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The Fall and God’s Response
In Genesis chapter 3, we see what happened after Adam and Eve sinned. After they blamed each other and the serpent, God’s response reveals His heart toward humanity. It’s significant that God first addresses the serpent rather than immediately punishing Adam and Eve. This shows us that God is always on our side against the devil. Even when we have fallen, even when we have sinned, He stands against the devil on our behalf. This is tremendously encouraging.
The Lord God said to the serpent:
“Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all cattle and more than every beast of the field. On your belly shall you go and dust shall you eat all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel.”
We see that the serpent was not originally created to crawl on its belly. This was the result of God’s curse. Before this judgment, the serpent had a different form, though we don’t know exactly what it looked like.
The First Prophecy of Christ
Verse 15 contains the first prophecy in the Word of God, and remarkably, it’s a prophecy concerning the coming of Jesus Christ. Before God speaks a word of judgment to Adam and Eve, He first gives a word of promise – that He will make provision for their sin. This reveals God’s heart of mercy.
God’s rebukes always contain hope, unlike human rebukes which often leave the impression that the other person is hopeless.
The first prophecy in Scripture concerns the defeat of Satan. This is what the devil doesn’t want believers to recognize – that he was ultimately defeated on the cross. Many believers live in fear of Satan and evil spirits, not believing they can be free from the misery Satan has placed on their lives. This happens because Satan has blinded them to the fact of his defeat.
The Seed of the Woman
Notice that God says, “I will put enmity between you and the woman,” not between the serpent and the man. The reference to “her seed” is a prophecy that Jesus Christ would be born without an earthly father – of a virgin.
In Galatians 4:4, we see the fulfillment of this prophecy: “When the fullness of time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman.” Jesus is called the seed of that fallen woman, implying that Christ would come in the same flesh as that fallen woman had. This prophecy was given after sin had corrupted human flesh, showing that Jesus would take on our actual human nature.
Christ manifested in the flesh is revealed right at the beginning of the Old Testament. Jesus wasn’t born with a special body created inside Mary without connection to her; He was truly Mary’s seed, of her own flesh. Through this, salvation would come, and Satan would be defeated by One who came in human flesh.
The Curse and Punishment
It’s important to note that while God cursed the serpent (verse 14), He never cursed Adam and Eve. Read verses 16-19 carefully – God cursed the ground, not humanity. God punishes us, but He doesn’t curse us. There’s a significant difference between punishment and curse. A loving father punishes his children; only an evil father curses them.
To the woman, God said:
“I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you shall bring forth children, and yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”
Pain in childbirth is part of God’s judgment that came upon humanity because of sin. Every time there’s pain in childbirth, it reminds us that we are still in this mortal body and the new heavens and earth have not yet come.
God’s Order in Marriage
God authorized man to rule over his wife for two reasons: first, because woman was created to be man’s helper, and second, as a consequence of the fall. Eve tried to take headship from Adam by taking the fruit without consulting him – she tried to be the head of the home, and that’s how sin entered.
To Adam, God said his sin was that he “listened to the voice of your wife” instead of obeying God. This doesn’t mean men should never listen to their wives’ advice. In Genesis 21, we see God telling Abraham to “listen to your wife” regarding Hagar and Ishmael. The difference is whether the wife’s advice aligns with God’s word.
The issue isn’t that she’s a woman; the issue is whether we follow God’s voice or someone else’s when they contradict. When God tells us to do something, and someone else (even a spouse) tells us to do something different, we must choose to obey God.
The Cost of Discipleship
We have gentle spiritual brothers today, but Jesus was so direct and wholehearted when speaking to His mother, “Woman, what do I have to do with you?” There is a wholeheartedness which today’s so-called gentle spiritual brothers just don’t understand, because they don’t love God as wholeheartedly as Jesus did. That’s the reason they’re defeated in sin also.
Jesus was never defeated because He was wholehearted. He wouldn’t allow His mother, Joseph, brothers, or anyone to lead Him into sin. He would be strong when it came to God’s word and God’s standards. Nobody would stand before Him. Human reasoning like “think how she cared for you when you were a baby” had no influence on Jesus, because if something was against God’s word, He would stand against anybody, even those who cared for Him when He was small.
