The Consequence of Sin.
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Today, we face Adam and Eve, right after they have sinned against God and eaten of the forbidden fruit.
Last week, we saw that immediately after their sin, God didn’t forget about them , but rather, approached them with grace.
However, instead of repenting and accepting God’s grace, Adam and Eve showed how deprave they were now that sin had come upon them. They denied their sin, blamed others for their sin, and tried to justify their sin.
Now, this week, we are going to see the judgment of God on them because of this sin.
However, before we just jump into the divine judgment from God, we must understand a few things about judgment taught throughout the Word of God.
God’s judgment is always just and perfectly fair.
God is always impartial when he judges.
We receive exactly what we deserve, nothing more, and nothing less.
God’s judgment always matches a person’s sin.
Adam and Eve will be judged with a pronouncement that matches their sin.
God’s judgment is always full of wisdom, purpose, and mercy.
God’s judgment is for the purpose of arousing the individual to repent and turn to God for mercy.
God’s judgment fell upon the human race as Adam and Eve are their representative heads.
Their judgments are still being passed on down through their children.
Notice, the judgments come in the order of the committed sin.
God deals with snake and Satan.
The snake is cursed.
God declares war on Satan.
Then, the woman is judged and then the man.
Please notice; Only the Snake and the Soil are cursed.
Man and woman are not cursed because they are created in the image and likeness of God. We saw last week, that God is planning a redemption from this tragedy.
Therefore, the judgment upon the man and woman is not a curse, but rather a disruption of their appointed roles.
The woman was created to rule with Adam.
The woman was created to complete Adam.
The woman was created to be a companion to Adam.
The woman was created to bear children.
Love and Submission becomes Desire and Domination.
We may come back and deal with the Judgment upon Satan at another time but today, I want to deal with the judgment on the Woman.
God’s Judgment on the Woman:
God’s Judgment on the Woman:
16 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.
“Unto the woman he said, I will”, This is a special divine judgment from God Himself.
We understand there is natural consequences of sin but this is not a natural consequence but rather a judicial sentencing.
This punishment stands in direct relation to the sin of the woman. A sin that is consistent with her iniquity.
The punishment is calculated.
God had a plan with His judgment.
God had a purpose in His judgment.
God’s desire in His judgment is to keep ever alive in women a direct remembrance of her sin in the garden.
The judgment of God should be a constant reminder of the sin of Eve that has been passed down to you ladies through many generations.
Sin has consequences, natural or through the judgment of God, sin had a horrible beginning.
Eve sinned in the Pursuit of Personal Enjoyment.
Eve sinned in the Pursuit of Personal Enjoyment.
Genesis 3:6 (KJV 1900)
6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
The fruit looked good.
The fruit was nutritional.
The fruit was beneficial.
Eve wanted personal enjoyment. A joy that she was convinced was being withheld from her. Therefore she ate, and in the eaten did what God commanded her not to do which is a sin, all in the pursuit of personal fulfillment.
While seeking fulfillment, satisfaction, and joy along with her husband, she actually finds her greatest misery.
This judgment actually happens in 2 areas. When looking at a woman, her life is defined by these 2 areas.
When looking at a woman, she is not defined by her housework, her laundry, balancing the checkbook, or even cooking.
The judgment of God hits in the very place where a woman seeks her highest joy: in her husband and her children.
16 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.
In these 2 areas, God gives 2 judgements upon the woman with 5 parts.
Notice the semicolon separating them.
Judgment 1 Deals with Sorrow and
Judgment 2 Deals with Desire.
Both are a very unique burden for women to bear, to have to deal with children through pregnancy, and with children in life, and have to deal with husbands who do not understand them, nor care for them compassionately and with understanding as Christ cares for the church.
Everybody knows that when a woman marries a man, there are times of great fulfillment and joy, but it is also very difficult. [Amen]
A woman’s greatest troubles are going to come because she married a man, [amen], she now has a sinner for husband and she is producing sinners that surround her already sinful life with more sinful things to be concerned about and cope with.
So, lets look first at
Sorrow:
Sorrow:
16 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.
greatly multiplied = literally the same word twice.
Translation = causing to be great, I shall cause to be great your sorrow.
God is referring to multiple pain, multiple sorrow in multiple conceptions and multiple pregnancies.
This word “sorrow” meaning pain, toil, and manual labor is the same word in verse 17.
17 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;
It is a word that encompasses the experience and the emotion of the situation.
The word according to the lexicon literally means everything that is hard to bear.
So, God is saying that He will bring upon her everything that is hard about conception, everything that is hard about having children.
