WEBVTT 00:00:01.159 --> 00:00:06.639 Welcome to NECF Sermons. Each message here is 00:00:06.639 --> 00:00:09.660 designed to uplift and strengthen you in your 00:00:09.660 --> 00:00:13.939 walk with God. Don't miss out. Stay with us until 00:00:13.939 --> 00:00:17.879 the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive 00:00:17.879 --> 00:00:33.109 right in. I mean the rules of Capernaum School. 00:00:33.670 --> 00:00:37.490 They said, your Bible, your book, and your pen. 00:00:38.390 --> 00:00:42.310 So, can everybody raise up their Bibles? Everybody 00:00:42.310 --> 00:00:48.329 with your Bible. Okay. Your Bible. All right. 00:00:48.630 --> 00:00:55.630 Let me get you one. You can give me one. Please 00:00:55.630 --> 00:01:00.340 let me give this one. Do you have a Bible? Okay. 00:01:01.840 --> 00:01:05.299 I want everybody to use a physical Bible. Take 00:01:05.299 --> 00:01:10.659 this Bible. So, your notes. Can you raise up 00:01:10.659 --> 00:01:14.200 your notes? Your notes. Okay. Your notes. Your 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:17.519 notes. Everybody, answer your notes. Thank you 00:01:17.519 --> 00:01:21.799 very much. Yeah. So, and your pen. Yeah. That's 00:01:21.799 --> 00:01:27.629 good. So, welcome to... Yes, Christian Fellowship 00:01:27.629 --> 00:01:32.010 Foundation School. It is expedient of every member, 00:01:32.230 --> 00:01:35.870 I mean every worker in the church to have attended 00:01:35.870 --> 00:01:39.189 this class because it's a class whereby you are 00:01:39.189 --> 00:01:43.450 briefed about the doctrine, the foundation of 00:01:43.450 --> 00:01:46.430 the church, what the church is built on. So welcome 00:01:46.430 --> 00:01:49.450 to the first class. I don't have a title for 00:01:49.450 --> 00:01:52.689 this teaching, but I believe by the end of the 00:01:52.689 --> 00:01:55.909 teaching, you will be rewarded. you will give 00:01:55.909 --> 00:01:58.090 it a title you know there is this course we used 00:01:58.090 --> 00:02:06.510 to do ah welcome welcome so like i'm saying as 00:02:06.510 --> 00:02:08.870 i was saying earlier so there's this in english 00:02:08.870 --> 00:02:11.509 there's something they call topic sentence they 00:02:11.509 --> 00:02:13.370 will give us two three lines and they will ask 00:02:13.370 --> 00:02:16.310 us can you give what's the topic sentence of 00:02:16.310 --> 00:02:19.430 these uh lines can you give it a distance so 00:02:19.430 --> 00:02:22.610 by the end of this teaching i believe i basically 00:02:23.449 --> 00:02:25.569 each and every one of us should be able to give 00:02:25.569 --> 00:02:31.389 this teaching a topic so yes welcome once again 00:02:31.389 --> 00:02:36.550 ah so we're going to start and we're looking 00:02:36.550 --> 00:02:44.530 at bibles to second timothy 3 verse 16 second 00:02:44.530 --> 00:02:53.770 timothy 3 16. it says our scripture is given 00:02:53.770 --> 00:02:57.530 by the inspiration of God and is profitable for 00:02:57.530 --> 00:03:02.729 doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction 00:03:02.729 --> 00:03:08.069 in righteousness. 2 Timothy 3, verse 10. So, 00:03:08.110 --> 00:03:11.330 our understanding, I want everybody to write 00:03:11.330 --> 00:03:14.389 this down. Our understanding of the scripture, 00:03:14.729 --> 00:03:17.069 our understanding of the scripture, I want everybody 00:03:17.069 --> 00:03:20.949 to write this down. Our understanding of the 00:03:20.949 --> 00:03:27.030 scriptures, is very vital. Our understanding 00:03:27.030 --> 00:03:30.830 of the scripture is very vital to our worship 00:03:30.830 --> 00:03:35.830 of God. Our understanding of the scripture is 00:03:35.830 --> 00:03:39.490 very vital to our worship of God. And the reason 00:03:39.490 --> 00:03:43.849 is that when a scripture, or let me say the text 00:03:43.849 --> 00:03:46.990 of the scripture, whenever it is misinterpreted, 00:03:46.990 --> 00:03:51.310 whenever a text of the scripture is misinterpreted, 00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:55.960 a major truth is lost. I will take it again. 00:03:56.539 --> 00:03:58.740 Our understanding of scripture is very vital 00:03:58.740 --> 00:04:03.419 to our worship of God. Whenever a scripture or 00:04:03.419 --> 00:04:08.759 a text of a scripture is misinterpreted, a major 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:13.680 truth is lost. Are you writing it? A major truth 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:17.600 is lost and that affects our worship of God. 00:04:18.379 --> 00:04:23.579 So on this basis, We are saddled with the responsibility 00:04:23.579 --> 00:04:29.160 of what? Of getting our understanding or the 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:31.620 interpretation of scriptures right. Never get 00:04:31.620 --> 00:04:36.240 that. I'm going to take it again. Our understanding 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:39.620 of scriptures is very vital to our worship of 00:04:39.620 --> 00:04:44.980 God. And why is it like that? Because when you 00:04:44.980 --> 00:04:48.579 misinterpret a text of the scriptures, right, 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:51.740 a major truth is lost. And when the major truth 00:04:51.740 --> 00:04:54.660 is lost, your worship of God cannot be right 00:04:54.660 --> 00:04:57.620 because the truth of his word has been lost, 00:04:57.779 --> 00:05:01.860 right? So I now said on that basis, we are started 00:05:01.860 --> 00:05:05.879 with the responsibility of getting our interpretation 00:05:05.879 --> 00:05:08.879 of what the scriptures write. So today we are 00:05:08.879 --> 00:05:10.959 going to be looking at something very, very fundamental 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:15.959 to Christianity or let me say to the word itself. 00:05:16.480 --> 00:05:19.939 You know, there is this, preconceived notion 00:05:19.939 --> 00:05:26.639 that we all have about why did Jesus come, right? 00:05:26.759 --> 00:05:29.720 Why you have heard the word salvation, salvation, 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:33.819 why did Jesus come? Why am I here on earth? And 00:05:33.819 --> 00:05:36.740 the center point of all of this at most times 00:05:36.740 --> 00:05:42.639 is the word sin, right? You get that sin. When 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:46.660 they ask you, are you saved? You say yes. And 00:05:46.660 --> 00:05:48.139 when they ask you, how do you know you are saved? 00:05:48.160 --> 00:05:51.209 You say, Jesus Christ died for my sins, right? 00:05:51.410 --> 00:05:54.470 He was buried and resurrected again the third 00:05:54.470 --> 00:06:00.769 day, right? Am I right? So now, but then, when 00:06:00.769 --> 00:06:03.709 they ask you, when they ask, so there's this 00:06:03.709 --> 00:06:06.930 notion that we have or this understanding that 00:06:06.930 --> 00:06:10.990 circulate around about sin and that may, and 00:06:10.990 --> 00:06:13.990 it is the understanding of what we inherited 00:06:13.990 --> 00:06:18.170 Adam's sin. That is what Christ came to die for. 00:06:18.680 --> 00:06:21.540 It's the sin of Adam that has been transferred 00:06:21.540 --> 00:06:26.019 to every one of us. Who has that? You believe 00:06:26.019 --> 00:06:31.480 that, right? Who else believes that? That you 00:06:31.480 --> 00:06:38.180 inherited Adam's sin? What's your name, brother? 00:06:39.420 --> 00:06:43.439 Eric. Eric. So what do you believe about that? 00:06:43.500 --> 00:06:47.339 About saying, you know, Adam's sin, salvation, 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:50.269 and all of that? Like, I mean, can you tell me 00:06:50.269 --> 00:07:12.350 about the... We are also... You suffer for the 00:07:12.350 --> 00:07:17.230 sin of Adam, right? Okay. So, yeah. So, I will 00:07:17.230 --> 00:07:21.970 move on. So that is what most of us know, right? 00:07:22.649 --> 00:07:25.110 Like you said, they believe it's right. So, okay. 00:07:25.389 --> 00:07:30.269 So, now, let us look at the Bible. Let us ask 00:07:30.269 --> 00:07:32.709 a question. Let us ask a basic question. First 00:07:32.709 --> 00:07:35.189 of all, what is sin? Write that question down. 00:07:35.230 --> 00:07:40.050 What is sin? What is sin? If I put that slide 00:07:40.050 --> 00:07:44.670 up, what is sin? Yes. So, I wrote here, I said, 00:07:44.829 --> 00:07:49.790 sin is not eating God. that is yielding to God, 00:07:49.910 --> 00:07:53.930 or it's rebellion against God's word. And what 00:07:53.930 --> 00:07:56.509 do I mean by God's word? His law, his commandments, 00:07:56.930 --> 00:08:00.829 his promise. And I further it by saying God's 00:08:00.829 --> 00:08:04.110 law is God's commandments, right? It is God's 00:08:04.110 --> 00:08:06.829 charge. It is God's voice. It is his doctrine 00:08:06.829 --> 00:08:09.329 and principle. And we will open our Bibles to 00:08:09.329 --> 00:08:11.569 Genesis 26, verse 5. Let's see something there. 00:08:12.449 --> 00:08:29.180 Genesis 26, verse 5. So, I will read. It says, 00:08:29.399 --> 00:08:32.720 because that Abraham obeyed my voice and kept 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:35.980 my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and 00:08:35.980 --> 00:08:41.620 my law. So, look at Genesis 26, verse 5. I want 00:08:41.620 --> 00:08:43.440 all of us to pay attention. Look at your Bible. 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:48.100 Genesis 26, verse 5. Look at your Bible. So, 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:51.360 it says, because that Abraham obeyed my voice 00:08:51.360 --> 00:08:55.860 and kept my charge. my commandment, my statutes, 00:08:55.879 --> 00:08:58.820 and my law. So now I want to look at something 00:08:58.820 --> 00:09:01.899 there. So he said my voice, number one, my charge, 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:05.879 my commandment, my statutes, and my laws. So 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:08.659 these five things are not five things. They are 00:09:08.659 --> 00:09:13.320 one thing that explains each other. The charge 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:17.320 is the same as the law, the same as my commandment, 00:09:17.320 --> 00:09:21.269 the same as my voice. the same as my statues, 00:09:21.590 --> 00:09:24.129 right? Then it says something like, Abraham obeyed 00:09:24.129 --> 00:09:27.610 my voice, right? Obeyed, to obey means to yield, 00:09:28.009 --> 00:09:31.230 which is what, that word, heeding. H -E -E -D. 00:09:31.809 --> 00:09:34.470 Heeding means to obey. So Abraham obeyed what? 00:09:34.549 --> 00:09:37.669 His voice, his commandment, his law. So now what 00:09:37.669 --> 00:09:40.389 do we call sin? We said, sin is not heeding God 00:09:40.389 --> 00:09:43.289 or it's rebellion against what God's word, right? 00:09:43.629 --> 00:09:48.629 So now, I said, Though God gave man what is called 00:09:48.629 --> 00:09:52.409 free will, it is not to be exercised outside 00:09:52.409 --> 00:09:57.450 God. And we see that in Genesis 2, 16 to 17. 00:09:58.009 --> 00:10:03.789 Genesis 2, Genesis chapter 2, verse 16 to 17. 00:10:05.629 --> 00:10:09.110 That says, and the Lord God commanded, we have 00:10:09.110 --> 00:10:11.389 seen that word commandment again, right? This 00:10:11.389 --> 00:10:15.190 word, commandment, right? So let's look at our 00:10:15.190 --> 00:10:18.509 Bible, please. Genesis 2, verse 16. Let's look 00:10:18.509 --> 00:10:22.889 at our Bible. Genesis 2, verse 16 says, And the 00:10:22.889 --> 00:10:27.129 Lord God commanded the man. Commanded the man. 00:10:27.169 --> 00:10:30.889 He gave man a commandment, right? Don't forget, 00:10:31.129 --> 00:10:34.929 the word voice, charge, commandment, law, statutes 00:10:34.929 --> 00:10:37.830 are the same thing, right? So now we are reading 00:10:37.830 --> 00:10:40.090 in Genesis 2, verse 16, it says, And the Lord 00:10:40.090 --> 00:10:43.600 God commanded. That is, he gave man his law. 00:10:44.299 --> 00:10:47.360 He gave man his commandment. And what is that 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:50.799 commandment in verse 16? Of every tree of the 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:53.960 garden, thou mayest freely eat. Now verse 17 00:10:53.960 --> 00:10:56.299 says, but of the tree of the knowledge of good 00:10:56.299 --> 00:10:59.720 and evil, thou shalt not eat of it. For in the 00:10:59.720 --> 00:11:02.879 day that thou eat thereof, thou shalt surely 00:11:02.879 --> 00:11:07.440 die. So now what do we see here? We see God giving 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:12.960 a commandment. So by giving man a commandment, 00:11:12.980 --> 00:11:17.580 it implies that man is capable of what? Of yielding 00:11:17.580 --> 00:11:22.000 to the commandment or not yielding. Right? Because 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:24.539 when you look at verse 17, verse 17 says, but 00:11:24.539 --> 00:11:27.340 of the tree of good and evil, thou shalt not 00:11:27.340 --> 00:11:31.220 eat of it. For in the day that thou eatest thereof, 00:11:31.419 --> 00:11:34.919 thou shalt surely die. That is, I want you to 00:11:34.919 --> 00:11:39.100 what? I've created you in your makeup. I give 00:11:39.100 --> 00:11:42.019 you what? The ability to decide what you want 00:11:42.019 --> 00:11:46.539 to do. Right? But see, in as much as I have given 00:11:46.539 --> 00:11:52.340 you the ability to choose, now, this is what 00:11:52.340 --> 00:11:57.679 I want you to choose. But if you should do contrary 00:11:57.679 --> 00:12:00.980 to this, this is the consequence. Are you getting 00:12:00.980 --> 00:12:05.639 me? Are you getting me? So God said to man, he 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:08.570 said, Verse 16 again. Let's read this again. 00:12:08.690 --> 00:12:10.190 Let's look at our Bible. I want us to look at 00:12:10.190 --> 00:12:13.129 our Bible. Can we all echo it? Verse 16 to 17. 00:12:14.570 --> 00:12:21.470 One, two, go. Please. Can we all echo it? Verse 00:12:21.470 --> 00:12:34.929 17. So do we all see the fact that man has the 00:12:34.929 --> 00:12:38.909 ability to choose? Right? And we also see that 00:12:38.909 --> 00:12:42.470 there is consequence for whatever the action 00:12:42.470 --> 00:12:48.769 of man is. Right? Right? Verse 16 says, Verse 00:12:48.769 --> 00:12:52.750 16 says, Do not God command man, saying, Of every 00:12:52.750 --> 00:12:54.669 tree of garden thou mayest freely eat, but of 00:12:54.669 --> 00:12:57.210 the tree of good and evil thou shalt not eat 00:12:57.210 --> 00:12:59.049 thereof. For in the day that thou eat thereof 00:12:59.049 --> 00:13:01.710 thou shalt surely die. But if you eat of the 00:13:01.710 --> 00:13:04.370 tree of life, you will watch, you will live. 00:13:04.940 --> 00:13:07.940 That's the consequence of what? Heeding to God's 00:13:07.940 --> 00:13:11.440 instruction. Right? But the consequence of going 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:15.539 out of it is what? You shall surely what? Die. 00:13:16.039 --> 00:13:19.940 Right? So that what now alludes to our divination 00:13:19.940 --> 00:13:25.240 of sin. And what's our divination of sin? Are 00:13:25.240 --> 00:13:27.240 we all on the same page? Do you agree with that? 