Sunday Worship

Theme: "Go with God, Go in Peace"  Pastor E.V. Lightfoot

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Sunday, September 29, 2024

9 AM SUNDAY SCHOOL 

10:30 AM SUNDAY WORSHIP

Sermon:  Pastor E. V.  Lightfoot

"Fig Leaves"

Sermon Text: Genesis 3:7

Call to Worship: Psalm 105: 1-4

Introduction: What was the first thing Adam and Eve did after they rebelled against God? According to the text, their first act was to make themselves coverings of fig leaves because they realized they were naked. Interestingly, in the closing verse of chapter 2, the writer points out that Adam and Eve could live together without clothes and feel no shame. Yet as soon as they ate of the forbidden fruit, they sought some kind of covering to hide behind. Evidently their sin brought with it a kind of embarrassment, a kind of shame. Adam did not want to be seen by Eve nor Eve by Adam, so they sewed clothes out of fig leaves. “It is all right for you to see this outward covering, but it is not all right for you to see me as I really am,” they were saying to each other. Behind this act was the unspoken admission that things were not all right on the inside, that a sense of shame had driven out the feeling of innocence of Genesis 2: 25. That feeling of  Adam and Eve is no different than the feeling of people today who do not know Jesus Christ, nor is the act of hiding behind fig leaves any different than the acts of people today. What we may hide behind may not be actual fig leaves, but they serve the same purpose. They become something we hold up to others and say, “See these, but don’t see me. don’t see what I’m really like on the inside.” What are some of these modern-day fig leaves? Let me suggest a few.

I. Possessions.

II. Pleasure.

III. Christless religion.

IV. Salvation through works.

V. The answer.

Conclusion:  You can know this Christ today. He can be yours and you can be his. The Bible says, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved” (Rom. 10: 13 NIV). This morning, in the name of Christ, we invite you to forsake whatever fig leaf you are hiding behind and come to Christ. Accept him as your personal Lord and Savior as your only hope of glory. 

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