The Sin That Changed The World (MP 10)

God gave Adam freedom of choice to make;
He did the same for the rest of mankind;
But God foreknew which fork each one would take,
So the First Man’s choice stained all those behind!
God gave one command to Adam and Eve;
It was, “Do not eat of a certain Tree!”
Their fitness, eternal life to receive,
Was being tested; would they remain free?
Satan, as a serpent, told them a lie;
It was that God would not do what He said;
“If you eat this, you will not surely die!”
As if God were too kind to see them dead!
So they ate, disobeying God’s command,
And they died, and the entire race of Man!

Scripture Quoted: Genesis 3:1-7 (NIV)
“Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, ‘Did God really say, 'You must not eat of any tree in the garden?’ The woman said to the serpent, ‘We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say ’You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will surely die.‘ 'You will not surely die,’ the serpent told the woman, ‘for God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.’ When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked, so they sewed fig leaves together and made covering for themselves.”

Commentary
Adam and Eve were created by God innocent as small children, who believe anything anyone tells them. He preferred that they remain that way. God knew, however, that Satan was on the earth, and that he was the father of all lies (See John 8:44). As a test for the First Pair, God put a tree in the middle of the garden and commanded Adam that he must not eat its fruit. He foreknew that Adam would disobey, for He knew that Satan would convince Adam to do it. Please note what the effect of eating the forbidden fruit was, because it was very deliberately planned by God, so that its effects would spread to the entire human race, including all of us today. It was the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil—not the Knowledge of How to Tell Good from Evil; just that there are both good and evil in the world. The first result of eating in defiance of God upon Adam and Eve was that they realized they were naked; this meant that nakedness was now not only noticeable to their minds, but that lust entered their thoughts. Lust is Satan’s way of inducing erotic sin into a modern-day obsession, all of it evil, except between husband and wife, in God’s sight. pride, jealousy, envy, hatred, covetousness, contentiousness, and a million other emotions that lead to sin entered into Man when Adam and Eve disobeyed. The serpent (Satan) had a field day with the human race after the first sin in the Garden!

The Bible defines death in three ways: Physical death, meaning the end of this life in the flesh upon the earth; “second” death, meaning God’s penalty after the Final Judgment suffering condemnation to hell with Satan and the fallen angels (See Revelation 20:14); and spiritual death meaning those living human beings whose lives are being lived while rejecting God. The devil lied; Adam and Eve and all who lived between Adam and Moses died all three deaths (See Romans 5:14), except for some who God specifically “elected”, counting their obedience as faith (See Hebrews 11).

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him will not die, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)

“That if you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord’, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Romans 10:9)