In this sermon by Jason Dohm titled 'The Worst Day In Human History' based on Genesis 3:6-16, the speaker delves into the profound impact of the fall of man as depicted in Genesis 3. The sermon describes this event as the worst day in human history, marking a drastic shift from innocence to a world marred by sin. Dohm emphasizes the critical nature of this passage in understanding human life and the Bible as a whole. The narrative explores how the serpent, identified as Satan, deceived Eve, leading to the first act of human disobedience against God. Eve's actions and Adam's silent complicity resulted in the breaking of the intimate fellowship with God. The speaker highlights the human tendency to rely on independent judgment over God's command, illustrating this through Eve's assessment of the forbidden fruit. The sermon also outlines the consequences of sin, including guilt, shame, and fear, and links this to the temptations outlined by John: the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. Dohm stresses the importance of headship and responsibility, noting that Adam was held primarily accountable. The sermon concludes with the solution to sin being found in Jesus Christ, who offers redemption and reconciliation with God through His sacrifice.

Once in a blue moon a preacher preaches a sermon on a text that full-length books have been written about. And that's happening this morning. I have a text before me on one of the most consequential passages of scripture in all the Bible. It really is an interpretive key to understanding the rest of the book, but also understanding the rest of the life that you're living. If you don't understand this, you don't understand the life that you're living.

The title of the sermon is The Worst Day in Human History. It's not overstatement to say that. Fellowship between God and man and between man and man. The man and his wife was sweet and unbroken and unhindered, free flowing. Before this text and after this text there is devastation and destruction in the thoughts of man, the words of man, the actions of man, the relationships of man, the life of man.

And so this is the worst day in human history. We left off last week with a serpent. You can go elsewhere in scripture to prove that this serpent was at least influenced by and might have just been Satan. We left off last week with a serpent or Satan had in a very subtle and crafty way cast doubt on the commandment of God, starting with a dishonest question and ending with a flat contradiction and an accusation that God was lying to keep Eve back from something good. So that's where we end up in last week's text.

Satan accusing God of lying in order to keep Eve back from something that he wanted, a good thing that he just wanted to keep to himself and not share with anyone else. Now we see what comes from this and therefore the title, The Worst Day in Human History, Innocence is lost. Innocence being no captivity to sin, no experiential knowledge of evil at all, gives way to corruption or a bent away from the things that are good. Head wins to doing good, hard to do good, and tail wins to evil, meaning an inclination towards, a bent towards doing what is wrong. Easy to do what's wrong.

Hard to do what's good. Easy to doing what's wrong. So we come to our text. Let's pray. God, I do call upon you for help in preaching the sermon on this text which rises above so many other texts in terms of the importance and our understanding of it, just help me God to communicate clearly the things that we must know.

Let this be a faithful interpretive key to so much else in Scripture and life. Pray in Jesus name, Amen. Let's begin by taking verse 6 by itself. Hopefully your Bibles remain open to Genesis chapter 3 follow along as I reread verse 6. So, when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate.

She also gave to her husband with her and he ate. We have three things in this verse, assessing, taking, eating. The first word of the verse is so. It's connecting us with what just happened. What our text says flows from the dialogue between the serpent, who knows he's playing the deadliest game ever with the unsuspecting.

And Eve, who doesn't even know a game is in progress, let alone the kind of adversary she's playing against. So you remember that from the last sermon. The deadliest game ever is being played, only she doesn't know a game is in progress, and she doesn't know how malicious and mighty her adversary is. So flowing out of that dialogue, Eve saw, Eve took, Eve ate. The lead up takes five verses.

The fall into rebellion only takes one. The account is designed to give us this sense of free fall. Okay? So, dialogue, dialogue, dialogue, dialogue, free fall. A downhill acceleration into the act of disobedience.

Eve saw. This is so much more than just laid eyes on. So if you've turned Eve seeing the fruit into just Eve laid her eyes on the fruit. You have to go beyond that. It means so much more than that.

