Lesson 21 - The First Sin

Adam was the first man God created and Eve was the first woman. God put them in a beautiful garden called Eden. Genesis 2:7-8.

God gave them just one rule to obey. They were not to eat the fruit of the tree of Knowledge of good and evil. Genesis 2:17.

We do not really understand what kind of tree this was. Sometimes people try to draw a picture of this tree as an apple tree, but it was not an apple tree. It was not like any tree we have ever seen.

The important thing that God wants us to understand is that God wanted the first man and the first woman to obey Him.

In Genesis 3, we read the story of how Satan, who is God’s enemy, talked to Eve and got her to disobey God. Read this story from your Bible.

Satan told Eve that there was nothing wrong with eating the fruit and in disobeying God. He made it sound so good to Eve that she ate and then got Adam to eat it too.

After Adam ate the fruit they were so afraid and tried to hide in the trees so that God would not find them.

God had always been their friend, but now they had disobeyed and felt so unhapp and scared. That was because they had sinned.

To disobey God is called “SIN” in the Bible. Because Adam and Eve sinned God put them out of the beautiful garden. Genesis 3:23,24.

How sad they were to leave their home and the beautiful place where God talked with them.

In Romans 5:12, we read that “by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin.” When Adam sinned by eating the fruit, sin entered into the world. The word “world” means “mankind” or every human being.

Since the time that Adam sinned, every little baby born into the world has sin in his heart. Everyone needs to believe in Jesus Christ and be saved.

God had a great plan to send His Son Jesus Christ to the earth to be our savior. He died on the cross for all the sins of every man and woman, and boy and girl.

Memory Verse: “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” Romans 3:23.