13 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 1 - Part 1 - Book 2 - Adam and Eve’s Faith and Salvation

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com LESSON 1 * PART 1 * BOOK 2 Adam and Eve’s Faith and Salvation Genesis 3:14-24 If you remember we emphasized the fact that Adam was evidently absent when Eve partook of the forbidden fruit. In other words Adam was in a totally different state of mind than Eve. Also in our last lesson we closed with the fact that when Adam sinned, immediately he died spiritually. "For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit,…" So we see man is a makeup of body, soul and spirit. Then we showed that when Adam ate, immediately his spirit died and lost fellowship with his Creator, and his body also began to die. Now Adam didn’t die until he was 930 years old, but the moment he ate, the seeds of death entered and he began to die, but remember he immediately died spiritually. So I’m trying not to apologize for reviews, so let’s go back to the Book of John chapter 3. It was in Adam that all of us inherited our sin nature! Now being sons of Adam, what are we prone to do? Sin! Now here in John chapter 3 Jesus is speaking: John 3:19 "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. It is human nature to run from God. As we said, mankind will always run from God, but God comes right back, as Martin Luther used the expression and when I read it I was almost aghast and thought that wasn’t a very nice way of putting it. When Martin Luther referred to God in his Approach to Sinful Men as the Hound of Heaven, but really, that’s exactly the way it is. For forty something years I ran from God. Psalms 42:1 "As the hart (sort of like our deer) panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God." Oh, once we’ve come into this relationship we just can’t get enough of God. We ran! That’s human nature. John 3:20a Men don’t love God naturally. Now let’s read on. John 3:20b-21 Now let’s turn over to Ephesians. Let’s go to chapter 2 verse 1 and also verse 5. Ephesians 2:1 How much can a dead man do, spiritually?NOTHING! Now let’s come down to verse 5 and it’s emphasized again. Ephesians 2:5 "Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ (by grace ye are saved:)." Remember Adam, as the head of the federal race, has left the condition of every child born into the human race, beginning with his own first children, Cain and Abel in spiritual darkness. Now, again, I should have pointed it out when we were there in Ephesians, where in the next verse in Ephesians chapter 2 verse 2, Paul says that we do these things that are contrary with God. How? That now as sons of Adam, we are spiritually dead and as a spiritually dead person this is how we operate. This is exactly how lost people around us are living. Someone has made the expression, "The world is full of walking dead people." Ephesians 2:2 the spirit (the spirit of Satan) that now worketh in the children of disobedience." Every child of Adam that has not experienced salvation. An unbeliever has got nothing going within him that would make him want to approach God. What did God do? Here we are in a body with nothing but a sin nature and no concept of God. No communication with God. Taking God at His word. The Bible says we are sinners and remember, not because of what we’ve done, but because we’re sons of Adam. So God must do something and this I know can cause controversy in a hurry. Well, that’s not Scripture. That if a man decided to become a child of God, he was the one who made the decision. than the work of the Holy Spirit in which He, the Holy Spirit, convinces or re- proves the cosmos world respecting sin, righteousness, and judgment. The Holy Spirit does that. of the unsaved natural man to respond to the Gospel." Now, let’s just show you some Scripture verses to back that very thing up. Matthew 16:13-16 The evangelical was speaking of Christ returning very soon. Well you see, they don’t recognize that He’s been here the first time. Now let’s read on. Matthew 16:16 "And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. Now, let’s go to John 15 and verse 16 John 15:16 Jesus chose them. . Now let’s move on to Acts chapter 16. Now we come into Paul’s ministry. Now let’s look at verse 14. Acts 16:14 "And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God (she had a concept of God. But she knew nothing of God’s salvation. The Lord opened her heart and when she opened her heart, she attend to the things which were spoken of Paul. God does. Now let’s go to Ephesians again, in chapter 1. Ephesians 1:3-4 "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.