Adam’s disobedience separated man from God his Maker. Man was chased out of the presence of God and angels were kept standing at the entrance of the garden of Eden with swords of flame to prevent the man from finding and entering God’s resting place.
Man’s fellowship and communion with God was severed. Man, who enjoyed everything that pertains to life and godliness by God’s provision, have to depend on his efforts before he eats of the earth because of the curse he incurred from God.
Sin brought an enmity between man and God his Maker. Sin is an abomination before God. The Bible says that God’s eyes are too purer to behold iniquities. God was really angry with man because of Adam’s disobedience.
God is Spirit and His worshippers can only worship Him in the spirit. Unfortunately, man died in the spirit on the day that Adam disobeyed God’s commandment and ate of the tree which God commanded him not to eat. Adam’s disobedience brought a spiritual death upon all mankind. The spirit of man is dead without God. Adam who used to have fellowship with God in the cool of the day, now hides himself before God.
Sin makes man to hide from the presence of God, it is a veil that covers man away from God.Man is unworthy of God’s presence and fellowship because of sin. Sin brought guilt and condemnation upon mankind.
Spiritual death is the exit, departure or the separation of man from God. Spiritual death is the fall of man from the nature of the image and likeness of God to the nature of sin and death. Man has fallen from a supernatural being to a natural being. The fallen man or the natural man does not know how to serve God and cannot serve God.
The natural man functions with the human senses. The natural man does not have the ability to understand spiritual things, because it takes a spirit to understand the affairs of the Spirit; therefore he lives hopelessly on the earth without God. His knowledge of God is limited to what he perceives through his senses.
Unfortunately man cannot understand God with his senses but through faith in his spirit. Therefore, every man’s ideology of God are limited through his senses. In other words, man cannot know God with his senses but with the spirit.
Jesus died and resurrected in order to put to death the sinful nature and raise to life the godly nature. His death on the cross was the crucifixion of the sinful nature of man. He bored the sins of the whole world upon His human body and nailed it to the cross at Calvary. He paid the price of death sentence that the sinner was owing. He died to set man free from the nature of sin and death. On the cross, Jesus declared boldly that it is finished. It is the end of the era of sin and death.
Jesus was raised to life on the third day by the mighty power of God. His resurrection is the beginning of a new era of life and righteousness. It is the recreation or the regeneration or the rebirth of a spiritual or supernatural man: man that can worship God.
Therefore, Jesus came to reconcile man with God his Maker. No one can come to God except through faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ.