> 00:18:58.680 showed how this 00:18:58.680 --> 00:18:59.299 could be true. 00:18:59.400 --> 00:19:00.579 And Romans chapter 00:19:00.579 --> 00:19:01.539 2 could be true of 00:19:01.539 --> 00:19:01.779 Adam. 00:19:02.299 --> 00:19:03.160 How was it that 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:03.960 Adam broke the 00:19:03.960 --> 00:19:05.400 moral law as they 00:19:05.400 --> 00:19:06.400 were expressed and 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:07.140 codified in the 00:19:07.140 --> 00:19:07.920 Ten Commandments 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:09.299 given later in 00:19:09.299 --> 00:19:10.119 redemptive history? 00:19:11.240 --> 00:19:12.299 And here's what the 00:19:12.299 --> 00:19:13.180 Marrow of Modern 00:19:13.180 --> 00:19:14.140 Divinity, that little 00:19:14.140 --> 00:19:15.579 book from the 1800s 00:19:15.579 --> 00:19:17.079 in Scotland, said. 00:19:18.379 --> 00:19:19.160 Let's walk through 00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:19.980 the Ten Commandments 00:19:19.980 --> 00:19:20.980 with Adam in mind. 00:19:22.920 --> 00:19:23.839 Number one is to 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:24.940 have no other gods. 00:19:24.940 --> 00:19:26.960 Well, Adam obeyed 00:19:26.960 --> 00:19:27.779 the servant's word 00:19:27.779 --> 00:19:28.640 instead of the 00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:29.320 Lord's word. 00:19:30.420 --> 00:19:31.220 And instead of his 00:19:31.220 --> 00:19:32.240 creator, he chose 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:33.920 Satan as his God. 00:19:34.840 --> 00:19:35.900 Number two is have 00:19:35.900 --> 00:19:37.380 no idols before God. 00:19:38.360 --> 00:19:39.759 Philippians 3.19 says 00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:41.279 that man has made 00:19:41.279 --> 00:19:42.820 his belly his God. 00:19:43.380 --> 00:19:44.640 So Adam's lust to 00:19:44.640 --> 00:19:45.360 eat the forbidden 00:19:45.360 --> 00:19:47.120 fruit was an idol. 00:19:47.220 --> 00:19:48.220 It was idolatry. 00:19:50.440 --> 00:19:51.779 Number three is the 00:19:51.779 --> 00:19:52.539 name of the Lord. 00:19:52.539 --> 00:19:55.119 By taking Satan's 00:19:55.119 --> 00:19:56.899 bait, which was 00:19:56.899 --> 00:19:58.379 did God really say, 00:19:59.099 --> 00:20:00.039 Adam took the name 00:20:00.039 --> 00:20:01.339 of the Lord in vain, 00:20:01.539 --> 00:20:02.700 undermining God's 00:20:02.700 --> 00:20:03.980 goodness attached to 00:20:03.980 --> 00:20:04.460 his name. 00:20:04.779 --> 00:20:05.559 That's who God is. 00:20:06.960 --> 00:20:07.680 Number four is to 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:08.740 keep the Sabbath day 00:20:08.740 --> 00:20:10.720 as a day of rest 00:20:10.720 --> 00:20:12.779 made for man to 00:20:12.779 --> 00:20:13.559 worship the Lord. 00:20:14.399 --> 00:20:15.180 And Adam did not 00:20:15.180 --> 00:20:16.119 keep the rest in 00:20:16.119 --> 00:20:17.159 which God had set 00:20:17.159 --> 00:20:17.399 him. 00:20:18.460 --> 00:20:19.379 Number five is to 00:20:19.379 --> 00:20:20.279 honor your father. 00:20:20.279 --> 00:20:22.319 Adam dishonored his 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:23.960 heavenly father and 00:20:23.960 --> 00:20:24.960 therefore his days 00:20:24.960 --> 00:20:26.059 were not prolonged 00:20:26.059 --> 00:20:27.539 in that land, Eden, 00:20:27.980 --> 00:20:28.740 that the Lord had 00:20:28.740 --> 00:20:29.299 given him. 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:31.519 Number six is don't 00:20:31.519 --> 00:20:31.899 kill. 00:20:32.920 --> 00:20:33.819 But Adam murdered 00:20:33.819 --> 00:20:35.980 himself and all his 00:20:35.980 --> 00:20:36.680 posterity. 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:38.960 Number seven is don't 00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:39.700 commit adultery. 00:20:41.559 --> 00:20:43.059 And both in his eyes 00:20:43.059 --> 00:20:44.440 and his mind, Adam 00:20:44.440 --> 00:20:45.500 committed spiritual 00:20:45.500 --> 00:20:46.539 adultery against his 00:20:46.539 --> 00:20:47.799 Lord with whom he was 00:20:47.799 --> 00:20:48.859 in the covenant of 00:20:48.859 --> 00:20:49.259 works. 00:20:50.519 --> 00:20:51.539 Number eight is don't 00:20:51.539 --> 00:20:51.939 steal. 00:20:52.959 --> 00:20:54.259 Well, Adam trespassed 00:20:54.259 --> 00:20:55.759 the boundary God gave 00:20:55.759 --> 00:20:58.000 him and he unlawfully 00:20:58.000 --> 00:20:59.859 stole that one thing 00:20:59.859 --> 00:21:01.099 that God said was not 00:21:01.099 --> 00:21:02.079 his to take. 00:21:03.699 --> 00:21:04.979 Number nine is false 00:21:04.979 --> 00:21:05.459 witness. 00:21:06.979 --> 00:21:08.279 In obeying Satan, Adam 00:21:08.279 --> 00:21:09.439 bore witness against 00:21:09.439 --> 00:21:09.919 God. 00:21:10.979 --> 00:21:12.859 And number ten, don't 00:21:12.859 --> 00:21:13.139 covet. 00:21:13.919 --> 00:21:15.240 Adam coveted that one 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:17.159 thing God said he may 00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:17.820 not have. 00:21:20.180 --> 00:21:21.320 So in the words of 00:21:21.320 --> 00:21:22.480 Romans chapter three 00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:25.060 verse 19, we know 00:21:25.060 --> 00:21:26.540 that what the law 00:21:26.540 --> 00:21:28.660 says it saith to them 00:21:28.660 --> 00:21:30.019 who are under the law 00:21:30.019 --> 00:21:32.000 that every mouth may be 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:33.740 stopped and all the 00:21:33.740 --> 00:21:34.960 world may become 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:36.759 guilty before God. 00:21:37.940 --> 00:21:39.300 So we ask the question, 00:21:39.420 --> 00:21:40.120 how is it that the 00:21:40.120 --> 00:21:41.259 whole world could become 00:21:41.259 --> 00:21:42.420 guilty before God? 00:21:42.960 --> 00:21:44.080 How is it that the 00:21:44.080 --> 00:21:45.460 world deserves the wrath 00:21:45.460 --> 00:21:45.980 of God? 00:21:46.640 --> 00:21:49.579 It's because in Adam's 00:21:49.579 --> 00:21:50.940 fall sinned we all. 00:21:52.160 --> 00:21:53.400 We are born under the 00:21:53.400 --> 00:21:54.440 curses of the broken 00:21:54.440 --> 00:21:56.259 covenant of works. 