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Excerpted from: Elements of Motivation (Part 6)The first thing sin does is destroy innocence. Innocence is that quality of being free from blame. It means to be pure, virtuous, above suspicion. Just think of the verses we just read there in I John 3. It means to be pure, virtuous, above suspicion. It means to be simple, fresh, undefiled, completely harmless. An innocent person is one whom others feel no sense of threat to be around. There is no fear, no competition with that person.
This illustration is showing us that no one can ever be quite the same after one has sinned with knowledge. Notice they sinned after God instructed them. Nobody had to tell them. They knew. Do you know why? Their conscience that had been educated by God convicted them. This is why I said a little bit earlier, when we sin with knowledge, the psychological effects - the damage - is much greater than when a person sins in ignorance.
Nobody had to tell Adam and Eve they sinned. They knew. They now looked at things in a different light from the way they did before, and a sense of wrongfulness rushed in on them immediately. A moment before, brethren, they had been friendly and joyful, and all of the garden seemed to be obedient to their every wish. Suddenly there was guilt and fear, and it seemed as though every creature in the garden was witness to their act, condemning them. They felt exposed, and they tried to hide. Separation from the purity of God began immediately. The virtue of their innocence began to lose its vitality. In Psalm 40, David wrote a few interesting things in regard to this:
Does that remind you of Adam and Eve? Did David feel guilty? Did he feel condemned? Did he feel unworthy? What does a child do when he is caught telling a lie? He hides his face. What do criminals do when they are taken out of the police car and the television cameras are there taking a picture of them while they are hauled off into the corridor, or whatever? They pull their jackets over their faces. They try to hide. They turn. They know. The innocence is gone.
Why are children so adorable? Do you know what it is we love about them? It is the beauty of their innocence. What happens on our trip to adulthood? Sin changes our view. It changes the way we look at life. We become distrustful, sophisticated, worldly, competitive, cosmopolitan, cynical, suspicious, sarcastic, prejudiced, self-centered, cool, and uninvolved. Sin drives people apart, and it creates fear. Sin and its companion - worldliness - does that to us.
Genesis 3:1-7
Excerpted from: Flag of Our FatherIt has been postulated over the years as opposed to the picture drawn from the minds of men of an apple from Eve to Adam, that the actual fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was a fig. So here in chapter 3, verse 7 we see another very significant hint as to what happened from taking of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Verse 7 tells us the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.
The first thing that man did after the sin of taking of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, disobeying the truth of God's Word, was to see their physical differences not from God's perspective toward unity but in the perversion of disobedience and the mind of men towards division. Then taking the leaves from that very tree, they determined for themselves to protect their own different parts that God had made to perfectly unite them physically.
Genesis 3:6-13
Excerpted from: God's Stare DecisisThere are two things that happened here that changed our relationship with God and each other. They go hand-in-hand with what has been the point so far in this sermon, because they are both, perhaps, the most significant part of the problems we face today. There is failure to stand by the decisions not to be disturbed in the truth of God's Word. And there is a drive away from God by Satan's own self-deception of, This is your right!
Brethren, we live in such divisive times that are only getting worse as rights are being demanded, and the making of decisions that are not built on truth, but on what is best for our side and convincing others that it is to ensure our rights! Do we really think that we can make proper decisions based on the truth of God's Word as long as we hold on to the this is my right, attitude that is trumpeted all around us throughout this world from all sides?
Genesis 3:7
Excerpted from: Healing the BreachNow immediately, effects began to show.
Well, immediately, they noticed that they should be ashamed - that they were naked, that they did not have anything on in front of this other person, and they were ashamed of it. It is interesting that that was the first thing that registered with them - a sexual thing.
That succinctly says what I just mentioned. What it did was that it opened their eyes. They knew the good through God, because that was all that He had taught them. But now they had other avenues of pursuit - the evil side. They were no longer innocents. They had real choice - to choose, not just what God offered but what Satan offered. And He said, We've got to make sure that they don't become immortal, until they are ready. And so He closed off the way to the tree of life.
Genesis 3:7
Excerpted from: The Christian and the World (Part Two)This is kind of interesting, because immediately after sin, and the knowledge of what they had done begins to enter, they immediately begin to make do. Adapt things. This is illustrated by them making clothing for themselves. Remember that quality of clothing is later used in the Bible as a symbol of the quality of righteousness; and making do is showing you and me that going in the direction…they were creating their own standards of righteousness. And then, to add insult to injury, they hid from God when they knew He was about.
Remember that Jesus later said, I am truth. They hid themselves from truth, and all the while they were making do. What we are looking at here are the world's major spiritual, moral, and ethical characteristics.
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