Sin is failure to do what God has commanded us. Though Adam and Eve and their descendants were prevented from eating the fruit of the tree of life (by Gods mercy), they could still come there to meet God. Minor Prophets Blue Letter Bible is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The way God came to Adam and Eve is a model of how He comes to lost and fallen humanity ever since. 1. God ordained that the pain with which women bring children into this world be an example of the pain they experience more generally in life. Luke-Acts Satan and the flesh will present a thousand reasons to show how good it would be to disobey His command. (Barnhouse). This is why we are called to never give place to the devil (Ephesians 4:27). c. Where are you? He promises advantage from their eating this fruit. This shows how remarkable it is that Jesus could say, Satan has nothing in Me (John 14:30). In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread On this occasion, Satan chose to indwell the body of a pre-curse serpent. We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, In the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, You will be like God, knowing good and evil, The woman saw that the tree was good for food, Then the eyes of both of them were opened, They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, walking in the garden in the cool of the day, I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid. Many have speculated that Adam sinned because he didnt want Eve to be alone in the fall, and he ate of the fruit out of a romantic impulse. Poetical Books ii. Perhaps there is a note of sarcasm by God here (as Elijah used in 1 Kings 18:27), regarding Satans empty promise to become like gods. Let it not lessen our sorrow for sin, that we were beguiled into it; but let it increase our self-indignation, that we should suffer ourselves to be deceived by a known cheat, and a sworn enemy, who would destroy our souls. Those who would be safe, need to be shy of talking with the tempter. His victory over Satan thereby. Satan came in the form of a serpent to tempt Eve This speaks of an inherent challenge in embracing the husbands role as leader of the home and family. And you shall eat the herb of the field. in the resource materials are not necessarily affirmed, in total, by this ministry. 3. We all sin, but when we sin, we can still give glory to God by openly confessing without shifting the blame onto others (Joshua 7:19-20). An immaterial spirit must be invisible; and therefore he must embody himself in some way or other before he can be seen. Johannine Writings The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him (John 1:18); and no man has ever seen God in the Person of the Father (1 Timothy 6:16). b. This signified the shutting out of him, and all his guilty race, from that communion with God, which was the bliss and glory of paradise. He was a man of sorrows; his soul was, in his agony, exceeding sorrowful. 1. i. They saw the happiness they fell from, and the misery they were fallen into. Then the eyes of both of them were opened: Seemingly, it was only after the sin of Adam that they knew of their sinful state. ii. i. To eat dust has the idea of total defeat (Isaiah 65:25, Micah 7:17). He drew Eve into a discussion with him and planted the seed of doubt about Gods Word, and he exposed Eves incomplete understanding of Gods Word. Wisdom Literature Fig leaves have something of a prickly quality, which would make for some pretty itchy coverings. God placed a natural animosity between Satan and mankind. The LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them: God wanted Adam and Eve clothed, not naked. Satan ruined himself by desiring to be like the Most High, therefore he sought to infect our first parents with the same desire, that he might ruin them too. Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. Adam sinned with his eyes wide open, in open rebellion against God. 3. It is as if a deaf person was promised to be able to hear again, but all they could hear was screaming. They couldnt refuse to answer God the way a criminal might keep silent when questioned. But to this point, she was called a female (Genesis 1:27), a helper comparable (Genesis 2:18), a woman (Genesis 2:22, 23), and a wife (Genesis 2:24, 25; 3:8). Pentateuch d. You will be like God, knowing good and evil: The final enticement was the most powerful because it was how Satan himself fell, wanting to be equal with God. As with every temptation, God had made for Eve a way of escape (1 Corinthians 10:13). This shows the falsehood of the tempter, and the frauds of his temptations. iv. Their hearts must have been sorely perplexed within them while they were waiting to see what God would do to them as a punishment for the great sin they had committed. (Spurgeon). Adam and Eve must have been terrified as this once-beautiful creature called a serpent was transformed into the creeping, slithering, hissing snake we know today. This does not mean God did not have a name for Eve, but we are told what the name is in Genesis 5:2: He called them Mankind. A complete lie is rarely effective in temptation. (Genesis 3:14-15) Gods curse upon the serpent. She was not even pregnant yet. WebBut the serpent said to the woman, You shall not surely die (Genesis 3:4) God had expressly declared to Adam, in the day that you eat of (the forbidden tree) you shall surely die.. When too late, Adam and Eve saw the folly of eating forbidden fruit. But instead of acknowledging the sin in its full extent, and taking shame to themselves, Adam and Eve excuse the sin, and lay the shame and blame on others. Adam and Eve were clothed with a garment that was purchased with the life of another. Historical Books The New Testament It is the history of Sodom's ruin, and Lot's rescue from that ruin. Web3. If Satan doesnt couple it with some truth, there is little power in his temptation. 