Adam: Man's Plan for Man

Genesis 3:1-13

The last two studies that we have had on Adam were great because we were able to see God’s Perfect plan for man, and God’s perfect plan for the family. We were able to find out some foundational principles to seeing success in our families and our own personal lives in regard to what God’s purpose is for us today through studying Adam.

Remember that in creation man was in perfect union with God. Man was also in perfect union with his wife and she with her husband. It was a perfect creation. When man follows God’s plan, he is very blessed.

Today, in our study, we are going to start looking at one of the most important chapters of all the Bible.

As we study this, we are seeing the rejection of Darwinian philosophy of evolution. Darwin said that man was came up from pond scum, and slowly developed and mature and started to develop morals and spiritual qualities and is perfecting his existence. But the opposite is true, man was perfect, created at with perfect morality, perfect health, perfect thinking and a perfect relationship with God, nothing impeding him.

Have you ever felt like you are being impeded by something or someone, you cannot focus, you cannot seem to get it right, you cannot fix things, you have a desire but do not have the know how. Adam wasn’t like that, there was not an area in life where he was lacking.

But in this passage we are going to see things taking a turn, they are heading a way that was not according to God’s plan, but man’s plan.

I. Man’s Plan: Beleaguered with Confusion

Man’s plan is wonderful to himself. Man is very impressed with his own ideas.

Man will always be in confusion away from God. Because man is to derive his purpose from God, his joy from obedience to God, and His peace resting in the promises of God. But outside of God’s plan, man’s plan is beleaguered with confusion. Why?

A. Heeding the wrong philosophies

Notice how we see mankind the man and the woman heeding the wrong philosophies in life.

Let me remind you that any philosophy that goes against the Word of God is sinful, it is wrong.

Philosophies have a way of changing, but God’s Word does not change.

Notice the philosophies that mankind starts to think about:

1. Questioning of God’s Word

Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

· Satan’s tactic to call into question God’s Word, to get man to doubt – he continues to use this today, if he can get you to doubt God’s Word, then he can get you to rebel against God’s Word.

2. Denial of God’s Word

Genesis 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

· Man continues to try to fight and resist, trying to hold the philosophy of not dying, but if you sin, you will die.

3. Adding to God’s Word

Genesis 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

This world loves to add to God’s Word.

Another one Satan’s tactics is to say, “Okay, God’s Word is okay, but let me tell you what it says,” therefore adding his own twist to it.

Not you, no me, not any religion or denomination has this right to add to God’s Word

When we add to God’s Word, we sin and we cause other people to sin, and we bring God’s judgment.

So man is beleaguered in confusion through Heeding wrong philosophies, but also because he is:

B. Hearing the wrong personality

Eve listened to the wrong personality here .

Anyone who tells you to go away from the Word of God or questions it is not your friend.

That is what is amazing to me, we call people our friends who tempt us, who belittle our beliefs, who cause us to sin.

Eve listened to the serpent, who are you listening to that is keeping you from following God or who is mucking up the truth of His Word.

Adam listened to the wrong family member

No doubt Eve loved Adam and Adam loved Eve, but he should have heeded God’s Word and not his wife’s.

Do you love God more than your wife, do you fear God more than your wife.

Ladies, do you fear God more than your husbands.

C. Hustled by the wrong plan

Man’s plan is usually the easiest path - eat this fruit and live forever. The easiest path is almost always bad for you.

The Serpent hustled the plan to Eve, Eve hustled it to Adam, and Adam willingly heeded it, figuring he knew better as well.

But our plan, no matter how well it was thought out, if it is out of God’s will, it is the wrong plan.

There are only two paths to take, following God’s plan or Satan’s.

When you say, I have my own path, my own plan, my own philosophy, you are revealing that you are actually on Satan’s path, not your own.

Adam and Eve thought that they had found something God wasn’t letting them in on, but really they were only following Satan’s will.

II. Man’s Plan: Bogged down with Curses

Proverbs 14:12 KJV

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

A. For the Serpent

Genesis 3:14–15 KJV

And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

B. For the Woman:

Genesis 3:16 KJV

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

1. Pain in child bearing

2. Battle with her husband

C. For the Man:

Genesis 3:17–19 KJV

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Cursed Ground

Work load is increased

This produced sorrow and weariness

D. Expulsion from the Garden of Eden

Genesis 3:23–24 KJV

Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

III. Man’s Plan: Brought in Condemnation

Because of all these curses and specifically because of the Sin Nature, Man is condemned.

The first reference to this was written in

Genesis 3:19 KJV

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

And in verse 22 we see God taking away the tree of life – which allow man to live for ever if ate of it.

Genesis 3:22 KJV

And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

So upon expelling man from the garden, God signed man’s death sentence. He had to pay for his sin.

This curse of sin that is passed on to every person born of a man woman on earth.

Romans 5:12 KJV

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

Hebrews 9:27 KJV

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

Study Rom 6:23; Revelation 20:12-13; James 1:15

The death of any man can always be traced back to sin. The sin of every man can be traced back ultimately to Adam.

Let me give you a sneak peak of our next message in the series. God still loves you – in spite of your sin, God still wants you back. You may be dirty rotten and sinful – you may be in the depths of despair and unable to save yourself, but God will save you if you will but repent, (admit the fact you are a sinner and turn from that sin to God) placing your faith in Jesus alone for your salvation.

God can take you from that condemned states and turn it to forgiveness and everlasting life.

The Talmud says Adam and Eve did not know what darkness was until driven out of Paradise. As the sun began to set they were filled with fear. When all grew dark, they fell to the earth in silent despair, thinking God had withdrawn the light forever.

But when the first beam appeared over the eastern hills, drying their tears, they cried out as it says in

Psalm 30:5 KJV

For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

Friend, God says that he is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. Oh friend, you may have been far from God, but be ye reconciled back to God today.