Genesis: Lesson 2
Overview
From Eden's Perfection to the Promise of the Seed: Genesis 3–5
A Sharp Contrast: Innocence and the Fall
Genesis 2:25 describes Adam and Eve as naked and unashamed—a biblical way of saying their eyes were singularly fixed upon God. The very next verse begins the unraveling. Notice that Eve, when pressed by the serpent, adds to God's command, saying they could not even touch the tree—something God never said (compare Genesis 2:16-17). This is a "manufactured word," and the serpent piles on more: "You will not die," and the insinuation that God's motives are unworthy. Satan does not force; he lures and rationalizes, exactly as James 1:14 describes. After the fruit is eaten, eyes once focused on God turn inward toward self, and shame requires fig leaves. Like the youth group that voted to move the boundary tape, the old Adam in each of us is forever tempted to relocate the lines God has drawn.
The Consequences—and the First Promise of a Savior
The fall fractured every relationship. Adam and Eve hide from God Genesis 3:8-10; Adam blames Eve, Eve blames the serpent Genesis 3:12-13; the marriage is marked by mutual struggle for dominance, and work itself becomes toilsome Genesis 3:16-19. Yet right in the middle of the curse, God preaches the gospel. Genesis 3:15 promises that the offspring of the woman will crush the serpent's head while suffering only a heel-strike. Remarkably, the Hebrew attaches a feminine pronoun to the masculine word for "seed"—the only place in the Old Testament this happens—already hinting at a virgin birth. 1 John 3:8 confirms the fulfillment: "The Son of God was revealed for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil." Even God's clothing of Adam and Eve in Genesis 3:21 shows the Creator stooping like a tailor to cover the rebels He still loves.
Sin Spreads, but Grace Persists
Genesis 4 shows inherited sin becoming actual sin. Cain's offering was rejected not because of what he brought but because, as Hebrews 11:4 explains, he lacked faith—he went through the motions of worship without trust. God warns him in Genesis 4:7 that sin has a "hungering intent" upon him—the same word used of the curse in Genesis 3. Cain refuses to master it, kills his brother, and casually asks, "Am I my brother's keeper?" The line of Cain culminates in Lamech's boast of seventy-sevenfold vengeance Genesis 4:23-24. But God preserves another line through Seth, and "at that time people began to call upon the name of the LORD" Genesis 4:26.
"And He Died"—and Yet the Line Endures
Genesis 5 traces the generations from Adam to Noah with a relentless refrain: "and he died… and he died… and he died." God's original intent, signaled by free access to the tree of life, was that humanity would live forever with Him. Now Romans 6:23 is on full display: the wages of sin is death. When people ask why the world is the way it is—broken relationships, power struggles, violence, futile labor—the Christian answer is honest: sin, traceable all the way to the garden. But that is never the final word. As sin entered through a tree, forgiveness comes through another tree, the cross. The line continues, the seed is preserved, and at the close of chapter 5 a son named Noah is born Genesis 5:28-29—another link in God's patient preservation of the promise that leads to the Messiah. You are no accident in this story; you are part of a creation God refuses to abandon.