We must not allow emotional feelings to lead us away from wholehearted obedience to God’s word. I’ve seen through the years that those who have wholeheartedly stood against their relatives for God’s word are the ones who’ve really accomplished something for God on this earth. The diplomatic compromisers drift along. We’re not saying they’re evil, but they drift along, and God’s mighty blessing never seems to be their portion as it would have been if they had loved God more.
The principle of discipleship that Jesus spoke about begins here: “If any man will come after me, he must hate his father, mother, brother, sister, wife, children, and his own life.”
Adam’s Failure and Christ’s Example
Adam, because you loved your wife more than you loved Me, because you listened to the voice of your wife more than you listened to My voice, therefore you shall not eat from it, because you did not listen to My voice.
Notice the contrast in verse 17. It’s a contrast: “My voice said you shall not eat from it. Your wife’s voice said eat from it. And you listened to your wife.”
Therefore, Jesus said, “If any man will come after me, let him first of all hate his father, mother, brother, sister, wife, children, and his own life if he wants to be my disciple.”
I’ve noticed something else. Even in the church, there are people who hate their father and mother but will not hate their wife. It’s amazing. They seem to have lost part of that verse. They are zealous in hating their father and mother, but not so zealous in hating their wife and children. That is a human hatred then. If it were divine, it would apply to all relatives, and it would only relate to disobedience to God’s word, nothing else.
Many people take these commands in a human way. They have something against their parents, so they take up that verse which the devil whispers in their ears, and they begin to hate their father and mother. No, that’s not the meaning. The point is, if relatives tell you to do something against God’s word, then only this “hatred” should operate.
That’s the contrast in this verse. My voice said don’t eat it, and that other voice from your loved one said eat it. There was a conflict between God’s voice and the voice of the loved one, and it is in that context that our discipleship is tested. There and there alone are we to stand against father, mother, brother, sister, wife, children, and even our own life, which may tell us something contrary to God’s word.
This is why Jesus made that the first condition of discipleship, because man sinned by loving someone more than he loved God. That danger exists for every one of us—when we love a relative more than we love God, we are in danger of falling into sin just like Adam.
We need to ensure that in the day of judgment, the Lord never has to say to any of us, “Because you listened to the voice of your father when I told you to do something else,” or your mother, or your wife, or your son, or your daughter, or your brother, or your sister. If God has to say that to any of us in the day of judgment, we have profited nothing from the example in Genesis chapter 3.
God took that very seriously, but there was no opportunity for God to say that to Jesus. He never had to say to Jesus that you listened to the voice of your mother and didn’t listen to My voice. No. Jesus said, “What have I to do with you, woman?” He was going to listen to the voice of God.
There is an example for us there—the way Adam went and the way Jesus Christ went. There is a price to be paid in following Jesus Christ, and a carnal worldly believer can never understand it. If we are carnal and worldly, that message will sound harsh and hard to us, and we will even think that Jesus is harsh and hard. But when we are spiritually minded, God shows us what that means.
The Curse Upon the Earth
Because of Adam’s sin, God said, “Cursed is the ground because of you. In toil you shall eat it. In sorrow you shall eat it all the days of your life.”
There’s sorrow for the woman in verse 16, pain. There’s sorrow for the man in verse 18, “both thorns and thistles, it’ll grow for you.” There were no thorns and thistles before sin came into the world.
This phrase in the middle of verse 17, “cursed is the ground because of you,” means because of you, Adam, who disobeyed Me, this earth which I placed under your dominion is also cursed. The animals who were also placed under your dominion have also received a judgment. The lion and the tiger have become wild. The snake has become poisonous, and scorpions have their sting. Everything was affected on earth because man, the ruler of the earth, allowed the devil to occupy him, to fool him, and therefore his home, which was the earth, also came under the control of Satan.
This is a warning to us that when a man allows the devil to influence his life, his home also becomes affected. “Because of you, the head of the home, not honoring Me,” God says, “therefore there is a punishment even upon your home.”
It can be the other way too. Because you, as the head of the home, have honored Me, therefore there’ll be a blessing upon your home. I’ve seen that again and again—where the head of the home really seeks to honor God, even with a carnal wife, God still blesses that home. And where the head of the home does not honor God, the blessing of God doesn’t come on that home.
It’s a tremendous responsibility upon the head of the home. All men must take that very seriously. So much of what happens in your home depends on how you live and honor God in your personal life.
