 Thank you all for joining class and very good morning to all of you. Can one of you please give us a brief piece? Father, we come to the throne of grace. Lord, thank you for this day. You have witnessed Lord. Lord, as we are going to learn from your word, Lord, your doctrine, your doctrines, Lord, your theology, Lord. Whatever the knowledge we are getting by your word, Lord, by the teacher which the knowledge this teacher is pouring in our hearts. Lord, thank you for the pastor, teacher, Lord. Thank you for all the students which are here, Lord. We all are learning from your word, Lord. We need your wisdom. We need your understanding and we need your fear, Lord. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Okay, so last week we studied about which doctrine? Which doctrine did we study about? The doctrine of man. Okay, thank you, doctrine of man. Thank you, Anika. So what did some of the points that we learnt or we saw in the doctrine of man? Anything that you remember? God created man specifically in a personal way and God created man in his own image. Okay, God created man special from the rest of his creation. He created man in his image and likeness. Thank you. Anyone else? So what do we mean by image and likeness of God? That Jesus Christ represent God. But how are we as human beings, you know, we are created in the image and likeness of God and what does that mean? What does that mean? Our moral standards. We represent God. Okay, we represent God. Okay. Spiritual aspect. Okay. In our moral aspect, in our intellectual aspect, in our spiritual aspect, in our spiritual aspect, we are like God in a certain way. So what do you mean that we are created in the image of God? Are we having the same nature of God? Nature and attributes of God? God is omnipresent. We are not omnipresent. And so and so. Okay, yes. In certain aspects like being sovereign, being turned, being omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient and eternal, we are not like God. But, you know, we are created in some aspects to have the nature of God like God is, you know, we can love others. You know, we can be caring, compassionate. Like God is caring and compassionate, but not to the extent that he is. But in certain aspects, we are like God in his life, in his nature. But not in terms of his attributes, where, you know, he is omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, sovereign and eternal. Those are specific attributes or characteristics that define who God is. Okay, so we also saw that, you know, what created us in his image and likeness means that God is holy and righteous. He created animals which were holy and righteous. God is without sin. He created animals which were without sin. God never dies. He created them never to die. And God gave minds that we can comprehend, understand, discern what God is speaking to us. God gave us a heart so that we can respond back in love to him and be faithful to him. And God gave us a will so that we can choose what also has a will. When we choose whether to obey him or not. So, we then we saw the essential nature of man after that. And then we saw that even though God has created, you know, male and female, both of them are equally important and equally valuable to God. And hence we need to give honor to both men and women, because both of them are equal in sight of God. Okay, today we look at chapter 6, sin, the fall and salvation by troops. So, what is sin? How do you define sin? According to you, what is sin? An act that separates us from the presence of God. Okay, any act that separates us from the presence of God. Okay, anyone else? Yes, go ahead. The worst thing to a link to my own understanding of my link to my own way is doing what God is verbiting. What God said we should not do, verbiting, that is sin. And the sin has levels, but sin is sin. And the most terrible thing is the sin of sin against one's flesh and the spirit of God. When God says don't do this, you will not do this. God automatically departs from you. Which is sin against the Holy Spirit. Thank you. Thank you, sir. I hope I got you right. I heard you right. To say sin is doing anything that God has commanded us or told us not to do, is that right? That's what we said. Yeah. Okay, thank you. Anyone else? Yes, go ahead. To my level of my understanding, sin is failure to do what God asks you to do. If God commands you to do something and you fail to do it, it's a sin. And if God asks you not to do something and you do it, it's a sin. So when it goes against the word of God, it's a sin. Okay, thank you, sin. It says it's failure to not do what God has asked us to do. Sin is failure in doing one shot of what God has commanded us. Sin is failure in the part of mankind that separates him from God. Thank you. Anyone else? Yeah, go ahead, John. I was saying, sin is anything that separates us, our relationship with God. It could be an act, it could be an attitude. Sin is anything that separates us from God. It could be an act or an attitude. Sin is actually a fully shot of the standard that God has set for us in His laws, in His commandments, in the holy standards that He has set for us. Someone has said that sin is missing the mark, basically going against or missing, not doing what God has set for us, commanded us, what God has ordained for us in His laws. So sin here, in your notes, it says sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God, and it can be not just an act, it can also be an attitude or nature. So sin includes when you commit an act like stealing, lying, cheating, murder, or physically beat up somebody. All of those things are the acts that we do and the sin against God. Sin is also an attitude like pride, hate, anger, prettiness, jealousy, what we show for, and all is revealed in our actions. So sin is not just in our acts, but also our attitudes. And sin is also in the very nature of man. What do we mean by sin is also the very nature of man? What do we understand by this? That our very basic nature is sinful. Yes, Go ahead, Rebella. I think it starts from the fall. After the fall, this is how our nature changed to be sinful. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you, Rebella. Yes, so when Adam and Eve were created, they were created without any sin, but when they became sin, their whole nature itself became sinful and the generations after that were born in sin. Yes, success. Thank you very much, Ma. What we're talking about in nature of a man is what man loves to do. It's already in our system. That means there is only God's mercy and discipline to be able to shift away from the sin. We were talking about sin as the nature of a man. We were born with sin. We are living with sin. We eat with sin. It's our genotype in our blood. It's sin only God. That's what we're talking about. Thank you, Ma. Thank you, success. Yes, it's in our very core nature. It's in our genes. It's in our blood. It's who we basically are. Whether we eat, sleep, talk, walk, before we've accepted Christ, we are sinners. That's what Romans chapter 5 verse 8 says, that God demonstrated his own love for us when we were yet sin sinners or when we are still sinners. Christ died for us. So we are born with a sinful nature and some of us do not agree to it but let me just give you an illustration. You know, if you put two small kids, say like two years old in a room and if both of them are boys and we just give them one football or one softball or whatever, what will happen in a couple of minutes? Or if you put two girls in a room and give them just one toy to play with, it can be a doll or it can be something else, what will happen after a couple of minutes? Say they are two or three years old. What do you think will happen? Ma'am, maybe the boys will start playing together and the girls will be quarrelling with each other. It's taking us so biased. He says, okay, the boys will be playing together and the girls will be fighting. Okay, I think you missed the point but we said it in the last class. Okay, anyway, doesn't matter. So we find that both of them, whether it's the boys or the girls, both of them will be fighting for that one toy or that one ball or one will end up crying the other will not be wanting to share. Now, did their parents teach them to do that? Did the parents teach them to do that? No. Where did they learn it from? It's basically that they are born in less info nature. We don't have to teach our children to lie or to get angry. We have the small kids who get angry, small kids who throw tantrums, can be stubborn. And where do they get all this? We have the nature of sin. So let's read Ephesians chapter two verse three. One of you can read Ephesians chapter two verse three please. Ephesians two, three. Among whom also we all once conduct ourselves in the last of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind and we're by nature children of blood, which just as the others. Thank you. So all of us at one point of time, we were clarifying the cravings of our flesh, like success said, it's so much in our blood, in our genes, that we are giving into our sinful nature and that is what I was also explaining in astrology about the law of sin. So we have the law of sin, that means the law of sin means, you know, the rule or the domain, the meaning of sin in our body, sin reigns in our bodies and because sin reigns in our bodies, the law of sin is not allowing us to, you know, to do what is vital, to follow God's law, to keep His commandments. So there's a big struggle for the Israelites. They had the law of God and they have the law of sin, that means the rule. We talk about law of sin or the law of spirit, specifically talking about the rule or the domain of sin or the rule or domain of the holy spirit reign in your body. So the law of sin, you know, which ruled and donates our very being was not able to allow us to keep the commandments or the righteous laws that God had given us and that is why Paul writes in Romans chapter 7, he says, you know, is the law bad? Is the law not holy? Is the law not right? And he says, no, it's not that. The law is good. But he says, I do what I don't want to do. I say what I don't want to say. Why? Because my basic nature is so simple. The rule of the meaning of sin in my body is really in me and it does not allow me to do even the things that I know is right, that I want to know what is right, say what is right, but it does not allow me to do or say what is right because of the sinful nature of the law of sin that reigns in my body. And so here in Ephesians chapter 2 verse 3 is saying that, you know, we all are following the desires and the thoughts like the rest of the sinful people in our flesh, in our sinful nature and what did we deserve? We deserve what? But Romans chapter 5 verse 8 says, but God demonstrated his own love for us while he was still sinners. You know Christ died for us. Now the biblical description of sin is found in 1 John chapter 3 verse 4. Okay, one of you will read 1 John chapter 3 verse 4 please. 