Genesis 3  "The Fall of Man" -

They went from obedience to disobedience.
They went from being unashamed to being ashamed.
They went from walking with God, to hiding from Him.
They went from having all the food they wanted.. to having to toil among the thorns and thistles.
They went from perfect family life to pain... in childbirth, in relationship, in everything.
They went from living in Eden, a paradise, to being driven out by God Himself.

All because of a lie. A lie that began with the serpent and was believed by Eve and allowed by Adam.

Sin entered the world and we all inherited it.
We all have sinned and fallen short of God's perfect will.


I Corinthians 15:45-49 says this:

"The first man,  Adam became a living soul, 

The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural;

then the spiritual.

The first man is from the earth, earthly;

the second man is from heaven.

As is the earthly, so also are those who are earthly;

and as the heavenly, so also are those who are heavenly,

And just as we have borne the image of the earthy,

we shall also bear the image of the heavenly."

In the resurrection of the dead, we will pass from what is perishable and corruptible.. and be raised "an imperishable body" - raised in power, raised "a spiritual body".  What a day that will be!

"But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable and the mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, 'Death is swallowed up in victory". 

Father, may we "be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that [our] toil is not vain in the Lord."  Fill us with Your grace and peace in Christ Jesus, our Lord. Amen.