You know that I got the best ears in our village, I can hear a lion roar further than anybody, and if there's any sound here, I'll hear it, absolutely and totally out of her cultural capacity, she simply could not imagine what you take for granted, that there was another ocean surrounding you, for which you need receiving sets to become aware, there's a third ocean, you walk at the bottom of a third ocean, and that ocean is God, in him we live and move and have our being, and he is not far from every one of us, but you have to have a receiving set, and the receiving set is the human spirit, and as long as one lives in impenitence and rebellion, that is dead, you go to your television set and put it on, and no sound or picture comes, what are you going to say, your wife will say to you, what's the matter, I thought you're going to turn it on, well I turned it on, but the set is dead, she says hit it on the right side of the back corner, it'll always come on, you hit it and it doesn't come on, that's the only way most of us know how to fix things, if we hit it twice and it doesn't come on, we've got to take it somewhere, and so you hit it and it doesn't come on, it's dead, now what's that mean, that during the night all the pieces in it rusted down with a little bit of powder and you blow it away, it's annihilated, no, that isn't what it means, it means that there's a connection loose, that's all, just one little connection loose, it's separated, and what happens when man sinned, the human spirit became inoperative as far as God is concerned, that was death, that was spiritual death, separation of the human spirit from God, and then of course there is the fourth aspect of this, he said thou shall surely die, and that is ultimate separation, in that place that he prepared for the devils and his angels, for those who in their impenitence and the stiffness and the hardness of their hearts, refuse proffered grace and offered mercy, will spend eternity, it is described as hell, it's described as a place of suffering, a place of darkness, a place of death, why, because the God of the place is going to be the God of darkness, and of suffering and of hatred, and thus it is that man died, right there in the garden, man died, well you can see the effect of that, can you not, he said now how does this pertain to us, look if you don't understand what happened then, you're not going to understand what has to happen now, you've got to know where the tracts start in order to know where they're going to go and how to move on the tracts, that's what I'm trying to establish, and so into that garden, cool as a day, the Lord came, now he knew what had happened, everything that had been done had been done in his presence, but instead of Adam and Eve being there to meet him, they're out in the garden where the foliage is the heaviest, the bushes drop the furthest, and where they can worm their way in and can say one to another, maybe you won't, but then you hear grace manifest when the voice of the Lord calls, Adam has to declare himself, Adam has to reveal himself, Adam where art thou, and then when he comes out standing there, what is this that thou hast done, well we saw we were naked, who told you you were naked, what is this thou hast done, we ate of the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden, but you know what Adam said, now remember what's happened to him, he is now dead in his trespasses, in his sin, because of his choice, and what does this one who was given a help meat to have, to hold, to love, to cherish, what does he say, if you're gonna kill somebody, kill her, she gave me the fruit to eat, what's that sound like, you remember what we talked about this God of this world, what were his attributes, darkness, lie, hate, what do you see in what Adam says, you see darkness, covers his spirit, a lie, she didn't make him eat, he chose, he made a choice, and death, already there, if you're gonna kill somebody, kill her, he's already given her up, he's already murdered her, you gotta get even with somebody, take her, she did it, not me, came pretty full blown didn't it, into the world, didn't seem to sort of, just sort of ease on up, it just came in right full, and then the most marvelous picture of grace, I think in the Old Testament, one little statement, and the Lord God, you remember, the Jehovah of the Old Testament, is the Jesus of the New, for his name is Jehovah, Yeshua, Yahshua, Jesus, the Jehovah, the Lord God, listen to it, so simple, made coats of skin, the first blood shed in this recreated world, was shed by the hand of the Son of God, when a lamb or two lambs died, that they might give their skin, now you can make a coat of wool without the lamb dying, but you can't make a coat of skin without the death of the lamb, and so the first blood shed in the recreated earth, was shed at the hand of the Lord Jesus Christ, in his pre -incarnation manifestation, as the Jehovah God, in the midst of the garden, when he made coats of skin, and he pointed a finger, down across the centuries, to a time when John the Baptist, see him, and would say, behold, the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world, and you have the gospel right there, in the first chapters of John, let's look at what we've just discovered, we've discovered that sin is a choice, we've discovered that the first pair had nothing within them, to coerce, force, or make them choose, as they chose, we've discovered that, they were tempted, and they yielded to temptation, they chose, and because they chose, they