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:32.220 You don't? You don't understand? So this is what 00:13:32.220 --> 00:13:36.309 I'm saying. Okay? So, We define sin as what's 00:13:36.309 --> 00:13:40.009 not yielding, yielding God, or let me say obeying. 00:13:40.929 --> 00:13:44.470 Obeying. The word sin is the word chata, which 00:13:44.470 --> 00:13:48.110 means to miss a mark. It is derived from the 00:13:48.110 --> 00:13:52.049 concept of an archer. When an archer wants to 00:13:52.049 --> 00:13:57.169 shoot an arrow, the archer is a target. So when 00:13:57.169 --> 00:14:02.090 he shoots, if he did not hit the target, he missed 00:14:02.090 --> 00:14:04.879 that mark. He missed the target. That is sin. 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:09.960 That is sin. So now, bringing that, bringing 00:14:09.960 --> 00:14:12.720 that input into what relationship between God 00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:18.100 and man now. So God gave man a commandment, which 00:14:18.100 --> 00:14:23.360 is also what carry out. Now, when man goes out 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:27.179 of that commandment, he missed the target, which 00:14:27.179 --> 00:14:30.840 is the commandment, right? So when he goes out 00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:32.799 of the commandment, what is that called? Sin. 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:37.649 Chata. right? Missing the mark. But when he stick 00:14:37.649 --> 00:14:42.490 to the commandment, he did not sin, right? So 00:14:42.490 --> 00:14:45.590 that explains the concept of sin as what? When 00:14:45.590 --> 00:14:49.009 you miss a mark, right? And what is the mark 00:14:49.009 --> 00:14:53.309 here? God's commandment, right? So we now use, 00:14:53.429 --> 00:14:58.049 we're now citing an example of Adam. So God gave 00:14:58.049 --> 00:15:02.330 him an instruction, a law, a commandment. And 00:15:02.330 --> 00:15:05.200 the law here is what? We see an instruction. 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:09.000 We see the consequence of what each action. There 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:11.120 are two actions you can take. It's either you 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:15.340 obey or you do not obey. When you obey, you have 00:15:15.340 --> 00:15:18.659 what? The consequence. When you disobey, there's 00:15:18.659 --> 00:15:21.200 also what? A consequence. Are we on the same 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:24.179 page? So now, and how is man able to obey or 00:15:24.179 --> 00:15:26.500 disobey? Because man has what we call what? Free 00:15:26.500 --> 00:15:31.399 will. Are we getting it? That explains what I 00:15:31.399 --> 00:15:34.039 said, yeah. So God doesn't force his choice on 00:15:34.039 --> 00:15:38.179 man, but it is expected of man by God, from God, 00:15:38.279 --> 00:15:42.299 to act in accordance to his will. Do we get that? 00:15:42.759 --> 00:15:50.139 So what is sin? All right. So not yielding to 00:15:50.139 --> 00:15:57.840 God's word, is it an automatic thing or a choice 00:15:57.840 --> 00:16:03.240 that you decide what to carry out. Exactly. So 00:16:03.240 --> 00:16:06.419 that makes sin words a choice, an action, right? 00:16:06.539 --> 00:16:10.820 So do this, then I will react to what you said 00:16:10.820 --> 00:16:14.700 to me by taking an action, either doing it or 00:16:14.700 --> 00:16:16.799 not doing it, right? So that is what is called 00:16:16.799 --> 00:16:22.519 sin. So let's go further. Next one, yeah. So 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:27.279 I said the word sin was first applied to describe 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:30.750 an action of man. In Genesis 4. What I meant 00:16:30.750 --> 00:16:32.629 here is that what the first place you're going 00:16:32.629 --> 00:16:36.389 to see in the Bible, you see the word sin. It's 00:16:36.389 --> 00:16:38.769 in what? It's in Genesis 4, verse 7. Let's go 00:16:38.769 --> 00:16:42.129 there. Genesis 4, 7. That's the first place you're 00:16:42.129 --> 00:16:45.110 going to see the word sin. Actually, I put it 00:16:45.110 --> 00:16:47.509 here. So it said, if thou doest well, this is 00:16:47.509 --> 00:16:51.929 KJV. If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted. 00:16:52.490 --> 00:16:56.289 And if thou doest not well, sin lies at the door. 00:16:56.830 --> 00:17:00.269 And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt 00:17:00.269 --> 00:17:02.509 rule the vine. So what do we see here? Like I 00:17:02.509 --> 00:17:06.329 said, the word sin, the word was chata, right? 00:17:07.089 --> 00:17:11.269 The word chata, which implies to miss, to forfeit, 00:17:11.329 --> 00:17:14.750 to lack, or an absence of something. So now, 00:17:14.930 --> 00:17:18.890 let's examine this Genesis 4, 7. It says, If 00:17:18.890 --> 00:17:21.930 thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted. 00:17:22.269 --> 00:17:26.049 And if thou doest not well, seen light at the 00:17:26.049 --> 00:17:32.150 door. So this is God speaking to Cain, right? 00:17:32.269 --> 00:17:36.769 So Cain and Abel offered a sacrifice already 00:17:36.769 --> 00:17:41.549 to God, but then Cain was rejected, but Abel 00:17:41.549 --> 00:17:45.789 was accepted. Why was Abel accepted? Why was 00:17:45.789 --> 00:17:48.769 Cain rejected? The later writers, for example, 00:17:48.789 --> 00:17:51.029 Hebrews 11, verse 6. Let's go there. Hebrews 00:17:51.029 --> 00:18:05.450 11, verse 6. Hebrews 11, verse 8. It says, if 00:18:05.450 --> 00:18:08.990 you are there, please type or read. Hebrews 11, 00:18:09.210 --> 00:18:29.759 verse 4, sorry. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. So, we 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:32.960 see that Abel offered what? By faith. And which 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:36.279 is the contrary of what Cain did, right? So, 00:18:36.299 --> 00:18:38.539 and you will now see, God is telling us, if thou 00:18:38.539 --> 00:18:42.859 doest well, it's an action. An action of Cain, 00:18:42.920 --> 00:18:45.819 right? If thou acted well, and what is that action? 00:18:46.859 --> 00:18:50.619 By faith. So, Cain didn't offer by faith, but 00:18:50.619 --> 00:18:53.759 we see Obed who did, right? And Abel was accepted, 00:18:54.579 --> 00:18:57.660 Cain was rejected. And what causes their rejection? 00:18:58.240 --> 00:19:02.880 what they did. Right? What they did. Abel offered 00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:07.119 by faith. Cain offered not by faith. Right? And 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:11.339 which causes was Abel accepted and Cain rejected. 00:19:12.299 --> 00:19:14.839 So you will see, God places the responsibility 00:19:14.839 --> 00:19:20.259 on Cain. He said, if thou doest well, shalt thou 00:19:20.259 --> 00:19:25.970 not be accepted? So we see that sin is not When 00:19:25.970 --> 00:19:29.890 it comes to individuals, I mean about you, sin 00:19:29.890 --> 00:19:33.910 is your responsibility. What you do. What I do. 00:19:35.450 --> 00:19:40.690 Right? Do I do it right? If I do it right, I 00:19:40.690 --> 00:19:43.250 do not sin. If I do not do it right, that is 00:19:43.250 --> 00:19:46.730 sin. I missed the mark. Are you getting it? Are 00:19:46.730 --> 00:19:49.970 you understanding what sin is? So, I said, Genesis 00:19:49.970 --> 00:19:52.990 4, 7 shows that Cain did not heed God's instruction 00:19:52.990 --> 00:19:56.190 and was described in his action. which is the 00:19:56.190 --> 00:19:59.089 demonstration of his choice. The writer of Hebrews 00:19:59.089 --> 00:20:00.829 made us understand that the offering of Abel 00:20:00.829 --> 00:20:05.309 was by faith, which is a contrast to Cain. That 00:20:05.309 --> 00:20:07.990 is, Cain did otherwise. So faith is his substance 00:20:07.990 --> 00:20:11.029 here, leading to God's word. Why Cain did not? 00:20:11.190 --> 00:20:13.650 We describe God's sin. Go to the next slide, 00:20:13.650 --> 00:20:22.190 please. So, where I asked the question also, 00:20:22.190 --> 00:20:24.390 I said, how is sin describing these scriptures? 00:20:24.750 --> 00:20:29.410 So we can write this sin is described as iniquity, 00:20:29.410 --> 00:20:32.789 as trespass, disobedience. So we can write this 00:20:32.789 --> 00:20:35.269 and the verses, please. Let's put those down 00:20:35.269 --> 00:20:40.089 and the verses. So we see in Genesis 15, 6, it 00:20:40.089 --> 00:20:45.130 was described as iniquity. These are just additional 00:20:45.130 --> 00:20:48.519 information. to make us understand what sin is. 00:20:48.640 --> 00:20:53.299 So right, iniquity, the trespass, disobedience, 00:20:53.619 --> 00:21:07.319 let's put that down. Let's put that down. Right. 00:21:15.879 --> 00:21:18.700 Iniquity, put the Bible verse there. Trespass, 00:21:18.779 --> 00:21:21.700 the Bible verse. Disobedient, and the Bible verse. 00:21:23.140 --> 00:21:26.599 All of this, all these ones here, you can get 00:21:26.599 --> 00:21:29.220 it on your concordance. We're going to talk about 00:21:29.220 --> 00:21:31.779 the concordance at the end of the teaching. So, 00:21:31.819 --> 00:21:34.920 we'll be doing things like this a lot in this 00:21:34.920 --> 00:21:38.200 particular teaching because the Bible that we 00:21:38.200 --> 00:21:41.200 have, are we listening? The Bible that we have 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:43.700 was not written in English. It was written in 00:21:43.700 --> 00:21:47.339 Hebrew and Greek. So we have, of course, to always 00:21:47.339 --> 00:21:49.759 refer back to the original language in which 00:21:49.759 --> 00:21:52.000 they are written in so that we can understand 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:55.420 what the writer is intending or what the writer 00:21:55.420 --> 00:21:58.039 is saying. So that's why you will see, like I 00:21:58.039 --> 00:21:59.480 wrote here, I said the word iniquity is from 00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:02.279 the word avon. It implies an action done towards 00:22:02.279 --> 00:22:05.200 another and towards God's promise of life. This 00:22:05.200 --> 00:22:07.640 is to understand better what the word is communicating 00:22:07.640 --> 00:22:11.279 because the Bible is not a... English as it looks, 00:22:11.460 --> 00:22:14.599 right? So that's one of the rules of Bible interpretation 00:22:14.599 --> 00:22:18.900 of arriving at the right interpretation of the 00:22:18.900 --> 00:22:23.559 scriptures. That is, we go to the original language 00:22:23.559 --> 00:22:26.640 to get the meaning of whatever is going on there. 00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:30.359 So sin is described as iniquities in the scriptures. 00:22:30.519 --> 00:22:32.700 It's described as trespass. It's described as 00:22:32.700 --> 00:22:35.420 disobedience. Let's also put this in mind because 00:22:35.420 --> 00:22:42.329 it will come in handy as we go. So, Let's ask 00:22:42.329 --> 00:22:46.390 another question. So we have answered the question 00:22:46.390 --> 00:22:49.690 of what is sin. Do we understand what sin is 00:22:49.690 --> 00:22:55.769 now? What does sin mean? Not hidden to God's 00:22:55.769 --> 00:22:59.150 word, to miss the mark, right? Okay. So, and 00:22:59.150 --> 00:23:01.509 we have seen how sin is described also in scriptures. 00:23:01.690 --> 00:23:04.970 It's described as trespass, iniquity. You write 00:23:04.970 --> 00:23:08.170 it down. Iniquity, trespass, disobedience, right? 00:23:10.059 --> 00:23:15.579 Are we together? Are we together? Okay. I might 00:23:15.579 --> 00:23:19.079 call someone to just do a teach -back. So, please, 00:23:19.099 --> 00:23:22.119 let's pay attention, okay? I might call my brother 00:23:22.119 --> 00:23:24.940 there that is smiling. Do a teach -back to us 00:23:24.940 --> 00:23:26.880 what you have learned since. You understand what 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:29.160 I'm saying? So, let us pay attention as we go, 00:23:29.240 --> 00:23:32.180 okay? Because the goal of this teaching is to 00:23:32.180 --> 00:23:39.069 make us understand sin. So we don't just want 00:23:39.069 --> 00:23:41.349 to come and just go and attend five -year -old 00:23:41.349 --> 00:23:43.930 school and just start this thing. So we want 00:23:43.930 --> 00:23:47.269 to understand what we are doing here. So let's 00:23:47.269 --> 00:23:51.069 ask another question. And the question is, is 00:23:51.069 --> 00:23:57.150 sin natural or supernatural? Is sin natural or 00:23:57.150 --> 00:24:02.130 supernatural? Is sin natural or supernatural? 00:24:02.390 --> 00:24:05.630 And we will be examining two examples. Two examples 00:24:05.630 --> 00:24:09.500 from the scriptures. which is Genesis 3, Genesis 00:24:09.500 --> 00:24:15.480 4. Genesis 3, Genesis 4. Write is sin natural 00:24:15.480 --> 00:24:18.319 or supernatural and write the scriptures. Genesis 00:24:18.319 --> 00:24:22.559 3, Genesis 4. Now write Genesis 6 and Genesis 00:24:22.559 --> 00:24:26.460 11. That will be our assignments. Write Genesis 00:24:26.460 --> 00:24:28.880 6 and Genesis 11. Put assignments in front of 00:24:28.880 --> 00:24:31.960 it. We will go and study those two chapters, 00:24:32.059 --> 00:24:35.799 Genesis 6 and 11 and see is sin supernatural 00:24:35.799 --> 00:24:41.029 or natural there. Genesis 3, Genesis 4, we explain 00:24:41.029 --> 00:24:44.410 it here. But Genesis 6 and Genesis 11, we are 00:24:44.410 --> 00:24:46.490 all going to go and go and do the assignment 00:24:46.490 --> 00:24:49.809 and understand is sin natural or supernatural 00:24:49.809 --> 00:24:52.109 there. So, you know, like I'm giving us an example 00:24:52.109 --> 00:24:56.150 here. So, go and study Genesis 6 and Genesis 00:24:56.150 --> 00:25:00.509 11 and see is sin natural or supernatural. And 00:25:00.509 --> 00:25:02.029 every one of us are going to be submitting the 00:25:02.029 --> 00:25:04.769 assignment. I want it done in the A4 sheets, 00:25:04.789 --> 00:25:06.849 not inside your book. Right now, you are going 00:25:06.849 --> 00:25:10.710 to submit it. Yes, you are laughing. Okay. So, 00:25:10.710 --> 00:25:14.089 you will go home and examine Genesis 6, Genesis 00:25:14.089 --> 00:25:16.650 11. And you know, I don't want you to say it 00:25:16.650 --> 00:25:19.329 is supernatural or it is natural. I want you 00:25:19.329 --> 00:25:22.569 to explain how it is natural or how it is supernatural. 00:25:23.009 --> 00:25:26.470 Okay? So, let's go. Genesis 3. So, let's go to 00:25:26.470 --> 00:25:28.269 our Bibles. Genesis 3, we are going to be reading 00:25:28.269 --> 00:25:33.450 from verse, let's start from verse 1. Is sin 00:25:33.450 --> 00:25:36.210 natural or supernatural? That's our question. 