Lost in the garden

Did you know – when John Wesley wrote the popular Christmas Carol “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” that his base text was Genesis 3:15 – not a passage from the Gospels Nativity accounts. Check out these words:

Come, Desire of Nations, come, Fix in us Thy humble home.
Rise the woman’s conquering Seed, Bruise in us the serpent’s head.
Adam’s likeness now efface, Stamp Thine image in its place,
Second Adam from above, Reinstate us in Thy love,
Hark, the herald angels sing, Glory to the newborn King.

Great theology!

Sunday I will take us through the eating, the hiding, the finding and promises made by God for our salvation. The clearest first promise was given within moments of the Fall – Genesis 3:15. I hope you will see this to be one of the most remarkable verses in the Bible. It was called by the early church fathers the Protevangelium, which means "the first preaching of the gospel." It is the clearest promise, appearing early in Genesis, of the coming of our Redeemer. Adam was not really lost, he knew right where he was – estranged from his Creator. God is the God of lost causes! Sunday we will see God seeking the lost, confronting the lost and redeeming the lost! This is certainly the whole story of love and promise – come hear how it ends!

Pastor Mike