Behold how good and pleasant
it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. By this shall all men
know you are my disciples. You have love one to another. It shows you come in here. smiling,
greeting one another. I love to be greeted. Some of
you, somebody came all the way from the front, which is front
and back, to greet me. I felt honored. God has caused
us to sit together in heavenly places. This is a heavenly place.
So glad they said unto me, let's go to the house of the Lord.
No place I'd rather be. It's proof, too, that many, if
not most of you, love the Lord, are loved by the Lord. We're
going to look at things that we've looked at hundreds, if
not thousands of times. Same thing. To write, to preach,
for us to study the same thing does not grieve us. But it's
wonderful, these types of Christ. That's what our Lord... Why do
we teach and preach the types? Because it's God's Word. There
was a time when that's the only word there was, before the New
Testament was written. Our Lord preached from those
types, preached Himself. And the disciples on that road,
their hearts were just full, weren't they? Of crying. Of crying. It's God's Word, that's why we
preach it. And really, Isaiah 820 says, to the law and to the
testimony, if they preach not, speak not according to my word,
there's no light in it. God's Old Testament is not done
away with. Now, we preach the law, don't
we? The law is schoolmaster to bring
us to Christ. The Old Testament types and pictures
prove Christ, don't they? Unless you know something of
the types and emblems and things in the Old Testament, you don't
know the Christ who came. That's the only way you know
it, man. It proves us. You know that?
The Old Testament proves us. The Scriptures prove us. God
said in Deuteronomy 8, He said, I'm going to prove you, my people,
by this manna. Remember that? Deuteronomy. He
said, I'm going to prove you and humble you by this manna. You're going to eat the same
bread 40 years. Now who was grateful? Who was
thankful? Who was hungry at the end of
40 years? Who never got tired of the manna? That's who was grateful. Blessed
are they that are hungry and thirsty. And these Old Testament
types are pictures of our Lord. Do you ever look at pictures
of your children when they were real young? Do you still look
at any pictures? Why? Well, I've got this picture
of Hannah. in my drawer, and I've got pictures
of your children when they were young, in my drawer. This is
not the top picture, either. But every now and then I'd open
my drawer and I'd go through these pictures. I'd look at your
daughter. And I think, they're precious
to me. Still precious. And these, who
loves the Lord Jesus Christ? who really loves the Lord Jesus
Christ. It's those who want to hear about him, those who can
never get enough of him, never tired of looking at the pictures. That's why we look at the Old
Testament times and many other reasons. All right. Betty has asked we remember Richard
Hodges in prayer when he fell and hurt himself. Let's ask the
Lord's blessings on us today. Our Father, we truly are grateful
that you brought us here. None of your people feel worthy
of the least of thy mercies. That's what Jacob said and all
his sons say. We're not worthy of the least
of thy mercies and all the truth that you've shown us. You've
reserved mercy and truth for your people. And God's people
never get tired, never tire of this blessed truth as it is in
the Lord Jesus Christ. By your grace, because you first
loved us, we love you and love your salvation and love your
word and love your truth and love your son. Cursed is everyone
that loveth not the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, how blessed are they
that do. And we believe by your grace,
by your mercy, we do love thy son. We do love your people. We do love the kingdom of God. We do love the worship of what
we're doing here. We're so thankful, Lord, that
you brought us here. So thankful. So thankful. And someday we'll realize and
be thankful as we should be as we sit around the throne and
hear once again about our Lamb. Thank you, Lord. Bless those who are suffering. We ask your mercy upon Richard,
Lord, that you reveal yourself to him. And so many others, Lord,
that we have a burden for. Our children, grandchildren,
those around us. May our hearts desire and prayer
be to God for Rocky Mount. Rowan Oak, that they might be
saved. Speak to us, show us Christ one more time. Take the things
of Christ. Send your spirit and take the things of Christ, the
woman's seed, and show them unto us. In his name, amen. Our Lord said in Luke 24 to his
disciples when he was preaching to them, he said, O fools and
slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken.
