Music Mondays - Inspired by Genesis

In an effort to catch up a little bit, to where we are in our sermon series, I'm including two songs this week. One is an older traditional hymn, the other is from the early 80's - a time when contemporary worship was developing, but hadn't quite taken hold in most churches.
The hymn relates to Genesis 3 while the second song relates more to Genesis 4-5.

While Genesis 3 describes the Fall of Humanity, this song is about Faith providing us victory. How does the song relate? Adam and Eve's failure at its core was a failure to trust God and it plunged all of mankind into a depraved state for the rest of history. The only hope out of this position of spiritual death is faith. Faith truly is the victory!

After the Fall, mankind is pictured as slipping into a downward spiral, especially with Cain and his descendants (Gen. 4). But Seth is born as a third son to Adam and Eve and his descendants begin to "call on the name of the Lord" (4:26). In other words, they choose a path of devotion and faithfulness to God rather than the destructive path of Cain's family. The paths remain a choice each of us must face - as Joshua would later say, "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord" (Josh. 24:15).