2. Your good works are essential to what it takes to live out your life, but they are not legal tender before God. In response, God issues three individual ''curses'' which affect humanity to this day. a. i. His main lie to us is sin is not bad, and God is not good., iv. d. Dust you are, and to dust you shall return: The final curse upon man promised there would be an end of his toil and labor on the earth but it was an end of death, not an end of deliverance. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life. We are so used to saying Adam and Eve that we assume she already had her name. He drew all his posterity into sin and ruin. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame (Revelation 16:15). Observe the startling question, Adam, where art thou? We need to let Jesus cover us (Revelation 3:5, 18), and put on Jesus Himself as our covering garment (Galatians 3:27). The devil contradicts Gods word by falsely assuring Adam and Eve, you shall not surely die.. Men know not that they shall die, even though they confess it with their lips almost daily. If he could make Eve confused about what God said, or to doubt what God said, then his battle was partially won. range of evangelical traditions, all of the ideas and principles conveyed Error: Passwords should have at least 6 characters, Error: Usernames should only contain letters, numbers, dots, dashes, or underscores. v. This is the first gospel sermon that was ever delivered upon the surface of this earth. They must have thought, Its our turn next!. WebWhen confronted with their sin, the man and woman confess, but also attempt to shift the blame to others. You are cursed more than all cattle: The first part of the curse is directed at the animal that Satan used to bring the temptation. b. Deceived me: The problem comes when we fail to see that being deceived is sin in itself. The question was meant to lead Adam to confess his sin. ii. Minor Prophets Dont touch it or God says well die! While this is better than saying nothing, what Adam didnt explain made a vulnerable place where Satan could attack. God came to them personally, addressing Adam and Eve directly. It is sin to exchange the truth of God for the lie (Romans 1:25). i. Leupold on walking in the garden in the cool of the day: The almost casual way in which this is remarked indicates that this did not occur for the first time just then There is extreme likelihood that the Almighty assumed some form analogous to the human form which was made in His image.. Adam named her in faith, trusting God would bring forth a deliverer from the woman because God said He would defeat Satan through the Seed of the woman (Genesis 3:15). WebGenesis 3:14-19. The contents of this chapter we have, 2 Pet 2 6-8, where we find that "God, turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, and delivered just Lot." For out of it you were taken; Adam probably had regard to the blessing of a Redeemer, the promised Seed, in calling his wife Eve, or life; for He should be the life of all believers, and in Him all the families of the earth should be blessed. Has God said, Ye shall not lie, nor take his name in vain, nor be drunk, &c.? In attacking Jesus, Satan made his own doom certain. This was not the interrogation of an angry commanding officer, but the heartfelt cry of an anguished father. WebGenesis 3:19. We can almost picture Adam telling Eve, See that tree in the middle of the garden? Like Adam, we have reason to be afraid of approaching to God, if we are not covered and clothed with the righteousness of Christ. Historical Books The serpent deceives Eve. iii. If this is true, it wasnt so strange to Eve that an angelic being might appear to her in the form of a beautiful pre-curse serpent. It was henceforward in vain for him and his to expect righteousness, life, and happiness, by the covenant of works; for the command of that covenant being broken, the curse of it is in full force: we are all undone, if we are judged by that covenant. In all probability the reptile called the serpent was a nobler creature before the Fall than now. Satan teaches men first to doubt, and then to deny. It was as if God could not wait to announce His plan of salvation, to bring deliverance through the one known as the Seed of the woman. But when Adam ate, he was not deceived as Eve was. ii. And he said to the woman, Has God indeed said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?. Prophets ii. Major Prophets This much was true: she had been deceived, and she did eat. Eve was responsible. The fruit probably was pleasant to the eyes, though that shouldnt mean much. The friendship Eve and the serpent seemed to enjoy earlier in the chapter is finished. The way to the tree of life was shut. Jesus, in taking on humanity, brought Himself near to Satans domain so Satan could strike Him. We are called to talk to the devil, but never to have a discussion with him. Yet Adam is not himself cursed, as the serpent was, but only the ground for his sake. As the gospel gains ground, Satan falls. Web(Read Genesis 3:16-19) The woman, for her sin, is condemned to a state of sorrow, and of subjection; proper punishments of that sin, in which she had sought to gratify the desire of And how admirably the satisfaction of our Lord Jesus, by his death and sufferings, answered the sentence passed on our first parents! 