October 4, 2020

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The Human Nature of Sin-

• Deceit it is human nature, since the fall. We are all sinners, we are broken. And that is ok, but we have to admit it. Women were deceived and men rebelled against God.

• God put the man in the garden to work and eat freely from it, except from one tree. And he could not do it. What is the "tree" in your life? What is the one thing the lord has to have you focus on to avoid?

• Adam and Eve seemed to be accustomed to God walking and talking with them. But after they ate from the tree, they hid from God, because they realized they were naked, and they were ashamed and afraid.

• God asked Adam if he had eaten from the tree, and Adam confessed! God already knew what happened but he needed Adam to confess what he had done. Adam blamed the woman, and the woman blamed the serpent.

• God punished the serpent, then God punished the woman, then He punished the man.

• God declare that the man and woman could no longer eat from the tree of life, so the were kicked out of the garden, and an angel with flaming sword was placed to stand guard of the entrance.

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Today's Scripture

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Genesis 3:8-24

 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 So the Lord God called out to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”

10 And he said, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”

11 Then he asked, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

12 The man replied, “The woman you gave to be with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate.”

13 So the Lord God asked the woman, “What have you done?”

And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

14 So the Lord God said to the serpent:

Because you have done this,
you are cursed more than any livestock
and more than any wild animal.
You will move on your belly
and eat dust all the days of your life.
15 I will put hostility between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring.
He will strike your head,
and you will strike his heel.

16 He said to the woman:

I will intensify your labor pains;
you will bear children with painful effort.
Your desire will be for your husband,
yet he will rule over you.

17 And he said to the man, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

The ground is cursed because of you.
You will eat from it by means of painful labor
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 You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow
until you return to the ground,
since you were taken from it.
For you are dust,
and you will return to dust.”

20 The man named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all the living. 21 The Lord God made clothing from skins for the man and his wife, and he clothed them.

22 The Lord God said, “Since the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, take from the tree of life, eat, and live forever.” 23 So the Lord God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. 24 He drove the man out and stationed the cherubim and the flaming, whirling sword east of the garden of Eden to guard the way to the tree of life.

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Genesis 2:15-17

The Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and watch over it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree of the garden, 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.”