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0:00we would like to take this opportunity
0:01to apologize for the poor quality of the
0:04following recording this was due to a
0:06deterioration of the original Master
0:09tape although processed digitally some
0:12artifacts do remain that some listeners
0:15may find distracting we hope this will
0:17not spoil your enjoyment of this message
0:19by Dr Lloyd Jones additionally due to
0:22the deterioration of the tape the first
0:25few moments of the message were missing
0:27and we join Dr Lloyd Jones now as he
0:30looks at the state of Fallen man here's
0:33Dr Lloyd
0:34Jones we looked at him and
0:38considered character and the nature of
0:41his being We examined as far as we can
0:44in the light of scriptural
0:46teaching what this image of God in men
0:49really means we found that he was in
0:52correspondence with in fellowship with
0:54God reflect something of the glory of
0:57God happy careful
1:01able to live without toiling eating of
1:05the fruit of the Garden in a state of
1:09bliss and possessed of an original
1:13righteousness an uprightness his moral
1:16being and character corresponding to the
1:19god with whom he was thus in
1:23Fellowship that is the picture which the
1:26scriptures give us of men as he was
1:29created created by God and as he existed
1:32and lived in this world at the
1:36beginning but now obviously as we look
1:39at men today in the
1:42world we see something very
1:45different the whole picture is entirely
1:50changed and the question to which we
1:52must address ourselves obviously
1:54therefore is what is it that uh has
1:58produced this change we look at men's
2:00present moral and spiritual and even
2:04physical
2:07condition and I say that we see
2:10something entirely
2:12different we are confronted by a new
2:16series of
2:18phenomena with regard to life and
2:22death and the whole character of human
2:27nature and human life in this world
2:31and of course the first question to
2:33which the gospel and the preaching of
2:34the Gospel of Jesus Christ must address
2:37itself always is just
2:40that what is this what is the matter
2:43with me what's wrong with him if we talk
2:46about a Salvation why does he need it in
2:50other
2:50words you can't escape this uh whole
2:57doctrine of men and of sin
3:01now there are many explanations which
3:03have been put forward in an attempt to
3:06account for the state in the condition
3:08of men and of the world as we know them
3:11at the present time I mustn't keep you
3:13with these although many of them are
3:15really worthy of careful Examination for
3:17the sake of refuting them but uh I'm
3:20trying not to do that more than I'm
3:22bound to because I'm anxious to keep
3:25rather to a positive exposition of the
3:28Biblical teaching
3:30and yet it is necessary that we should
3:33just refer to these other theories and
3:36ideas in
3:37passing where it merely for this reason
3:39that there are people who think
3:42sometimes that if a preacher doesn't
3:45mention a thing it means he's never
3:46heard of it uh well I would just uh like
3:50young intellectuals who may be amongst
3:52us therefore to know that though we
3:54don't spend a great deal of time with
3:56these things it isn't because we're not
3:58aware of them
4:00but that we think it's more profitable
4:01to be positive rather than negative
4:04however having said that let me just
4:07mention one or two there are those who
4:10would have believe that good and evil
4:15are alike of the very essence of life
4:17it's a very old theory that it goes back
4:21even before the Christian era there are
4:23people who believe that there are two
4:25great principles involved the principle
4:27of good and the principle of evil the
4:29technical term for that is what's called
4:31dualism it believes that good and evil
4:34as of the very essence of life some
4:37would even say that there is a God who
4:41controls the evil as well as a God who
4:43controls the good and there have been
4:45various ramifications of that you will
4:47find it in various other religions and
4:51that's why it is important just a little
4:53that we should know of its
4:55existence but now we've already dealt
4:57with that in previous lectures
5:01when we have rejected that because not
5:03only is there nothing to suggest that
5:05teaching in the Bible it really cannot
5:08be
5:08substantiated from an examination of men
5:11and of life as they
5:14are another attempted explanation
