Please take your Bibles and open them up to Genesis chapter 3, and this morning we're
coming to one of the most infamous chapters of the entire Bible.
If you're just now joining us for the first time, we've been walking through the book
of Genesis, the first book of the Bible, and up to this point things have been great.
But now this morning what we see is this good creation that we've seen up to this point
is about to be drastically changed for the worse with the entrance of sin into the world.
So Genesis chapter 3, our passage this morning is verses 1 through 13, and when you found
that in the Bible, then let's stand in honor of the reading of God's Word, Genesis 3, 1
through 13.
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.
He said to the woman, did God actually say, you shall not eat of any tree in the garden?
And the woman said to the serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but
God said, you shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden,
neither shall you touch it, lest you die.
But the serpent said to the woman, you will not surely die, for God knows that when you
eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.
So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the
eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and
ate, and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate.
Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig
leaves together and made themselves loincloths.
And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the
man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, where are you?
And he said, I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked,
and I hid myself.
He said, who told you that you were naked?
Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?
The man said, the woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree,
and I ate.
Then the Lord God said to the woman, what is this that you have done?
And the woman said, the serpent deceived me, and I ate.
And Father God, as we open up your word, we pray that we would see clearly here our sin,
our separation from you.
Lord, this is the root cause of all evil in the world and all evil in us.
And so Lord, we pray that we would see it clearly and that it would drive us to Christ in faith.
We pray in Jesus' name.
Amen.
You may be seated.
I got lunch with somebody this week who was new to the area, and because it had warmed up just a little bit,
the tiniest bit, we sat outside.
But because we live where we live, we weren't out there long before we were absolutely eaten up by no-see-ums,
and they are back with a vengeance.
I don't know if you noticed.
And as we sat there, he wondered out loud, well, why in the world are these things so bad here?
And I didn't have a scientific explanation to give him.
I'm sure there is one.
But the only explanation I could give him was because all the way back here in Genesis chapter 3,
Adam and Eve disobeyed the word of the Lord and plunged God's perfect creation and all of us in it into something called sin.
I don't want to be overly simplistic this morning, but sin is the fundamental explanation for everything that is bad and broken in the world.
All the way from minor inconveniences and things that annoy us like no-see-ums and mosquitoes and poison ivy and things like that,
all the way to the most difficult and terrible things that face all of us in this life.
Questions like, why is my marriage so difficult?
Questions like, well, why do I feel so alone and depressed?
Questions like, well, why do we deal with things like cancer?
Why do we have to face things like death?
And of course, as we think about this on a spiritual level this morning, it's the answer to questions like,
well, why does the Bible say that each and every one of us are by nature separated from God?
Enemies of God.
And why are all of us by nature enemies and under his wrath?
Why does anybody die?
And why does anybody go to this place called hell?
All of these terribly unpopular topics that no one really wants to think about and talk about.
The most basic answer and explanation that we can give for all of these questions is found right here in Genesis chapter 3.
With the entrance of sin into the world.
So let's look here at this passage together.
And what we're going to see here this morning is the entrance and the effects of sin.
And this will be our outline this morning.
If you're taking notes, that might help you to follow along.
We'll see the entrance of sin and the effects of sin this morning.
First, we see here the entrance of sin.
Look there with me starting in verse 1.
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.
The tone kind of shifts here in chapter 3, doesn't it?
We've had God's good, perfect paradise up to this point.
And now the presence of this crafty serpent comes onto the scene.
And I'll just go ahead and tell you that there are questions that we have that Genesis simply does not answer.
And it doesn't intend to answer questions like about the origins of evil itself.
Or questions about maybe the fall of Satan.
Genesis doesn't intend to answer these questions.
It puts us after all of that.
And by the time we meet this serpent in the garden, he is already wicked.
And he's already bent on twisting God's good creation.
The focus here is on humanity and how humanity first sinned.
And the effects of that sin on all of creation and on all of us.
So this crafty serpent who we know is Satan, he comes to disrupt this perfect garden paradise.
And he comes with this tried and true playbook of temptation.
