God’s Love: Separation By Sin

Adam’s and Eve’s rebellion against God brought death just as God said it would. Death doesn’t mean “extinction” as you might think, but more “a separation from” (2 Thessalonians 1:8-9). Their fall into sin caused a separation with God, which is spiritual death. This break in relationship with God was immediately evidenced by Adam’s and Eve’s hiding from Him, and blaming Him and each other for their sin. (sound familiar? )

If you think about it, we seem to live in a world that highlights death. Just turn on our news, and you hear how full of senseless violence and death our world is. Human relationships, in general, seem to be drawn towards more separation rather than harmony and peace. Just read the statistics on divorce. Just study history, and it turns out to be a study on wars. Most bodies, on the average, have a few good decades, after which the effects of age and disease start becoming apparent. Just print “anti-aging” on something and it will sell. Just talk to anyone and they will have a health problem or know someone who does.

     God never wanted us to live this way! He created Adam and Eve to live in a world that was without death. He made them to have eternal life, but they chose eternal death. God wants us to have eternal life as well, but we choose eternal death too.  Did you know we choose death every time we sin, because the result of sin is death? 

Romans 6:23  For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

A world with no sin is a world without death. I know it doesn’t make any sense to me why Adam and Eve chose death over life, but we do the same. The wage of sin is death, but God is life.

God is the source of all life

• Read about God being the source of life from John 1:1-4, 3:16-18, 14:6, Romans 6:23, 1 John 4:9-10, and Revelation 22:1.  

• What does God being the source of life mean to you?

   
Why did death bring separation with God?   It’s because God is holy and can have nothing to do with sin. It is very important we remember God is holy, so let’s learn about God being holy.

God is holy which means He is completely separate from sin

• Read about God’s holiness from Isaiah 6:1-5 & 43:3 & 59:1-2, and Revelation 4:8.

• What does God being holy mean to you?

• We can only be holy through a relationship with Jesus Christ, but never on our own.  Read 1 Peter 1:16, Ephesians 4:20-24, Romans 12:1-2, and Colossians 3:12-14.  Ask the Holy Spirit to help you to live a holy life!