Surely she's done that time after time after time. Her eyes have fallen on the the fruit before. This is different. Here Eve is making an independent assessment. God had already told Adam and Eve what they needed to know.

What did they need to know? It would be disobedience to God's explicit command to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. But Eve has allowed the serpent to cast doubt on God's Word. That was last week. The serpent casting doubt on God's Word and Eve entertained it.

She never should have entertained it, but she did. And now she is determined to judge for herself because she's suspicious that God is keeping back something good to himself because he doesn't want to share it. She's entertained the doubt. And so, she is embarking on an independent assessment. She saw the fruit.

What is her assessment? That fruit is good for food. That fruit is pleasing to look at. Looks great. That fruit is desirable to make one wise.

I'll have something after eating it that I didn't have before I ate it. I'll gain wisdom. I think it's a reasonable observation to say that God's command says, the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil will kill you." That's just a slight translation from the actual command, but it's just a rewording of it. All the sense of it is the same. God has said, this fruit will kill you.

But what she can observe is telling her It's like all the other fruit she's already been eating. It doesn't look like poison. Look back to chapter 2 verses 8 and the first part of 9. Chapter 2 verses 8 and the first part of 9. The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.

And out of the ground, the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food." So in God's planting of the Garden of Eden, it explicitly said, He's given them a forest of trees whose fruit is pleasant to the eyes and good for food. That's two of the three things that she observes here. And so she's been eating from these trees, and it's good for food, it's all pleasant to the eyes, and she's saying, this looks just like that. God has said, it's poison, it'll kill you. And she looks with her eyes and says that looks just like the rest of the fruit and none of it's been poison and the serpent has already said to her it isn't poison it won't kill you God just said that to keep you from eating it and becoming wise like God is.

He said it was poison but it's not poison. He said that to you just to keep you from it, to keep it to himself, but it's good. God said you eat it, it'll kill you, it won't kill you. And her eyes are a being. The other trees, they have what's good for food and it's pleasant to the eyes and I'm looking at what God has said is poison and it's good, I can see it's good for food, it's pleasing to the eyes.

Listen to John chapter 2 verses 15 through 17. Excuse me, 1 John chapter 2, not the Gospel of John, but the first letter of John, 1st John 2, verses 15 through 17. Here's a warning from the Apostle John. He writes, do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world, and the world is passing away in the lust of it. But he who does the will of God abides forever." So John is issuing this stark warning. Watch out for the lust of the eyes. The lust of the flesh, the pride of life. This maps right to what we're seeing to our text.

You could draw a straight line to these three things that John is warning us about and the three things we see in our text. John warns us of one, the lust of the flesh. It's good for food. You have a craving for food, it's good for food. John warns us of Two, the lust of the eyes.

It's pleasant to the eyes. It doesn't look like pleasant, it's beautiful. John warns us of three, the pride of life. It isn't bad, it's good. It will make me wise.

It will make me like God. That is the view that exalts the world and the things in the world and dishonors God. The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life is the view that exalts the world and makes the world and the things of the world loom large and shrinks God. Those inclinations are alive and well. That's why the Apostle John, when he comes on the scene, gives us this stark warning about them.

So, we're seeing them in the garden, But rest assured that they are raging in the post fall world. What you should know is that what we see in our text before the actual first act of sin is now on steroids. You're seeing it before we were inclined towards these things, before we had a natural bent towards these things, and now all that restraint is gone. We see these things raging in the post fall world. So John comes on the scene and says, watch out for this, the lust of the flesh, the cravings of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the cravings of the eyes, and the pride of life, the craving to be God.

Trust your cravings. They're natural. Isn't this the language of the world? It's natural. No.

I mean it's natural now that sin's been let loose into the world, but that's not good. Natural doesn't equal good. Trust your eyes. If it looks good, it is good. No!

Trust yourself. Your heart won't lead you astray. Your independent assessment is all you need. No, God and his word is what you need. So Eve saw.

