More Than Medicine
More Than Medicine
DWDP: Gen 3;6 Hoe the Second Adam's Obedience Trumps the First Adam's Disobedience
The ancient pattern of temptation that led to humanity's fall continues to affect us today. Dr. Papa takes us deep into Genesis 3:6, revealing how Eve's three-part temptation—finding the forbidden fruit appealing to her body, emotions, and mind—perfectly parallels the "lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and pride of life" described in 1 John 2:16.
When Jesus came as the Second Adam, He faced these identical temptations in the wilderness. While Eve questioned and ultimately rejected God's Word, Jesus defended Himself by quoting Scripture—a powerful model for our own spiritual battles. Dr. Papa shares a thought-provoking anecdote about a plantation worker named Moses who, given an easy job with just one restriction, couldn't resist looking inside a forbidden box. This humbling story reminds us that we're likely no better than Adam when facing temptation.
The consequences of Adam's sin are catastrophic—we inherit spiritual death, blindness, and bondage. Romans 5:12 tells us both sin and death entered the world through one man's disobedience. Yet there's hope! Through Christ, the Second Adam, we find the path to redemption. By recognizing our sin, repenting, and receiving Jesus as Savior, we experience the transformative power of His perfect obedience. As the Sunday school children affirm: "What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus." Share this episode with someone struggling to understand how ancient spiritual truths still offer hope for today's challenges.
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Welcome to More Than Medicine, where Jesus is more than enough for the ills that plague our culture and our country. Hosted by author and physician, Dr Robert Jackson.
Dr Robert Jackson:Papa, can you tell me a story? Do you really want me to tell you a story? Well, you go, get your brother and your sisters and I will tell you a story. Well, you go, get your brother and your sisters and I will tell you a story. Welcome to Devotions with Dr Papa. Gather around and grab your Bibles and let us look into the written Word, which reveals to us the living Word which is our Lord Jesus Christ. Well, today we're at Genesis, chapter 3 and verse 6. Let me read to you the scripture for today.
Dr Robert Jackson:When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate, and she gave also to her husband with her and he ate. Now read the progression here. She saw that it was good for food, that it was a delight to the eyes and that it was desirable to make one wise. First of all, good for food, you see, it was appealing to the bodily appetite, and then it was a delight to the eyes, which was appealing to the emotions, and then, desirable to make one wise, it was appealing to the mind and the spirit. Now, does that remind you of any particular scripture verse? Well, just think about 1 John, 2, verse 16, all the way over.
Dr Robert Jackson:In the New Testament there's a scripture verse that goes like this For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. You see, it exactly parallels that verse of scripture all that is in the world. Read it to me. Let me read it to you again. The lust of the flesh. There it is. It appeals to the bodily appetite, the lust of the eyes. It appeals to the emotions and the boastful pride of life. It's desirable to make one wise. It appeals to the mind and the spirit, all three of those. It parallels that scripture verse exactly.
Dr Robert Jackson:Now, what is the world? If you've been listening to my teaching very long, you will remember the definition. The world is that ordered system headed by Satan that intentionally leaves God out. The world system was already arrayed against mankind, against Adam and Eve. Satan was against them. The world system was against them.
Dr Robert Jackson:Temptation may be directed against the body, the soul or the spirit, or all three at one time, as happened with Eve and her husband Adam in the scripture verse. Now I want to remind you of something. You'll recall that when Jesus came into the world as the second Adam, he was tempted in all respects, even as we are, as Hebrews 4, verse 15 reminds us. And at the beginning of his public ministry he was led into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. The temptation of Jesus Christ followed the exact same threefold pattern as was used to tempt Adam and Eve First, appealing to the flesh, when Satan challenged Jesus to transform the stones into bread. And then he appealed to the emotional desires when Satan offered all the kingdoms of the world to Jesus. And then, thirdly, he appealed to spiritual pride by challenging him to accept the protection of the holy angels. Jesus defended himself by quoting the Word of God. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse himself by taking heed thereto? According to thy word, jesus quoted the Word of God to defend himself. You and I should also be ready to quote Scripture when we are tempted by the enemy of our soul. Eve, however, questioned God's Word, she doubted God's Word and then she modified God's Word and finally rejected God's Word in favor of a temptation provided by the enemy of her soul. She then enticed her husband to join in her rebellion against God, probably perhaps parroting the same argument that Lucifer had used against her.
