SIN AND DEATH. -- Genesis 3:1-6; Genesis 3:17-19. GOLDEN TEXT. --_ By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin._ -- Romans 5:12. TIME. --Not certainly known. According to Usher B. C. 4004. PLACE. --The Garden of Eden. HELPFUL READINGS. -- Genesis 2:8-25; Genesis 3:7-16; Matthew 14:1-11;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE WOMAN SAID UNTO THE SERPENT. The great mistake of the mother of our race was to dally for. moment with the tempter. She ought, on the instant, to have said, "Get thee behind me, Satan." Whoever pauses to listen to the wooing of temptation is almost certain to fall. She explains that there h... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD HATH SAID, YE SHALL NOT EAT OF IT, NEITHER SHALL YE TOUCH IT. The clause, "neither shall ye touch it," is added by the woman to the charge of Genesis 2:17. It shows the construction that she put upon the command. It was. correct one. "Touch not, taste not, handle not," is the law with regard to... [ Continue Reading ]
II. THE TEMPTATION 4. YE SHALL NOT SURELY DIE. The adversary puts the lie to God. The object of his insinuations and contradiction is to destroy faith in God. Spiritual life begins in and rests upon faith; unbelief is the beginning of disobedience and death. Whenever the tempter can disarm his vic... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR GOD DOTH KNOW... YOUR EYES SHALL BE OPENED. The father of lies declares that, instead of dying as. consequence of eating of the forbidden tree, and thus disobeying God, those who eat are made as gods in knowing the distinction between good and evil. He tells half. truth, and thus gives. lie the... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN THE WOMAN SAW. She had listened to the tempter, and she now dallies with the temptation. She looks upon the forbidden fruit, and considers the advantages from taking it. She saw that "it was good for food." Perhaps the tempter ate some with great relish before her. It appealed to her sensual a... [ Continue Reading ]
II. THE CURSE.--The Bible student should read carefully the verses intervening between the 6th and the 17th. These tell of the arrest of the guilty pair, their arraignment, their excuses, the curse upon the serpent, the first of Messianic promises, and the sentence upon the woman. Adam is sentenced... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU SHALT EAT THE HERB OF THE FIELD. Instead of drawing his sustenance from the spontaneous fruits of paradise, man would henceforth live mainly on the products of the field, secured by endless toil.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE SWEAT OF THY FACE SHALT THOU EAT BREAD, ETC. What. brief and impressive summary of human life is condensed in this verse! The literature of the world will be searched in vain for. parallel to this truthful and affecting statement.--_ Conant._ Until death comes, the death that is now inevitab... [ Continue Reading ]