And I want you to look with me starting in verse 2.
And I want you to notice four tactics that Satan uses here in the garden.
And I want you to pay attention to this because these are tactics that he still uses today on each and every one of us.
I know we're talking about the very first sin.
But unfortunately, the first sin is not the last sin, is it?
This first temptation is not the last temptation.
What we see here is a mirror-like representation of something that each and every one of us faces in our day-to-day life.
Tactic number one, Satan attacks God's good design.
We've seen over the past several weeks, haven't we, how God ordered and structured his creation in Genesis 1 and 2.
It all began with God.
He is at the top.
He's at the center of all things.
His word is ultimate.
And then God creates Adam and he gives his word to Adam.
And then God creates Eve to be Adam's helper.
And Adam and Eve together are called to rule over the animal kingdom.
You see that structure and that order.
But here's what happens.
It's all completely reversed, isn't it?
The animal comes to the person.
The serpent comes up to the woman.
The woman takes her cues from an animal.
And then Adam takes his cues from the woman.
And nobody's listening to God at all.
Satan is disrupting, upending God's good design from the very beginning.
And he absolutely loves to do this.
Anywhere you see sin present, you will see an attack on God's good design.
We saw last week how we see the effects of this in marriages.
Husbands struggle to lead and to love their wives as they were designed to do.
Wives struggle to help and submit to their husbands as they were designed to do.
Sin comes in and jumbles up and confuses the whole thing.
We see it in churches.
Women stepping into roles of teaching and authority that are reserved for biblically qualified men.
Scripture is not unclear about this.
But again, sin comes in and disrupts God's good design.
But most often, you know where we see this most clearly?
You know where we see this order and this design of God attacked most often?
It's in our own sinful personal rebellion against God.
And we see it in our own lives.
When you and I walk in sin, what we are doing is we're saying to God that you're not the authority here.
I am.
That's what sin is.
Sin isn't just some minor little mistake, a little slip up here and there, doing something that we shouldn't do.
R.C. Sproul, he says that sin is cosmic treason.
Every sin, no matter how seemingly insignificant, is an act of rebellion against the sovereign God who reigns and rules over us.
And as such, is an act of treason against the cosmic king.
Sin always attacks and confuses God's design.
Always.
Wherever you see that order disrupted, you can trace it all the way back right here to the garden.
Tactic number two.
He questions the word of God.
We see that plainly enough here, I think.
But it's so interesting to me.
When you slow down and pay attention to the dialogue here in this account,
you'll begin to notice that this temptation ultimately is a battle over the word of the Lord.
Look at this, verse one.
He says, did God actually say you shall not eat of any tree in the garden?
Now stop there.
Okay, this is a test.
Everybody look up.
Eyes on me.
Don't look at the book.
Okay, I don't tell you to do that often.
Look up at me.
Is that what God said?
Did God actually say you may not eat of any tree?
Is that what God said?
Yes or no?
What God said, you can look back down,
was that they could eat freely of every tree in the garden.
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
they should not eat of it.
For in the day that they eat of it,
they will surely die.
From the beginning here,
the enemy completely misrepresents the word of the Lord, doesn't he?
Now look at how Eve responds.
Which by the way, first of all,
that's mistake number one.
Because she shouldn't have responded at all.
Okay, word of wisdom to you.
If a talking serpent comes up and starts speaking to you,
you don't have to have a dialogue with it.
You just run away and pray.
And that's what Eve should have done here.
That's what we should do when we face temptation.
You know, you don't have to engage it.
You don't have to have a dialogue with it.
You don't have to enter into a conversation.
With it, you are well within your rights
to simply say no and run away.
But Eve speaks.
And to her credit, she does correct him, doesn't she?
She says,
We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden,
but now look what she says.
God said,
You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree
that is in the midst of the garden,
neither shall you touch it,
lest you die.
Stop there.
Is that what God said?
This is like one of those pictures in the magazine
where you have side by side
and you got to spot the differences here.
It's subtle.
Do you spot the differences?
God never said,
Don't touch the tree.
She added that herself.
She adds to the word of the Lord.