died, now, let me skip over to Romans chapter 3, and the scripture says, all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God, that is a simple declarative statement, all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God, all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God, now, let me ask you a question, does the scripture explain why, all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God, now, don't tell me Augustine explained it, I'll tell you about Augustine, if you want to know, I'm asking the scripture, does the scripture explain why, all have, friends, the scripture tells us why, that all have sinned, it does not tell us why, men have tried to figure out why, but every time they do, they have to go back to metaphysics, and back to philosophy, they can't find it in the scripture, so they have to build a pyramid on a needle, a pinpoint, the scripture tells us, all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God, is it necessary for us to find some reason, why, 100 of all the people in the Garden of Eden, sinned, they did, all sinned, and came short of the glory of God, why, they chose to do it, they chose, it was a choice, do you, you ask me, do you know why, all since then have done it, and I would say the scripture is absolutely clear, all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God, but all the explanations that men have invented, have come under the class of metaphysics, and philosophy, and they have simply served to divide the body of Christ, most of the time, when you find the body of Christ divided, you will find it's divided, not over the scripture, but over the philosophies, and the metaphysics of the people that are there, if we stay with what the word says, we protect ourselves, so much, once we go beyond the word, once we go beyond the word, we end up in a terrible dilemma, so here we have this thing, all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God, in the Garden, all sinned, and came short of the glory of God, death passed upon them, since that time, death passed upon them, you have your explanation as to why everyone did it, well and good, well and good, I have no objection to it, my only concern is that we understand that the word says, all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God, and death is passed upon all men, for all have sinned, I was sitting on that bench back there at the University of Minnesota, and this young student said to me, he said I'm a sinner, I'm a sinner, I've done everything in the book, I've broken every commandment in the word of God, I have broken them all the time, last week, I broke most of them, and the one I didn't break last week, I'm planning on this week, now will you tell me why I've done that, so I gave him one or two of the explanations I'd been taught, and he looked at me, and he said, you mean to tell me that the reason I did what I've done was because I couldn't help doing it, you're a liar, there are some weeks when I don't, I've never had any sin I've ever committed that I didn't commit because I wanted to commit it, and now you're telling me I have to commit it, and you're telling me that the God you love and worship is going to send me to hell and damn me forever for doing what I couldn't help doing, why, he said, I got better sense than that, I know that the reason why I've sinned is because I've chosen to do it, nobody's ever made me do anything, and he got up and said you can worship him, but a God that sends people to hell for doing what they couldn't help doing isn't a God to be worshipped, he's a monster, and he stalked off across there mocking me, and I went back to the word of God, and I began to study it from where we are in Genesis right through to Revelation, and what I have found is this, that God says men are responsible for what they do, they're responsible for what they do, they choose, and I said well why do they choose, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know why they do it, I don't know why I did it, I don't know why you, we say well listen, in church history there was no theologian that ever tried to explain why all have sinned and come short of the glory of God until Augustine tried to do it, and he did it because he'd been under, he was a thoroughgoing, thoroughgoing, total manichaeist, which is a gnostic dualist, who was committed to the fact that the body is bad, and Augustine believed as many had believed, as the Gnostics had believed, as the dualist had believed, that sin was resident in the flesh, that God never created man with a body, God created man according to Gnosticism, pure spirit, and when pure spirit sinned, then there was a penitentiary, a prison made in the form of a body, and that the body is bad, because Augustine believed this, he took what had been mentioned by origin in Tertullian, and he developed a theology out of it, and his theology was this, if twins are born to godly parents, and when the first twin is born, the priest is there to baptize it, and while he is baptizing the first twin, the second twin is born, and then in a moment dies, and then the baptized twin dies, the one that has been baptized will be forever in the presence of God, enjoying the bliss of heaven, and the one that was died without being baptized will burn forever in the pit of hell, this was Augustine's theology, baptismal regeneration, and it was Gnostic dualism that he would made into orthodoxy, he had all who disagreed with him killed and put to death, and that became synonymous with orthodoxy, what Augustine did.