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Intro
Outline
intro series and reason for series.
If we don’t understand where and how sin and struggle entered the world, we’ll be confused about the scope of the problem and the hope we have in Jesus.
When we see the struggles around us (everything from marital problems to selfishness to drug abuse to every form of idolatry), we have to understand its origins to understand it at all.
If we don’t come to grips with these bookends, we won’t make much sense of the rest of the Bible.
Bookends of Scripture
Genesis
Context
The Exodus.
In the beginning God
Purpose
To explain origins, to make sense of life, and to offer hope.
Revelation - we try to turn it into a roadmap through a haunted house.
Revelation -
Context
Conflict
Purpose
To give hope to Christians.
What if Revelation is about something more?
What if God looks at the destruction and pain of his good creation and says, “I want it all back!”?
But…that’s next week.
If we boil it down to the beginning and the end.
How does Scripture start and finish?
It starts with the Fall and ends with Restoration
We live in the middle - the already and the not yet
Today we’ll start with the Fall and next Sunday we’ll celebrate in the Restoration.
Genesis 3
Perfection of creation.
Over and over we are told it was good.
Story told twice.
God is majestic and yet immanent.
Then we come to chapter three
Text
Intro the Serpent.
This isn’t literally about snakes or a random snake.
This is something much more terrible and much more deadly.
This is Satan.
Either, Satan is masquerading as a snake or the language is figurative.
Moses calling him, “That old snake.”
Satan (Hebrew).
The accuser
Devil (Greek).
To throw through
What do we know for sure:
What do we know for sure:
Crafty
This is a real event.
(genealogy); , -21 all confirm this really happened.
Created - not equal
Books about hell.
God is not threatened by rebellion.
What we know for certain is that Satan will meet his doom via the Messiah
Crafty/shrewd/cunning - he distorts God’s words.
He tricks them into not trusting God’s words and to question his motives.
Eve becomes the first legalist (God never said anything about touching the fruit).
She emphasizes the prohibition and ignores God’s provision.
Crafty/shrewd/cunning - he distorts God’s words.
He tricks them into not trusting God’s words and to question his motives.
Eve becomes the first legalist (God never said anything about touching the fruit).
She emphasizes the prohibition and ignores God’s provision.
Iphones and Apple
Devil - Throw through
Crafty
The Choice
Gen 3:
They stopped trusting what God said was good.
Goodness was no longer rooted in what God had said would make life good.
Now, what they are left to trust their own judgment, and they distort what is good into what is evil.
As soon as they do, they realize the great travesty of their choice.
Innocence, purity, holiness, and oneness were gone.
God comes and they hide.
The Fall and Judgment
Spiritual death had entered and now they would experience physical death as well.
But If we’re not careful here we miss the grand scope of the problem.
Four distinct relationships are devastated:
Unity with others.
(; )
Bone of my bone flesh of my flesh
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
Adam blames God and Eve.
Eve blames Satan.
The only innocent party is God.
Everyone else is pointing the finger.
Oneness has been replaced by pain and struggle.
Cain and Able
Families became tribes and even countries
We feel this today.
In our homes (consider when there is an inheritance)
On the news
In our Church
Humanity and Creation (; )
Adam’s first job was to be a gardener in God’s grand creation.
He named the creatures God had made.
In Scripture, naming implies exercising authority.
God renamed Abram, Abraham, Jacob, Israel, Simon, Peter.
Adam exercised authority over creation by naming the animals.
But now, creation will rebel.
There is a wordplay here.
Adam and Adama.
Creation itself longs for the restoration.
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