We don't find a bolt of lightning coming out of heaven and incinerating Adam and Eve.

Rather, verse 9 says this, then the Lord God called to the man and said to him, where are you? Here is gospel truth for the first time.

Where are you? And here is the seeking God. Is the God? Gospel, a New Testament concept only, where do you first read about God's

Redemptive Plan, somewhere before Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John? As John

MacArthur shows you today, the Gospel is as old as the very first book in the Bible. Stay here as he

launches a brand new study titled Genesis of the Gospel on Grace to You.

John, over the next couple of weeks you're going to give us chapter one in the story of the gospel the good news of salvation and that chapter is not a happy one it features a cosmic rebellion, divine curses, separation between God and man, but it brings to mind something I've heard you say a lot.

You can't understand how good the good news is unless you first know the bad news.

Yeah, it isn't that the point. The gospel is the good news, that's what the word gospel means.

Good news is only good news if you understand how bad the realities are.

And if you want to know how bad things are in the world, if you want to know how bad things are in every single human heart,

you have to go back to the first chapter of Genesis and back to the original curses that came

on the Serpent, on Eve, and all women, and on Adam and all men.

Genesis 3 is a devastating chapter.

Genesis 1, you have the wonderful creation of the entire universe in six days

and God rests from his creative work and then you come to

chapter two and you have a more detailed explanation of the creation of man on

the sixth day and all is beautiful and God looks at his creation and it's very good. And then you come

to chapter 3. And chapter 3 is the disaster of the fall. And coming out of the fall, the out of the fall the horror of the curse. The curse falls on Satan

but it also falls on the entire creation and specifically cursed are women and men. These curses begin the devastating reality of

sin and corruption that has marched through all of human history and found a place to occupy every single human heart.

We're all born in sin.

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