Sermon Tone Analysis

Firsts

Introduction –Do you remember your Baby’s First BDay – First cake, First real sugar rush, first playing with the boxes instead of the toys.

I.

The First Sabbath, 2:1-3

II.

The First Garden, 2:4-14

Remember the Bible starts with a Garden in Genesis and ends with a Garden in Revelation.

II.Garden A. The First Human

Adam Vs. 7

God shaped Adam.

God made Him how He wanted Him.

God made Adam in His own image.

God shaped Adam for a particular reason.

Is 43:

II.

Garden B. The first Human breath

Do you remember your child’s first breath?

Do you remember that cry?

The moments from when the baby leaves the birth canal to the moment of the first breath are moments of tension.

Why? Life is in the breath.

Illustration - We thought with our first that there would be an issue with her first breath and a whole specialist breathing team was in the room to attend to her first breath.The first breath of Adam came from the mouth of God.

The first breath of Adam came from the mouth of God.

There was no other creature that was made alive with the breath of God except for humankind.

No horse, porpoise, no bear or lion.

God breathed into humankind.

Screams - This one is special.

II.

Garden, C.

There is intentional design.

God formed Adam, like a potter creates the clay how he desires it.

Intimate Forming and Specific Purpose - Isaiah

Is 44

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Specific Purpose - Declare God’s Praise

II.

D. The Tree of Life and Knowledge of Good and Evil

These trees were located in the middle of the Garden.

The Tree of life would literally cause one to live forever.

The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was a tree of cursing.

-The knowledge of Evil comes with the experience of Evil.

-No one can understand evil and not experience evil except God.

-Certainly on the Cross with the guilt of sins of God’s People on Christ.

Christ experienced evil without being stained buy it.

III.

First Law, 2:15-17

Genesis 3:15-17

God made sin possible.

God placed the means to sin before Adam.

Now Adam must choose to obey or sin.

Adam must choose to follow God’s rule as King over His life or be the own King of his life.

Application - Isn’t this what we must do every day?

Every day, set before us is a choice to lay down the crown or to wear the crown.

To be King over our life or to allow God to be King.

Every day we are faced with the same choice as Adam.

We will deal in detail more in chapter 3.

IV.

First Marriage, 2:18-25

End of verse 20, last sentence is funny.

All the animals came and no animal could be a helper to Adam.

God proves to Adam that Adam has a need that only God can provide.

God filled this need in a pronounced way.

Special way.

A way that Adam could not ignore.

Illustration - At the end of the day at Disney World in the Magic Kingdom where the Castle is everyone gathers at the castle and a very well orchestrated fireworks show goes off.

When the fire works are going off to the music you get this sense that this is a magic and special place.

The fireworks to the loud music is the grand finale.

At the end of the day at Disney everyone gathers at the castle and a very well orchestrated fireworks show goes off.

Disney has invested tens of millions of dollars to get you to psychologically feel that.

Eve is the grand finale to the creation story.

Adam is shown his great need and God in His goodness gives Adam a wonderful gift.

God gives instructions for the first marriage.

To be independent and united.

No longer dependent on Mom and Dad (forsaking mom and dad)

Clinging to each other - sticking to each other.

Becoming One Flesh -

A. Physical Intimate Union between the two & having children.

B. Spiritual and emotional closeness.

C. A commitment and closeness between husband and wife that is like flesh and bone.

V. Gospel - God gave us marriage for many reasons.

Many good reasons.

A. The greatest reason we were given marriage was so that we would understand the result of the cross in our unity with Him.

Those in Christ are one with the Father and Son.

The Father loves His Children just as He loves His Son.

Marriage in the Garden points us forward to greatness of unity with have with God through Jesus.

Marriage in the Garden leads us to the display of love that God has for His people.