The sermon discusses the fall of man as outlined in the Second London Baptist Confession of 1689, focusing on chapter 6, paragraph 2. It explains how Adam and Eve's original sin led to their fall from righteousness and communion with God, resulting in death and sin being passed on to all humanity. The sermon highlights that Adam served as a representative of mankind, and through his disobedience, sin entered the world. It underscores the idea that all humans are born into sin, unable to achieve righteousness on their own, and wholly defiled in body and soul. The speaker references various scriptures to support these points, including Genesis, Romans, and Psalms. The sermon concludes by emphasizing the necessity of a Savior, Jesus Christ, who through his obedience, offers redemption and grace, counteracting the effects of Adam's sin and granting eternal life to believers.

Our reading this morning from the Second London Baptist Confession of 1689 comes again from chapter 6 of the fall of man of sin and of the punishment thereof. This week is paragraph 2. Our first parents by this sin fell from their original righteousness and communion with God. And we in them, whereby death came upon all, all becoming dead in sin, and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body. So this week we continue our review of chapter 6 of the London Baptist Confession.

It's fairly short and straightforward this week. The main point of the paragraph this morning being that of the consequences of Adam and Eve's first sin being passed on to all mankind. Let's take a look. It starts, our first parents, well of course who is this? It's of course is Adam and Eve.

By this sin, A reminder of what was this sin. We covered that last week. God had placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden to keep it and to dress it from Genesis 2.15. God had spoken to Adam that of all the plants and trees in the garden, everything was available to them except the fruit of the tree of knowledge, the knowledge of good and evil. Of this tree they were not allowed to eat.

Genesis 2, 16 through 17. Inter-Satan, in the form of a serpent, He deceived Eve so that she would eat of the fruit and get Adam also to eat. Genesis 3, 1 through 7. This disobedience to God's specific restriction in the garden was the first sin. This was the fall.

Our paragraph continues, they fell from their original righteousness and communion with God. So Adam and Eve fell. And let's make sure we understand clearly where they were falling from. Adam was made in the image of God. And After the six days of creation, God reflected upon his creation in Genesis 1.31, and God saw everything that he had made and behold, it was very good.

We understand from this that Adam and Eve were righteous in God's sight and were in communion with God before the fall, we read in Genesis 2 25, and they were both naked, and the man and his wife were not ashamed. Note that they were not ashamed of being naked. They weren't even aware that they were naked. But after the fall, we read in Genesis 3, 7, and the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons. Furthermore, God reacts to this in Genesis 3, 10, and 11.

And he, Adam, said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself. And God said, Who told thee that thou was naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree where have I commanded thee that thou shouldn't not eat?" So we see a big difference here before the fall and after the fall in how Adam and Eve perceived themselves. God clearly points to the cause of this change, hast thou eaten of the tree. How did God respond?

We read in Genesis 3, 14 through 24 that he cursed the serpent and declared punishments on Eve and Adam. Furthermore, he removed Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden and placed cherubim and a flaming sword at its entrance to prevent them from accessing the Garden of Eden and accessing the Tree of Life in the Garden. Instantly their loving and intimate communion with the divine spirit was severed. They were no longer considered righteous. Our first parents by this sin fell from their original righteousness and communion with God.

Now we reach the main point here of this paragraph, and we and them whereby death came upon all, all becoming dead in sin. We read from Genesis the consequence God proclaims for transgressing his command, Genesis 2 17, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die." And also, if we turn to Paul's letter to the Romans in 512, we read, wherefore is by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned." So here's the point we must make sure we all understand. Why are we impacted by Adam's sin? First we have the perception that we are not held responsible for the sins of our parents or ancestors, no matter how far back. This perception comes from Ezekiel 18.20.

The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the Father, neither shall the Father bear the iniquity of the Son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him." Again, that being the case, why would Adam's sin affect us? Why does Paul tell us that death passed upon all men for that all have sinned? How can we make sense of this?

The world we live in is a fallen world. Sin abounds. And the world that Adam and Eve were in was proclaimed by God himself as very good. There was no sin at that point. Adam was righteous.

Eve was righteous. And had they not transgressed God's command, their children would have been righteous. However, at the fall, everything changed. By one man, Adam, sin entered into the world and death by sin. Each of us are descendants from Adam and Eve.

We're genetically connected to them. You could say that Adam was the representative man and was as such when he sinned all of his posterity and descendants all of mankind participated in that. Thus all have sinned. Adam was created by God righteous. We are born, born of a woman.

We are not born righteous. We are born with a sinful nature and are dead in our sins. And scripture supports this. We can go to the Psalms, Psalms 51-5. Surely I was brought forth in iniquity.

I was sinful when my mother conceived me. In Psalm 58.3, the wicked are estranged from the womb. They go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. Let's read on to the last section of our paragraph for this morning. And wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body.

This just emphasizes the completeness of sin upon our persons and our nature, every part of our bodies. Paul, in his letter to the Romans, highlights the wicked use of the throat, the tongue, the lips, the mouth, and the feet in Romans 3 10 through 18. As it is written, there is none righteous, no not one. There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way.

They are together become Unprofitable there is none that doeth good. No not one Their throat is an open sepulcher With their tongues they have used deceit. The poison of asps is under their lips, whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and misery are in their ways.

In the way of peace have they not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes." We read in Titus about the defiled mind and conscience in 1.15, Unto the pure all things are pure, but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure, but even their mind and conscience is defiled." And we read back in Genesis chapter 6-5 about every imagination was only evil continually. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And finally we read from Paul's letters to the Romans and the Ephesians about the darkened and blindness of the heart, Romans 1 21. Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened, in Ephesians 4, 17 through 19.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart. Who, being past feeling, have given themselves over until a civiusness to work all uncleanness and greediness. We are wholly defiled. There's no part of us that is righteous. We were born in sin and we were born as unrighteous.

I don't want to stop here even though this is kind of the topic of our paragraph this morning. I'll continue a little bit extra. And it's important for us to understand this paragraph, to know basically that we're filthy, no good rotten sinners. It's only from this perspective that we can understand fully that we need help, that we need a Savior. And scripture tells us this in the Gospel of John in 3.16 and 17.

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. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. And to connect this to what our paragraph has stated, that sin entered the world through one man, Adam. Paul tells us the rest of the story in his letters to the Corinthians and to the Romans in 1st Corinthians 15 20 through 22. But now is Christ risen from the dead and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. And in Romans 5 17 through 21, for if by one man's offense death reigned by one, much more they which receive abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ. Therefore, as by the offense of one, judgment came upon all men to condemnation, even so by the righteousness of one, the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

Moreover, the law entered that the offense might abound, but where sin abounded, grace did much more abound, that as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Praise God. Amen.