Irons produced some tremendous material
in his day. He was a preacher in England
many, many years ago. The sermons that I've read by
him were just outstanding, most everything I've read by him.
But he usually read his sermons. He just would write them out
in detail in standing in the pulpit, sort of like Jonathan
Edwards did sinners in the hands of an angry God and read his
sermons. And one day, when he got up to preach, the true story,
he was suddenly stricken with blindness and he had to preach
without his notes. And he got done preaching, power
of God fell on the place and one of the old ladies who'd been
in church many, many years said, would to God you'd lost your
sight 20 years ago. I'm glad you left your glasses
at home. Thank you, brother. Thank you. Tuesday night, Brother
Lindsey Campbell asked me if I would explain the meaning of
Genesis chapter three and verse 22. So open the Bible and looked
at it. And I was baffled. So I walked
over, we had a few minutes and got my trusted, reliable theology
professor, Dr. Gill, off the bookshelf. And
I read Gil's commentary on the text and was helped, but I wasn't
satisfied. And this text has been on my
mind ever since Tuesday evening. I believe God's given me something
for you. Genesis chapter 3, verse 22. And the Lord God said, behold,
the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put forth his
hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live forever,
therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden
to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out
the man And he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden cherubims
and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the way of
the tree of life. Behold, the man is become as
one of us. What an astounding statement. This is a statement not of a
mere man. It is the statement of God Almighty. Behold, the man is become as
one of us. In my opinion, no portion of
scripture is more important than the first three chapters of the
book of Genesis. In these three chapters, we have
the whole system of divine truth laid before us. If you understand
what's revealed in Genesis 1, 2, and 3, you will have no difficulty
understanding everything else revealed in the Word of God.
If you don't understand that which is written in these first
three chapters of Genesis, you will never understand anything
written elsewhere in the Book of God. Perhaps that's the reason
Satan has, throughout the ages, raised up false prophets and
teachers constantly attacking these opening chapters of the
Word of God, seeking to undermine the revelation of God in Holy
Scripture. Let me summarize these three
chapters. Genesis 1 reveals the origin and creation of the universe
and the formation of man from the dust of the earth. In the
beginning, God. Those four words. Those four
words. None are more important in all
this book. In the beginning, God. Everything has its origin with
God. Everything has its origin with
God. Those four words show us that
the Lord God is the creator, the ruler, and the disposer of
all things. All things were made by him.
And for him and without him was not anything made that was made. This world was created by the
will and word of God. People point to various things
they imagine to be scientific evidences to the contrary. They
talk about the age of the universe and all that stuff. When God
created Adam, he didn't create him a baby. He created him a
grown man. with all the appearance of age.
And that's no problem for God to create the earth just that
way. And God does things. Now listen carefully. God does
things in the way he does them, reveals things in his word the
way he reveals them, deliberately to confuse unbelieving men. You will never come to the knowledge
of the living God by logic reason, argument, or scientific data.
You come to understand the things of God by bowing to the revelation
of God, not otherwise. I want you to prove this book
to me. Believe it, and you have the proof. And until you believe
God, there's no proof that can be given you. Genesis chapter
2 reveals the happiness, the power, and the greatness of man
before sin entered into this world. I was chatting with Jerry
Marilyn Sadler today at lunch about heaven and eternity, new
creation. I said, I don't know. I can't speak with certainty.
But I suspect that when God makes all things new, when judgment's
over and all things are made new, and we dwell with Christ
in a new heavens and new earth, We will live and serve God our
Savior very much like we do right now in this world made new. The only thing different, no
sin, no curse, no sorrow, no pain, no heartache, no difficulty. God created things perfectly. He set Adam in innocence in the
garden and made Adam to have favor and delight all the time. God made him Lord of the earth. He caused Adam to have dominion
over all the creatures he had made. Adam lived in harmony with
God, with the holy angels, and with the beast of the field.
in perfect happiness. Imagine that. He walked with
God in the garden in the cool of the day. He stopped by and
scratched our lion's head just like you'd scratch your kitten's
head. Everything in perfect harmony,
in perfect happiness. But Adam didn't continue long
in that blessed, happy condition. In Genesis three, we're told
about the temptation and fall of our father Adam and the consequences
of it. What a sad, sad picture. Man
created in the image of God. Man to whom God had given the
whole world. Man, the prince of God's creation,
rebelled against his creator and lost everything. And we've been following his
steps ever since. The man whom God made Lord over the world
with one act of defiance lost everything. Everything. When
he had lost everything, when Adam and Eve were trying to hide
themselves from the Lord God, trying to cover their shame,
trying to cover their sin and their nakedness from God, God
stepped in. wonder of wonders, not to destroy,
but to save the fallen pair. God stepped in, he came and called
into Adam and said unto him, where art thou? God didn't have
to search for Adam. He knew right where he was. He
asked Adam where he was because he wanted Adam to recognize where
he was, how he had fallen, what his condition was. God himself
then preached the first gospel message Promising a redeemer
and promising to destroy the enemy look in verse 15 of chapter
3 God said I will put enmity between thee and the woman and
between thy seed and her seed And it the seed of the woman
shall bruise shall crush thy head And thou shalt bruise his
heels Talking about Christ coming and by his suffering and death
triumphing over Satan and making us more than conquerors in him
in the accomplishment of redemption. And then the Lord made a sacrifice
for our fallen parents. He called them. He promised redemption
to them. And then he made a sacrifice
by which he pictured that redemption. a sacrifice and took the skins
of the sacrificed animals and clothed Adam and Eve and thereby
portrayed visibly what redemption is and how salvation is accomplished. Verse 21. Unto Adam also and
to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothed
them. God sacrificed These animals,
I presume, lambs, I don't know, I presume, sacrificed these sheep
and by their death took the skins off of those sheep and put them
on Adam and Eve. And symbolically, he says, this
is how redemption is done. The lamb of God shall sacrifice
himself and clothe you with the garments of salvation of his
own making. Then we're told in verse 22,
and the Lord God said, behold, the man is become as one of us. This was not, as many would suppose,
an act of God's wrath. The Lord made man in his own
image, and now he declares that this man fallen called, restored
by his grace, and become as one of us. Read on. One of us to
know good and evil. And now lest he put forth his
hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live forever. Therefore, the Lord God sent
him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from
whence he was taken. So he drove out the man and he
placed at the east of the Garden of Eden cherubims and a flaming
sword which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of
life. Oh, how angry God must have been
to drive Adam from the garden. That's not the case at all. The
Lord drove Adam and Eve from the garden were told specifically
to keep That is to guard and protect the way of the tree of
life. Now let's look at these words
of inspiration and may God the Holy Spirit be our teacher. The
person speaking in our text is the Lord God himself. Jehovah
Elohim. He says the man has become as
one of us. One person is speaking. But he
speaks of more than one person. The man, he says, has become
as one of us. The one speaking here, Jehovah
Elohim, is Christ the God-man mediator. The Word of God by
whom, through whom, in whom alone God speaks to man. Now mark this
down. Mark this down. Whatever you
read in this book, Old Testament or New Testament or in eternity,
of God speaking to men, of God communicating with men, of God
showing himself to men, of God being seen by men, of God being
approached by men, that one who is spoken of is Jesus Christ,
the God-man mediator, Christ our Redeemer. Every revelation
of God in the Old Testament scriptures, the angel of the Lord coming
and visiting with men, God speaking to Moses, God speaking to Adam,
God speaking to Abraham, God speaking to Daniel, God speaking
to Manoah and his wife, every single time, those are pre-incarnate
revelations of Jesus Christ who would come in the flesh as the
God-man, our mediator. God only deals with men in Christ. We know God in Christ. In him dwelleth all the fullness
of the Godhead bodily. And this is how we know God as
we see God in Christ. This is how we communicate with
God as God reveals himself to us in Christ and we speak to
God in Christ. And when we see our Lord Jesus
Christ in heaven's glory, all the three persons of the invisible
Godhead will be revealed forever in the person of the God-man
mediator, our Lord Jesus Christ. Turn over to John chapter one.
John, the first chapter. Listen to the scriptures. In the beginning was the word.