00:25:36.690 --> 00:25:44.289 So Genesis 3 from verse 1. It says, Now the serpent 00:25:44.289 --> 00:25:47.789 was more cunning than any beast of the field 00:25:47.789 --> 00:25:52.089 which the Lord God had made. Verse 1. Genesis 00:25:52.089 --> 00:25:54.470 3 verse 1. Now the serpent was more cunning than 00:25:54.470 --> 00:25:56.690 any beast of the field which the Lord God had 00:25:56.690 --> 00:25:59.549 made. And he said to the woman, As God indeed 00:25:59.549 --> 00:26:03.289 said, You shall not... eat of every tree of the 00:26:03.289 --> 00:26:05.869 garden. And the woman said to the serpent, We 00:26:05.869 --> 00:26:08.490 may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden, 00:26:08.609 --> 00:26:11.609 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the 00:26:11.609 --> 00:26:13.490 midst of the garden, God has said, You shall 00:26:13.490 --> 00:26:16.289 not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you 00:26:16.289 --> 00:26:20.130 die. Then the serpent said to the woman, You 00:26:20.130 --> 00:26:23.490 will not surely die. So first of all, let's pay 00:26:23.490 --> 00:26:26.650 attention to that what happened. That what happened 00:26:26.650 --> 00:26:29.910 was also used in Genesis 4 verse 5. Let's go 00:26:29.910 --> 00:26:31.690 there. Genesis 44, verse 5. The word serpent 00:26:31.690 --> 00:26:43.569 was used. Genesis 44, verse 5. Genesis 44, verse 00:26:43.569 --> 00:26:48.829 5. The word serpent was used. Can someone read 00:26:48.829 --> 00:26:52.670 it for me, please? Read verse 5 and 15. Genesis 00:26:52.670 --> 00:27:03.339 4, 5 and 15. Can someone read it? 44 verse 5. 00:27:03.559 --> 00:27:08.759 44 verse 5. Genesis 44 verse 5. Genesis 44 verse 00:27:08.759 --> 00:27:21.059 5. Genesis 44. Yes. That word divination there 00:27:21.059 --> 00:27:24.839 is the word serpent. Now go to verse 15 of that 00:27:24.839 --> 00:27:39.450 same chapter. Verse 15. Now divination is the 00:27:39.450 --> 00:27:46.289 word serpent. Let's go to Leviticus 19 .26. Leviticus 00:27:46.289 --> 00:27:56.410 19 .26. If you are there, you can read. If you 00:27:56.410 --> 00:27:58.289 are there, you can read. You can read if you 00:27:58.289 --> 00:28:06.490 are there. Leviticus 19 .26 Leviticus 19 .26 00:28:06.490 --> 00:28:17.769 The same word divination. So this word sapientie 00:28:17.769 --> 00:28:22.809 is the word nakash in Hebrew and it implies divination, 00:28:22.950 --> 00:28:26.630 a diviner. And it also implies one who opposes 00:28:26.630 --> 00:28:30.170 an opposition, right? Let's say, are you listening 00:28:30.170 --> 00:28:37.569 to me? Let's say you want to buy a car, right? 00:28:38.869 --> 00:28:41.809 You have your money on your hand and you went 00:28:41.809 --> 00:28:45.190 to the garage and I came and I said, no, you're 00:28:45.190 --> 00:28:49.089 not buying this car. At that point, what I'm 00:28:49.089 --> 00:28:54.269 doing is what? I am being a serpent. To you. 00:28:54.789 --> 00:28:59.470 Because I am opposing. What you want to do. That 00:28:59.470 --> 00:29:02.349 is the meaning of the word serpent. And that 00:29:02.349 --> 00:29:09.930 is why. In Matthew 16. Jesus called Peter. That 00:29:09.930 --> 00:29:13.529 same word. He said get behind me Satan. That 00:29:13.529 --> 00:29:15.990 is the same word. In the Greek. That is the word 00:29:15.990 --> 00:29:19.089 an opposer. He called Peter Satan. He said get 00:29:19.089 --> 00:29:21.490 behind me Satan. Why? Because he is opposing. 00:29:22.299 --> 00:29:26.079 is caused. So, anoposa is what? A serpent, a 00:29:26.079 --> 00:29:30.359 diviner. And this word, serpent here, without 00:29:30.359 --> 00:29:32.980 no much exegesis, you could see for yourself 00:29:32.980 --> 00:29:35.700 that it's not a literal serpent, right? Because 00:29:35.700 --> 00:29:40.059 serpents don't talk. Do snakes talk? They don't 00:29:40.059 --> 00:29:42.539 talk. So, you could see that it's not what? A 00:29:42.539 --> 00:29:45.339 literal serpent. It's conversing. So, this is 00:29:45.339 --> 00:29:50.180 what Moses will implore to communicate. Someone, 00:29:50.220 --> 00:29:53.960 a being that opposes God's plan. Because look 00:29:53.960 --> 00:29:57.200 at what he said in verse 4. Remember, God said 00:29:57.200 --> 00:30:01.799 to Adam, he said, the day you eat of it, you 00:30:01.799 --> 00:30:05.059 shall die. In Genesis 2 .17. Do you remember? 00:30:05.700 --> 00:30:10.059 So now in Genesis 3 now, verse 4. Then the serpent 00:30:10.059 --> 00:30:14.279 said to the woman, you will not surely die. So 00:30:14.279 --> 00:30:17.319 what was God's command? You will what? You will 00:30:17.319 --> 00:30:20.410 die. If you eat of it. But look at what the serpent 00:30:20.410 --> 00:30:25.250 said. You will not surely die. That opposes God's 00:30:25.250 --> 00:30:29.269 command. Right? So you could see it when you 00:30:29.269 --> 00:30:32.910 read the narrative. You could see the meaning 00:30:32.910 --> 00:30:35.369 of that word serpent there. That is someone that 00:30:35.369 --> 00:30:40.170 opposes God. Not necessarily God, but anybody 00:30:40.170 --> 00:30:42.769 that opposes your action. You might be the bad 00:30:42.769 --> 00:30:45.210 person, but if a good cause is opposing your 00:30:45.210 --> 00:30:47.710 bad cause, that good cause is a serpent unto 00:30:47.710 --> 00:30:50.990 you, while you also are a serpent unto the good 00:30:50.990 --> 00:30:53.869 cause also. So it's an opposer. So the serpent 00:30:53.869 --> 00:30:56.869 here, this being here is a supernatural being. 00:30:57.569 --> 00:31:01.309 And we see when you read the conversation, so 00:31:01.309 --> 00:31:05.569 when this being speaks to Eve, Eve having known 00:31:05.569 --> 00:31:10.600 what God said, because he said it, he said, He 00:31:10.600 --> 00:31:12.259 said it was more cunning than the beast of the 00:31:12.259 --> 00:31:13.839 field. We did not go that way. And said to the 00:31:13.839 --> 00:31:15.799 woman, as God in this said, you shall not eat 00:31:15.799 --> 00:31:17.759 of the tree of the garden, right? And the woman 00:31:17.759 --> 00:31:19.640 said to the serpent, we may eat of the fruit 00:31:19.640 --> 00:31:22.059 of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit 00:31:22.059 --> 00:31:25.079 of the tree, which is in the midst of the garden, 00:31:25.160 --> 00:31:27.740 verse 2, chapter 3, God said you shall not eat. 00:31:28.319 --> 00:31:31.980 So which means that what Eve knows God's commandment, 00:31:32.099 --> 00:31:39.099 right? Are you with me? So Eve knows what God 00:31:39.099 --> 00:31:42.279 said they should not do. But then this happened. 00:31:43.259 --> 00:31:46.519 This supernatural being came to Eve and said 00:31:46.519 --> 00:31:49.299 to Eve, you will not surely die. So when this 00:31:49.299 --> 00:31:52.380 supernatural being spoke to Eve, that influences 00:31:52.380 --> 00:31:57.299 Eve's action towards God's word. So what did 00:31:57.299 --> 00:32:02.930 Eve do? Let's read verse 5. For God knows that 00:32:02.930 --> 00:32:05.549 in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened 00:32:05.549 --> 00:32:08.369 and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. 00:32:08.809 --> 00:32:11.490 Genesis 3 verse 5. Let's read our Bible. I want 00:32:11.490 --> 00:32:15.410 us to look at our Bible. Please. Everybody, I 00:32:15.410 --> 00:32:18.730 want you to look at your Bible. Genesis 3 verse 00:32:18.730 --> 00:32:22.710 5. Let's have a verse 5. Can we read together? 00:32:23.829 --> 00:32:26.990 Alright. One, two, let's go. So when the woman 00:32:26.990 --> 00:32:30.029 saw that the tree was good for food, that it 00:32:30.029 --> 00:32:32.769 was pleasant to these eyes, a tree desirable 00:32:32.769 --> 00:32:35.589 to make one wise. She took of its fruit and ate. 00:32:35.849 --> 00:32:38.569 She also gave to her husband with her, and he 00:32:38.569 --> 00:32:41.029 ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, 00:32:41.150 --> 00:32:43.529 and they knew they were naked, and they sewed 00:32:43.529 --> 00:32:46.569 fig leaves together and made themselves covenants. 00:32:46.849 --> 00:32:53.410 So, question. What influenced their action? The 00:32:53.410 --> 00:32:56.549 serpent. Is the serpent a natural being or a 00:32:56.549 --> 00:33:01.779 supernatural being? Okay. So sin has an influence, 00:33:02.019 --> 00:33:06.039 right? That is going against God's word has an 00:33:06.039 --> 00:33:08.599 influence. And the influence of that is what 00:33:08.599 --> 00:33:10.380 a supernatural being, there's always a supernatural 00:33:10.380 --> 00:33:15.319 being influencing whatever goes against God's 00:33:15.319 --> 00:33:18.640 word. And it's an opposition to God's word. A 00:33:18.640 --> 00:33:21.380 supernatural being is always what's involved. 00:33:22.019 --> 00:33:26.119 Do we get that? So we're seeing that the sin 00:33:26.119 --> 00:33:29.319 of Adam and Eve as was the activity of a supernatural 00:33:29.319 --> 00:33:31.960 being that Moses described as what happened, 00:33:32.359 --> 00:33:36.119 right? So, having seen that, let's go to chapter 00:33:36.119 --> 00:33:42.420 4. Chapter 4. Genesis chapter 4. Let's see the 00:33:42.420 --> 00:33:52.880 Abel and Abel chapter 4. Yes. So, let's read 00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:57.579 from verse 1. Chapter 4, verse 1. So, I will 00:33:57.579 --> 00:34:00.799 read. Now Adam knew Eve, his wife, and she conceived 00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:03.339 and bore Cain and said, I have acquired a man 00:34:03.339 --> 00:34:05.960 from the Lord. Then she bore again, this time 00:34:05.960 --> 00:34:08.420 his brother, Abel. Now Abel was the keeper of 00:34:08.420 --> 00:34:10.280 the sheep, but Cain was the tiller of the ground. 00:34:10.420 --> 00:34:12.400 And in the process of time, it came to pass that 00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:14.159 Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the 00:34:14.159 --> 00:34:16.380 ground to the Lord. Let us look at our Bible. 00:34:17.219 --> 00:34:22.780 This is our Bible. Genesis chapter 4. Now we 00:34:22.780 --> 00:34:26.099 are in verse 5 now. Let's read verse 5. Let's 00:34:26.099 --> 00:34:29.679 read chapter 4, verse 5. But he did not respect 00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:33.599 Cain and his offering, and Cain was very angry, 00:34:33.719 --> 00:34:37.739 and his countenance fell. Right? So the Lord 00:34:37.739 --> 00:34:41.900 said to Cain, Why are you angry, and why has 00:34:41.900 --> 00:34:45.639 your countenance fallen? If you do well, will 00:34:45.639 --> 00:34:49.340 you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, 00:34:49.500 --> 00:34:54.659 sin lies at the door, and its desire is for you, 00:34:54.820 --> 00:34:57.980 but you should rule over it. Now Cain talked 00:34:57.980 --> 00:35:01.340 with Abel his brother, and it came to pass, when 00:35:01.340 --> 00:35:03.559 they were in defeat, that Cain rose up against 00:35:03.559 --> 00:35:06.480 Abel his brother and killed him. Then the Lord 00:35:06.480 --> 00:35:08.699 said to Cain, Where is your brother? He said, 00:35:08.719 --> 00:35:11.159 I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper? And 00:35:11.159 --> 00:35:12.699 he said, what have you done? The voice of your 00:35:12.699 --> 00:35:15.099 brothers cries out to me from the ground, right? 00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:21.860 Now, our emphasis is on verse 7. So, it says, 00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:25.179 if you do well, will you not be accepted? And 00:35:25.179 --> 00:35:29.480 if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. 00:35:30.019 --> 00:35:32.699 Now, that word lied, like I said, like I wrote 00:35:32.699 --> 00:35:35.940 here, is the Hebrew word rabat, which implies 00:35:35.940 --> 00:35:38.949 to crouch. You know the way... A lion walks, 00:35:39.070 --> 00:35:42.150 right? The way a lion crouch, yeah. So this word, 00:35:42.269 --> 00:35:46.010 this word light implies that there is a being 00:35:46.010 --> 00:35:49.130 there, right? There is a being. A being. The 00:35:49.130 --> 00:35:52.250 word light is the word rabat, which implies to 00:35:52.250 --> 00:35:56.690 crouch, right? It says, seen crouch at thy door. 00:35:58.929 --> 00:36:02.329 Are you getting it? Seen what? Crouch at thy 00:36:02.329 --> 00:36:07.210 door. To lie down, to, you know, crouch at thy 00:36:07.210 --> 00:36:10.199 door. And this refers to a supernatural being, 00:36:10.280 --> 00:36:14.219 right? So now, after God said to Cain that sin 00:36:14.219 --> 00:36:17.639 lies at your door, that is, in verse 5, what 00:36:17.639 --> 00:36:21.780 do we see? Not verse 5, verse 8, what do we see? 00:36:22.159 --> 00:36:25.260 Now Cain talked with his brother Abel, right? 00:36:25.699 --> 00:36:28.340 And it came to pass when they were in defeat 00:36:28.340 --> 00:36:31.380 that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother. 00:36:31.539 --> 00:36:36.179 What did he do? He killed him, right? So we see... 00:36:36.619 --> 00:36:39.820 The supernatural being having the influence again 00:36:39.820 --> 00:36:43.460 on who? On Cain. And what did Cain do? Cain killed 00:36:43.460 --> 00:36:46.860 Deborah. You know, the fun, interestingly, about 00:36:46.860 --> 00:36:53.619 Cain, God told Cain that C, C, light at the door. 00:36:54.619 --> 00:36:59.619 Right? He warned him so that he can retrace and 00:36:59.619 --> 00:37:02.039 not do whatever he wants to do. But what did 00:37:02.039 --> 00:37:05.260 Cain do? He went ahead. Because of what? It's 00:37:05.260 --> 00:37:09.159 an influence. When sin, whenever you see sin 00:37:09.159 --> 00:37:12.440 in the world, you see, it is not natural, right, 00:37:12.559 --> 00:37:16.820 for God to tell you something and you will not 00:37:16.820 --> 00:37:19.460 yield to what God said to you. It is not natural. 00:37:21.400 --> 00:37:24.039 And in every instance, even in Genesis chapter 00:37:24.039 --> 00:37:29.300 6, Genesis chapter 11, we will see what? An influence 00:37:29.300 --> 00:37:33.360 of a supernatural being. If you go for evangelism 00:37:33.360 --> 00:37:38.219 today, and you go and evangelize, you might come 00:37:38.219 --> 00:37:40.760 to a point with this fact, that what everybody, 00:37:41.179 --> 00:37:44.480 that when you preach the gospel too, and they 00:37:44.480 --> 00:37:48.719 reject, it is annoying, it is not annoying by 00:37:48.719 --> 00:37:51.679 once, you should know, the Bible doesn't understand 00:37:51.679 --> 00:37:54.300 that what, there is an involvement of supernatural 00:37:54.300 --> 00:37:57.940 being here. You know, he said, if our gospel 00:37:57.940 --> 00:38:03.219 be heed, it is heed to those who are what? The 00:38:03.219 --> 00:38:08.440 God of this world has what? Blinded. So there's 00:38:08.440 --> 00:38:11.840 always an involvement of what? Supernatural being 00:38:11.840 --> 00:38:16.760 in sin. So I want you to go to Genesis 6 and 00:38:16.760 --> 00:38:19.820 Genesis 11. I want to see your explanation of 00:38:19.820 --> 00:38:22.420 how what? The supernatural being is involved 00:38:22.420 --> 00:38:26.539 in what? In the sin that was committed there. 