Steemchurch:THE STORY OF CHRISTMAS: The Fall - from Grace to Grass by johnsonkoranteng

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Steemchurch:THE STORY OF CHRISTMAS: The Fall - from Grace to Grass
***And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day  that  you eat of it you shall surely die (Genesis 2: 16 -17)***

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Theologians and Bible teachers have termed the sin of high treason of Adam and its results and consequences as the Fall or the fall of man. Actually, it's a good description of what actually happened to him. It was a fall from grace to grass. In other words, he fell from Glory. And that is what he and Eve did afterwards. They covered themselves with leaves. What they did outwardly depicted what was happening to them inwardly. Everything inside them was in chaos, confusion and contrary to what they have been before their sin. It was a state you and I shouldn't dare to repeat it.
For the purpose of this devotion, I want to just point out two aspect of the fall.
Firstly, the Glory of God that has enveloped them was lifted from them. For the first time, they saw they were naked, that is, they had no clothes on. Actually, they were not in clothes when they were created and lived in the garden till their fall. The reason was, they were in the image of God and His glory enveloped them. They lived in that realm till they sinned. It's similar to what happened to Samson when his hairs were cut by Delilah. The Spirit of God left him and he did know it. As the Spirit left, so his strength and power and fighting ability. Israel had similar problem too under Moses in Sinai. When they murmured against God, snakes started biting them and they were dying in great numbers. What happened was that their sin of murmur caused the Glory of God that enveloped them and protected them from the snakes to be lifted from them. We are told that during the First World War, British lost more soldiers in Sinai from snake bites than they lost through guns and bombs. You see, the snake were there, but Israelites were protected by God's glory, just like Adam in the Garden until that glory was caused to disappear. Adam troubles had just started. Wild animals refused to respect him pr respond to his authority. Adam now runs away from the very things that has bowed to him before the fall. So stop living in sin as a Christian. It's actually dangerous to do so. Your sin separates you from God, from His grace, His glory, His protection and provisions (Isaiah 59: 2 -2). It was also the reason Adam and Eve ran away from God and they went into hiding and later they were ex-communicated from the garden. Sin always separates us from God and blocks our access to His blessings.
Secondly, their sin brought the entrance of death, spiritual death, which caused them to die physically later on after  nine hundred years. This is confirmed to us by Paul in Rom 5: 12. God told them they shall surely die. The Hebrew says, you shall die die, or in dying you shall die. Implying a double death or dying twice. Spiritual death which is internal, causes their body to become mortal and corrupt, and is a matter of time and the cemetery death ensues. For the wages (payments) of sin is indeed death (Rom 6: 23). It's the reason death is an appointment for every human being on earth (Heb 9: 27). And mind you, you and I will never miss this appointment. We may miss other appointments but not this one!
Help! Man has got a big or huge problem! And God's way of resolving man's problem was through the Christ -Child, the Incarnation.
So as we approach Christmas, celebrate it with understanding and knowledge, knowing well the reason for Christmas.
And may the blessing of Christmas and the Glory of God that enveloped God's people fill your life and home in Jesus name. Amen
Shallom, life and grace to you
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You are right @johnsonkoranteng, it is because of us He left all his glory and come to this sinful and humiliated land. Glory be to his name.
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