Transcript
Good morning. 3s
Let's pray together, please. 8s
Gracious Heavenly Father, what a joy it is to be in your house and to open up your word. 10s
We praise you, O Lord, for your infallible word. 16s
It is the bedrock upon which we can stand. 19s
We know that those promises are for us. 22s
We thank you, O Lord, that you speak to us. 25s
Through your words of Holy Scripture. 28s
Bless now, we pray, our study today, to your glory in Jesus' name. 31s
Amen. 36s
Well, we started last week, our class on Genesis here, 38s
and that's what we're exploring the first 25 chapters of Genesis. 42s
And as we turn the page and go into 2023, 46s
we're going to get into the rest of Genesis. 49s
And so that's our focus, at least with my teaching, of adult time on Sunday morning this year. 53s
And just a review where we were last week. 61s
We talked about how Genesis underscores how life has a starting point. 64s
How life has a starting point. 70s
We examined that it's the triune God who created, that he created out of nothing, 71s
that he simply spoke it into being and it was. 76s
How God created is humankind in his image. 81s
And we talked about how that image was lost in the fall into sin. 87s
We talked about how God is at work restoring that image in the believer. 93s
That work won't be perfectly complete this side of heaven, 99s
because we talked about that old Adam and Eve and continues to hang around with us. 103s
We talked about how we are not here by chance, 110s
but we are here because of God's appointment for us, 114s
because of his plan for our lives. 118s
And that we can delight in the fact that we are not, as some would say, 123s
an overgrown germ that we are not here simply by luck. 129s
No, before God said, let there be light, 135s
God knew there was going to be a you, and God had a specific plan for you. 139s
You are no accident. 144s
You are of God's perfect will for you to be, 146s
and God has a perfect will for you. 150s
God has a unique calling on each one of our lives, and it's freeing, isn't it? 155s
Because we don't have to be jealous of anybody else's calling on their life. 159s
We can simply delight in the calling that God has given to us, 164s
and that is such a free freedom and a joy. 169s
Well, we are going to continue today, and we are going to take a look at an overview of chapters 3 to 5, 174s
chapters 3 to 5, but I would like to start back in Genesis 2, Genesis 2, verse 25. 180s
I'd like to compare two verses that really stand in such a stark, stark contrast with one another. 189s
At the end of chapter 2, verse 25, it says, 199s
and the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed. 202s
As I mentioned before, that's a biblical way of saying that their eyes were so focused upon God. 207s
This was a singular purpose here, what I talk about in my sermon today. 216s
Their eyes were focused upon God, but now notice the contrast with chapter 3. 224s
Now, the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal that the Lord God had made. 229s
He said to the woman, 237s
Did God say, you shall not eat from any tree in the garden? 237s
225, you have Adam and Eve living in perfection. 246s
You go to chapter 3, verse 1, and it four shadows. 250s
It four shadows the disaster. 255s
We go on, verse 2. 260s
The woman said of the serpent, 262s
We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, 264s
You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, 268s
Nor shall you touch it, or you shall die. 273s
You ever noticed here that Eve adds to the prohibition of God? 278s
Herein, notice that? 285s
Check back in on chapter 2, verse 17. 287s
Let's go to 16, so we're not mid-sentence. 294s
Chapter 2, verse 16. 297s
And the Lord God commanded the man, 300s
You may freely eat of every tree of the garden, 302s
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, 304s
You shall not eat for in the day that you eat of it, 307s
You shall die. 310s
Do you hear the distinction? 313s
What did Eve add? 316s
Yeah, and God says, 320s
You can't touch it. 322s
Did God ever say that? 324s
No, no. 326s
Here's the glimpse here with regard to Adam and Eve 328s
of beginning to live on their own strength, 333s
their own strength in terms of resisting temptation. 336s
And what Eve proclaims here, 342s
recorded in chapter 3, is a manufactured word. 345s
It's a manufactured word. 350s
It wasn't God's word, it was her word, 352s
that she was not allowed to touch the tree. 356s
