Apostle Paul gives us a useful insight into what transpired in Eden when the first family fell from the grace of God. He noted that it was Eve that was deceived. The case with Adam was following a friend and a lover to do evil. He knew that eating fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil would go against the express command of the Lord. His was a case of divided loyalty. It was choosing between following the one that he loved or the God that loved them supremely and gave them all things freely. Unfortunately, he chose the former with devastating consequences.

“It is those in the Broadway of sin and destruction that must return to us, we are not to abandon the narrow way which leads to life for social acceptance.”

John C. Ryle was the first bishop of Liverpool, whose successor described as “the man of granite with the heart of a child.” He said, “If friends will not walk the narrow way with us, we must not walk in the broadway to please them.” It will not be difficult to imagine that Adam walked in the “broadway” with Eve in order to please her. In our faith life, each of us will have enough invites from friends and relatives to walk the broadway with them. It is our responsibility to say no with all the firmness we can muster. Hear what God told Jeremiah: “Therefore thus says the LORD: “If you return, Then I will bring you back; You shall stand before Me; If you take out the precious from the vile, You shall be as My mouth. Let them return to you, But you must not return to them.” (Jeremiah 15:19 NKJV). It is those in the Broadway of sin and destruction that must return to us, we are not to abandon the narrow way which leads to life for social acceptance.