5:16obviously is the one that works itself
5:19out from the theory of
5:22evolution that man is only an
5:25enemy and that what we witness in life
5:28and the world therefore is nothing but
5:30the manifestation of certain animal
5:33qualities and
5:34characteristics clearly I need go into
5:36this again because in refuting the
5:38theory of evolution in dealing with the
5:41doctrine of creation we've already been
5:44answering this particular Theory
5:48beforehand then when you do come to
5:52theories and
5:54ideas which uh are not based upon
5:56Evolution or upon this principle of evil
5:59but are prepared to look at it in Men in
6:01and of himself there are again a great
6:04variety of
6:07explanations there are those who would
6:09say that what the Bible calls evil and
6:11sin is just uh a kind of
6:16resistance that is an essential part of
6:18human nature and has which has been put
6:21there by God in order that men might
6:23have something to overcome and by
6:25overcoming it that he should grow now of
6:28develops you muscle or if you're using
6:30any kind of
6:32instrument the way to develop your power
6:35is to act against a resistance and
6:37they've said therefore that what is
6:40called evil is just a kind of principle
6:43of antagonism or of
6:45resistance that God has put in man's
6:48nature in order that he might have
6:49something to overcome and to counteract
6:51and thereby grow and develop and not
6:54remain
6:56steady then there are other theories
6:59which would regard it as merely the
7:02absence of something the absence of
7:05knowledge the absence of understanding
7:07this is what the Bible calls sin and
7:10evil are just negative
7:13conditions and if only men had more
7:15knowledge and were better educated and
7:17more cultured he'd get rid of all this
7:20it's uh rather that he's deprived of
7:24certain qualities and all he needs
7:26therefore is to be instructed and
7:28trained and uh to be developed and he'll
7:31get rid of all this and slap them
7:34off well you you see the type and the
7:37kind of theory that has been put forward
7:39there are large numbers of them but they
7:42all more or less in the end bile down to
7:44the ones that I've already mentioned to
7:47you this idea of an evolutionary lag
7:50keeps on coming back and then there's
7:53this uh whole series of theories which
7:56are based upon uh the explanation that
7:59it's an absence of some positive
8:02qualities they put it like this for
8:03instance they say you mustn't say about
8:05a man that he's a bad man what you
8:07should really say is that he's not a
8:09good man sin is negative it's the
8:12absence of qualities rather than the
8:14presence of a quality I shall have to
8:16return to that later when I come to
8:19consider the doctrine of sin a little
8:21more
8:22directly but I think I've said enough to
8:24show you that men face to face with this
8:28problem is face to face with every
8:31problem always does his utmost to avoid
8:35the plain and clear teaching of
8:37scripture and therefore he invents and
8:40he imagines these theories which he
8:43cannot
8:44substantiate in any way
8:47whatsoever now then over and against all
8:51that we are confronted by the biblical
8:54doctrine of the Fall the fall of men and
8:59at once we are face to face with this
9:01question what is this is it history or
9:04isn't
9:06it is what we read together plain
9:09unvarnished historical fact or is it not
9:13it's obviously a crucial and a vital
9:17question and therefore you've had people
9:19coming forward and suggesting that it
9:20isn't history but that it's
9:23allegory that it it isn't really true it
9:26didn't happen like that they say it's a
9:28very wonderful picture
9:30which is designed to give us an account
9:33of men's gradual change in a pictorial
9:38manner it's a picture this is not a bare
9:41blunt historical
9:44description that's one way that people
9:47have tried to avoid the clear statement
9:49which is here made by dismissing it as
9:51an elor then there are others who say
9:53not so much that it's an allegory as
9:55that it's a
9:56myth what is a myth well this is their
9:58definition of a myth a myth is say is
10:01not actual
10:04history but it is an account of
10:07something that is true in and of itself
10:10the truth it conve conveys it true these
10:14things they say didn't really happened
10:16but what is there
10:18depicted describes something that really
10:22has happened it didn't happen like that
