Peter Barnes | Genesis 2:4-17
SERMON NOTES
THE COVENANT OF WORKS
Genesis 2:4-17; Genesis 3:1-21
– covenants with Noah (Gen.6:18), Abraham (Gen.15:18), Israel (Ex.24:8), and David (Ps.89:3), as well as a new covenant (Jer.31:31; Luke 22:20).
– covenants do not save (e.g. Amos 3:2), but they reveal great privileges (Rom.9:4-5).
1. God put Adam on probation.
– Gen.2:16-17; he sinned and he died (Gen.5:5)
2. Adam failed.
– Gen.3:6; basic sin is disobedience
– Israel, like Adam, fails (Hosea 6:7)
– 1 Cor.15:22
3. God promises victory through a son of the woman.
– Gen. 3:14-15, 21.
– Heb.4:13; Gal.3:10, 12
– the covenant of works reveals where we are before God (Mark 2:17); but a second Adam has come (Rom.5:18-19).