Genesis 3D (2011) We saw last week that God never curses woman. And those punishments are severe

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1 Genesis 3D (2011) Gd has respnded t the sin f the Garden by punishing Satan and then giving wman grace even in the midst f her suffering the cnsequences f sin The cming fallen wrld, this cuple f their eventual family will experience the full brunt f the enemy s pwer Gd understands the imprtance f keeping the family tgether And He has instituted decrees that ensure a strng family unit with the man given the respnsibility t take charge and lead in the family We saw last week that Gd never curses wman And each f these decrees is actually a grace given t Wman She ges largely unpunished, except that she will share in the punishments handed ut t Adam And thse punishments are severe But these is a measure f grace fr him as well Gen. 3:17 Then t Adam He said, Because yu have listened t the vice f yur wife, and have eaten frm the tree abut which I cmmanded yu, saying, Yu shall nt eat frm it ; Cursed is the grund because f yu; In til yu will eat f it All the days f yur life. Gen. 3:18 Bth thrns and thistles it shall grw fr yu; And yu will eat the plants f the field; Gen. 3:19 By the sweat f yur face Yu will eat bread, Till yu return t the grund, Because frm it yu were taken; Fr yu are dust, And t dust yu shall return. Gd reserves the lngest statement fr Adam He listened t his wife s vice was this wrng? N, except by cmparisn 2011 Verse By Verse Ministry f San Antni ( May be cpied and distributed prvided the dcument is reprduced in its entirety, including this cpyright statement, and n fee is cllected fr its distributin.

2 Genesis 3D! 2 Wh s vice shuld he have listen t? Gd s And ntice, Adam didn t listen t the serpent s vice nly the wman s vice This suggests t us that man wasn t ease drpping n the cnversatin between the wman and Satan Man was culpable fr his decisins and is therefre the ne wh brught sin int the wrld S Gd issues His secnd curse Ntice, He curses nt Adam but the grund Gd has deemed the earth t be irreparable A curse means that the bject f the curse will cease t be By this curse, Gd declared that the earth must be replaced Adam s sin has becme a cntaminant Remember that Adam was made frm the earth, s when Adam fell, the earth itself became cntaminated by sin as well Gd has nw declared that He the earth will deterirate and eventually be replaced Is. 34:4 And all the hst f heaven will wear away, And the sky will be rlled up like a scrll; All their hsts will als wither away As a leaf withers frm the vine, Or as ne withers frm the fig tree. 2Pet. 3:10 But the day f the Lrd will cme like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a rar and the elements will be destryed with intense heat, and the earth and its wrks will be burned up. 2Pet. 3:11 Since all these things are t be destryed in this way, what srt f peple ught yu t be in hly cnduct and gdliness, 2Pet. 3:12 lking fr and hastening the cming f the day f Gd, because f which the heavens will be destryed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat! 2Pet. 3:13 But accrding t His prmise we are lking fr new heavens and a new earth, in which righteusness dwells Verse By Verse Ministry f San Antni ( May be cpied and distributed prvided the dcument is reprduced in its entirety, including this cpyright statement, and n fee is cllected fr its distributin.

3 Genesis 3D! 3 Befre this curse, Adam was instructed t wrk the grund in the garden t serve Gd And that wrk wuld have been enjyable and rewarding In fact, it wasn t wrk at all, in the way we think f wrk tday Nw his effrts t wrk the grund will be a chre and a fight against the degree Gd has instituted Wrk will be a tw steps frward, ne step backward kind f experience Gd s curse guarantee that ur wrk will result in the wrld seeming t wrk against ur best effrts Yard wrk isn t fun, gardens have weeds, things will wear ut and need repair Befre the fall, Adam s wrk didn t include these kind f set backs After the restratin f the earth, we will find a wnderful kind f wrk serving Gd, in the way Adam first experienced in the Garden Why des Gd curse the grund? First, like Wman s pain, it is a chastisement that als frms a memrial f the mistake Tday we can remember hw sin led t this situatin Secnd, this change becmes an bject lessn t teach us the futility f man s wrk in the face f sin Our flesh wants t slve it s wn prblem We are tempted t wrk ur wn slutin But nw man s fruitless effrts at wrk will serve as a cntrast Gd s perfect wrk in Christ We simply can t rely n ur wn wrk, because that wrk is never finished When we pull a weed, a new ne emerges 2011 Verse By Verse Ministry f San Antni ( May be cpied and distributed prvided the dcument is reprduced in its entirety, including this cpyright statement, and n fee is cllected fr its distributin.

