---CREATION~~~~
--GENESIS 2:4-3:24 ~~--Situation: 
God the Creator completed His masterpiece by creating man and woman. God breathed life and spirit into this special handiwork. Though sin entered the world, God also provided for redemption from sin.
--Observation:God created people with the freedom to choose or reject Him. Our ancestors Adam and Even chose to disobey God and the consequences have been handed down to us.
--Inspiration:
What God gave Adam and Eve, he entrusted to you and me.
A soul. "The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being" (Genesis 2:7).Your soul distinguishes you from zoo dwellers. God gifted the camel with a hump and the giraffe with a flagpole neck, but he reserved his breath, or a
soul, for you. You bear his stamp. You do things God does. Think. Question. Reflect. You blueprint buildings, chart sea crossings, and swallow throat lumps when your kids say their alphabet. You, like Adam, have a soul.
And, like Adam, you've used your soul to disobey God. God's command to the charter couple includes the Bible's first reference to death.
"You must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die" (v.17NIV).Reread God's warning:
"when you eat of it you will surely die." Sin resulted in Adam's and Eve's immediate deaths. But death of what? Their bodies? No, they continued to breathe. Brain waves flowed. Eyelids blinked. Their bodies functioned, but their hearts hardened. They stopped trusting God. Their friendship with their Maker died...
Prior to this act, they followed God like sheep follow their shepherd. He spoke, they listened. He gave assignments; they fulfilled them. They were naked but unashamed, transparent and unafraid. Yet as one drop of ink clouds a glass of water, the stubborn deed darkened their souls. Everything changed. God's presence stirred panic, not peace. Adam ran like a kid caught raiding the pantry.
"I was afraid" (3:10). Intimacy with God ceased; separation from God began. We'll always wonder why Adam didn't ask for forgiveness. But he didn't, and the guilty pair was
"sent...out of the garden of Eden" 3:23)We've loitered outside the gates ever since. --From:
3:16/ By: Max Lucado)
--Application:God did not create us as robots. Praise Him for giving us the ability to choose. Sin is part of our lives, but we can choose to love and obey God. Make that choice today. ~~ ~~~~~
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