The Fall Of Humanity

Read first: Genesis 3:1-19

The shrewdest animal (verse 1) – Eve had no encounter with other humans except Adam and the animals. Here, we see that Satan used the shrewdest animal God had created, the serpent – a cunning, tricky, and sharp animal – to deceive the woman. Satan still uses such kind of material to trick and deceive many people today, including Christians. In fact, that is one of the characteristics of the anti-Christ when he comes to deceive and mislead many people. The guy who has the cunning ability to persuade and convince people, very smart, very sharp, but tricky.

The lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh, and pride of life (verses 2-6) – The Devil often uses the same technique that works every time – lusts and pride – to trap people into sinning. He also started by planting doubt into the woman’s mind by asking “Did God really say…?” which is also his way of taking out the warning signs in our lives. Even advertising and marketing companies apply similar techniques to sell products. Appealing to the eyes, it will make you look good and feel good, it will make you proud and known by others, only to find out it is not even close to the truth.

The guilt of sinning (verses 7-13) – Guilt always comes last. When we succumb into temptation and had transpired into sin, we will know it’s too late and guilt comes creeping in. Sin suddenly detaches our fellowship with God, and we start focusing on ourselves. Only to find out we are naked before God like Adam and Eve, and we try to hide from God. We also see here the love and gentleness of God towards Adam and Eve. Instead of opening up the ground to swallow them, God came as Father seeking His hiding and ashamed kids. Although God knows everything that had transpired between the Devil, Adam, and Eve – God came out calling in gentle loving voice “Where are you?” Even now, we know that the Lord is calling us out and the lost ones to bring back the fellowship with Him – only when we acknowledge our sin and fault and confess our sin before Him. God is so good!

The penalty of sin (verses 14-19) – What God had warned, God will do. So, when we violate the warning signs God had given, we will “surely” suffer. In this case, Adam and Eve will “surely” die when they will disobey the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Gen 2:16-17). I also believe the game of “passing the buck” among politicians originated here J. Adam did not want to take the responsibility and passed it over to Eve, Eve likewise passed it to the serpent, the serpent had no one to blame. The poor serpent was the first to get the penalty, then Eve, then Adam.

Many people today thought that they are getting away even when they commit sin continually. The truth is, sin works for its wages – death! (Romans 6:23). No one is capable of paying for the wages of his or her sin. Our blood money is not just enough. But we thank God for providing the complete payment – He sent Jesus Christ to die on the cross, shed His blood, and washed away the death penalty with all its fine prints. And God is offering it as the gift (Ephesians 2:8). If we believe that God did it so for us and are willing to accept His gift of eternal life – then we are in fact changing family status from the devil (John 8:44) to getting adopted into God’s family (Romans 8:15), and changing our eternal address from hell to heaven.