Genesis 3:9
Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him "Where are you?"
Genesis 3:8-11
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LordGod among the trees of the garden.
9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
* Are you Sin Conscious or Righteous Conscious?
* Were Adam and Eve naked all the while?
* Did Adam and Eve naked only when they were disobedient to have ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?
* Why didn't Adam and Eve aware of their nakedness before their disobedient when they had fellowship with God everyday?
* Didn't Adam and Eve hang out with God daily in the cool of the day in their nakedness before their disobedience?
Disobedient (Sin) caused us to be sin-conscious, be introspective, Self-condemning, then we run away from God or hide from God's presence. Don't feel worthy to meet God or face up to Him
The physical awareness of our nakedness is the same as our spiritual sin-consciousness and see ourselves unworthy of God.
Prior to Adam's act of disobedience, when God am into the garden, he would hang out with God without any sense of uncleanness.
Lesson learnt
Sin-consciousness only made us run away from God or hide from God, feeling a sense of uncleanness and unworthiness. Don't dare to face Him or hang out with Him in the cool of the day.
The Solution
New International Version Rom 5:19
For just as through the disobedience of the one man (Adam), the many (all of us) were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous
We are called sinner not because we sin or our disobedience. It was because of Adam's disobedience. Not our doing, but what Adam had done. We are not sinners in the first place. We were MADE sinners because of Adam
Hence, we are called the righteous not because we do righteous things or we are obedient. It was because of Christ's Obedience. Not our doing, but what Christ had DONE on the Cross. We were MADE righteous because of Christ.
Our Response
New International Version Rom 8:1
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,
Know that once we are in Christ, there is No More condemnation. Hence, don't have to be sin-conscious. But look to Jesus and what He has done, and be righteous conscious and be in fellowship with Him and hang out with Him on a daily basis, don't run away from Him or hide from Him or afraid of Him, then we can live our Christian live in joy and in favor of God and in holiness.
The word Holy is set apart and untouchable by others. We exclusively or only belong to Christ and God. Nothing can remove us from the relationship and fellowship because the covenant had been sealed by blood shed and by God's own blood.
New International Version Phi 3:9
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ--the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.
Know that the righteousness that we had gained, not from our obedient to the law, but Christ's obedience to the law, and because and purely because of our faith and confession of Christ that we are made righteous.
Be assured by the word and promises of God
New International Version Hebrews 10:17
Then he adds: "Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more."
So come out of our sin-consciousness, our hiding places and hang out boldly with God. It's in His presence that we are empowered, refreshed and recharged. It's in His presence that we receive from Him!
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