10:24but something of that order of Truth did
10:27take place that's their definition of a
10:31myth it's uh a kind of historical
10:35account therefore of something that is
10:38historically true though it may not have
10:40happened exactly in this
10:43way now that's the sort of thing that
10:45people say the Bible doesn't say it but
10:48uh that is the way in which people try
10:49to avoid what the Bible says they
10:51describe it as a
10:53myth then the Ingenuity and the
10:56imagination of men has exercised itself
10:58very much through throughout the
10:59centuries over the question of this
11:03Serpent and they say the serpent wasn't
11:05R an animal of course the serpent they
11:09say is just a kind of
11:11symbol and he is a symbol that is meant
11:14to represent say some
11:17covetousness oh no say others he's the
11:20serpent is a symbol that represents
11:22sexual
11:24desire uh others say no that he's a
11:28symbol to represent
11:30earing or straying
11:33reason and others say that he's just a
11:36symbol figure a kind of counter to
11:39represent Satan himself in other words
11:42they don't believe in the literal
11:45serpent the serpent is only a symbol a
11:48figure to
11:50represent something else some form of
11:53luster of error or even Satan
11:57himself and then we come to those who
12:01even accepting the serpent have their
12:04difficulty and their difficulty is of
12:07course about the question as to whether
12:09the serpent ever spoke or not they say
12:13they can accept the idea of the serpent
12:16but they cannot believe that the serpent
12:19literally and actually
12:21spoke now I've put all these
12:24difficulties that people have put
12:27forward these objections that have been
12:28registered
12:30in order that we may consider them all
12:32together now what do we say about all
12:34these matters well the obvious thing to
12:36say the thing we must say is this that
12:40the whole statement in this chapter is
12:42given to us as history there's no
12:45suggestion of allegory here at all it
12:48offers itself to us as plain unvarnished
12:51fact and
12:53history and if you begin to say that it
12:56isn't history or that parts of it are
12:57not history you'll find yourself in a
12:59utterly contradictory position for
13:01instance we are told there about the
13:03punishment that followed men's sin and
13:05transgression in verses 14 and 15 and if
13:08you don't accept that well then you've
13:10got to shed a great deal of the Bible
13:13because the consequences that followed
13:14and which are described here have
13:17continued ever since right until this
13:19night and the whole case of the Bible is
13:21dependent upon that being fact so if a
13:24part of is is f why isn't the whole of
13:27it f
13:31and uh therefore I say that it seems to
13:34me the only possible thing to do is to
13:38accept it all as
13:39fact and personally I'm in no difficulty
13:42at all about
13:44that the moment you believe in
13:47God the moment you believe in the
13:52devil then you are entitled to expect
13:56Miracle you are entitled to expect
13:59things that you cannot understand you
14:01are entitled to expect things that are
14:05Supernatural and the Bible says that it
14:08is the ultimate answer to people who are
14:09in trouble over
14:11Miracles I say the moment you believe in
14:15God as the Bible pictures God you really
14:18shouldn't be in any trouble about
14:21miracle and it's exactly the same over
14:23this question of the serpent
14:25speaking if you believe in the devil as
14:28the V depicts him well then you must
14:30believe and you should have no
14:32difficulty in believing that he has
14:34power even to make a serpent
14:39speak so that all this seems to me to be
14:42utterly unnecessary it's not only a
14:45contradiction of what we've already
14:46agreed about in previous lectures but I
14:50say it seems to me to be quite
14:51unnecessary but over and above
14:54it I want to call your attention to
14:56certain other scriptures
14:59which clearly teach that what we have in
15:01the third of Genesis is literal
15:03history take for instance what you read
15:05in the Book of Job in the 31st chapter
15:09and the 33rd
15:12verse if I covered my
15:15transgressions as
15:17Adam by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom
15:21says joob you notice what he says if I
15:25covered my transgressions as Adam by
15:29feing mine iniquity in my
15:31bosom it's supporting the historicity of
15:34this third of Genesis then take Hosea 6
15:38and verse
15:397 in this authorized version which I
15:41have here it reads like this but they
15:44like men have transgressed the Covenant
15:47but it's generally agreed and I think
15:48you'll find it in the revised and
15:50certainly in this new American revised
15:53standard edition it's like this that
15:55they like Adam
15:59have transgressed the Covenant like
16:03Adam but there's a still more important
16:05one of course it's in The Second Epistle
16:07to the Corinthians in the 11th chapter
16:09and the 3D
16:11verse where the Apostle Paul writes but
16:14I fear lest by any means as the serpent
16:17beguiled Eve through his subtlety so
16:21your minds should be corrupted from the
16:24Simplicity that is in Christ you notice
16:27what he says as the serpent begil
16:32the the historicity the Apostle claims
16:35that he's divinely inspired and that
16:38what he writes therefore is without
16:39error yet that is what he said and then
16:42you've got another reference in the
16:44first epistle to Timothy in the second
16:46chapter and in the 14th verse where the
16:49Apostle deals with the qu vexed question
16:51of women teaching and things of that
16:54kind in the church and this is what he
16:56says and Adam was not deceived but the
17:00woman being deceived was in the
17:03transgression that's the first epistle
17:05to Timothy the 2 chapter and the 14th
17:08verse in other
17:10words it does always seem to me to be
17:12very pathetic when people in the
17:14interest of some supposed scientific
17:16knowledge they've got have to feel that
17:18they've got to dismiss this historicity
17:20and say it's allegory or myth or
17:21something like that or that parts of it
17:23are true and parts are not and imagine
17:26that they've solved their problems but
17:27my dear friend you're creating mendous
17:29problems for yourself what you make of
17:31these statements in other parts of
17:32scripture what happens to the whole
17:34argument of the Apostle Paul with
17:36respect to those two matters which he
17:38deals with in other words as we've
17:41already seen if you begin to play fast
17:44and loose with the scriptural teaching
17:46at any one point in the interest of any
17:49extraneous knowledge you'll find your
17:51whole system will be shaking somewhere
17:54or
17:55another and therefore though again one
17:57has to say that there are certain
17:58certain things one doesn't understand
18:00for myself I'm in no trouble and in no
18:03difficulty whatsoever in accepting this
18:06third of Genesis as being literal actual
18:12history very
18:15well well now then accepting it like
18:17that as history let's examine it and see
18:20what it tells
18:22us the first thing he tells us is this
18:26that evil and sin and temptation
18:30came from the
18:33outside they came from Satan using the
18:38serpent the thing I'm anxious to
18:40emphasize is this there was nothing in
18:43men's own Constitution that produced
18:46it there was no physical necessity at
18:50all to produce it it was nothing sensual
18:54in men that produced
18:56it it came to men enti L from the
19:00outside and he had a perfect free will
19:03to decide what to do with it it's a most
19:06important point that that is of the very
19:08essence of the Biblical
19:12teaching we must get rid of all these
19:14ideas that say that it is something
19:17that's in the body in the human frame in
19:19a man's flesh or that it's uh uh some
19:23form of uh natural desire that drags men
19:27down I think I reminded you last week
19:28weak that the Roman Catholic Doctrine
19:30about the image does suggest that very
19:33strongly it its view is that
19:36men always had a kind of struggle that
19:40the animal the bodily part of men always
19:43had a tendency to pull him down and that
19:45God gave him that derum super aditum
19:48that extra gift of original
19:50righteousness in order to enable men to
19:52keep this lower part that was always
19:54tending to pull him down at Bay the
19:56Bible says nothing of the kind
19:58man was perfectly
20:00balanced there was nothing within him at
20:03all to drag him down it came entirely
20:06from the
20:07outside very vital to our Doctrine as we
20:10shall see time and time
20:12again now then here it comes from the
20:15outside what are the steps I'm simply
20:18now reminding you of what we are told in
20:19the third of
20:21Genesis the first thing that happened
20:24was that the uh
20:26serpent attacked the woman
20:29not the man you see the significance of
20:32that in some of the quotations I've
20:33already given you he attacked the woman
20:37rather than the
20:39man I don't go into that this evening we
20:41shall come to that some other time
20:43perhaps but the Bible emphasizes it not
20:46only in this chapter but
20:48elsewhere and this is what
20:50happened the woman began to listen to
20:53the Slanders of the devil against God
20:59she began to doubt God's word and began
21:01to doubt God's
21:03love then you remember we are told she
21:06began to look at the thing at which of
21:09which God had prohibited to
21:12look then having looked at it and having
21:15seen that it was good to each she began
21:16to last after it and to desire it this
21:20thing which had been
21:22prohibited and that in turn led her to a
21:25definite Act of Disobedience she did
21:28deliberately broke God's commandment and
21:31did the thing that God had told her and
21:34Adam not to
21:37do now the question obviously at this
21:39point is what made her do
21:43this and Adam you remember on being
21:45offered the fruit took it from her and
21:47at with her so they are both in the
21:50transgression the woman first The Men
21:52followed now the question that arises is
21:55what made them do
21:57this now ultimately of course we can't
21:59answer that
22:01question nobody has been able to answer
22:04that question the most we can say is
22:06this that men's moral Constitution is
22:10being made in the image of God and his
22:12possession of a free will at any reld
22:14the possibility of his doing that but
22:17beyond that we can't get even as we
22:19couldn't arrive at any ultimate
22:21explanation of how Satan himself
22:24originally fell but we notice this
22:29that ambition came into
22:31it and ambition taking a particular form
22:35and the form was
22:36this it was a desire for a short road to
22:40Divine
22:41knowledge now I'm most anxious to
22:44emphasize that for this
22:46reason I'm never tired of saying in this
22:49Pulpit that the ultimate trouble with
22:52most false doctrines and especially most
22:54false doctrines of
22:56sanctification is that they're trying to
22:58arrive at something by means of a
23:01shortcut and you see that was the
23:03original cause of men's
23:07downfall God had got his program for
23:09them and God's program was a program of
23:12development in fellowship with him and
23:14ultimately they were going to arrive at
23:16this position but the Devil comes along
23:18and says but you needn't go that way you
23:20needn't take all that time about it you
23:22just do what I'm telling you and you'll
23:23be there at once
23:26shortcut the shortcut always appeals to
23:29men he always has a feeling that God's
23:32way is too slow and too laborious and
23:34you'll find that most Cults are based
23:37upon this idea of offering you something
23:39by an easy and a quick method always
23:42much more rapid and much more simple and
23:44much more direct and quick than is the
23:46biblical method you get it even there in
23:49the original
23:51Temptation and the second thing of
23:53course was this
23:56insinuated doubt of God God's
24:00love now then what did it result in well
24:03it resulted in this I'm still talking
24:05not of the actual consequences but the
24:07result in their minds it led to a
24:10transgression of God's law and to a
24:12departure from
24:14God perhaps we can sum it up like this
24:18it was a refusal on the part of men I'm
24:22speaking of Adam and Eve together it was
24:24a refusal on the part of men to subject
24:27himself to the will of God
24:29and to have God to determine the C of
24:31his
24:33life and his determination to settle
24:36this for himself that was it in its
24:38Essence the real essence of what took
24:41place was that they pushed on one side
24:44God's plan God's purpose and substituted
24:48for it their own idea and their own
24:52method the famous Professor Emil
24:55Bruner has quite an interesting
25:00psychological analysis if you like of
25:03what took place he puts it like this he
25:04says there were three
25:06elements desire the
25:09Apple then the whispered
25:13doubt about God which stirred and
25:16inflamed the desire still more and then
25:20he says that finally
25:22ambition turn the
25:25scales the original desire
25:29then uh the serpent plays on that by
25:32this whispered doubt but still there's
25:35hesitation then ambition comes in you