The Dignity of Work
“And you shall eat the plants of the field, by the sweat of your face you shall eat bread.”
God has ordained hard work for man. There is a verse in Ecclesiastes which says the sleep of the hard-working man is sweet. It’s the person who is lazy who finds it difficult to sleep at night. Sleep is a blessing that God has given us if we work hard during the day. God has ordained hard work for man. By the sweat of your face you shall earn your living.
That’s why in the New Testament we read in 2 Thessalonians 3 that if a man does not work, neither should he eat. 2 Thessalonians 3:10. I believe this is referring particularly to those who left their jobs and decided to become full-time workers.
The term “full-time worker” is actually a misnomer because most full-time workers work less than those who are not full-time workers. In fact, people who are not full-time workers often work more full-time than those who are so-called full-time workers. Most full-time workers just work for two evenings a week for a couple of hours of meetings, and that’s what they call work.
Paul writes in verses 7-8, “We did not act in an undisciplined manner, but working with labor and hardship night and day to be an example for you.” In verse 10, “We gave you this order: if anyone will not work, neither let him eat, because we hear that some of you are leading an undisciplined life doing no work at all.”
That means they gave up their jobs and just went around acting like busybodies. There are lots of people like that in our country. Be careful that you don’t get deceived by any of them thinking that they are God’s servants. They are not God’s servants; they are the devil’s servants—just going around doing no work and sponging off other believers. We are not to encourage such people. If they do not work, they should not eat. Paul is a good example of how to serve the Lord.
“By the sweat of your face you shall eat your bread” means that you must work and earn your living. God has ordained that, and hard work is man’s protection today in a fallen world. In western countries where they have a five-day week or even a four-day week in some places, with a lot of free time and no interest in anything spiritual, young people who don’t work are given money from government security systems. The result is so much evil and sin because they don’t have to work hard. Hard work is a protection that God has given.
Remember You Are Dust
Genesis 3:19 says, “Till you return to the ground, till the day you die, you’ve got to work hard because from it you were taken. You were taken from the ground and you are dust.”
That’s a good word that we ought to always remember. God looking at you and saying, “You are dust.” I say, “Yes Lord.” How much will you buy dust for? Do you pay money to buy dust? Has dust got any value? No.
You are dust, and that teaches me one thing I have to face: with all my cleverness, I’m dust. With all your good looks, you’re dust. Have you heard it? You are dust. You look into the mirror, the mirror may tell you something else. You look at your school report or college report or the degrees after your name, that may tell you something else. But God says, the whole lot of you, you are dust, and it’s better to hear His voice.
Remember that when you look into the mirror. Remember that when you think of your qualifications, abilities, intellect, capabilities, talents, and everything else. You are dust.
I need to hear that every day. It teaches me that the only thing of value in me is what the Holy Spirit has been able to accomplish. And the only thing of value in you is what the Holy Spirit has been able to accomplish in your heart. If He’s done nothing in your heart, you’re just dust, full stop.
But praise the Lord that if we allow the Holy Spirit to lead us along the way of the cross before we finish our earthly life, though about our earthly part God still has to say “you are dust,” yet within that earthly vessel, God has been able to accumulate a treasure of the divine nature. That’s the only thing that God counts as having any value.
God’s not impressed by beautiful dust, intellectual dust, talented dust. No. All dust. The only thing that has any value is what the Holy Spirit has been able to work of the nature of Christ in us.
If only we can remember that all our lives—God looked straight into Adam’s face and said, “You’re dust.” And I need to see God looking straight into my face and saying, “You are dust.” I say, “Yes, Lord, that’s right. I agree with you 100%. With all that I think I am, I’m dust.”
That’s why we need to put our face in the dust. The Bible says in Lamentations 3:29, “Let him put his mouth in the dust. Perhaps there will be hope for him” when he puts his mouth in the dust and recognizes that he is but dust and ashes. Like Abraham said, “Lord, I am dust and ashes.”
Job said that whenever a man got a revelation of God in the Bible, he always put his face in the dust. He realized what he was. When God stood face to face before Adam, Adam had no doubt that he was dust.
We forget it when we don’t stand face to face before God. When I forget that I’m dust, that is the clearest proof that I’m not living before the face of God anymore. I’m living before the face of man.