She's using her senses to make an independent assessment to stand over and render a judgment on God's command. You see what's happening here. She's using her senses to render a judgment on whether what God has said is true or not. Then Eve took and now things are in motion and there won't be any turning back. To this point, the arena has been thoughts and words, right?

Thoughts and words. That's been the arena. That's where the game is being played in the mind and in words spoken. Now the arena shifts to decisive concrete action. Arms and legs are now in motion.

Eve took. The serpent was crafty, the serpent was deceptive, was hateful, was devilish. You know what I mean when I say devilish? The serpent was devilish, but Eve took. Matthew Henry says this, she took.

It was her own act and deed. The devil did not take it and put it into her mouth, whether she wanted it or not, but she took it herself. The devil made me do it is never an excuse. The devil might have been the devil, But he did not make you do it. He might have suggested it.

He might have lied about it. He might have minimized it. He might have praised it. He might have justified it. But he did not make you do it.

He never does. He never does. Eve saw. Eve took. Then, Eve ate.

So, look back at the command. Look back into chapter 2 verses 16 and 17. We're back in Genesis. Genesis 2 verses 16 and 17. The Lord God commanded the man saying, Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die." God said, you shall not eat, Eve ate.

There was a single crystal clear was a single crystal clear command, thou shall not. And Eve broke it exactly and indisputably. There's no debate to be had about did she disobey or didn't she disobey. She did the exact opposite of what God said. God prohibited this thing in a crystal clear way and she violated the prohibition in a crystal clear way.

So the one single crystal clear command has been broken and sin is now in the world and that can never be undone. They cannot go back to when sin hadn't been in the world. Now, what's wrong with things that are good for food? Nothing! God made us to need food.

What's wrong with things that are pleasant to the eyes? Nothing! God made beauty. God loves beauty. What's wrong with things that make a person wise?

Nothing! God is the fount of our wisdom. He is all wise. He wants us to be wise. But all these things are to be enjoyed within whatever boundaries God establishes.

Enjoyed within the boundaries. Why? Because He is God. And he knows what's good. Remember in chapter 1, God creates, he sees, he sees that it's good.

God creates more, He looks out on more, he sees that it's good. He creates another thing, another class, another kind. He looks out, he sees that it's good. Now in chapter 3, Eve says, I see that it's good. That something that God had said, you shall not eat.

God knows what's good. God, so God sets the boundaries for our good. And We're free to enjoy within the boundaries. And there's lavish enjoyment within the boundaries. Especially in our unregenerate state, but even sometimes in our regenerate state, it feels like the fence is like this.

We're just standing right inside the fence and we're looking outside the fence and it all looks good out there. No, no, no. The fence is a thousand miles by a thousand miles by a thousand miles by a thousand miles and there's so much good inside the fence God says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom Proverbs 9 verse 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. You got a starting point for wisdom, fear God. She's throwing off the fear of God.

She's entertaining the unbelief of the sermon and hoping to arrive at wisdom. That can never be. God says, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God. That's actually Paul, God through the Apostle Paul in 1st Corinthians 1 verse 21. In the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God.

So the Apostle Paul is looking out on the sages of the ancient Greco-Roman world and he's seeing all that, air quotes, wisdom and saying you can't know God that way. That's the serpent's wisdom. You can't know God that way. It doesn't begin with the fear of the Lord and it doesn't take you to true wisdom. So an independent and disobedient quest for wisdom was never going to result in wisdom.

Anytime you find yourself on an independent, separated from the Word of God, quest for wisdom, you're not going to end up in wisdom. Any time you embark on a disobedient quest of wisdom, quest for wisdom, You're not arriving at wisdom. You're not going to arrive at wisdom. That's impossible. Finally, in this verse, we have this devastating little sentence, just a fragment of a verse.

You know, if you're reading fast, you can read right over the top of it and miss it. She also gave to her husband with her and he ate. Wait, what was that? She also gave to her husband with her. Adam hasn't been present in any of the narratives in chapter 3.

