God’s initiative here points forward to His Son’s atoning work, when through His own sacrifice, Jesus will take away the guilt of our sin and cover our shame with His righteousness.Īt the heart of sin is a great exchange. God provided the covering for Adam and Eve’s nakedness. Before casting Adam and Eve out of paradise, God clothed them with animal skins.
The angel with his flaming and whirling sword stands between us and what once was.īut even in this sad scene of judgment, there is a thread of mercy. God’s good world has been marred by human sin, and we are now separated from the perfection of the garden. Genesis 3 ends with the reality of exile. Death is the punishment for rebelling against our life-giving Creator. God created us out of the dust of the ground, but now to dust we will return. The work God gave us has been invaded by toil, and the beauty of childbirth has been wracked with pain.Ĭhoosing to separate ourselves from God-the source of life-is the choice of death. Only by the sweat of our brow will we be able to eat bread ( 3:17-19). But now this task will come through toilsome work, fighting thorns and thistles. But now this task will come through a woman’s pain and anguish ( 3:16). God called humanity to fill the earth ( Gen. 1:28). Our rebelling against God not only destroyed our relationship with God and each other, but it also shattered the perfect peace of God’s good world. In order for us to feel the preciousness of the gospel, we must come to grips with the utter destruction that our sin brought into the world. Human Rebellion Results in the Shattering of God’s Good World (Gen. 3:17-24) The Gospel Project takes adults, students, and kids on a chronological, Christ-centered journey through the storyline of Scripture.
This article is an excerpt from the Fall 2015 issue of The Gospel Project for Adults.
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