Genesis 3 Part 2
Teaching 3.11.10
- Genesis 3:8-10
- “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. But the LORD God called to the man, ‘Where are you?’ He answered, ‘I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.’”
- Adam and Eve are afraid so they are avoiding God
- They feel guilty and ashamed
- 2 Corinthians 5:19
- “That God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.”
- 2 Corinthians 5:21
- “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
- We need to admit that we are alienating ourselves from God
- As soon as we admit it, then God can help you
- Genesis 3:7
- “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.”
- They feel that they are no longer acceptable
- They are taking their identity from themselves and not God
- We can’t measure up or valuable
- What is self-esteem?
- How you see yourself
- “Hang in there!”
- “Before you love others, you have to love yourself”
- Jeremiah 17:9
- “The heart is the most deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?”
- God can understand it
- Genesis 2:25
- “The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.”
- They were perfect
- Romans 8:16
- “The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.”
- We’re trying to take te role of the parent but we’re the children
- God knows what we can or can’t do
- Hebrews 9:14
- “How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!”
- We can have a clear conscience
- We have to meet the standard that we are in alienation from God
- We feel valuable when God is the parent
- Genesis 3:12
- “The man said, ‘The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.’”
- Adam is using Eve as a scapegoat
- When you have a relationship with God , it changes your other relationships
- What is my identity?
- Normally we get our identity from either our family or friends
- We always need to know that we’ll be taken care of
- We’re always trying to get what we want from people
- But when we have God, we’re already filled
- 1 John 4:7-12
- “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.”
- God LOVED us
- GOD IS LOVE
- We should love one another as God has loved us
- We are always fighting the environment
- We conquer nature for supplies we want
- Nature gets us back with storms and other disasters
- If Adam and Eve did not fall, this would not happen
- We would not need to destroy anything and nothing would try to destroy us
- Good news is…
- We aren’t so bad off that God can’t repair us
- We are going to struggle for a long time
- But God will help us get through it
- Genesis 3:15
- “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.’”
- There’s going to be strife between you and humanity
- But the war is not over and in the end God will win
- God is going to send Jesus
- Revelation 3:20
- “Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.”
- There is not doorknob on God’s side
- You have to let Him in
- God has a thing about trust
- Who are you going to trust?
- God or yourself?