We're in verse 6. And now He's mentioned without comment, it just says, with her. Her husband with her. And he ate. He's standing right there.

He's not a word to say. Where is the man when this crime against the all good, all loving, all knowing God is being committed is right there? He's standing there, silent, according to the text, with not a word to say, and eating too. In chapter 2, we just looked at this, in chapter 2 verses 16 and 17 the text says, and the Lord God commanded the man saying, the Lord God commanded the man saying, Adam saying, Adam received the command first and directly from there. He should have been leading her into obedience.

That was the job. Instead, he allows himself to be led by his wife, by his helper comparable into disobedience. So the world has been flipped upside down. Adam was supposed to lead and Eve was supposed to help as they walked with God and filled the earth and subdued it on behalf of God as his image bearers. Instead she is leading, he is following, and they are both casting off the good government of the all good, all loving, all knowing God.

So sad. So sad. Next week we'll study the curse on mankind. God will say to Adam, because you have heeded the voice of your life and have eaten. Here's your portion of the curse.

The point isn't that a husband shouldn't listen to his wife. The point is that a husband should lead his wife into obedience, not follow his wife into disobedience. That's the point. That's a husband's job. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

This house serves the Lord. He marks it out and he understands that it is his house, and he points that house to walk with God and obey God. That's what we do. That's what domes do. That's what Bennett's do.

That's what Santel's do. That's what Orr's do. This house walks with God. We obey God. That's the job.

That's what Joshua says in Joshua 24 15. Whatever you people think you should do, you do. Me and my house, we serve the Lord. So Adam and Eve make independent judgments, which are contrary to God's Word, and they act on those judgments. That's what we've seen.

Now verses 7 and 8. Genesis 3, verses 7 and 8, I'll re-read them. Then the eyes of both of them were opened. And they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings. And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.

And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. In these two verses we have eyes opened. In verse 5, the serpent said to Eve, God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. Well, their eyes are opened. He said, the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened.

They ate of it and their eyes are opened. There's the half truth. The expectation is that a whole new world of wonder would be open to their view. You eat the fruit and a whole new world of wonder is open to your view to look out on. But That's not the world sin brings us into.

You might hope for that. That's not the world that sin brings you into. It brings us into the world of guilt and hiding and fear. That's what happens in our text. They had never experienced guilt.

Now they experience guilt. They had never felt any need to hide. They didn't know what hiding was. Now they're hiding. They had never, however long they've been alive, we don't have time markers to pin it down.

However long they've been alive, they've never been afraid. Now they're afraid. Sin does that. Sin brings you into the world of knowing evil by experience. This is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Now you know evil by experience. You know good and evil, the very fleeting adrenaline burst and the very real consequences, the momentary pleasure and the lasting guilt and fallout, Isn't this how sin works? A very fleeting adrenaline burst followed by very real consequences. The momentary pleasure followed by the lasting guilt and fallout. Congratulations, your eyes are opened.

Only it isn't what you thought or hoped it would be. The text says, their eyes were open, quote, and they knew that they were naked. Remember, chapter 2 ended with the statement that they were naked and unashamed. They were naked and fine to be naked, unashamed. At that time I made the point that I'll repeat now The words translated naked in the last verse of chapter 2 and translated naked here in our text in verse 7 are two different Hebrew words.

So, we're English speakers, we don't know that, until you break it down to the original language, you don't know, because it's just naked there and naked here in English, but those are not the same Hebrew words that are being translated. There at the end of chapter one the sense was without clothes, bare, how we think of naked. Here the sense of a different Hebrew word is exposed. So there they were just without clothes and bare, and they were totally unashamed of that. Here, the senses, they're exposed.

