<TITLE>13. Par 38-40</TITLE>L-38 God's great Holy Spirit, moving in the hearts of the people, bringing that Eve and Adam together again in their perfection, God's holiness, God's perfection... Now, what happened? Sin came in. And as soon as sin come in, what happened? It spoiled God's picture. What a horrible thing it was.
Then I want you to notice. Adam to show the strain of man, as soon as Adam realized that he had sinned, instead of coming out and confessing it, you know what he done? He run and hid. And that's the way man does today. That's the way individual's do today. They run and hide from God instead of coming, confessing their sins. That's what men ought to do everywhere now, is come and confess their sins instead of trying to hide it. Don't you believe it?
But what is it? A strain. They still do it. Notice. Then God going through the garden of Eden hollering, "Adam, Adam, where art thou..." What took place? Adam hid. Although he had made himself an apron that he'd put on to stand before God, it wouldn't work when he stood before God.
Now, God in order to get Adam back to Himself again so He could talk to him, God went out and got some skins and made aprons. Is that right? Now, if He got skin, something died to get skin. See, it had to be substitutionary. Something had to substitute the guilty man's place. And that was that lamb that He killed out there was Christ Jesus, speaking in a figure. And there He brought the lamb skins, throwed them back into the bushes, and Adam and Eve put them on. Here they come out to stand before Father God.

L-39 Looky here now. Look at this picture. I want you especially outside of Christ tonight to look at this. There they are. They're condemned standing there. God said to Adam, "Why did you do this?"
And as all men trying to pass from one to another, "The woman You give me."
The woman said, "The serpent beguiled me." handed it from one to the other.
Then look what God said. I can see great Jehovah, that whirl of Light in the top of them bushes talking to Adam and Eve. Look at this, and He said, because they had did that, said, "Serpent, off comes your legs. Upon your belly you'll go all your life. Be hated. Dust shall be your meat. Cursed be the ground, Adam. Thorns and thistles will come, and you'll have to till the soil. And by the sweat of your brow you'll make your living. And because I took you out of the dust, dust shalt thou return. And woman, because you took life out of the world, you'll have to bring life in the world. I'll multiply your sorrows, and your desire shall be to your husband, and so forth." All those things, He could not stand them in His sight no more: sin.
Now, let's look at this pretty little couple: Adam, with his great manly shoulders, his shaggy hair hanging around his neck, Eve, maybe her blond hair hanging down her back, her eyes blue. Adam there now, his great muscle body was quivering and shaking. What? Something had happened. Now, notice as it rolls down his cheeks here, tears. Mortal now, he has to die. Tears dropping off of his cheeks onto Eve's head, mixing with hers as it runs down across her body... Sin's a horrible thing. God said, "Depart."

L-40 And notice, I can see them as they walk out through the garden of Eden, out of the Presence of God. Look at it as they go there, that great strong manly muscles in his legs. As he starts moving away, the tears are rolling from his cheeks, little Eve with her arm around him, him with his arm around Eve, crying as they go, walking out away from the Presence of God... Every sinner will do the same thing departing out of His Presence.
Then as they started walking in that way, notice, I can just hear them old sheepskins as they're bouncing against Adam's big legs going [Brother Branham claps--Ed.] as they slap against his legs as he's going, walking away, going out, departing from God.


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