And on top of that,
this is a little bit harder to see in the English,
but what she also does is
she minimizes the consequence of disobedience.
Hebrew language does this thing
where when they want to emphasize something,
they'll sometimes say it twice.
And so when God gave this command,
what it says is,
In the day that you eat of it,
you shall surely die.
In the Hebrew, that is,
you will die, die.
That's serious.
You're going to die, die.
It's for emphasis.
Don't eat it or you will surely die.
But what does Eve say?
Don't eat it.
Don't touch it.
Or you'll die.
She adds to his word.
She takes away from his word.
She adds to it
to make it sound more restrictive than it is.
And then she minimizes the consequence
and makes it sound less severe
and less serious than it is.
You see, this temptation is a battle
over the word of the Lord.
And she is losing.
Church, if you want to guard yourself from sin,
get yourself in the word of the Lord.
If you expect to fight against the temptation of the enemy,
you must know the word of the Lord.
So that if somebody says,
Did God really say this?
You can look at him and say,
Well, no, he didn't.
And actually feel like you know what you're talking about
because you know the word of the Lord.
Or you could say,
Well, yes, he did.
And here's where he says it.
And here's why he says it.
And here's what it means.
Because I'm so immersed in the word of the Lord
that I can't be led astray by these subtle lies.
If we would fight against temptation,
we'd better be armed with the word of God.
Not the word as we want it to be,
but the word as it is.
No additions,
no subtractions.
The enemy here questions the word of God.
But he doesn't stop there, does he?
Tactic number three.
He outright lies to your face.
Look at how Satan responds.
Verse four.
You will not surely die.
You will not die.
Die, he says.
The serpent quotes the word of God.
He knows it more accurately than Eve does.
And he denies it completely.
Surely, you will not surely die.
That's an absolute lie.
And of course, it doesn't seem like it at first.
Adam and Eve, they don't immediately die, do they?
No, not physically at least.
But we know that this death,
this consequence of the sin here
is much more than just physical death.
The apostle Paul says in Romans chapter five
that sin came into the world through one man,
that's Adam,
and death through sin.
So death spread to all men
because all sinned.
They will die physically eventually,
and we die physically because of sin.
Church, death is a terrible enemy.
The more I see it,
the closer I get to it,
the more I experience it,
the more I hate it.
Death is a terrible enemy.
The devil lies here.
They will die.
But an even bigger issue here
is that sin brings spiritual death.
Adam and Eve are about to be banished
from the presence of God.
And for the first time,
that close, intimate communion with the Lord
that they've enjoyed
and God's perfect paradise
is about to be broken.
They may be alive, technically,
but they are dead.
You know, to be physically alive,
but spiritually dead,
that's not much of a life at all, is it?
It's a mirage.
It's a lie.
To be physically alive,
but spiritually dead,
sadly, that's the natural state
of every single person
that's born of Adam.
You realize,
it is possible for you
to be physically alive,
breathing, thinking, acting,
walking, sitting here,
listening,
sitting here,
singing the songs,
and hearing the word.
It's possible for you
to be physically alive,
but spiritually dead.
And this is our natural state
because of sin,
which is why Jesus says,
you must be born again
to enter the kingdom of God.
The devil lies.
You will not surely die.
He tells him another lie in verse 5.
God knows that when you eat of it,
your eyes will be opened
and you will be like God,
knowing good and evil.
Just zoom out
and think about how ridiculous this is.
Adam and Eve
are made in the image of God,
are they not?
They are the only creatures
in the world
that are made in the image of God.
No one else,
no creature in all of creation
is more like God than them.
They don't need to take cues
from a talking snake
on how to be made like God.
It's a lie.
Church, we should know
that the devil was a liar
from the beginning.
And everywhere he exerts his influence,
he does it through lies.
And you see what he does here.
He oversells the benefits
and he undersells
the consequence of sin.
You see that?
You'll be like God.
You'll be wise.
Think about how it'll benefit you.
And don't worry about the consequence.
You won't die.
He oversells the benefits
and he undersells the consequence.
And church,
isn't that always how it is
when we face temptation?