Ought not Christ to have suffered these things? And again, he said,
it says he opened their Scripture, opened their understanding that
they might understand the Scripture. And he began in the laws of Moses
and the prophets and the Psalms, preaching the things concerning
himself, because they are they which testify of Christ. This
is why God wrote the book. It's all about God's Son. But
more specifically, it's all about Christ crucified. how Christ came into this world
to save sinners. And how God shows us that is
from the very beginning, the very first sinners. There were
only two sinners on earth, and the Lord Jesus Christ came and
preached the gospel to them. And all of God's chosen people
from then on are going to hear the gospel. That's how we know. Christ, you know, we were talking,
trying to say this last time, and Melanie came up. Our women
are so well-versed in Scripture, so well-taught, astute students. And she came up and said, yes,
Christ is the Lamb slain before the foundation. I said, Melanie,
I should have quoted that. I forgot that verse. Before there
was a creation, before there was light, before there was anything,
Christ was the Lamb slain. Does that not tell us that everything
created and everything after that points to Christ and Him? The Lamb? Before there was an
earth, there was a Lamb slain? And when it's all over, when
there is no more earth, God's people in the new heaven are
going to be seeing a lamb. Amazing, isn't it? Amazing. Adam and Eve. Go to Genesis 1. Adam and Eve
were fallen creatures. They fell. They fell. They were dead. They became dead
in trespass and sin. They weren't created that way. They weren't created that way.
But they fell. And it was Spurgeon that once
said, if you're wrong on the fall, you're going to be wrong
on it all. What happened in the garden? What happened in the
beginning? It explains everything that follows. It explains everything,
why everything is the way it is. It tells us who God is. It tells us what man is. It tells
us why this world is the way it is and why God's going to
destroy it. What happened in the garden? Adam and Eve were
created in the image of God. Look at verse 26, Genesis 1.
Romans 1 says the same thing. Genesis 1, verse 26. Let us make
man in our image. Us. The Trinity, Father, Son, Holy
Spirit. But God's a spirit. Holy Spirit's
a spirit. Who's the image? Christ is the
image. Let us make man. And so Christ
is God. God the Father is God. The Spirit
is God. And without Christ was not anything
made, it was made. And Adam and Eve, male and female,
look at verse 27, so God created man in his own image, and the
image of God created him male and female created him. Sin entered
man, though, in chapter 3. And man lost that image completely. Man doesn't bear that image at
all. When you talk about an image,
don't just think of outward flesh, because when Christ came, there
was no beauty in him. I'm certain that Adam and Eve
were the most beautiful human beings, fleshly speaking, that
ever lived on this planet. Don't you? Aren't you? That's
not the image that they bore, per se. Christ, there was no beauty,
no form, no comeliness, no outward beauty in Him that we should
desire Him. But you look in His face. You
look in His eyes. You're going to see dove's eyes.
You're going to see pure eyes. You're going to see a countenance
that shines with the glory of God. You're going to see the
beauty of God in His character, in His face. You're going to
see honesty. You're going to see purity. You're
going to see holiness. You're going to see righteousness.
You're going to see integrity. You're going to see truth. No God. Glory. That's the image. And man had
that. He lost it. All of it. If you look at man now, go to
Death Row and look in the face of a hardened criminal. It's
like the face of an animal. Isn't it? A predator. Look in
their eyes, it's like the face of a wild animal. That's the image. That's the
image that man lost. Now look at verse chapter 2. God first spoke to Adam, not
Eve. This is important. Chapter 2,
verse 16. The Lord God, verse 15, took
the man. This is before Eve was created.
He took the man, put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it.
Not toil, not labor. Dress it. God's going to provide
everything. The Lord God commanded the man. He spoke to the man,
right? Eve wasn't even around. Now what's this picture of? Christ,
the man, our husband. God in sundry times and diverse
manners spake unto the fathers, not the mothers, the fathers,
by the prophets, not the prophetesses, hath in these last days spoken
unto us by the Son, not the mother of the Son. One mediator between
God and man. And we're going to see how the
Eve was deceived. Not the man. Eve spoke when she
shouldn't have. Right? All right. The man. The woman was created
for the man. Is that what the scripture says?
