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| EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SIN \\ GENESIS 3:1-10 \\ \\ \\ INTRODUCTION: \\ The sin of Adam is called the "original" sin.
Mark Twain joked about it when he said, "I do not see anything so \\ original about it.
I could have done it myself."
Usually the term "original" sin is used in the context of defining how \\ Adam's sin has affected our personal lives.
I want us to use the term "original sin" in a little different context.
It is \\ also the original sin because all other sins are just a copy of it.
You can learn everything you need to know about \\ sin by studying the sin of Adam and Eve. \\ \\ \\ There are some things different about our sins however.
The difference does not lie in the character of the sin, but \\ rather in the context of the sin.
Adam and Eve sinned in the midst of a perfect environment.
They sinned even \\ though they themselves to that point had been completely innocent.
You and I do not live in a perfect environment, \\ but rather we live in a fallen world.
Neither are we innocent.
The Psalmist revealed that he understood himself to \\ have been "conceived in sin."
In another place he indicated that he came forth from his mother's womb speaking \\ lies.
So, our sins are never the same in their context as that of Adam's sin.
However, they are the same in \\ character and in consequences.
\\ \\ As we look at this simple piece of human history, we can learn so much about ourselves and our world.
We can \\ surely learn the basics about human sin and the reason that sin should be avoided at all costs!
\\ \\ I. YOU LEARN THAT YOUR HUMANITY MAKES SIN A POSSIBILITY.
\\ This is a lesson to be learned from the fall of Adam and Eve.
Their humanity made sin a distinct possibility.
The \\ Creator knew that sin was a possibility when He made the man and the woman.
Since we share their humanity, sin is \\ a distinct possibility in our lives.
\\ \\ 1.
You were created with freedom.
\\ When God made the man and the woman and placed them in the Garden of Eden, he granted to them the special \\ gift of freedom.
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil that stood in the midst of the garden symbolized that \\ freedom.
God would not have the man and woman love and serve Him because they had no other choice.
If they \\ were to love and serve Him, it must be because they desired to serve Him.
They had the freedom to disobey God or \\ to obey God.
They used that freedom to commit a sin against God.
\\ \\ \\ There is a debate among the theologians about how much freedom you and I have at this point.
Martin Luther, the \\ great German reformer, wrote a book on "The Bondage of the Will."
In that book he contended that because we are \\ descendants of Adam that we no longer have the freedom that Adam possessed.
We come into the world with a will \\ that is already bent in the direction of sin.
We do not have the freedom to say "no" to sin and "yes" to God like \\ Adam enjoyed it.
Other theologians would contend that even though we are the participants in a fallen race that we \\ do still have this moral freedom.
\\ \\ I do not pretend to be able to solve the conflict between these two points of view, however, it is evident in scripture \\ that man is held responsible for all of his sins.
The assumption of God seems to be there is not one human sin that \\ we had to commit.
Every human sin is the result of the misuse of the freedom that the Creator gave us.
It is this \\ freedom that we enjoy as human beings that makes sin a possibility.
\\ \\ 2.
You are falliable.
\\ This is the other aspect of our humanity.
As human beings we are subject to temptation.
The cause of their \\ humanity, Adam and Eve were subject to the approach and the appeal of the adversary of God.
They were \\ temptable as no other part of the created order was temptable.
A part of being created in the image of God is \\ having the degree of intelligence and the capacity to reason that makes it possible for us to consider the \\ temptations that the evil one might bring against us.
When ever you are tempted it is simply a fresh piece of \\ evidence that you share a common humanity.
\\ \\ That being subject to temptation is a basic part of our humanity became evident in the life of our Lord Jesus.
When \\ He took upon Himself our humanity, he became subject to the temptations of the evil one.
He had no sooner \\ committed Himself to do the will of His Father in the public baptism at the Jordan than He was faced with the strong \\ temptations that Satan presented to Him in the wilderness.
This is a reminder to us that there is no sin in being \\ tempted.
Being tempted is rather just a basic piece of evidence that you are a human being.
It is our humanity that \\ makes sin a possibility in our lives.
\\ \\ II.
YOU CAN KNOW THAT YOUR PERSONAL CHOICE MAKES SIN A REALITY. \\ A careful look at the Genesis record helps us know this basic thing about sin.
Moses reports the first human sin like \\ this: "When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and 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."
\\ \\ \\ There is distinction to be made between the action of the man and the woman.
When Eve ate the forbidden fruit, \\ according to the scriptures, she was deceived.
There is no indication that Adam was deceived.
He knew what he \\ was doing and made a choice of knowledge.
There is some question about why Adams ate the fruit if he was not \\ deceived.
Some have suggested that he ate the fruit because he wanted to join the woman in her sin against God.
\\ He was prepared to be a part with her of whatever consequences her sin might bring.
Others have suggested that \\ Adam did his act of sin for essentially the same reason as the woman.
He acted to eat the fruit because he, too, saw \\ that the fruit of the tree was good for food, pleasing to the eye and was also desirable for gaining wisdom.
I suspect \\ that there may have been a mixture of the two in the act of Adam.
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A choice of knowledge.
\\ It is clear from the scriptures that we are to understand that Adam knew that he was disobeying God.
He had \\ received from God the prohibition that he was not to eat from the tree in the midst of the garden.
When he ate of \\ the tree, he knew that he was disobeying God.
He also knew that it was an act that would bring consequences.
\\ \\ This is an essential part of human sin.
Where there is no knowledge there is no sin.
The thing that makes sin sin is \\ the knowledge.
You are doing something that you know is wrong, or refusing to do something that you know is right.
\\ \\ \\ When you look at the description of Eve's sin, you see the basic elements that make up human sin and the \\ motivation for it.
Moses says that it all began when the woman "saw that the fruit of the trees was good for food and \\ pleasing to the eye."
In his epistle the Apostle John indicated that the world is made up of the "lust of the flesh" - \\ which is seeing that the fruit of the tree was good for food."
In other words, sin happens when we respond to a basic \\ desire of our humanity in an inappropriate way.
John also indicated that the world is made up of "the lust of the \\ eye."
Eve saw that the fruit of the tree was "pleasing to the eye."
So human sin is always a response to something \\ that we see with our eyes and become curious about in an inappropriate way.
Eve also saw that the fruit of the tree \\ was desirable for gaining wisdom."
John indicated that the world is made up also of the "pride of life."
When a \\ person sins they are choosing to act independently of God.
They are choosing to be a god unto themselves.
It is \\ always a matter of choice.
All human sin begins with an act of the will expressed in a choice.
\\ 2. Sin is a responsible choice.
\\ This simple story of the original sin is a reminder to us that all sin involves a responsible choice.
Regardless of why \\ you do it, it is still a responsible choice!
You may be deceived like Eve, but Eve was still responsible for her choice.
\\ You may be tempted through someone you love like Adam but you are still responsible for your choice.
Sin is \\ always an act for which you become responsible.
\\ \\ It is interesting in the conversation that follows to see how God refused to allow either the man or the woman to \\ evade their responsibility for the choice they have made.
We moderns have developed a victimization syndrome in \\ which we are reluctant to accept responsibility for any of our choices.
This is a distortion of the Biblical \\ understanding of who we are and what we have done.
You sin when you make a choice to disobey or dishonor \\ God.
When you make such a choice you are responsible for such a choice.
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