It includes the pain of actual birth, but it’s beyond that, it is all the suffering that goes with having children.
So, go back to our text.
16 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.
So, lets examine this sorrow.
Sorrow = trouble and pain.
Sorrow = trouble and pain.
16 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.
I will greatly multiply or causing to be great I will cause to be great your sorrow, pain and toil,
When Women tend to feel and suffer greater sorrow because of the nature of her creation as a companion and completer.
With that built in nature of a deeper feelings it comes with the negative effect of that sorrow affecting her both physically, spiritually, soul ally; emotionally [heart], and mentally [mind].
Because she feels more deeply, she often suffers more deeply.
This judgment was justified in the fact that the woman’s sin was seeking pleasure in life on her own. Now, the pleasure she once experienced in God’s perfection would no longer rest upon her.
The woman would now bear the imperfection of sin and its fruit: trouble, sorrow, and pain of the imperfect life she has chosen.
Not only was this sorrow placed upon her, but because she led another into sin her sorrow would be increased in her relationships with others.
A woman feels more than man. She suffers sorrow and pain on behalf of others, especially with her own family.
Sorrow in your Conception = pregnancy, birth, or childbirth.
Sorrow in your Conception = pregnancy, birth, or childbirth.
16 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.
I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception -
Nothing provides a woman greater fulfillment, greater joy, greater satisfaction, than to give birth to a baby.
However, with the birth of the child comes pain and sorrow.
I will greatly multiply or causing to be great I will cause to be great your sorrow, pain and toil, AND your conception.
This is multiplied sorrow and multiplied conceptions.
Think about this for a moment. A woman can literally get pregnant every single month of the year. Also, depending upon the nursing pattern of the mother, she can have a child every single year. We are talking about be pregnant, pregnant, and pregnant.
Hence we get the phrase, “Barefoot and pregnant” a figure of speech commonly associated with the idea that women should not work outside the home because there is not time because she should be having many children.
As a matter of fact, think about the sorrow, pain and toil of childbirth.
Childbirth brings a mother to the actual door of death, threatening her very life in order to bring a child into the world, however, we will see that the pain and sorrow is relieved for the moment when she lays eyes on the child but then quickly turns back to sorrow as she will be constantly reminded by disappointments, failures, and sorrows that will bring about the deepest pain in the lives of her children.
Simeon said this to Mary.
34 And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;
35 (Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.
A Mother gets to carry a child for 9 months in your womb.
Down through history and still in third world countries, women go into pregnancy realizing they could die.
Child birth brings a woman on the very verge of death.
Mortality rates are still high in many places around the world and throughout history.
The risk of death and the pain of childbirth is not the real point here, because no matter how dangerous, it does not deter a woman from wanting to have a child. The birthing part is temporary.
21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
The pain of childbirth should cause a woman to cry out to God for help, to stir her to cry out in trust and dependence upon God for her and her child.
Sorrow with Rearing Children:
Sorrow with Rearing Children:
16 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.
Bring forth = more than delivery, it means rearing children.
The future of her children is a greater sorrow and pain for her to bear, especially knowing that they are sinners and without a relationship with God, they will go astray.
Every mother feels the responsibility of releasing that child they carried and reared into the world with all of its hostilities and all of its threats and all of its dangers.
Not only that, but as that child grows, the sinful nature of that child grows and begins to find everything destructive to entertain itself and therefore a mother never has an opportunity to find rest from the sorrow of life.
Mothers worry about not only about what may harm the child physically but what may destroy the child’s soul.
And then if all that worrying is not enough, she worries about rebellion that will break her heart.
On top of that, the more children she has, the more that sorrow, pain and toil, goes up exponentially.
Before this age of contraceptives, women who would submit to their husbands sexual whims were constantly having children spending their entire lives carrying, bearing, nursing and nurturing these children while carrying the load of love that watched those children fall into danger after danger and even break their own mothers heart.
Women have had a very rough go of it. They have had children they wanted and probably children they knew they couldn’t care for, and actually have children they could not care for.
Fortunately, in America, science has developed medicines, medical care, contraceptives, and education that have mitigated the physical trauma of childbirth and the relentlessness of it and given the woman a measure of comfort, but has not removed the problem because mothers still die and babies are still born deformed, ill, or even dead.
So, women worry and women fear, physical, mental, spiritually pain and harm.
The judgment of God on Women is definitely more the pain of delivery.