1 John chapter 3 verse 4. Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness and sin is lawlessness. Thank you. So here it says, whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness and sin is lawlessness. Sin is, you know, making the laws not keeping the rules but keeping the commandments and so sin is lawlessness. And we know that sin originated through the voluntary choice of Adam and Eve when they chose to go against what God had commanded them. But God had told them not to do, they chose to do what they wanted to do and they went against the will or the standard or they broke, you know, what God commanded, they broke what God had asked them not to do, they chose to disobey him. So sin gives us a different answer to the question, what is true? So what do we understand by this? In Genesis chapter 2 verse 17 we read that, you know, what told Adam and Eve that they can eat from any tree in the garden but they cannot eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and you have to eat from it, what will happen? They will certainly die. So he uses this word, you will certainly die. But in Genesis chapter 3 verse 4 when, you know, Satan is the serpent is tempting Satan Eve, what does he say? He says, yes God told us not to eat from this tree. He told us not to touch it and certainly if we eat of it or touch it we will surely die. And what does Satan reply? One of you read Genesis chapter 3 verse 4 Genesis chapter 3 verses 4 you surely, you will not surely die the serpent said to the woman So if you look at it in the MKJV version it says that you will certainly not die and it's using exactly the same words as God said, you will certainly die and you see how Satan twist the chip and says, tell them that you will certainly not die. Okay? So sin gives a different answer to what is cheap Satan knows God's word very well he knows what God has obeyed what God has spoken and he will twist the truth and so it's so important for us to know the truth and that's why Jesus said in John chapter 17 you will know the truth our word is the truth and the truth will set you free and why do we say that the truth will set you free is because Satan will come and fill your mind or fill your life with the lies that are against the word against the truth in God's word and we need to know the truth not just know the truth but when he fills us with his lies or when he pops up the lies in our minds it's so easy for us to give in to those lies to accept those lies but it's important for us at those times to speak the truth then we overcome those lies Sin gives us a different answer to question what is right. Okay? In Genesis chapter 2 verse 17 you know again God said you should not eat from that tree to eat from it you will surely die but in Genesis chapter 3 verse 5 it says there that you know what Satan said for God knows that when you eat from this tree or you eat the food of the tree your eyes will be open and you will be like God knowing good and evil. Okay? So we see that gives a different question to what is right why does it give a different answer to the question what is right is because what is the writing that Satan said you know if you eat from this tree you will become like God knowing good and evil it's kind of twisting the truth because it's trying to twist their identity Adam and Eve you know they were created already in the image and the likeness of God and hence they were like God in its aspects and here you know Satan was trying to give them a different answer to the question what is right in the sense saying that you know you will become like God you will become like God when they were already like God in certain aspects so we need to know who we are in Christ we need to know our identity so scripture is filled with who we are in Christ basically in the New Testament it gives us an identity about what God thinks about us even in the Old Testament who he has created us to be and we see where Christ has raised us up to be after we are born again we have made new teachers as spirit men and so it is important for us to know our identity if you do not know our identity we will continue to live as slaves we will continue to live with a fallen identity a servant like attitude a servant like identity compared to who we are now in Christ that we are sons and daughters that we are children of God we belong to his family we are seated with God in heavenly places he has given us the authority over sin over Satan he has given us the power to manifest his glory he has given us the sonship glory that we can do greater things than what he has done so all of and we are made righteous in God's side sin has no control over our bodies all of these identity about who we are in Christ needs to be very much in our system, in our minds and when we live up to that identity we will be able to fulfill the purpose of God in a greater way, in a greater manner and also we will be able to show for a Roman festival here for a greater extent, in a greater measure now the reason why we are not able to live up to the purpose of God or fulfill the purpose of God is because we constantly are oscillating between our fallen identity and our God-given identity sometimes in some areas we live with our God-given identity but in most areas we continue to live with our fallen identity I can't do this and feel your life