Adam and Eve
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Transcript
Overview of the Bible, following the narrative
Big book, only hitting the highlights
Main point of the Bible is so that we might know:
God
Mankind (ourselves)
Hope
So we will ask three questions as we go through this series.
Each one teach one
Each one teach one
What did we learn about God and Man so far?
What did we learn about God and Man so far?
Today we will go through Genesis 2 & 3. I intended to hit Gen 2 last week, but we didn’t quite get through it. So here we go.
This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground,
but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
This is the account… literary device that shows the sections of the book of Genesis.
No rain.. .This is important later.
Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
God - source of life
Man -
Two parts - material, immaterial
Body & Soul/mind/heart/spirit/self/nature/flesh/conscience/will
Image of God has to do with the immaterial part
Heart is a central theme
Heart to love God & Others
God & Man pre fall slide
Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.
The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;
but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
God & Man Pre -fall slide -
God - Gives commands/instructions
God - expects faith - trust / obedience
God - Just
Man - receives instruction
Man - expected to believe God - Trust & Obey
The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.
So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh.
Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
Man - not meant to be alone. Needs relationships
Created to love God and others
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
Temptation - Doubt
The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,
but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ ”
Add to what God says… getting away from Faith
“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.
Temptation - Contradicts
“For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Temptation - Better Offer, give you what you want
Man already like God… just not fully, limited knowledge
Does God know evil, experientially? no
No evil up to this time
When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
Lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh, pride of life - 1 John 2.16
Man - covers up
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
God sees and knows
Why call out?
God desires Repentance and Confession
Repentance - change of mind, 180 turn from I am right to I am wrong, God is right, which leads to action...
Confession - admitting wrongdoing, disclose one’s faults
He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
Again, God asks
Why? God is patient, slow to anger
The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
Man - apologizes - gives reason/justification, admits error, but the justification shifts the blame, in this case blaming God and the woman
God - patient
Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
Woman - apologizes
God - patient
So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.
God is just
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
God promises a savior, a way out of this
To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
God punishes sin - to bring repentance and confession
To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.
It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”
God punishes sin - to bring repentance and confession
Reason for suffering today
Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.
The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
God still cares for man
God shows how he will provide
And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
No other way to life other than God’s way.
