The Consequences of Sin.

A. Upon Lucifer.

He was the first to sin, so he naturally experienced the first terrible results of His pride.

1. The Immediate Consequences.

He lost his coveted position as heaven’s anointed cherub Ezek 28:14, and became earth’s depraved dragon.

2. Future Consequences.

The devil will someday be forever cast into the lake of fire, a place God, Himself, prepared for the Universe’s first sinner. Matthew 25:41 ; Revelation 20:10.

Rev 20:10  And the Devil who deceived them was cast into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet were . And he will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

B. Upon Man.

When Adam opened the door for sin, two vicious criminals also rushed in and immediately began tormenting the human race. The names of these two gangsters is Physical death and spiritual death.

In the Bible the meaning of death is “separation”.

God created Adam and Eve with the possibilities of living forever (Gen 2:9)

Gen 2:9  And out of the ground Jehovah God caused to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food. The tree of life also was in the middle of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

1. Physical Death

But Adam sinned.Gen 3:19  In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.

Therefore he had to later experience physical death; that is, the separation of his body and soul. Gen 5:5  And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years. And he died.

Psa 90:10  The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by strength they are fourscore years, yet their pride is labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Joh 19:30  Then when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, It is finished! And He bowed His head and gave up the spirit.

2. Spiritual Death.

Because of sin, all unsaved people will someday be forever separated from God in the lake of fire. This is referred to as the Second Death.

Mat 7:21  Not everyone who says to Me, Lord! Lord! shall enter the kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven.

Mat 7:22  Many will say to Me in that day, Lord! Lord! Did we not prophesy in Your name, and through Your name throw out demons, and through Your name do many wonderful works?

Mat 7:23  And then I will say to them I never knew you! Depart from Me, those working lawlessness!

Rev 2:11  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death.

Rev 20:6  Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. The second death has no authority over these, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with Him a thousand years.

Rev 20:12  And I saw the dead, the small and the great, stand before God. And books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

Rev 20:13  And the sea gave up the dead in it. And death and hell delivered up the dead in them. And each one of them was judged according to their works.

Rev 20:14  And death and hell were cast into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death.

Rev 20:15  And if anyone was not found having been written in the Book of Life, he was cast into the Lake of Fire.

Rev 21:8  But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, will have their part in the Lake burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

The Second Death is still future for the sinner, but right now all sinners are considered by god to be dead in trespasses and sins and separated form even at this present time from any fellowship with God.

Eph 2:1  And He has made you alive, who were once dead in trespasses and sins,

Eph 2:2  in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience;

Eph 2:3  among whom we also had our way of life in times past, in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

Eph 2:4  But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love with which He loved us

Eph 2:5  (even when we were dead in sins) has made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved),

Eph 2:6  and has raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus,

Eph 2:7  so that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

Eph 2:8  For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God,

Eph 2:9  not of works, lest anyone should boast.

Eph 2:10  For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.

Eph 2:11  Therefore remember that you, the nations, in time past were in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;

Eph 2:12  and that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world.

Both Physical and Spiritual Death seemed to be in the mind of God when He said to Adam a warning concerning the consequences of eating the forbidden fruit. The Hebrew for genesis 2:17 may be translated, “ For in the day that you eat thereof, in dying you shall surely die.”

Summary: Sin will:

a. Dull man’s Ears.

Act 28:27  For the heart of this people was fattened, and they have heard with their ears dully; and they closed their eyes; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them."

b. Darken his eyes

Eph 4:17  Therefore I warn you, and I implore you in the name of the Master, no longer to live as the Gentiles in their perverseness live,

Eph 4:18  with darkened understandings, having by reason of the ignorance which is deep-seated in them and the insensibility of their moral nature, no share in the Life which God gives.

c. Divert his feet.

Isa 53:6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, each one to his own way; and Jehovah has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

d. Defiles his tongue.

