_THE TEMPTATION OF MAN_ ‘Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?’ Genesis 3:1 (1) The writer of the narrative intended to imply, by his language, the exi... [ Continue Reading ]
_CONCEALMENT FROM GOD IMPOSSIBLE_ ‘Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.’ Genesis 3:8 I. THAT WHICH STRIKES US FIRST OF ALL IS, THAT ADAM REPRESENTS THE AVERAGE SINNER.—A man may do worse than Adam. Many men have done and do worse tha... [ Continue Reading ]
_COWARDICE AND CANT_ ‘I heard Thy voice … and I was afraid.’ Genesis 3:10 I. ‘I HEARD THY VOICE … AND I WAS AFRAID.’ The words are Adam’s words, spoken after that first sin, which we are told about in to-day’s first morning lesson. Was Adam a coward when he uttered them? Yes, he was—a conscienc... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE EXCUSE OF THE TEMPTED_ ‘And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.’ Genesis 3:13 I. THE RECORD BEFORE US IS THE HISTORY OF THE FIRST SIN.—It needed no revelation to tell us that sin is, that mankind is s... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE EARLIEST GOSPEL_ ‘I will put enmity between thee and the woman,’ etc. Genesis 3:15 I. THE FIRST TIME PROPHECY OPENED HER LIPS, IT WAS TO PRONOUNCE THESE WORDS. To our first parents they were full of hope and consolation. In some mysterious way their loss was to be repaired; a Deliverer was... [ Continue Reading ]
_SINNERS MUST SUFFER_ ‘Unto the woman He said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception,’ etc. Genesis 3:16 By the Fall sin entered in, and by sin a change passed over the whole world. The change affected the moral relations of man. In becoming disobedient to God, he lost all control... [ Continue Reading ]
_‘HE REMEMBERETH THAT WE ARE DUST’_ ‘Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.’ Genesis 3:19 I. MEN KNOW NOT THAT THEY SHALL DIE, EVEN THOUGH THEY CONFESS IT WITH THEIR LIPS ALMOST DAILY.—If we consider what death is, we see that men who know its approach will act in all things as in the f... [ Continue Reading ]
_DRIVEN INTO EXILE_ ‘So be drove out the man.’ Genesis 3:24 The results of the Fall! If one were to catalogue them one might spend hours. We are not concerned to-day so much with those results such as sorrow, suffering, and death. These are patent to everyone. What we are to think about is more t... [ Continue Reading ]