Last week we marveled about God’s creation – the world. He created it in six literal, remarkable
days. Everything God made was perfect – because everything about Him is
perfect. In fact, after each thing he
created he noted and saw that it was good. God created man in His own image, and
Adam and Eve lived in the perfect Garden of Eden and had communion with
God. They did not know sin until Satan
himself in the form of a serpent came into the garden and deceived Eve. Satan
is called “the great deceiver” and still deceives us today. Adam and Eve had been given a command to move
freely about the Garden of Eden and that they could eat from every tree –
except that of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Satan deceived them so that, with their own free will, they took of the
fruit and ate. This was the first sin
and their communion with God was broken forever. God’s penalty of sin - as we are told in the
Bible – is death and it was at that point they began to die. That sin has been
passed down through all the many generations of humans. But, God in His mercy, provided a promise to
Adam and Eve that their sin could be forgiven and the relationship with Him
restored with a substitute for their death penalty. They needed to be saved from that death. The penalty of sin for a perfect, holy God
still needed to be paid, but He provided salvation from that by substituting
someone else. That substitute was and is
Jesus Christ and we are going to spend the rest of the Sparkie year learning
more about that promise. You can read of
this in Genesis chapters 2 & 3.
You are welcome to join us anytime at Sparks. You can also check out the AWANA program at www.fbc.littletonil.org.
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