It's a host of manufactured words here, aren't there? 361s
Let's go to verse 4. 364s
But the serpent said to the woman, 366s
You will not die. 367s
That's a manufactured word. 373s
It's not truth, is it? 375s
It's not truth. 377s
As God said, 379s
You eat of it, 380s
and it's death for you. 382s
The serpent comes, 385s
You will not die, manufactured word, verse 5. 387s
For God knows that when you eat of it, 392s
your eyes will be opened, 395s
and you will be like God, 396s
knowing, good, and evil. 399s
So say here casts, 403s
as if God has unworthy motives 405s
for his giving of that command. 408s
No. 410s
God didn't want Adam and Eve to determine for themselves, 411s
that was his right and wrong. 414s
It was of the best of motives. 416s
Verse 6. 419s
So when the woman saw the tree was good for food, 422s
that it was a delight to the eyes, 424s
that the tree was to be desired, 426s
to make one wise, 428s
she took of its fruit in 8, 429s
and she also gave some to her husband, 431s
who was with her, and he ate. 433s
It's the manufactured word. 438s
It's the false promise that eating of the tree 439s
would make them like God. 444s
Notice here, 449s
the serpent didn't force Adam and Eve 451s
to eat of the forbidden fruit. 455s
It didn't force them to do it. 459s
He simply encouraged it, 463s
and rationalized it. 466s
There was no forcing, 469s
there was no twisting of the arm here, 471s
just an encouragement to do this, 473s
and a rationalization for it. 476s
And then he just watches, 482s
and there's the fall into sin. 485s
Let's go to James, the first chapter in the New Testament. 489s
A good way to find James is just go to the last book, Revelation, 494s
and then slowly start working your way back to Matthew. 498s
You're going to cross over the Johns, 501s
you're going to cross over Peters. 503s
You're going to get James, 507s
if you've hit Hebrews, you've gone too far. 509s
James chapter 1, 513s
verse 14. 519s
James writes this, 528s
but one is tempted by one's own desire, 529s
being lured and enticed by it. 535s
Then, when that desire has conceived, 540s
it gives birth to sin, 543s
and that sin, 544s
when it is fully grown, 546s
gives birth to death, 548s
do not be deceived, 550s
my beloved. 552s
Satan is simply lures, 554s
Satan simply encourages, 555s
and then he rationalizes it. 558s
Why, this is going to be good for you to eat of the forbidden fruit. 560s
Okay, back into verse 7, 567s
now, of chapter 3 of Genesis. 569s
So after now they eat of the forbidden fruit, 581s
verse 7 says, 586s
then the eyes of both were opened, 588s
and they knew they were naked, 591s
and they sowed fig leaves together, 593s
and made loin claws for themselves. 595s
Here now becomes a new awareness 599s
of the Lord, 601s
of the Self. 601s
It's the biblical way of saying, 602s
you see what happened here? 605s
Their eyes were so focused upon God 606s
that they didn't realize their nakedness, 608s
and now the fallen to sin, 611s
and their eyes are turned where, 614s
upon themselves, 616s
and they try and hide their shame. 621s
Adam and Eve are surrounded 624s
by manufactured words, 625s
manufactured words of their own making, 628s
and of the making of Satan, 633s
and it becomes then the basis for their actions. 636s
I'm reminded the story of a group of middle school children 643s
that were at a church lock-in. 647s
This is not our kids, by the way. 651s
This is not our kids. 655s
Just to say that. 658s
But they established some boundaries there, 660s
in terms of since they were going to be locked 663s
in the church there overnight, 664s
of where it was that they could go in the church, 667s
and they put up tape all around of, 671s
you know, here's the boundary lines, 675s
so don't cross the boundary lines. 677s
Here's where you need to stay in, 681s
as we're locked into the church for this overnight. 683s
Well, they had a Bible study, 688s
and they had a break, 690s
so the kids had a little bit of free time, 691s
and they noticed that when they got back, 693s
the tape had been violated, 696s
and some of the kids were going in places of the church 699s
where they shouldn't go. 702s
So the youth director gathered them all together 706s
and said, we need to talk about this. 708s
So what do you think we should do here? 710s
Because, you know, the tape was clearly there, 714s
and you know, the boundaries were clearly established, 716s
and a whole host of words came out from the kids. 719s
