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<p>After creation the beauty and the poetry of a cosmology in sync with the desires and plans of the creator is disputed by the misguided actions of Eve and the willful disobedience of Adam. A cursory read presents a face value cause and effect narrative yet a nuanced exploration of the events illuminates crucial insights that will empower us in our quest for godliness. There are profound lessons that can be drawn from the account of the fall of humanity as captured in Genesis chapter 3. </p>
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<p>Genesis 3: 3-8</p>
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<p>3 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.</p>
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<p>6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. 7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. 8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.</p>
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<p><strong>5 Lesson from fall of Adam and Eve</strong></p>
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<h3> 1. Satan has nothing to offer </h3>

The devil did not rock up with his own combo of fruits. He would have made a better argument if he come with his own fruits that he would have created himself. However, he deceived Eve to believe that He  had a better offer  off God’s own provisions. Fact: The devil has no power to create, his destructive power lies in manipulating that which God has created. There is no form or derivative of sin that does not involve a perversion of the good that God has created. All things come from God and the devil's plan is to get us to self destruct merely by crossing the line either through, wrong timing, misapplication. misuse, or abuse of the good things God has created. 
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<h3> 2.The Devil works with half truths which are whole lies</h3>

 You will not surely die (verse 4). The pair did not die at that point which was half truth but a whole lie in the sense that ultimately they died. <br> b) Your eyes will be opened (verse 5). The pair’s eyes were open as they for the first time began to see they won nakedness but this was a half truth since in essence human physiological vision deteriorated and this marked the genesis of both literal and spiritual blindness. <br> c) You will be like gods (verse 5). This was a half truth in that for the first time Adam and Eve knew both good and evil which until then had been a preserve of God. However this was a lie considering that as they were created in the image of God Adam and Eve were already like God, also through disobedience Adam and Eve and as all humanity would be, became less like God, in fact more unlike God.</p>
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<h3> 3. The Devil is the Project Manager </h3>
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<p>Every time we want to do something out of sync with God’s standards we ought to understand that the devil is the arch instigator of rebellion and disobedience. Yes we have our own personal sovereignty to make decisions to determine our courses of actions as free moral beings. We even do have 100% capacity to disobey even if the devil were absent otherwise we would not be free moral beings. A free moral being not only has liberty to disobey but has the capacity to do so genuinely and thoroughly. Now not withstanding the foregoing, in the context of the great controversy we find ourselves in, every human being except Adam and Eve that came from the hand of God is birthed in iniquity and is thus born with a predisposition to sin. Additionally all Adam’s posterity comes with an inherently evil nature the genesis of which was the Devil’s doing. So while our free will is intact we are not without influence from both God and Satan to exercise our free will in either of the diametrically opposed trajectories.</p>
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<p>Sin is thus the proprietary enterprise of Satan. While every free moral being has the capacity to disobey, Satan owns and holds valid claims to, the intellectual property and the patent of sin. This is why in the object lesson of the sanctuary all confessed sins are ultimately not merely excused upon him but allotted to him.</p>
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<p>To die for your own sins culminates from effectively and successfully contesting Satan’s patent of Sin and upholding your brand of wickedness as the groundbreaking brain child of the stellar ingenuity of your wretchedness. This is a contestation you can easily and ostensibly win because the devil will still win through not disagreeing with you.</p>
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<p>I submit then that in this milieu polarized by contestations of good and evil at cosmic levels; it is not enough to be conscious of what you are and what you want, it is imperative to interrogate your very want premise. In other words, why do you want what you want? What engenders your desires? </p>
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<p>The demoniac in the state of demon possession seemed to have wanted to dwell in the grave yard, to walk around naked, he had a fleeting swoop of seemingly unfettered freedom as he broke the chains that bound him. But only when Jesus set Him free did it dawn that all along He had been doing was the bidding of another force. He had not been living a life he desired for himself but that which the devil desired on his behalf. </p>
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<p>“Every soul that refuses to give himself to God is under the control of another power.  He is not his own.  He may talk of freedom, but he is in the most abject slavery.  He is not allowed to see the beauty of truth, for his mind is under the control of Satan.  While he flatters himself that he is following the dictates of his own judgment, he obeys the will of the prince of darkness.  Christ came to break the shackles of sin-slavery from the soul.  „If the Son therefore shall make ye free, ye shall be free indeed.‟  „The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus‟ sets us „free from the law of sin and death‟” The Desire of Ages, 466.3</p>
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<h3>  4. The biggest fraud in the Cosmos </h3>
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<p style="text-align:left">The devil told Eve that they would be like gods through the knowledge of good and evil. He did not disclose to them that unlike God who knows both good and evil as an Omniscient God, for humanity to  know sin is to be ruined by sin. God can survive the knowledge sin but humanity can not. The devil did not disclose this. </p>
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<p><strong>Lesson.</strong> The devil  lures us and destroys by offering  elevation without balance, altitude without aptitude,  power without character, tenacity without capacity. </p>
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<h3> 5. The nucleus of sin </h3>

Eve knew it was wrong to partake of the forbidden fortuity but she did not believe it. She lived at the level of compliance and not obedience.<br> Most of us know the wrongs that are wrong, but we hardly believe their are wrong. Th only reason we can go on and to that which we know is wrong is that we know at an informational level it is wrong but we have not internalized to the level of commitment the fact that it is wrong. Like Eve, the biggest mistake we make, which keeps us vulnerable to fall is that we live at the level of compliance and obedience. The difference between the two is that compliance obtains for the technical satisfaction of set rules while obedience is profound, it yields an allegiance even in the absence of rules. Hence Joseph’s consternation” Genesis 39:9. Jospeh resisted the temptation without quoting verses  or citing technical statutes that would criminalize the offer at hand. His operative for resisting sin was relational. He did only know that adultery was wrong, he strongly believed it. He would rather die than do it. It disgusted him, it was unthinkable to him 
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<p>“In the work of redemption there is no compulsion.  No external force is employed.  Under the influence of the Spirit of God, man is left free to choose whom he will serve.  In the change that takes place when the soul surrenders to Christ, there is the highest sense of freedom.  The expulsion of sin is the act of the soul itself” The Desire of Ages, 466.</p>
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<p>Lastly, take note: Sin, Is the genesis of your end, the construction of your destruction. To sin is to self destruct. The wages of Sin is death, it is not that God will kill you. </p>
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<p>Sin is more powerful than death. Death can’t separate us from God (Romans 8:38. However, Sin can, and eternally so if we do not repent and turn wholly to God. </p>
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