00:38:26.699 --> 00:38:32.639 So let's move on. Let's move on. So is sin? Natural 00:38:32.639 --> 00:38:43.440 or supernatural? What's your question? My question 00:38:43.440 --> 00:38:48.539 is God's plan in the beginning was for us and 00:38:48.539 --> 00:38:54.840 why is it that the serpent said that for God 00:38:54.840 --> 00:38:57.039 knows that when you eat for me the eye will be 00:38:57.039 --> 00:39:01.219 opened and you will not be like God. Why did 00:39:01.219 --> 00:39:07.460 God Very good question. So I get your question. 00:39:07.699 --> 00:39:13.960 So now God spoke, serpent spoke. Now when you 00:39:13.960 --> 00:39:17.019 go to chapter three, what was the description 00:39:17.019 --> 00:39:20.920 of the serpent? Now the serpent was more cunning. 00:39:21.800 --> 00:39:27.039 What does cunning mean? Crafty, a master of deception, 00:39:27.300 --> 00:39:31.800 right? Crafty than any beast of defeat. who the 00:39:31.800 --> 00:39:34.579 Lord God had made, right? So this description 00:39:34.579 --> 00:39:37.300 of a sapient is what's called crafty, corny, 00:39:37.400 --> 00:39:42.539 deception, right? So whatever thing that is coming 00:39:42.539 --> 00:39:44.480 from the mouth of a sapient, what do you expect 00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:49.559 it to be? And for a fact, what you mentioned 00:39:49.559 --> 00:39:53.119 in verse five, when it says, for God knows that 00:39:53.119 --> 00:39:55.119 in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened 00:39:55.119 --> 00:39:56.940 and you'll be like God, knowing good and evil. 00:39:57.309 --> 00:39:59.809 That word God there in verse 5 is the same word 00:39:59.809 --> 00:40:03.289 used for Almighty God, Elohim, right? But then 00:40:03.289 --> 00:40:05.489 when you go, it's a word that's a reference to 00:40:05.489 --> 00:40:09.050 what supernatural beings also. That is, a man, 00:40:09.110 --> 00:40:12.010 man would be like what supernatural beings also. 00:40:12.489 --> 00:40:14.969 And it is the same word that the psalmist used 00:40:14.969 --> 00:40:19.329 when he said, who is man? He was talking to God. 00:40:19.389 --> 00:40:22.449 He said, who is man that are mindful of him? 00:40:23.179 --> 00:40:25.639 Or the son of man that thou visitest him. You 00:40:25.639 --> 00:40:29.320 made him a little lower than the angels. That 00:40:29.320 --> 00:40:32.599 word angels there is the word Elohim. The same 00:40:32.599 --> 00:40:35.840 word here. And it is referenced for what supernatural 00:40:35.840 --> 00:40:39.480 beings. That is, what the devil is saying to 00:40:39.480 --> 00:40:42.360 Adam and Eve here is that God knows that when 00:40:42.360 --> 00:40:45.980 you eat it, you will become like what them, supernatural 00:40:45.980 --> 00:40:48.519 beings. God, they are supernatural beings. Right? 00:40:49.219 --> 00:40:53.079 But don't forget. In man's makeup, when God made 00:40:53.079 --> 00:40:55.460 man, what did God give to man? He gave him dominion 00:40:55.460 --> 00:41:00.800 and authority. Right? So now, devil is now speaking 00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:03.719 to man. He said, when you eat of this thing, 00:41:03.739 --> 00:41:06.320 God knows that you will come like God, like a 00:41:06.320 --> 00:41:08.880 supernatural being. But that was not the plan. 00:41:09.699 --> 00:41:11.860 And that's actually deception because when man 00:41:11.860 --> 00:41:13.980 ate of that fruit, did he become like supernatural 00:41:13.980 --> 00:41:18.639 beings? Did he? He's still at the body. So what 00:41:18.639 --> 00:41:21.909 does that tell you? That was what deception at 00:41:21.909 --> 00:41:38.750 its peak. You get it? Are you cleared? Of course, 00:41:39.070 --> 00:41:45.170 it's going against God's plan, like I said. God's 00:41:45.170 --> 00:41:48.639 plan is that these guys don't eat of the tree 00:41:48.639 --> 00:41:54.579 of life. Now, when God made man, he gave man 00:41:54.579 --> 00:41:58.699 instructions, he made himself known to man, he 00:41:58.699 --> 00:42:01.400 made himself known to man in ways, right? So 00:42:01.400 --> 00:42:04.360 now, when you read that when they ate of the 00:42:04.360 --> 00:42:07.940 tree of good and evil, they knew that they were 00:42:07.940 --> 00:42:12.460 naked. That was to explain what are setting. 00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:20.909 Now, they know They now know good and evil. That's 00:42:20.909 --> 00:42:24.630 why Paul said, by man sin came into the world. 00:42:24.789 --> 00:42:27.550 So now there's an entity that was introduced, 00:42:27.909 --> 00:42:31.210 right? Now, that was to explain that whatever 00:42:31.210 --> 00:42:35.010 has happened to these guys, because when God 00:42:35.010 --> 00:42:36.570 created them, they don't know that before, right? 00:42:37.110 --> 00:42:39.829 Now a new thing has entered now. You're going 00:42:39.829 --> 00:42:43.170 to see it. So they have brought in an entity, 00:42:43.269 --> 00:42:47.539 right, into the world. sin, right? Going against 00:42:47.539 --> 00:42:50.559 God's word. Now, they can now see that they are 00:42:50.559 --> 00:42:53.820 naked. Now, funny enough, when God came to them, 00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:57.119 what did God say? He was saying, where are you? 00:42:58.559 --> 00:43:03.880 Is God oblivious of where they are? Huh? He knows. 00:43:04.420 --> 00:43:14.889 Why is he asking? Huh? Why is he asking? He is 00:43:14.889 --> 00:43:21.869 asking to see their opinions. See if they understand 00:43:21.869 --> 00:43:26.409 why they did it and how their feelings depend 00:43:26.409 --> 00:43:31.110 on it. Okay. Very good reasoning. I like that. 00:43:31.469 --> 00:43:35.130 So, I like that, like I said, that's a very good 00:43:35.130 --> 00:43:38.889 reasoning. So, that is to show that what something 00:43:38.889 --> 00:43:43.489 new has entered, which was called what? He explained 00:43:43.489 --> 00:43:45.929 in Romans 5. We're going to get there. Okay? 00:43:46.170 --> 00:43:49.829 So, just tickle me. So, where are we? So, is 00:43:49.829 --> 00:43:56.150 sin natural or supernatural? Huh? Wait, I think 00:43:56.150 --> 00:43:58.289 I didn't answer your question. So, your question 00:43:58.289 --> 00:44:03.010 is, God wants man to know him. That was his intention. 00:44:03.130 --> 00:44:06.690 That was his intention. But then, he doesn't 00:44:06.690 --> 00:44:08.210 want them to eat of the tree of not even good 00:44:08.210 --> 00:44:10.949 and evil, which if they had ate, they would know 00:44:10.949 --> 00:44:12.760 that they are naked. and they were able to know 00:44:12.760 --> 00:44:15.420 many things. Okay, so now this is the point. 00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:19.940 Let me give you a scenario. Let's say you're 00:44:19.940 --> 00:44:23.440 a developer, someone that develops robots, right? 00:44:23.760 --> 00:44:26.659 You are the one that creates these robots. So 00:44:26.659 --> 00:44:29.840 you have the way, you have a way, you want these 00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:35.380 robots to work, right? So there is what the producer's 00:44:35.380 --> 00:44:38.460 manual, because it's God that creates you. Is 00:44:38.460 --> 00:44:41.039 it the devil that creates you? No. So you are 00:44:41.039 --> 00:44:45.659 to follow what your creator's manual. Because 00:44:45.659 --> 00:44:49.119 in fact, when God created man, he said, keep 00:44:49.119 --> 00:44:53.679 and guide. He gave man a priestly office in the 00:44:53.679 --> 00:44:57.599 garden. Right? So he placed man where he wants 00:44:57.599 --> 00:45:01.300 man to be. And placed where he wants them to 00:45:01.300 --> 00:45:08.440 be. Right? So when the devil came to Adam and 00:45:08.440 --> 00:45:12.500 Eve, This is the devil introducing them to something 00:45:12.500 --> 00:45:16.300 different from what God wants for them. Okay? 00:45:16.400 --> 00:45:19.280 So if it's about knowing God, God has his way 00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:23.860 of man knowing him. Right? God has his way of 00:45:23.860 --> 00:45:27.179 man knowing him, which is not the way the devil 00:45:27.179 --> 00:45:32.400 did. And now the plan of God is what? Family. 00:45:32.460 --> 00:45:36.909 He wants to relate. but with humans, right? God 00:45:36.909 --> 00:45:39.550 will have, the plan and purpose of God is what? 00:45:40.289 --> 00:45:42.730 The earth will be filled with his glory, his 00:45:42.730 --> 00:45:45.829 family, right? On earth. He wants to relate with 00:45:45.829 --> 00:45:49.610 humans and they will know him, right? Which is 00:45:49.610 --> 00:45:52.329 why he even had to become a man so he can know 00:45:52.329 --> 00:45:56.369 who he is, right? So he had his own way of making 00:45:56.369 --> 00:46:00.530 himself known. But the devil introduced what 00:46:00.530 --> 00:46:03.769 is not in God's plan to man. That's our question. 00:46:06.869 --> 00:46:15.690 We'll catch up. So, yeah, so is sin natural or 00:46:15.690 --> 00:46:20.050 supernatural? Sin as I was a supernatural influence 00:46:20.050 --> 00:46:24.510 on man, right? So let's go, let's go. So now 00:46:24.510 --> 00:46:28.690 coming down to the concept of original sin, the 00:46:28.690 --> 00:46:31.869 concept that the fact that Adam sinned, Adam 00:46:31.869 --> 00:46:34.829 is the first man. So when he sinned, Everybody 00:46:34.829 --> 00:46:37.849 that came after Adam, they inherited Adam's sin. 00:46:38.429 --> 00:46:41.110 That concept. So we are going to examine it now. 00:46:41.989 --> 00:46:44.530 The original sin concept, in fact, we believe, 00:46:44.570 --> 00:46:47.130 read by some, that Adam's sin passed to all men, 00:46:47.250 --> 00:46:53.050 right? That Adam's sin passed to all men, and 00:46:53.050 --> 00:46:55.190 that suggests that since Adam is the first man 00:46:55.190 --> 00:46:58.070 that sinned, everyone born afterwards and to 00:46:58.070 --> 00:47:01.130 date are born with a sin nature inherited from 00:47:01.130 --> 00:47:09.960 Adam. Now, how many of us are of this opinion 00:47:09.960 --> 00:47:16.039 up to now that we inherited Adam's sin? One, 00:47:16.059 --> 00:47:21.539 two, three. What about you? One, two, three. 00:47:21.639 --> 00:47:26.360 What about you? What about you? No? Michelle? 00:47:26.559 --> 00:47:32.659 No? What about you? Brother Olive? You? You don't? 00:47:34.769 --> 00:47:38.349 One, two, three. What about you, brother? You 00:47:38.349 --> 00:47:39.989 are here at four. What about you, my brother? 00:47:42.349 --> 00:47:52.329 You don't believe it? Okay. What about you? You 00:47:52.329 --> 00:47:54.710 are not out there. What about you? So, we have 00:47:54.710 --> 00:48:00.449 one, two, three, four. Yeah. So, yes. I will 00:48:00.449 --> 00:48:03.579 have to be conversing with. The four of you, 00:48:03.639 --> 00:48:08.099 mostly in this class, in this particular lesson. 00:48:08.239 --> 00:48:11.539 So, the concept of original sin is the belief 00:48:11.539 --> 00:48:15.199 that since Adam is the first man, his sin was 00:48:15.199 --> 00:48:18.840 passed, was inherited by any other being that 00:48:18.840 --> 00:48:21.840 came of time. Right? That is the notion, right? 00:48:21.920 --> 00:48:25.119 That is the belief. But then, let us question 00:48:25.119 --> 00:48:28.800 this concept. So, in Bible interpretation, for 00:48:28.800 --> 00:48:31.909 a doctrine to be established, right? It must 00:48:31.909 --> 00:48:36.730 first of all have its roots in what we call in 00:48:36.730 --> 00:48:41.530 our day the Old Testament. Number one. Or let's 00:48:41.530 --> 00:48:44.030 even break it down. It must first of all have 00:48:44.030 --> 00:48:46.929 its roots in what we call the Torah, the first 00:48:46.929 --> 00:48:50.289 five books of Moses, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, 00:48:50.409 --> 00:48:52.829 Numbers, Deuteronomy. That is, if you are going 00:48:52.829 --> 00:48:55.690 to establish any doctrine, any Christian doctrine, 00:48:55.909 --> 00:48:59.630 for you to know you are on the right path, the 00:48:59.630 --> 00:49:03.849 beginning, The first and fundamental is what 00:49:03.849 --> 00:49:08.750 it must find its roots in Moses' writings, which 00:49:08.750 --> 00:49:11.210 is the first five books of Moses. That is, I 00:49:11.210 --> 00:49:14.070 should come to you and lay a claim, and I can 00:49:14.070 --> 00:49:17.230 situate it clearly. In those first five books, 00:49:17.429 --> 00:49:22.349 I am wrong. And why is it like that? Because 00:49:22.349 --> 00:49:29.610 every other writer of the scriptures writes from 00:49:29.610 --> 00:49:41.280 Moses. Let me give you an example. When Matthew 00:49:41.280 --> 00:49:44.320 wants to begin his gospel, go to Matthew 1 .1. 00:49:55.059 --> 00:49:57.139 Matthew 1 .1. I want you to read for me, sister. 00:50:04.869 --> 00:50:09.130 Yeah, this was your name? Elin. Okay, please 00:50:09.130 --> 00:50:13.070 let me read Matthew 1 .1. Matthew 1 .1, Matthew 00:50:13.070 --> 00:50:46.989 1 .1, Matthew 1 .1. So you see a name there. 00:50:47.050 --> 00:50:50.590 He said David and who? Abraham. So that means 00:50:50.590 --> 00:50:53.269 if you want to understand who Jesus is, you have 00:50:53.269 --> 00:50:55.210 to understand two characters. When you are reading 00:50:55.210 --> 00:50:56.670 the book of Matthew, you want to understand who 00:50:56.670 --> 00:50:59.590 Jesus is. Primarily, you need to read two characters, 00:50:59.809 --> 00:51:02.349 first of all, David and Abraham. So the question 00:51:02.349 --> 00:51:05.630 is, where is Abraham? From? Which book do you 00:51:05.630 --> 00:51:08.989 find, Abraham, in the Bible? Genesis. So you 00:51:08.989 --> 00:51:10.969 need to read the book of Genesis. So Matthew 00:51:10.969 --> 00:51:13.150 is writing from what? The book of Genesis. Now 00:51:13.150 --> 00:51:15.889 we go to Matthew 4. Matthew 4 writes about the 00:51:15.889 --> 00:51:18.630 temptation of Jesus Christ. And he writes it 00:51:18.630 --> 00:51:24.389 from the Exodus of Israel. He writes it from 00:51:24.389 --> 00:51:27.670 the story of Israel. We can go, because of time, 00:51:27.829 --> 00:51:31.130 we can go and read Matthew 4. Read about the 00:51:31.130 --> 00:51:33.050 temptation of Jesus Christ and you'll be hearing 00:51:33.050 --> 00:51:36.809 things that are directly from Exodus. He said, 00:51:36.909 --> 00:51:39.289 he was led into the wilderness to be tempted. 00:51:39.789 --> 00:51:43.630 Who were in the wilderness to be tempted? 40 00:51:43.630 --> 00:51:48.409 days and 40 nights. So you will be seeing much, 00:51:48.469 --> 00:51:51.090 you're writing from what? So when you go throughout, 00:51:51.269 --> 00:51:53.769 even Paul himself, Paul said, for whatsoever 00:51:53.769 --> 00:51:56.670 things are written aforetime are written for 00:51:56.670 --> 00:51:58.409 our learning. What are the things written aforetime? 