The Sin of Adam and Eve resulted in the fall of
humanity. Every generation after them became wicked and that is why scripture
affirms, ‘that there is no one righteous, no, not even one.’ Mankind became
enslave to the passions of its flesh, its desires became its ruler and men
followed the natural dictates of their hearts; and were it not for Sovereign
grace, the race of men would now only be read of by angels in the library of
extinct creatures. Adam and Eve witnessed the consequences of
their sin in the death of their beloved son, Abel, by the hands of Cain who
murdered his brother in anger and was thus sent away from the presence of God.
My dear sisters, sin is not only sin when it is found in its extremes, sin is
also sin in its subtlety and vanity. Sin is sin when one's affection is set on
another and not on God, when one lives to please a thing or a being which is
not God; this is also sin.
This becomes especially evident in the lives of
Adah and Zillah the wives of Lamech. Th…
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