The Apostle John was inspired by God, the Holy Spirit, to use
this unique description of the savior that others did not use. He's called the word, the word. The means of communication, the
word, The revelation, the word, the expression in the beginning
was the word and the word was with God and the word was God
quite literally. And the word was with God and
God was the word. So this is not just an expression
of God as I'm giving you my words, but rather the word by which
God expressed himself is himself God. The same was in the beginning
with God. All things were made by him and
without him was not anything made that was made. John 1 14. And the word was made flesh. God, the word was made flesh
and dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory, the
glory as of the only begotten of the father, full of grace
and truth. Look at verse 18. No man has
seen God at any time. No man has seen God at any time. Wait a minute. Moses was called
up into the mount and spoke to God face to face, didn't he?
The Lord spoke to Abraham as a man speaks to his friend, didn't
he? Manoah and his wife saw God. Manoah said, we're going to die.
We've seen God face to face. What's this mean then? No man
has seen God at any time. Is there a contradiction here?
Not at all. God is spirit. And you don't
see a spirit. You can't touch a spirit. You
can't hear a spirit. What's he talking about then?
No man has seen God in his essential, ineffable glory as God. No man has at any time. But many
men have seen God. Adam saw Him in the garden. Moses
saw Him in the mount. Many have seen God and spoken
to Him. How is that? In this God-man
who is the Word. No man has seen God at any time.
The only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father,
He hath declared Him. He has taken what God is and
shown him to us. When Moses penned these words,
the Lord God said, behold, the man has become as one of us.
The spirit of God was in the book of beginnings, revealing
four facts essential to the Christian faith. Here's the first. He shows
us plainly that Jesus Christ, our Redeemer, our mediator, was
pre-existent before he came into this world in human flesh. Our
Lord Jesus in time assumed our nature. In time, the word was
made flesh, but he stood forth from everlasting as our mediator
and our covenant surety. He said before Abraham was, I
am. Before Abraham was, I am. He is before all things, Paul
says, and by him all things consist. Our Lord Jesus is not a preacher
of time. He is the creator, the I am,
that one who reveals himself in this book as that which is
and which was and which is to come. This opening statement
here also reveals to us the eternal deity of our Lord Jesus Christ. In our text, the divine mediator
is called the Lord God, Jehovah Elohim. The Lord God speaks because
Jesus Christ is God. Hear me well. The man who was
born in Bethlehem is God. The man who lived for 33 years
on this earth as our representative, that man is God. The man who died at Calvary and
bought us with his blood, that man is God. not a representative of God,
not one in the likeness of God, very God of very God. Else, all that he said is a hoax
and all that he did a fabrication. Our Lord Jesus Christ must be
God as well as man. Otherwise, he could not be our
Redeemer. He claimed to be God. The angels and men worshiped
him as God. The Jews understood his language. He said, for what work do you
stone me? And they said, not because of
any work you did, but because you, being a man, make yourself
God. The Jews understood that. That's
the reason they put him to death. And our text also teaches the
plurality and unity of the Godhead. When the Lord God spoke and called
himself us, He's declaring the plurality of persons in the Trinity. He says, man has become as one
of us. Let me try to touch on this thing
of the Trinity again. I've been dealt with some this
morning, but throughout the scriptures, we had the Trinity revealed.