Living Before God’s Face
If I were living before the face of God, I would recognize that I’m dust every day of my life. All those who live before God’s face will recognize that they are dust. People ask, “How do I handle this problem of pride? How do I handle the problem of pride when I’m so gifted and talented and God blesses me and has given me ability?”
There is no solution, brother. You just have to live before God’s face. That’s all.
When you live before God’s face, you don’t have a problem with pride at all because you get a revelation of what you are—that you are dust. We get puffed up and develop big ideas about ourselves. The moment we begin to get those big ideas, it is the clearest indication that we have stopped living before God’s face.
We’ve stopped. We’ve wandered off. We can say we’re not interested in the honor of men, but if spiritual pride has started coming in—pride in your family, pride in your talents, pride in 101 stupid things like that—you’re not living before God’s face. We have forgotten what God said to Adam straight to his face: You are dust. And to dust you shall return.
The Eternal Value of Our Works
Everything that the Holy Spirit has not accomplished in us has nil eternal value. That’s what we need to recognize. Your intellectual abilities have zero eternal value. Your capabilities and accomplishments in all types of fields in the world have zero eternal value. Your home and all the things you have accumulated and laid up for your children have zero eternal value. Only what the Holy Spirit has accomplished has eternal value.
All the rest we can call dust. And as I said the other day, this word “dust” from which man was made is translated in Nehemiah 4 as “rubbish.”
So it is quite scriptural when we say that all these earthly things are garbage. Because God calls it garbage, we call it garbage. Because Jesus said that all that is big and great in the eyes of men is an abomination to God, therefore God calls it rubbish, we call it rubbish.
Everything is rubbish if it’s not accomplished by the Holy Spirit. Even so-called Christian work—there’s a lot of Christian work which is not under the leading of the Holy Spirit. It’s just man’s clever ideas of how to serve God. That also is dust, rubbish.
We need to grow in discernment to see what is dust and rubbish in so-called Christian work and what has eternal value. The Bible speaks of wood, hay, and straw which will all be reduced to dust and ashes in the fire, and that which has real value.
Woman’s Divine Calling
And then verse 20: “And now the man called his wife’s name Eve because she was a mother.” What did God say she was to be in Genesis 2:18? A helper.
And in God’s presence, what did Adam name Eve? A mother. Two titles for woman in Genesis 2 and Genesis 3. Not business executive, not preacher—man’s helper number one and mother number two. That was in the clear light of God’s immediate presence when God was face to face with man and woman.
They knew clearly what the calling of the woman was: a helper to her husband and a mother to her children. But now, since 6,000 years have passed, woman has drifted further and further—millions of miles away from God.
Now she thinks she’s not to be a mother. “What to do if I’ve got such a stupid husband? I’ve got to put some sense into his head. I’ve got to run the house.”
And some of these people think they’re spiritual. Some of these women think they are spiritual just because they know a little bit of the Bible and they fast and pray. All your fasting and praying is garbage if you do not know that your calling is first of all to submit to your husband as a helper and to be a mother to your children.
To neglect your children and run off to work to make more money—that’s because man has drifted away so much from God.
The primary calling of a woman is to be a wife and a mother. That’s in Genesis 2 and Genesis 3 in the clear light of God’s presence. He called his wife’s name Eve or “living” or “life” because she was the mother of all the living.
First a helper, second a mother. It’s important to know that order also. Not first a mother and then a wife. First a wife. God gave Eve to Adam as a wife long before she became a mother. And God gives you to somebody as a wife long before you become a mother. And never forget that priority. Your first priority is to be a wife. Second, a mother.
In heathenism it’s not like that. They care more for their children than they care for their husbands. They love their children more than they love their husbands. And all women who are like that, we can say they are heathen. They have no understanding of God. Because one who has a true understanding of God will love her husband more than she loves her children.
And it’s very difficult for a woman to be spiritual in this area. The mark of a spiritual woman is this: Someone said that it would be impossible for a wife to be in the bride of Christ if she did not learn before she left this earth how to submit to her husband.
I believe that. God has given one commandment to children: honor your father and mother. Then come all the other commandments—don’t steal, don’t kill, and all these other things. Likewise, He’s given one commandment to wives: submit to your husbands as the church is to Christ. Then comes all the others.
And if she neglects the first one, even if she talks about the new and living way, I do not believe that she will ever be a part of the bride of Christ. Because she has not understood to keep the first and foremost commandment that God gave. Take that seriously.