4 Genesis 3D! 4 When we paint the huse, it needs new paint in a few years If ur wn wrk can t ensure permanent slutins in the garden r the shingles, hw can ur wrk save us frm ur sin? Finally, the curse will ensure that Gd eventually puts an end t everything cntaminated by sin This is the rigin f physical death fr everything that cmes frm the grund Adam s bdy, animal s bdy, trees, plants The wisdm f Gd t create a plan when He can curse the cntaminated wrld withut cursing Adam s spirit Only the physical bdy is cursed by this prnuncement Which is why we must receive a new bdy upn ur resurrectin This curse is ultimately a blessing fr Gd s children Man s crrupt bdy must be replaced And because Wman was made frm Adam, she shares in these same prnuncements If nt, man wuld live frever eternally sinful Psa. 102:24 I say, O my Gd, d nt take me away in the midst f my days, Yur years are thrughut all generatins. Psa. 102:25 Of ld Yu funded the earth, And the heavens are the wrk f Yur hands. Psa. 102:26 Even they will perish, but Yu endure; And all f them will wear ut like a garment; Like clthing Yu will change them and they will be changed. Psa. 102:27 But Yu are the same, And Yur years will nt cme t an end. Psa. 102:28 The children f Yur servants will cntinue, And their descendants will be established befre Yu. Als, the grund will be replaced t And when the earth is made new, the curse will be gne 2011 Verse By Verse Ministry f San Antni ( May be cpied and distributed prvided the dcument is reprduced in its entirety, including this cpyright statement, and n fee is cllected fr its distributin.

5 Genesis 3D! 5 Is. 65:19 I will als rejice in Jerusalem and be glad in My peple; And there will n lnger be heard in her The vice f weeping and the sund f crying. Is. 65:20 N lnger will there be in it an infant wh lives but a few days, Or an ld man wh des nt live ut his days; Fr the yuth will die at the age f ne hundred And the ne wh des nt reach the age f ne hundred Will be thught accursed. Is. 65:21 They will build huses and inhabit them; They will als plant vineyards and eat their fruit. Is. 65:22 They will nt build and anther inhabit, They will nt plant and anther eat; Fr as the lifetime f a tree, s will be the days f My peple, And My chsen nes will wear ut the wrk f their hands. Is. 65:23 They will nt labr in vain, Or bear children fr calamity; Fr they are the ffspring f thse blessed by the LORD, And their descendants with them. We wait until Rev 22:3 t hear that this curse n the grund is lifted Rev. 22:3 There will n lnger be any curse; and the thrne f Gd and f the Lamb will be in it, and His bnd-servants will serve Him; Rev. 22:4 they will see His face, and His name will be n their freheads. S then the chapter wraps up with a number f significant details Gen. 3:20 Nw the man called his wife s name Eve, because she was the mther f all the living. Gen. 3:21 The LORD Gd made garments f skin fr Adam and his wife, and clthed them. Adam decides t give his wife a new name Remember, Adam had already given her a name Gen. 2:23 The man said, This is nw bne f my bnes, And flesh f my flesh; She shall be called Wman, Because she was taken ut f Man. But nw Adam decides t rename Wman t Eve 2011 Verse By Verse Ministry f San Antni ( May be cpied and distributed prvided the dcument is reprduced in its entirety, including this cpyright statement, and n fee is cllected fr its distributin.

6 Genesis 3D! 6 Why is this renaming happening, and why did Adam decide t d it here in the midst f such a haunting mment First, the name Eve means mther f all the living The wrd Eve is chavvay in Hebrew which means life r living Her name tells us why Adam has renamed her and why he did s here Adam has just heard Gd declare that He wuld bring a slutin t this prblem The slutin wuld result in the destructin f the serpent And it wuld cme thrugh a seed that Wman wuld prvide This slutin, later t be called the Messiah, wuld be the surce f all the living S Adam hears Gd make this prmise, and he takes actin in respnse The wrd Gd spke said Wman wuld bring new life, and Adam renamed her Eve, meaning life r living Adam is shwing prf that he received this wrd frm Gd and believed it We knw Gd s had spken t Adam befre cncerning the tree Adam didn t believe that wrd S sin came int the wrld But the Fall f Adam brings us a trubling questin If Adam didn t believe Gd s wrd, was Adam saved? Did he receive grace and was he saved frm the sin he prduced? Here we have ur answer Having heard Gd s prmise cncerning Adam s wife, Adam believe Gd s wrd this time In fact, he renames his wife t make clear that he believed This is als a direct reversal f the last time 2011 Verse By Verse Ministry f San Antni ( May be cpied and distributed prvided the dcument is reprduced in its entirety, including this cpyright statement, and n fee is cllected fr its distributin.