00:21:56.960 --> 00:21:58.079 But that moral law, 00:21:58.180 --> 00:21:58.980 those ten commandments, 00:21:59.180 --> 00:22:00.120 God has still put in the 00:22:00.120 --> 00:22:01.279 heart and the conscience 00:22:01.279 --> 00:22:03.880 of all mankind east of 00:22:03.880 --> 00:22:04.100 Eden. 00:22:05.279 --> 00:22:08.319 So in Eden, Adam broke 00:22:08.319 --> 00:22:10.240 God's moral law that was 00:22:10.240 --> 00:22:11.279 written on his heart. 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:15.859 Number three, the weight 00:22:15.859 --> 00:22:17.180 of God's glory in Eden, 00:22:17.839 --> 00:22:20.500 it exposed the sins of 00:22:20.500 --> 00:22:22.619 both the body and the 00:22:22.619 --> 00:22:22.940 soul. 00:22:24.099 --> 00:22:26.279 My point here is that this 00:22:26.279 --> 00:22:27.220 is so pervasive. 00:22:27.940 --> 00:22:29.940 It affects every aspect of 00:22:29.940 --> 00:22:31.819 a human being, this fallen 00:22:31.819 --> 00:22:32.960 sinful nature. 00:22:34.079 --> 00:22:34.940 Well, we know that Adam 00:22:34.940 --> 00:22:35.859 and Eve, they sinned with 00:22:35.859 --> 00:22:36.440 their bodies. 00:22:37.420 --> 00:22:38.500 They saw the fruit with 00:22:38.500 --> 00:22:39.059 their eyes. 00:22:39.059 --> 00:22:39.960 They saw that it was 00:22:39.960 --> 00:22:41.000 pleasing to the eye. 00:22:42.059 --> 00:22:43.500 They ate the fruit with 00:22:43.500 --> 00:22:44.960 their teeth, their mouth. 00:22:46.000 --> 00:22:47.259 And then they saw that 00:22:47.259 --> 00:22:47.960 they were naked. 00:22:48.399 --> 00:22:50.700 So their bodies are 00:22:50.700 --> 00:22:52.019 exposed as being sinful. 00:22:53.179 --> 00:22:54.359 But notice where God's 00:22:54.359 --> 00:22:55.819 three questions to Adam 00:22:55.819 --> 00:22:56.500 go. 00:22:57.679 --> 00:22:58.639 God uses his three 00:22:58.639 --> 00:23:00.099 questions to deal not 00:23:00.099 --> 00:23:01.059 with the outer man. 00:23:01.659 --> 00:23:02.659 God gets always. 00:23:02.980 --> 00:23:03.980 He's getting at the heart. 00:23:04.559 --> 00:23:05.639 God goes after the inner 00:23:05.639 --> 00:23:05.839 man. 00:23:05.839 --> 00:23:06.859 Look at verse nine. 00:23:08.539 --> 00:23:09.720 Here's the first question. 00:23:10.659 --> 00:23:11.899 The Lord God called to the 00:23:11.899 --> 00:23:13.579 man and said to him. 00:23:14.259 --> 00:23:15.319 Notice who the Lord is 00:23:15.319 --> 00:23:16.099 addressing here. 00:23:16.459 --> 00:23:17.559 He's going to the federal 00:23:17.559 --> 00:23:17.959 head. 00:23:19.679 --> 00:23:22.059 He's going to Adam, who 00:23:22.059 --> 00:23:24.559 represents that type of a 00:23:24.559 --> 00:23:25.799 federal head who, you know, 00:23:25.919 --> 00:23:27.319 his works, obedience or 00:23:27.319 --> 00:23:28.619 disobedience, will affect all 00:23:28.619 --> 00:23:29.579 of his posterity. 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:31.379 And the first question is, 00:23:31.879 --> 00:23:33.220 where are you? 00:23:33.220 --> 00:23:35.900 Where are you? 00:23:36.799 --> 00:23:38.000 The second question is in 00:23:38.000 --> 00:23:38.579 verse 11. 00:23:38.759 --> 00:23:40.980 God said, who told you that 00:23:40.980 --> 00:23:42.019 you were naked? 00:23:43.019 --> 00:23:44.480 And the third question, have 00:23:44.480 --> 00:23:46.460 you eaten of the tree in 00:23:46.460 --> 00:23:48.339 which I commanded you to 00:23:48.339 --> 00:23:48.700 eat? 00:23:52.500 --> 00:23:54.039 We saw in Sunday school, 00:23:54.480 --> 00:23:56.319 referring back to last week 00:23:56.319 --> 00:23:57.180 as well, there are three 00:23:57.180 --> 00:23:58.339 offices in the Old Testament 00:23:58.339 --> 00:23:59.160 that are anointed. 00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:00.539 You know what they are. 00:24:00.539 --> 00:24:03.420 prophet, priest, and king. 00:24:04.819 --> 00:24:06.079 I think there's a connection 00:24:06.079 --> 00:24:07.339 between those three offices 00:24:07.339 --> 00:24:08.579 and these questions that the 00:24:08.579 --> 00:24:09.279 Lord is asking. 00:24:10.119 --> 00:24:11.759 See, Adam was the viceroy. 00:24:12.039 --> 00:24:13.180 He was the first king of 00:24:13.180 --> 00:24:13.519 mankind. 00:24:14.359 --> 00:24:16.039 And the Lord asks him, where 00:24:16.039 --> 00:24:16.599 are you? 00:24:17.700 --> 00:24:19.220 In other words, Adam, you 00:24:19.220 --> 00:24:19.659 forgot. 00:24:20.339 --> 00:24:21.920 You were in God's kingdom. 00:24:22.920 --> 00:24:24.279 I made you the first king of 00:24:24.279 --> 00:24:25.460 mankind, but you're a 00:24:25.460 --> 00:24:26.220 vassal servant. 00:24:26.899 --> 00:24:27.920 God himself is your 00:24:27.920 --> 00:24:29.359 covenant lord. 00:24:29.359 --> 00:24:31.259 Where are you, Adam? 00:24:31.319 --> 00:24:32.579 You're trying to hide in the 00:24:32.579 --> 00:24:33.919 temple behind the trees 00:24:33.919 --> 00:24:34.919 inside of Eden? 00:24:35.519 --> 00:24:37.719 This is my garden, says the 00:24:37.719 --> 00:24:38.559 glory of God. 00:24:39.279 --> 00:24:40.459 And the presence filling up 00:24:40.459 --> 00:24:41.039 the whole temple. 00:24:41.519 --> 00:24:42.279 Where are you? 00:24:42.879 --> 00:24:43.919 You're in my temple. 00:24:44.819 --> 00:24:45.819 You're in my kingdom. 