“THEY HEARD THE SOUND!”

Genesis 3:8-21                            (ESV)

“8 And “THEY HEARD THE SOUND” of the LORD GOD walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife HID THEMSELVES from the presence of the LORD GOD among the trees of the garden.

9 But the LORD GOD called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?"

10 And he said, "I heard the sound of YOU in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself."

11 HE said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?"

12 The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate."

13 Then the LORD GOD said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

14 The LORD GOD said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. 

15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel." 

16 To the woman HE said, "I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you." 

17 And to Adam HE said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; 

18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. 

19 By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return." 

20 The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

21 And the LORD GOD made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.”

There are all kinds of intricacies contained in the Scriptures above.  However when Adam and Eve “THEY HEARD THE SOUND” of ALMIGHTY GOD, they knew it was GOD, but they didn’t realize that GOD already knew they had sinned, breaking fellowship with HIM.  Had they understood WHO GOD really is, they would not have believed that they could hide themselves from HIM.  The response from Adam and Eve displayed that, not only had the evil one had lied to them, they thought they would be able to make their disobedience “better” by covering up their wrongdoing.   

“THEY HEARD THE SOUND” of ALMIGHTY GOD, but they didn’t KNOW GOD.  Had they KNEW WHO GOD really is, they would not have believed that they could hide themselves from HIM.  

Thousands of years later, aren’t we guilty of the same thing?  In an attempt to look better to a HOLY GOD, we wear our finest clothing to a ornately decorated building and sing and pray like we are “better than those lost people”, when compared to JESUS our lives are just as despicable as some hardened criminal.  Ezekiel 8:9 says “And HE said to me, "Go in, and see the vile abominations that they are committing here."  Then in Ezekiel 8:12 GOD follows this up with “Then said HE unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what THE ANCIENTS OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL DO IN THE DARK, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD SEETH US NOT; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.

GOD’S CHOSEN, the Children of Israel, actually thought they could hide their actions from ALMIGHTY GOD.  They didn’t understand that HE knows all, SEES all, and will judge all one day!  Thanks be to HIM that JESUS CHRIST, in HIS finished work (John 19:30) on Calvary imputed HIS righteousness for my unholiness and accepted my Judgement over 2,000 years ago!

Do you really KNOW GOD well enough to know that YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO HIDE your sins from HIM?  HIS WORD tells us in Ephesians 5:11 “Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them”.  We should be so reverent of HIM that when “THEY HEARD THE SOUND” of GOD in our lives we hit the brakes, like a speeding car on the interstate of life!  HE IS GOD!  We cannot deceive HIM!