Topic: The Immediate Consequences Of The Fall Of Man Part 7
Text: Gen 3:17 – 19 NLT
And to the man he said, “Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat, the ground is cursed because of you. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it. It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains. By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return.
Question 1
Was man in away indebted to the devil?
[KJV] Romans 8:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
If man collected the nature of satan at the point they disobeyed God, that nature brought humans into the realm they would not have entered without the help of the devil. Therefore humans became debtors to the devil for bring them into the realm of knowing Good from Evil.
Question 2
Where humans indebted to the devil or God.
If the subject of man’s disobedience was all about God, Jesus had no business dying. There was more to the sin of Adam and Eve that brought the devil in and empowered him to have dominion over man and this earth. The bible at a point referred to the devil as the ruler or prince of this world. The blood of bulls and goats could not help man because it could not handle the devil.
Accepting the offer of a life of sin from the devil unknowingly made humans debtor’s to sin and by extension the devil. Man’s action translated into disobedience to God’s instructions. So man was indebted both to God and the devil.
Question 3
What was the debt Jesus paid
The blood of Christ was shed for two reasons
1. To satisfy once and for all the anger of God towards the humans race.
2. To settle the account of humans and the devil once and for all, in order to restore the lost Dominion of man and usher humans into the realm of eternal life.
Take Away
[KJV] Romans 8:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
This scripture is clear that only believers in Christ are not debtors to the flesh which is the manifestation of the devil, but every other human outside Christ is a debtor to the devil, because they use his property called sin to run their lives daily and no human can pay for sin.