You want to see it? Our Lord commands us when we're
baptized, folks, to baptize them in the name of the Father, the
Son, and the Holy Spirit. Not in the names of the Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit, but in the name of God, Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit. You want to learn the doctrine
of the Trinity? Go to Jordan and see the Lord Jesus Christ
as he is baptized by John the Baptist. There we have the Son
of God going down into the waters to be baptized, the Spirit of
God descending from heaven in the form of a dove, and the Father
speaking from heaven saying, this is my beloved Son in whom
I am well pleased. The doctrine of the Trinity is
plainly declared everywhere in the Word of God and never once
explained. And certainly we have here a
picture and a declaration of the mediation of our Lord Jesus
Christ. He is our mediator. The only mediator there is between
God and men, the man, Christ Jesus. And he is our everlasting
mediator. Christ stood in our place before
God as our mediator, our intercessor, before ever man was made, before
ever God created the heavens and the earth, just as he does
today. In the fullness of time, he assumed
our nature. In the fullness of time, he met
our obligations. In the fullness of time, he paid
our debt. In the fullness of time, he ascended
back to glory. And there he sits now, our Mediator. But he was our Mediator before
ever the world was. This is the glory he had before
the world was. Larry read it back in the office
a minute ago. Father, the hour has come. Give me the glory which
I had with you before the world was. God, before the world began,
turned everything over to the hands of his son, our accepted
mediator, because he was declared to be Christ the Lamb, slain
from the foundation of the world. In this third chapter of Genesis,
we see our Lord Jesus in all his mediatorial offices, prophet,
priest, and king. In his kingly office, he arraigned
the fallen man before his bar of judgment, convicted him of
treason, and passed upon him the sentence of death. In his
prophetic office, he promised redemption and salvation to the
fallen pair and told them how he would accomplish it. And in
his priestly office, he made a sacrifice by which he portrayed
himself in the sacrifice for sin. The person speaking then
is our Lord God, our Savior, Jehovah Elohim, the Lord Jesus
Christ, the Word of God, the Mediator, the Son of God, our
blessed Redeemer. And he speaks here concerning
a fallen man to whom he had just revealed his grace. He speaks
concerning Adam, this man who was lost and called called and
had a sacrifice made for him. redeemed by a sacrifice and clothed
with the garments of the sacrifice, clothed with the skins of the
slain lamb. So it is that we are called of
God and the blood atonement of our Savior, the lamb slain from
the foundation of the world, sprinkled upon our consciences
and the righteousness of Christ, the very garments of salvation
placed upon us by God himself. The Lord God says now concerning
this man, Behold, the man is become as one of us to know good
and evil. What do those words mean? Well, the text might be translated,
it might be translated, might be properly translated. Behold,
the man was as one of us knowing good and evil. If we understand
the words to mean God is referring here to what Adam was prior to
his fall. Then the Lord God is speaking
here in great pity, saying, Behold, the man now fallen, sinful, ruined,
depraved and dead. He was as one of us. Knowing
good and evil, but now only evil. You see, man was created in the
image and likeness of God. He is as God has revealed in
the Lord Jesus Christ. And fallen man, now listen carefully,
fallen man in his state as fallen man does not know good. He does not know good. Read the
word of God. That which men call good is evil. And that which men call evil
is good. Fallen man does not know good. No lost man knows
what good is. He doesn't know good in the sense
of what is righteous. He doesn't know good in the sense
of what is spiritual. He doesn't know good in the sense
of even what is moral and upright. He certainly doesn't know good
in the sense of what is beneficial. Fallen man, no fallen man knows
good. He only knows evil. That's all
he knows in his fallen state. Lord God, then if he speaks of
this as being that which man was, he was as one of us. Now he's fallen and all he knows
is evil. You see, this man created in
the image of God was in the form and constitution of his body
and his human nature made like God. Upright. Upright. The Lord God made Adam
in the image of God, in the image of him who alone is called the
image of God. so that the Lord God looks upon
Christ, our mediator, that man who was to come as he would come
into this world and says, I will make man like this man who is
to come in time. And he made Adam in the image
of Christ before ever Christ came into this world being born
of the Virgin. He was made in the image of God
physically. Adam was made in the image of
God in a moral uprightness as well in, I guess it'd be alright
to call it righteousness, in creature righteousness. Man came out of his creator's hands
a holy creature. When God makes man new by his
grace, He makes him a new creature in righteousness and in true
holiness. But when Adam was made originally,
he was made holy without sin, upright, without any evil thoughts,
without any sense of selfishness, without any sense of competition
between he and Eve, without any sense of rivalry, made upright
as God is. The image of God in which Adam
was created is reflected in his mental capacity as well. Like
his creator, Adam was wise, rational, and full of knowledge. God brought every creature to
Adam and he named him. He named him. Our marvelous learned
scientist still called lions, lions because Adam called him
a lion. God gave Adam huge capacity mentally. He knew his wife as soon as the
Lord brought her to him. this man out of whom the woman
was made. And God presented Adam to Eve. And he took one look at her and
said, wow, wow, would you look at that? She came out of me.
