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Oregano in an apple pie
A small mistake - but a disaster
Looked like an apple pie
Smelled like an apple pie
But it did not taste like an apple pie
The same but different – nasty
Did not accomplish what it was intended to do
What if it was strychnine?
This is what happened in the garden.
All seemed well.
Then it all went wrong.
First let us remember how perfect it originally was.
Perfect activity
Perfect place
Perfect person
And now the Lord provided the perfect relationship
I.
The Way it was meant to be: The perfect relationship
A. A perfect discovery
(ESV) Genesis 2 18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
(ESV) Genesis 2 19 Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beastof the field and every birdof the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them.
And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
20 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field.
But for Adam there was not found a helper fitfor him.
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Not good – stark contrast from earlier pattern
2. Pattern of creation – two paired together
3. Recognize his own need for a partner
4. Together to fulfill God’s plan – ministry partnership
B. A perfect partner
(ESV) Genesis 2 18 Then the Lord God said, “… I will make him a helper fit (comparable) for him.”
… 21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.
22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
23 Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bonesand flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”
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The same essence – image of God
Genesis 1: 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
2.
An established order – created first / names her / she made to help him
3. Recognize the partnership pattern of creation
a. Helper – complete what is lacking in male
b.
Comparable – same essence (image of God from ch 1) from rib not earth
c.
Opposite?
– complement (same but different)
4. “At last” this is the one
5. Fashioned and brought together by God Himself
a. Word: Built – like a building – architected and complex
C. A perfect marriage
(ESV) Genesis 2 24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed .
1. Defined: One man / One woman – for a lifetime
2. A commitment before God/men – like a ceremony here
a.
A commitment for a lifetime before God
1) God sets the manner – anything else is sinful / adultery / fornication 2) Invocation of a covenant – agreement between people and God – God oversees and enforces and is involved in any violation
b.
Before men – society establishes its method – legal – not separate from God’s manner ---- one and the same
1) Not expedience – monetary / protection of assets / enjoyment without commitment
3. A priority over previous family and all other connections
4. A choice to commit and join together in all aspects of life
5.
A oneness in the midst of their diversity =
a.
Physically pictured through sexual relationship
b.
Sexual relationship more than just physical – an emotional bonding as well / spiritual bonding?
c.
Intent to deeply bond in oneness at all levels of existence
6.
A relationship of openness and intimacy
So what went wrong when everything was so perfect?
II.
What went wrong?
Listening to the wrong voice about God
A. Challenging God’s authority Genesis 3:1a
(ESV) Genesis 3 1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.
He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”
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The snake
a. Crafty – cunning / slick / not some scary thing / likely attractive and appealing -- like an angel of light – friendly --
b.
Walked?
Maybe – seems like curse involves him crawling on the ground
c.
Talked?
Apparently – Brand new environment – who says snakes can’t talk -- an intelligence that exceed that of animals
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Controlled by Satan
1) Not explicit here / but Satan referred to as that old serpent in Rev 12:9 / John 8:44 father of lies 2) Clear spiritual opponent in New Testament
2. Should have guarded the garden as commissioned
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If not guarded great risks unfold
b.
At greatest risk in midst of comfort
3. Turn God’s clear statement into a question / create doubt / create movement
4. Elohim not Yahweh
5. Usurp God – implication what right does He have to tell us what to do
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Goal remove God from His place
7. Lesson: Satan comes in an appealing form / offering seemingly sensible thoughts / but opposed to God
B. Twisting God’s Word Genesis 3:1b
(ESV) Genesis 3 1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.
He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”
1. Subtle change to what God said
2. Focus on the negatives not the overwhelming blessing
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