I was going to have you turn to 1 Corinthians 11. It talks
about the man being the head of the woman. Oh, how modern
woman, man hates this. But it's the truth. And we see
how everything has just fallen completely apart because of man's
and woman's rejection of God's order of all things. Adam and
Eve were created They were married by God. Marriage is ordained
of God, for the happiness, for the good of man. But marriage,
preeminently, is a type of Christ. That's what Ephesians 5 says.
This is a mystery, but I speak of Christ and His church, marriage. Christ is the head, is He not?
Christ is the spokesman, is He not? Do you think the disciples
were doing any talking while Christ was around? In fact, they were rarely apart
from him. He was always together. When two become married, they
become one. They don't go their separate
way. All right? Chapter 3, this woman
was alone with the serpent. She shouldn't have been. Right? When two are married... Now,
stay with me. When two are married, God said in chapter two, it's
not good for man to be alone. So he made the woman as a helpmate
and vice versa. But he said plainly that the
woman was for the man and the woman was of the man. When God
created the woman, he created her out of the side of man. What a picture that is of his
bride that came out of the side of Christ. The man's the head,
the woman is for the man, and that church is for Christ, for
his honor, for his glory. He's the head. Well, this woman,
Eve, left her husband for some reason and got alone with the
serpent. Something bad is going to happen.
It's not good that man be alone. Go to Ecclesiastes 4, right after
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes 4. Now, marriage is ordained of
God. Some people are not given in marriage, and that's fine. Scripture says, as a matter of
fact, Paul said in 1 Corinthians 7, it's better if you're not
given, if it's not given to you to be married, then that's fine. It's even better if you're married
to the Lord. He that is married, careth for
how he may please his wife or husband. He that is not married,
care for how they make please their Lord. Paul was not married. He was totally given to our Lord. Our Lord was his husband. Right? He never wanted to be alone.
No, no, no. Not without him. If you're
going to be alone, be alone with the Lord. Okay? But look at Ecclesiastes 4, verse
9 says, two are better than one, because they have a good reward
for their labor. If they fall, one will lift up his fellow.
If you fall, you're alone. Who's going to pick you up? But
if you're married to the Lord, He will. But if you have a husband
or a wife, that's what we're for. Woe to him that's alone
when he falleth, yet not another to help him up. Verse 11, again,
if two lie together, Then they have heat, have them one warm
alone. And so marriage is good. And we're not, here's the picture
I'm trying to show us, is that we don't go our separate ways.
When you get married, you don't go your separate ways. You're
one. But if you do, trouble's coming. Okay? to become one. And the Lord has ordained this.
Good. Man and woman, male and female, had their different aspects
that God created them, and they both needed each one. Checks
and balances. And look at 1 Corinthians 7. Yeah, turn over there quickly.
I've got to hurry. My, my. But this is important,
because this woman got along with the tempter. And she failed. We're no match for him, alone.
Two are better than one. That's why where two or three
are gathered together is better than alone. Right? Better to come meet with the
bride. That's where the husband's going
to be. And we're going to hear from him, be protected by him.
1 Corinthians 7. This is where he says it's good
for a man not to touch a woman, but nevertheless to avoid fornication,
that every man have his own wife. And on and on it goes, verse
5, defraud you not the other, that is, don't withhold what
is due, what each needs, everything that that is, except with consent
for a time that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer.
And then come together that Satan tempt you No. You go your separate way, Satan's
going to tempt you. And he did. And the woman fell. If you go too near, why was she
near that forbidden tree? What was she doing near that
tree? If you don't want to fall to
forbidden things, don't go near them. Right? She was alone, tempted
by Satan. She was near that temptation,
and she fell. Isn't that an equal observation? All right, back to our text,
Genesis 4. Genesis 3. Genesis chapter 3. The serpent. Why is he called
a serpent? It doesn't, it's no profit to
us to try to figure out his form and what he looked like and all
that, what that means. No profit at all. We don't know.
Conjecture. But we do know that he's called
the serpent because of his subtlety, like a serpent. The subtlety,
the silence, the trickery, you know,
a serpent, snake bite. Anybody been bitten by a snake?
You don't see them, or you wouldn't get bit by them, unless you handle
them. Now, you shouldn't be doing that.
