Faith Baptist Church
03/08/26 Dwell Richly Bible Study

  • Man the Sinner

    “It’s the breaking of a relationship, and even more, it is a rejection of God himself—a repudiation of God’s rule, God’s care, God’s authority, and God’s right to command those to whom he gave life. In short, it is the rebellion of the creature against his Creator.” —Greg Gilbert (48)

    What Went Wrong?

    Why did God create human beings?
    Give me some passages that prove this!
    Colossians 1:16 ESV
    16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
    Genesis 1:26–27 ESV
    26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
    What does it mean that man was made in God’s image?
    How were they to image God in the Garden? What command did God give them?
    Genesis 1:28 ESV
    28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
    Exercising dominion! Rule and reign with God! They were to be vice-regents with God ruling over creation. Their authority was not ultimate. It was given to them by God. When they exercised dominion in the likeness and image of God they were to remember that they were subject to God, they were under His rule. He had created them, and therefore they he had the right to command them.
    What was the symbol in the Garden that reminded Adam and Eve that they were creatures? What reminded them that God had the ultimate authority? That they were dependent upon God for their very lives, that they were only stewards and that God was their King? The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
    Genesis 3:17 ESV
    17 And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
    What was the true offense that Adam and Eve committed? It was something much bigger than eating fruit from a tree.
    They were rejecting God’s authority over them and declaring their independence from him. What did Adam and Eve want to be? What did the Serpent tempt them with? They would be “like God.” They wanted to take the crown for themselves. They didn’t want to submit themselves and be vice-regents. They wanted to rule.
    By taking the fruit and eating it they made a conscious decision to reject God as their King.
    Did they know the consequences?
    Genesis 2:17 ESV
    17 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.”
    What does “surely die” mean? They would be cast away from God’s presence and become his enemies, rather than his friends and joyful subjects.
    Adam and Even traded their favor with God for the pursuit of their own pleasure and their own glory.
    What does the Bible call that? Sin. Sin is disobedience to God’s commands—whether in word, thought, or deed.
    Sin literally means “missing the mark.” Yet, the biblical meaning of sin is so much deeper.
    It is not like Adam and Eve were trying their very best and they barely missed the bullseye by a few inches. The reality is they were shooting in the opposite direction! They had goals and desires that were categorically opposed to what God desired for them, and so they sinned. They deliberately violated God’s command, broke their fellowship with him, and rejected him as their rightful Lord.
    What was their consequence? How has that effected us?

    Not Just Them, But Us

    It is not just Adam and Even who are guilty of sin. We all are.
    Romans 3:23 ESV
    23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
    Romans 3:10 ESV
    10 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;
    How do we sometimes misunderstand sin?
    We often think of our sins as not much more than violations of some heavenly traffic law. So we wonder why God gets so upset about them.
    That is not how the Bible pictures us.
    Ephesians 2:1–3 ESV
    1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
    Matthew 15:19 ESV
    19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.
    Romans 8:7 ESV
    7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.

    God’s Active Judgment against Sin

    Romans 3:19 ESV
    19 Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
    What does held accountable mean?
    Romans 6:23 ESV
    23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
    Revelation 21:8 ESV
    8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
    Hebrews 9:27 ESV
    27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
    John 3:18 ESV
    18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
    Why would we ever try to make hell sound less horrific than the Scriptures describe it to be?
    This is the Bible’s sobering verdict on us. There is not one of us righteous, not even one. And because of that, one day every mouth will be silenced, every wagging tongue stopped, and the whole world will be held accountable to God.
    But.…
    Man the Sinner
    What Went Wrong?
    Not Just Them, But Us
    God’s Active Judgement Against Sin

      • Colossians 1:16ESV

      • Genesis 1:26–27ESV

      • Genesis 1:28ESV

      • Genesis 3:17ESV

      • Genesis 2:17ESV

      • Romans 3:23ESV

      • Romans 3:10ESV

      • Ephesians 2:1–3ESV

      • Matthew 15:19ESV

      • Romans 8:7ESV

      • Romans 3:19ESV

      • Romans 6:23ESV

      • Revelation 21:8ESV

      • Hebrews 9:27ESV

      • John 3:18ESV

      • Acts 18:4ESV

      • Acts 18:6–7ESV

      • Acts 18:8ESV

      • Colossians 4:6ESV

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