00:24:49.519 --> 00:24:51.179 Adam had received the word 00:24:51.179 --> 00:24:52.959 of God directly from God. 00:24:53.719 --> 00:24:54.899 Adam did not Eve. 00:24:55.659 --> 00:24:57.579 So Adam was a prophet to Eve 00:24:57.579 --> 00:24:58.500 and his family and his 00:24:58.500 --> 00:24:59.039 posterity. 00:24:59.099 --> 00:25:00.000 He was the one to declare 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:00.940 the truth of God. 00:25:02.819 --> 00:25:05.140 God asked him, Adam, who 00:25:05.140 --> 00:25:06.799 told you otherwise? 00:25:07.880 --> 00:25:09.539 You failed as a prophet. 00:25:10.339 --> 00:25:11.319 Who told you? 00:25:12.460 --> 00:25:13.700 You know what I told you, 00:25:13.799 --> 00:25:13.920 Adam. 00:25:16.099 --> 00:25:17.420 So you failed as a king, 00:25:17.559 --> 00:25:17.700 Adam. 00:25:17.980 --> 00:25:19.359 You failed as a prophet. 00:25:21.660 --> 00:25:23.700 In Luke chapter 3, verse 38, 00:25:24.400 --> 00:25:25.680 we're given the reverse 00:25:25.680 --> 00:25:27.019 genealogy that goes all the 00:25:27.019 --> 00:25:27.819 way back to Adam. 00:25:27.980 --> 00:25:29.039 And then Adam is described 00:25:29.039 --> 00:25:30.180 as the son of God. 00:25:32.079 --> 00:25:33.720 And Adam, as God's son, 00:25:33.779 --> 00:25:35.180 did not love God with all of 00:25:35.180 --> 00:25:37.079 his heart, soul, mind, and 00:25:37.079 --> 00:25:37.559 strength. 00:25:37.559 --> 00:25:39.119 Nor did he love his neighbor, 00:25:39.480 --> 00:25:41.019 which is his wife, and all 00:25:41.019 --> 00:25:42.859 mankind as himself. 00:25:43.579 --> 00:25:46.059 So Adam broke God's positive 00:25:46.059 --> 00:25:46.480 law. 00:25:46.480 --> 00:25:52.299 He failed to represent well his 00:25:52.299 --> 00:25:52.960 posterity. 00:25:54.579 --> 00:25:55.940 And the Lord asks him, 00:25:56.259 --> 00:25:57.480 who told you you were naked? 00:25:58.299 --> 00:25:59.819 So he's exposed now. 00:26:00.079 --> 00:26:01.480 He's laid bare before God. 00:26:01.480 --> 00:26:05.099 I don't want to force this too 00:26:05.099 --> 00:26:07.000 much, but it made me wonder, 00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:09.160 like, the role of a priest, 00:26:09.500 --> 00:26:10.259 you know, of all those 00:26:10.259 --> 00:26:11.539 anointed offices, that was the 00:26:11.539 --> 00:26:12.860 only one that was clothed in 00:26:12.860 --> 00:26:13.640 special garments. 00:26:15.339 --> 00:26:17.700 And we know that in the New 00:26:17.700 --> 00:26:18.839 Testament, we are clothed with 00:26:18.839 --> 00:26:20.259 the righteousness of Christ. 00:26:20.339 --> 00:26:21.480 And Christ is depicted in 00:26:21.480 --> 00:26:23.220 Revelation as being that great 00:26:23.220 --> 00:26:25.079 high priest whose, you know, 00:26:25.120 --> 00:26:27.640 whose robes shine like precious 00:26:27.640 --> 00:26:28.940 jewels adorning him. 00:26:28.940 --> 00:26:30.600 And that's the picture we're 00:26:30.600 --> 00:26:32.900 given in the Old Covenant with 00:26:32.900 --> 00:26:34.100 the ceremonial law, the high 00:26:34.100 --> 00:26:35.279 priest, those from the line of 00:26:35.279 --> 00:26:36.580 Aaron, they had to wear these 00:26:36.580 --> 00:26:38.320 jewels representing all the 00:26:38.320 --> 00:26:38.740 tribes. 00:26:40.059 --> 00:26:41.940 But Adam is not clothed like a 00:26:41.940 --> 00:26:43.019 glorious high priest. 00:26:43.580 --> 00:26:45.220 There's no glory bouncing off and 00:26:45.220 --> 00:26:47.259 radiating the beauty of God to 00:26:47.259 --> 00:26:47.759 the people. 00:26:48.440 --> 00:26:50.320 Instead, he's naked. 00:26:50.920 --> 00:26:52.240 He's failed as a priest. 00:26:52.440 --> 00:26:53.160 He's exposed. 00:26:55.200 --> 00:26:56.820 And God's justice requires that 00:26:56.820 --> 00:26:58.900 the first federal head and 00:26:58.900 --> 00:27:00.940 all those under him received the 00:27:00.940 --> 00:27:03.320 curses of breaking this 00:27:03.320 --> 00:27:04.800 covenant of works. 00:27:06.519 --> 00:27:07.700 Adam had been put in the Garden 00:27:07.700 --> 00:27:09.640 of Eden as a probationary period 00:27:09.640 --> 00:27:10.280 of testing. 00:27:11.340 --> 00:27:13.280 And instead, he failed in his 00:27:13.280 --> 00:27:15.180 appointed office, prophet, 00:27:15.360 --> 00:27:17.780 priest, and king, transgressing 00:27:17.780 --> 00:27:20.000 the whole moral law that God had 00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:20.740 put in his heart. 00:27:21.580 --> 00:27:23.400 So the consequence we read in 00:27:23.400 --> 00:27:25.080 verses 23 and 24. 00:27:25.560 --> 00:27:27.240 Therefore, the Lord God sent him 00:27:27.240 --> 00:27:29.319 out of the Garden of Eden to work 00:27:29.319 --> 00:27:30.620 the ground from which he was 00:27:30.620 --> 00:27:30.980 taken. 00:27:31.579 --> 00:27:34.480 He drove the man out at the east 00:27:34.480 --> 00:27:35.940 of the Garden of Eden and placed 00:27:35.940 --> 00:27:37.960 the cherubim with a flaming sword 00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:40.220 that turned in every way to guard the 00:27:40.220 --> 00:27:42.620 way to the tree of life. 00:27:43.980 --> 00:27:46.099 And that's the world we are born into, 00:27:46.180 --> 00:27:47.660 the world east of Eden. 00:27:47.660 --> 00:27:53.480 You picture a glass of water that has 00:27:53.480 --> 00:27:55.640 just one drop of something else. 00:27:57.019 --> 00:27:58.560 And that something else is poison. 00:27:58.960 --> 00:28:00.300 The whole cup is poisoned. 00:28:01.740 --> 00:28:04.240 So all of us born east of Eden are 00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:06.080 under these effects of sin. 00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:08.180 We're not as wicked as we could be 00:28:08.180 --> 00:28:10.340 because God is showing preserving 00:28:10.340 --> 00:28:10.960 mercies. 