"Ignite the Valley" Hagerman "Protoevangelium"

That would have been my life Right next to you. I Can't express enough gratitude to everybody that's been here today. Appreciate you. Thank you. Test test. Can you guys hear me there? Awesome. Great. Well, I just want to say how much of a blessing it is to be here part of this community of hagerman and to see All these people out here today.

Wanting to worship the one and only savior jesus christ. Um, I also want to extend just immense gratitude to the pastors that have been that are participating in this today. Men that have come every single week every single day and preach the gospel continually.

That's truly something that I just want to say. Thank you to each one of those men today um. Today as we all know As the the weather has changed. I I came over here with my sleeves rolled up. And when the rain started pouring I had to put on on a jacket, right?

And then as soon as the heat came out, I felt that heat and from that covering. Well today what we're going to be looking at is a covering that doesn't go away. A covering that makes it so we can stand before a holy god when when he looks at us He sees the righteousness of jesus christ over us.

Adam, the Covenant of Works, and the Need for a Covering

And so i'm going to invite you to please do as we read a text to consider that today. We're going to be out of genesis chapter 3. I'd encourage you. Please stand with me at the reading of god's word right now.

You have a bible with you and you want to follow along. We're going to be in genesis chapter 3 Verse 14 through 21 for this morning right now or this evening. Excuse me. I messed up on that too genesis 3 verse 14 Through 21.

This is the word of god. And Yahweh god said to the serpent because you have done this cursed are you more than any of the cattle. And more than every beast of the field on your belly you will go. And dust you will eat all the days of your life.

And I will put an enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. He shall bruise you on the head or he shall crush you On the head and you shall bruise him on his heel. And to the woman he said Between you.

And to the woman he said I will greatly multiply your pain. And conception in you will bear a children your desire will be for your husband and he will rule over you. Then to adam he said Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and you have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you saying you shall not eat curses you curses the ground because of you in pain.

You will eat of it all the days of your life both thorns. And thistles it shall grow for you and you will eat the plants of the field by the sweat of your face. You will eat bread till you return to the ground.

Because from it you were taken. For you are dust and the dust you shall return. Now the man called his wife eve because she was the mother of all living. Then y 'all listen to this right now. This is about that garment that will never leave the shoulders of those that look to jesus christ for their salvation.

Then y 'all way god made garments of skin. For both adam and his wife and who crowed then. You can now be seated. Let us pray before we look at this text. Lord god I thank you for the reminder of what it a blessing it is to cover ourselves to avoid.

Even the rain for today lord may that be on our mind when we consider the wrath. That you suffered for us on our behalf lord the covering that we have in lord jesus Lord may all our worship today. Whether whatever church we are from whatever background that we have come.

From to knowing you that may the knowledge of knowing you that's the passing knowledge of knowing you lord be the emphasis of our worship today. May we look to you and you alone to glorify you. I ask this lord in the only name that we could ever approach the throne of grace upon and as the man of sorrows jesus christ himself.

Amen. Now we all know the story of adam and eve. I hope that at some point we've heard this story of adam and eve and how and what took place. There's four things and and if we were to look at this in this normal sermon.

It would take weeks to cover this if we were to do this like a bible study. And so there's four things I want you to consider today before we look at that text again. Four things about adam that we need to remember.

And I hope that by covering this. That each one of us will walk away from today. Seeing the great sovereign plan of our mighty god ever since the beginning of creation. That is god's glory revealed in the working of his creation.

So the four things regarding adam that we would see in that text is that adam Was created from where? Adam was created from the dust of the earth. No other man had been created yet of that saying he was of a virgin earth.

That's the second thing to look about. The third thing is that adam was given a law. He was given what's called theologically as a covenant of works. Meaning that god told him of every tree go and eat except for this one of this one.

You shall not eat and if you do he gave him a promise. Death you eat of this tree you will die. And the fourth thing I want you to pay attention to is after adam eats of that tree and after the text that we just read.

Adam is driven out of a garden. And he's placed into a fallen world that suffers Underneath what he had done. Something that we still are a part of today all creation moans and groans. Because of that fall that happened in adam.

Now why do I bring that up. Because When we look at the great glory that we see in god's inspired word is there's four things that I would direct you to. That tell us about who jesus christ is and what he has undone that adam has done.

Four things to think about. Where is jesus from? Where is jesus from. Jesus tells the pharisees. I am from above. You are from below unless you believe I am you shall die in your sins. John 1 1 says. In the beginning was the word and the word was with god and the word was god.

Ain arcane. Ain olagas olagas ain pros ton theon kai theon theos. Ain olagas. This word according to verse 14 became flesh and dwelt amongst us. And we beheld his glory. And what did we do to him? We rejected him.

So jesus like how adam is from below jesus is from above. He was born of a virgin. Matthew 1 21 through 23, it says that he shall call him emmanuel. Well. For his god with us. We shall name him jesus for jesus will save his people.

He will save y 'all ways people. So jesus is from a virgin. This is the second way that it reminds us to the context of what's going on in the in genesis in this creation account for us the third thing to think about.

Adam was given this covenant of works this law to live in to abide by. And he broke it in the best of all conditions. Jesus. Who walked around vile and evil men. Did he ever break any of that law that god had given to him.

No. He's the only righteous one for we know that no one is righteous. No, not one that all our righteous deeds are nothing but filthy rags in the eyes of the lord. And it is jesus christ himself. That is the only plea that we can ever have before god himself because jesus lived a perfect life.

So jesus accomplished that which adam could not do in the best of conditions. Jesus fulfilled it in the very worst and most vile of them. The fourth thing that i'd like to remind us of Adam was cast out of a garden to a fallen world.

