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Introduction
Attention
The result of suffering is often a loss of hope.
The result of suffering is often a loss of hope.
Raise a Need
How many of you this morning have ever “suffered”?
Suffering is defined as undergoing pain, distress, or hardship.
Quick survey: If you have ever lost someone special, received terrible news/diagnosis, or gone through extreme hardship…say Amen.
Most likely, there is not a one of us in this room who have not suffered in some way.
If we’re not careful, suffering will lead to hopelessness.
But it doesn’t have to.
Transition to Text
The nation of Israel had lost hope when they suffered.
While in Egypt, they had given up hope of ever reaching the Promised Land.
When they failed to capture Canaan the first time, they lost all hope and wished to return to Egypt.
When God later drove them out of Canaan into exile, they lost all hope of ever returning to the land.
Moses writes here to give them hope!
Moses sought to answer the questions:
What happened to God’s good creation?
Why is it that in our present life we experience pain, toil, tensions in marriage, enmity with the animal world, and finally death?
Moses seeks to give answer to those questions.
MIM: We can have HOPE in God that he extend his GRACE in order to RESTORE Paradise to earth.
God placed mankind in a garden paradise ().
Read Genesis 2:4-9
Explanation
Toledot #1
V. 4 — The first toledot structure: “This is the account of the heavens and the earth...”
What follows is what happened AFTER God declared it all “very good.”
The Scene...
v. 5 — No shrubs, no plants (from fall later in )
THE MAN (vv.
5-7)
v. 7 — God’s creation of man…breathed into his nostrils [Not a description of precisely how God made man, but that MAN is made from the ‘dust of the ground’ ().
We are not gods, we are made of the very dust of the ground.
But, we are special in that God breathed into us his very breath.
THE GARDEN (vv.
8-14)
Details of the river and the name = real place
Picture a lush, secure, Eastern garden…with a wall around it except for the east side gate.
Beautiful, peaceful place where man can commune with God and enjoy God’s good gifts.
( — “every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food”).
Place for man’s work — , “God took the man and put into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.”
Illustration
Imagine the most beautiful garden scene…in the Netherlands is one of the largest flower gardens on the planet, covering nearly 80 acres.
Seven million bulbs are planted every year!!!
Argumentation
In France, at the Chateau de Versailles, a 2,000 acre landscape of trees and flowers and bushes…more than 6 million visitors a year.
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IMAGINE the most beautiful, peaceful, garden…at a perfect 72 degrees year round!
:-) Then multiplied that times 10 million…and that’s the edge of Eden.
Application
Read Genesis 2:15-17
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God commanded mankind not to eat from a single tree ().
Explanation
God created man…and then God placed man into the garden to cultivate it.
No big deal!
But then in verse 16, God commanded mankind to eat from all the garden freely…everything…with the exception of one single tree, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Illustration
Parents often tell kids, “You can do this…and that, but DON’T do this!!!” Kids, instinctively want to do the ONE thing you’ve told them not to do.
EXAMPLE
Sit here quiet, read your book, and DON’T GET UP.
Argumentation
The scene here is one of an ancient Hittitt covenant treatise.
The great King (Lord God) is identified…then all the good things He has done are listed.
Then, we read the stipulations.
God has given them EVERY thing in the garden.
Every tree.
Including the “Tree of Life.”
There is but ONE prohibition.
Some think this is BAD.
But God treats man with goodness even here.
Notice that God did not give the animals a choice…or even a moral agent to decide in the first place.
Application
THE STRESS...
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While the commandment was GOOD…it is the prohibition that causes the stress of this passage.
Continue in communion with God by trusting and obeying, OR
Break communion with God by disobeying his commandment.
THIS IS US...
We have the chance to make the same choice: continue with God vs. break with God.
God was disobeyed by mankind ().
Explanation
From through the end of the chapter, it’s as if the author slows down and re-directs the storyline.
But remember that to this point, all we have is man.
If “woman” is going to be instrumental in the first action of taking the fruit, we must address where the woman came from!
As God and Adam look around the “good garden” that day, God discovers there is something “not good” in Paradise.
Verse 18 says that God said it was not good for man to be alone, and so God chooses to make a helper/partner for the man.
All the animals pass by, but none are like Adam.
None can be his companion.
None are compatible with him.
They are good for company, but not for companionship.
They are inferior.
Only humanity was made “in the image of God” and only humanity was given “dominion” over the earth (, ).
So God goes to work, forming and building the woman.
says,
The picture here is of two people made for each other and from each other.
The same flesh.
Same bones.
Just opposite in sex.
is man = is = אִישׁ
אִשָּׁה is woman = issha =
Illustration
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A perfect marriage…in a perfect garden…with the perfect couple.
All is good!!!
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