Adam and his wife they should have died on the spot.

People say, well, there's certainly no grace in the Old Testament.

There certainly is.

There's plenty of grace in the Old Testament.

You want to hear something? There is as much grace. plenty of grace in the Old Testament.

You want to hear something?

There is as much grace in the Old Testament

as there is in the New Testament,

because sinners live. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson. In his book The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins writes,

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction. He's a jealous, petty, unjust, malevolent bully.

Of course, the God of the Old Testament is nothing like that. In fact, today on Grace to

you, John MacArthur is going to show you that from the very first book of the Bible,

God reveals himself as being full of grace, mercy, and profound forgiveness.

So stay here as John continues his new... and profound forgiveness.

So stay here as John continues his new study, Genesis of the Gospel.

And with that here's John MacArthur.

I would encourage you to turn in your Bible to Genesis chapter 3 back to the beginning.

Genesis 3, the origin and impact of sin.

That is really the title for the whole chapter. We find ourselves in

verses 17 to 19 the divine curse on the man. Chapter 2 tells us in verse 7 the Lord God formed man from dust, dust from the ground, breathed

into his nostrils the breath of life, man became a living being, and the Lord God planted a garden toward the east in Eden. There he

placed the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground the Lord God

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