The Fall
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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.”
What do we learn about God?
What do we learn about God?
God is Sovereign
God is Sovereign
God is Good
God is Good
God is Our Provider
God is Our Provider
God sets the Rules/Boundaries
God sets the Rules/Boundaries
What do we learn about Mankind?
What do we learn about Mankind?
Man is Dependent
Man is Dependent
Man needs instruction
Man needs instruction
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.
God is Caring
God is Caring
Man needs Companionship
Man needs Companionship
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’?”
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.’ ”
“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.
“For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
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.
Man is sinful
Man is sinful
What is sin?
What is sin?
miss the mark, fall short
transgress / step over the line
rebellion
wayward
wrong
perverse
lawless / unruly
adulterous
unrighteous
Does God cause sin?
Does God cause sin?
When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone;
Does Satan cause sin?
Does Satan cause sin?
(The devil made me do it?)
influence
not determinate
but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed.
Does the environment cause sin?
Does the environment cause sin?
influence
not determinate
Temptation is from our own evil desires
Temptation is from our own evil desires
For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.
Deception of Sin
Deception of Sin
knowledge, thinking on our own instead of obeying what God tells us
Guilt
Shame
Inner Conflict
Cover-up
Anger
Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
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?”
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?”
The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
What do we learn about God?
God desires a relationship with mankind
God desires a relationship with mankind
God is patient, slow to anger
God is patient, slow to anger
God is merciful
God is merciful
God desires repentance
God desires repentance
what do we learn about man?
Mankind deflects and blames
Mankind deflects and blames
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.
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.”
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.”
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.”
What do we learn about God?
God punishes / disciplines
God punishes / disciplines
for true repentance
Death is a result of sin
Death is a result of sin
What is Death?
Death is Separation
Death is Separation
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.
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.
1987 - “every person on Earth right now can trace his or her lineage back to a single common female ancestor who lived around 200,000 years ago”
this is debated, and some don’t like it because it sounds like it proves Eve.
What do we learn about God?
God is gracious
God is gracious
He still desired to have a relationship with his creation.
He wanted to protect them.
He wanted to restore them.