Before sin, the condition of being without clothes or a bear was completely without shame, unashamed. Now, after sin, after disobedience to God, the exact same condition, they don't have on less clothes or more clothes than they had at the end of chapter 2, the exact same condition leaves them feeling exposed. Their eyes have been opened and they know good and evil by experience." Welcome to the New World. The Apostle Paul says, this New World, the world in sin, the world knowing evil by experience, and the consequences of evil by experience groans in bondage and groans to be free. Remember that from Romans chapter 8?

This brave new world, this world in sin, experiencing evil and experiencing the consequences of evil, this world is groaning in bondage and groaning to be free. Romans 821. Adam and Eve feel exposed, they take action, they sew fig leaves together to make coverings. The NASB translates it waist coverings. The ESV translates it loin cloths.

So this isn't full body, head to toe, shoulder to knees coverings. This is loincloth. Fig leaves sewed together just to cover the waist. Of course this is a pathetic solution. This is no solution.

But how do they know what to do? They've never felt exposed before. Now they feel exposed, they feel like they've got to do something, so the solution is pathetic, but they do something. They've never felt guilt from sin before. Now they hear the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.

This can be translated sound or voice. In our translation it's sound. They hear the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden. Could be the voice of the Lord. Both are fine.

In either case, they hear the Lord approaching. This is the whole point. They hear the Lord approaching. We have No time marker, so we don't know if this is the first time that he's come to walk with them, that he's come walking in the garden in the cool of the day, or the hundredth time that he's come walking in the garden in the cool of the day, or the thousandth time. We don't know.

We only know that their fig leaf loincloths don't feel adequate to cover this feeling of being exposed. So Adam and Eve hide from the Lord among the trees. Matthew Henry says this, this should break your heart. Matthew Henry says this, before they had sinned, if they had heard the voice of the Lord God coming towards them, they would have run to meet him. And with a humble joy welcomed his gracious visits.

But now that it was otherwise, God had become a terror to them. And then no marvel that they would become a terror to themselves and were full of confusion. Their fig leaves filled them and would do them no service. Yeah, he nailed it. Before these moments, if they would have heard God approaching, They would have run to Him, not from Him.

They would not have hidden from Him. They would have gone to be with Him. They would have drawn near to God so that He would draw near to them. Verses 9 through 13. Verses 9 through 13.

Genesis 3 verse 9, then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, where are you? So he said, I heard your voice in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid myself. And he, God, said, who told you that you were naked have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded that you should not eat then the man said the woman whom you gave to be with me she gave me of the tree and I ate and the word God said to the woman what is this you have done The woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate. In verses 9 through 13 we have four searching questions. God comes to ask some questions.

Question number one, God calls to Adam and asks, where are you? Now, here's something that also goes completely without comment in the text. But if you're reading and thinking, here's what you should think. Why is God calling out to them? Eve entertained the unbelief of the serpent and his flat contradiction of God.

You will not surely die. That was Eve's ears listening to that, entertaining that. It was Eve who saw and took and ate and gave to her husband with her and he ate. She ate first. God calls for Adam.

What is happening? God is calling Adam because God has made Adam the head of a household. And that means God is holding Adam primarily responsible for what happens in his household. Did Eve sin? Of course.

Is Eve responsible? Of course. Is it essential that Eve repents of her own sin? Of course. None of that means that God isn't holding Adam primarily responsible for what happens in his household.

Two things can be true at once. She's responsible for a sin. She needs to repent of her sin. Amen, that's true. And God is holding Adam primarily responsible for the things that happen under his roof and his household.

Eve's problems are Adam's problems. He is responsible. Husbands and fathers, you are the head of your household. Simply because God has appointed you. You can say you're not, but you are.

You cannot do your job, but you're still responsible. You can delegate, but you cannot delegate in the eyes of God because He has appointed you. Only God can delegate. He appointed, you can't delegate. You can say you've delegated, but you haven't delegated.

How many times have you heard me say this? You know what I'm going to say next. Yes, I'm going to say it. Here it comes. You might be a good head.