00:51:59.159 --> 00:52:02.380 The books of Moses, the prophet, the Old Testament, 00:52:02.559 --> 00:52:04.079 right? They are written for our learning that 00:52:04.079 --> 00:52:05.500 we, through the patience and comfort of the scriptures, 00:52:05.960 --> 00:52:08.219 we might have hope. When you go to 1 Corinthians 00:52:08.219 --> 00:52:12.000 10, 11, you will see the same thing there. So, 00:52:12.019 --> 00:52:15.099 the books of Moses is fundamental to Christian 00:52:15.099 --> 00:52:17.760 theology. So, for you to establish any doctrine, 00:52:17.900 --> 00:52:20.639 you must first of all situate this doctrine within 00:52:20.639 --> 00:52:25.500 the book of Moses. Now, going further, the prophets, 00:52:25.639 --> 00:52:30.000 beginning from Joshua. to Malachi. You must find 00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:32.000 that doctrine there. Why? Because they wrote 00:52:32.000 --> 00:52:37.039 from Moses. Joshua 1 .8. This book of the law. 00:52:37.300 --> 00:52:40.739 Which book of the law is that? Moses' book. It 00:52:40.739 --> 00:52:42.320 shall not depart from your mouth. Because Joshua 00:52:42.320 --> 00:52:44.440 has not been written in that time. So what is 00:52:44.440 --> 00:52:49.380 he reading from? Moses. Genesis. So when other 00:52:49.380 --> 00:52:50.860 writers are coming, they are also reading from 00:52:50.860 --> 00:52:53.659 the previous writer. They are writing from him. 00:52:53.860 --> 00:52:57.889 So you cannot So you are teaching any doctrine 00:52:57.889 --> 00:53:02.769 without those books. So when you come to the 00:53:02.769 --> 00:53:08.190 four gospels also, Paul will tell you, Paul wrote 00:53:08.190 --> 00:53:09.929 from the Old Testament, he wrote from the four 00:53:09.929 --> 00:53:13.650 gospels, and he wrote by revelation. So there 00:53:13.650 --> 00:53:16.710 are three sources. So the four gospels cannot 00:53:16.710 --> 00:53:22.110 be left out of your doctrine also. Right? Now 00:53:22.110 --> 00:53:26.309 finally, the epistles. So that means when you 00:53:26.309 --> 00:53:31.110 are traveling down from the Old Testament, Moses, 00:53:31.309 --> 00:53:34.110 you travel through to Malachi, you enter Matthew, 00:53:34.329 --> 00:53:38.269 Mark, Luke, John, Acts, then you get to Romans, 00:53:38.690 --> 00:53:41.929 Corinthians, then when you can situate a consistent 00:53:41.929 --> 00:53:46.630 doctrine now, now, you are halfway, you are above 00:53:46.630 --> 00:53:50.710 halfway. Right? Okay? So first of all, you must 00:53:50.710 --> 00:53:52.429 be able to establish your doctrine, which is 00:53:52.429 --> 00:53:55.019 not the question that we asked. Does this concept 00:53:55.019 --> 00:54:02.420 have an origin in the scriptures? The concept 00:54:02.420 --> 00:54:07.659 of we inherited Adam's sin, does it have a root? 00:54:08.139 --> 00:54:12.179 Can you explain it within the scriptures? Now, 00:54:12.199 --> 00:54:14.900 even before we read the Bible, I can tell you 00:54:14.900 --> 00:54:20.800 for a fact that there is no place that says because 00:54:20.800 --> 00:54:24.559 the father has sinned, Then the children will 00:54:24.559 --> 00:54:28.000 inherit the sin of their father. So let's just 00:54:28.000 --> 00:54:30.099 read these scriptures. Let's start with Deuteronomy 00:54:30.099 --> 00:54:34.079 1 .39. Let's start with Moses. Deuteronomy verse 00:54:34.079 --> 00:54:41.960 1. Deuteronomy chapter 1. Verse 39. Are we there? 00:54:58.510 --> 00:55:27.695 1 Thessalonians 1 Thessalonians 1 Thessalonians 00:55:31.730 --> 00:55:35.090 So we see what the children are not punished 00:55:35.090 --> 00:55:39.110 for what their fathers sinned. Right? Can we 00:55:39.110 --> 00:55:44.210 all see it? Can we all see it? Sister Eileen, 00:55:44.329 --> 00:55:48.449 can you see it? Okay. Can you see it, brother? 00:55:49.510 --> 00:55:51.250 One, two, three, four. When I'm asking questions, 00:55:51.730 --> 00:55:55.349 as far as we are in this paradigm, this particular 00:55:55.349 --> 00:55:57.619 thing, When I ask questions, I want to answer 00:55:57.619 --> 00:56:00.559 from the four of you. And my brother too, I want 00:56:00.559 --> 00:56:03.980 to answer from you too. So let's read Deuteronomy 00:56:03.980 --> 00:56:13.659 24, verse 16. Deuteronomy 24, verse 16. I would 00:56:13.659 --> 00:56:16.380 love Sister Helen to help me read that. Deuteronomy 00:56:16.380 --> 00:56:19.380 24. Oh, Brother David, you can read. You can 00:56:19.380 --> 00:56:28.869 read Deuteronomy 24, verse 16. Deuteronomy 24 00:56:28.869 --> 00:56:56.090 16 Did you see? Yes. for his own sin. So you 00:56:56.090 --> 00:56:59.530 bear your sin, I bear my own. Adam bears his 00:56:59.530 --> 00:57:06.110 sin, all of us bear our own sin. Okay. We'll 00:57:06.110 --> 00:57:10.690 get there. We'll get there, don't worry. So, 00:57:10.869 --> 00:57:14.750 but, what have you seen here in this scripture, 00:57:14.889 --> 00:57:19.110 Sister Eileen? Everybody bears their sin, right? 00:57:20.329 --> 00:57:23.690 Did you agree to that? Up to now. So now let's 00:57:23.690 --> 00:57:28.510 go to Ezekiel 18. No, let's go to 2 Kings 14 00:57:28.510 --> 00:57:30.670 .6. Write this down. You can go and read this 00:57:30.670 --> 00:57:33.989 at home because it is long. Ezekiel 18 .3 -20. 00:57:34.329 --> 00:57:38.349 You can read it at home. Let's read 2 Kings 14 00:57:38.349 --> 00:58:17.070 .6. 2 Kings 14 .6 2 Kings 14 .6 2 Kings 14 .6 00:58:32.969 --> 00:59:06.239 Verse 6. Did we all read that? What did we see? 00:59:08.519 --> 00:59:12.880 Everybody is responsible for the awards. So up 00:59:12.880 --> 00:59:14.360 to now, we have not seen anywhere that someone 00:59:14.360 --> 00:59:16.579 is responsible for anybody's sin. Let's read 00:59:16.579 --> 00:59:28.440 lastly. Jeremiah 31 Jeremiah 31 29 to 30 Jeremiah 00:59:28.440 --> 00:59:34.969 31 29 to 30. Jeremiah 31. Anybody can read for 00:59:34.969 --> 00:59:41.170 me. Sister Elaine. Sister... I'm forgetting your 00:59:41.170 --> 00:59:45.710 name. Crystal Bell. In those days, they shall 00:59:45.710 --> 00:59:49.530 say no more. The fathers have eaten cypress and 00:59:49.530 --> 00:59:53.670 the children sit at second age. But everyone 00:59:53.670 --> 00:59:56.889 shall die for his own iniquity. Every man who 00:59:56.889 --> 01:00:00.309 eats cypress shall be second. Did you see the 01:00:00.309 --> 01:00:04.409 word iniquity? For sins, right? I said put it 01:00:04.409 --> 01:00:06.489 in your mind. So everybody dies for their own 01:00:06.489 --> 01:00:10.469 sin. So we have not seen anywhere that is established 01:00:10.469 --> 01:00:15.530 that the father dies for the children, right? 01:00:16.110 --> 01:00:21.090 Okay. So, we have not seen anywhere where we 01:00:21.090 --> 01:00:25.369 inherit the sin from anybody, from anyone. The 01:00:25.369 --> 01:00:29.010 father doesn't pass down his sin. to the children, 01:00:29.110 --> 01:00:31.829 right? The children does not inherit sin from 01:00:31.829 --> 01:00:34.989 the father. Because what is sin? Sin is an action. 01:00:37.309 --> 01:00:39.570 Right? Why will you pass down your action to 01:00:39.570 --> 01:00:46.150 me? Are you seeing this? Don't forget, I want 01:00:46.150 --> 01:00:48.809 you to hold that in your mind. Sin is an action. 01:00:49.449 --> 01:00:53.250 It is not a genetic thing that you are passing 01:00:53.250 --> 01:00:57.630 down. Okay? Spiritually, it doesn't bode well. 01:00:59.369 --> 01:01:04.250 Physically, it doesn't bode well. Okay? Sin is 01:01:04.250 --> 01:01:07.230 what? An action. And don't forget, it means what? 01:01:07.309 --> 01:01:12.369 To miss the mark. Right? So, if sin means to 01:01:12.369 --> 01:01:15.070 miss the mark, then there must first of all be 01:01:15.070 --> 01:01:20.130 a mark set before me that I will miss. Imagine, 01:01:20.170 --> 01:01:23.269 because he's my brother, then he's short and 01:01:23.269 --> 01:01:26.010 narrow, he couldn't get the mark. Then he said, 01:01:26.030 --> 01:01:29.710 I have sinned. Does that make sense? Does that 01:01:29.710 --> 01:01:33.590 make sense? And who is God? God is what? A God 01:01:33.590 --> 01:01:37.650 of justice. To humans, to even humans, is that 01:01:37.650 --> 01:01:41.110 justice? That he missed the mark, then you said, 01:01:41.190 --> 01:01:43.769 I also missed the mark. While I have not even 01:01:43.769 --> 01:01:48.630 shot anything. Does that make sense? I have not 01:01:48.630 --> 01:01:50.909 shot any arrow. Then you said, I missed the mark. 01:01:51.130 --> 01:01:55.309 I'll be looking at you like, how far now? So 01:01:55.309 --> 01:01:59.579 there must be, a mark for me to miss. There must 01:01:59.579 --> 01:02:03.260 be a commandment that I will obey. There must 01:02:03.260 --> 01:02:06.500 be a law given to me that I obey. There must 01:02:06.500 --> 01:02:09.380 be God's charge. There must be God's instruction 01:02:09.380 --> 01:02:12.800 or his principle given to me. Then when it is 01:02:12.800 --> 01:02:16.599 presented to me, however that I go about it, 01:02:16.760 --> 01:02:19.820 do I yield to it or do I not yield to it? Because 01:02:19.820 --> 01:02:23.239 God's instruction there is the mark. So do I? 01:02:25.570 --> 01:02:31.469 accept that, do I reject it? Rejecting it is 01:02:31.469 --> 01:02:35.289 going outside of that mark. Accepting it is eating 01:02:35.289 --> 01:02:38.750 the mark. So there must be a mark for me to miss 01:02:38.750 --> 01:02:41.769 before I can be called a sinner. So without the 01:02:41.769 --> 01:02:45.690 mark, I am nothing. I'm not a sinner. Right? 01:02:45.809 --> 01:02:47.889 Are you getting this? So that's why I said the 01:02:47.889 --> 01:02:51.909 father eats all grapes. He will perish for his 01:02:51.909 --> 01:02:54.940 own grapes. The son eats all grapes. He's going 01:02:54.940 --> 01:02:57.079 to perish for the sawgrips. But if the son has 01:02:57.079 --> 01:03:00.500 not eaten any sawgrips, the son leaves. If the 01:03:00.500 --> 01:03:04.380 son is oblivious, the son leaves. Are you getting 01:03:04.380 --> 01:03:08.619 it? So, everything we have read now, nothing 01:03:08.619 --> 01:03:14.679 presupposes or nothing suggests that what sin 01:03:14.679 --> 01:03:19.320 is inheritable or sin can be passed down, right? 01:03:19.559 --> 01:03:22.179 From the scriptures that we have read. We have 01:03:22.179 --> 01:03:24.039 read from the Old Testament, right? We don't 01:03:24.039 --> 01:03:27.039 say anything like that. That sin words can be 01:03:27.039 --> 01:03:30.679 inherited. Alright? So let's go to Jesus himself. 01:03:30.860 --> 01:03:35.019 When Jesus came, Jesus talked about sin. Right? 01:03:36.099 --> 01:03:42.320 Let's open our Bibles to Matthew 9 verse 2. Jesus 01:03:42.320 --> 01:04:09.650 talked about sin. Matthew 9 verse 2. Yes. Whose 01:04:09.650 --> 01:04:20.050 sins are forgiven? Your sins are forgiven. Not 01:04:20.050 --> 01:04:23.530 Adam have sinned, so I saved you from the sins 01:04:23.530 --> 01:04:26.929 of Adam. But not your father have sinned. I saved 01:04:26.929 --> 01:04:29.050 you from the sin of your father. Okay? Is that 01:04:29.050 --> 01:04:33.289 your sins? are forgiving okay let's also see 01:04:33.289 --> 01:04:53.530 Matthew Matthew 12 31 and 32 therefore I say 01:04:53.530 --> 01:04:55.949 to you every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven 01:04:55.949 --> 01:04:58.769 men but the blaspheming against the spirit will 01:04:58.769 --> 01:05:01.340 not be forgiven men Anyone who speaks a word 01:05:01.340 --> 01:05:03.800 against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him. 01:05:03.940 --> 01:05:06.139 But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it 01:05:06.139 --> 01:05:08.460 will not be forgiven him, either in this age 01:05:08.460 --> 01:05:12.659 or in the age to come. So did we see that sin 01:05:12.659 --> 01:05:15.420 is what's individualistic? That is, he said, 01:05:15.559 --> 01:05:18.780 I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be 01:05:18.780 --> 01:05:21.340 forgiven men. But the blasphemy against the Holy 01:05:21.340 --> 01:05:23.280 Spirit will not be forgiven men. Anyone who speaks 01:05:23.280 --> 01:05:26.760 a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven 01:05:26.760 --> 01:05:30.659 him. But whoever speaks against the Spirit, it 01:05:30.659 --> 01:05:34.179 will not be forgiven him. So sin is what? Individual. 01:05:36.039 --> 01:05:40.019 Are we getting it? Sin is what? Individual. It 01:05:40.019 --> 01:05:43.579 is not inherited. Sin is individual. Let's see 01:05:43.579 --> 01:05:59.590 also Matthew 5 .29. Matthew 5, 29 to 30. He says, 01:05:59.730 --> 01:06:02.889 if your right eye causes you to sing, pluck it 01:06:02.889 --> 01:06:06.389 out and cast it from you. For it is more profitable 01:06:06.389 --> 01:06:09.329 for you that one of your members perish than 01:06:09.329 --> 01:06:11.989 for your whole body to be cast into it. And if 01:06:11.989 --> 01:06:14.389 your right hand causes you to sing, cut it off 01:06:14.389 --> 01:06:17.369 and cast it from you. For it is more profitable 01:06:17.369 --> 01:06:20.449 for you that one of your members perish than 01:06:20.449 --> 01:06:23.190 for your whole body to be cast into it. So on 01:06:23.190 --> 01:06:29.030 who is the responsibility of sin placed on? Hmm? 01:06:29.590 --> 01:06:35.489 On the... Okay. Right? Yes. On the person that 01:06:35.489 --> 01:06:39.630 sins, right? Yes. Is he Adam? No. Exactly. Like 01:06:39.630 --> 01:06:43.550 on you, on I, on anybody, right? Okay. That is 01:06:43.550 --> 01:06:47.809 what everybody that sins will receive what? The 01:06:47.809 --> 01:06:52.280 consequence of sin, right? Okay. So finally, 01:06:52.340 --> 01:07:00.719 let's read also Luke 13, verse 2 to 5. Luke 13, 01:07:00.800 --> 01:07:15.039 2 to 5. And Jesus answered and said to them, 01:07:15.599 --> 01:07:18.019 Do you suppose that these Galileans were worse 01:07:18.019 --> 01:07:20.519 sinners than all other Galileans because they 01:07:20.519 --> 01:07:25.059 suffered such sins? I tell you, no. But unless 01:07:25.059 --> 01:07:27.940 you repent, you will all likewise perish. Or 01:07:27.940 --> 01:07:30.860 those entering on whom the Torah in Siloam fell 01:07:30.860 --> 01:07:33.300 and killed them. Do you think that they were 01:07:33.300 --> 01:07:35.300 worse sinners than all other men who dwelt in 01:07:35.300 --> 01:07:38.739 Jerusalem? I tell you, no. But unless you repent, 01:07:39.019 --> 01:07:45.719 you will all likewise perish. So, who sins? And 01:07:45.719 --> 01:07:47.820 it is that same individual that has the capacity 01:07:47.820 --> 01:07:52.340 to repent. Right? So, with all we have read, 01:07:52.579 --> 01:07:56.199 do we see any way that supposes or suggests that 01:07:56.199 --> 01:08:00.659 we inherit Adam's sin? Alright. So, but then, 01:08:00.900 --> 01:08:07.579 why then do we have the confusion of we all inherited 01:08:07.579 --> 01:08:11.300 Adam's sin? Because definitely it came from somewhere. 01:08:15.180 --> 01:08:20.859 initial Bible stories say initially God created 01:08:20.859 --> 01:08:24.500 the world and put man in command and control 01:08:24.500 --> 01:08:29.680 of the world there was no sin so because Adam 01:08:29.680 --> 01:08:31.899 and Eve were the first people to be put there 01:08:31.899 --> 01:08:33.939 and they were the first people to give in to 01:08:33.939 --> 01:08:36.939 that sin it is because of them that today we 01:08:36.939 --> 01:08:39.760 have that consequence of sin they had killed 01:08:39.760 --> 01:08:54.439 them to their command Now, what you just said 01:08:54.439 --> 01:08:57.100 came from a man. I will spare you the historical 01:08:57.100 --> 01:08:59.619 fact. I'm not going to give you, but let me just 01:08:59.619 --> 01:09:02.039 say, I'll give you the name so you can go and 01:09:02.039 --> 01:09:05.220 just check. It came from the man, Augustine. 