00:28:11.880 --> 00:28:14.640 But every aspect of us has the taint or 00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:16.519 the poison of the original sin. 00:28:16.519 --> 00:28:20.720 So number three, the weight of God's 00:28:20.720 --> 00:28:23.299 glory in Eden, it exposed sin, 00:28:24.019 --> 00:28:27.660 both in the body and in the soul of 00:28:27.660 --> 00:28:30.160 man and mankind. 00:28:31.379 --> 00:28:33.420 Number four, east of Eden is a world 00:28:33.420 --> 00:28:37.700 under this curse of sin, but it's also 00:28:37.700 --> 00:28:40.740 under the providence of a merciful 00:28:40.740 --> 00:28:42.460 covenant Lord. 00:28:42.920 --> 00:28:44.079 And if you pay attention to the 00:28:44.079 --> 00:28:45.559 language that comes next, you get on 00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:47.079 almost every verse you get both. 00:28:47.619 --> 00:28:48.919 You get, here's the effects of the 00:28:48.919 --> 00:28:50.240 curse and here's some preserving 00:28:50.240 --> 00:28:50.619 mercy. 00:28:50.879 --> 00:28:52.079 You get that all the way through. 00:28:52.779 --> 00:28:53.980 Let me give you some examples. 00:28:54.159 --> 00:28:56.159 Look at Genesis chapter 3 verse 17. 00:28:58.019 --> 00:28:59.960 God says, cursed is the ground 00:28:59.960 --> 00:29:00.799 because of you. 00:29:01.799 --> 00:29:04.460 In pain, there's the curses part, but 00:29:04.460 --> 00:29:05.799 now look at the preserving mercy. 00:29:06.359 --> 00:29:08.859 You shall eat of it all the days of 00:29:08.859 --> 00:29:09.379 your life. 00:29:09.859 --> 00:29:11.639 Now the curse of covenant breaking is 00:29:11.639 --> 00:29:13.700 death, but God's still giving them 00:29:13.700 --> 00:29:15.680 some days of life and he's still 00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:17.360 giving them food to eat to preserve 00:29:17.360 --> 00:29:18.440 them longer. 00:29:18.880 --> 00:29:19.779 You see both there? 00:29:20.420 --> 00:29:22.220 Curses of the sin, but also preserving 00:29:22.220 --> 00:29:23.000 mercy. 00:29:24.460 --> 00:29:26.980 They shall eat, but it shall be in pain. 00:29:27.559 --> 00:29:28.720 Now look at verse 18. 00:29:28.920 --> 00:29:30.840 Thorns and thistles it shall bring 00:29:30.840 --> 00:29:31.660 forth to you. 00:29:32.380 --> 00:29:34.100 In other words, your work will bring 00:29:34.100 --> 00:29:34.880 forth bread. 00:29:35.380 --> 00:29:38.039 You'll be able to survive, but only with 00:29:38.039 --> 00:29:39.200 thorns and thistles. 00:29:39.200 --> 00:29:42.500 You shall eat of the plants of the 00:29:42.500 --> 00:29:44.640 field, but only, verse 19, by the sweat 00:29:44.640 --> 00:29:46.600 of your face shall you eat bread. 00:29:46.799 --> 00:29:48.720 So you will live on for some days in 00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:51.180 life, but only until you return to the 00:29:51.180 --> 00:29:51.480 ground. 00:29:52.100 --> 00:29:54.940 You are dust and to dust you shall 00:29:54.940 --> 00:29:55.819 return. 00:29:57.819 --> 00:29:59.840 What does this mean for all of us now? 00:29:59.940 --> 00:30:02.319 East of Eden, under the curses of the 00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:03.140 covenant of works. 00:30:04.039 --> 00:30:05.940 Because of Adam's breach of the covenant 00:30:05.940 --> 00:30:08.820 of works, all people are doomed to 00:30:08.820 --> 00:30:11.880 perish in the state of sin and misery 00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:13.279 into which Adam fell. 00:30:14.120 --> 00:30:17.519 We are born spiritually dead, spiritually 00:30:17.519 --> 00:30:19.059 detached from God. 00:30:20.680 --> 00:30:23.059 Adam fell out of communion with God into 00:30:23.059 --> 00:30:26.640 a depraved, defaced, and enslaved 00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:27.360 nature. 00:30:28.799 --> 00:30:30.440 And that's what we're born into. 00:30:31.160 --> 00:30:33.080 We're not as corrupt as we possibly 00:30:33.080 --> 00:30:33.600 could be. 00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:35.879 The imago Dei, the image of God is 00:30:35.879 --> 00:30:38.779 still on all people, but it's defaced, 00:30:38.879 --> 00:30:39.480 it's scratched. 00:30:39.919 --> 00:30:42.059 Picture taking a penny, you can see 00:30:42.059 --> 00:30:44.059 Abraham Lincoln's silhouette, and then 00:30:44.059 --> 00:30:45.379 you scratch it with rocks. 00:30:45.859 --> 00:30:48.480 That's what we are, born under the 00:30:48.480 --> 00:30:49.439 curses of sin. 00:30:50.519 --> 00:30:53.959 There's no part of us in the state that 00:30:53.959 --> 00:30:55.919 we're born into that is untainted. 00:30:57.819 --> 00:31:00.119 He says that you will die and you will 00:31:00.119 --> 00:31:02.199 return to dust, but I will mercifully 00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:05.259 allow you to work and to eat and so 00:31:05.259 --> 00:31:05.819 live on. 00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:09.640 So that's the providence of God over all 00:31:09.640 --> 00:31:10.100 of mankind. 00:31:10.600 --> 00:31:12.059 The days of man are numbered. 00:31:12.380 --> 00:31:14.580 Every single soul, the Lord knows how 00:31:14.580 --> 00:31:16.000 many more days he will give them. 00:31:17.299 --> 00:31:19.299 Then we read in Genesis chapter 4 verse 00:31:19.299 --> 00:31:21.080 1 that Adam knew his wife and she 00:31:21.080 --> 00:31:22.799 conceived and bore Cain, saying, 00:31:23.319 --> 00:31:26.279 I have gotten a man with the help of the 00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:26.580 Lord. 00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:28.340 There's God's preserving mercy. 00:31:28.480 --> 00:31:29.380 We deserve death. 00:31:29.380 --> 00:31:31.460 We deserve for our line to be cut off. 00:31:32.100 --> 00:31:34.700 But the Lord, with his help, has given us 00:31:34.700 --> 00:31:35.580 children. 