Dr Robert Jackson:Adam and Eve were not robots. They were not automatons. They were free moral agents. They had the opportunity to love and obey, or they could reject God. There was not the slightest reason why they should reject God, but they could if they so desired. God made Adam perfect. God placed him in a perfect environment, with every need met. Plus, adam didn't contend with an old sin nature like you and I do, so he was fully capable of resisting temptation. Now let me ask you a question have you ever wondered how you would have performed if you had been in Adam's place, in a perfect environment, with every need met and no sin nature? Well, let me tell you an anecdote.
Dr Robert Jackson:The story is told of a man named Moses who worked on a great plantation. He had a plantation owner who loved and cared for all of those who worked for him, provided for them very well. And one day Moses was working, he was chopping weeds, it was hot day and he was complaining oh, he was complaining bitterly of having to chop weeds with a hoe. In a hot sunny day, unbeknownst to him, the plantation owner came up behind him on his horse and he heard Moses complaining so bitterly of his plight. And as he was complaining, moses said out loud Adam, if you had not eaten of the forbidden fruit then I would not have to be chopping weeds here in the hot sun and sweating so profusely. Well, the plantation owner suddenly spoke to Moses and said Moses, I'm going to change your job description today.
Dr Robert Jackson:Well, moses was caught off guard and he says to him I want you to go up to the house, the big house. I want you to shower, I want you to change clothes and from now on you're going to be the guardian of the house and the garden and your only job is to patrol the house and the garden. And about once an hour I want you to walk through the house and walk through the garden, and the rest of the time you just sit on the porch in the shade, get you a big straw hat and you get lemonade from the kitchen whenever you wish hat and you get lemonade from the kitchen whenever you wish. And your only job is to patrol, about once an hour, through the big house, through the garden, make sure everything is safe. And Moses said are you for real? And the plantation owner said yes, I'm for real. And so Moses laughed out loud and he took off running.
Dr Robert Jackson:He went to the big house, he changed his clothes, took a shower, got a straw hat, he sat on the big porch, he got some lemonade and he just commenced to rocking. Now, before he left, the plantation owner said there's only one restriction. There's a decorated box on the dining room table. I don't want you to touch it, I don't want you to look in it. And Moses said well, that's fine by me. And so the next thing is Moses found himself in a rocking chair on the front porch and about once an hour he would walk through the big house, he would walk through the gardens, and the rest of the time he would sit in the rocking chair and drink lemonade. And he was loving his new position.
Dr Robert Jackson:Well, about halfway through the first afternoon, as he was patrolling, he walked through the dining room and, sure enough, there was a little decorated box on the dining room table and he looked at it, but he ignored it and he walked on through. Well, the second day, as he was patrolling, he found himself being a little bit bored and he walked through the dining room and he saw that box and he stopped and he looked at it, looked to the right and the left, and he picked it up and he shook it and recognized there was a little something on the inside. And he turned it over and looked at the bottom, looked at the top, shook it a little bit and put it back down and continued patrolling. Well, later in the afternoon he came through again and he saw that box and he picked it up and he turned it over and turned it around and he looked to the right, took to the left and saw there was nobody there and the curiosity just got the better of him and so he opened that little box, looked inside and there was a piece of paper folded inside and he unfolded it and he read it and it said Moses, you're no better than Adam. Get back out in the field and go back to work. Well, that's a little humorous anecdote, but you see, moses was really no better than Adam and he was curious and he was disobedient, just like Adam. And I suppose that if you and I were in Adam's shoes, we would have succumbed to temptation, probably just as quick, if not quicker. Probably just as quick, if not quicker than Adam.
Dr Robert Jackson:Now let me ask you a question what are the consequences of Adam's sin? Well, the Bible tells us in the book of Romans, chapter 5 and verse 12. The book of Romans, chapter 5 and verse 12. Let me find that verse for us quickly. Romans, chapter 5 and verse 12. Let me find that verse for us quickly.
Dr Robert Jackson:Romans, chapter 5 and verse 12 says therefore just as though one, through one man's sin, sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned. Let Let me read that again. Therefore, just as through one man, sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned. You see, both sin and death entered into the world because of Adam's sin. And not only did sin enter into the world, but death entered into the world. Now in 1 Corinthians, chapter 15.