And unanimously, they decided to move the boundaries. 724s
Now, isn't that the old Adam and the old even us? 733s
Right? 737s
Move the boundaries then, 738s
and there is no problem. 741s
God establishes the boundaries, right? 743s
And our temptation is to move the boundaries. 748s
Let's go to Genesis 3 again, verse 15. 754s
For here we have the first promise of the Savior. 759s
The Lord God now is speaking to the serpent, 766s
and he says, verse 15, 769s
I will put enmity between you and the woman 771s
and between your offspring and hers. 774s
He will strike your head, 778s
and you will strike his heel. 780s
Which would you rather have? 788s
The head struck or the heel? 791s
See, we see here, in rising again to life, 795s
Jesus forever crushes the head of the serpent, 798s
crushes the head of the evil one, 803s
Satan nips at Jesus most certainly, 807s
as Jesus goes to the cross, as Jesus dies, 811s
but Jesus has the final word. 815s
Let's go into, let's go to 1 John chapter 3. 820s
Please, good way to find that is back toward revelation. 825s
Start working left. 829s
You'll quickly hit 1 John chapter 3, 832s
verse 10. 841s
Excuse me, verse 8. 853s
First John chapter 3, verse 8. 859s
Everyone who commits sin is a child of the devil. 863s
For the devil has been sinning from the beginning. 867s
The Son of God was revealed for this purpose, 870s
to destroy the works of the devil. 874s
So we see then going back into Genesis chapter 3, 879s
the first promise of the Savior to come. 882s
There are huge, huge consequences of the fall. 887s
Let's go back to Genesis 3 again. 893s
And the first consequence that we see in verse 10 of chapter 3 896s
is the relationship with God. 905s
The relationship with God. 914s
Chapter 3, verse 10. 918s
He said, I heard the sound of you in the garden, 925s
and I was afraid, because I was naked, 928s
and I hid myself. 932s
What's the context going back into verse 8 of chapter 3? 934s
They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, 938s
and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God 943s
among the trees of the garden. 947s
You see, because of their sin now, they understand it. 952s
They understand that they have transgressed the ways of God. 957s
And now all of a sudden, the relationship with God has changed. 960s
And now all of a sudden, instead of eyes so focused upon God, 964s
their eyes are focused upon themselves. 968s
They understand the reality of their sinfulness, 970s
and they also are filled with fear. 974s
They're afraid of the very one that created them 979s
and placed them in the perfection of the garden. 983s
The relationship with God has changed. 987s
The relationship with each other has changed. 991s
The relationship between Adam and Eve picking up in verse 10, 998s
a verse 12, rather. 1006s
The man said, 1010s
the woman whom you gave to me, to be with me, 1013s
she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate. 1015s
So who's Adam blaming? 1019s
Not my fault. 1023s
It's her fault. 1026s
Can you believe who you put me here in this garden with? 1028s
I didn't have any other choice here, right? 1032s
And you put me here with her of all people. 1035s
It's her fault. 1039s
Verse 13, 1042s
then the Lord said to the woman, 1045s
what is this that you've done? 1047s
The woman said, the serpent tricked me, and I ate. 1051s
See, she goes right then and say, 1056s
I'm going to blame serpent for doing it. 1057s
Adam blames Eve, and Eve blames serpent, 1061s
and what do you have? 1066s
You have now a changed relationship in the garden. 1067s
Between the perfection of Adam and Eve. 1072s
You have a changed relationship with creation, 1077s
and nature, a changed relationship with creation, 1084s
and nature, verse 16. 1090s
To the woman who said, I will greatly increase your pains 1093s
in child bearing. 1097s
In pain, you shall bring forth children. 1099s
Yet your desire shall be for your husband, 1104s
and he shall rule over you. 1108s
Now we'll be sudden the woman here 1113s
who is not intended by creation 1116s
to experience pain in childbirth. 1119s
Now is reminded of the pain of sin 1122s
whenever a child comes into the world. 1127s
And you see also this relationship 1131s
that has been changed between Adam and Eve, 1134s
where it says, yet your desire shall be for your husband. 1139s
It's not talking about physical desire there. 1145s
The word there is a hungering intent upon. 1148s
Because of the fall, then, 1152s
