The The story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden makes it clear that God does not take sin lightly.

There are serious consequences for disbelieving God.

And yet God does not abandon his people to the consequences of their sin. As we'll hear today

on Truth for Life weekend, there is a promised cure for our predicament. We're studying in Genesis

Chapter 3.

They had sinned in rejecting and disobeying the will of God by doing what he had told

them explicitly not to do.

That's the issue of it, you see, because now with the entry of sin into the equation,

all of that perfection, all of that goodness is now impinged upon by the categorical rejection

of God's clear instruction, by their decision, their own choice to do it their own way.

And they are about to be banished.

Before they're banished, God comes to seek them out.

Quite wonderful, isn't it, in verse 8, and they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the cool of the day, and the man and his wife, they hid themselves from the presence

of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. Why'd you go ahead and do that? You had communion with God?

What has changed? Why can't you just walk out and talk to God? Well, we don't want to talk to God.

I mean, he might talk to us. And if he talks to us, he might talk to us about stuff.

Like, this is one of the reasons people don't come to church, at least not to a church where

the gospel is preached, because God will speak to you about stuff, stuff you don't want to talk

about. But he doesn't do it out of an act of judgment. He does it out of grace and mercy.

He exposes it in order that he might cover it. He reveals it in order that he might

forgive it. Do you know how many people are running around hiding in the trees of their own

rebellion? Trying to cover up their own shame? Trying to actually cover it up in some measure with

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