Post-partum blues is from the sorrow and pain that comes from after the birth. The sadness of realizing the level of intimacy of carrying that child for 9 months is no more, the level of protection for that child is gone. Along with this birth comes new fear of illnesses and viruses and germs, and all kind of things.
As the child grows, the level of protection continues to shrink because the child becomes exposed to greater and greater dangers physically and mentally and emotionally, and spiritually.
Let me ask you a question.
Have we studied anywhere in the creation of woman that God’s original intention that women would have babies year after year and those babies would bring upon the woman sorrow in the physical pain, sorrow in the brink of death at the time of birth and then sorrow in watching that little life struggle and try to find life.
Absolutely not!
All of this happened because of the judgement of God on sin. God created for her to rule, be blessed, and live an eternal life of joy.
However, death is now experienced because of sin.
Death does not change the original mandate.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
The original design was for women to have babies and watch those babies grow and never have to experience their decline.
Knowing this however, in God’s wisdom and mercy should cause you to cry out to God and to seek, trust, and depend upon God for help.
This deep sorrow and pain over your children should also cause you to be more diligent in helping and teaching your children to live like they should.
Turn with me to 2 Timothy 2
As a woman, after seeing that Marriage is a presentation of the gospel in the likeness of the Godhead, what can you do to alliviate the sorrows of the curse and participate in the Gospel of Jesus Christ?
Look at verse 13.
13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
Paul is giving instruction on how to behave in the church.
The overall context of this passage is because of the gospel.
15 This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
16 Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
Because of the gospel, we need to pray.
1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
then he comes to men’s role in church.
8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
This has to do with leadership.
Leading in prayer, leading in example.
and then we come to verse 9
9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
Woman are to pray but are to focus on good works and godliness.
10 But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
Then Paul says next.
11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
The woman is to receive instruction and not teach the men.
Now back to verse 13.
13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
Paul brings us back to creation.
Adam was created first and then Eve.
Eve was created to be a companion and a completer.
Eve is not the head, she is the helper.
The woman is to adorn herself in a way that brings honor to her husband, attention to her husband, and not honor or attention to herself.
That is the divine order.
This is God’s design not Paul or my or your opinion.
After dealing with creation Then he gets into verse 14 and deals with the Fall.
14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
The woman was deceived. She stepped out of her God-ordained role. Rather than coming under the protection of her husband and seeking her husband’s counsel came out and acted independently and allowed herself to be exposed to the temptation and was deceived.
Because she was deceived she fell into the transgression, sin, and then led her husband into the same transgression and plunged the whole human race into sin and brought upon her own head this judgment.
Listen very carefully as we wrap this up.
Let’s go back to the judgment.
16 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.
The judgment of sin on the woman was this deep, profound, relentless pain through relationships with her children.
Sorrow, pain, toil has been the relationship between mothers and children from the time of sin. This is the woman’s deepest pain.
Now, lets go back to 1 Timothy 2:15
15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
Ladies get caught up in the submissive part and the how to dress part and we miss the most profound part of the woman’s life. We miss the hope.
Woman, you have it rough. There is pain, sorrow, and toil in the birth of children and the rearing of children.
How would you like to find some relief in this judgment?
Rather than be consumed by God’s judgment upon you, you can be saved, or delivered.
Not saved by having children, but saved or delivered from the impact and suffering and sorrow and toil of having these sinners in your life.
This is how perfect God’s judgment is:
The pain of childbearing is the punishment of sin, but in that very childbearing you can find deliverance from that pain.
How do you do it?
15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
If you continue in faith and love and sanctity with self-restraint.
They is the woman that is the subject of this passage.
If you women will live a godly life and continue in faith and love and holiness and self-control, If you will be a godly woman from verse 10, then you will raise a godly generation and your children will continue in the same thing.
Listen, because of my wife, my children are a joy to me. My grandchildren are a joy to me. They have been raised in the nurture and admonition of the Lord and we find in them the greatest delight.
However, there are still fears. There are worries of the evil that is in the world, the influences in their life that can corrupt their minds. But there is joy there.
It is your godly living that delivers you from the weight of the judgment of God. Your fruit is joy from a godly life in faith, love and holiness and self-control.
Because, when your child is saved, you realize that even if their life is lost, even if they are ill, you have nothing to fear because you know where they are going.
So, in Christ through salvation, the curse is reversed and the children become a heritage from the Lord, a blessing, a gift from God given back to Him and the source of your greatest joyl
Are you focusing on the suffering, the pain, the toil of being a mother or are you living for the joy of seeing that child saved for the honor and glory of God.
The judgment was God’s but the choice is yours!