That's the point. Don't go near them. If you know
where they are, don't go. But a serpent is sly, is subtle. He is more subtle than any beast
in the field. Deadly. poison of asps. That's why it's
called the serpent. In Numbers, when the people sinned
against God and Moses, it says God sent fiery serpents and bit
them all. Well, they all knew it. They
were all bit and dying. What did God do? How are we going
to get to that and not preach that? Our Lord said, as Moses lifted
up the serpent on a pole, and Christ hung on that cross. You
know, not the only thing that was bruised there. It was His
body, but the serpent's head. But serpent, all right? He was more subtle. And Satan
is wily, crafty, He's a master manipulator. He knows human nature. He was there with the first human
beings that lived. They were the smartest, most
intelligent, most upright human beings ever. And Eve was deceived. He began to deceive her by telling
her what was bad was good and what was bitter was sweet. And
he's been doing it ever since. And we're going to see how his
seat is in religion. But a woman, and you know these
verses, he put a question mark on God's Word. Question mark. Hath God said you shall not eat
of every tree? Did God really say that? Oh my. Isn't that what religion... Why
do we have different translations of Scripture now? For that reason. For that very reason. I know
it says that, but... Did it really say that? The woman, now again, she's speaking
for Adam. Shouldn't have been doing it.
She shouldn't have been speaking for Adam. She should have said,
I'm going to get my husband. He'll answer for you. Isn't that
how we're to resist the devil? Huh? Didn't Peter say in 1 Peter
5, resist the devil in the faith. How's that? Michael the archangel
wouldn't continue with him. You know what he said? The Lord
rebuketh the saint. She should have said, I'm going
to go get my husband. He'll answer for me. Adam wanted
to see. She said, We may eat of the fruit
of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which
is in the midst of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat
of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die. Did God say
that? No, He did not. No, she added some words to it.
God didn't say, Don't touch it. He didn't say that. Is it important
that God's Word be exactly like God says it? It sure is. You
add one word or take one word, you can change the whole meaning
of it. Yeah, God said, touch not, taste not. No, He didn't
say that. And that's what religion is.
Touch not, taste not. Handle not. Uh-uh. Oh yes, it's important. Speak not according to His Word. Exactly. Preach the Word to Him.
Preach the Word exactly like God said. Exactly. I heard one of these liar where
that guy, that liar in Lynchburg, he's dead now. I heard him dealing
with Romans 8. And he completely skipped over
verses 29 and 30. 29 and 30, for whom he did 4
and 0, he did pretty, completely lost it. That's the whole purpose of Romans
8. That's the purpose of salvation.
The purpose of God according to? Election. My state. Well, she changed it. The serpent
said so. Now, the serpent completely denies
the Word of God. You shall not surely die. You
won't die. And isn't that religion? No,
man's not dead. He's sick. He's still got some
of the image. of God, and he's just sick, and we just have to
get that image out of him. We just have to get it to rise
to the top. No, we're going to see. God said, dead. Barney used to say, dead means
graveyard dead. Stink up dead. Dead, dead. Dead means dead, doesn't it? And Adam all died. And he completely denied, and
what he proposed then was, God knows you'll be like God. You'll have free will. This is
what he said. Because that's what he thought.
I will. And God showed him different.
And now he's going to try to get to man. And that's been the
lie, and that's been man's contention with God and with the truth ever
since. Free will. Anybody that believes man has
free will is lost. That's a lie from Satan himself.
He started in a gutter. Alright, so when the woman saw
the tree was good for food, it was pleasant to the eye. That's
the lust of the eye, lust of the flesh, pride of life. She
ate it. Then her husband saw this and
he chose her over God. That's what happened. He wasn't
deceived. But he just chose her over God.