She came out of me. He understood perfectly how God
made his wife, though he was asleep in the process. He understood
perfectly that she is made for him. And he knew both good and
evil. He knew that it was good to obey
God. And he knew that evil would be
for him to partake of the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil. Evil would be for him to partake of that fruit that God
forbade him. Evil would be for him to rebel
against God. He knew good and evil. Adam, like our Lord Jesus Christ,
before the fall knew no sin by experience, but he knew the nature
of it. He knew that it was contrary
to the very being of God. He knew that sin was an attack
upon God's character as God. He knew that sin was an attack
upon God's right to be God. And he knew the consequences
would be death. In this sense, he knew both good
and evil far more fully before the fall than he did afterwards. Again, Adam, in the image of
God in which he was created, is given dominion over all creation. Read this eighth Psalm. God made
man a little lower than the angels, but he crowned him with glory
and honor. He gave him dominion over all
things, put all things in subjection under his feet. Reading the text
this way then, as referring to what man was originally, behold,
the man was as one of us, knowing good and evil. The sense of the
text is, behold, the man was as one of us, but what is he
now? His body so strong and full of
life, is feeble and dying. His soul so pure and holy is
now depraved and vile. His mind so full of wisdom and
knowledge and understanding is now darkness and ignorance. The
man who was the darling of heaven is now alienated from God. God made man in his own image
and after his own likeness. Man did not crawl out of some
kind of primeval sludge and evolve into what he is today. He didn't
fall out of a tree. God made man in his own image. You really believe in creation?
Of course I do. I believe God. Of course I do. Well, that's not very learned. Hmm. I suppose this is. I suppose
this is. Over a period of billions of
years, nobody really knows how long. And we have to keep readjusting
it because we really get confused a lot as days go on. Something
happened and... Look! Here we are! That's brilliant,
isn't it? Oh, now that... That's smart. I've told you this
before, but I can't help telling it again. You may remember Carl
Sagan. He was a professor in New York,
I think at Cornell. And he wrote a book on evolution
and anthropology. Back some years ago, he was making
the stump, selling his book. And one morning, I was getting
dressed to come to the office. We were still living over in
Junction City. I turned on Phil Donahue. Whenever I wanted to
get really pumped up, ready, fired up for the day, I'd watch
Donahue a little bit. And Sagan was on there. And Mr. Donahue asked one of his brilliant
questions. He said, we know that man, all
life came from the sea. But how is it that men developed
gradually and began to walk upright? And Mr. Sagan, Now if I'm lying
and dying, I'm telling you the truth. He stood up and put his
thumbs under his jacket, lapels, and he said, well, over a period
of time, the waters began to dry up. And the sea life, the
fishes of the sea, began to flop from waterhole to waterhole. This is what he's doing. And
they fought for a few million years until they got legs and
started walking. And Donna, you said, oh, now that's brilliant. No, God created man in his own
image and man suffered a horrid fall. I had an occasion to write to
a friend of mine a while back. It's been a few years ago now.
who had some difficulties because of scientific training and so
forth, contending somewhat for some kind of an evolutionary
thought. And I said, would you do me a favor? I'm doing a little
research. Would you look up for me every
evidence you can find in evolutionary science of any change in a species,
as they're called, that was an improvement. Oh, we know evolution is so close.
Fish, if they live long enough without light, go blind and they
raise young ones who are blind. That's not an improvement, is
it? That's not improvement. After three or four months, I
got a letter back. And my dear friend wrote to me and said,
I can't find any example of change that's not a mutation. How come? Because man did not evolve from
something else. God made man in his own image. Having said all that, and those
things certainly are true, taught plainly in the book of God, I'm
inclined to think that our King James translation is best. Behold,
the man is become as one of us to know good and evil. So what
does the text mean as it stands? First, this is a declaration
of the fact that Adam was a type and picture of our Lord Jesus
Christ. In Romans chapter 5 and verse
14, we're told that Adam was the figure of him that was to
come. Man, in this act of treason against
God, In this violation of God's law, in this act of rebellion
by which he plunged himself into sin and death and the curse,
he's become, as one of us, a similitude of him that was
to come, a picture of Jesus Christ, who is described in this book
as the last Adam. Christ too is named Adam, because
God deals with two men, only two men, the first Adam and the
last Adam. Two representative men, two covenant
men, and he deals with all men in those two men. In the first
Adam, all died. All who were in him died in him
because of his disobedience. In the last Adam, because of
his obedience, all who were in him are made alive. So that in
the first Adam, we all died. In the last Adam, all God's elect,
every chosen covenant heir is made alive and made righteous
by the doing and dying of one man. Nowhere do we see the love
of God in Christ for his church set forth so clearly as in the
case of Adam's love for Eve. There's a popular notion that
Eve, after she was beguiled of Satan, beguiled Adam. She did nothing of the kind.
