3 of 52 The Fall Genesis 3
Genesis 3
The FALL
3:1 What is wrong with Satan's Question?3:2-3 What is wrong with Eve's Answer?
3:4-5 What three lies does Satan tell about God?
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3:6 Where did Adam and Eve's sin begin?
What did Adam do wrong?
CONSEQUENCES
3:7 Interpersonal
3:8-11 Between God and Creation
3:12-13 Who gets the blame?
3:14-15 Snake
3:16 Eve
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3:17 - 19 Adam
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WHAT DO WE LEARN ABOUT GOD, OURSELVES AND SIN?
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Genesis 3
The FALL
- Question God's Word - Did God Really Say
- Misrepresent God - "You must not eat from any tree in the garden?"
- Look at 1:29-30 also 2:9
- Look at 2:16 - the actual command
3:2-3 What is wrong with Eve's Answer?
- Eve misrepresents God's prohibitions
- ..you must not touch it
- "YOU" is pl in vv.1-5, therefore Adam was a part of the conversation, but he was not making any comment, nor
3:4-5 What three lies does Satan tell about God?
- Questions God's honesty: he is a liar (John 8:44)
- Questions God's character - keeping you from realizing your full potential
- Redmoves distinction between creator/creation - "like God"
3:6 Where did Adam and Eve's sin begin?
- They believed in a lie
- You will not surely die (v.4)
- Your eyes will be opened (wise - v.5)
- You will be like God
- knowing good and evil
What did Adam do wrong?
- Romans 5:12 - Bears the blame for sin entering the world
- Adam was created first - headship
CONSEQUENCES
THEME: God's creation will no longer function as intended - it will be full of pain
3:7 Interpersonal
- Nakedness is now viewed as shame - not as perfect intimacy (2:25)
- Blame Game (3:12)
3:8-11 Between God and Creation
- Sin causes us to do silly things - hide from God
- The "fig tree" leaves may hide them from shame, but it never hid them from God.
- Sin results in alienation - from God and from one another
- Opposite what Satan said - not 'like God' - further apart
3:12-13 Who gets the blame?
- Adam blames Eve
- Victim mentality on steroids - "Take it like a man, Adam."
- Imagine how Eve felt? (perfect husband/marriage) - no tension/pain
- Who does Adam really blame? God
- Isn't this just like us - blame our disobedience on God - if only you....
- Eve sees that blaming God/spouse doesn't work - tries a different tact
- I was tricked - not my fault
- Blame game never works with God
- ultimately - we are responsible for our choices
3:14-19 Curse and Judgment
- Curses only Satan and ground - Adam/Eve - judgment and pain
- Second theme: promise and redemption - judge and redeemer
- Pattern throughout the Bible
3:14-15 Snake
- Complicated - offspring of Satan is not demons
- Key: "offspring" is a collective noun (singular and plural)
- Satan offspring are all unredeemed people
- Eve's offspring are all redeemed
- Strike his heel - crush your head
3:16 Eve
- Eve will still do her uniquely feminine work (child birth), but now in pain
- Pain in her relationship with her husband - controversial
- Eve's desire is to be over her husband - headship in marriage
- But Adam will rule over you
- Original sin - curse is passed on down to their descendants
3:17 - 19 Adam
- Adam will still do his work, but now in pain - curse the ground (thorns)
- Eventually will return to the ground from which he was created
- Died spiritually - relationship with God crumbled
- will eventually die physically
WHAT DO WE LEARN ABOUT GOD, OURSELVES AND SIN?
- Problem of Pain
- Greatest hindrance to people believing in God
- 40,000 children a day die in starvation
- Aids in Africa is going to kill 1/3 of the population
- HOw can God be all-loving and all-powerful and allow this amount of pain
- Because Adam andEve sinned
- We have continued to sin - our fault, not God's
- Rom. 8:19 - even the earth is waiting for the end of time
- Greatest act of treachery and pain was the death of the only truly innocent
- in the midst of pain - God is in the process of redeeming his creation
- The essence of sin is lack of faith in God
- Questioning his character, goodness, wisdom, love for creation
- When you and I sin, we are saying that God is wrong
- We don't trust him - He doesn't know what is best
- God says, "Whatever is pure and holy" (Phil 4)
- We say "You don't know what you are saying"
- God says, "Give, and it will be given to you, pressed down, running over"
- We say, "Don't tell me how to spend my money"
- God is the Judge and Redeemer
- Forgiveness in the sacrifice 3:20-21
- Think of Adam's prior relationships with animals
- God wraps them in the skins of his redemption and love
- Promise of a coming savior - crush Satan's head
- Not allow us to live forever in our sin(3:22-24)
- God's creation will someday be restored - return to the Garden
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