That is true Christianity. What we see in the world today is a Christianity polluted and adulterated with human traditions. And that’s why when Paul was writing to Titus, seeking to establish New Testament churches in the island of Crete, he says to Titus:
“I want you to speak the things which are fitting for healthy doctrine.” (Titus 2:1)
“The older women must be reverent… they must teach what is good. They should encourage the younger women, the wives, one to love their husbands, second to love their children.” (Titus 2:3-4)
That is Genesis 2 and Genesis 3. That, Paul says, is sound doctrine. And verse 15: “These things speak and exhort and reprove with all authority.” If there are some women who don’t like to listen to this, rebuke them with all authority, teach them their proper place to submit to their husbands, and to love their children, not neglect them, not ever to think that the children are a burden or a nuisance.
To be workers at home, it says in the next verse. Adam understood that. It’s important that as we come into the New Testament, we come back to understand God’s purpose for man and woman from the beginning.
God’s Provision of Clothing
Then we read in verse 21: “And the Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.” We know that those fig leaves would dry up in no time. Adam and Eve didn’t know that, but God knew it—that when the leaf is taken off from the tree, it doesn’t last long in that fresh condition; it dries up.
That covering was inadequate, not sufficient, and so God clothed Adam and Eve. After sin has come into the world, there has become a necessity for men and women to be clothed. It was only when there was no sin that man and woman could remain unclothed.
But after sin has come, it is necessary—God Himself was the first person who made proper clothes for man and woman. And you can be sure of one thing: that what God does, the devil will do the opposite. That’s why the devil is in the business of unclothing women, particularly in the cinemas, on the beaches, in the swimming pools, and other places.
Who does that? The devil. Who gives those tailors those fashionable ideas to unclothe the woman a little more? You think God inspires those tailors to do that? Who inspires women to wear their clothing immodestly? You’ve got to be an idiot to believe God inspires such things.
God believes in clothing men and women. Don’t forget that. Don’t get your inspiration from the devil.
A lot of today’s fashionable society—not a lot, the whole lot of it—has got its inspiration from Satan, who’s doing the opposite of what God does. He clothes the man and the woman with proper durable clothing that would cover much more of their body than a few fig leaves. Learn something from that.
Learn that God expects a woman to be modest. All these things in the New Testament are found here in Genesis 3. The woman’s calling to be a wife and a mother, to be modestly dressed—it’s all here. When Paul teaches these things that a woman should not teach because she was deceived, all those things you read in 1 Timothy 2, you find it all in Genesis 3. That was God’s original intention.
The thing is, the devil has so confused and deceived people that they haven’t gone back to see that this was God’s original intention for fallen man and woman.
The Picture of Christ’s Righteousness
And of course, the other thing here is that this is a picture of the way God clothes us with the righteousness of Christ. Because in order for God to clothe Adam and Eve with garments of skin, He had to kill one or more animals.
We can say this is the first time that blood was shed in the history of the universe—when God killed an animal or more than one and took the skins of those animals and made a covering for Adam and Eve. A picture of what would come in the future where the Lamb of God would shed His blood and His skin, the righteousness of Christ, would cover us.
What are the fig leaves a picture of? The fig leaves are a picture of my righteousness. The Bible says in Isaiah 64:6 that our righteousness is like a filthy garment in God’s eyes. And it’s a pretty abominable piece of cloth that the original Hebrew here is referring to.
A filthy, abominable, stinking, dirty piece of cloth is all our righteousness. Not our unrighteousness, not our sins, but our good deeds with which we think we can find acceptance before God are like a filthy garment, like fig leaves.
And in place of that, we read in Isaiah 61:10:
“I will rejoice greatly in the Lord, my soul will exult in my God, for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness.”
He has put a coat of skin around me. He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness, the righteousness of Christ. And we read the fulfillment of that in the New Testament, that Jesus Christ has become righteousness to us (1 Corinthians 1:30).
This is justification. And we see that in Genesis chapter 3, that when we try to cover ourselves with our fig leaves and come before God, God says, “Throw away your fig leaves, let me give you something better, something more durable, something that will keep you covered all your lifetime.” You know that animal skins can last a whole lifetime.
God gave them animal skins, not even cloth or terylene or any such thing. Animal skins that would last a lifetime. That’s how God clothes us with the righteousness of Christ, so that we can be covered.