20 The man gave his i. It was the ground that was cursed due to Adam's sin, so that he had to toil by the sweat of his brow throughout this earthly life to provide what was originally bestowed in plentiful supply. Since the text and audio content provided by BLB represent a This is not because there is something intrinsically unclean in our sexuality, but because we have both received our fallenness and pass it on genetically through sexual reproduction. Web19 By the sweat of your brow. If all these people were brought together in a church-like organization, it would be the third largest religious denomination in America. He aims to make them discontented with their present state, as if it were not so good as it might be, and should be. Barnes' Notes on the Bible Here begins the judgment. They didnt proudly show off their fig-leaf outfits; they knew their own covering was completely inadequate, and they were embarrassed before God. The two angels come to Sodom. On your belly you shall go, Humanity was originally given every perfect thing they could need or want, and virtually no restrictions. Poetical Books WebGenesis 19:3. The serpent: The text here does not, by itself alone, clearly identify the serpent as Satan, but the rest of the Bible makes it clear this is Satan appearing as a serpent. Are not his days also like the days of a hired man? One must be hardened to willingly and knowingly serve Satan. The New Age movement and the desire to be god are just as strong as ever. The devil tempts them, persecutes and slays them; and so bruises the heel of Christ, who is afflicted in their afflictions. i. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point (Genesis 3:21) God clothes Adam and Eve in the skins of animals. He was to live; the ground was to bring forth enough of the herb of the field for him to continue to exist. Demonic spirits evidently have the ability, under certain circumstances, to indwell human or animal bodies (Luke 8:33). a. I will greatly multiply your sorrow: God first cursed the woman with multiplied sorrow. Where the gospel has gone, the load has been lifted, and woman in Christ has become the reflection of the redeemed Church, the bride of Christ. (Barnhouse). Your desire shall be for your husband, Gods judgment on Satan is for him to always know defeat. They knew they were naked, in the sense of having their shame exposed to all creation. He will always reach for victory but always fall short of it. No wonder our sorrows are multiplied, when our sins are so. See Romans 7:11; Hebrews 3:13. He can undermine just as effectively by getting us to neglect Gods Word as by getting us to doubt it. Pentateuch b. Adam and his wife hid themselves: This shows that Adam and Eve knew that their attempt to cover themselves failed. Genesis 3:15 has been called the proto-evangelium, the first gospel. Passwords should have at least 6 characters. The Whole Bible ( Genesis 3:1) The serpent begins his temptation. And more than every beast of the field; Humanity was originally given every perfect thing they could need or want, and virtually no restrictions. The idea that the woman takes her name from the husband, and the idea that both genders are encompassed in terms like mankind, humanity, and chairman. (Genesis 3:2-3) Eves reply to the serpent. d. He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden: Cherubim are always associated with the presence and glory of God (Ezekiel 10, Isaiah 6, Revelation 4). 1. General Epistles It has been a sort of speculative opinion that the creature either had wings, or was able to move without creeping upon the earth as it now does. (Spurgeon). He tempts them to seek preferment, as if they were fit to be gods. Christ baffled Satan's temptations, rescued souls out of his hands. Did sweat come in with sin? God wanted more than innocent man; His plan is to bring forth redeemed man. Web19 sweating in the fields from dawn to dusk, Until you return to that ground yourself, dead and buried; you started out as dirt, you'll end up dirt." Our first parents were shut out from the privileges of their state of innocency, yet they were not left to despair. Despite that, Adam and Eve needed only a bit of prompting from a talking serpent to This creature didnt start as a snake as we know it, it became one. (14,15) The punishment of mankind. Perhaps Satan made the voice supernaturally seem to come forth from the serpent, or perhaps Satan communicated this to Eve in her thoughts. General Epistles GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation. It was the craftiness of Satan that made him successful against Eve: as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness (2 Corinthians 11:3). 16-19 The woman, for her sin, is condemned to a state of sorrow, and of subjection; proper punishments of that sin, in which she had sought to gratify the desire of her eye, and of the flesh, and her pride. i. Eve does not seem to know the name of this tree; she only calls it the tree in the midst of the garden, instead of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 2:17). That Satan has power to enter into living bodies is clear, for he did so upon a very large scale with regard to men in the days of Christ Being compelled to have an embodiment, the master evil spirit perceived the serpent to be at that time among the most subtle of all creatures; and therefore he entered into the serpent as feeling that he would be most at home in that animal (Spurgeon). We cant outsmart Satan, but we can overcome him with the power of Jesus. It was also in Gods plan to allow Satan to tempt Eve this way. By his death he gave a fatal blow to the devil's kingdom, a wound to the head of this serpent that cannot be healed. Adam even blames God. Often neglected in favor of more "exciting" prophecies, this first prophecy holds the fundamental principles for understanding the nature of Satan's relationship to Christ and the church, woman's relationship with man, man's relationship with nature, and sin's role in human suffering. And to dust you shall return.. b. Rather bless him that ever he should have consecrated the thorns by wearing them for his diadem (Spurgeon). No one falls like Adam and Eve will fall, all of a sudden. A foundation has been laid. a. Barnhouse explained: This verse will be understood better when it is