“The Sinfulness of Man” Genesis 3:1-13

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Date: December 1, 2024 Author: Wayne J. Edwards

Today’s version of the Christmas story leaves out the very purpose of the birth of Jesus Christ. In other words, it makes the Christmas story sound like God failed in His first effort to make mankind in His own image—human beings who would love Him because of His love for them—and the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ was His “Plan B.” Beloved, the whole Christmas story began even before Genesis. Even before He created the world, God determined to save those whom He knew would rebel against Him. In other words, the grand narrative of the Bible was fulfilled in the birth of Jesus of Nazareth—God the Father determined to reveal His love for lost mankind by sending His own Son in the form of man to redeem us from our sins through His sacrificial death. That’s the whole story of Christmas. We must be very careful to get the whole Christmas story correct lest we get the gospel wrong, and lost people believe they are saved by their faith in Jesus Christ who died as a martyr for the Christian faith rather than the Savior of sinners that He was and is. Eternity is too long to be a little bit wrong! With that in mind, I want to preach a new series of sermons over the next five Sundays. The series title is The Whole Christmas Story , and this first sermon is titled “ The Sinfulness of Man.” Thank you for forwarding these sermon study guides.

Today’s version of the Christmas story leaves out the very purpose of the birth of Jesus Christ. In other words, it makes the Christmas story sound like God failed in His first effort to make mankind in His own image—human beings who would love Him because of His love for them—and the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ was His “Plan B.”

Beloved, the whole Christmas story began even before Genesis. Even before He created the world, God determined to save those whom He knew would rebel against Him. In other words, the grand narrative of the Bible was fulfilled in the birth of Jesus of Nazareth—God the Father determined to reveal His love for lost mankind by sending His own Son in the form of man to redeem us from our sins through His sacrificial death. That’s the whole story of Christmas.

We must be very careful to get the whole Christmas story correct lest we get the gospel wrong, and lost people believe they are saved by their faith in Jesus Christ who died as a martyr for the Christian faith rather than the Savior of sinners that He was and is. Eternity is too long to be a little bit wrong!

With that in mind, I want to preach a new series of sermons over the next five Sundays. The series title is The Whole Christmas Story , and this first sermon is titled “ The Sinfulness of Man.”

Thank you for forwarding these sermon study guides.

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When it comes to the Christmas story, we must get the whole story historically and theologically correct, lest our understanding of the gospel is wrong.

In the original New Testament Greek, the term “Christ” is a translation of the Hebrew word “Mashiach,” which means “the Anointed One.”

According to 2 Timothy 1:9, even before time began, God the Father decreed that He would create human beings with the freedom to choose what they would do with their lives.

According to Genesis 3:1-13, God created Adam and Eve and placed them in the Garden of Eden, which was also known as the Garden of God.

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