Dr Robert Jackson:The Bible tells us more specifically, 1 Corinthians 15 and verse 22 tells us For in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. So you see, because of Adam's sin, all of us experience death, both spiritual death and physical death, experience death, both spiritual death and physical death. But in our Lord, jesus Christ, we have the opportunity to be made spiritually alive. We are all born spiritually dead. In the book of Ephesians, chapter 2 and verse 1, the Bible says that we all experience. We're all born spiritually dead. Let me read that verse to you.
Dr Robert Jackson:In Ephesians, chapter 2, the Bible tells us Ephesians 2, 1, and you were dead in your trespasses and sins. You see, we were born spiritually dead, dead in our trespasses and sin. But we're also born spiritually blind. Ephesians, chapter 4 tells us this that we are darkened in our understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in us, because of the hardness of our hearts. You see, we are born spiritually dead, we're born spiritually blind, but more than that, we're born in spiritual bondage. Jesus says that we're slaves of the one whom we obey, and before we're born again in the kingdom of God, unfortunately we obey the enemy of our soul.
Dr Robert Jackson:Now let me ask you a question what's the penalty for sin? Well, you know it. The Bible tells us that the penalty for sin is death, sin. Well, you know it. The Bible tells us that the penalty for sin is death, spiritual death. And what can you do to erase a single sin? Well, unfortunately, there's nothing you and I can do to undo a single sin or erase a single sin? Now I ask my third graders in my Sunday school class every week what can wash away my sin? Well, they've learned the answer by now Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Dr Robert Jackson:Now understand clearly that we all inherit from Adam the tendency to death and the tendency to sin. As soon born chooses to sin, no matter how beautiful or how precious that child may be, they will all eventually bow up and rebel against their parents, parents saying no. He or she becomes a deliberate sinner, a sinner by choice, because he or she has an inherited sin nature which they inherited from their parents and their parents inherited from their parents, which they inherited from Adam, which leads them to sin in practice. The hymn writer says prone to wander, how I know it, prone to leave the God I love. How do we undo the damage? How do we undo the damage caused by our inherited sin nature? Well, jesus told Nicodemus you must be born again. Only Jesus can give us spiritual life when there is spiritual death passed down to us for generations, us, for generations.
Dr Robert Jackson:Jesus the second Adam can impart to us new life, spiritual life. And you may ask how? How can he do that? Well, the answer is number one. You and I must recognize our sin. We can't hide it, we have to confess it.
Dr Robert Jackson:Now, listen, listen to the psalmist in Psalms 32, verses 1 and 2. He said how blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, how blessed is the whose sin is covered, how blessed is the man in whom the Lord does not impute iniquity and in whose spirit there is no deceit. There's no point in you and I trying to cover up our sin, trying to hide our sin. We can't hide from God. We can't hide our sin from God. Happy is the man whose transgression is forgiven. Happy is the man whose sin is covered. How blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity and in whose spirit there is no deceit. So we have to confess our sin and then we repent of sin.
Dr Robert Jackson:In Acts, the Bible tells us that we must turn again. We must repent of our sins, and when we do, there comes times of refreshing from the hand of the Lord. And then we must receive the Lord, jesus Christ, as our only Savior and the true King of our life. In John, chapter 1 and verse 12, the Bible tells us that as many as receive Him, to them the Lord gives the right to become the children of God. And then go back to the book of Romans, where we started out a moment ago. In the book of Romans, back in chapter 5, romans, chapter 5, the Bible tells us in verses 18 and 19, romans 5, 18 and 19.
Dr Robert Jackson:Now, talking again about Jesus as the second Adam, romans, chapter 5, verse 18 and 19. So then, as through one transgression talking about the sin of Adam, as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so, through one act of righteousness, there resulted justification of life to all men. Even so, through one act of righteousness, there resulted justification of life to all men. For, as through the one man's disobedience, the many were made sinners, even so, through the obedience of the one talking about Jesus, through the obedience of one, the many will be made righteous. The challenge is for you and me to put our trust in Jesus Christ, who is the second Adam. The first Adam chose disobedience, he chose to reject God and the promises of God. But you and I must choose to put our trust and confidence in Jesus, the second Adam, through whose obedience the many will be made righteous. What a blessed promise. What a blessed, blessed promise.
Dr Robert Jackson:You're listening to Devotions with Dr Papa. If you like what you hear, I pray that you would like it. Follow it, share it, download it, tell your friends about it and we'll be back again next week. And until then, I pray that the Lord will bless you real good.
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