00:31:38.660 --> 00:31:41.940 This fulfills and shows us what Romans 00:31:41.940 --> 00:31:44.040 chapter 2 verse 4 describes as the 00:31:44.040 --> 00:31:48.380 riches of God's kindness, forbearance, and 00:31:48.380 --> 00:31:48.960 patience. 00:31:49.720 --> 00:31:51.940 His kindness, the kindness of God in 00:31:51.940 --> 00:31:53.980 dealing with them in the curse this way, 00:31:53.980 --> 00:31:58.079 Romans chapter 2 says, is meant to lead 00:31:58.079 --> 00:31:59.799 you to repentance. 00:32:01.880 --> 00:32:05.319 All of the curses are in effect, but God 00:32:05.319 --> 00:32:07.079 is patient and kind. 00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:07.440 Why? 00:32:07.940 --> 00:32:11.819 So that man will repent and see God's 00:32:11.819 --> 00:32:12.240 goodness. 00:32:13.319 --> 00:32:15.299 Turn to Genesis chapter 5. 00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:17.079 I want you to see something really cool with 00:32:17.079 --> 00:32:17.819 the genealogy. 00:32:22.299 --> 00:32:23.599 Genesis chapter 5. 00:32:24.899 --> 00:32:28.019 We're given the line of Adam's descendants 00:32:28.019 --> 00:32:30.480 all the way to Noah, which is important for a 00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:32.079 few reasons, but what I want to point out to 00:32:32.079 --> 00:32:34.159 you is this pattern and the way that it's 00:32:34.159 --> 00:32:34.599 recorded. 00:32:36.740 --> 00:32:37.779 Look at verse 5. 00:32:37.879 --> 00:32:39.399 Genesis 5 verse 5 says, 00:32:39.399 --> 00:32:42.199 So in all the days that Adam lived, there's 00:32:42.199 --> 00:32:44.379 God's preserving mercy, giving him many days. 00:32:44.380 --> 00:32:47.140 They were 930 years. 00:32:47.720 --> 00:32:49.580 God is patient for man to repent. 00:32:50.080 --> 00:32:51.460 But then what does it say next? 00:32:52.060 --> 00:32:53.820 And he died. 00:32:54.820 --> 00:32:56.660 So the curses are still in effect. 00:32:56.800 --> 00:32:57.660 Now look at verse 8. 00:32:58.240 --> 00:33:00.800 So all the days of Seth were 912 years. 00:33:01.620 --> 00:33:03.540 God is patient for man to repent. 00:33:04.360 --> 00:33:05.280 And he died. 00:33:05.960 --> 00:33:07.660 The curses are in effect. 00:33:08.420 --> 00:33:08.940 Verse 11. 00:33:09.080 --> 00:33:12.000 So all the days of Enosh were 905 years. 00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:15.099 Because God is patient for man to repent. 00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:16.480 But he died. 00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:18.519 Because the curses are still in effect. 00:33:18.640 --> 00:33:19.900 Last one, verse 14. 00:33:20.359 --> 00:33:23.180 So all the days of Kenan were 910. 00:33:23.380 --> 00:33:26.099 Because God is patient for man to repent. 00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:27.700 And he died. 00:33:28.259 --> 00:33:30.579 Because the curses are still in effect. 00:33:32.339 --> 00:33:33.380 So dear friends. 00:33:34.500 --> 00:33:37.920 In our 18 months or so as a church plant here. 00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:40.700 We haven't had to do a single funeral. 00:33:40.880 --> 00:33:41.800 But the day is coming. 00:33:42.900 --> 00:33:44.960 And it will be heartbreaking. 00:33:48.100 --> 00:33:49.380 Let's think about that. 00:33:49.720 --> 00:33:50.620 Each one of us. 00:33:50.720 --> 00:33:51.740 We don't know our days. 00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:54.279 You will live blank more days. 00:33:55.740 --> 00:33:56.460 On earth. 00:33:57.660 --> 00:33:59.160 Every day is a gift from the Lord. 00:33:59.220 --> 00:34:01.160 Because God is patient. 00:34:01.660 --> 00:34:03.180 For you and me to repent. 00:34:03.779 --> 00:34:05.140 To behold his kindness. 00:34:05.140 --> 00:34:08.220 Then you and I one day will die. 00:34:09.160 --> 00:34:11.500 Because the curses are in effect. 00:34:14.160 --> 00:34:15.940 Don't be found on that day. 00:34:16.640 --> 00:34:19.099 Under the curses of the covenant of works. 00:34:20.860 --> 00:34:22.300 There's more good news coming. 00:34:22.539 --> 00:34:24.500 Let's look at number five. 00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:25.420 So to recap. 00:34:25.539 --> 00:34:27.640 Number four is that east of Eden is a world. 00:34:27.780 --> 00:34:29.000 Under the curse of sin. 00:34:29.480 --> 00:34:31.079 But also under the providence. 00:34:31.079 --> 00:34:33.480 Of a merciful covenant Lord. 00:34:33.480 --> 00:34:35.480 Number five. 00:34:35.659 --> 00:34:38.480 East of Eden man must work hard to survive. 00:34:39.360 --> 00:34:45.099 But no amount of work will earn your return to the tree of life. 00:34:45.980 --> 00:34:49.219 East of Eden man must work hard to survive. 00:34:49.760 --> 00:34:54.500 But no amount of work will earn your right to the tree of life. 00:34:54.500 --> 00:34:59.000 We see in verse 23. 00:35:00.599 --> 00:35:01.440 Chapter 3. 00:35:01.579 --> 00:35:04.760 Therefore the Lord God sent them out from the garden of Eden. 00:35:04.900 --> 00:35:07.420 To work the ground from which he was taken. 00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:09.000 He drove out the man. 00:35:09.539 --> 00:35:11.119 And at the east of the garden of Eden. 00:35:11.219 --> 00:35:12.300 He placed the cherubim. 00:35:12.780 --> 00:35:14.039 With the flaming sword. 00:35:14.039 --> 00:35:14.119 Lord. 00:35:19.119 --> 00:35:21.380 We cannot earn God's favor. 00:35:21.519 --> 00:35:22.920 We cannot earn eternal life. 00:35:23.039 --> 00:35:24.659 By keeping the moral law. 00:35:24.739 --> 00:35:26.380 Even though it's written on our heart. 00:35:27.820 --> 00:35:29.639 New Testament makes this very clear. 00:35:29.779 --> 00:35:31.500 No man is saved by his own works. 00:35:31.599 --> 00:35:32.940 That none should boast. 