The Victory of Jesus

In this final sermon of the Genesis series, we looked at how the resurrection of Jesus restored all that was broken by the Fall. In Genesis 3:14-24, God tells the serpent, Adam, and Eve that, from that point onward, everything that He had created for good would now be broken. In Romans 8, Paul describes the impact of Adam and Eve's decision, connecting our individual suffering to the futility and suffering that all of creation has been experiencing since the Fall. Paul and other Biblical authors point out that in Genesis 3, God was also looking forward to the day that an offspring of Eve would step on the head of the serpent in a final decisive victory. The resurrection is the God-ordained moment that washes over the full human timeline. The resurrection reverses the impact of sin and death and cleanses those in the Old Testament who died in faith, rendering them righteous. The resurrection also sent a wave forward in time to wash over all who would hear the Gospel and believe, rendering us righteous and securely tethering us to Christ so that nothing in this fallen world can separate us from His love.