I'm good for nothing, I can't speak I can't be like that person I can't teach, I can't teach, I don't have the skill sets I don't have the wisdom, I don't have the knowledge and all of those things are things that are of our fallen identity but now we are in Christ, we know we can operate with the strength of wisdom that God has given us all rights and says that we are not competent ministers but God has made us competent not of the letter that kills but of the spirit that gives life yes, we are not competent at one point at a time but now God has made us competent ministers I think we are competent for anything that God has called us to do not by the letter, but by words but by the spirit of God will enable us, will teach us, guide us and give us the skills that we need to fulfill the calling, the purpose that God has for our life sin also gives a different answer to who am I we know that Adam and Eve were created in God's image and likeness, they were dependent on the creator of God but they succumbed to temptation to be by God, it was very sad that they no longer even have the image and likeness of God, but now they were slaves of Satan and they carried his image and gave his nature became our nature his carnal fleshly, evil nature became our nature I just like to throw this question or ask you on this question when God said that he will certainly die he will eat that food from that tree and Satan said he will not certainly die and when he ate that food they did not die so was God lying or did God make a mistake? no ma'am ma'am because God created man in his own image and he loves his creation and he will not lie to us okay so we know that it is not God's nature to lie, we already saw that in this nature God cannot lie he is going against his nature, contrary to his nature so he did not lie then why didn't Adam and Eve die? God said he will certainly die, but why didn't they die? spiritually they died, but later they died physically also yes, thank you Zeutoli so what God was saying was that spiritual separation thank you also going back that God created man in his image and likeness God is spirit he does not have a formal shape but of course he reveals himself to us as a person as a personality so we can understand him but God is basically spirit and so when he created man in his image and likeness they had spirit of God in them and spirit was able to relate to God's spirit okay and of course they went the fruit of that tree they died spiritually they were not able to relate to God and we see that when we are born again our spirit man is born again but our physical bodies and our souls have a need to be renewed daily okay to be transformed and renewed in the likeness of God in his image, in his nature and we see that when we are born again we are born again in our spirit man and our spirit is to our spirit senses we are able to relate to God we are able to hear him, we are able to see him we are able to feel him, we are able to experience him and we know that whatever we receive in our spirit man that goes to our soul which is our processor and it processes things and we act on it so God was not lying there because he cannot lie and he is talking about spiritual death and of course yes one day all of us will die physically as well, that is the consequences of sin so we look at what are the consequences of sin okay the first thing is inward spiritual death when we are talking about inward spiritual death it means that we no longer have the life and nature of God so when we are talking that we don't have the life and nature of God it is basically meaning that when God created Adam and Eve in similar lightness He created them holy as He was holy but now when they sinned they no longer have the nature of God they no longer holy God created them to be without sin but after they sinned we see that sinned reigned in their bodies God created them never to die but we see that after they sinned we all die one day Adam and Eve died as well God gave us a mind that we can discern him we can understand him but the word of God says that when we sinned our minds become foolish, dull and darkened because of simple nature and we are not able to comprehend understand the things of God it is important that we renew our minds so that our minds are able to perceive and understand the things of God what the spirit is our spirit man, our spirit faculty is responding on our minds to be able to discern that and understand it it is very important for us to transform in our minds and also we see that man was no longer able to relate to God as a friend talked to him there was a separation that happened and we know that when we are born again we have the access to go before the very throne of God to receive praise and mercy that time of need we also see that when God created Adam and Eve in his image and likeness he gave them a will to choose but when we sinned we saw that their will gave in to their simple desires simple pleasures, the simple nature so our will is constantly wanting to fulfill the cravings of the pleasure that is what God says we want to know what is right but we cannot do what is right because of the Lord of sin that reigns in our so inward spiritual death we no longer have the life and the nature of God and that is where we say that when we are born again we have the life of God in us can one of you please read Ephesians chapter 4 verse 18 someone else can read Romans chapter 5 verse 20 Ephesians 4 