Sin’s Consequence

 Sin’s Consequence

The LORD God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”

GENESIS 2.16-17

The grace of God can be seen in the Garden of Eden when He warned Adam not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God cautioned Adam that he would die if he ate from that tree. Notice that God did not tell Adam that He would kill him if he ate from the tree. The prohibition was given in love, not as a threat.

Over the millennia many have misunderstood this text. They have seen it as a warning from God about what He would do if man sinned. Nothing could be further from the truth. God warned man about what sin would do to him if he submitted to it.

Your Father isn’t out to get you when you sin. He has given warnings in the Bible about sin and its consequences, but remember this, it is sin that punishes, not God. To the contrary, when Adam sinned and hid from his God, the Father came to him to rescue him. He does the same for you. Never think otherwise.