God of His Word, God Who Punishes Sin, God Who Covers

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God of His Word, God Who Punishes Sin, God Who Covers

Genesis 2:15-3:21 - God establishes that when He makes a promise or declaration, He does stick to it. When He declares that our decisions have consequences tied to them, His Word is true. We need to hear these words and takes them seriously. When sin shows up, we learn that God cannot be around sin (and since sin marks people in the garden), we are removed from His presence. Sin and God will not be in the same space, because wherever God’s holiness steps in, sin cannot exist there. Sin has consequences, primarily being –
separation: no longer living in the presence of God. We will never fully grasp what was lost on that day, but God gives us a detail about Himself in the covering of Adam and Eve before He sends them out of the garden.

Taking it to Jesus - Jesus is the fulfillment of the promise God made to crush the serpents head. In Christ, God was STILL ABLE to punish sin and COVER His people. He did not start a new system of things in Christ, He kept His Word.