women will try and dominate men. 1154s
But now men don't do any like this here. 1160s
Because look at the next phrase, 1164s
and he shall rule over you. 1168s
You see that isn't setting up any kind of 1172s
a headship structure of a ruling structure in the family. 1176s
This is the fall after sin here. 1181s
And now all of a sudden God says, 1185s
here's how it's all affected. 1187s
Both of you, because it's really the same thought, 1190s
both of you are going to try and dominate one another. 1193s
And the marriage relationship can be characterized 1198s
because of sin can be characterized 1202s
into one of a power struggle. 1205s
And what's that result of? 1209s
It's the result of sin. 1212s
Verse 17. 1216s
And to the man who said, 1218s
because you've listened to the voice of your wife 1219s
and a beaten of the tree about which I commanded you, 1221s
you shall not eat of it. 1224s
Curse it as the ground because of you. 1227s
In toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life. 1230s
Thorns and fizzles it shall bring forth from you. 1234s
And you shall eat the plants of the field. 1238s
In other words, work will be hard for you. 1243s
Work will be hard for you. 1246s
You know, when you hear struggles of people, 1249s
a common theme of struggles of people 1253s
is struggles in the workplace. 1256s
You know where it all roots to? 1259s
All roots back to the garden. 1262s
All roots back to sin. 1265s
All roots back to human beings trying to dominate one another. 1267s
Human beings turned in upon themselves instead of turned outward 1273s
unto God. 1277s
And we see here in these pages of Genesis, 1280s
we see the mess that we have made going back to our first parents. 1283s
But the light shines. 1293s
Back to Genesis chapter 3, verse 15. 1296s
I'll put enmity between you and the woman. 1301s
And between your offspring and hers, 1305s
he will strike your head and you will strike his heel. 1310s
That phrase there. 1317s
That is translated offspring or that word there. 1320s
That's translated offspring. 1324s
It also can be translated as seed. 1325s
This is the only place in the Old Testament 1330s
where the feminine pronoun of her 1334s
is attached to the masculine word seed. 1338s
It's the only place that happens. 1342s
So the Hebrew here that is listening to this, 1345s
they're going to hear the promise of her seed. 1352s
They're going to what? 1357s
The promise of her seed, the seed belongs to the man. 1359s
So the promise of her seed, 1365s
so this indicates then that the birth of the one that will come, 1367s
the birth of the Messiah would be born without a human father. 1371s
What is being prophesied here? 1378s
Not only that the Messiah is going to come, 1380s
but that the Messiah is going to be born of the Virgin, 1383s
the Virgin birth, already prophesied in Genesis 3. 1388s
Even after the fall, 1396s
God's disposition toward Adam and Eve 1399s
was not hateful at all. 1402s
In fact, the God who had clothed creation with his creative act 1408s
as one author so beautifully puts it, 1412s
bends down to become the tailor. 1416s
And notice what he does for Adam and Eve. 1421s
Chapter 3, verse 21, 1426s
and the Lord God made garments of skins for the man 1429s
and for his wife and clothed them. 1433s
This is the God who said, 1440s
let there be light and there was. 1442s
This is the God who created Adam and Eve, 1444s
created Adam out of the clay and then Eve from the rib. 1449s
This is the one with all power. 1454s
This is the one through whom nothing that is 1457s
wasn't from his creative act. 1462s
And now he bends down, functioning as the tailor 1464s
and makes clothes. 1469s
For those that rebelled against perfection. 1473s
I mean, how much more perfect could the garden have been? 1481s
And Adam and Eve say, 1489s
it's not enough. 1491s
It's not enough. 1494s
And yet God does not let them go. 1496s
And yet the consequences of the fall become very evident. 1501s
Let's go into chapter 4. 1509s
Now the man knew his wife, Eve, 1516s
and she conceived in Borkaine, saying, 1518s
I have produced a man with the help of the Lord. 1520s
Next she bore his brother, Abel. 1524s
Now Abel was a keeper of sheep and Cain a tiller of the ground. 1525s
In the course of time, Cain brought to the Lord 1528s
an offering of the fruit of the ground. 1532s
And Abel, for his part, brought of the firstlings of his flock, 1535s
their fat portions. 1539s
