Destroying the Foundation
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Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?”
The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden. But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.’ ”
“No! You will not die,” the serpent said to the woman. “In fact, God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” Then the woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.
We need to realize that Satan is real, he works hard at destroying foundational things. He seeks to destroy:
We need to realize that Satan is real, he works hard at destroying foundational things. He seeks to destroy:
The authority of the word of God.
The family unit, by destroying the structures undergirding a family.
Satan's Character
Satan's Character
Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?”
The speaker changes from God to Satan
God had brought order, Satan will bring chaos
naked-arumim, crafty-arum
Satan is seen as shrewd, and they are seen as innocent, oblivious to evil.
Craftiness, or shrewdn ess in not evil in itself, but Satan used it in an evil way. (Shrewd people can be master-manipulators... and that is seen here)
Satan came in form of a snake
Disguise
Temptation by one that should have been subject. The very first words from the Devil that are ever recorded are "Did God really say..." Anyone who ever casts doubt on the Word of God does so led by the Enemy of God and the enemy of their own soul.
Serpents keep showing up in the first five books and its never good.
The Tribe of Dan is called a Serpent that bites horses heels.
Exodus 4 and 7 the staff that become a serpent. To the Egyptians, the serpent represented power and life. (But God is letting us know that the serpent represented temptation, evil, weakness, and death.
The Serpents in the wilderness wandering.
Satan's Strategy
Satan's Strategy
Create Doubt and distrust in God and His Word.
Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?”
The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden. But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.’ ”
Three things strike me about Eve.
Satan speaks to her.
She has messed up the command. (The command was given to Adam before she was present, "you" is singular in chapter 1, and plural in chapter 2.) She has added to the prohibition, and subtracted from the penalty. This is exactly the opposite of when Christ was tempted. He defeated Satan by an accurate knowledge of God's Word.
She's doing the talking, and apparently the leading. See Genesis 3.16-17; Romans 5.12. 1 Timothy 2.14 ( This is not a set of isolated stories, but the Bible is weaving a massive story of fall and redemption from Genesis to Revelation.)
He said to the woman:
I will intensify your labor pains;
you will bear children in anguish.
Your desire will be for your husband,
yet he will rule over you.
And He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice 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.
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and transgressed.
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all men, because all sinned.
Satan's Deception
Satan's Deception
“No! You will not die,” the serpent said to the woman. “In fact, God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Now that Satan has dangled the bait, he sets the hook.
The bait was "Did God Say" The hook is "God is not true!"
After Eve weakened what God had said, Satan negated it. YOU WON'T DIE
Satan restated it. God's trying to hold you back. He's trying to hold you down. You guys are missing your destiny. You can be like God. This is the ultimate temptation, and the ultimate motivation to all sin. Make your own rules. Be your own God. Do your own thing. Determine your own destiny.
Eve's Response
Eve's Response
Then the woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
Eve's response- Verse six says Now, but Satan's work was already done. She was led astray first by what she heard.
Good for food
pretty to look at
Promise of wisdom (false promise to be in the know)
Took ate, and gave to her husband who was WITH her. Adam's silence and passivity in all this SPELL trouble. We see Eve deviating from the design by calling the shots, and we see Adam deviating from God's design by his passivity.
Similarities between Eve's Temptation and Jesus'.
Good for food. change stones to bread
gain. not die. not hurt your foot
glory. you will be like God. You will have kingdoms.'
Sin's Results
Sin's Results
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.
Sin's result
They did come to KNOW some things.
They knew they were naked.
They made coverings for themselves. (If we try to cover our sin, God will expose it. If we are willing to expose our sin, God will cover it.
What really happened.
Loss of innocence
Loss of safety with one another (Alienation)
Loss of fellowship with each other. And as we will see next Sunday loss of fellowship with God.