Our First Parents

Genesis  3:20-24

And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and 

clothed them. And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one 

of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and 

take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the 

LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the 

ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the

man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden

Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned 

every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. 

     When our first parents left the garden of Eden, it was not without hope, nor into outer darkness. They carried with them the promise of a Redeemer, the assurance of the final defeat of the great enemy, as well as the Divine institution of a Sabbath on which to worship, and of the marriage-bond by which to be joined together into families. And with the foundations of the Christian life in all its bearings that were laid in Paradise.
    The descent of all mankind from our first parents determines our spiritual relationship to Adam. In Adam all have sinned and fallen. But, on the other hand, it also determines our spiritual relationship to the Lord Jesus Christ, as the second Adam, which rests on precisely the same grounds. For "as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly," and "as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." "For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous." 
    The descent of all mankind from one common stock has in times past been questioned by some, although Scripture expressly teaches that "And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation," (Acts 17:26). It is remarkable that this denial, which certainly never was shared by the most competent men of science, has been almost universally abandoned, and the original unity of the human race is now a generally accepted fact.
Amen!

Reading: Gen. Chap 3
Ref: HG SB

May God Bless You 

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry