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For the first time in their lives they were afraid, naked and then hid themselves from God. Then Adam and Eve proceeded to make for themselves a covering of leaves to hide their nakedness. The Father then came calling, "Adam where are you?" He knew what had happened, but wanted to open up a dialogue for man's repentance. However, Adam with his new lord and new nature; a sin, death, and disease oriented nature, refused to accept any responsibility and pointed to his wife as the source of the problem. Adam was the first man to experience a spiritual re-birth, only his was from light to darkness. He took on the nature of satan. This is evident from the display of his actions following his disobedient act that sent the whole human race in a spiral of darkness. Adam in-turn passed this satanic-based nature to his sons through his blood, then they to their sons, etc. It is a proven scientific fact that the blood of the child comes strictly from the father. To illustrate, fresh from the garden Cain murders his brother Able. Question, Where did murder come from? Who taught man to murder? No one, it's now his nature. Just like no one teaches a child to lie, how does he learn this? It's inbuilt through the fallen nature of man. Now back to the story.

At this point God, because He is light could not embrace man. Man is now dark, and man would have been consumed simply because light consumes darkness. The whole human race would have been lost. God would have become a failure, and satan would have usurped God's authority and ruled the universe with  evil. Man was thereby driven from the Garden of Eden thusly driven from God's presence. Every man has an built-in desire for the Presence of God. Enter John 3:16  "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." This is called the plan of salvation,  God's plan to redeem mankind. Now a price must be paid in order to purchase man and pay for all his misdeeds (sin). A life for a life, blood for blood, so the payment could not be monetary in nature, but of like kind and nature. Therefore someone must become the ransom for man. Since all men sin, (the sin nature, as we learned was passed from father to children) there was no man found worthy who could become a proper substitute. Hello Jesus! It was necessary for him to enter this world through the Virgin Mary in order to bypass the sin nature that would have been passed to Him by a natural father. He had no earthy father, therefore he had no sin nature passed to Him. The Holy Spirit moved on Mary as she believed the Word of God from Gabriel the messenger of God. Now our substitute is in the earth, He then lived a sinless life, did outstanding miracles, ruled over demons,  and proved Himself worthy to become the Savior of Man! He allowed Himself to be whipped and bruised for our sickness and died on the cross for our sin. See 1Peter 2:24 He defeated satan and was raised from the dead for our justification. So that we could now enjoy the fellowship with God that Adam stole from us in the Garden. Jesus hung between heaven and earth on the cross to bridge the way for man. Jesus fulfilled the prophecy of Genesis 3:15 when he was raised from the Dead. In Colossians  2:15 The Message Translations says  "He stripped all the spiritual tyrants in the universe of their sham authority at the Cross and marched them naked through the streets." Some say, I've never killed anyone, or robbed a bank, I'm not a bad person. As we've seen, it's not what we've done, but it's about who we belong to. Being a good person or doing good works is not enough, but a change of nature is necessary. Jesus in John 3 said "You must be born from above!" this is the new birth, it is a rebirth of the human spirit. When anyone acts on Romans 10:9-10 from his heart, he will experience oneness with God that is impossible otherwise. Religion, good works, saying prayers, reading scripture, being a 'good person' is not being Born Again. See Salvation to pray a simple prayer to Receive Jesus as Lord! -Pastor Mark
 

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