IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN SIN SEPARATED HUMANS FROM GOD, BUT AT THE CROSS THEY CAN BE RECONCILED TO GOD

1. SIN ENTERS THE WORLD
• The creation of Adam and Eve —the beginning of the human race:
  • God made man out of the dust of the earth and He breathed in Adam the breath of life and becomes a living soul.
  • But God also created Adam in His image as a spiritual being [Genesis 1:26] Adam had a double nature.
  • In order to maintain their physical nature, God gave Adam to eat of all the trees that were in the Garden of Eden except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God warned Adam that at the moment he would eat of that tree, he would surely die. [Gen. 1:15-17]
  • For their spiritual life, Adam and Eve were spiritually “in God” — Jesus declared that spiritual life comes from God: “For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.” John 5:26
  • Adam and Eve depended of their union with God “in God” for their spiritual life.
• They receive the seed of sin and rebellion: [Genesis 3:1-7]
  • The devil in the serpent tempted them with lies and deception.
  • They accepted the lies and deception of the devil and they eat of the forbidden tree.
  • At that moment, they received the “seed of sin” that had birthed in the being of Lucifer/the devil [Isaiah 14:12-15; Ezekiel 28:12-17]
  • The seed of sin they received separated them from their source of spiritual life, the Almighty God, and they died spiritually. [Romans 5:12]
• Results of the rebellion of Adam and Eve:
  • Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned. [Romans 5:12] Sin entered through one man, but all humanity was affected and sinned.
  • For if by the one man’s offense many died… For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation… For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one… Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation. [Romans 12:12-19]
  • Adam’s rebellion and sin brought separation, spiritual death, judgment, and condemnation to the rest of humanity throughout all generations — BUT THEN GOD SENT HIS SON TO EARTH ON A MISSION


2. CHRIST’S FIRST COMING — THE SUFFERING MESSIAH
• THE LAMB OF GOD WHO TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD
• But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities;
  The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.
  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way;
  And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
  Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
  And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so He opened not His mouth. [Isaiah 53:5-7]
• “But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you” [1 Peter 1:19-20]
  • Before the foundation of the world and before the creation of Adam and Eve, the Almighty God, because of LOVE, had prepared a sacrificial lamb without spots, blemishes, or contamination — His Son. He would pay the sin debt humanity had acquired in the Garden. That sacrificial lamb was prepared even before the human race sinned.
  • Because all humanity was contaminated with Adan’s sin, no human could be used to be sacrificed for humanity’s sin because they had inherited spiritual death from Adam. [Romans 5:12]
  • So God sent His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, not in a spiritual form but in a human form in order to judge and condemn sin in the flesh of His Son: “For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh.” [Romans 8:3]
  • Paul explains: “For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.” [Romans 5:19]
  • Jesus declared: “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” Mark 10:45
  • Jesus explained: “For I say to you that this which is written must still be accomplished in Me: ‘And He was numbered with the transgressors.’ For the things concerning Me have an end.” Luke 22:37


3. RECONCILED WITH GOD THROUGH THE CROSS: 2 Corinthians 5:18-21
• Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ.
• That is that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them.”
• For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
• “And by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross. And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled.” Colossians 1:20-21
• The victory of the cross was God destroying the power that Satan had to keep humanity in bondage to sin without hope of salvation. God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, in the form of a human to condemn sin in the flesh so that by Christ’s work on the cross, humanity could be set free from the bondage of sin that Satan kept them. And also through Christ, the human race could now be reconciled to God — but only through Christ. Jesus said: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” John 14:6

* All scriptures are from New King James Version