01:09:05.779 --> 01:09:08.939 He brought the concept of what we call the original 01:09:08.939 --> 01:09:12.560 sin. And where did he explain it from? He used 01:09:12.560 --> 01:09:15.199 the Bible to explain it. You know, that's one 01:09:15.199 --> 01:09:18.479 funny thing about theology, about any doctrine. 01:09:19.180 --> 01:09:22.479 The doctrine of slavery that justifies slavery 01:09:22.479 --> 01:09:27.300 was taught with the Bible. The doctrine that 01:09:27.300 --> 01:09:33.300 revokes slavery was taught with the Bible. Are 01:09:33.300 --> 01:09:48.500 you getting this? The doctrine... Yes. Yes. Yes. 01:09:54.960 --> 01:10:05.000 Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. That's why I said if your 01:10:05.000 --> 01:10:08.560 interpretation of the Bible is wrong, Your worship 01:10:08.560 --> 01:10:11.319 of God is what will be wrong. So you have to 01:10:11.319 --> 01:10:15.680 get the interpretation right. Okay? Even the 01:10:15.680 --> 01:10:20.399 doctrine of baptism wasn't there until some times. 01:10:20.939 --> 01:10:22.439 But I'm not the one teaching it. Someone will 01:10:22.439 --> 01:10:28.119 teach it. So let us... Doctrine of baptism. Okay? 01:10:28.119 --> 01:10:35.539 Calm. Okay? Don't worry. We'll get there. We'll 01:10:35.539 --> 01:10:39.510 get there. Don't worry. So now, let's go to Romans 01:10:39.510 --> 01:10:41.869 5. All of us, our Bibles. Please let us open 01:10:41.869 --> 01:10:43.909 our Bibles. This is very critical. This is one 01:10:43.909 --> 01:10:46.390 critical part of our teaching. Romans chapter 01:10:46.390 --> 01:10:49.609 5, we start from verse 12. Because this is where 01:10:49.609 --> 01:10:53.350 it was explained from. That we all inherited 01:10:53.350 --> 01:10:59.850 Adam's sin. Romans chapter 5, verse 12. But before 01:10:59.850 --> 01:11:05.250 we examine Romans chapter 5, verse 12, I would 01:11:05.250 --> 01:11:10.460 like to ask a question. to all of us. Adam, is 01:11:10.460 --> 01:11:21.079 he a prototype or an archetype? Is Adam a prototype 01:11:21.079 --> 01:11:26.640 or an archetype? Let me make it simple. If Adam 01:11:26.640 --> 01:11:30.960 was a prototype, Abel would do exactly the same 01:11:30.960 --> 01:11:35.279 thing that Adam did. If Adam was a prototype, 01:11:36.179 --> 01:11:39.359 Noah would do exactly the same thing that Adam 01:11:39.359 --> 01:11:45.060 did. If Adam was a prototype, you and I, we would 01:11:45.060 --> 01:11:48.439 do the same thing that Adam did. There would 01:11:48.439 --> 01:11:52.640 not be anything different that Adam did than 01:11:52.640 --> 01:11:56.119 we are going to be doing today. Because the prototype 01:11:56.119 --> 01:12:02.579 of an iPhone 17 is that makeup that iPhone 17 01:12:02.579 --> 01:12:04.340 was made from. So when you carry the prototype 01:12:04.340 --> 01:12:08.060 of an iPhone 17 and you carry the rest, iPhone 01:12:08.060 --> 01:12:10.659 17, when you put them together, they will operate 01:12:10.659 --> 01:12:14.579 the same way. Are you getting it? They are going 01:12:14.579 --> 01:12:19.560 to operate the same way. But the archetype of 01:12:19.560 --> 01:12:25.939 iPhone 17 is that first idea about a mobile phone. 01:12:30.000 --> 01:12:34.220 Are you getting it? Yeah. archetype of iPhone 01:12:34.220 --> 01:12:40.359 17 is the first ever idea of a mobile phone in 01:12:40.359 --> 01:12:44.100 which every other mobile phone took initiative 01:12:44.100 --> 01:12:50.760 from and designed their phone. I get in the explanation. 01:12:51.260 --> 01:12:56.000 For example, the prototype of a mother is that, 01:12:56.060 --> 01:13:00.079 let's say Jamila is a mother. Now when you become 01:13:00.079 --> 01:13:04.250 a mother, you will do exactly the way she's doing. 01:13:04.869 --> 01:13:07.750 If you become a mother, you do exactly the same 01:13:07.750 --> 01:13:10.770 thing that she's doing. But the archetype of 01:13:10.770 --> 01:13:14.409 a mother is that what a mother nurtures, a mother 01:13:14.409 --> 01:13:17.930 cares, a mother breastfeeds. That's the archetype 01:13:17.930 --> 01:13:21.529 of a mother, the function of a mother. But the 01:13:21.529 --> 01:13:23.989 prototype of a mother tells you exactly what 01:13:23.989 --> 01:13:27.829 another of that prototype will do. But an archetype 01:13:27.829 --> 01:13:33.109 tells you possibilities. that can come out. For 01:13:33.109 --> 01:13:37.909 example, we have an iPhone, we have Samsung, 01:13:38.270 --> 01:13:41.350 we have Tecno, we have Redmi. They don't operate 01:13:41.350 --> 01:13:43.369 the same way. They have different operating systems. 01:13:43.789 --> 01:13:47.789 But all of them are mobile iPhones. Right? So 01:13:47.789 --> 01:13:50.909 that first idea of phone, that's the archetype 01:13:50.909 --> 01:13:55.970 of all of these phones. The prototype of a Samsung, 01:13:56.189 --> 01:14:01.699 of an S21 Ultra, is the first S21 Ultra. Are 01:14:01.699 --> 01:14:07.279 you getting this? So now, taking Adam as a prototype 01:14:07.279 --> 01:14:12.060 means you and I, we do the same thing that Adam 01:14:12.060 --> 01:14:18.279 did to God's word. That is, Adam disobeyed, right? 01:14:18.399 --> 01:14:24.819 It means both of us, we always disobey. Are you 01:14:24.819 --> 01:14:30.340 getting this? Hmm? What about you, Paul? Are 01:14:30.340 --> 01:14:34.750 you getting this? I said a prototype, right? 01:14:34.949 --> 01:14:41.409 A prototype of human beings. Let's say, let's 01:14:41.409 --> 01:14:44.270 say we have the ability to design a human being. 01:14:44.569 --> 01:14:47.649 The prototype of human being, of a particular 01:14:47.649 --> 01:14:51.449 human being, would be that first, okay, let's 01:14:51.449 --> 01:14:53.489 say a particular tribe, would be that first person 01:14:53.489 --> 01:14:57.270 in that tribe. That's the prototype. And they 01:14:57.270 --> 01:15:11.140 are doing exactly like him. Yes. Exactly. The 01:15:11.140 --> 01:15:14.140 copy. Yes, yes, yes. That is it. So now, that's 01:15:14.140 --> 01:15:16.420 why I gave this scenario with murder. In every 01:15:16.420 --> 01:15:18.739 murder, there is a function of what a murder 01:15:18.739 --> 01:15:21.140 is called. But there are different murder. There 01:15:21.140 --> 01:15:23.500 are weird murder. There are irresponsible murder 01:15:23.500 --> 01:15:26.619 that do not care. Right? I don't do what they 01:15:26.619 --> 01:15:29.899 ought to do. But whenever you see the archetype 01:15:29.899 --> 01:15:32.699 of a mother is someone that cares, that nurtures, 01:15:32.899 --> 01:15:36.699 that breastfeeds, is a baby, right? That's what 01:15:36.699 --> 01:15:39.439 mothers do, right? But there are irresponsible 01:15:39.439 --> 01:15:41.380 mothers that don't do that. Don't care, they'll 01:15:41.380 --> 01:15:44.220 give birth to that child, drop the child, right? 01:15:44.359 --> 01:15:48.760 So now bringing that into Adam, the question 01:15:48.760 --> 01:15:53.680 to you is, is Adam an archetype or a prototype? 01:15:53.800 --> 01:15:56.720 Or before you answer, Now Adam gave birth to 01:15:56.720 --> 01:16:00.100 two child, to Abel and Cain, right? So now we 01:16:00.100 --> 01:16:05.279 see Cain, right? Doing the same thing Adam did, 01:16:05.439 --> 01:16:12.659 but Abel doing otherwise. You get that? So now 01:16:12.659 --> 01:16:18.060 we see someone that didn't act like Adam. Moving 01:16:18.060 --> 01:16:26.859 forward, we see Noah do differently Adam. Right? 01:16:27.180 --> 01:16:30.460 We see David doing differently. We see Abraham 01:16:30.460 --> 01:16:34.119 doing differently from Adam. Right? So what is 01:16:34.119 --> 01:16:41.039 Adam? Exactly. Is Adam an archetype or a prototype 01:16:41.039 --> 01:16:45.920 of humans? An archetype. So that means that what? 01:16:47.220 --> 01:16:51.899 Adam's story, the disobedient, the Adam's disobedient 01:16:51.899 --> 01:16:57.789 story is to show you It's an archetypal story 01:16:57.789 --> 01:17:05.130 that shows you the pattern of disobedience. Right? 01:17:05.369 --> 01:17:07.770 It shows you what's the pattern of disobedience, 01:17:07.810 --> 01:17:13.770 which Cain buys into. Cain acted like that. But 01:17:13.770 --> 01:17:17.890 we see Abel acting differently. But they are 01:17:17.890 --> 01:17:23.550 what? All humans. Right? So, as I said, an archetype 01:17:23.550 --> 01:17:28.439 shows you what? possibilities. How? Possibilities, 01:17:28.619 --> 01:17:32.100 right? But a prototype shows you definite action. 01:17:32.180 --> 01:17:34.380 That is, you can tell that this is what this 01:17:34.380 --> 01:17:39.600 thing is going to do. Alright? So, I mean, okay. 01:17:40.739 --> 01:17:43.420 Have you guys read this? I didn't even know it 01:17:43.420 --> 01:17:46.479 was there. So you can read this. Did you read 01:17:46.479 --> 01:17:49.640 this? Let me read it for you. It said, a prototype 01:17:49.640 --> 01:17:53.359 is an early, usually unrefined version of something. 01:17:53.869 --> 01:17:56.750 that later version reflects, but may depart from. 01:17:57.010 --> 01:17:59.149 In other words, a prototype is usually a physical 01:17:59.149 --> 01:18:01.890 draft. An archetype is a perfect and unchanging 01:18:01.890 --> 01:18:04.689 form that existing things or people can approach, 01:18:04.869 --> 01:18:07.710 but never duplicate. In other words, an archetype 01:18:07.710 --> 01:18:09.829 is an ideal example of iterative or perfect form. 01:18:10.329 --> 01:18:13.430 Leave this, leave this too. Leave it. It might 01:18:13.430 --> 01:18:21.239 be too, huh? What is it? Yeah, that's what I 01:18:21.239 --> 01:18:24.279 said. Leave these two, please. Leave these two. 01:18:24.720 --> 01:18:29.020 So, an archetype, therefore, is to show an ideal 01:18:29.020 --> 01:18:30.800 example of action, behavior, or function of a 01:18:30.800 --> 01:18:32.800 person or a thing. An archetype is an example 01:18:32.800 --> 01:18:35.760 of a mother would be to highlight how a mother 01:18:35.760 --> 01:18:37.760 functions or the qualities of a mother and that 01:18:37.760 --> 01:18:40.020 any mother can exhibit rather than what every 01:18:40.020 --> 01:18:42.619 mother should exhibit. So, what every mother 01:18:42.619 --> 01:18:45.970 should exhibit with what will be prototype but 01:18:45.970 --> 01:18:49.069 what every mother can exhibit will be what an 01:18:49.069 --> 01:18:54.229 archetype did you get it are you on the same 01:18:54.229 --> 01:18:59.369 page all right so do we all grasp the idea of 01:18:59.369 --> 01:19:02.149 an archetype and a prototype because that's very 01:19:02.149 --> 01:19:04.729 vital in understanding whatever we are about 01:19:04.729 --> 01:19:09.840 to do now so like i said The Adam story is an 01:19:09.840 --> 01:19:12.880 archetypal story of disobedience in a man to 01:19:12.880 --> 01:19:16.220 warn the audience of Moses about disobedience 01:19:16.220 --> 01:19:20.680 unto God's word. That is, is to teach them how 01:19:20.680 --> 01:19:24.359 that's what the story of Adam is an archetypal 01:19:24.359 --> 01:19:27.359 story of disobedience. So it's to teach his audience 01:19:27.359 --> 01:19:29.060 because Moses had an audience when he was writing, 01:19:29.220 --> 01:19:31.979 when he was teaching. Because the Bible was first 01:19:31.979 --> 01:19:35.180 taught or spoken before it was written. Right? 01:19:35.319 --> 01:19:38.060 So when he was teaching them, He was using that 01:19:38.060 --> 01:19:41.319 story to teach them about disobedience, a type 01:19:41.319 --> 01:19:45.500 of disobedience a man cannot exhibit, which is 01:19:45.500 --> 01:19:50.460 CK, exhibiting. But Abel, not buying into. Okay? 01:19:50.659 --> 01:19:54.180 So now let's go to Romans now. Romans 5, verse 01:19:54.180 --> 01:20:02.319 12. Romans 5, verse 12. Yeah. So up to now, do 01:20:02.319 --> 01:20:07.630 we understand what sin is? Do we understand that 01:20:07.630 --> 01:20:10.770 there is a supernatural influence of sin. I mean, 01:20:10.789 --> 01:20:16.510 do you strongly agree with that? What about you 01:20:16.510 --> 01:20:23.489 don't inherit sins? I know you still have some 01:20:23.489 --> 01:20:27.369 reservations, by the way. So, don't worry. But, 01:20:27.470 --> 01:20:32.550 do you see clearly, right, that not Jesus, not 01:20:32.550 --> 01:20:35.890 even Moses, not other prophets taught that word? 01:20:36.329 --> 01:20:39.630 we inherit anybody's sin and not even Adam's 01:20:39.630 --> 01:20:43.069 sin. Right? So now, we are about to see something 01:20:43.069 --> 01:20:47.289 else. So Romans 5 verse 12 says, Therefore, as 01:20:47.289 --> 01:20:50.350 by one man, you will see this is where the confusion 01:20:50.350 --> 01:20:54.189 is. And don't worry, we are started with the 01:20:54.189 --> 01:20:58.210 body of God's proof to show to you that you might 01:20:58.210 --> 01:21:02.829 understand and come into it that what that ideology 01:21:03.689 --> 01:21:06.930 The Bible never supported it, not for once. So 01:21:06.930 --> 01:21:09.510 we are going to see it now. So it says, Therefore, 01:21:09.609 --> 01:21:14.350 as by one man sin entered into the world, and 01:21:14.350 --> 01:21:17.430 death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, 01:21:17.529 --> 01:21:19.689 for that all have sinned. So we are going to 01:21:19.689 --> 01:21:22.010 be doing something like this. It's also a principle 01:21:22.010 --> 01:21:24.130 in Bible interpretation. It's called word study. 01:21:24.569 --> 01:21:26.430 I said it before, but I'm using another term. 01:21:26.449 --> 01:21:29.149 It's called word study. And word study just literally 01:21:29.149 --> 01:21:33.289 means going to the original grammar. to see what 01:21:33.289 --> 01:21:36.390 was actually said there, right? So we are going 01:21:36.390 --> 01:21:38.449 to be doing word study now to understand this 01:21:38.449 --> 01:21:42.949 thing. So first of all, let us look at, okay, 01:21:43.050 --> 01:21:47.489 the word sin. We are in the Greek. We are in 01:21:47.489 --> 01:21:49.569 the New Testament now. When we explain sin then, 01:21:49.649 --> 01:21:51.930 we explain it in the New Testament, right? It 01:21:51.930 --> 01:21:54.170 is still the same meaning, but the words change 01:21:54.170 --> 01:21:56.489 because it is Greek. That was evil. So it was 01:21:56.489 --> 01:21:59.270 derived from the word amatia, right? Which implies 01:21:59.270 --> 01:22:01.829 to miss the mark. And I'm at, okay, it's the 01:22:01.829 --> 01:22:07.270 same words, meaning, right? It's just that that 01:22:07.270 --> 01:22:10.710 was an Hebrew word. This here is a Greek word. 01:22:11.850 --> 01:22:14.609 You can write this down, please. You can write 01:22:14.609 --> 01:22:17.310 this down. So this word sin is a Greek word, 01:22:17.329 --> 01:22:21.689 which also means to miss the mark. And we also 01:22:21.689 --> 01:22:26.090 have the word entered. We have the word entered. 01:22:28.970 --> 01:22:37.409 We have the word entered. We have the word entered. 