Paradise Lost

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Paradise Lost

• Gen 3 and Selected
• In the Beginning series
• Part 4 of 10

Pastor Dave Martin Cross Creek Community Church
May 4, 2008
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• Nehemiah 96 You alone are the LORD. You made the
  heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their
  starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the
  seas and all that is in them. You give life to
  everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship
  you.

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Review

• God created and energized the entire universe
• Days of creation were literal 24 hr days NOT long
  periods of time
• Man placed in Eden, a paradise, perfect
  surroundings
• God instituted the marriage Covenant Innocence

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• Genesis 31-2 Now the serpent was more crafty
  than any of the wild animals the LORD God had
  made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say,
  'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"
  2 The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat
  fruit from the trees in the garden,

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1. A Precise Command

• Genesis 216-17 16 And the LORD God commanded the
  man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the
  garden 17 but you must not eat from the tree of
  the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat
  of it you will surely die.
• Genesis 33-4 3 but God did say, 'You must not
  eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of
  the garden, and you must not touch it, or you
  will die.'" 4 "You will not surely die," the
  serpent said to the woman.

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Precise Command

• God ordained Laws that are for our good (10
  commandments)
• The essence of death is separation from God
  (Physical/Spiritual)
• Born once die twice, Born twice die once
  (maybe not at all)

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2. A Personal Choice

• Genesis 36 When the woman saw that the fruit of
  the tree was good for food and pleasing to the
  eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she
  took some and ate it. She also gave some to her
  husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

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Personal Choice

• Man is a free moral agent free to love God or
  reject God
• Eve Tempted - Saw, Coveted, Took then Gave to Adam

1 Timothy 214 And Adam was not the one deceived
it was the woman who was deceived and became a
sinner.
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Personal Choice

• Adam the Federal Head plunged humanity into
  sin

Romans 512 Therefore, just as sin entered the
world through one man, and death through sin, and
in this way death came to all men, because all
sinned--
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3. A Painful Consequence

• They became acutely aware of their guilt of sin
  (innocence lost)
• They made a futile attempt with self-righteous
  cover-up

• Genesis 37 Then the eyes of both of them were
  opened, and they realized they were naked so
  they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings
  for themselves.

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Painful Consequence

• They hid in fear from God and shifted blame to
  others

Genesis 38-10 Then the man and his wife heard
the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in
the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid
from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
9 But the LORD God called to the man, "Where are
you?" 10 He answered, "I heard you in the garden,
and I was afraid because I was naked so I hid."
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Blame - Shifting

• Gen 311-13 And he said, "Who told you that you
  were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I
  commanded you not to eat from?" 12 The man said,
  "The woman you put here with me--she gave me some
  fruit from the tree, and I ate it." 13 Then the
  LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you
  have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived
  me, and I ate."

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4. A Pervasive Curse

• Upon Serpent/Satan

Genesis 314 So the LORD God said to the serpent,
"Because you have done this, "Cursed are you
above all the livestock and all the wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly and you will eat
dust all the days of your life.
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Pervasive Curse

• Upon Eve
• Genesis 316 To the woman he said, "I will
  greatly increase your pains in childbearing with
  pain you will give birth to children. Your desire
  will be for your husband, and he will rule over
  you."

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Pervasive Curse

• Upon Adam/Earth
• Genesis 317-19 17 To Adam he said, "Because you
  listened to your wife and ate from the tree about
  which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,'
  "Cursed is the ground because of you through
  painful toil you will eat of it all the days of
  your life. 18 It will produce thorns and thistles
  for you, and you will eat the plants of the
  field. 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat
  your food until you return to the ground, since
  from it you were taken for dust you are and to
  dust you will return.

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5. A Predicted Crucifixion

• Genesis 315 And I will put enmity between you
  and the woman, and between your offspring and
  hers he will crush your head, and you will
  strike his heel."

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• Colossians 215 And having disarmed the powers
  and authorities, he made a public spectacle of
  them, triumphing over them by the cross.
• Romans 517 For if, by the trespass of the one
  man, death reigned through that one man, how much
  more will those who receive God's abundant
  provision of grace and of the gift of
  righteousness reign in life through the one man,
  Jesus Christ.

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Substitutionary Sacrifice the innocent dies for
the guilty

• Genesis 320-21 20 Adam named his wife Eve,
  because she would become the mother of all the
  living. 21 The LORD God made garments of skin for
  Adam and his wife and clothed them.
• 2 Corinthians 521 God made him (Christ) who had
  no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might
  become the righteousness of God.

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Preparation for the Lords Supper

• Have I personally trusted Jesus Christ as Savior?
• Am I allowing any known sin to reign in my life?

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• 1 Corinthians 1123-26 23 For I received from the
  Lord what I also passed on to you The Lord
  Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread,
  24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and
  said, "This is my body, which is for you do this
  in remembrance of me." 25 In the same way, after
  supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the
  new covenant in my blood do this, whenever you
  drink it, in remembrance of me." 26 For whenever
  you eat this bread and drink this cup, you
  proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.