Man in His Probation

S. Lewis Johnson Message of the Week

MAN IN HIS PROBATION
Dr. S. Lewis Johnson continues his exposition of Genesis with the Covenant of Works between God and Adam.

Scripture Reference: Genesis 2:8-17

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Transcript Excerpt:

Our subject for this morning is “Man in His Probation.”  In our studies, in the first chapter of the Book of Genesis and in the earlier parts of the second chapter, we have learnt that man was created in the image of God, implying that he possessed the rational nature so as to know God, a moral nature enabling him to enjoy the righteousness and holiness of the truth, as the Apostle Paul puts it in Ephesians chapter 4, and further that he possesses a regal office, giving him authority over the creation.  He was told that he was to fill the earth and subdue it and to rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.  These things we know not by human speculation but by divine revelation.

Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, “Science is a good piece of furniture for a man to have in an upper chamber provided he has common sense on the ground floor.”  Well, I think it is really much better than that to have divine revelation in the basement where the foundations are because then we have that which is certain and true.

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