Please Tell Me Who Told You That

In this book of genesis we are given a narrative, a description and a chronicle of this place that has been articulated to be considered perfect. This place is known all over the planet as the Garden of Eden. It was a place of contentment and joy. Mankind was created to care for and enjoy this place. When God created Genesis 2:25 tells us “Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.”

Here is the truth. Satan assaulted our first parents, to draw them into sin, and his temptation proved fatal to them. The tempter, the devil, who were in the shape, and likeness of a serpent assaulted our first parents. Satan's plan was to draw our first parents to sin, and to separate between them and their God.

Now when the serpent showed up and persuaded them to go against God, when he coerced them not to listen to what God had commanded them not to do. He actually, seduced them into some disbelief of God’s Word. In other words, He basically, essentially, talked them into believing that they were above the Word of God, and that God’s Word was not applicable to them. The record is that they sinned, and I’ve got something to tell you this morning, and that is when you sin then things changed. When you sin chaos breaks out. When

you sin things in the atmosphere changes.

Let me prove it to you. Before sin the loins were still sitting next to the lambs. Before sin the dogs were hanging out with the cats, before sin the lizards were smiling at the insects. CAN I SAY IT? Before sin, deacon still honored Pastor, before sin, ushers and mission was working together, before sin the minister of music didn’t have any problems out of the choir members, it was all before sin. But when sin crept in things changed.

Because before they sin they didn’t even know that they were naked. Their eyes were closed to the nastiness of this world. In fact, they were not even responding to the nakedness world as we do now. In fact before they sinned, Adam only spoke of her as bone on my bone and flesh of my flesh.

Their eyes were closed to the sinfulness that could occur until they sinned, and may I tell you that there are some people that have open up some portals that have allow their eyes to see nothing but nastiness, lies, hatefulness, bitterness, and unpleasant situation, and it’s all because things change when sin steps in.

The notice is when they sinned a change happened, they could feel a differences, when they sinned something took place, something transpired, there was an adjustment, an modification that took place, the bible says that they were ashamed for their nakedness so they covered themselves and hid from God.

Let me drop a quarter in the meter and park here for a minute. First of all, whenever, you sin you will hide from God, because God knows what you have done. Whenever you sin, you will have to disguise your voice on the phone. Whenever you sin, you will send note anonymously. Whenever you sin, you will put your wives, your husband and your children up to do your dirty work. You know rent to own is there for a payment on that couch and that furniture that you received and you’ll have that child lie and tell, (tell them I’m not home). You know that it’s the creditors call and you disguise your voice like you’re someone else.

When you sin the relationship change, when you sin, the trust level change, when you sin people don’t believe you, because all you do is Lie, lie, and lie some more. When God was walking in the cool of the day and they heard the voice of the Lord, the Lord called out to Adam, they hid themselves. The Lord called out to Adams and said where art thou? And Adam said in verse 10, “I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.” In verse 11 the Lord responded “Who told you that you were naked?” the Lord God asked. “Have you eaten from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat?” And I believe that too many of us have eaten off of the wrong trees. And by eating off of these trees, you have been beguiled, enticed, lured, wooed, charmed, mesmerized hypnotized by some evil spirits. And if the Lord God has given you specific instructions, then who are you listening to?

They were bare, uncovered, unprotected, exposed, and broken. And God asked them “Who told you that?”

And for those of you that say’s Pastor I feel like I’m not worthy, I have a question for you. Who told you that? For those of you that feel like you are less then, I have the same question for you. Who told you that?