You think about whatever that is for you.
Whatever you tend to be led astray by,
be that pride,
or lust,
greed,
or anger,
or selfishness,
sins of the tongue
and of speech
like we spoke about this morning
in Sunday school.
In that moment of temptation,
you're not talking,
you're not thinking about consequence.
You're thinking about benefit.
How can this serve me?
Take a step back
and you realize
it's always a lie.
Sins,
pleasures,
are never worth it.
The enemy baits the hook.
He doesn't want you to see the hook.
He covers it up
with this delicious,
appealing bait.
Whatever it is
that appeals to us,
which is what we see
in this fourth tactic here.
Number four,
the enemy plays
to our desires.
This is how temptation works.
Look at verse six.
When the woman saw
that the tree was good for food
and that it was a delight
to the eyes
and that the tree
was to be desired
to make one wise,
she took of its fruit
and ate.
And she also gave some
to her husband
who was with her
and he ate.
First of all,
can we talk about Adam
here for a minute?
Where was Adam
the whole time
this was going on?
Where was Adam
the leader?
Where was Adam
the head?
Where was Adam
the husband?
Where was the guardian there?
The man in the garden?
He's supposed to be
the godly authority,
the protector.
Where was Adam
this whole time?
He was right there
with her.
He just stands by
and lets it all happen.
Passive Adam
stands by
and watches
as this snake
lies about God
and then tricks his wife.
But both of them here
make this fatal mistake.
This is what they do.
Listen to this.
They make this fatal mistake
of trusting their desires.
others.
You know we live
in a culture
that will tell you
things like
follow your heart.
Right?
If it feels good,
it's okay.
If I want to do something
or like something
or be something,
if it's what I desire,
nobody can say no to me
or it's not affirming to me.
It's not loving to me
to deny me
of my desire.
Listen,
our desires
cannot always be trusted.
Our feelings
cannot always be trusted.
Our emotions,
how we feel about something
cannot always be trusted.
Feelings
and desires
and emotions
are wonderful things
when they follow
the truth.
Only
when they follow
the truth.
Otherwise,
don't trust them.
James tells us
each person
is tempted
when he is
lured
and enticed
by his own desire.
Then desire,
when it has conceived,
gives birth to sin
and sin,
when it is fully grown,
brings forth
death.
Here we see
Eve is
tempted
by the lust
of the flesh.
She sees
that it's good
for food.
She's tempted
by the lust
of the eyes.
It looks
good.
And she's tempted
by the lust
of pride.
It's desired
to make me wise,
make me like God.
And all of it
is too much.
So we see
that she saw
it was good
to be desired.
She took it,
she ate it,
and her husband
who was with her
who should have
stopped the whole thing
took
and he ate.
And now,
second,
we see the tragic
effects
of sin.
Look there with me
starting in verse 7.
We see these
effects of sin.
We'll see this
throughout the rest
of the chapter.
I had to stop
somewhere.
We're going to stop
at verse 13.
Well, for one,
they felt shame.
Verse 7,
Then the eyes
of both
were opened
and they knew
that they were naked.
And they sewed
fig leaves together
and made themselves
loincloths.
for the first time,
mankind,
they felt this
awareness
and the shame
of their nakedness.
You know,
we have all felt
this with our sin.
Have we not?
Even non-believers,
you know deep down
that your rebellion
against the Lord
is wrong.
And when the temporary
pleasure of that sin
washes away
and passes away,
often what we're left
with at the end
is shame.
And notice what
they do with it.
Look how they try
to handle it.
They go and they try
and cover themselves up.
They grab whatever
they can find.
They sew fig leaves
together.
They make themselves
loincloths.
They try by their own
efforts to cover up
their shame.
Every single one of us
does this,
don't we?
We feel shame.
We sin and we feel
that shame.
And instead of running
to the Lord
as we ought,
we try some man-made
method of covering
it up.
Sometimes this is just
how sin works.
Sometimes the very thing
that brings us shame
is the same thing
that we turn to
to try and cover it up
and make us feel better.
It's this tragic,
endless cycle.
