Pastor Bruce A. Shields
God’s Timeline – Part 10 The Serpent and the Tree
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SERMON INTRODUCTION
So far, we have read of the creation of
everything that is, or would ever be created, all taking place during the first
week.
Creation Week - Days 1-6 Have taken place
Last week we looked at a detailed breakdown
of Day 6
It is STILL Day 6
SCRIPTURE READING
Genesis 3:1-13
“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’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the
trees in the garden, 3 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.’”
4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the
woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and
you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 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. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they
were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for
themselves.
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God
as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the
Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man,
“Where are you?”
10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid
because I was naked; so I hid.”
11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you
eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me
some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you
have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
I.
INTRODUCTION
OF THE SERPENT
a. The serpent was more crafty than any of the wild
animals the Lord God had made
i.
It does not say the
serpent is a wild animal
ii.
Just that it was craftier
than any wild animal the Lord God made
iii.
Serpent (Aramaic Nachash)
used symbolically, not a talking snake, but a deceiver
1. Genesis 49:17 “Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the
path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.”
2. Psalm 140:3 “They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent;
adders' poison is under their lips.”
3. Psalm 58:4 “Their poison is like the poison of a serpent:”
iv.
We see the Aramaic
word usage is symbolic of someone who deceives, as Genesis 49 said, “…biting
the horse’s heels, causing the rider to fall backward…”
v.
The word is used 28
times in the Old Testament, nearly every time symbolically of a deceiver or a
warning of being deceived or poisoned
vi.
At the time Moses
wrote this, they did not know who Satan was, therefore, in the garden he is
described as a deceiver, a liar, someone who poisons the thoughts and minds of
others to turn them away from obedience to God.
1. P.s. Satan is not “lucifer”
2.
Isaiah
14:12 talks of Satan’s fall from
heaven, and the phrase that should have been translated “O shining one” was
translated in the 4th century as Lucifer in the Latin Vulgate
(biblia vulgate)
a. This would become the Catholic churches bible in the
14th century
b. The name Lucifer stuck; however, a 4th
century Latin word should have never been added to the original Hebrew
scriptures written nearly 1,500 years earlier
b. Question man, question God
i.
He said to the woman,
“Did God
really say, ‘You must not eat from any
tree in the garden’?
1. Here is the serpents poison
a. Did God really say puts doubt in Eve about God and
her husband
b. God spoke this command to Adam, then Adam told Eve
2. Satan attacks Eve when she was alone
3. Satan causes doubt about God’s command
4. Satan causes doubt about Adam her husband
ii.
To throw Eve off
track, Satan doesn’t tell a straight out lie, he causes doubt so that Eve will
come to her own conclusions from the deception
c. Disguise the query as genuinely seeking
understanding (distraction)
i.
He
said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?
1.
He knew better, but
asked what seems to be an easy question to answer so Eve misses the intent
2.
Did God really say? Or
is your husband lying to you?
ii.
How many times have
you spoke to someone who “seemed” genuinely interested in things of faith, only
to discover they were trying to goad you into an argument about the Truth?
iii.
Satan’s goal is to
cause trouble for God and what He is doing for humankind
1.
Satan cannot actually
do anything “to” God, so he has to attack God’s creation
2.
However, IF we are
obedient to God, we are righteous and part of God’s Kingdom, and Satan cannot
touch us
3.
So Satan works to
deceive us into being disobedient, unrighteous, so we are not in God’s Kingdom,
rather, we default to Satan’s kingdom outside the gates of God’s.
II.
THE WOMAN
AND MAN ARE BOTH DECEIVED
a. She answered the serpent but he replied
i.
“The woman said to the
serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 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.’”
ii.
She passed Satan’s
first test!
1.
He had to ensure she
knew the command, otherwise if she ate of the tree she wouldn’t have broke it
2.
You cannot lie if you
do not know the truth
3.
If you think something
is wrong and you do it, it is wrong
a.
Romans
14:22-23
iii.
Satan replies, ““You
will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows
that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be
like God, knowing good and evil.”
1. Four lies and a truth in Satan’s statement
a. You will certainly not die
b. God knows
c. Your eyes will be opened
d. You will be like God
e. You will know good and evil
2. Lie 1 – You won’t
die, well, not directly from
eating of the tree, but indirectly because your sin kicks you out of God’s
Kingdom and the garden and you will no longer have access to the Tree of life,
which sustains the human body everlasting, and, you will die.
3. Lie 2 – God knows – no one knows what God is thinking other than God.
God didn’t even allow Himself to know when the end times were going to take
place when He came as Jesus. Anytime someone wants to tell you something “from”
God, be very weary, because this is exactly HOW Satan works to deceive the
children of God.
4. Lie 3 – Your eyes
will be opened – Satan often makes us
promises to deceive us, with money, power, control over others, etc. Here the
promise is Wisdom, but not just any wisdom, Lie 4 – YOU WILL BE LIKE GOD. The promise of Godly wisdom is the bait Satan
sets in the trap for Eve.
5. Finally – You will know good and evil – the only
truth in all Satan said. How will Eve “know” good and evil. Because before the
disobedience, she is GOOD…after the disobedience, she will be evil and know all
to well what evil is and the penalty of it.
b. A few things she could have done at this point
i.
Eve could have ran
back and told her husband Satan was messing with her and called him and God
liars
ii.
She could have just
rebuked Satan right then and there and ignored his deception
c. Instead, her and Adam disobey God
i.
VS 6-7 “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. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized
they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for
themselves.”
ii.
III.
THE LORD
GOD GIVES OPPORTUNITY
a. Sin brings about fear and shame
b. God gives the man the opportunity to confess
c. God gives the woman the opportunity to confess
Next week we will read of the judgment and punishment handed out to the
serpent for his participation, and to Adam and Eve for not confessing their sin
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