25:37can be like God you'll know everything
25:40if only and the the ambition proved too
25:42much and over tilted the
25:44balance and Men
25:49fell the one other point I would like to
25:52call your attention to here is the
25:55extraordinary correspondence between
25:57what is described here
25:58in this third chapter of Genesis and
26:01what John tells us in his first epistle
26:03in the second chapter in the 16th verse
26:06where he says love not the world you
26:09remember he then divides it up into the
26:11lust of the Flesh and the lust of the
26:14eye and the pride of
26:17life desire and then seeing that the
26:21fruit was good to look upon the lust of
26:22the eye and then this pride of life this
26:25desire to be great and to be marvelous
26:27and to be
26:28wonderful the same
26:30elements indeed as I've already
26:32suggested you will find that running
26:34right through the Bible from beginning
26:36to end what you have in embryo here is
26:40worked out everywhere it's the same
26:43thing always and those are the main
26:46elements in connection with
26:48it but to all that I would add again two
26:52special
26:53points and here they
26:56are sin is only only possible to men and
26:59was only possible to men at the
27:01beginning because he has a free
27:04spiritual
27:07personality it isn't possible to an
27:09animal it's only possible to
27:11man men's being made in the image of God
27:15in a most extraordinary way made sin
27:18possible for him because of his free
27:21personality because of his free
27:24will the very fact I say that he was
27:26made in the image and likeness of God
27:29exposes him in and of itself to this
27:32possibility no more than that but it
27:34certainly does that then the point I
27:37would like to put to your consideration
27:39and for your reflection is this
27:42one we realize and we know and we've
27:45discovered from the
27:46scriptures that the that there are
27:49angels who have fallen as well as
27:52men but you notice we are never told
27:55anywhere in the Bible that the Angels
27:57the Fallen angels are going to be
28:00redeemed salvation is only for
28:04men and you may have ask yourself the
28:06question five the Angels fell as men
28:10fell why shouldn't there be salvation
28:13for angels as well as for
28:16men and I myself am very ready to accept
28:19the explanation that has been put
28:20forward which is
28:23this that in the case of men the
28:26Temptation and the fall came as I've
28:28just been reminding you from the
28:30outside it isn't an excuse and yet it
28:33does make a
28:34difference when Satan
28:37fell he fell because of something
28:41within the Temptation did not come to
28:43Satan outside
28:45himself it was something that happened
28:47within what what it was we don't know
28:50but there is at inate that different and
28:53is it possible I wonder that God in his
28:55infinite grace and kindness has drawn
28:57that totin
28:59because men were subjected to this
29:01subtlety this beguiling this malign this
29:05Angelic power of this Fallen
29:09Angel God has had mercy and compassion
29:12and pity upon men and has provided for
29:15him a way of Salvation and has not done
29:18so in the case of the angel I leave it
29:21for your consideration let us come
29:23rather to a practical Point what were
29:25the results
29:28of this
29:29Disobedience this transgression of God's
29:32law and
29:33commandment on the part of men the conse
29:37the results are described here very
29:39clearly the first thing that we are told
29:42is that they became conscious of their
29:48flesh it's an extraordinary thing this
29:52man as he was made originally by God was
29:54quite unconscious about his flesh and
29:56about his body
29:58the men and the wom were naked and that
30:01was no trouble to them at all but the
30:04moment they said the moment they fall
30:07they become conscious of their flesh
30:09they become ashamed of it a shame
30:11develops in connection with the body and
30:13they try to cover themselves you
30:15remember with the these
30:18figing the scripture emphasizes that
30:21because it clearly has great
30:25significance we've got to be careful as
30:28we not
30:29it because there are two dangers
30:31confronting us there is the danger of
30:33making too much of
30:35this sex element in sin the bodily
30:38element in sin and there's the danger of
30:40making too little of it but the
30:42scripture specifically calls our
