TODAY'S BARGAINOMICS BIBLE PASSAGE

Let’s hit the highlights of what we’ve looked at so far concerning the first humans:

(1) Humans were created as eternal beings: “Let Us make humans in Our image” (the Trinity speaking, Genesis 1:26a, God’s Word).

(2) Adam and Eve’s innocence died the moment they disobeyed God: “They knew that they were naked” (Genesis 3:7b, NASB).

(3) They attempted to fix what they perceived as their problem and what they came up with was inadequate: “They sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings” (Genesis 3:7c).

(4) Eve had not yet been created when God warned Adam not to eat “from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” (Genesis 2:17).

(5) Where was Adam when Eve ate the fruit? “With her” (Genesis 3:6). And “he ate it, too” (Genesis 3:6).

(6) Satan initiated the downfall of Adam and Eve by injecting a tiny hint of doubt: “Did God really say…” (Genesis 3:1b).

(7) Eve allowed Satan’s seed of doubt to grow into conviction: “The woman was convinced” (Genesis 3:6a, NLT).

(8) What helped convince Eve? Satan’s specialty: temptation. Satan dangled the carrot and Eve took the bait: “She wanted the wisdom [the forbidden fruit] would give her” (Genesis 3:6).

(9) When we look thankfully at what we have instead of enviously at what we don’t, we stay out of temptation’s way: “Let us be thankful and please God” (Hebrews 12:28b).

(10) Adam and Eve’s sin has affected every generation that ever existed. Likewise, our lives affect other lives.

With all that under our belts, let’s back up to our starting point: “The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them” (Genesis 3:21, NASB).

Adam and Eve, having eaten the forbidden fruit, realized “they were naked” (Genesis 3:7b). Uncomfortable with this new realization, they attempted to cover it up. Let the light bulbs come on here, folks. Adam and Eve thought their discomfort was caused by their nakedness. Their feeble attempt to fix the problem only showed them how pathetically inadequate (“fig leaves” – Genesis 3:7) their own efforts were.

So God did what Adam and Eve couldn’t do for themselves: He showed them their real problem – sin. And He dealt with it accordingly: He (A) “banished [them] from the Garden” (Genesis 3:23a, NIV); and (B) “made clothing from animal skins” and covered Adam and Eve. Most translations say that God “clothed them.”

This is so huge, y’all – don’t dare miss it. Who put the clothes on Adam and Eve? God did. He covered their sin. How? With a blood sacrifice. God took the lives of animals in His own perfect creation to make a covering for the one part of creation that was made in His Own Image.

I keep saying it, folks. From cover to cover, the Bible points us to Jesus.

“Christ offered Himself to God as a perfect sacrifice for our sins” (Hebrews 9:14b, NLT).