Jesus comes into a fallen world. And where is the place that his body lied after we crucified the king of kings and the lord of lords? He was laid in a garden where no one else had yet laid. What i'm trying to paint for you today, and I hope you can see it is that even in the very beginning Genesis.

There was a plan there was a pointing forward there was a shadow there was a promise. That god himself was going to glorify himself in the redemption of you and I. Amen. We serve a glorious god that has always had this marvelous plan before us turn with me.

Back to genesis 3 and let us look at this text. So in genesis chapter 3 verse 14 and on we have what's called as a chiastic Structure that is playing in for us here. What does adam and eve do after they partake in the fruit?

They hear Yahweh god walking in the midst of the garden and what did they do? They hid themselves and they covered themselves. The pride of man will never run to their savior and humble submission. They will only seek to hide themselves and cover themselves.

That is what every false Workspace religion will teach. You must do x y and z for you to be covered. Brothers and sisters i'm telling you that is the biggest farce and lie that you could ever hear in life.

Adam and eve did that right out of the gate. They sinned against god and they knew that they had and instead of killing the serpent there and running to god for mercy. They hear him coming and they know what's coming to them and they hide.

And we do that very same thing today. So Yahweh comes and he speaks to adam. He says what have you done? And adam says oh it was it was the woman you gave to me it was her. And what does the woman say?

It was the serpent. And this is where the chiastic structure comes because who does god rebuke first? He does it in opposite order the serpent. Phlegm nimity between you and not only that but the serpent you will be crushed one day on the head.

Where was christ himself crucified at? Mount golgotha calvary. The hill of the school the place of the skull. Ephesians chapter 2 Says that all enmity was crucified with christ. So he broke down that wall there upon the cross for us.

Fulfillment is what we should see when we look at genesis 3 verse 14. Christ has crushed the very head of the serpent 2 000 years ago on the hill of the skull. What's the next thing he says to the woman?

Phlegm nimity that that woman you you're. You're going to you're going to suffer in childbirth. But it is through that seed of that woman that the head of the serpent will be crushed. How did christ come into this world?

Through a virgin woman. And what does he tell the man there in the garden? Gives him a curse. Thorns and thistles. Hardship. Curse is what he says in there. What did christ do for us when he was on the cross?

Dying in our place. What did he do for us? Second corinthians chapter 5 verse 21. If you want to turn there, I would encourage you to for he who knew no sin. Became sin on our behalf so that we might be made the righteousness of god in him.

When christ was on the cross He was imputed with our sin. The one that lived a perfect life that was completely undeserving of any of the stuff that we gave to him. He took it upon his shoulders. He lived a perfect life.

He died the death that you and I deserve. He was buried and he rose again on the third day. That's the gospel message. Jesus is life death burial and resurrection. That's what I asked today that you look to.

In all the preaching and all the singing is that you look to the gospel because that's the gospel that dion Isaac and every other pastor ought to be preaching. That christ has been crucified. That he has risen again from the grave and if you place your faith in him, you will receive this new covering.

What did adam deserve in the garden? Death. Who was the only one that suffered death. Physical death there in the garden. The sacrifice that covered them. Who was the one that covered adam there in the garden.

God himself covered adam. What do we see in the gospel itself. That kills the very pride of man. That crushes us in our prideful heart and puts us down to our knees to be prostrate before the throne of god.

Is that he has done it we have not. You see that lamb that died there many many years ago was pointing forward to something even far greater than the lamb itself. All those sacrifices were shouting out jesus.

Jesus. Jesus he's coming and he's going to reconcile all those that have faith in him to himself. Jesus Is not just only our high priest he is. But he's also the perfect sacrifice that the priest offers.

Not only is jesus our king of kings unto whom we serve which he is. But he's also the righteous subject who lived in our place so Not only is christ our last and final prophet. But he's also the fulfillment of all prophecy that even thousands of years ago in the garden Yahweh himself God himself was telling them I will save you.

I will be the one to do this. Brothers and sisters today is the day to look to that new covering today. Is the day to kill the pride in your own heart. Today is the day To not cover yourself with fig leaves and hide amongst the trees.

Today is the day to come to the curse tree where our savior hung and died for us. This Is my plea to you to remember what you deserve in adam himself. It says in romans chapter 5 17 that death came through one man adam.

So did life through one man christ? What does christ call himself in john chapter 10? I am the door. Turn with me if you have your bibles again. To john chapter 11. This is where we'll end for the day.

Or where I win we're going to continue to worship god. But john chapter 11. Whenever I read any story in the old testament My mind is always blown away with how it pointed us to christ. I hope you see that even in one of the earliest stories for us.

It all points to jesus. Romans Chapter 11 Verse 23 and on it says jesus said to her your brother will rise again and martha said to him I know that it will rise again in the resurrection on the last day Jesus said to her I am the resurrection and the life He blew and he who believes in me will live even if he dies.

And everyone who lives and believes in me will never die ever. Do you believe this Brothers and sisters. Do you believe that you should die without him? The answer is yes, i'm deserving of that. Do you believe that you have a new life in christ jesus?

If you say yes praise the lord worship him today. Worship him because you've gotten something that you're completely undeserving of which is his almighty grace. Let us pray Lord god, I would just ask today lord that the people here Everyone included would glorify you.

Would see the new life that we have in you and as even isaac said that you must be born again lord. That we would remember that the only life that is is worth talking about the only life That is worth praise to you is our new life lord the life that you have lived in our place.

Lord help remind us of this new birth today be glorified be praised be worshiped Lord god. I would echo also the prayers to be praying for our nation. For our whole world lord. For those that are continually hiding themselves amongst the trees God, I would ask that you would shepherd your sheep and call them unto you that they would be born again.

Because we know you are the good shepherd and your sheep know your voice Lord, I ask this in the mighty name of our sovereign lord and god jesus christ amen. Thank you.