01:22:38.010 --> 01:22:41.050 We have the word entered. The word entered is 01:22:41.050 --> 01:22:45.649 the word esekumai. You can see it. It implies 01:22:45.649 --> 01:22:50.010 what? A new thing being introduced. That is, 01:22:50.149 --> 01:22:53.029 it is not there. Which was what I was talking 01:22:53.029 --> 01:22:56.989 about then. It was not there. It was introduced. 01:23:00.929 --> 01:23:05.270 Right? Are we getting it? A new thing was introduced. 01:23:06.189 --> 01:23:09.189 It implies to come into an entrance. This implies 01:23:09.189 --> 01:23:11.649 that what is being referred to wasn't prior, 01:23:11.869 --> 01:23:15.489 wasn't there prior to this. And what was being 01:23:15.489 --> 01:23:20.430 referred to here is sin. Sin was not there until 01:23:20.430 --> 01:23:26.449 one man brought it into the world. Right? So 01:23:26.449 --> 01:23:32.640 by one man, missing the mark, the action. All 01:23:32.640 --> 01:23:34.720 right. You can put it like that. So you can write, 01:23:34.960 --> 01:23:39.180 write, refreshing Romans 5, 12. Just write something. 01:23:39.300 --> 01:23:44.659 Refreshing Romans 5, 12. Write, therefore, as 01:23:44.659 --> 01:23:50.979 by one man, the action of missing the mark or 01:23:50.979 --> 01:23:57.729 missing the target enters into the world. Now 01:23:57.729 --> 01:24:03.890 in brackets, something new. Are you getting this? 01:24:04.770 --> 01:24:09.430 Therefore, by one man, therefore by one man, 01:24:09.489 --> 01:24:15.729 the action of missing the target entered into 01:24:15.729 --> 01:24:20.210 the world. The action of missing the target entered 01:24:20.210 --> 01:24:24.729 into the world. Right? It entered into the world. 01:24:25.229 --> 01:24:30.779 Now also, Let us examine the word W -O -R -L 01:24:30.779 --> 01:24:34.020 -D. Like I said, it is derived from the word 01:24:34.020 --> 01:24:41.539 cosmos, K -O -S -M -O -S. The term world, W -O 01:24:41.539 --> 01:24:44.399 -R -L -D, was derived from the Greek word cosmos, 01:24:44.680 --> 01:24:49.840 K -O -S -M -O -S. It can imply inhabitants, that 01:24:49.840 --> 01:24:53.399 is, human beings. It can imply the airspace. 01:24:54.920 --> 01:24:58.239 It also describes the activities or affairs of 01:24:58.239 --> 01:25:03.140 the earth. Right? But how do you get, how do 01:25:03.140 --> 01:25:05.739 you understand what exactly is being spoken of? 01:25:05.840 --> 01:25:09.439 The context in which you are reading tells you 01:25:09.439 --> 01:25:13.939 what it is being spoken of. Should I repeat that? 01:25:15.600 --> 01:25:21.819 So I said, the term WORLD is the Greek word kosmos, 01:25:22.000 --> 01:25:27.199 which implies inhabitants. earth space or it 01:25:27.199 --> 01:25:31.079 also implies the activities or affairs of men 01:25:31.079 --> 01:25:34.500 of the of the inhabitants right of the earth 01:25:34.500 --> 01:25:40.399 so now what makes you knows what is speaking 01:25:40.399 --> 01:25:43.880 of in this theory the context of what you are 01:25:43.880 --> 01:25:46.020 reading tells you exactly what is being spoken 01:25:46.020 --> 01:25:51.800 of here are you getting it so now it says sin 01:25:51.800 --> 01:25:55.189 entered into the world In this context, it speaks 01:25:55.189 --> 01:25:58.090 of what the activities of what the earth, the 01:25:58.090 --> 01:26:01.670 affairs of what the earth, that this man brought 01:26:01.670 --> 01:26:05.369 the activity of what sinning. It is by man. It 01:26:05.369 --> 01:26:08.689 came into this world, into this earth, into the 01:26:08.689 --> 01:26:12.989 activities of men by what? By man. Are you getting 01:26:12.989 --> 01:26:17.289 it? It came in by what? By man. And now that 01:26:17.289 --> 01:26:21.390 word one man, how do we know who that one man 01:26:21.390 --> 01:26:26.279 is? Because in verse 14, he mentions what? Adam. 01:26:26.399 --> 01:26:30.619 He said, Adam. He mentions him. It was a reference 01:26:30.619 --> 01:26:34.300 to Adam. Romans 15 verse 14, you will see there. 01:26:34.520 --> 01:26:39.760 It was a reference to Adam. So, sin was not found 01:26:39.760 --> 01:26:45.760 in the activities of the world before the action 01:26:45.760 --> 01:26:49.300 of Adam. That is, there was nothing like sin 01:26:49.300 --> 01:26:56.210 in the world. Until the action of Adam. And that 01:26:56.210 --> 01:27:01.569 action brought. That action brought in. What 01:27:01.569 --> 01:27:04.409 we call sin. Missing the mark. That's why I said. 01:27:05.449 --> 01:27:10.109 I said. Wherefore by one man. The action of missing 01:27:10.109 --> 01:27:14.470 the target. Entered in towards. The activities 01:27:14.470 --> 01:27:18.390 of the world. Or activities of the earth. Right. 01:27:18.909 --> 01:27:22.390 So now. Do you get that? Are you getting it? 01:27:23.350 --> 01:27:27.970 I mean, like, are we, we are, you know what I'm 01:27:27.970 --> 01:27:33.390 saying? Okay. So, again, we need to pay attention 01:27:33.390 --> 01:27:36.850 to this. You know, that's why I said it is a 01:27:36.850 --> 01:27:40.409 word study, really, because the Bible was not 01:27:40.409 --> 01:27:42.810 written in English. So, we need to study what 01:27:42.810 --> 01:27:46.250 it means. You know, it's like saying, it's not 01:27:46.250 --> 01:27:48.229 like these words are not supposed to be there. 01:27:48.369 --> 01:27:50.979 They can be there. But why we are doing this 01:27:50.979 --> 01:27:54.699 is to make you understand it better. Understand? 01:27:54.920 --> 01:28:00.279 Just like I can say the word, do I force this 01:28:00.279 --> 01:28:05.399 decision on you? Now, the word forced, right, 01:28:05.460 --> 01:28:10.699 or forced, anyone, someone, maybe our level of 01:28:10.699 --> 01:28:13.899 understanding of grammar is different. Now, I 01:28:13.899 --> 01:28:17.579 could simplify that by saying, did I force my 01:28:17.579 --> 01:28:20.399 decision on you? I'm still saying what? The same 01:28:20.399 --> 01:28:23.500 thing. Right? So, but by bringing it down to, 01:28:23.520 --> 01:28:26.939 did I force addition on you? You understand it 01:28:26.939 --> 01:28:29.939 better. By meaning the words, I'm not compelling 01:28:29.939 --> 01:28:32.100 you. Now, I'll use another word again. I did 01:28:32.100 --> 01:28:36.439 not compel you to do what you did. Did I force? 01:28:36.659 --> 01:28:40.359 Did I force? Did I compel you? Did I lure you 01:28:40.359 --> 01:28:45.420 into doing it? Those are different words, but 01:28:45.420 --> 01:28:49.090 they have the same meaning to explain. one thing 01:28:49.090 --> 01:28:52.550 okay that's what we are doing here so it is the 01:28:52.550 --> 01:28:54.729 same thing but to make you understand better 01:28:54.729 --> 01:28:58.489 so this word by is the word that means because 01:28:58.489 --> 01:29:04.449 of or by the occasion of that is due to sin right 01:29:04.449 --> 01:29:09.430 and death came due towards to sin on the occasion 01:29:09.430 --> 01:29:13.130 of sin right death came or you can say on the 01:29:13.130 --> 01:29:17.880 basis of sin death came right And let us pause 01:29:17.880 --> 01:29:23.699 there. Now, death by sin. Where did we first 01:29:23.699 --> 01:29:33.079 see this? Who gave the commandment of death by 01:29:33.079 --> 01:29:41.739 sin? Which verse? 2 17, right? So God gave that 01:29:41.739 --> 01:29:44.500 commandment. That's what the consequence of what 01:29:44.500 --> 01:29:49.520 sin is. What? Death. So what came by sin? Death. 01:29:50.640 --> 01:29:54.619 Right? And that death was explained in Genesis 01:29:54.619 --> 01:29:58.380 3. Let me also say this. Just put it somewhere. 01:30:00.140 --> 01:30:04.359 Listen to me. Just listen to me. In Bible study, 01:30:04.640 --> 01:30:10.579 we don't give definitions to words. Rather, we 01:30:10.579 --> 01:30:14.979 explain the word. Because words are best explained 01:30:15.470 --> 01:30:18.149 in the context of what they are being what's 01:30:18.149 --> 01:30:21.590 written. For example, if I come to you and ask 01:30:21.590 --> 01:30:25.550 you, what do God mean by you shall surely die? 01:30:26.569 --> 01:30:34.050 What would you say? Die. Die physically, right? 01:30:34.670 --> 01:30:37.329 But did Adam die physically when he heard this 01:30:37.329 --> 01:30:41.909 word? He died spiritually. Spiritually. How did 01:30:41.909 --> 01:30:51.659 he die spiritually? Okay. I like that he died. 01:30:51.739 --> 01:30:53.260 I like what you said, that he died physically. 01:30:53.800 --> 01:30:57.220 What I'm saying, you are very right. What I'm 01:30:57.220 --> 01:30:59.100 saying, how did you know he died physically? 01:31:00.319 --> 01:31:06.300 Or spiritually, rather? Now, you will die there, 01:31:06.420 --> 01:31:11.020 was explained in the next chapter. When immediately 01:31:11.020 --> 01:31:14.920 he ate the fruits, right, when God came, What 01:31:14.920 --> 01:31:24.560 did God do? Yes. So what did God tell them? What 01:31:24.560 --> 01:31:29.279 was the next thing that followed? They were sent 01:31:29.279 --> 01:31:32.239 out. Now that's being sent out is the death. 01:31:33.220 --> 01:31:35.760 Because they were in the presence of God, right? 01:31:36.180 --> 01:31:40.819 So outside of God's presence is that death that 01:31:40.819 --> 01:31:45.159 was spoken of in Genesis 27. Did you get that? 01:31:45.359 --> 01:31:48.720 So words are to be explained within the words, 01:31:48.800 --> 01:31:52.520 the texts with their words they are spoken of. 01:31:52.800 --> 01:31:55.060 And meanwhile, you could actually go to another 01:31:55.060 --> 01:31:57.760 verse of the scriptures that use the word death 01:31:57.760 --> 01:32:00.920 as physical death. I mean, cessation of life. 01:32:01.939 --> 01:32:05.579 So we don't give words definitions in the Bible. 01:32:05.979 --> 01:32:08.859 Rather words, we explain them. Do you understand? 01:32:09.100 --> 01:32:13.140 So back to what we are saying. On the occasion 01:32:13.140 --> 01:32:22.199 of sin, okay, death. Right? So now, and so, death 01:32:22.199 --> 01:32:27.880 passed upon all men for that all have sinned. 01:32:28.279 --> 01:32:32.100 And the concept of death coming by sin was also 01:32:32.100 --> 01:32:34.199 explained by James. You can write this down. 01:32:34.340 --> 01:32:37.920 James 1, verse 14 to 15. You also see there, 01:32:38.100 --> 01:32:43.220 James 1, 14 to 15. It was explained there. So, 01:32:43.239 --> 01:32:47.920 let's step further by explaining the word past. 01:32:48.020 --> 01:32:51.960 This word, past. I'm going to be explaining that 01:32:51.960 --> 01:32:55.739 soon. So, the word past was derived from the 01:32:55.739 --> 01:33:01.699 Greek word diakomai. You can write that down 01:33:01.699 --> 01:33:05.359 too, if you want to. And it implies words to 01:33:05.359 --> 01:33:09.680 spread, right? To spread. The word past, it implies 01:33:09.680 --> 01:33:12.520 words to spread. Are you getting this? It implies 01:33:12.520 --> 01:33:17.979 to spread. Now, this word, this diacomi, right, 01:33:18.100 --> 01:33:25.600 is a verb. What is a verb? An action word. So, 01:33:25.619 --> 01:33:29.159 which means that word is not automatic. It does 01:33:29.159 --> 01:33:36.180 not just go in. There is an action that was done 01:33:36.180 --> 01:33:41.640 that made it what it has, right? And we see where 01:33:41.640 --> 01:33:45.720 this word was used. Example, let's read one of 01:33:45.720 --> 01:33:49.840 them. Let's just read Acts 8, verse 4 and 40. 01:33:50.020 --> 01:33:52.159 Acts 8, 4 and 40. Let's see how the word was 01:33:52.159 --> 01:34:04.060 used. Acts 8, verse 4. Verse 4 says, Therefore, 01:34:04.220 --> 01:34:07.739 those who were scattered everywhere... Those 01:34:07.739 --> 01:34:11.340 who were scattered went. That's what went everywhere, 01:34:11.560 --> 01:34:15.000 preaching the word. So, there's an action of 01:34:15.000 --> 01:34:19.260 going, right? It's going. It's an action, right? 01:34:19.420 --> 01:34:23.079 Now, when you go to verse 40, verse 40 says, 01:34:23.359 --> 01:34:27.359 But Philip was found at Azotus, and passing through, 01:34:27.720 --> 01:34:30.340 he preached in all the cities that he came to 01:34:30.340 --> 01:34:34.260 Caesarea. So, there's what? It's an action. Now, 01:34:34.279 --> 01:34:38.289 don't forget, he said, Death passed through, 01:34:38.329 --> 01:34:43.109 right? Death passed over all men, right? So now, 01:34:43.189 --> 01:34:47.189 how did death come about? By sin. What is sin? 01:34:48.010 --> 01:34:51.210 An action. So how do they, what is the strength 01:34:51.210 --> 01:34:55.210 of death? Sin, right? So which means that whoever 01:34:55.210 --> 01:35:01.409 that death passed upon, what did they do? They 01:35:01.409 --> 01:35:04.890 sinned. They missed the mark. So the death passed 01:35:04.890 --> 01:35:11.069 over Abel. The death passed over Abraham. He 01:35:11.069 --> 01:35:13.989 didn't miss the mark, right? Noah didn't miss 01:35:13.989 --> 01:35:19.789 the mark, right? So he says what? He said, I'm 01:35:19.789 --> 01:35:22.329 going to, wherefore as by one man, Romans 5, 01:35:22.350 --> 01:35:24.909 12, wherefore as by one man sin entered into 01:35:24.909 --> 01:35:28.149 the world and death by sin. And so death passed 01:35:28.149 --> 01:35:32.869 upon all men for that all have sinned, right? 01:35:33.130 --> 01:35:38.939 All have sinned. All have sinned. Now, let's 01:35:38.939 --> 01:35:42.939 also look at that word sinned. The word sinned 01:35:42.939 --> 01:35:49.479 is the Greek word amatano. This, yes. Which is 01:35:49.479 --> 01:35:53.640 the verb of what? Amatia. The first one, sin. 01:35:53.840 --> 01:35:56.800 Sin is the noun. The first one we saw was sin. 01:35:56.920 --> 01:35:59.779 He said, when he said, wherefore has my woman 01:35:59.779 --> 01:36:03.500 sin entered? Sin. Sin. The first one, amatia, 01:36:03.600 --> 01:36:07.199 sin, is a noun. And this here is the verb of 01:36:07.199 --> 01:36:09.880 that now, sinned. That is the action of sin, 01:36:10.000 --> 01:36:15.539 right? So he said, now, this is an action. It's 01:36:15.539 --> 01:36:17.460 a verb also, right? Don't forget, the verb is 01:36:17.460 --> 01:36:20.800 an action word, right? Now, let's go back to 01:36:20.800 --> 01:36:24.420 Romans 5. So he said, therefore, as by one man 01:36:24.420 --> 01:36:28.180 sin entered into the world, and death by sin, 01:36:28.460 --> 01:36:32.840 right? And so death passed upon all men, for 01:36:32.840 --> 01:36:37.090 that all have sinned. Who are the ones that death 01:36:37.090 --> 01:36:43.069 passed upon? So is it everybody that... So that 01:36:43.069 --> 01:36:44.750 all there, will it be referring to everybody? 01:36:45.609 --> 01:36:49.449 Is it referring to who? Those that were sinned. 01:36:49.789 --> 01:36:53.909 So we have been able to explain Romans 5 verse 01:36:53.909 --> 01:36:58.630 12. But then the strength of the belief that 01:36:58.630 --> 01:37:03.050 sin passed upon... Sin is upon all men. Everybody 01:37:03.050 --> 01:37:06.159 inherited sin. It's not just based on this verse. 01:37:06.359 --> 01:37:08.939 There are subsequent verses. We have verse 13. 