Introduction:
Man’s first chance at paradise was lost because he listened to the lies of the devil and did the one thing that God had kept from him.
- THEIR SIN (Genesis 3:1-6)
- The Serpent Questions Gods Word (Genesis 3:1)
- The serpent was a beast of the field.
- However, it was also the embodiment of Satan.
- In scripture, Satan is called the piercing serpent (Isaiah 27:1), that crooked serpent (Isaiah 27:1) and that old serpent (Revelation 12:9; Revelation 20:2).
- To be subtil (modern spelling is subtle) is to be crafty or sly.
- Eve was beguiled through the serpents subtilty (2Corinthians 11:3).
- The Woman Misquotes Gods Word (Genesis 3:2-3; Genesis 2:16-17)
- God had not said that they could not touch the tree.
- Eves heart was evidently already being swayed by the attacks of the devil on Gods word.
- The Serpent Contradicts Gods Word (Genesis 3:4-5)
- Yea hath God said (Genesis 3:1)
- Ye shall not surely die (Genesis 3:4)
- Your eyes shall be opened (Genesis 3:5)
- Ye shall be as gods (Genesis 3:5)
- The Woman Disobeys Gods Word (Genesis 3:6)
- The threefold temptation (see 1John 2:16; Luke 4:1-13)
- Good for food lust of the flesh
- Pleasant to the eyes lust of the eyes
- Desired to make one wise pride of life
- The taking of the fruit
- For herself
- For her husband
- Adams involvement
- Adam was evidently with Eve when she partook of the forbidden fruit (she gave also unto her husband with her).
- Just as Abram did two millennium later (Genesis 16:2), Adam hearkened unto the voice of his wife (Genesis 3:17). (See also1 Kings 21:25.)
- However, there are times when God wants men to hearken to their wives (see Genesis 21:12).
- THEIR SHAME (Genesis 3:7-13)
- Covering Their Nakedness (Genesis 3:7)
- Their eyes opened
- Their shame revealed
- Their attempt to cover themselves
- Hiding From God (Genesis 3:8-10)
- The time of fellowship comes (Genesis 3:8)
- They hide from the presence of God (Genesis 3:8)
- They are sought by the voice of God (Genesis 3:9-10)
- Blaming Others (Genesis 3:11-13)
- The man blames the woman (Genesis 3:11-12)
- The woman blames the serpent (Genesis 3:13)
- THEIR SENTENCE (Genesis 3:14-19)
- On the Serpent (Genesis 3:14-15)
- The serpent punished (Genesis 3:14)
- Cursed above every beast
- Cursed to crawl on his belly
- Cursed to eat the dust (Isaiah 65:25)
- The seed promised (Genesis 3:15)
- This is the first and one of the most outstanding prophecies concerning the coming Messiah found in the entire Old Testament.
- The serpent and his seed (Antichrist) to be forever at war with the woman and her seed (Jesus Isaiah 7:14; Galatians 4:4)
- The serpent to bruise the heel of the womans seed
- The womans seed to bruise the head of the serpent
- Jesus Christ is the seed of the woman because He was born of Mary but without a human father (Luke 1:30-35). The heel of Jesus is bruised. That refers to His temporary pain on the cross.
- The head of the serpent will be bruised. That refers to the Devils future destruction (Revelation 20:10).
- On the Woman (Genesis 3:16)
- Sorrow in childbearing
- Subjection to her husband
- On the Man (Genesis 3:17-19)
- A curse on the ground (Genesis 3:17-18)
- Fruit from the ground to be eaten in sorrow (Genesis 3:17)
- Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth (Genesis 3:18)
- Much sorrow in his labor (Genesis 3:17; Genesis 3:19)
- Adam worked in the garden before sin came. (Genesis 2:15)
- The curse is the sorrow associated with labor.
- A return to the dust (Genesis 3:19)
- THEIR SENDING (Genesis 3:20-24)
- The Naming of Eve (Genesis 3:20)
- Named by Adam
- Named Eve because she was the mother of all living
- The Coats of Skin (Genesis 3:21)
- Gods covering (contrast Genesis 3:7)
- Required the shedding of blood
- The Casting From the Garden (Genesis 3:22-23)
- To separate them from the tree of life (Genesis 3:22)
- The tree of life would have kept them alive in their fallen condition.
- The ability to depart this life is a gift from God only necessary because of sin.
- To till the ground from whence he came (Genesis 3:23)
- The Guarding of the Tree of Life (Genesis 3:24)
- The Cherubim
- A flaming sword
CONCLUSION: Because of the sin of Adam and Eve, we all live under the curse of sin. However, God makes a way for us to overcome this curse through the death, burial and resurrection of His Son Jesus Christ.