Notes and Sermon by Stephen Weeks
God
The subject of all the
Scriptures – , Not Man, Not Animals.
God.
“In the Beginning God”
God, Eternally existing,
Always has been, Always will be.
We
have to get this. The Bible is primarily a book about God. Does it speak
to man and tell us much about ourselves, yes. But we have to see He is Primary.
Creation of all things for His pleasure.
This God we saw, is the Creator
of All,
Think
about His power. He simple Spoke and things came into existence.
Creation
ex Nihilo- Creation out of Nothing,
And God Said….And there was.
And it was Good.
Creation reflecting his power, His awesomeness and
Glory.
All things reflecting His goodness.
Everything was perfect- Reflecting His perfection
Everything was sinless- reflecting His holiness.
God, The giver and sustainer
of Life. Creator of Thoughts, Emotions,
love, everything. Everything he created was good and for His pleasure.
Creation reflected His power,
His beauty, His goodness, His perfection, His holiness.
Genesis 1:26
Man
The Pinnacle of all of His
creation.
He created us for Himself, For His pleasure.
Different than everything else in Creation,
Gen 1:26 - created in his image,
Man has the capacity to know
Him and walk with Him and have fellowship with God
Look at the Dominion mandate-
1:28- We saw that God placed
man on the earth and tells him to “Be
fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over
the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth
God desired the earth to be filled with Mankind bearing his
image -The Result. The Whole earth would be full of worshippers and thus full
of His glory.
This is an awesome command, be fruitful, Multiply, fill the earth-
God’s Glory is throughout the Whole earth
This is an awesome command
for us- Think about it.
-Be fruitful, Fill the earth, Multiply,
How you think that’s happening.
God is promoting lots of God honoring Sex between
Husbands and wives.
Implication
God
is for Sex, He created it and encourages it, even commands it, but commands it
in purity, in Marriage that we will see.
He goes on in the dominion
mandate to say that man was to.
Subdue it
and have dominion over it
And as God is the Creator of
all things including man by His creative right He is our Ruler. We have all
been created by Him and for Him.
Let’s pick up the story,
Genesis 2
God creates all, He rest,
He now expounds on in detail
the creation of Man and the Garden, The
dwelling place of God and man.
Genesis 2:7-9
God Created man from the
Dust, He breathed life into Him and placed Him in a Garden in Eden.
Two trees were in the Garden
that it makes note of.
1.) The tree of Life
2.) The tree of the knowledge of good and Evil.
Genesis 2:10-17
Everything man needed, water,
resources, work, food.
Verse 16-17
You can eat of all the trees,
Verse 17
“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 surely die.”
Verse 18
But man was lonely. God saw
it wasn’t good he was alone.
God had the most amazing plan.
God had the most amazing plan.
Stop and praise God for this.
He did not make man marry some animal or another man.
He creates a Helper, fit for
Him. God creates Woman.
You know its good. - Woe Man.
And thus we see Marriage
instituted.
V 24-
Naked and unashamed!
There is no sin, Everything
is perfect. Man and God walk together in Relationship.
1.) Earthquakes
and Floods,
2.) Tsunami’s
and Hurricanes. Volcanoes and Tornadoes.
3.) Enormous
forest fire blazing through Colorado
Something has Gone wrong.
We look at Mankind
1.)Sandusky
trial of Penn States assistant coach who has been accused of having sex with
boys at a football camp.
2.)Rocky
Mount –Greed, Racism, Pride, Hatred, Murder,
3.)Our
own hearts – pride, selfishness, hate of God, desire to be God
Something has Gone wrong.
What happened to God’s good and perfect creation? This
perfect fellowship they had with Him?
Why is the world the way it is today?
And Why do we
have to wear clothes, Weren’t Adam and eve created naked?
Genesis 3
Fall of Man.
Sin enters the World.
Glimpse of God’s great plan of redemption.
Read Genesis 3:1-5
Verse 1
The Serpent- Scripture makes
clear Rev 20:2 - This is Satan
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We are not told
here how the serpant became evil, We won’t talk tonight about how evil came
into existence.
