Third Street Ministries, Inc.
514-B Avenue A
Rome, GA 30161
706-235-9121
A lay ministry of service to Rome and Floyd County, Georgia

   Home / Ministries /  Sermons / Bible Study

“The Importance of Genesis 3”
by Phil Brewster

 

Genesis 1 and 2 tells us that when God created the Earth and Heavens and all that is there in, it was good. So why do we experience so many bad things in this life?   

In Genesis 3, we read how sin and corruption came into our world through our own disobedience.  We essentially gave Satan a deed to our property and ourselves and because of this the whole creation was corrupted.  God had warned against this when He said “If you eat of this fruit (the tree of knowledge of good and evil) you shall surely die.”   So now we experience death - both physical and spiritual.   

But God, who created us and loves us, designed a plan to redeem us from our sin of disobedience.  His plan is not only for us but for His whole creation.  Rather than snap His finger and do away with sin, He chooses to walk with us through the redemption process; to give us a chance to aid in the process, as well as to have a choice of which way we go and finally, through Christ, to eliminate entirely sin and its holdover us. 

Understanding this gives us an answer to the questions we often have of why God did this or why God allows that.  The answer is that it was us not God who bears this responsibility. 

Becoming a Christian does not eliminate all the problems of this life.  It gives us what we need to overcome them with God’s help and to obtain eternal redemption and forgiveness for our sins. 

So the real purpose in life is to be redeemed and reconciled to God for eternity.  The alternative is frightening. 

“Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters.  And you who have no money come buy and eat.  Come buy wine and milk without money or cost.  Seek the Lord while He may be found.  Call upon Him while He is near.”   (Isaiah 55:1,6) 

 Phil Brewster