Man was not cast immediately into death.

Rather, he was given life.

But in that life, he would never be able to forget

the impact of sin and how it has corrupted the world.

Thanks for joining us here on Grace to You. Today John MacArthur continues his

series on the origin of sin and God's plan to redeem sinners. He's titled it, Genesis of the Gospel.

John I love this series on Genesis 3 and I keep going back to your teaching on this because it's

answered so many of my questions.

I think in a way this series uniquely demonstrates why we as a ministry trust the Bible

because you're talking about a book written thousands of years ago and yet here we find

clear and compelling answers to some of the most confounding problems that all of us ask.

Why does evil exist?

Why is there so much hatred and anger and conflict?

And how will God ultimately fix all of this injustice?

And just one chapter in the Bible, Genesis 3, has the answers to those questions.

So scripture really is timeless and it's relevant in any culture.

Yeah, it is really the testimony to the economy of words with which God can speak and

say something that is so comprehensive.

Just in the few verses of the curse, you have the origins of everything that's wrong in the world, but you also have embedded in that curse the promise of salvation that the seat of the woman would come and he would crush the

serpent's head and the serpent would bruise his heel.

And we know that Christ came to crush the serpent's head and Satan bruised his heel bruised

for our transgressions, Isaiah says.

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