So that's just as bad. In the eyes of them both. And
so now they're naked. They're running. They're hiding
from God. They're afraid. Alright, here's
the promise. Down in verse 14. The Lord God
said, He came to... Who did He speak to first? Who
did the Lord deal with first? And he said to Adam, where art
thou? But who did he come and deal with? For he didn't condemn,
he didn't rebuke Adam and Eve yet. He's going to. But he handled
Satan first. The Lord said to the serpent,
verse 14, because thou hast done this, curse it. You're under a curse. You're
going to be on your belly from now on. The Lord first dealt
with the Satan and pronounced a curse upon him. You're cursed. You're done for. You're done
in. It just remains to be seen. Well,
you'll never exist again. I'm going to put you away. That's what the Lord said. Now, when our Lord Jesus Christ,
the man, came to this earth, who did he handle first? Before he called his disciples,
he faced Satan. Second Adam, didn't he? Every
temptation tempted at all points like as we are. Satan's not all
wise, not all knowing. If he was, he'd have seen right
there, I'm battling the wrong person here. I need to submit. And our Lord
right then and there showed him, your time is very little now. I'm going to put you away. And then in verse 15, God said
this. He said in verse 15, I will put
enmity between thee and the woman whom you deceived, whom you enticed,
whom you caused to follow, between thy seed and her seed, and it,
her seed, it, shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his
heel." It is a hymn. And John, when he wrote his gospel,
he said, that holy thing is the Son of God. The seed of woman
is to come. So God made this prophecy. God made this promise. God, Christ,
I believe this was Christ who was talking. to Adam and Eve
and to the serpent. I do. I believe it's Christ.
They heard the voice of the Lord walking in the garden in the
cool of the day. That's Christ, isn't it? Walking. Christ walked
among us. His delights were with the sons
of men, Proverbs 8 said. Rejoicing in the habitable parts
of the earth. It's only fitting that Christ
would come to the first sinner. The first man, the first woman.
Walked with him and talked with him. Proof that God sent him. So God In prophecy and promise,
through Christ's preaching, told of the seed of woman. Now, woman
doesn't have seed. Right? Seed, the word is sperm,
comes from the man. A woman cannot, there's no life
in her womb unless the man puts the seed in it. A woman cannot
produce life. She can only receive life. Right? The old saying, what came
first, the chicken or the egg? That's evolution, is what they
say. Why, the rooster did. And then the chicken. You can't have chicks with just
an egg. Anybody knows that. Okay? The seed of woman? She doesn't have one. That's
impossible. Oh, God said, I'll show you a
sign in Isaiah. He said, behold, a virgin shall
conceive and bear a child. That's not possible. No. With
man it's impossible. No, with God. And see, a child will be born,
Isaiah 9, but the Son, who is always with the Father from the
beginning, the only begotten of God, the Son is given. And you're going to call this
babe, this child, that holy thing that was in her, the Son of God. Never been one before. Never
been anyone like Him. The seed of God. come from a
woman. We want to see this in both messages,
that every single offspring that comes from man is sinful. This is the second Adam he promises,
the covenant head. As I quoted, in Adam all die,
but in Christ be made alive. Romans 5, I had all these scriptures
turned to. Time is up. Romans 5 says, by
one man's disobedience many were made sinners. Now, had Adam not
sinned, sin and Adam all died. Not Eve. We don't come from Eve. We come
from Adam. And Adam, and I said this, Adam
rebelled willingly. Unbelievable. He chose that woman
over God. And that's the greater sin. Men
sin, men and women sin in ignorance. They just sin anyway. She knew
better, but she was just ignorant and deceived. And this is why
God sent a woman not to have any authority in the church ever
again. ever, and speak for, on behalf of, because it only gets
worse. And religion today is run by
women, and it's clear, and she's even called the Great War. And it's not the best. But, where
am I? It says, look at verse 15, he
says, I'll put enmity between thee and the woman, between thy
seed and her seed. The seed of God is Christ. The woman's seed that came from,
the one who came from woman, the virgin born son, is Christ.
And every mention of seed began with Abraham. God said, I'll
bless your seed. In your seed shall all people
be blessed. Talking about Abraham? No. Paul wrote that in Galatians
4, didn't he? No, the seed. He's talking about one. He's
talking about Christ. He's the seed. All of God's people are
blessed because of one. The woman seed. The Virgin, the
Lord, the Son, and the Most High God. Now, when they fell, sin,
sorrow, and the Lord said to the woman, now He speaks to the
woman, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception.
In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children. We're going to see
that in the next message. First man and woman, the first
son. Oh my. In sorrow. Your husband's going to rule
over you. That's the way it is. This is a man's world. And women are so abused. It's
awful. Like Christ's bride. The sons
of men abuse the sons of God. Always have. This is their world. We've got another one coming.