7 Genesis 3D! 7 Last time Adam heard a wrd f Gd and didn t believe and acted cntrary But nw he acts in keeping with belief And he takes an actin cnsistent with his belief In this mment we can say that Adam becmes a believer by faith in Gd s wrd In respnse t that faith, Gd then demnstrates that frgiveness is available Gd makes Adam and Eve made animal skins fr clthes Remember that Adam and Wman had tried t cver themselves with plants But that cvering hadn t been enugh They still felt vulnerable Nw by faith, Gd grants them a cvering made f animal skins This means that animals had t die t prvide their skins An animal was sacrificed t prvide a cvering fr man - bth spiritual and physical The atnement was a picture f the atning wrk f Christ n the crss Where befre man tried t cver himself by his wn wrk in making leaves, that wrk was insufficient t prvide true cvering fr sin But nw in faith, Adam has fund a true cvering And Gd prvides animals skins by His wn hands Gd s wrk can d what man s wrk cannt` This is the first death recrded in the histry f creatin An animal sacrificed t cver the first sin (limited atnement) 2011 Verse By Verse Ministry f San Antni ( May be cpied and distributed prvided the dcument is reprduced in its entirety, including this cpyright statement, and n fee is cllected fr its distributin.

8 Genesis 3D! 8 Gen. 3:22 Then the LORD Gd said, Behld, the man has becme like ne f Us, knwing gd and evil; and nw, he might stretch ut his hand, and take als frm the tree f life, and eat, and live frever Gen. 3:23 therefre the LORD Gd sent him ut frm the garden f Eden, t cultivate the grund frm which he was taken. Gen. 3:24 S He drve the man ut; and at the east f the garden f Eden He statined the cherubim and the flaming swrd which turned every directin t guard the way t the tree f life. First, we immediately ntice that Gd uses a plural when referring t Himself What a simple way t see that even in the first pages f the Bible Gd is referring t Himself as the Gdhead He says that man became like ne f Us (plural reference t Gd Elhim) Trinity clearly n display The term ne f us cmbines a singular and a plural reference This statement is a cmment by Gd fr the benefit f mankind It explains why we were excluded frm the Garden Gd made available The Garden included a tree that prvided eternal physical life This is grace in tw ways: Such a tree was grace t the previus Adam But the sinful Adam, it s grace t exclude him frm this tree It is grace t prvide fr the replacement f the crrupted bdy It is grace t ensure that men aren t left alive t be used by Satan indefinitely T live frever in a sinful bdy is a curse By frcing them ut f the Garden, the man and wman will knw physical death, but this is a gd thing fr believers 2011 Verse By Verse Ministry f San Antni ( May be cpied and distributed prvided the dcument is reprduced in its entirety, including this cpyright statement, and n fee is cllected fr its distributin.

9 Genesis 3D! 9 Secndly, Gd must prevent Adam and Eve frm entering Gd s presence in the Garden again Thugh they are saved by faith, nevertheless they still carry arund the sin in their bdies This sin cannt be in the presence f Gd and live S Gd drives them ut and they are expelled frm the Garden The sense in Hebrew is that they weren t necessarily willing t leave the Garden But Gd used His angels t frce the ejectin T be sure they dn t try t re-enter, Gd statins angels at the entrance This must have been a dramatic scene fr many years In fact, this guard was in place fr 1,630 years (until the fld) Adam and the next generatin wuld have discussed hw they were excluded frm the Garden This was grace in that it preserved the human race t ensure that Gd s plan f redemptin wuld have time t play ut as Gd intended The reference t the flaming swrd is actually a reference t the Shichinah glry f Gd Himself S Gd used angels and His glry t keep men ut f the Garden Befre, Adam enjyed the direct fellwship with Gd But nw sin had prduced a barrier that prevented him frm having that intimate, persnal relatinship with Gd in the Garden The barrier was bvius and frebding in the frm f this angels and Gd s glry As lng as sin existed in Adam and the wrld, access t Gd was impssible Only if smething remves that barrier can true fellwship return We knw that Jesus by His bld cleansed us and the wrld f that sin 2011 Verse By Verse Ministry f San Antni ( May be cpied and distributed prvided the dcument is reprduced in its entirety, including this cpyright statement, and n fee is cllected fr its distributin.

10 Genesis 3D! 10 And in a future day, we will enter in His presence withut fear because the atning wrk f Christ will have remved that barrier Tday we have access in Spirit because f Jesus wrk In a future day, we will als receive new bdies, and we will walk int Christ s presence 2011 Verse By Verse Ministry f San Antni ( May be cpied and distributed prvided the dcument is reprduced in its entirety, including this cpyright statement, and n fee is cllected fr its distributin.