realized that the desire of man toward his wife alone is solely by Gods grace and not by nature.. Our use of these terms is not merely cultural, it is Biblical. We are clothed with a garment of righteousness that was purchased with the life of another, Jesus Christ. The flaming sword was pointed against Satan to keep him from destroying the way of access to the altar, which God had set up. (Barnhouse). After the fall, everything looked worse. So when the woman saw: Eve surrendered to this temptation in exactly the way John describes in 1 John 2:16. All the days of your life. 1. This may well be true, but it makes Adams sin not one bit less rebellious. When men deny the Scriptures and the truth of God, they always go to work in an underhand, mean, and serpentine style: Upon thy belly shalt thou go. If guilty man begins to plot for his own advantage, scheme for his own glory, and aim at perverting the truth, you will notice that he never takes a bold, open, manly stand, but he dodges, he conceals, he twists and shifts: Upon thy belly shalt thou go. Sin is a mean and despicable thing. Adam and Eve made for themselves aprons of fig-leaves, a covering too narrow for them to wrap themselves in, Isaiah 28:20. Johannine Writings Note: MLA no longer requires the URL as part of their citation standard. Therefore, He forbids you to eat of it, lest you create other worlds Hurry now and eat the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden, and become independent of God, lest He bring forth still other creatures that will rule over you (Ginzberg). She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. ii. Major Prophets The person tempted was the woman: it was Satan's policy to enter into talk with her when she was alone. Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, Where are you?. i. There is a sense in which idolatry of Eve was an aspect of Adams disobedience against God. Thus men's frivolous pleas will, in the day of God's judgment, be turned against them. (Genesis 3:10-12) Adam tries to explain his sin. Before the curse on man, the ground only produced good. Because you have heeded the voice of your wife: It wasnt just as if Adam took Eves advice. Let us, therefore, always think well of God as the best good, and think ill of sin as the worst evil: thus let us resist the devil, and he will flee from us. ii. Did sorrow come in with sin? It is more than probable that they were clothed in light before the fall, and when they sinned the light went out. (Barnhouse). Like a servant who earnestly desires the shade, and like a hired man who eagerly looks for his wages (Job 7:1-2). i. And it was only true in Eves mind that the tree was desirable to make one wise. God put marks of displeasure on Adam. Yet death being dreadful to nature, even when life is unpleasant, that concludes the punishment. iii. Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil: The idea behind this phrase is difficult to understand. If nudity represented a higher, freer life, then God would have let Adam and Eve remain naked but He clothed them. But the tree was nothing more than a restraint on Adam and Eve. Labour is our duty, which we must faithfully perform; it is part of man's sentence, which idleness daringly defies. Revelation 12:9 and 20:2 speak of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan. WebAlthough death was the fruit of Adam's sin, it was by God's grace that His curse did not fall upon Adam. The serpent deceived me, and I ate: When confronted by God, Eve didnt necessarily shift the blame when she admitted the serpent deceived her and then she ate. You will not surely die: Satan effectively laid the groundwork. Minor Prophets But their eyes were instantly opened to their own sin and rebellion. This gracious revelation of a Saviour came unasked, and unlooked for. Historical Books So he said, I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself. And He said, Who told you that you were naked? The Blue Letter Bible ministry and the BLB Institute hold to the historical, It is idle to call the narrative of the Fall a mere allegory; one had better say at once that he does not believe the Book There was a real serpent, as there was a real paradise; there was a real Adam and Eve, who stood at the head of our race, and they really sinned, and our race is really fallen. And you shall eat dust He chose to be with Eve instead of obeying God. It has the idea that women would experience pain in regard to their children in general, not just in the act of giving birth. If man had not sinned, he would always have ruled with wisdom and love; if the woman had not sinned, she would always have obeyed with humility and meekness. i. A verification email has been sent to the address you provided. conservative Christian faith, which includes a firm belief in the inerrancy (Genesis 3:7) The nakedness of Adam and Eve. WebGenesis 3, Sermon Bible Commentary, One of over 125 Bible commentaries freely available, this 12 volume, chapter by chapter commentary of 4,800 sermon outlines and 24,000 homiletic references. a. (1-5) Adam and Eve transgress the Divine command, and fall into sin and misery. In her mind, she thought she was doing something good for herself. The devil implies that man is independent of God our Creator. Yet you can do what is right before God right now by confessing and repenting. i. i. Let us not look on that which we are in danger of lusting after, Romans 5:19; disobedience to a plain, easy, and express command. His victory over Satan thereby. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point a. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.. Prophets And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.. Luke-Acts b. And the woman said to the serpent: Eves first mistake was in even carrying on a discussion with the serpent.
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