And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, 1541s
but for Cain and his offering, he had no regard. 1544s
What we see here right from the top is not all of Adam and Eve's children 1551s
shared the faith of their parents, did they? 1556s
Why was Cain's offering not accepted? 1561s
Let me just give you for the sake of time. 1567s
We won't turn there now, but it's Hebrews 11 and 4. 1571s
Remember the principle that Scripture and Turbid Scripture? 1575s
Hebrews 11 and 4 gives us the answer. 1577s
That the problem with Cain's offering is Cain was going through the motions 1580s
of worship, but Cain didn't have faith. 1585s
Because what we see is we see God avalidating throughout Scripture. 1589s
Cain and produce offerings, or offerings of meat, God validating and accepting both. 1596s
But why was there this separation? 1604s
Why was there this pleasure here? 1607s
Cain was not one of faith, going through the motions of worship, 1610s
Cain's reaction, verse 5, Cain was very angry, his countenance fell. 1617s
The Lord said, the Cain, where are you angry and why has your countenance falling? 1625s
If you do well, will you not be accepted? 1630s
And if you do not do well, sin is lurking at the door. 1634s
Its desire is for you, but you must master it. 1638s
That phrase there, if you do well, you translate what it's getting at, 1642s
is the whole understanding of forgiveness. 1650s
If you do well, in other words, if you believe, then you would be accepted. 1652s
There is forgiveness there. 1656s
And notice what Word pops up once again. 1658s
Its desire is for you, but you must master it. 1662s
When did we hear that word of desire? 1667s
It's back in Genesis 3, right? 1670s
Your desire will be for your husband. 1674s
It's part of the curse. 1679s
Guess what this word means? 1680s
Hungering intent upon. 1683s
Hungering intent upon. 1685s
If you do well, will you not be accepted? 1688s
And if you do not do well, sin is lurking at the door. 1691s
Its desire, its hungering intent is for you. 1694s
The sin inherited from our parents, that's original sin, is manifested in actual sin. 1702s
Verse 8, 1712s
Cain said to his brother Abel, 1714s
let us go out to the field. 1716s
And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him. 1718s
Then the Lord said to Cain, 1723s
Where is your brother Abel? 1725s
He said, I do not know. 1726s
Am I my brother's keeper? 1727s
Ever wondered where that phrase came from? 1729s
There it is. 1731s
Huh? 1732s
I mean, that's quite a response, isn't it? 1733s
To God? 1734s
Do you know? 1736s
Where is your brother? 1736s
Am I his keeper? 1738s
I mean, you see here from the perfection of the garden. 1741s
Now we are sliding into this expression of sin and this disrespect here 1744s
towards God. 1751s
Verse 10, and the Lord said, what have you done? 1752s
Listen, your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground. 1756s
And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. 1762s
When you till the ground, it will no longer yield to you its strength. 1770s
You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth. 1773s
How indeed appropriate here that he's not going to be able to grow crops from the very ground defiled by his blood's brother, 1779s
by the blood of his brother. 1787s
Cain cries then to the Lord. 1789s
My punishment is greater than I can bear. 1792s
Today you have driven me away from the soil and I shall be hidden from your face. 1796s
I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth and anyone who meets me may kill me. 1802s
That is the ultimate punishment, isn't it? 1811s
To be hidden from the face of God. 1815s
It's the ultimate punishment. 1819s
But notice God's justice tempered with mercy. 1822s
Verse 15, then the Lord said to him, not so. 1826s
Whoever kills Cain will suffer a sevenfold vengeance and the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who came upon him would kill him. 1830s
Then Cain went away from the presence of the Lord and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. 1840s
Even there, the same God who had experienced the rebellion of our first parents, but yet closed them. 1849s
Now experiences the rebellion and the disrespect of Cain, but yet his mercy is still expressed that he places the mark upon Cain. 1859s
But Cain's ungodly attitude and violent nature continued in his children. 1876s
Let's go to verse 23 of chapter 4. 1884s
And here we come into Lomac. 1890s
Lomac here is in the line here of Cain. 1894s