Rom 3:13  "Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they have used deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips;

Rom 3:14  whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;"

e. Deceives his heart.

Jer 17:9  The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

f. Devours his intellect.

1Co 2:14  But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

g. Dooms his Soul.

Eze 18:4  Behold, all souls are Mine. As the soul of the father, also the soul of the son, they are Mine. The soul that sins, it shall die.

C. Upon Nature.

After man sinned, his paradise became a wilderness. The roses contained thorns and the docile tiger suddenly became a hungry meat-eater. This will continue to be the case until the curse is lifted during the Millenium. In the new testament Paul writes:

Rom 8:19  For all creation, gazing eagerly as if with outstretched neck, is waiting and longing to see the manifestation of the sons of God.

Rom 8:20  For the Creation fell into subjection to failure and unreality (not of its own choice, but by the will of Him who so subjected it).

Rom 8:21  Yet there was always the hope that at last the Creation itself would also be set free from the thraldom of decay so as to enjoy the liberty that will attend the glory of the children of God.

Rom 8:22  For we know that the whole of Creation is groaning together in the pains of childbirth until this hour. WNT.

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D. Upon the Holy Angels.

Man’s sin apparently became an object lesson for angels as their Creator allowed them to enter into His blessed Work of redeeming mankind.

1Co 4:9  God, it seems to me, has exhibited us Apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; for we have come to be a spectacle to all creation--alike to angels and to men.

Gal 3:19  Why then was the Law given? It was imposed later on for the sake of defining sin, until the seed should come to whom God had made the promise; and its details were laid down by a mediator with the help of angels.

1Pe 1:12  To them it was revealed that they were serving not themselves but you, when they foretold the very things which have now been openly declared to you by those who, having been taught by the Holy Spirit which had been sent from Heaven, brought you the Good News. Angels long to stoop and look into these things.

Heb 1:14  Are not all angels spirits that serve Him--whom He sends out to render service for the benefit of those who, before long, will inherit salvation?

E. Upon God Himself.

What effect did man’s sin have upon God? Now He had to put in action his Plan of Redemption of Mankind. He continues in this Great Work to this very Day.

Joh 5:17  His reply to their accusation was, "My Father works unceasingly, and so do I."

My Father worked hitherto, and I work - Or, As my Father worketh until now, etc., καθως being understood. God created the world in six days: on the seventh he rested from all creating acts, and set it apart to be an everlasting memorial of his work. But, though he rested from creating, he never ceased from preserving and governing that which he had formed: in this respect he can keep no sabbaths; for nothing can continue to exist, or answer the end proposed by the Divine wisdom and goodness, without the continual energy of God. So I work - I am constantly employed in the same way, governing and supporting all things, comforting the wretched, and saving the lost; and to me, in this respect, there is no sabbath. Adam Clark

Php 1:6  For of this I am confident, that He who has begun a good work within you will go on to perfect it in preparation for the day of Jesus Christ.

Being confident - This is strong language. It means to be fully and firmly persuaded or convinced; participle, middle voice, from πείθω  peithō - to persuade; compare Luk_16:31. “Neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead;” that is, they would not be convinced; Act_17:4; Heb_11:13; Act_28:24. It means here that Paul was entirely convinced of the truth of what he said. It is the language of a man who had no doubt on the subject.

That he which hath begun a good work in you - The “good work” here referred to, can be no other than religion, or true piety. This is called the work of God; the work of the Lord; or the work of Christ; Joh_6:29; compare 1Co_15:58; 1Co_16:10; Phi_2:30. Paul affirms here that that work was begun by God. It was not by their own agency or will; compare the notes on Joh_1:13. It was on the fact that it was begun by God, that he based his firm conviction that it would be permanent. Had it been the agency of man, he would have had no such conviction, for nothing that man does today can lay the foundation of a certain conviction that he will do the same thing tomorrow. If the perseverance of the Christian depended wholly on himself, therefore, there could be no sure evidence that he would ever reach heaven.

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