Genesis 3
Monday Night we'll get into perhaps the most important chapter of Genesis - Chapter 3 where everything goes South and we come under the curse of the Fall. What an amazing thing it would have been to live in the garden of Eden, walking in perfect communion with LORD God, enjoying perfectly rewarding work, and blissful marital intimacy with a wife fashioned solely for you and your help! Unfortunately it didn't take long for the two of them to mess it all up!
Review Genesis 1 & 2:
1. God created man (man & woman) in His image. As image bearers men and women reflect God’s qualities and are equally worthy.
2. Man & Woman have shared job of exercising God’s loving dominion over the earth and it’s creatures and are called to make the earth fruitful and to multiply and fill it.
3. God graciously provided a beautiful garden with “every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food”
4. God provided pleasing work – to tend and keep the garden
5. God prohibited only one thing – eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
6. On day 6, the only thing not good, was for man to be alone
a. Need for relationship reflects the relational nature of the Trinity
7. Male and Female roles are different.
a. Men are given unique authority and responsibility as manifested by
i. Created order – Adam made first
ii. Adam named all of the animals
iii. Woman was made from Man
iv. Adam named the woman
b. Woman’s role was helper
8. Men and Women are called to leave their parents and become one.
a. Marriage involves shameless committed marital intimacy!
Genesis 3
Gen 3:1-24 ESV Now the serpent was _____ ______ than any other beast of the field that the _____ ______ had made. He said to the woman, "Did ___ actually say, 'You shall not eat of any tree in the garden'?"
1. What was the serpent trying to do with Eve? Was he sincerely asking her?
2. How do you know when Satan is lying? (John 8:44)
3. Why was he asking Eve and not Adam?
4. Why did he ask about the only thing she was not permitted to do, instead of the generous provision of God?
a. Does he still do this today? Is this effective?
Gen 3:2-3 ESV And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, (3) but God said, 'You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
1. What did God actually say in Gen 2:16 about the trees? “You may _____ eat of ____ tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall _____ die.”
a. Eve lost sight of God’s ____________ ______________
b. Eve exaggerated his prohibition by saying they couldn’t even touch the fruit
c. Eve downplayed the speed and surety of judgement by implying death was just a possibility.
d. Do you ever question the goodness of God’s prohibitions and downplay the negative effects of sin?
i. What did that get you?
Gen 3:4-6 ESV But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. (5) For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." (6) So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
1. Why is verse four a lie?
2. What is the serpent implying about God’s reasons for prohibiting the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil?
3. Is it wrong to want “to be like God?”
4. What were the three aspects of the fruit that tempted her? (1 John 2:16)
a. “good for food” – Lust of the ______
b. “delight to the eyes” – Lust of the _____
c. “tree was to be desired to make one wise” – Boastful pride of _____
5. Does the devil still tempt us that way?
6. Where was Adam during all of this?
a. Why is that important?
Gen 3:7-12 ESV Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths. (8) And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. (9) But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?" (10) And he said, "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself." (11) He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?" (12) The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate."
1. What is always the consequence of sin?
a.
b.
2. Did they die? (Romans 5:12 – 19)
a. Was there death before now?
b. Was there death after the fall?
3. Who did the LORD God call?
a. Why is this important?
b. With authority comes _____________.
c. Does God call men to be responsible or pay for the sins of others sometimes?
4. What are the two types of sin?
a. Not doing something you should do is a sin of __________.
b. Doing something you shouldn’t do is a sin of ____________.
5. Who did Adam blame for his sin?
a. G_____
b. E_____
c. Him_____
Gen 3:13 ESV Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
1. Who does Eve blame?
a. S________
b. Her_______
2. Is deception an adequate excuse?
Gen 3:14-15 ESV The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. (15) I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel."
1. Since Satan attacked man through the woman, God provided man’s salvation and Satan’s destruction through her.
2. Who is going to be Eve’s offspring who will bruise the Serpent’s head ________?
a. This verse is called the Protoevangelium – the announcement of the first gospel.
Gen 3:16 ESV To the woman he said, "I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you."
1. Eve’s curse – painful childbirth and most likely everything else that has to do with raising children.
2. Eve will desire to have her husband’s role of leadership and authority
a. NT instructs women to lovingly submit to husband’s leadership – 1 Tim 2:9-15, 1 Cor 11:3-15, 1 Cor 14:34-35, Titus 2:3-5
3. Husbands will tend to abuse or avoid their role and responsibility for leadership and loving authority in the home (Eph 5:25, Phil 2:1-8).
a. Abuse
b. Abandonment
c. Passivity
Gen 3:17-19 ESV And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; (18) thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. (19) By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
1. Ground is cursed
a. Work will be greatly increased in difficulty
b. The start of everything bad on the earth (Ro 8:20 – 25).
2. Adam will return to dust – He will die.
Gen 3:20-21 ESV The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. (21) And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.
1. Eve means “Life”
2. God sacrifices an animal to cover their nakedness
a. Foreshadows need for blood to be shed to cover sin.
Gen 3:22-24 ESV Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever--" (23) therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. (24) He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.
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