Original sin comes from Adam and Eve's disobedience in the Garden of Eden. We are all born sinful due to inheriting Adam's sinful nature. God holds us accountable for our sinful nature and behavior, even though we cannot help being born sinners. Sin severely damages our relationship with God, as it causes us to fall short of his perfect standards. However, Jesus came to save sinners and restore our relationship with God through his death and forgiveness of sins.

1. Make the Good
Confession:
Original Sin

2. What do you know about the
following people?

8. When you see pictures of these
famously evil people, what
thoughts and feelings come to
you and why?

9. Do you feel
anger, disgusted, revolted, etc?

10. We would all agree that there are some
things that are just wrong! None of us
would hesitate to condemn their actions and
gladly proclaim that these infamous men
deserved to be punished. Now tell me about
these people?

11. Insert Picture of Self

12. It does us no good to sit here and only
discuss how wicked everyone else is. We
need to look at what God says about all sin,
not just the really “bad ones”. We‟ll look at
the standard he expects in order to show the
all pervasive and appalling effects of sin on
each of us. Our focus will be to answer
these questions:
Me? Bad?

13. • Where does sin come from?
• Does God hold us accountable for the
way we are?
• How badly does sin affect me and my
relationship to God?
Lesson Goals

15. Let‟s look at where sin came from and when
it started. We turn to Genesis chapter three.
God has just created the world and now
Satan in the form of a serpent comes to the
first people, Adam and Eve, in order to get
them to disobey God.
In the beginning…

16. Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the
wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to
the woman, “Did God really say, „You must not eat
from any tree in the garden‟?”
The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit
from the trees in the garden, but God did say, „You
must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle
of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you
will die.‟ ”
Gen 3:1-8

17. 4 “You will not surely die,” the serpent said
to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when
you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and
you will be like God, knowing good and
evil.”
Genesis 3:1-8

18. 6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the
tree was good for food and pleasing to the
eye, and also desirable for gaining
wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also
gave some to her husband, who was with
her, and he ate it.
Genesis 3:1-8

19. Answer these two questions:
• Where does sin come from?
• Where does sin not come from?
Sin

20. Sin came into this world when Adam and
Eve disobeyed God. They sinned. God did
not bring sin into this world. Adam and Eve
listened to the devil rather than God.
They sinned

21. Just as Adam and Eve were responsible
for their own sins, so too are we. If
we‟re going to accept the effects of sin,
we need to be able to accept the
responsibility of blame
We sin

22. How does Genesis 3:1-8 affect
me personally?

23. Genesis 5:3 “When Adam had
lived 130 years, he had a son in his
own likeness, in his own image;
and he named him Seth.
In his own image

24. Psalm 51:5 “Surely I was sinful at
birth, sinful from the time my
mother conceived me.”
Born in sin

25. What unfortunate consequence
comes from Adam and Eve‟s fall
into sin?

26. I am born in the likeness of my first
parents, Adam and Eve. I am sinful
through and through. I am a sinner.

27. The sinful nature passed down
to us from our parents is called
“Original Sin.”
Original Sin

28. What does God tell me about
this original sin?
How does God see me?

29. Therefore, just as sin entered the
world through one man, and death
through sin, and in this way death
came to all men, because all sinned.
Romans 5:12

30. Based on the passages you‟ve
looked at, does God hold you
accountable for the way you are?
For the fact that you are sinful from
birth?
Accountability

31. YES!

32. How badly does sin affect me
and my relationship to God?
What does God expect from
me in our relationship
Affects of Sin

33. “Keep my commands and
follow them. I am the LORD.”
Leviticus 22:31

34. “Be perfect, therefore, as
your heavenly Father is
perfect.”
Matthew 5:48

35. God expects us to obey him
down to our very heart and soul
and we must do it perfectly
Expectations

36. God‟s expectations go far
deeper than just actions.
See for yourself…
More?

37. “Love the LORD your God
with all your heart and with
all your soul and with all your
strength.”
Deuteronomy 6:4

38. God Demands ALL of Us – He Wants Our
Whole Being Down to Our Very Heart!

39. But can we give
God all of us?!

40. The sinful mind is hostile to
God. It does not submit to God‟s
law, nor can it do so.
Romans 8:7

41. Because we are sinners from
birth, we are unable to fulfill
God‟s expectations for us.
And God lays out some very
serious consequences as a
result

42. For the wages of sin is death
Romans 6:23

44. Then he will say to those on his
left, “Depart from me, you who
are cursed, into the eternal fire
prepared for the devil and his
angels.”
Matthew 25:41

45. “Is there any wiggle room? What about
all the times I am good and help others?
Doesn‟t that count for anything? What
about all the people that are worse
sinners than me? Surely I am not in the
same boat as them?”
Surely I don’t deserve hell?

46. for all have sinned and
fall short of the glory of
God
Romans 3:23

47. But do not despair!
Look at what Jesus
says…
Hope

48. “It is not the healthy who
need a doctor, but the sick. I
have not come to call the
righteous, but sinners.”
Mark 2:17

49. Jesus came to save sinners like you
and me. He did so by dying on the
cross and forgiving our sins.
Through his blood are relationship
with God is restored.
Forgiveness of Sins

51. Take a look at one last Bibe
verse comparing our sin we
inherited from Adam to the
perfection we find in Jesus:

52. For if, by the trespass of the one
man, death reigned through that one
man, how much more will those
who receive God‟s abundant
provision of grace and of the gift of
righteousness reign in life through
the one man, Jesus Christ!
Romans 5:17