425 Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 - Part 1 - Book 36 - The Invisible Make Up of the Lost

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 1 * BOOK THE INVISIBLE MAKE-UP OF THE LOST In our last lesson we finished chapter 1, so today we'll start chapter 2. So let's just start with verse 1. Ephesians 2:1 Well we normally think of when something dies, it's dead! Spiritual death is also a separation, but it's a separation from God. So the person who is spiritually dead has been separated from the Creator God. Ephesians 2:1b "...who were dead..." You were separated from God. Remember all Scripture is inspired of God, and is profitable. We find that God has now created Adam, he's still alone. Genesis 2:16-17 "And the LORD God (which was God the Son on this occasion) commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17. Let's jump in at verse 2. Genesis 3:2a Remember back there in verse 1 he was called the most subtle of all the creatures that God had created. Let's see what Eve says to the serpent. Genesis 3:2b "...We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:" Now Eve wasn't with Adam when he got his instructions from God back there in chapter 2. From Adam. God told Adam, and that's where He left it, and then it was Adam's responsibility to instruct Eve, and he had. Genesis 3:3 Now verse 4. First turn quickly to John chapter 8 and verse 44. Genesis 3:4-5 Now is that what God had said? Come back to chapter 2 again for a moment, we've got to compare Scripture with Scripture. God is speaking. Genesis 2:17a Now coming back to chapter 3 and verse 5 Genesis 3:5-6 "For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. (this is why God had told Adam not to eat of the tree.) OK the moment Adam ate, what happened? He died. Oh not physically, but spiritually, and he was separated from God. "Disobeying the revealed Word of God."That's what sin is, and they disobeyed the will of God by eating. Well the results of their sin. Genesis 3:7a So immediately, the moment Adam sunk his teeth into that fruit, their spiritual eyes were opened to know good and evil, and their relationship with God was immediately broken. So spiritually they died. Now within this body, we also a smaller circle called the "soul," and within the soul is a still smaller circle called the"spirit." Beginning with God Himself, a Trinity. We are body, soul, and spirit, and that's the way Adam was created. The spirit is the area where Adam had fellowship with his Creator God. This we do know though, Adam and Eve lived in perfect communion, and fellowship with their Creator. Remember over here in the first set of circles before Adam ate we have Adam complete. Adam is still living just like he was in the first circle. He is still a body, he's still has his soul, the mind, will, and emotion, none of that has changed since he ate, but the moment Adam ate of the fruit, he lost that third part, the spirit, and he becomes nothing now but a body, and a soul, and now the spirit is dead! Now, from Adam and Eve on every person that is born, comes into the human experience with only a body and soul. That spirit part of each is dead. It has no fellowship with God, it has no communion with God. Also remember the moment Adam sinned the soul became a sin nature. Let's look at that and start at verse 1. Ephesians 2:1b "...who were dead in trespasses and sins;" Every baby that is born is born in sin, dead in trespasses. Not one word of Adam being the cause of sin and death. Let's turn to Jeremiah 17 and start at verse 9. Now let's look at what Paul says in Romans chapter 5 and verse 12. Romans 5:12a "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death (entered) by sin; and so death passed upon all men,..." Death passed upon all men. Death and sin are almost synonymous. If there never would have been sin, there never would have been death. So death and sin almost become partners. When Adam sinned that spirit died, his soul became a sin -natured thing that can think nothing but evil, and it was contrary to the will of God, and the reason is because the spirit is dead. So this is where the human race is as Paul says in Ephesians chapter 2 and verse 1. Even good people are walking around spiritually dead. They have no connection with God whatsoever. Now reading the last part of Romans 5:12 Romans 5:12b Romans 5:14a "Nevertheless death reigned from Adam (do you see how Paul puts the finger on it? Death didn't come in some place along the line, but rather it came in when Adam ate from that forbidden tree) to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression,..." Now let's turn over to I Corinthians chapter 15 where again Paul brings out this same problem. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible