Before and After the Fall

Genesis 3:4-7

Before Adam and Eve sinned, they enjoyed three very special privileges:

1. They were in communion with God; they walked and talked with Him.

2. They knew God as He is. Their minds were not clouded by falsehoods or half-truths.

3. They possessed spiritual life. They were alive not just physically, but in every sense of the word their souls were alive.

The Effects of Sin. When Adam and Eve disobeyed God’s command and fell into rebellion, they lost all three of their God-given privileges:

1. Their intimate communion was broken; Adam and Eve hid from God.

2. When they believed Satan’s lie, their knowledge was corrupted and their understanding of God damaged. What God had said became twisted in their minds.

3. Perhaps most important, instead of knowing life as they once had known it with God, they began to know death.

Our Present Condition. Apart from God, our present condition mirrors what Adam and Eve knew after the Fall:

1. We are alienated from God.

2. We are ignorant of the truth of God.

3. We are condemned to physical and spiritual death.

Everything that Adam lost in the Fall is exactly what people lack today without Jesus Christ.