verse 18 says having their understanding darkened being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart okay so here we see our understanding is darkened we are alienated from the life of God from the very nature of God because of the ignorance that has come in because of sin and the blindness that covers our heart we are not able to see and we may know of yours Romans chapter 5 verse 12 Romans chapter 5 verse 12 Romans chapter 5 verse 12 therefore as by woman sin enter into the world and death by sin and so death pass upon all men for that all are sin yes so we see that to one man iron sin reign in the world sin enter the world and also death came to sin and death spread to all because all of them are sinned okay we look at the second point sin separates us from God Isaiah chapter 59 verse 1 and 2 says that behold the Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save nor is here heavy that it cannot hear and so what is basically Isaiah saying is that you know God is not someone who cannot hear and hears but why is he and he is not someone who cannot save and does save but why is he not able to save you all or cannot hear is because sin that has separated us from God okay can one of you read Micah chapter chapter 3 verse 4 it also talks about how sin separates us from God so one of you read Micah chapter 3 verse 4 in Isaiah chapter 59 verse 2 Micah chapter 3 verses 4 then they will cry out to the Lord but he will not answer them at that time he will hide his face from them because of the evil they have done thank you see here it says that you know God will hide his face from them because of the evil that they have done hide his face basically means God separates us from God Isaiah chapter 59 verse 2 we already read that okay behold the Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save nor is here heavy that he cannot hear and it's a sin that separates and that is why sometimes we feel that God is not answering us we can't hear him or he seems far away from us it's because of some sin or some door in our lives that we are hoping to sin it's a good time for us to go back to God and ask him and ask him for forgiveness of our sins whatever we have done consciously unconsciously and check every door that we are hoping to sin once we do that we are restored in our relationship we became help of God we receive a download of what he wants to tell us what he wants us to do and how he wants us to act before we close Siddiqui knows I have a question ma'am why there is so difference between the nature of father and Jesus there but Adam in ancient that food father became a using it okay so whenever we read things like this you know you know you see the anger of God or we see places that God put upon them curses or put upon them disease you know he strike them you know we always need to interpret all of scripture with the background of who God is his basic nature his basic nature is you know God is loving his precious his compassionate we also saw that he is a God of justice so when there is something that is wrong God will you know bring about his justice he will act on his justice because he is a holy God he cannot stand sin and he is a just God that is his basic nature so when we see God is not angry in the sense of when we think about human anger in terms of retaliating you know but this is a righteous anger righteous means a right anger because God is righteous is God of justice so when he brings out his punishment it is according to his righteousness is according to his justice and it's not like human anger that retaliates you will not do this you know you will be punished you will not get this I will show you who I am you will suffer you will have a hard time no that's not God because the basic core nature of who God is you know along with him being a just and righteous God is also that who is a God of love so all operate in the same way okay but for us it does not become love sometimes we hate sometimes you know our love is based upon the works of people and our anger is not a righteous anger all the time it's retaliation it's getting back it's a jealousy it's hate it's pride but it's not the same with God so here when we see any time when we see God anger or it's not it's all we need to understand it in this righteousness and injustice so righteous God and the just God when he sees a sin he has to pronounce his just judgment as a just judge and and you know and there is a punishment for it but that's not coming out of his you know anger that is in retaliation you know a righteous anger a redemptive anger you can say a redemptive anger a redemptive anger that will redeem us back so when we face a lot of God you know it shows us that we miss the mark that we are facing God so it will lead us to go back to him asking forgiveness for sins and get ourselves to live with God so God's anger is righteous and God's anger is also redemptive okay I hope I answered that question sorry I've taken excuse me ma'am your mic is mute okay sorry I I just accidentally clicked the exit button sorry for that I hope I answered your question okay thank you for the clarification you said thank you for joining class sorry I took 4 minutes extra time all the best for your test and if you have any queries please put it on the stream page and I will help you don't be worried you can always reach out for help and I hope you do our best to help you okay have a good day and I'll see you on Friday bye everyone