00:35:33.039 --> 00:35:34.360 We are saved by grace alone. 00:35:34.539 --> 00:35:35.800 For the glory of God. 00:35:36.619 --> 00:35:37.800 Then we have to ask the question. 00:35:37.800 --> 00:35:40.960 If the moral law of God is written on all of man's heart. 00:35:40.960 --> 00:35:43.880 Even after we've been banished from God's presence. 00:35:44.139 --> 00:35:45.400 We're living east of Eden. 00:35:45.880 --> 00:35:48.380 What purpose does it serve to have the moral law? 00:35:48.940 --> 00:35:51.320 The ten commandments known in our conscience and our heart. 00:35:52.340 --> 00:35:55.240 The Westminster Larger Catechism answers it this way. 00:35:55.900 --> 00:35:57.019 What use of it is? 00:35:57.619 --> 00:36:00.679 The moral law is of use to all men to inform you. 00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:03.280 Of the holy nature and will of God. 00:36:03.720 --> 00:36:05.420 And of your duty to walk accordingly. 00:36:05.800 --> 00:36:08.920 To convince you of your inability to keep God's law. 00:36:08.920 --> 00:36:14.320 It exposes the sinful pollution of your nature as Adam's heir. 00:36:14.920 --> 00:36:16.420 And God's law humbles you. 00:36:16.880 --> 00:36:20.740 To sense how real your sin and misery is. 00:36:21.619 --> 00:36:23.500 The law of God is put on our hearts. 00:36:23.619 --> 00:36:24.860 Even before we're saved. 00:36:25.360 --> 00:36:27.079 To drive us to the cross. 00:36:27.720 --> 00:36:32.000 To show us that we cannot merit life for ourselves. 00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:38.760 And this is good because it helps us to get a sight of our need for God to condescend. 00:36:38.880 --> 00:36:42.139 To come to us in mercy and in saving grace. 00:36:43.019 --> 00:36:47.980 We need the perfect obedience of Christ in our place. 00:36:47.980 --> 00:36:53.679 So East David and man must work to survive. 00:36:53.980 --> 00:36:56.320 But it's never going to be saving work. 00:36:56.320 --> 00:37:02.900 Isaiah 24 5 says the earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof. 00:37:03.039 --> 00:37:05.719 Because they have transgressed the laws. 00:37:06.119 --> 00:37:07.420 They have changed the ordinance. 00:37:07.679 --> 00:37:09.619 Broken the everlasting covenant. 00:37:09.619 --> 00:37:15.739 Romans 2 2 says the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who practice such things. 00:37:16.199 --> 00:37:18.579 For God shows no partiality. 00:37:19.139 --> 00:37:24.599 And Romans 2 6 says God will render to each one according to his works. 00:37:26.139 --> 00:37:30.940 So the covenant of works was between God and Adam as the first federal head. 00:37:31.299 --> 00:37:34.759 But the effects of the covenant of works are for all of us. 00:37:35.519 --> 00:37:38.699 And God will render now to us our works. 00:37:38.699 --> 00:37:40.759 However much good you do. 00:37:41.019 --> 00:37:42.859 Is that going to be enough to save you? 00:37:43.739 --> 00:37:47.559 And under the curse of Adam there is no access to the tree of life. 00:37:47.739 --> 00:37:49.960 Our works cannot save us. 00:37:50.059 --> 00:37:50.639 We have fallen. 00:37:51.079 --> 00:37:52.639 We have been too far broken. 00:37:53.099 --> 00:37:56.259 We are hopeless unless God himself will save us. 00:37:59.059 --> 00:38:00.039 Number six. 00:38:00.179 --> 00:38:05.899 East of Eden all God's image bearers still owe their creator right worship. 00:38:05.900 --> 00:38:09.200 Our bookends where it's described as being east of Eden. 00:38:09.380 --> 00:38:11.079 It starts with Adam but it doesn't stop there. 00:38:11.160 --> 00:38:12.660 It includes that next generation. 00:38:13.200 --> 00:38:14.320 That has to be for a reason. 00:38:14.900 --> 00:38:17.880 What are we supposed to learn from this contrast between Cain and Abel? 00:38:18.200 --> 00:38:21.519 Well there's a lot to learn from Abel but that's not our focus on the covenant of works. 00:38:21.880 --> 00:38:23.280 Let's stick with Cain for today. 00:38:24.599 --> 00:38:28.660 Cain knew God exists as the ruler over all creation. 00:38:28.659 --> 00:38:35.219 And how would Cain and Abel both have learned to bring offerings and give a sacrifice to God? 00:38:35.859 --> 00:38:37.139 How would they have learned that? 00:38:37.819 --> 00:38:39.299 It would have been from their parents. 00:38:40.019 --> 00:38:44.539 So Adam and Eve knew what pleases the Lord and they taught their children that. 00:38:45.239 --> 00:38:48.039 But each child has to respond for themselves. 00:38:49.219 --> 00:38:53.599 So Cain knew that he owed worship to God because his parents had trained him. 00:38:53.819 --> 00:38:54.899 We can infer this. 00:38:54.900 --> 00:38:58.220 And also because Romans 1 chapter 20 says, 00:38:58.480 --> 00:39:03.200 For God's invisible attributes, namely his eternal power and divine nature, 00:39:03.320 --> 00:39:07.940 have been clearly perceived ever since the creation of the world. 00:39:08.500 --> 00:39:10.160 In the things that have been made. 00:39:10.740 --> 00:39:13.079 So they are without excuse. 00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:15.039 Cain had no excuse. 00:39:15.300 --> 00:39:16.480 You and I have no excuse. 00:39:16.920 --> 00:39:20.000 God has made himself known since the creation. 00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:27.840 So we read in chapter 4 verse 2 that Abel was a keeper of sheep and Cain a worker of the ground. 00:39:28.980 --> 00:39:32.360 Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground. 00:39:33.420 --> 00:39:36.780 In verse 4, Abel brought a blood sacrifice. 00:39:38.199 --> 00:39:40.179 A lamb, the firstborn of the flock. 00:39:41.340 --> 00:39:44.000 As their parents had taught them that God requires. 00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:47.440 And the Lord had regard for Abel in his offering. 