We're going to go and be with our husband. No more abusive,
no more law, and no more monster. Married to a monster, that old
man. Don't you look forward to that? And he said to the man,
man, because you've hearkened to the voice of your wife. I'm
going to curse everything. Cursed is the ground. Cursed,
cursed. Thorns, thistles, sweat, toil, labor, and no real rest. I'm going to get up and do it
all over again. Until you go back to the ground from which
you were made. You're going to work in the ground
and the dirt and the earth. You're going to toil all the
days of your life in this earth. What are you going to get? A
hole in the ground when it's all over. And you're going to
turn back to the dirt that you came from. Vanity of vanity. But God. I believe God loved Adam and
Eve. I'm quite certain of it. How do I know? How do you know? Because He spoke to them. Because
He promised to them. There were only two sinners on
the earth. And He came and preached the gospel to them. He's going
to have the preeminence. When Adam sinned, he was a chief
sinner. He was the only sinner. This
faithful saint worthy of all acceptation, Christ came to the
world to save sinners. Well, when there was one sinner
on earth, here came Christ and preached to him and promised
to him. He said, oh, you're going to have suffering in the world.
You're going to have suffering, sorrow, pain, thorns, thistles,
labor. But I'm coming. I'm coming back
to get you out of this mess you've got yourself in. Because I'm
the faithful husband, you see. This is the husband. She left
Adam, okay. But the second Adam will never
leave her. She'll try to divorce him. He
said, I'm not going to sign the papers. Uh-uh. You see, Adam couldn't
save her. For wires can, and must, and
will, and doth, and shall, second Adam, our true husband, the woman's
seed, that's who. And what the Lord did, He told
them, He prophesied, like Manoah and his wife, you know. Manoah's
wife, Manoah was afraid God was going to kill him. And she said,
no, He wouldn't have shown us these things. He wouldn't have
told us these things. Remember Numbers 13? The Lord wouldn't have told us
these things. The Lord showed, told Adam and Eve. He showed
them. And she said he wouldn't have
accepted the sacrifice. In verse, I love this, in verse
21, the Lord, unto Adam and to his wife did the Lord God make
coats of skin and clothe them. What did he do? What happened?
He killed a lamb. You say it doesn't say that? God's people know what that was
that God killed because even before this world began, it was
a lamb's blood. the margin, Sid, of the sheep
or the goats. He took the firstling of the
flock, a lamb without spot and blemish, because he did it the
rest of the book, and he right before the eyes of these two
shamed, naked, scared Guilty sinners, hopeless, without hope,
afraid, heads hanging in sorrow already. What are we going to
do? You sinned against God. And God said, here's what I want
to do. And He took that innocent substitute, that lamb, right
before their eyes as they watched in horror as one who had no sin
was made sin for them. And he cut that lamb's throat
right before their eyes. And they saw blood and had never
seen blood before. They didn't know what blood was. They didn't know what death really
was. But God showed them. And this
is what gave them repentance. This is what, before this, they're
blaming each other. Before this, they're justifying
themselves and blaming somebody else. Now they're going to see
what it takes to put away what they've done, and they're going
to justify God if He condemns them, and they're going to condemn
themselves. What showed them that? Christ crucified. It's the only thing that will
bring repentance. You know that? This is what God
will do to the sinner. This is what God must do for
the sinner. Kill an innocent substitute in
our stead and take his covering, his beauty, his glory, and cover
you in it. And by his death and by his blood,
your sins are atoned for. And he told them. Is that all
God said to Adam and Eve? No, it wasn't. No. He's not going to just turn
them out and say, well, have at it. Hope the best for you. No. He told them. And now it's
going to be this blood. It's going to be a lamb. It's
going to be a substitute. This is your home. This is how
you come to me. And this is how every son of
Adam who comes to God, he's going to come to God. to be atoned
for, to be forgiven, to be covered, to be saved, the blood of a lamb. And it's not a lamb, it's a person. You know our Lord preached that.
I didn't tell the half of it. I can't wait for Him to tell
it.