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Genesis 3

• Lesson 4

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The Serpent

• Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast
  of the field which the LORD God had made. And he
  said to the woman, "Has God indeed said, 'You
  shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?"
• The serpent was the instrument or tool of a
  higher agent, Satan or the devil

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The Serpent

• Re 202 He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent
  of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him
  for a thousand years
• Joh 844 "You are of your father the devil, and
  the desires of your father you want to do. He was
  a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand
  in the truth, because there is no truth in him.
  When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own
  resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.

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The Serpent

• 2Co 113 But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent
  deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may
  be corrupted from the simplicity that is in
  Christ.
• 1Jo 38 He who sins is of the devil, for the
  devil has sinned from the beginning. For this
  purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He
  might destroy the works of the devil.

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The Serpent

• "Has God indeed said, 'You shall not eat of every
  tree of the garden'?"
• Is it true that He has restricted you in using
  the fruits of this delightful place? This is not
  like one so good and kind. Surely there is some
  mistake. He insinuated a doubt as to her sense of
  the divine will and appeared as an angel of light
  (2 Cor 1114), offering to lead her to the true
  interpretation.

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Eve Knew

• God has said, 'You shall not eat it, nor shall
  you touch it, lest you die.
• Ge 216 And the LORD God commanded the man,
  saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may
  freely eat "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."

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The Lie

• Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not
  surely die.
• Joh 844 "You are of your father the devil, and
  the desires of your father you want to do. He was
  a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand
  in the truth, because there is no truth in him.
  When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own
  resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.

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More Lies

• Ye shall not--die this is the first lie recorded
  in the Bible. Satan was its author, and he is
  justly called the father of lies.
• Satan tries to make men disbelieve God's
  declarations, in order to lead them to break his
  commands. Liars resemble Satan, do his work, and
  will partake of his torment.
• Re 218 "But the cowardly, unbelieving,
  abominable, murderers, sexually immoral,
  sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have
  their part in the lake which burns with fire and
  brimstone, which is the second death."

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The Deception

• Ge 35 "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.
• Satan
• Lies
• Reasons
• Justifies
• Persuades

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Eve Sins

• Ge 36 So when the woman saw that the tree was
  good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes,
  and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took
  of its fruit and ate.
• She took of the fruit showing that she believed
  Satan rather than God.

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Eve Sins

• Jas 114 But each one is tempted when he is drawn
  away by his own desires and enticed. Then, when
  desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin and
  sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.
• 1Jo 216 For all that is in the world--the lust
  of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride
  of life--is not of the Father but is of the world.

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Adam Sins

• Ge 36 She also gave to her husband with her,
  and he ate.
• Sin loves company
• I enjoyed it, why wouldnt he?

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Innocence Lost

• Ge 37 Then the eyes of both of them were opened,
  and they knew that they were naked
• They now had a sufficient discovery of their sin
  and folly in disobeying the command of God they
  could discern between good and evil and what was
  the consequence? Confusion and shame were
  engendered, because innocence was lost and guilt
  contracted.

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Hiding From God

• They hid themselves amongst the trees of the
  garden--Shame, remorse, fear--a sense of
  guilt--feelings to which they had hitherto been
  strangers disordered their minds and led them to
  shun Him whose approach they used to welcome. How
  foolish to think of eluding His notice (Ps
  1391-12).

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God Knows

• Ge 311 And He said, "Who told you that you were
  naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I
  commanded you that you should not eat?
• Heb 413 And there is no creature hidden from His
  sight, but all things are naked and open to the
  eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

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Blame

• Ge 312 Then the man said, "The woman whom You
  gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and
  I ate."
• Blame God
• Blame his wife
• Who ate?
• and I ate

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More Blame

• Ge 313 And the LORD God said to the woman, "What
  is this you have done?" The woman said, "The
  serpent deceived me, and I ate.
• beguiled--cajoled by flattering lies. This sin of
  the first pair was heinous and aggravated--it was
  not simply eating the fruit, but a love of self,
  dishonor to God, ingratitude to a benefactor,
  disobedience to the best of Masters--a preference
  of the creature to the Creator

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Who Sinned?

