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/Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made.
He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”/
/The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”/
/ “You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman.
“For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”/
/When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it.
She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realised they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves/.
Tradition seems to have always taught, and I had always assumed, that Eve was alone when the serpent approached her.
This scenario, embraced by most Bible teachers, assumes that after she was deceived and had eaten some of the fruit she then went in search of Adam to induce him to share in her sin by eating some of the fruit.
Larry Crabb has pointed out in the opening pages of a book which was recently published that Adam was right there with Eve during the conversation with the serpent.[1]
The Word of God clearly states the case that Adam was present.
/When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it.
She also gave some to her husband, /*who was with her*/, /(HM;[i Hv;yail]]) and he ate it [*Genesis 3:6*].
This is an astonishing piece of information!
Adam *was* with Eve when she was approached by the serpent!
That blows away my categories.
We have always talked about how Eve was deceived.
In fact, *1 Timothy 2:14* teaches that the woman was deceived and we draw certain assumptions which may be unwarranted from that knowledge.
I think that deep down we tend to blame Eve for getting us all in this mess in the first place, even though we know technically that Adam was responsible.
But what if Adam was standing right there the whole time that Eve was talking to the serpent?
I think this sheds new light on just how responsible Adam was for what happened.
It gives us insight into the responsibility men bear before God.
This puts a whole new twist on *Romans 5:12*.
What does this say to us about not doing anything when we are not sure exactly what we should do or say?
It sure makes inactivity look more sinful to me.
If Adam *was* there, then why didn’t he say something?
Why didn’t he tell the serpent to get lost?
Why didn’t he correct Eve when she misquoted the command not to eat of the tree?
Why didn’t he suggest they go somewhere else to talk about the situation?
Why didn’t he stop Eve when she reached for the fruit?
Why was Adam silent?
Though I’m not going to answer that right now, I think the answer will become obvious as we work through several concepts.
*Man’s model—man is created in God’s image*.
What is your image of a “real” man?
Perhaps you think of a real man as someone in the image of Arnold Schwartzeneger or someone like Chuck Norris.
Hollywood has done much to form our image of what a man should be.
By the criterion of the silver screen a man is tall, dark and invulnerable.
Above all else a real man is silent, never saying much but maintaining a brooding silence in the face of every challenge.
The modern image has moved to an opposite extreme as we see a soft, vulnerable, almost effeminate image much like Billy Crystal.
Either image is distorted, even warped.
Most people today are confused about what a man should be.
Christians haven’t fared any better, as the churches are increasingly feminised.
Family Life Seminars, Promise Keepers and hundreds of self-help books haven’t yet resolved the issue of what a man should be.
We have a multitude of experts telling men how to be “good” fathers, “good” husbands, or “good” whatevers… There is obviously a problem and Christians are relentlessly searching for answers.
When we realise there is a problem we read a book by a “professional counsellor” or attend a conference.
Having read the book or sat through the conference we get motivated and we apply the principles which were outlined for a few weeks or months.
Have you ever noticed there is an updated version of last year’s latest self-help book?
There is always need for another Promise Keepers conference?
That is because we slip back into the old routine and need the next edition or yet another conference.
We are acting in our own energy and not in God’s power.
I suggest that the churches haven’t yet dealt with the problems.
Had the churches done what was required by God there would be no need for experts, nor would we need to seek out the latest conference with motivational speakers telling us how to act.
I am humbled by the fact that the men we consider great in the eyes of God, those stalwarts of the past such as D. L. Moody, Billy Sunday, Hudson Taylor, Charles Spurgeon, etc. were men of God.
They spent hours in prayer and in the Word of God.
They were first godly, and then they were manly.
Consequently, they are remembered as great men.
We turn matters around and try to be manly first and then imagine that we can be godly.
Underscore this truth in your mind: the only way to be manly is to be godly.
How do we become godly?
By reflecting the image of God.
In order to reflect God’s image we must know what God is like.
We need to study God, and that, for your information, is theology.
Instead of being boring, theology is the exciting study of God.
As we studied the first two chapters of Genesis we saw one aspect of God which stood out above all others.
Whenever God encountered chaos He spoke and brought about order.
God spoke into nothing and created the heaves and the earth [*Genesis 1:1*].
The *second verse* states that /the earth was formless and empty/ [*Genesis 1:2*].
Into the chaos God spoke to bring about order.
Here is what we should understand about those first two verses.
God moved about in darkness and chaos in order to create order and life.
Man is created in the image of God [*Genesis 1:26*].
You will remember that one of the first responsibilities Adam assumed was naming the animals [*Genesis 2:19-20*].
We saw that God was using this as a means to teach the man that he had no complement among the animals in preparation for the creation of woman, but other truths are revealed in man’s action.
He demonstrated his superiority over the animals, fulfilling the command to rule over them.
There is this further insight, however, which lays an important foundation for this present message.
Man demonstrated how he was in the image of God by naming the animals, for he brought order out of chaos.
Like God, man spoke into disorder, for he spoke into a world in which no life form had yet been named.
By naming the animals Adam imposed order on creation.
In *Genesis 1:3* God spoke and in *Genesis 2:20* man spoke.
In speaking, giving names to the animals, man revealed that he was in the image of God.
God spoke into chaos and created order and life.
Adam spoke into disorder and brought about order.
It is a demonstration that man, created in God’s image, is responsible to speak into disorder so that order and life may result.
This means that when life becomes chaotic, man is responsible to speak.
Men are responsible, not to maintain silence in the face of chaos, but rather they are responsible to speak so that order will result.
Should a man remain silent in the face of chaos, he sins and ceases to be like God.
Having said this, I must hasten to admit that man’s natural tendency is to be silent.
*Man’s natural tendency—to be silent*.
Confronted with chaotic conditions, the natural tendency of man is to be silent.
We have already seen the example of Adam who was silent when his wife was confronted with the choice to rebel.
His silence resulted in the ruin of the race and necessitated the sacrifice of God’s Only Son.
The next well-known example presented in the *Book of Genesis* is Abraham.
God had promised Abraham that he would have a son and that from that son would come descendants as numerous as the stars [*Genesis 15:4,5*].
*Genesis 15:6* presents the great text, Abram believed God.
Perhaps it was the passage of time or simply a lapse of faith, but the day came when Abraham’s wife Sarai grew restless.
Ten years had passed and Sarai wanted a family now!
She urged Abraham to father a child by her maidservant Hagar.
Abraham listened to Sarai, slept with Hagar and sired Ishmael [*Genesis 16:2*].
The result of Abraham’s silence was the Arab~/Israeli conflict which rages to this day.
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