He has clothed me. He didn’t tell Adam to go and manufacture it. He didn’t tell Adam to go and kill the animal. God did it all.
God was the one who thought of it and arranged for Christ to be slain on the cross. And He is the one who has clothed me. And I need to just receive it. What did Adam have to pay for it? Did he have to pay anything for it? Nothing.
And that is how we receive justification, freely. Nothing in my hands I bring. I just receive this garment that God gives me freely, the righteousness of Christ to clothe me and cover me so that I can stand before Him.
You see, because we are so sinful, and sinful people can’t stand in God’s presence, so while we are working out our salvation and becoming sanctified, how can we get into God’s presence? Only one way: if we are clothed with the righteousness of Christ. I can’t come into God’s presence because I say, “Lord, I’m working out my salvation.” If you say that, God will say, “That’s good, but you’re still not good enough.”
But I praise God that while working out my salvation, because I’m still not good enough, I can be clothed with the righteousness of Christ. And therefore, I have constant acceptance in God’s presence. And that’s pictured there too.
Verse 22: “Then the Lord God said, ‘Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil.'” Yes, man became like God in the wrong way. He’s become like one of us, but in the wrong way.
The Consequences of Sin and God’s Mercy
Not in character, but in knowledge of good and evil. And now, lest he stretch out his hand, and take from the tree of life, and eat and live forever. God wanted to prevent man from living forever. Why? Then he would live forever as a sinner. So God said, I want to save him from living forever as a sinner. Let him die so that he can be raised up to a new life.
And so it was the mercy of God that God took Adam away from the Garden of Eden, so that he wouldn’t eat of the tree of life and live forever as a sinner. Now he could die and salvation has come through death. We can get another body because we’re going to die.
Isn’t death a good thing? Would any of you like to live in this body forever and ever and ever? I certainly wouldn’t. I’m sure you wouldn’t. Praise God that He’s not allowed us to live forever in this body.
Therefore, the Lord sent him out from the Garden of Eden to cultivate the ground from which he was taken. There’s mercy with God. He didn’t send him to hell.
We saw that God was strict. For one sin He punished, but He didn’t send him to hell. There’s mercy with God. He just sent him out. There’s hope. God is strict, yet He’s merciful.
Cultivating the Ground vs. Heavenly Mindedness
And we can say he was sent out to serve the ground, to cultivate the ground. That’s the condition of the human race, serving the ground, serving for earthly things. And now Jesus has come that we might have our minds set on the things above so that we don’t cultivate the ground and just live for the ground and for the things of the ground, but for the things of eternity.
So He drove the man out. It’s a pretty strong word. He just chased him out.
And at the east of the Garden of Eden, He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword, which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life. A sword and a fire on all sides. It says on every side of the tree of life.
It went round and round, protecting that tree. The only way to reach that tree now is to allow that sword to fall on our flesh. It fell on Christ first.
And when we are crucified with Christ, they that are crucified with Christ have crucified the flesh with their affections and lust, the sword and the fire fall on our flesh, then we can partake of the tree of life. There’s no other way to the tree of life. That’s why we have to always preach the sword and the fire in the church if we want to gather around the tree of life.
In many churches, they gather around the tree of knowledge. There’s no sword, no fire. I never in my life want to belong to any church like that.
If I were in a place where there’s no church like that, I’d rather sit at home rather than go and sit in a church where all they’re interested in is knowledge. No sword, no fire. There’s a sword and fire around the tree of life.
Christ Bore All the Consequences of the Fall
Just want to say one more thing in closing. We know that everything that Adam lost, we have received in Christ. We notice these words.
Curse, verse 17. Sorrow, all these are fulfilled in Christ. Jesus became a curse.
Sorrow, verse 17. Margin, Jesus became a man of sorrows. Thorns, verse 18. Upon His head was a crown of thorns and thistles. Sweat, verse 19. He sweat great drops of blood.
Dust, we read in Psalm 22:15. Jesus came to the dust of death. The sword fell on Jesus on Calvary and death.
He was cast out. He drove the man out. “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Jesus was cast out.
Everything that is there, that judgment fell on Christ. So that where sin abounded, grace abounded much more. So that in Christ, we not only get back everything that Adam lost, but more than Adam had.
Amen.
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