• Impenitent men try to cast the blame of their
  sins on others while those who are penitent,
  take it to themselves.
• Lu 1521 "And the son said to him, 'Father, I
  have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and
  am no longer worthy to be called your son.'

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Consequences

• First for the serpent
• Ge 314 So the LORD God said to the serpent
  "Because you have done this, You are cursed more
  than all cattle, And more than every beast of the
  field On your belly you shall go, And you shall
  eat dust All the days of your life.

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Consequences

• For Satan
• Ge 315 And I will put enmity between you and the
  woman, And between your seed and her Seed He
  shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His
  heel."

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Promise of Christ

• thou shalt bruise his heel--The serpent wounds
  the heel that crushes him and so Satan would be
  permitted to afflict the humanity of Christ and
  bring suffering and persecution on His people.
• it shall bruise thy head--The serpent's poison is
  lodged in its head and a bruise on that part is
  fatal. Thus, fatal shall be the stroke which
  Satan shall receive from Christ, though it is
  probable he did not at first understand the
  nature and extent of his doom.

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Promise of Christ

• Heb 214 Inasmuch then as the children have
  partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise
  shared in the same, that through death He might
  destroy him who had the power of death, that is,
  the devil

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Consequences

• For Eve
• Ge 316 To the woman He said "I will greatly
  multiply your sorrow and your conception In pain
  you shall bring forth children Your desire shall
  be for your husband, And he shall rule over you."

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Consequences

• She was doomed as a wife and mother to suffer
  pain of body and distress of mind. From being the
  help meet of man and the partner of his
  affections Ge 218,23, her condition would
  henceforth be that of humble subjection.

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Consequences

• For Adam
• Ge 317 Then to Adam He said, "Because you have
  heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten
  from the tree of which I commanded you, saying,
  'You shall not eat of it' "Cursed is the ground
  for your sake In toil you shall eat of it All
  the days of your life.
• 18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth
  for you, And you shall eat the herb of the field.
• 19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread
  Till you return to the ground, For out of it you
  were taken For dust you are, And to dust you
  shall return."

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The Evil of Sin

• The evil of sin surpasses all finite conception.
  Every instance of death is an evidence of its
  power, and of the truth of God. When the word
  has gone out of His mouth, it stands for ever.
  All who disbelieve His known declarations,
  demonstrated in the universal mortality of men,
  are without excuse.

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Naked

• Ge 37 Then the eyes of both of them were opened,
  and they knew that they were naked and they
  sewed fig leaves together and made themselves
  coverings.
• Ge 321 Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God
  made tunics of skin, and clothed them.

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Physically Banished

• Ge 322 Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man
  has become like one of Us, to know good and evil.
  And now, lest he put out his hand and take also
  of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever" -
  therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden
  of Eden to till the ground from which he was
  taken. 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.

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Physically Banished

• and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take
  also of the tree of life--This tree being a
  pledge of that immortal life with which obedience
  should be rewarded, man lost, on his fall, all
  claim to this tree and therefore, that he might
  not eat of it or delude himself with the idea
  that eating of it would restore what he had
  forfeited, the Lord sent him forth from the
  garden.

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Summary

• How vain are all attempts to attain immortality
  here! For some thousands of years men have been
  laboring to find out means to prevent death and
  some have even boasted that they had found out a
  medicine capable of preserving life forever, by
  resisting all the attacks of disease, and
  incessantly repairing all the wastes of the human
  machine.

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Summary

• That is, the alchymistic philosophers would have
  the world to believe that they had found out a
  private passage to the tree of immortality but
  their own deaths, in the common order of nature,
  as well as the deaths of the millions which make
  no such pretensions, are not only a sufficient
  confutation of their baseless systems, but also a
  continual proof that the cherubim, with their
  flaming swords, are turning every way to keep the
  passage of the tree of life.

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Summary

• Life and immortality are, however, brought to
  light by the Gospel and he only who keeps the
  sayings of the Son of God shall live for ever.
  Though the body is dead-consigned to death,
  because of sin, yet the spirit is life because of
  righteousness and on those who are influenced by
  this Spirit of righteousness, the second death
  shall have no power!

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