00:39:47.579 --> 00:39:50.800 But Cain in his offering God had no regard. 00:39:51.780 --> 00:39:53.340 I have questions about this. 00:39:53.900 --> 00:39:55.480 I'm sure you probably do too. 00:39:56.340 --> 00:39:58.300 John Milton in a classic book. 00:39:58.480 --> 00:39:59.460 He was also a Puritan. 00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:01.760 It's called Paradise Lost. 00:40:01.760 --> 00:40:02.180 He wrote, 00:40:02.180 --> 00:40:11.040 Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone. 00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:19.240 And when the Lord did not accept Cain's offering, Cain was very angry and his face fell. 00:40:20.220 --> 00:40:25.940 Galatians 3.10 says that all who rely on works of the law are under a curse. 00:40:25.940 --> 00:40:31.860 For it is written, Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law. 00:40:32.240 --> 00:40:32.880 And do them. 00:40:34.059 --> 00:40:39.079 Your own works, the work of your hands, cannot please God. 00:40:40.360 --> 00:40:46.340 You must obey everything, the entire moral law, in order to merit any favor for yourself. 00:40:47.460 --> 00:40:48.900 And the Lord was merciful. 00:40:49.059 --> 00:40:50.760 He said to Cain, look in verse 7, 00:40:50.900 --> 00:40:54.400 Cain, if you do well, will you not be accepted? 00:40:54.400 --> 00:40:57.700 Cain knew what was pleasing to God. 00:40:57.900 --> 00:40:59.559 He knew what it was to do well. 00:41:02.500 --> 00:41:05.519 As Aldous Huxley mocked, he said, 00:41:05.680 --> 00:41:08.420 You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. 00:41:09.300 --> 00:41:10.340 And so Cain gets mad. 00:41:10.900 --> 00:41:11.680 He knows the truth. 00:41:12.139 --> 00:41:13.860 Do well, and God will be pleased. 00:41:15.200 --> 00:41:16.440 Romans 1.28 says, 00:41:16.680 --> 00:41:19.579 Since we did not see fit to acknowledge God, 00:41:19.900 --> 00:41:21.019 and this is Cain's sin, 00:41:21.019 --> 00:41:27.440 God gave us up to a debased mind to disobey the law of God. 00:41:28.280 --> 00:41:30.599 And that's exactly how it pans out. 00:41:32.019 --> 00:41:33.679 Cain kills Abel. 00:41:35.679 --> 00:41:41.139 East of Eden, sin inside man is deadly. 00:41:41.139 --> 00:41:45.859 The world is dark and dangerous. 00:41:46.679 --> 00:41:49.279 The world east of Eden is a scary place. 00:41:49.460 --> 00:41:49.679 Amen? 00:41:50.599 --> 00:41:52.400 And that's the world we are born into. 00:41:53.839 --> 00:41:55.019 East of Eden, though, 00:41:55.500 --> 00:41:59.359 all of God's image bearers still owe the Lord God, their creator, 00:42:00.299 --> 00:42:01.259 right worship. 00:42:02.239 --> 00:42:03.259 We owe that to him. 00:42:03.260 --> 00:42:08.820 Let me see if I can pull this together. 00:42:09.740 --> 00:42:11.020 Covenant of works for today. 00:42:13.240 --> 00:42:18.620 Our only hope of life rests in a new federal head 00:42:18.620 --> 00:42:21.860 who can fulfill the covenant of works now, 00:42:22.240 --> 00:42:24.300 east of Eden, on our behalf. 00:42:24.300 --> 00:42:28.980 We need a federal head 00:42:28.980 --> 00:42:31.940 to come into this fallen, dark, scary world, 00:42:32.060 --> 00:42:32.720 east of Eden. 00:42:33.980 --> 00:42:36.940 And we need him to fulfill this covenant of works 00:42:36.940 --> 00:42:39.100 that the righteous and just God requires. 00:42:39.620 --> 00:42:41.220 Not because he lacks anything, 00:42:41.500 --> 00:42:42.800 because we need that 00:42:42.800 --> 00:42:44.240 to be done for us 00:42:44.240 --> 00:42:46.000 on our behalf. 00:42:47.060 --> 00:42:48.880 The Son of God himself 00:42:48.880 --> 00:42:50.940 must enter this cursed world 00:42:50.940 --> 00:42:51.720 east of Eden. 00:42:51.719 --> 00:42:54.000 His whole life, 00:42:54.659 --> 00:42:56.079 he would delight in good, 00:42:56.639 --> 00:42:58.839 and he would never know evil. 00:43:00.639 --> 00:43:01.679 As prophet, 00:43:02.059 --> 00:43:04.599 the Son of God would preach God's word truthfully. 00:43:05.299 --> 00:43:06.019 As priest, 00:43:06.119 --> 00:43:08.539 he would be clothed in true righteousness. 00:43:09.279 --> 00:43:10.059 And as king, 00:43:10.679 --> 00:43:12.959 he will rule with true peace 00:43:12.959 --> 00:43:13.919 within his kingdom 00:43:13.919 --> 00:43:15.339 on this broken world. 00:43:16.639 --> 00:43:18.199 God the Son, the Creator, 00:43:18.939 --> 00:43:20.319 would submit himself 00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:22.600 to the corrupt judgment 00:43:22.600 --> 00:43:25.559 and unjust condemnation of man 00:43:25.559 --> 00:43:27.700 in the manly temple. 00:43:28.519 --> 00:43:30.080 And he would be driven out 00:43:30.080 --> 00:43:31.280 east of the temple. 00:43:32.420 --> 00:43:33.860 He would be sent out 00:43:33.860 --> 00:43:36.100 away from this earthly temple. 00:43:36.220 --> 00:43:37.539 He would have to exit 00:43:37.539 --> 00:43:38.620 those courts. 00:43:40.059 --> 00:43:41.960 And he would have to go stand 00:43:41.960 --> 00:43:43.420 in the cursed land, 00:43:44.360 --> 00:43:46.140 the hill of the skull. 00:43:46.139 --> 00:43:49.579 He would be surrounded by 00:43:49.579 --> 00:43:51.339 bones and flames. 00:43:53.400 --> 00:43:54.019 Golgotha, 00:43:54.719 --> 00:43:56.879 with the valley behind, 00:43:58.879 --> 00:44:01.400 east of the temple in Jerusalem, 00:44:02.639 --> 00:44:03.859 a picture of death, 00:44:05.179 --> 00:44:05.559 corruption, 00:44:06.219 --> 00:44:06.859 and curse. 00:44:07.679 --> 00:44:09.139 It's the polar opposite 00:44:09.139 --> 00:44:10.319 of the Garden of Eden, 00:44:11.319 --> 00:44:12.500 the temple garden. 00:44:12.500 --> 00:44:15.460 John Milton again wrote, 00:44:15.460 --> 00:44:16.719 long is the way 00:44:16.719 --> 00:44:17.559 and hard 00:44:17.559 --> 00:44:19.179 that out of hell 00:44:19.179 --> 00:44:20.260 leads up 00:44:20.260 --> 00:44:21.159 to light. 