1. Man lives in inner conflict. He was created with an inner law that inclines him to desire good and to take pleasure in God’s law. However, when he tries to practice it, he realizes that he cannot accomplish what he wants but ends up doing precisely the evil he does not desire. This is the conflicting condition of man—including the Christian—when he discovers that he is not actually the one who practices evil but the sin that dwells within him (Romans 7:18-21).
2. When man disobeyed by eating from the tree that God had commanded him not to eat from, sin and death entered the world. Through this deception and disobedience, man was separated from God. Since then, humanity became enslaved to sin and death. Satan thwarted the divine plan at that moment, but God did not give up on man! (Romans 3:23).
3. Every fallen man bears the mark of God’s enemy—the sinful nature—from which he cannot be freed by himself. God, however, provided a unique way to change this story: the coming of the offspring (the seed) of the woman, Christ. Through His death and resurrection, the ultimate solution for the redemption of man was presented. Only in the cross can fallen man find salvation (Genesis 3:15; Romans 5:12, 15).
4. “This is the natural course of someone who starts out being good by the tree of knowledge but ends up arrogant and violent. How terrible it is to live outside the presence of God! Whoever acts like this does so alone […] Eve believed that only the Creator was capable of granting her a son to continue the lineage according to His will” (Genesis 4:25-26) (Daily Food, book 4, week 3, Wednesday, pp. 44 45).
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