30:44attention to it the first thing that
30:47happened was Man became conscious of his
30:49body and his body became a problem to
30:51him and it's a problem ever
30:53since the difference between a man and
30:56an animal is that an animal clearly is
30:57not conscious of his own body in the way
30:59that man is it's of the very essence of
31:01men's sinful condition that his body
31:04which was given to him by God and which
31:06in a sense is a reflection of God's Own
31:08Glory the form of God as we saw last
31:10week has become a problem to me it's one
31:13of his greatest problems of all and
31:16there is this sense of shame in
31:17connection with
31:19it then the next thing that's emphasized
31:21is his sense of
31:23guilt the moment he did that he knew we'
31:25done something wrong
31:28he was immediately condemned within
31:30himself he became
31:32guilty the next thing that's emphasized
31:35is that he began to develop a fear of
31:37God which he hadn't got
31:39before and instead of running to God
31:42when God calls him in the cool of the
31:44evening he runs away from him to hear
31:46the voice of God to men before that was
31:48the highest Bliss possible he was in
31:50that state of perfect correspondence he
31:52had no Craven fear of God and he ran to
31:55God he now runs away from him he's
31:57developed the fear of God and it's
32:00persistent and of course another way of
32:03putting that is to say that he lost his
32:04fellowship with God and His sense of
32:08fellowship with God the thing that he
32:10gloried in above everything he now
32:14loses the next thing that is emphasized
32:17is this that he obviously and clearly
32:19underwent a spiritual death the break of
32:21this link with God produced a spiritual
32:25death in he's he's in an entirely State
32:28and
32:30condition the next thing that we are
32:32told about him is that he was
32:34driven out of paradise out of the
32:38garden and not allowed to return there
32:40in and of himself and by his own valtion
32:43you remember the Flaming sword that was
32:45there to guard and to Bar his entry in
32:48and of himself he's sent out of paradise
32:51he's not allowed to come
32:53back but in addition to that we find
32:55that he's in an entirely new
32:56relationship to Nature
32:58nature he now has the tile he now has
33:02the sweat it's by the sweat of his face
33:04he's going to earn his bread there was
33:06no toiling there was no sweating before
33:09now by the sweat of his face and by the
33:11sweat of his brow difficulties and
33:14obstacles arise in nature he's got to
33:16overcome them he's got to tame nature
33:18the thorns and the Briars and all the
33:21rest
33:24of moreover we find that he's clearly
33:27undergone a perversion of his moral
33:31nature you see that at once in the story
33:33of Cain that
33:35follows he inherited that there was a
33:37perversion in his very nature which he
33:39inherited from his
33:42parents and the last consequence that is
33:44noted here is that of physical
33:49death now we just touched upon this on a
33:52previous occasion let me put it like
33:54this this
33:56evening then there is no need for us in
33:58a sense to go into the question as to
34:01what men's original condition was we put
34:04it like this I think you will
34:06agree that there was no need for him to
34:10die if men had obeyed God and had
34:14continued living his life in
34:15correspondence with God he would never
34:18have undergone physical
34:21death it was possible for him therefore
34:25not to die
34:27the result of the Fall was
34:30this that now it is not possible for him
34:34not to
34:35die per some of you would like this in
34:39Latin the original condition
34:42was non Mari it is now non Noni before
34:50possible not to die now not possible not
34:54to die he must die
34:58therefore he need not now he must it is
35:02impossible for him now not to
35:07die unless there is some special
35:10intervention now the scripture puts that
35:11in this way that he's told that he's got
35:13to return to the dust out of which he
35:16came that would not have happened to him
35:19but for this sin and this fault and that
35:21is confirmed you remember in the fifth
35:23chapter of Romans in the 12th verse
35:25where it's put like this wherefore as by
35:28one men sin entered into the world and
35:32death by sin death came in that way by
35:37sin and as the result of sin now those
35:40are the things that immediately resulted