Nothing of the kind. Satan beguiled Eve. He allured
her by deception into sin and rebellion against God. But the
Spirit of God tells us plainly that Adam was not deceived. But the woman being deceived
was in the transgression. Adam wasn't deceived. Bob Duff,
he knew exactly what he was doing. He said, here, take this. I can almost picture Adam. Oh, woman, what have you done? What have you done? Take this. You sinned. You violated God. You brought death and shame and
damnation upon yourself. What have you done? And he reached
out with his eyes wide open and took the fruit and ate it. And willingly plunged himself
into sin and death and the curse and condemnation rather than
be parted from the woman he loved. Oh, blessed Adam. Our Lord Jesus, the last Adam. Oh, Don, what have you done? What have you done? You've sold
yourself for nothing. Sin and death and condemnation. And he, with his eyes wide open,
took the cup of condemnation and wrath and judgment, and drank
it dry. And he who knew no sin was made
sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God
in him. Thus, he became what we are, that he might make
us as one of the Godhead as himself. That he might make us one with
himself. The horrid load of all my guilt
was on my Savior laid. He loved me so that for my life,
my sin, his own he made. Forsaken there by God in death, his heart was fixed on me. His
love embraced my guilty soul when nailed to the tree. For me, he took the cup of wrath
and drank damnation dry. His love sustained his soul in
death, that I might never die. O love, amazing love beyond the
reach of human thought, that love shall be my endless song,
which my salvation wrought. And the text Behold, the man
has become as one of us. Not only declares that Adam became
one like Christ, the representative man by his disobedience, but
it also declares that Adam being made righteous, the very righteousness
of God in Christ Jesus by the marvelous work of God's redeeming
grace has become as one of us. God called him. God made atonement for him. God
put righteousness symbolically upon him. You remember our Lord's
declaration in Luke chapter three. He said, he that hath two coats,
let him impart to him that hath none. Well, that's what the Lord
Jesus has done for us. He's got two coats of righteousness.
His own personal righteousness and the righteousness of his
obedience to God as our mediator and substitute. And you didn't
have it. And he took his righteousness
and put it on you. But he did more than that. He
made it yours. so that now he who is called
the Lord, our righteousness declares that your name is Jehovah said,
can you the Lord, our righteousness? Now, let's see if I can make
good on that. First, John, Chapter four. First,
John, Chapter four. For 60. Behold, the man is become as
one of us to know good and evil. Verse 16. And we have known and
believed the love that God hath to us. God is love. And he that dwelleth in love
dwelleth in God and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect. Now, what's he talking about? Bobby Estes, she don't know anything
about perfect love. You never loved anybody perfectly,
not even yourself. What's he talking about? Herein
is God's love in us made perfect. Here, the love of God is perfectly,
completely manifest. Watch it now. That we may have
boldness in the day of judgment. Perfect love, you see, casteth
out all fear. And we have boldness in the day
of judgment, because as he is, as he, the God-man mediator is, so are we in this world. the very righteousness of God. And now we know both good and
evil. The evil of our sin and the goodness
of his grace. And today the knowledge causes
us some pain. I know my sin. When he's done, now listen to
me, when he's done with us and we look back over these days
of our years on this earth, and all our experience of sin and
wickedness and evil. This is almost impossible to
believe, almost impossible. There'll be no more crying and
no more pain and no more sorrow. Fully aware of all that we have
been and all that we have done and no regrets. Imagine that. How can that be? Then we will
understand, as we cannot now understand, that this was all
necessary, that we might sing, worthy is the lamb that was slain
and has redeemed us to our God out of every nation and kindred,
and tribe, and tongue. No angel in heaven can ever know
such wondrous things. But we now are made as one of
the triune God, as Christ himself, even partakers of the divine
nature. And now we know both good and
evil. Because as he is, so are we. Amen.