8/29/10 Genesis 3:14-24
August 29, 2010 Speaker: Matt Reed Series: Protoevangelium
Passage: Genesis 3:14–24
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- God placed man and woman in the garden; they were given ample permission to enjoy a variety of plants; only one prohibition
- The serpent tempted the woman (Adam seems to be silently next to her); they eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil
- Disobedience enters the picture; there is an innocent dependence on God that is lost; effects are seen immediately as they hide from God and then do the blame game
- The Order
- Sin of man, sin of woman, sin of serpent; judgment on serpent, then woman, then man—a chiastic structure
- The Serpent’s Curse (vv. 14-15)
- Crawling on belly and Eating dust = Expressions of humiliation and subjugation
- V. 15 depicts a continual unresolved conflict between humans and representatives of evil
- A hint of promise?
- V.15b is often called Protoevangelium (the first good news)
- Promise that some unspecified member of the human race will lash out at serpent’s ‘offspring’
- Possible foreshadow of Jesus who defeats sin’s curse on the cross
- The Judgment on the Woman
- Pain in childbearing
- Note: she is not to become barren; there is mercy in the judgment
- Strife in the husband wife relationship
- Break in the relationship of equality; sinful husband will seek to be a tyrant
- Pain in childbearing
- Judgment on the Man
- The work that man was designed to do will now be difficult and frustrating
- Contrast that image compared to tending the garden
- Expulsion from the Garden
- Passive punishment: when man disobeyed God, God removed the blessing of the garden; work outside the garden (where God was present) is toilsome
- Lost access to the tree of life—death becomes inevitable
- A New Hope
- Woman is now named Eve—sounds like Hebrew verb ‘to live’
- Though death has now entered the picture, there is hope the human race will live on
- New clothing—way of showing God is still looking out for them; they do not leave the garden vulnerable
- Woman is now named Eve—sounds like Hebrew verb ‘to live’
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