We self-medicate
with drugs
or with alcohol
or with pornography.
It's this endless
depressing cycle.
Or on the other end
of the spectrum,
maybe we try and cover
ourselves up
with good things,
things that we think
will please God
with religion
or good works.
Maybe if I just try harder.
Maybe if I just do more.
Maybe if I'm just
a little bit better
next time.
Listen,
that's not the answer either.
All of these
are feeble attempts
to cover up
our fundamental problem,
which is this.
We are all sinners.
We are naked
and exposed
and guilty
in the sight of God
and the answer for us
isn't just to try
and do something
to cover it up
as much as we want to.
We can't do anything
to cover up our shame.
The answer
is come to Christ.
Only Jesus
can cover our shame.
He bore our shame.
They experience shame
in the garden.
We also see that
because of their sin
for the first time
they experience
separation
from the Lord.
Verse 8
They heard the sound
of the Lord
walking in the garden
in the cool of the day
and the man and his wife
hid themselves
from the presence
of the Lord God
among the trees
of the garden.
For the first time
there is now
distance
separation
between them
and God.
For the first time
they are afraid
of the Lord
and they try
and hide themselves
away from them
and what a foolish
thing that is.
Can you imagine?
The Lord God
who owns all
and sees all
and knows all
you cannot hide
yourself from God
but what a tragedy
it is that they even
thought of this
for the very first time
sin has entered in
and severed
the relationship
between man and God
and they are afraid.
I know this has never
happened to you
but it's kind of like
when you're driving
down Highway 17
going about 25-30 miles
an hour
too fast
and you hear a siren
behind you
and what do you do?
Well you
you just kind of
inch over
to the right hand lane
and hope maybe
just maybe
they'll just pass
right by you
and show you
some mercy
maybe they won't
see you
maybe they're not
they're not coming
for you
you hide
but you know
in your heart
that they have
every right
to pull you over
and write you a ticket
you know that you're guilty
you just hope
that he passes you by
you know there's an echo
of this account
here in Genesis
with Adam and Eve
hiding amongst the
trees of the garden
hiding because of
their sin
there's an echo
of this all the way
at the end of the book
in Revelation
the return of the Lord
the day of the Lord
the wicked hide themselves
in rocks
and in caves
and they beg
that the rocks
might cover them up
that they might be hidden
from the wrath
of the Lord
but for them
it's too late
here God
we see he doesn't
pass them by
and God certainly
could have come
in wrath
right away
that very minute
but instead
look how he
look how he approaches them
he comes
gently
and graciously
asking these
these probing
rhetorical questions
he's like a parent
with a disobedient
child
son what were you
thinking
son why did you
do this
where
where are you
who told you
not to eat
of the tree
who told you
that you were naked
have you eaten
of the tree
which I commanded
you not to eat
and we know
that the day
of God's wrath
is coming
but here
we see
this is
this is the Lord
graciously
pursuing
sinners
but even so
the effect
of their sin
is obvious
their sin
has brought
separation
between them
and God
and so it is
with each
and every
one
of us
our sin
has earned
us
separation
from God
and we
cannot hide
ourselves
from him
Hebrews chapter 4
says no creature
is hidden
from his sight
but all
are naked
and exposed
to the eyes
of him
to whom
we must
give
an account
but instead
of coming
to him
and owning
their sin
and repenting
to him
look what they do
here in verse 12
we see another
effect here
of their sin
look what they do
they blame
shift
they shift
the blame
onto anybody
and everybody
else besides
themselves
look how quickly
Adam goes
from rejoicing
over his bride
here in chapter 2
to throwing her
right under the bus
here in chapter 3
this woman
not just this woman
but this woman
that you
gave me
she gave me
the fruit
and I ate
y'all the honeymoon
is over
he blames
his wife
and essentially
he blames
God
this defective
helper
that you
gave me
that's the
problem
it's her fault
the Lord
turns his
attention
to the woman
and he says
what is this
that you
have done
what does
she do
well she
turns and
points the
finger at the
serpent
the serpent