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But the writer
points out he is Crafty- We should be seeing potential danger.
Satan comes and talks with the woman- He has a
plan.
Notice His question – V 1
“Did God actually say,
you shall not eat of any tree in the Garden”
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Satan is getting
her thinking about what God has said,
He
is tempting the woman to question God.
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He should not be
questioning His wisdom and commands, or Questioning His goodness.
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God has given
Adam and the woman everything they needed.
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The women though
plays right into his trap.
verse 2-3
She corrects Him.
Notice her addition, “Neither
shall you touch it”
She portrays that God’s
command is stricter than it is. Giving her wisdom on His command.
Where Satan has previously had
her questioning God, wanting her to assume His role. Now He speaks forth a Lie.
Let’s examine what satan has
said.
“You will not surely die.” – This is a clear contradiction of what God has said,
God has lied to you, He has deceived you.
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Satan calls into
question the goodness and truthfulness of God. He wants her to question Him.
Not only will you not die,
God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be
opened, you will be like Him, You will know Good and evil.
Satan now has her questioning
the goodness of God.
God is Holding out on you.
You can be like Him. You can
know good and evil.
Application thought
How many of yall have heard
this lie from Satan?
God is holding out on you. He
doesn’t want what is best for you.
Just try this, Just take a
look, Just enjoy this.
Thus you question the
goodness of God.
You are desiring to Be God.
Satan is whispering
Don’t listen to Him. You are in charge. You
are God of your life.
As You read this you want to
say, Wait, Woman,( She has no name yet, Watch when it is given) God has not
held out on you. He has only bestowed blessing after blessing on You. Don’t
listen, don’t go there. But she does.
The Fall, Sin enters the
World.
Read V 6
She saw the food was good for
food,
It was a delight to her eyes
It will make me wise, like
God
She took it and ate.
Implications in our own life
You see this progression of
Sin,
Tempted, Questioned God’s
goodness, Desired to be God, Dwelled on
temptation, pursued it, and fell.
Then it led her to get Adam
to Join
Thus we see, Where was Adam,
right there with her. Failing to protect His family, participating in this rebellion
as well.
Men, there is no cop out. Adam Failed His
family here. He was right there.
No HUGE Deal!
It’s not about the Fruit. It was not poisoned, Look at their Heart! They have acted in the
place of God and have set themselves up against God almighty.
Tim Keller states- They
have tried to be their own God.
They are declaring their
judgment and wisdom to be greater than His.
They have sinned against the Holy God!!!!
This sin is like taking a revolver and pointing it in
the face of God!- piper
The mouse has just tried to steal the dinner of the
Lion, and as you will see, He has been caught. -chandler
No, Sin has spread to all of
us, We all have this same desire. To Be our own God, to be our own Savior, To
be our own Judge. We have all entered this rebellion.
Romans 5: 12 makes
clear- “Just as Sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin,
and so death spread to all men because all sinned.
We now have all received this
sin nature.
My Daughters first phrase "No, No, Daddy!!"
We are in this bondage to sin, death and in rebellion
to God.
Sinful By Action too
Romans 3:23- states, that we have all sinned and fall
short of the Glory of God.
Verses 7-13
Man’s response to His sin, He tries to deal with it, He
tries to cover it.
2.) Tried to
Hide Verses- 8-10
3.) Tried to
shift blame – 11-13
None of these
responses work, Man is guilty and cannot do anything to mend what he has done.
Reflect
This is the
state we find ourselves in today as well. We stand guilty before a Holy God and
we know it. We have all sinned and rebelled against God.
We know
something must be done, But we can’t do anything. We Hide or respond wrongly as
well.
1.) Some try to
impose a new set of rules they could keep.
Well if I do
more good than bad, that will cover it.
But we are
not God.
2.) Some try to
say that God will just overlook sin.
But this
would violate His holiness and justice. A just judge has to punish sin.
3.) Some try to
earn their salvation.
But they
can’t. They can’t deal with their sin. We can’t actually do anything good.
