What happens to our condition and our status with God after the fall of Adam and Eve?

Are we still in the image of God?

In the Garden of Eden, God made a covenant with Adam.

Don't eat of the tree, and things will

go well for you. You'll be blessed. Eat of it, and you'll die. We know the outcome of Adam's

test, but do we fully understand how his failure affects the rest of us? Today on this Thursday

edition of Renewing Your Mind, we continue R. C. Sproles series,

The Promise Keeper, the God of the Covenants.

So what did we lose when Adam sin?

And is there any way to recover from it?

Here's Dr. Sprole.

In our last session on the Covenants of the Bible, we looked at the first covenant that God made with the human race.

And I mentioned at the time that there are three ways in which that covenant is frequently designated.

One being the Adamic covenant.

The other being the creation covenant.

And the third one, and the most controversial designation, is the covenant of works.

And in that frame of reference, the covenant of works is so named in distinction from the

covenant of grace.

Let me read again part two of the seventh chapter of the Westminster

Confession that reads, The first covenant made with man was a covenant of works wherein life

was promised to Adam and in him to his posterity upon condition of perfect and personal obedience.

And then it goes on to say in section three, man by his fall, having made himself incapable

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