Friday 26 October 2012

Lesson 8: Commandment 1- Have no other gods before God our creator (Part B)

Read (Genesis 4) (Luke 10:18)

Seeing as though we had no relations why would the serpent or Satan seek to make the humans sin?

In the beginning an angel called Lucifer was created by God. This angel was very beautiful as described (Ezekiel 28: 13-16).However this angel got jealous and wanted to be like God: decided to put himself in the sit of God. By this the angel had sinned as a result this angel was to be thrown out of Heaven (Ezekiel 28:16) (Luke 10:18). Other angels decided to follow the footsteps of Lucifer. Instead of repenting these angels made war in Heaven (Revelation 12:7-8). As a result Lucifer and the angels that followed his footsteps were thrown out of Heaven. (Revelation 12:9).

On that moment God then prepared a lake of Fire also known as hell in which Lucifer also known as the devil or satan; serpent; dragon will be destroyed along with his angels (Matt. 25:41). Although thrown out of Heaven this angel did not repent. Understanding the consequence of his sin Lucifer decided to pollute God’s beautiful creation with sin so that Humans would also die along with him. Lucifer understood that by bringing sin to God creation death would also come to Humans (Romans 6:23).

In the Garden of Eden Lucifer came in the form of a snake to deceive Adam and Eve to eat the fruits of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil which God had told them not to eat. Satan succeeded in his plan to bring sin in to the world. It is to be understood that when we don’t follow the Word/Law of God we reject God as our God and Father but then take Satan as our Father (1 John 3:8-10).

Adam’s ignorance to God’s command caused Him to give birth to the first liar and murderer and that was Cain who killed his Brother Abel as written in Chapter 4 of Genesis. This is the beginning of the spread of sin as well as the spread of death.

Since Humans had sinned and the price for sinning was death, How come we still exist?

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Lesson 8: Commandment 1- Have no other gods before God our creator (Part A)

Read (Genesis 3) (Exodus 20- 3)

In this week’s lesson ask yourself why do humans Die?

From this week onwards we will be going through the commandments that God gave. The last two weeks we discovered how critical the commandments are to our relationship with God. In the next following weeks we will look at the commandments in detail. We'll also use the stories in the following chapters as we continue to read the book of Genesis.

In chapter of 2 of Genesis, God had commanded Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit. God could have put the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in another location where Adam and Eve could not rich. Instead God chose to put the tree in an accessible place on purpose. A very important lesson was being demonstrated by God. It was to teach Adam and Eve that they were only to honour the Word/Law of God and no one else. The tree stood as a physical symbol of Honouring that Word/Law. Adam and Eve would show their Honour by not eating the fruits of the tree.

When Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil their Honour to God was lost. Instead they honoured the words of the serpent more than God’s word. The serpent is also known as the devil or Satan (Revelation 12:9). As a result sin came into the world along with death (Romans 6:23). The definition of sin is simply going against God’s Word/Law (1John 3:4) and the consequence of sin is death (Romans 6:23).

When Adam and Eve ate the fruit they brought about the beginning of a sinful world. As the parents of Earth’s human race, all the children born from them would sin to destruction. As a result humans die today because we sin. Note that Adam ate the fruit because of his wife (Genesis 3:17). This lesson is to show us that sin can come from anyone even the closest people to us. In such moments we still need to only follow the Word/Law of God regardless of who tells us to go against it.

Seeing as though we had no relations why would the serpent or Satan seek to make the humans sin?


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