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*Intro*
I have really been enjoying going through Genesis 3 with you.
You know, you always think you know a passage so well only to sit down to study it again and being blown away with how deep God’s Word really is! Donkey told Shrek how he has layers like an onion, but there is nothing like the layers found in the Word of God! Today we will finish up the chapter as we cover this point in the statement of faith:
3. /That the first man, Adam, was created by God in His image, but fell from his original state by sinning against God, and hence incurred upon himself and all his posterity the guilt of sin, condemnation, and death; therefore, all humans are in need of salvation, but are totally incapable of saving themselves./
We will also introduce point 4:
/That after the Fall, God, in His mercy and love, made provision for human redemption through the establishment of the covenant of grace with His people by the promise and the actual giving of the Savior Jesus Christ, whom to believe is justification and life.
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So far we looked at:
*I.  **The sequence of sin (vv.1-6)*
We said the sequence of sin begins with doubting God’s Word and then doubting His character, which leads to denying God and disobeying His voice.
Secondly, we looked at:
*II.
**The consequences of sin (vv.7-24)*
We looked at several consequences from Gen. 3:7-13: Guilt and shame, hiding, fear and isolation as well as denial and blame shifting.
We also see God already acting in grace toward our first parents.
He does not run and annihilate them, but walks toward them.
He doesn’t drive them out of hiding, but draws them out.
He looks for a full confession so that He can break the grip of sin in their lives and restore them, but even when Adam and Eve do not own up to their sin, He still does not destroy them.
Let’s look at some more consequences:
/d) Suffering and Death (vv.15a, 16-19)/
In the last ten verses of this chapter, God is a judge, but He is also a Redeemer.
He is full of grace and yet full of truth.
So there is a sentence that goes forth, but the same time there is a promise of redemption.
Let’s look at the bad news first.
Look at Gen. 3:15.
We will go back to verse 14 later.
We have suffering now between Satan and believers.
So, suffering in spiritual warfare.
Even though this is under the “suffering” point, this must have startled Satan.
He must have been licking his chops thinking he has put a dent into God’s plans, that Adam and Eve were now his, but if God says there will be conflict with Eve’s offspring, that must mean that there will be people who will not stand for Satan’s schemes and will be saved.
But nevertheless, we do have suffering now in the area of spiritual warfare.
Satan will come as a serpent and Paul says, “I’m afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ” (2 Cor.
11:3).
We learned in 1 Peter that this snake can also be like a lion, prowling around seeking whom he may devour (1 Pet.
5:8).
We fight not flesh and blood, but powers and principalities in the air (Eph.
6:12).
Satan will be allowed to have conflict with us as a result of our first parents joining up with him in defying God.
So suffering from /spiritual warfare/ is another consequence of the Fall.
Secondly, look at Gen. 3:16.
There will also be suffering in /relationships/.
Eve was called to be a wife and mother.
In both of these roles were to be sources of personal enjoyment and satisfaction.
However, now from these two sources of joy would be the source of her trouble.
One commentator says, “It is appropriate punishment since procreation was central to her divine commission and because she had been instrumental in her husband’s ruin (cf.
3:17a).”[1]
Again, with these judgments, there is also grace.
Eve thought she was going to die, but God is telling her that she will have offspring.
So a painful labor, without medicine back then, is part of the penalty.
Though labor and delivery signals hope of new life, it is also a painful and perpetual reminder of sin and the woman’s part in it.
Also, this is not simply the contractions in labor he is thinking about here.
He is talking about, generally speaking, the entire pain of raising children.
The word “pain here means ‘painful toil’ and refers to the emotional as well as the physical.
Mothering itself, with its attendant joys, was also a source of painful labor.”[2]
So all of mothering (not to say fathers don’t suffer either): from the pain she feels when a child is sick, the countless times anxiety fills her heart about her children’s lives, the way her heart breaks at rebellion and all the pain in between that sin will bring is in view here.
So the woman, continually giving birth to little sinners and raising sinners, will suffer pain.
And I know a lot of moms wish there was an epidural for the way their heart breaks in raising children.
John Macarthur adds here, “ The curse is the sorrows related to the very place where a woman seeks her highest joy, in her husband and her children.”[3]
Again, there is redemption here as well, which we will get to, but generally speaking, this is the suffering for women.
So not only is there suffering physically, emotionally and spiritually in childbearing and child-raising, as she gives birth to little sinners, she is also married to a big sinner.
You give birth to little sinners and are married to a big sinner!
Before we go there, let me share a brief word on using pain medicine in delivery.
I think some would say that not taking an epidural or pain alleviation drugs in delivery is the way we should go because that is how God intended us to be.
Women should bear the curse of sin.
I do not think that’s the application intended here.
First of all, we already mentioned that this is not only physical childbearing in view here.
Secondly, if you really believe this to be true, then we should apply the same principles to Adam’s penalty as well.
God cursed the ground and told Adam to work it.
So bring the tractor and lawnmower back to Home Depot.
Get down on all fours and chew the grass down!
Don’t interfere with the curse in any way!
It doesn’t make sense.
Anyway, notice the disruption in her relationship with her husband.
The word “desire” is also found in Gen. 4:7.
God says sin will attempt to control and dominate Cain.
What is this desire?
As a commentator explains, “It means a desire to break the relationship of equality and turn it into a relationship of servitude and domination.
The sinful husband will try to be a tyrant over his wife.
Far from being a reign of co-equals over the remainder of God’s creation, the relationship now becomes a fierce dispute, with each party trying to rule the other.
The two who once reigned as one attempt to rule each other.”[4]
John Macarthur says, “Literally, it could read you shall seek control over your husband.
You will desire to exert your will.
That is a sign of the curse.
You will desire to take charge, to be in control, to master.
That desire shows up in various women in various ways.
Some of them it's a quiet, silent desire that smolders.
With others, it is a shouting desire that isn't much of a secret to anybody.
And the more godless women are, very often the more hostile they are to men.”[5] Sin has corrupted both the willing submission of the wife and the loving headship of the husband.
Again, this relationship too God will redeem, but here we see what the consequences of sin have done to the marriage relationship.
So suffering in spiritual warfare and suffering in relationships.
There will also be suffering in /making a living/.
Let’s move to Adam in Gen. 3:17-19.
Actually, let’s back up for a moment.
Look back at Gen. 2:15.
There Adam is told to “work and keep” the garden (Gen.
2:15).
Interestingly, the word, “work” or “dress” means “to serve.”
Man was put in the garden to serve.
The word, “keep” means to “protect.”
The basic meaning of this root is “to exercise great care over,” to the point, if necessary, of guarding.”[6]
He was to keep the garden from intruders.
So often we picture Adam as a gardener, but he was to be much more.
He was supposed to be a warrior and watchman as well.
Remember that men!
You are called to protect as well as to provide; a worker, watchman and warrior for your home.
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