01:37:10.260 --> 01:37:13.159 I'm going to rush that because we are running 01:37:13.159 --> 01:37:15.720 out of time. So let's go to verse 13. Romans 01:37:15.720 --> 01:37:21.399 5, verse 13. So it says... Let's go to verse 01:37:21.399 --> 01:37:27.000 12. Wait, leave it here. Leave it here. What 01:37:27.000 --> 01:37:34.380 do you understand by Romans 5, verse 12? Months, 01:37:34.380 --> 01:38:20.359 5, 12. Yes. That, yes. David, what do you understand 01:38:20.359 --> 01:38:23.020 by Romans 5 -12, what we just did now? That says, 01:38:36.180 --> 01:38:38.659 Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the 01:38:38.659 --> 01:38:40.960 world. What does that mean? That phrase, by one 01:38:40.960 --> 01:38:42.840 man sin entered into the world. What does it 01:38:42.840 --> 01:38:51.100 mean? Sin means to miss a mark. Yes. What you're 01:38:51.100 --> 01:38:56.819 not supposed to do. Yes. And that death entered 01:38:56.819 --> 01:39:00.180 into the world because one man did it. And if 01:39:00.180 --> 01:39:04.800 any other man would ever do it, they'd also miss 01:39:04.800 --> 01:39:12.399 the mark. Very good. So by one man sin entered 01:39:12.399 --> 01:39:16.159 into the world, right? So what does undead by 01:39:16.159 --> 01:39:21.819 sin, what does it mean? Undead by sin means the 01:39:21.819 --> 01:39:25.720 punishment that will follow after you sin or 01:39:25.720 --> 01:39:29.899 after you disobey. It's death. So the law of 01:39:29.899 --> 01:39:35.289 sin and death. Very good. So my brother. And 01:39:35.289 --> 01:39:40.050 so death passed upon all men for that all have 01:39:40.050 --> 01:39:42.630 sinned. What does that mean? According to what 01:39:42.630 --> 01:39:52.590 you have explained there. So is it everybody 01:39:52.590 --> 01:39:59.069 or those that sin? Okay. So are we all on that 01:39:59.069 --> 01:40:02.029 page? Do we all agree with that? That's good. 01:40:02.130 --> 01:40:05.210 Okay. So Romans 5 .13. Romans 5 .13 will be very 01:40:05.210 --> 01:40:08.430 quick. It says, For unto the law sin was in the 01:40:08.430 --> 01:40:10.989 world, but sin is not imputed when there is no 01:40:10.989 --> 01:40:15.310 law. So now, first of all, the word law is also, 01:40:15.390 --> 01:40:18.890 don't forget the fact that you don't just define 01:40:18.890 --> 01:40:22.130 words, right? You explain words in their context, 01:40:22.289 --> 01:40:25.289 right? So now the word law is the word nomos, 01:40:25.329 --> 01:40:28.350 the Greek word nomos. And it implies a principle, 01:40:28.649 --> 01:40:33.640 right? It also implies doctrine. It also implies 01:40:33.640 --> 01:40:36.399 commandments, like the way we have said in the 01:40:36.399 --> 01:40:39.739 beginning, the charge, right? So now, but then, 01:40:39.840 --> 01:40:44.779 like I said also, the meaning is what is gotten 01:40:44.779 --> 01:40:47.899 from the context of whatever you are reading. 01:40:48.420 --> 01:40:52.420 So now, how do we arrive at the meaning of what 01:40:52.420 --> 01:40:55.640 law means here? Now, let me put it to you. The 01:40:55.640 --> 01:41:01.619 law here means... The writings of Moses. And 01:41:01.619 --> 01:41:08.140 why do I say that? Because. Moses was referenced. 01:41:08.899 --> 01:41:12.279 In verse 14. Because when you read verse 14. 01:41:12.340 --> 01:41:17.659 Verse 14 says. Nevertheless. Nevertheless. Death 01:41:17.659 --> 01:41:21.479 reigned from Adam. One man that brought in the 01:41:21.479 --> 01:41:27.569 sin. To Moses. For until. The law, sin was in 01:41:27.569 --> 01:41:29.890 the word, but sin is not imputed when there is 01:41:29.890 --> 01:41:33.909 no law. He now said, death reigned from Adam. 01:41:34.409 --> 01:41:38.729 Don't forget, death came by word sin. So death 01:41:38.729 --> 01:41:42.250 reigned, since it was invention of sin, death 01:41:42.250 --> 01:41:50.449 reigned from Adam to Moses. And he referenced 01:41:50.449 --> 01:41:53.329 law. So the law here was to reference the writings 01:41:53.329 --> 01:41:56.800 of Moses, the books of Moses. right? Because 01:41:56.800 --> 01:42:00.460 law means what? Doctrine, principle. So Moses 01:42:00.460 --> 01:42:02.899 was the one that wrote the first five books, 01:42:03.119 --> 01:42:07.159 right? That documents from Adam, right? That 01:42:07.159 --> 01:42:10.800 was documenting it. So now, also, the word imputed 01:42:10.800 --> 01:42:14.159 here is the word elogio, which implies to charge 01:42:14.159 --> 01:42:16.819 to an account. For example, let me give you what, 01:42:16.880 --> 01:42:19.739 let me explain what it means. For example, if 01:42:19.739 --> 01:42:24.000 you borrow money from me, right? And I write 01:42:24.000 --> 01:42:26.739 it down. What I have done is what? I have imputed 01:42:26.739 --> 01:42:29.199 into the account that you are owing me money. 01:42:29.819 --> 01:42:32.659 Right? But if you borrow money and I did not 01:42:32.659 --> 01:42:35.640 write it down, it means I did not impute that 01:42:35.640 --> 01:42:39.399 debt in your account. That's the word imputed 01:42:39.399 --> 01:42:42.859 debt. So it now made sense when he said, for 01:42:42.859 --> 01:42:48.140 until the law, the principle of Moses, the writings 01:42:48.140 --> 01:42:53.890 of Moses. Are you listening? For until the law, 01:42:53.949 --> 01:43:00.890 sin was in the world. But sin is not penned down 01:43:00.890 --> 01:43:07.930 when there is no writing of Moses. That is, you 01:43:07.930 --> 01:43:10.789 don't have the account of Adam's transgression 01:43:10.789 --> 01:43:16.289 until when Moses wrote it. Are you getting this? 01:43:17.529 --> 01:43:20.409 The law here refers to what Moses is writing. 01:43:20.630 --> 01:43:23.060 The first five books, right? And he told you 01:43:23.060 --> 01:43:30.039 until the law, until the writing of Moses, sin 01:43:30.039 --> 01:43:35.779 was there in the word. But did you see sin? It 01:43:35.779 --> 01:43:40.960 was not documented down. When there is no words, 01:43:41.039 --> 01:43:44.239 writing of Moses. When there is not the first 01:43:44.239 --> 01:43:46.760 five books. You don't know about Abraham. You 01:43:46.760 --> 01:43:50.109 don't know about Cain. I mean, it was not. It 01:43:50.109 --> 01:43:54.189 was not documented. It wasn't imputed. Don't 01:43:54.189 --> 01:43:56.529 forget, to impute something means what? To put 01:43:56.529 --> 01:43:59.529 it into your account. So it was not written down 01:43:59.529 --> 01:44:06.170 when Moses was in there. So until Moses, right, 01:44:06.350 --> 01:44:09.390 sin was in the world. Even before Moses, that 01:44:09.390 --> 01:44:14.369 is, sin and death preceded what Moses. But when 01:44:14.369 --> 01:44:18.930 Moses came, he documented it down. But before 01:44:18.930 --> 01:44:22.699 he came, It wasn't, nobody documented it. So 01:44:22.699 --> 01:44:31.140 that is what vasecting just means. What does 01:44:31.140 --> 01:44:39.119 imputed means? To be written down, to put, to 01:44:39.119 --> 01:44:42.560 be written down. That's what it just means. To 01:44:42.560 --> 01:44:44.460 be written down, to be written off. That's why 01:44:44.460 --> 01:44:47.100 I use the word, the scenario of taking death 01:44:47.100 --> 01:44:49.739 from me, but not write it down. So the fact that 01:44:49.739 --> 01:44:51.560 I did not write it down, I did not impute it 01:44:51.560 --> 01:44:53.819 into your account. But did you borrow debt? Yes. 01:44:54.340 --> 01:44:56.680 But I did not impute it. So the impute means 01:44:56.680 --> 01:45:00.899 to write down. So now, Adam preceded even Moses. 01:45:01.520 --> 01:45:08.460 Moses was born in Exodus. Right? So, before Moses, 01:45:08.880 --> 01:45:17.819 Adam lived. Cain, Abel, Eve, Noah, Abraham, Joseph, 01:45:19.699 --> 01:45:23.340 Jacob, Esau, Isaac, was there sin in their time? 01:45:23.600 --> 01:45:26.720 Yes. Was there death as a consequence of sin? 01:45:26.880 --> 01:45:31.260 Yes. So was it present? Yes. But was it written 01:45:31.260 --> 01:45:37.520 down? That is what he's saying. So until when 01:45:37.520 --> 01:45:40.600 Moses came, that's when he started documenting 01:45:40.600 --> 01:45:46.579 it. Is that simple? Can you see what I'm saying 01:45:46.579 --> 01:45:50.380 there? Can you see it? So I think we are going 01:45:50.380 --> 01:45:54.539 to stop here today. We are going to stop here 01:45:54.539 --> 01:45:57.960 today. So when we come next time, we are going 01:45:57.960 --> 01:46:03.979 to continue. So just a quick one. David, can 01:46:03.979 --> 01:46:08.479 you summarize what we have done today? Can you? 01:46:08.680 --> 01:46:12.920 We can start by explaining sin. From explaining 01:46:12.920 --> 01:46:19.319 sin, you can go into... explaining how that we 01:46:19.319 --> 01:46:22.520 do not inherit Adam's sin. And from there, we 01:46:22.520 --> 01:46:26.640 can come to Romans 5, 12 and 13. Can you do that? 01:46:29.380 --> 01:46:39.399 I'm listening. So sin, sin is not a being or 01:46:39.399 --> 01:46:45.319 a part of you. In it, It was received from a 01:46:45.319 --> 01:46:52.199 Greek word called gnomos which means to miss 01:46:52.199 --> 01:46:55.800 the mark. Not gnomos. Gnomos is law. Amathia 01:46:55.800 --> 01:46:59.000 is the Greek word. Continue. That's a good one. 01:47:01.600 --> 01:47:09.640 Continue. Then Adam was the first human and as 01:47:09.640 --> 01:47:13.609 well he sinned. when the serpent told him to 01:47:13.609 --> 01:47:17.909 eat the fruit and this caused death as God has 01:47:17.909 --> 01:47:23.710 told him and this happens as a result of sin 01:47:23.710 --> 01:47:32.750 and if anyone sins they experience death and 01:47:32.750 --> 01:47:36.810 through this sin has entry inside the world I 01:47:36.810 --> 01:47:45.750 don't sin does not contribute to any other person's 01:47:45.750 --> 01:47:53.189 sin. Death has throughout the world because it 01:47:53.189 --> 01:48:01.189 starts you. It's not individual. It's like a 01:48:01.189 --> 01:48:11.960 virus and it's entering... I forgot. Okay. That's 01:48:11.960 --> 01:48:14.960 a very good one. And I like that. So what I said 01:48:14.960 --> 01:48:20.000 in that part is past, we said past is the word 01:48:20.000 --> 01:48:24.760 diakomai. And it's a verb. It's an action. And 01:48:24.760 --> 01:48:28.600 we now bring in to our remembrance that death 01:48:28.600 --> 01:48:32.300 came by sin. And don't forget, sin is an action. 01:48:32.500 --> 01:48:35.779 And what action is that? Not yielding to God's 01:48:35.779 --> 01:48:40.149 word, right? So, By not yielding to God's words, 01:48:40.189 --> 01:48:43.550 God gave the law of sin and death. If you eat 01:48:43.550 --> 01:48:45.390 of these fruits, it's a command. And the Lord 01:48:45.390 --> 01:48:50.829 God commanded a man saying, right? Eat of the 01:48:50.829 --> 01:48:53.109 tree of life. Do not eat of the tree of evil. 01:48:53.750 --> 01:48:56.590 The day you eat of it, you shall die. The law, 01:48:56.689 --> 01:49:00.229 the commandment of what's sin and death, right? 01:49:00.550 --> 01:49:08.020 So by man's sin, death came. Man, brought sin. 01:49:08.819 --> 01:49:12.119 And the consequence of sin is what? Is death. 01:49:12.899 --> 01:49:20.720 Alright? So now, nevertheless, death was passed 01:49:20.720 --> 01:49:25.260 upon all men. And the password means an action. 01:49:25.880 --> 01:49:30.220 An action of what? Not yielding to God's word. 01:49:30.460 --> 01:49:35.500 Sin. So for death to pass over you, you must 01:49:35.500 --> 01:49:38.770 what? Have. Acted. And what's that action? Missing 01:49:38.770 --> 01:49:42.310 the mark. Seen. So we say the word all there 01:49:42.310 --> 01:49:47.229 is not all, even though it's all. The word all 01:49:47.229 --> 01:49:52.329 there talks about those words who sinned. So 01:49:52.329 --> 01:49:56.350 death passed upon those words who sinned. And 01:49:56.350 --> 01:50:02.510 we give an example. Abel did this sin. Abel obeyed, 01:50:02.510 --> 01:50:07.539 right? So death didn't pass over Abel. Abel obeyed, 01:50:07.619 --> 01:50:12.939 right? Noah obeyed, right? Abraham obeyed. So 01:50:12.939 --> 01:50:14.659 we have people that were dead and didn't pass 01:50:14.659 --> 01:50:17.279 over, but we have people that death passed over. 01:50:17.399 --> 01:50:22.840 Cain, Adam, we have many more, right? So we said 01:50:22.840 --> 01:50:26.859 the strength of sin and the strength of death 01:50:26.859 --> 01:50:31.319 is sin. So death will pass upon. Any man because 01:50:31.319 --> 01:50:36.600 of sin. Right? Do you get that? So sin is not 01:50:36.600 --> 01:50:42.720 universal. Right? Sin is not universal. It is 01:50:42.720 --> 01:50:47.560 individual. I don't sin. You sin. I sin. I sin. 01:50:47.680 --> 01:50:50.279 Anybody sin. The person that sins for space. 01:50:50.760 --> 01:50:54.039 Right? But then, if you sin, you die. That's 01:50:54.039 --> 01:50:56.640 the law. The law of sin and death. So Adam sinned. 01:50:56.640 --> 01:50:59.079 But what is the importance of Adam's story? We 01:50:59.079 --> 01:51:02.439 said it's an archetypal story to tell you about 01:51:02.439 --> 01:51:07.279 a type of disobedience. It was to teach people 01:51:07.279 --> 01:51:12.279 about the disobedience. Are you getting it? So 01:51:12.279 --> 01:51:16.760 it's an archetypal story to teach you that this 01:51:16.760 --> 01:51:22.060 is how men sin. So I've taught you, do not sin. 01:51:24.170 --> 01:51:28.250 Okay. So we see Cain. Cain followed the Actaipa 01:51:28.250 --> 01:51:32.430 story. He sinned. We see Abel. Abel didn't. We 01:51:32.430 --> 01:51:36.250 see Noah. Noah didn't. We see who again? Abraham 01:51:36.250 --> 01:51:40.270 didn't. Isaac, Jacob, they did not. But we see 01:51:40.270 --> 01:51:44.069 other people that also followed. So that's, do 01:51:44.069 --> 01:51:48.550 everyone get what I've been saying? Do we get 01:51:48.550 --> 01:51:54.699 it? So I went to our assignment. When we are 01:51:54.699 --> 01:51:56.760 coming in that same sheet of paper, I want you 01:51:56.760 --> 01:52:00.539 to write a summary of what you have learned today 01:52:00.539 --> 01:52:06.380 about sin, original concept of sin, what sin 01:52:06.380 --> 01:52:10.460 is, concept of sin. Explain that and do the assignment 01:52:10.460 --> 01:52:14.140 of Genesis 6 and Genesis 11. Explain how sin 01:52:14.140 --> 01:52:17.220 has a supernatural influence today. Write that 01:52:17.220 --> 01:52:20.039 down. I don't always trust my brain. I don't 01:52:20.039 --> 01:52:25.340 think you should, so... I said Genesis 6 and 01:52:25.340 --> 01:52:29.439 11 explain how sin is a supernatural influence 01:52:29.439 --> 01:52:34.020 and also number two, give a summary in an A4 01:52:34.020 --> 01:52:38.000 sheet, a summary of whatever we have learned 01:52:38.000 --> 01:52:42.479 today. Amen. We appreciate you being here today. 01:52:42.819 --> 01:52:45.279 We hope you carry this word with you throughout 01:52:45.279 --> 01:52:48.159 your week. Don't forget to check the show notes 01:52:48.159 --> 01:52:50.920 for additional insights. Stay connected with 01:52:50.920 --> 01:52:53.630 us through our website or follow us on social 01:52:53.630 --> 01:52:57.289 media. If you were encouraged, share this message 01:52:57.289 --> 01:53:00.289 with someone you care about. Until next time, 01:53:00.350 --> 01:53:01.289 stay blessed.