Today we are reading Genesis 3. In this chapter we read about the Fall into Sin. “And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.” Genesis 3:17-19, 22-24 ESV There are many painful consequences of sin—circumstances that we create when we don’t do things God commands. The temporary consequences are the pain and suffering of life in this world. The more serious consequences have the potential to be permanent: eternal suffering, eternal exclusion from God’s paradise, eternal separation from God. Miraculously, God has provided the way of escape from these eternal consequences. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. There is no other way. There is no other one. May you rejoice in Jesus—eternally! Pastor Tim