You might be a bad head. You might be a smart head, you might be a dumb head. You might be a conscientious head, you might be a careless head, you might be a diligent head, you might be a disconnected lazy head, you might be a knucklehead, But you are the head. God holds us accountable for what happens in our household. Just to reinforce this point in Romans chapter 5, when the Apostle Paul speaks of this chapter and the fall of humanity into rebellion against God, the word Eve, or the words the woman, are nowhere to be found.

Good work. Romans chapter 5, he's talking about this chapter. He's talking about our following to sin. He does it at length. Eve, nowhere to be found.

The woman, nowhere to be found. Adam, Adam, Adam, Adam, Adam, Adam throughout from chapter 5. Now, is God asking, where are you? Because he doesn't know where Adam is. No, of course not.

This is like a courtroom. We've now entered a courtroom. God is forcing Adam and Eve to clearly see what is happening and why. You know that's true because Adam's answer has nothing to do with this location Adam's answer isn't I'm over here behind the redwood Adam's answer is about his condition God I heard you coming, and I was afraid because I feel exposed so I hid. It has nothing to do with where he physically is.

Questions two and three, they go together. God asks, Who told you you were naked? In other words, who told you that you were exposed? Why do you feel exposed, Adam? That's the second question.

The third question right on the heels. Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat? Now, The answer should have been King David's when the prophet Nathan confronted David for adultery and murder. Here's what King David said, I have sinned against the Lord. That's what Adam should have said.

That's what should have come out of his mouth. God, I've sinned against you. The answer should have been what the tax collector says in Jesus's parable in Luke 18. That tax collector couldn't even raise his eyes in his shame, but he beats his chest and cries out, God be merciful to me a sinner. That's what Adam should have said.

God be merciful to me a sinner. That's Luke 18 Verse 13. This is not what we get from Adam. What do we get from Adam? It was her!

And you gave her to be with me, God. It was her and it was you! It wasn't me! Question number four. God asks Eve, What is this you've done?

Listen to Alan Ross from his commentary, Creation and Blessing. Alan Ross says this, the Lord's question to the woman is worded very emphatically with a demonstrative pronoun. What is this you have done? It has the force of saying, what in the world have you done? Or, do you realize what you've done?

So, Alan Ross is just a Hebrew expert, which we're not, so he's bringing us into that world of knowing Hebrew well and he's saying it's constructed in the original language to be emphatic, to have the force of what in the world have you done? Again, God knows the answer. God is drawing out a confession of the truth. Eve doesn't say what she's done. She says, who's to blame for what she's done.

The serpent deceived me and I ate. It was the serpent, it wasn't me. So Adam, what do you have to say for yourself? It was her and it was you! Eve, what do you have to say for yourself?

It was the serpent! Adam, was it you? It wasn't me! Eve, Was it you? It wasn't me!

This should all look and sound very familiar. In your own life and in the lives of your children. It is the knee-jerk reaction to human beings being confronted in sin. You might work your way around to saying what David said or to saying what the tax collector said. God, I sinned against you.

Have mercy on me, a sinner. You might work your way to that, but that's not your knee-jerk reaction. Your knee-jerk reaction is, it wasn't me! It's helpful just to know that. That's a bad reaction.

That's the wrong reaction. That's the reaction that is the bridge to nowhere. That takes you nowhere. Next week we go to the consequences which touch every part of human existence. The consequences for what happened in our text touches every part of human existence.

Let me give you four applications. One, this is what despising God looks like. What do you think of when I say God hater. Hell angels, they ride hollies, smoke dope, they shake their hands in God's face, say we'll live however we want to live. We will not be governed by you.

That's what I think of. Homosexuals, people who cast off gender identity, that's a god-hater. And I think I'm going to change my language and start calling, start saying God despiser. So you won't think that anymore. Somebody shaking their fist, they're raging against God in heaven.

Okay, what about a God despiser? A God despiser doesn't even care enough about God to do that. Doesn't give God sufficient time of day to even bother raging. A God despiser coolly sets aside the explicit command of God in favor of his or her independent assessment. Can't be bothered to rage against God.

