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Growing up in Iowa I played a lot of basketball.
I played on several teams.
When I was younger I played basketball at the DesMoines YMCA.
Eventually as I grew older I played basketball on my Jr. High and then Sr. High team.
One of the things that always stood out to me was that after a while I would get tired or sometimes hurt, so a substitute would come in for me.
I always hated that because I liked to stay in and play, I never wanted to come out.
But, I also realized just how important substitute players were.
Fresh players who were ready to go helped us to win games.
I stress this physical story today because I want us to understand a spiritual story of just how important in our Christian lives there is for Substitution.
We desperately need a substitute to stand in for us and our sin and this is forever eternally important!
The entire storyline of Scripture, the history of redemption, is the story of God providing substitutes for his people to cover their shame and bear the judgment they deserved so that they might be accepted by him.
That alone is a story of undeserved grace and amazing love.
But all along, God’s plan and purpose was not only to provide that substitute, but to be that substitute in the person of his Son Jesus.
Jesus came and took on himself the punishment we could not bear and the shame we could not overcome.
This story is a passionate expression of God’s love.
It is the pinnacle of God’s glory.
Over the next several weeks we are going to look at several different stories in God’s Word about Substitution.
Everything begins in Genesis 3. God had said that the day Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they would die.
And God was true to his word.
When they disobeyed, they died spiritually, under the curse of God.
But they didn’t die physically, at least not right away.
Instead, two animals died, and God used their skins to fashion clothes to cover the shame of their nakedness (Gen 3:21).
Nowhere is the language of sacrifice or substitution used, but the picture is unmistakable.
Substitutes died physically to cover Adam and Eve’s physical shame.
This is so important today because there are so many folks who carry around shame and guilt.
Year after year, decade after decade, century after century, the substitution of an animal sacrifice stood at the center of Israel’s relationship with God.
On the basis of those sacrifices, shame was covered and guilt removed.
Because the animal took the punishment the people deserved, they not only lived another day but were accepted by God.
Until the next time they sinned.
Until the next Day of Atonement.
Then the process would have too be repeated.
But, there is a huge problem.
The problem is that they were ineffective.
“In the sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year.
For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins” (Heb 10:3–4).
And yet, substitutes were what God had been providing from the beginning.
From the death of animals to cover Adam and Eve’s shameful nakedness, to the substitute for Isaac as we will look at next week, to the unblemished Passover lamb and the Temple sacrifices.
These were partial, temporary, and ultimately ineffective substitutes that were meant by God to teach us something.
They were types and shadows of the perfect substitute that was to come.
Isaiah spoke of this subsequent substitute in Isaiah 53.
One whose blood could take away sin and cover shame.
One whose death could secure the acceptance of God’s people once and for all.
3 Things that I want you to notice today!
1.
Notice The Problem.
So why do we even need a substitute?
Well because there is a huge problem!
What I am talking about is a SIN Problem.
One of the things that is often hard for us as humans to admit is the fact that we are sinners.
We all have a sin problem, and we cannot atone for our own sin.
Our sin is so terrible and wicked that we all deserve hell.
That is how bad our sin truly is.
Even our good works are as filthy rags.
(Isaiah 64:6) Because our sin is so awful it needs to be atoned for.
In fact, one of the dominant pictures in the Old Testament is that of an innocent substitute whose blood was shed on behalf of our sin.
The author of Hebrews says it like this.
The thing of the matter is that there is no sinner who can work his way to heaven, or ever fully atone for his or her own sin.
And this is exactly why God’s Word so often stresses the need for a substitute.
So, we see here in theses beginning verses that God comes to Adam and Eve.
In fact, the sound in verse 8 was more than likely God calling for Adam and Eve.
In verse 9 we see this as God calls to the man and asks the simple question, “Where are you?”
So, where were Adam and Eve?
-Notice the first thing we see here about Sin.
Sin causes us to hide.
We see this in verses 8 and then again in verse 10.
The question that God asked them was a way of bringing man to explain exactly why he and his wife were hiding.
So often when we choose to sin there are things that come along with that.
There is shame, remorse, guilt, and even fear (vs.
10).
These are all things that lead to our running away from God and trying to hide.
Adam’s sin was clearly evident now because he realized that both he and his wife were naked, so God waited for man to confess what he had done.
When it comes to our sin, there is generally a reluctance to admit or confess the sin problem at hand.
I want you to understand this today because repentance is main issue here!
When sinners refuse to repent, they will suffer judgment, but when they do repent, they will receive forgiveness.
We all need to know that today.
-The second thing we now see about sin is this.
Sin causes us to blame others.
(vs.
12) Adam now tries to put the responsibility on God for giving him Eve.
This only made Adam look worse.
Adam choose to willfully go against God’s command not to eat of tree’s fruit.
He was not open to confess his sin and take full responsibility for his action.
-Finally, I want you to sin this third area about sin.
Sin deceives.
(vs.
13.)
The serpent deceived Eve.
He was crafty enough to make her believe the lie that she would become like God if she ate of the fruit, and so she did.
Eve, now tries to pass the blame to the serpent, which was partially true, but this did not absolve her from her lack of trust and disobedience towards God.
Sin deceives us, it makes us think things are not that bad or that it’s not really even wrong.
We see this happening in our world today.
Watch out for the deceivement of sin!
2. Notice The Punishment For Sin.
“The Serpent”
Clearly the snake was crafty and sneaky here.
He was so craft that he deceived Eve into eating the fruit and thus sin entered into the world for the very first time.
Because of this there were consequences and punishment beginning with the serpent.
Notice several of the punishments.
First the serpent is now cursed.
In fact, he is the most cursed of all the animals and because of this he must now crawl on his belly.
We have no idea but up to this point the serpent could have had legs or even wings but from then on the serpent would be branded as low and disgusting and would slither around.
We also see that the punishment of the serpent is that he will eat dust.
This expressing here means total defeat.
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