deceived me
and I ate
Adam points
his finger
at his wife
he says
it's her fault
he points
his finger
at God
he says
it's your fault
she points
the finger
at the serpent
says it's his fault
no one
here is owning
their sin
before the Lord
no one
confesses
no one
repents
no one
takes full
responsibility
for their
own sin
I wonder
when was
the last
time that
you
simply
fully
completely
owned
your
sinfulness
before the
Lord
you didn't
blame
shift
point the
finger
at someone
else
you didn't
say I'm
sorry
but
you didn't
give any
excuse
any extra
explanation
you simply
before the
Lord
said I
am a
sinner
you see
my sin
I know
my guilt
and I
bring it
before you
would you
have mercy
on me
a sinner
let me
ask it like
this
when's the
last time
you really
practiced
repentance
and faith
those are
two pretty
key terms
that we
need to
understand
church
repentance
and faith
because this
is what it
means to
be a
Christian
to be
a Christian
you must
repent
of your
sin
and put
your faith
in Christ
Jesus
if you
have not
done this
you are
not a
Christian
and if you
are a
Christian
then you
start to
realize
this
this is a
whole
lifetime
worth of
faith
and repentance
I need
to repent
every day
I need
to remind
myself
to trust
in the
Lord
every
single
day
but it
happens
it starts
now
it starts
once
have you
repented
and believed
the gospel
repentance
begins
with
fully
owning
your
sin
confess
it
own
it
I am
a sinner
I blew
it
I'm totally
powerless
to defeat
it
I can't
cover
myself
up
I can't
hide
it
from
you
you see
me
for exactly
who I
am
and so
what can
I do
but lay
myself
out
before
you
and ask
you
to
completely
just have
mercy
on a
sinner
like
me
that's
repentance
and then
faith
is
completely
trusting
Jesus
Christ
in
your
place
say I
failed
I'm a
sinner
I
cannot
come back
into the
presence of
God
on my
own
account
and so
I
trust
what
Jesus
has
done
is
sufficient
that's
faith
I
trust
what
Jesus
has
done
he
has
done
it
for
me
I
trust
that
Jesus
is
the
true
and
better
Adam
and I
want
to be
counted
in
him
have
you
trusted
in
Jesus
are
you
trusting
him
right
now
we
just
sang
the
words
to
this
new
song
new
to
us
anyway
let
me
let
me
remind
you
of
what
we
just
sang
Christ
the
true
and
better
Adam
son
of
God
and
son
of
man
who
when
tempted
in
the
garden
never
yielded
never
sinned
he
who
makes
the
many
righteous
brings
us
back
to
life
again
dying
he
reversed
the
curse
and
rising
crushed
the
serpent's
head
Christians
are those
who
trust
by
faith
that
Christ
Jesus
is
the
true
and
better
Adam
who
succeeded
in
my
place
where
the
first
Adam
failed
you
think
about
the
passage
that
we
just
read
earlier
this
morning
from
Matthew
chapter
four
did
you
make
the
connection
where
the
devil
comes
and
he
takes
Jesus
up
to
the
mountaintop
you
remember
how
Jesus
has
been
fasting
in
the
wilderness
for
40
days
at
this
point
he
is
worn
out
he
not
well
fed
he
is
not
in
a
paradise
like
Adam
was
he
is
out
in
the
desert
about
as
tired
and
hungry
as
a
person
can
be
and
right
in
the
midst
of
his
vulnerability
here
comes
that
snake
again
the
devil
we're
meant
to
read
this
story
right
alongside
the
story
here
in
Genesis
chapter
3
the
devil
comes
and he
tempts
Jesus
with the
same
old
tired
playbook
the
exact
same
way
he
tempted
Adam
and
Eve
in
the
same
way
that
he
tempts
us
the
tempter
came
to
him
and
said
if
you
are
the
son
of
God
command
these
stones
to
become
loaves
of
bread
take
and
eat
he's
tempted
with a
lust
of
the
flesh
but
he
answered
it
is
written
man
shall
not
live
by
bread
alone
but
by
every
word
that
comes
from
the
mouth
of
God
how
does
Jesus
battle
the
enemy
is
with
the
word
of
the
Lord
the
devil
comes
and he
tries
another
tactic
he
tries
the
lust
of
pride
he
took
him
to
the
holy
city
and
set
him
on
the
pinnacle
of
the
temple
and
said
to
him
if
you
are
the
son
of
God
throw
yourself
down
for
it
is
written
he
will
command
his
angels
concerning
you
and
on
their
hands
they
will
bear
you
up
lest
you
strike
your
foot
against
a
stone
and
now
the
devil
is
quoting
scripture
last
tactic
the
devil
took
him
up
to
the
very
high
mountain
and
showed
him
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
world
and
their
glory
that's
the
lust
of
sight
and
he
said
to
him
all
these
I
will
give
you
if
you
will
fall
down
and
worship
me
Jesus
said
to
him
be
gone
Satan
for
it
is
written
you
shall
worship
the
Lord
your
God
and
him
!