Just coolly sets aside what God has so clearly said in order to say, This is what my senses are telling me, I'll do this. Because he or she knows better, knows better than God. I want you to see that that can have the most sophisticated, most moral face. I want you to know that the place of eternal alienation from God and punishment will be full of people who on their face are sophisticated and moral. The Bible doesn't have much to offer you until you accept that proposition.

Unless you're one who's shaking their fist and raging against God and no one thinks of themselves that way. Jesus Christ offers you nothing until you embrace the proposition that you can go to hell with a very sophisticated and moral face, cruelly setting aside what God has said in favor of your own self-assessment. And that sounds frighteningly familiar. This is what despising God looks like. Number two, your efforts to cover your sin and hide from God are totally futile.

We'll go back to the sophisticated moral face. It's so easy to do, me and you, us and our neighbors, us and our co-workers, us and our family. But how can you cover your sin and hide from God who sees beyond the face into thoughts, motivations? He hears what you whisper. Listen to Hebrews 4.13.

Hebrews 4.13. There is no creature hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of him to whom we must give account." That's all we need to know. Naked in Genesis 3, naked before the eyes of God. Just listen to it again. There is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give an account.

Your neighbors find you perfectly acceptable. Your family finds you perfectly acceptable, quite moral, very respectable. God sees into your pride, your self-exaltation, your self-righteousness, Your self-exaltation, your self-righteousness, your smugness, your condescending. I think if you think God doesn't hate those things more than he hates smoking dope, you don't know the God of the Bible. I think you know I'm not giving cover for smoking dope.

Number three, Stop minimizing your sin and blaming other people or other circumstances. Stop it. Stop it. God sees through all of that. Stop minimizing it.

Stop justifying it. Stop blaming other people. Stop blaming your circumstances. Neither Eve nor Adam were victims. They were both criminals.

You're not a victim. You're a criminal. Now what? What are you doing now that you're a criminal? Well, I'll try to do good things to undo the bad things that I've done.

Good things don't undo bad things, That's not how justice works. God's not weighing good things and bad things. He's rendering a verdict. Innocent or guilty? What's the verdict?

It's guilty! Now what will you do? Number four. There is only one remedy. Only one remedy, Jesus Christ.

I turn to Romans 5. I said Paul in Romans 5 comments on this text and never says the word Eve one time. Never says the phrase the woman one time. It's Adam, Adam, Adam, Adam. Welcome to Headship.

That's our phrase, isn't it? Welcome to Headship. Romans 5. I will read Romans 5 verse 12 and then skip to 15 so you can follow me. Romans chapter 5 starting in verse 12.

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world and death through sin and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned, skipping to 15, 15 but the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man's offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many. The gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification. For if by the one man's offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the one Jesus Christ.

Therefore, as through one man's offense judgment came to all men resulting in condemnation, even so through one man's righteous act the free gift came to all men resulting in justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one man's obedience many will be made righteous." Oh, God's just verdict on you must be guilty. This is not the end of the story. God has sent His Son to shed His blood. And it's blood that will wash away every stain of sin, any stain of sin, and every stain of sin.

We're studying the worst day in human history, but Jesus Christ has come to conquer Sin and death. Our great enemy, sin and death. He has conquered them. Let's pray. God, we see so much of ourselves in this text, seeing, taking, eating, making our own independent assessments where your Word has already spoken clearly and trusting our own assessments.

We know there can only be one verdict in our lives. But we know that because of Jesus Christ, that's so far from the end of the story that He has come and done a work that brings us back together with you for everyone who throws themselves upon Jesus for mercy. Mercy is received. Mercy conquers that sin. Those sins.

Thank you for the Gospel. Thank you for the terrors of some of these chapters that send us running, seeing clearly, maybe for the first time, that there is only one remedy for this problem, but that the remedy is all sufficient. Jesus Christ saves to the uttermost those who come to Him by faith. We thank you in Jesus name, Amen.