Lomac said to his wives, Ada and Zilla, hear my voice, you wives of Lomac, listen to what I say. 1899s
I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me. 1908s
If Cain is a venge sevenfold, truly Lomac, 77fold. 1913s
We're a long way from the garden, aren't we? 1922s
And here is Lomac in the line here of Cain, delighting in what he did. 1929s
And just making sure that people understand whose balls here. 1939s
But the ungodly line of Cain is not the only family line. 1952s
Verse 25, Adam knew his wife again and she bore a son and named him Seth. 1959s
For she said, God has appointed for me another child instead of Abel, because Cain killed him. 1967s
To Seth also a son was born and he named him Inosh. 1974s
At that time, people began to invoke the name of the Lord. 1979s
Catch the phrase there? 1985s
At that time, people began to invoke the name of the Lord. 1987s
When you go into Genesis 5, it records the common ancestry here from Adam to Noah. 1996s
And there's two features I want to highlight. 2006s
One, notice here in chapter 5, end of verse 5. 2010s
It says, thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, any died. 2019s
Verse 8, thus all the days of Seth were 912 years, any died. 2027s
That phrase keeps coming up over and over and over again. 2034s
And remember, you harken back to the garden of Eden. 2039s
You eat freely of every tree of the garden. 2042s
Save one tree of knowledge of good and evil. 2045s
That means that God said you could eat of the tree of life, which means that God's original intention and perfect will was that we would live forever on earth. 2047s
In chapter 5, what is reinforced and they died and they died and they died. 2062s
What does Paul tell us in Romans? 2070s
The wages of sin is what? 2073s
Death. 2078s
What is it that God told our first parents? 2079s
You eat of that tree and you die. 2082s
But here comes the hope again, the hope of the birth of the one that would bring the birth of the one that was born. 2093s
And the one that would reverse the curse here. 2100s
And as long as this line goes, as long as the woman's offspring is then manifest, the seed, the Messiah will come and the head of Satan will be crushed. 2104s
As we explore here, these chapters of Genesis here, what we see is we see that which has shaped us and the world. 2121s
We see what has shaped the world. 2132s
We are left with the reality of physical death. 2135s
Why? Because all of us are sinners. 2138s
All of us. 2141s
As Adam and Eve died, so also, if the Lord continues to Terry, so also, we will also. 2142s
And what is described in these chapters is the sinful world is described. 2149s
The fall from perfection, the fall into sin, and now you've got relationship problems and you've got blaming problems that going on. 2156s
And now you've got power problems going on. 2167s
And now you've got, well, I'll know how I'll handle this. 2171s
I'll just kill the person on that. 2174s
And you see the reality of the world. 2176s
When people will say, how is it that the world is, how it is? 2180s
Us Christians have the response, sin. 2187s
Sin. 2191s
That's why. 2192s
And it goes all the way back into the garden. 2193s
But then after that analysis, what do we say? 2198s
But let me tell you of the Messiah. 2207s
Let me tell you of God's incredible love for His creation that has absolutely rebelled against Him. 2211s
Let me tell you of that love. 2221s
As sin entered the world by the tree of knowledge of good and evil, so by the tree of crucifixion, forgiveness, life, and salvation comes into the world. 2225s
As is part of our liturgy, it's the phrase, as Satan once overcame by a tree, he likewise was overcome by a tree. 2239s
And it missed all of the rebellion, and all of the sin comes God's story's not done here. 2254s
Sorry, it's not done. 2263s
And the grace shines for. 2266s
Lastly, chapter 5, verse 28, 2271s
When Lomac had lived 182 years, now this is a different Lomac here. 2277s
Now this is now in the line of Seth. 2285s
When Lomac had lived 182 years, he became the father of a son. 2288s
He named him Noah. 2293s
And it's to Noah that we're going to turn next week. 2298s
We're going to see the catastrophic reality of the flood itself. 2302s
But more importantly, we're going to see a God who patiently preserves the line. 2310s
Patiently preserves the line that we lead to the Messiah. 2320s
We will continue next week. 2327s
Thank you. 2338s