only
shall
you
serve
Jesus
succeeds
where the
first Adam
failed
the
first Adam
failed
in the
garden
Jesus
here
he
perfectly
resists
all
temptation
Jesus
perfectly
obeys
the
word
of the
Lord
not
just
here
in
this
one
instance
but
a
whole
lifetime
of
perfect
obedience
and
by
doing
so
Jesus
secures
what
the
first
Adam
lost
Jesus
secures
for
himself
and
all
who
are
included
in
him
eternal
life
in
paradise
in
perfect
relationship
with
the
Lord
for
all
who
are
included
in
him
by
faith
he
goes
even
further
than
that
doesn't
he
in
a
shocking
display
of
love
he
lays
down
his
own
life
to
save
his
bride
to
protect
her
from
the
attack
of
the
enemy
the
first
Adam
blamed
his
bride
the
second
Adam
takes
the
blame
in
her
place
the
first
Adam
let
the
serpent
win
the
second
Adam
crushes
the
head
of
the
serpent
the
first
Adam
brought
sin
into
the
world
and
with
it
death
the
second
Adam
paid
for
the
sins
of
the
world
and
gives
those
who
are
in
him
eternal
life
the
first
Adam
brought
in
shame
the
second
Adam
bore
our
shame
should I
keep
going?
The
first
Adam
descended
into
death
the
second
Adam
descended
into
death
as well
but
death
couldn't
hold
him
the
second
Adam
rose
from
the
grave
never
to
die
again
listen
to
this
the
first
Adam
heard
take
and
eat
and
it
led
to
death
but
now
the
second
Adam
he
says
take
and
eat
this
is
my
body
which
is
broken
for
you
take
and
eat
and
it
leads
to
life
I
love
how
in
God's
providence
we
get to
come
to
the
Lord's
table
today
do
you
see
the
connection
here
at
the
table
we
see
visibly
and
tangibly
portrayed
for
us
held
out
to
us
the
broken
body
and
the
shed
blood
of
Christ
it's
an
opportunity
for
us
again
for
repentance
and
for
faith
and
for
turning
and
for
trusting
would
you
this
morning
behold
the
broken
body
and
shed
blood
of
Christ
would
you
lay
eyes
on
it
with
eyes
of
faith
this
morning
would
you
see
it
as
good
see
it
as
desirable
would
you
see
it
as
life
for
you
and
then
would
you
take
and
eat
would
you
repent
and
believe
the
gospel
as
we
partake
this
morning
of the
broken
body
and shed
blood
of
Christ
he
freely
offers
himself
to
you
this
morning
would
you
come
let's
pray
Lord
we
praise
you
father
for
your
grand
plan
of
salvation
to
save
sinners
by the
blood
of
your
son
that
although
we
see
ourselves
in this
account
of
sin
and
temptation
that
all
of us
are
guilty
lord
we
praise
you
for
your
mercy
and
grace
is
held
out
to
us
in
the
gospel
of
Christ
and
we
thank
you
that
in
him
lord
we
can
regain
and
recover
what
our
first
father
lost
perfect
relationship
eternal
hope
life
forever
with
you
we
love
you
lord
we
pray
this
in
jesus
name
amen