00:44:22.059 --> 00:44:23.199 And so the Son of God 00:44:23.199 --> 00:44:24.380 would bear the curse 00:44:24.380 --> 00:44:26.179 of covenant breakers, 00:44:26.880 --> 00:44:27.699 the full wrath 00:44:27.699 --> 00:44:28.699 of the Holy God 00:44:28.699 --> 00:44:30.019 on the tree 00:44:30.019 --> 00:44:31.019 of death. 00:44:31.019 --> 00:44:31.079 death. 00:44:34.159 --> 00:44:35.380 And so God 00:44:35.380 --> 00:44:36.420 himself 00:44:36.420 --> 00:44:38.239 would fulfill 00:44:38.239 --> 00:44:39.000 the demands 00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:40.280 of his own justice 00:44:40.280 --> 00:44:42.139 to inaugurate 00:44:42.139 --> 00:44:43.800 his new creation, 00:44:44.960 --> 00:44:45.679 he himself 00:44:45.679 --> 00:44:46.340 becoming 00:44:46.340 --> 00:44:47.539 the tree 00:44:47.539 --> 00:44:48.420 of life. 00:44:51.420 --> 00:44:52.699 Brothers and sisters, 00:44:52.860 --> 00:44:53.599 we were born 00:44:53.599 --> 00:44:54.739 east 00:44:54.739 --> 00:44:55.719 of Eden 00:44:55.719 --> 00:44:57.119 in a restless 00:44:57.119 --> 00:44:57.940 world. 00:44:57.940 --> 00:45:01.679 Augustine 00:45:01.679 --> 00:45:02.420 of Hippo, 00:45:02.679 --> 00:45:03.360 he had chased 00:45:03.360 --> 00:45:04.539 pleasure in his life, 00:45:04.639 --> 00:45:05.559 he had chased money, 00:45:06.059 --> 00:45:07.139 and he had chased fame. 00:45:08.139 --> 00:45:09.500 But as an old man 00:45:09.500 --> 00:45:10.400 writing to the church, 00:45:10.480 --> 00:45:11.119 he confessed, 00:45:12.599 --> 00:45:12.780 Lord, 00:45:12.880 --> 00:45:13.639 you created me 00:45:13.639 --> 00:45:14.400 for yourself, 00:45:15.099 --> 00:45:16.119 and my heart 00:45:16.119 --> 00:45:16.900 was restless 00:45:16.900 --> 00:45:18.099 until it found 00:45:18.099 --> 00:45:19.000 its rest 00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:19.920 in you. 00:45:21.659 --> 00:45:22.820 So the good news 00:45:22.820 --> 00:45:23.220 for us 00:45:23.220 --> 00:45:25.179 is that Jesus Christ 00:45:25.179 --> 00:45:26.659 fulfilled that 00:45:26.659 --> 00:45:27.519 covenant of works 00:45:27.519 --> 00:45:28.360 east of Eden 00:45:28.360 --> 00:45:29.440 on our behalf. 00:45:30.639 --> 00:45:31.559 And he says, 00:45:32.259 --> 00:45:33.679 come unto me 00:45:33.679 --> 00:45:34.659 all you 00:45:34.659 --> 00:45:36.199 who are tired 00:45:36.199 --> 00:45:37.699 and heavy laden. 00:45:38.400 --> 00:45:40.079 And I was born 00:45:40.079 --> 00:45:40.940 east of Eden 00:45:40.940 --> 00:45:42.400 for this purpose, 00:45:42.759 --> 00:45:43.960 to give you rest 00:45:43.960 --> 00:45:44.659 in God. 00:45:46.860 --> 00:45:47.759 Let's pray. 00:45:53.019 --> 00:45:54.780 From Romans 6, 12. 00:45:57.519 --> 00:46:01.139 Lord, we find 00:46:01.139 --> 00:46:01.559 our rest 00:46:01.559 --> 00:46:01.980 in you. 00:46:04.659 --> 00:46:05.820 We are no longer 00:46:05.820 --> 00:46:07.059 in this perishing 00:46:07.059 --> 00:46:07.619 world 00:46:07.619 --> 00:46:09.139 as slaves. 00:46:09.780 --> 00:46:10.759 We are now here 00:46:10.759 --> 00:46:11.860 as adopted children. 00:46:12.820 --> 00:46:13.199 We belong 00:46:13.199 --> 00:46:13.739 to the kingdom 00:46:13.739 --> 00:46:14.320 of heaven. 00:46:15.320 --> 00:46:16.179 And we ask, 00:46:16.300 --> 00:46:16.360 Lord, 00:46:16.420 --> 00:46:16.980 by the power 00:46:16.980 --> 00:46:17.940 of your Holy Spirit, 00:46:18.099 --> 00:46:18.420 therefore, 00:46:18.980 --> 00:46:19.960 for sin to not 00:46:19.960 --> 00:46:20.440 reign 00:46:20.440 --> 00:46:21.860 in our mortal body 00:46:21.860 --> 00:46:22.800 so that we 00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:23.800 obey its lusts 00:46:23.800 --> 00:46:24.940 and to not go 00:46:24.940 --> 00:46:25.639 on presenting 00:46:25.639 --> 00:46:26.159 the parts 00:46:26.159 --> 00:46:26.739 of our body 00:46:26.739 --> 00:46:27.299 to sin 00:46:27.299 --> 00:46:27.940 as instruments 00:46:27.940 --> 00:46:29.559 of unrighteousness. 00:46:30.199 --> 00:46:30.920 But help us, 00:46:31.139 --> 00:46:31.219 Father, 00:46:31.480 --> 00:46:32.659 to present ourselves 00:46:32.659 --> 00:46:33.239 to you, 00:46:33.400 --> 00:46:33.679 God, 00:46:34.420 --> 00:46:35.319 as those who are 00:46:35.319 --> 00:46:36.900 alive from the dead 00:46:36.900 --> 00:46:38.599 and your body parts 00:46:38.599 --> 00:46:39.799 as instruments 00:46:39.799 --> 00:46:41.279 of righteousness 00:46:41.279 --> 00:46:41.980 for God. 00:46:43.379 --> 00:46:44.379 We thank you 00:46:44.379 --> 00:46:44.960 that sin 00:46:44.960 --> 00:46:45.900 shall no longer 00:46:45.900 --> 00:46:46.619 be master 00:46:46.619 --> 00:46:47.699 over those 00:46:47.699 --> 00:46:48.539 who you purchased 00:46:48.539 --> 00:46:49.559 and adopted. 00:46:50.059 --> 00:46:51.099 We are no longer 00:46:51.099 --> 00:46:52.639 under the covenant 00:46:52.639 --> 00:46:53.599 and the curses 00:46:53.599 --> 00:46:55.059 of law-breaking, 00:46:55.539 --> 00:46:56.859 but now in Christ, 00:46:57.199 --> 00:46:58.219 by faith alone, 00:46:59.259 --> 00:47:00.119 through grace, 00:47:00.819 --> 00:47:01.519 we are under 00:47:01.519 --> 00:47:02.559 the covenant 00:47:02.559 --> 00:47:03.839 of redemption. 00:47:04.799 --> 00:47:05.779 We belong to you 00:47:05.779 --> 00:47:06.980 because you loved us 00:47:06.980 --> 00:47:08.139 before the foundation 00:47:08.139 --> 00:47:08.819 of the world 00:47:08.819 --> 00:47:10.239 in Jesus Christ, 00:47:10.319 --> 00:47:10.779 our Savior. 00:47:11.400 --> 00:47:12.579 To him be all glory 00:47:12.579 --> 00:47:13.019 and honor, 00:47:13.599 --> 00:47:14.519 now and forevermore. 00:47:15.019 --> 00:47:15.379 Amen. 00:47:15.379 --> 00:47:15.519 Amen. 00:47:15.519 --> 00:47:15.579 Amen. 00:47:15.579 --> 00:47:15.599 Amen. 00:47:15.599 --> 00:47:15.619 Amen.