35:42but again there are certain notes that
35:44we must be very careful to
35:47preserve you notice that though all that
35:49happened to men he didn't immediately
35:51lose all his intellectual power indeed
35:54he's never subsequently lost his
35:56intellectual power man retained his
35:59intellectual power you'll go on and read
36:01the next chapters in Genesis and you'll
36:03find how he became musical how he built
36:05City how cities how he developed a great
36:07civilization he didn't lose his
36:09intellectual power neither did he die
36:13physically
36:15immediately indeed there doesn't seem to
36:17have been any immediate physical change
36:20in him in other words the results and
36:22the effects of sin were delayed both
36:25physically and mentally
36:29there was subsequently a very great
36:31decline in men's intellectual and moral
36:34and all his other faculties as you see
36:36described in the sixth chapter of This
36:37Book of Genesis but it didn't happen at
36:39once sometimes people think that the
36:42moment Adam sinned and fell he fell as
36:45far as men can go he didn't he fell in
36:48the essential way I've described but
36:50there was a decline and a degradation
36:52consequent upon that you see he didn't
36:55die at once he died some time later and
36:57the same is true about his mental and
37:00his moral
37:01qualities very well then let me sum up
37:03the results in this way there were
37:05certain legal results that happened at
37:07once men immediately became under
37:10condemnation and was punished by God
37:13that happened at once under condemnation
37:17before he wasn't punished by God whereas
37:20formerly was only blessed
37:22spiritually he immediately fell from his
37:25original righteousness he he lost that
37:28at once there wasn't a second's delay
37:30the moment he sinned he lost his
37:33original righteousness that uprightness
37:35that correspondence with the moral
37:37character of God that went at once and
37:40he was equally separated from God at
37:43once his fear came in and the various
37:46other things of which I've reminded
37:49you but the physical
37:52consequences followed in a more
37:55leisurely and slow manner in in other
37:57words the thing I'm emphasizing is
38:00this when men fell he did not cease to
38:05be men he was still
38:09men he didn't lose any of his essential
38:12qualities or elements or
38:16attributes what he lost was that
38:21original righteousness that
38:23correspondence to God but his intellect
38:27remains his power of self analysis
38:30remains his understanding remains his
38:33will remains these things remain we'll
38:36come into to that later in Greater
38:39detail but he lost his original
38:43righteousness he lost that fellowship
38:45with
38:46God he became fearful of God he hides
38:50himself he becomes asham self-conscious
38:53in a bad sense doesn't know what to do
38:55with himself
38:59such is
39:01men as the result of the Fall what can
39:04we say about it well the best thing I've
39:07ever read or ever heard about men as the
39:10result of the Fall was what was said of
39:13men by an old Puritan called John
39:18how he said men as the result of the
39:21Fall reminded him of some of these great
39:23buildings which you see in London and in
39:26the country and in ious Eastern
39:28countries where there was once some
39:30great palace or great building it's now
39:32fallen to ruins and there's a sign
39:34outside and the sign says centuries ago
39:39such and such a
39:41king once dwelt
39:45here and John how suggested that written
39:49over men everywhere as the result of the
39:52Fall is this
39:54inscription
39:55here God
39:58once
40:01dwelt he no longer dwells there but once
40:05before the
40:07fall God
40:10dwelt but now it's the
40:14ru very well we leave it at that for
40:18this evening there are other
40:20consequences of the Fall that we shall
40:22go on to
40:24consider the consequences not only to to
40:27Adam and Eve but to their posterity the
40:29consequences in nature and that will
40:32lead us to consideration of the
40:36actual
40:38essence of sin we've looked together
40:42tonight at one of the
40:46profoundest and most Awful Truth that
40:49men can ever
40:52face that's why men and that's why the
40:56world is is as it is
40:59tonight from
41:02that to
41:04this
41:06yeah
41:08God
41:10once what a terrible what an awful what
41:13a calamitous
41:15thing
41:17evil and sin rarely

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