Isaiah
64:6-states that are righteous acts are like filthy wrags.
None of these
attempts to clean ourselves up will suffice.
This is Terrible!
1.) Their eyes
were opened.
Satan had promised, Their
eyes would be opened. They were. He had promised they would know Good and evil.
They did.
But
here is the deal. They not only knew good and evil. They experienced evil. They
know right, But now they are bent towards evil.
1.) You will be destroyed.
a.
It may look like
he has won, But God promises His triumph
2.) Pain
in Childbirth
3.) Marriage will be
hard.
4.) Man – 17-19
5.) Your work will be hard
a.
Ground is cursed,
thorns will come up.
6.) You will return to the Ground
You will die physically.
Did Death Come???
It
appears at first glance No. They are still alive.
Yes, 2 Ways you see this.
1.) But stop and think, What is true life. True life in
the scriptures is pointed to as knowing God. This is only possible if one is in
a peaceful relationship with Him.
a.
That Day they
sinned, They were banished from the Garden. They died, they lost true life.
b.
John 17:3 - Now this
is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God,
and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
2.) Spiritually man has died. He is now a slave to sin,
and a dead man.
3.) Physically he is heading towards death and judgment .
Another Result of Sin
Yall must leave the Garden! The Place where God and man walked together. This
relationship has been broken. 22-24
If you look outside of
Genesis to the whole of Scripture we see a few more Results of our sin.
Wrath
Romans 1:18- The wrath of God
is being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of
men.
We are all under God’s wrath.
Rightly so, we have rebelled against Him.
Hell
We are all heading towards
hell with no hope in ourselves.
How bad is this hell,
It’s bad enough that Jesus says in Matthew
18:8-9
It would be better for you
cut off your hand or foot and throw it out than to go there. HE goes on to say
it would be better for you to gauge out your eye and throw it away than to go
there.
Hell is a place of weeping
and gnashing of teeth. A place of unending torment and burning.
Good grief, This is terrible
news. A terrible story.
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This is the story of Man and
the state we are in.
Wait, As we read through Chapter 3 did you notice
anything.
The Gospel is in here. Words of grace, and mercy and
triumph. Words of a promised Messiah!
Genesis 3:8-10
1.) God comes
searching for His lost sheep.
Genesis 3:15
2.) Satan Crushed through coming Messiah
-God is revealing Their will be hatred between Satan and
His people and the and the people of faith who are God’s that will come through
the woman.
Here is extremely good news.
It goes on to tell us that the
woman’s seed, Offspring, Will bruise the serpents head,
And he shall bruise your
heal.
This is a Messianic
Prophecy,
Satan has blown a terrible
blow to mankind. He has bruised his heal.
But God is announcing that
through the Messiah, Jesus, Will bruise, or crush Satan’s head.
If this isn’t enough,
Look at V 20-
3. Eve
“Mother of the Living”
Though death has just
entered, Now we see Adam name His wife Eve Mother of the Living. This is
because Adam believes that God is going to bring life through her seed like God
has promised.
And How will this be done?
Look at V 21-
4.) Blood
shed, Crucified Messiah
God took away the fig leaf which
was insufficient. He killed and animal which would require shedding its blood
and he covered man and woman with its skin.
This is revealing that
Forgiveness and Salvation would come through the shed blood of a sacrifice. But
we will see later. This animal’s blood isn’t sufficient. This is merely a
picture of the blood of Jesus that will be shed on the Cross.
Conclusion.
1.)Where do you stand before
God. How will the Holy God of the universe declare you forgiven and righteous.
You are guilty.
Repent and Look to Christ. The
Crucified lame of God who died for your sins and triumphed over sin and death
in the Resurrection.
2.)If you are in Christ.
Rejoice in Your salvation, Proclaim Him. Beware of the enemies lies, resist Him
remembering Christ has defeated Him and His ultimate destruction is coming.
Here is where we are in the
story, Man has fallen. Sin has come. All mankind is under his wrath. But God
has promised to send a Savior through the seed of the Woman. Satan will be
conquered. Victory will be won.
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