If Adam had not sinned…

We begin a new sermon series this week at Asbury called Deceived. To kick off the series, we’ll look at Genesis 3:1-10. I’ll have some reflections on this passage as the week progresses, but to start off the week we’ll turn the pages back a few centuries. Here is a classic sermon on the story of the fall from John Wesley…

“….mankind in general have gained, by the fall of Adam, a capacity of attaining more holiness and happiness on earth than it would have been possible for them to attain if Adam had not fallen. For if Adam had not fallen, Christ had not died. Nothing can be more clear than this; nothing more undeniable: The more thoroughly we consider the point the more deeply shall we be convinced of it. Unless all the partakers of human nature had received that deadly wound in Adam, it would not have been needful for the Son of God to take our nature upon him.. [READ MORE] “