God’s Timeline – Part 11
Crime
and Punishment
Pastor Bruce A. Shields
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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 took place
Part
9 on the series we were still on day 6 because on day 7 God rests from all the
work of creating, and we know that He creates Eve in chapter 2
How
much time passes between the end of Chapter 2 and the beginning of Chapter 3?
We
are not told.
We
know on the sixth day “God saw ALL that He had made, and it was very
good.” Genesis 1:31
And
in Genesis 2:1-3 “Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
2 By the seventh day
God had finished the work he had been doing; so
on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3 Then God blessed the seventh
day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all
the work of creating that he had done.”
So,
Genesis 2:4-25 took place on the
6th day, because God CREATED Eve.
6th
day, God saw ALL He created, and it was good. 7th day He
rested because He was FINISHED creating.
Enter, last weeks sermon.
Genesis 3 The Serpent & Eve
We can only guess how
much time passed, but reading from Genesis 1 to this point, it sounds like when
God rested on the seventh day, this took place.
God showed up in the
garden after Adam and Eve ate the fruit, making it appear as if this took place
while He was resting. Genesis 3:8 we read God returning and asking Adam where
he was.
So perhaps this was the 8th
day? I could have been. We just don’t know.
But to me this makes
sense.
On the seventh day, God
rested, and the moment we (humankind) are left to ourselves, Satan steps in,
deceives us and we start breaking God’s commands.
So, I believe God
declared the seventh day holy, and rested. Therefore Satan also chose the
seventh day to deceive Eve, because Satan wanted Adam and Eve to break God’s
command on the holy day.
Enter Day 8, God returns
to the garden and discovers Adam and Eve hiding from their guilt and shame
caused by sin.
Therefore, I believe the
breaking of God’s command took place on the 7th day, and God reveals
their sin on the 8th.
Genesis 3:14 - 24
“So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done
this,
“Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the
days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and
between your offspring and hers;
he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
16 To the woman he said,
“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with
painful labor you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over
you.”
17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and
ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from
it,’
“Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil
you will eat food from it all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will
eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until
you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to
dust you will return.”
20 Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the
mother of all the living.
21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife
and clothed them. 22 And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of
us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and
take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” 23 So the Lord God
banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been
taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side[e] of the
Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard
the way to the tree of life.
I.
Adam and
Eve Broke God’s Command
a. God first gives Adam the opportunity to
confess/repent/be forgiven
i.
Instead of confession,
Adam blames God for giving him Eve
ii.
Adam had the
opportunity to redeem all of humankind if he would have confessed and repented.
He would have received forgiveness.
iii.
Romans
5:12 “Therefore, just as sin
entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death
came to all people, because all sinned—”
iv.
I
Corinthians 15:21-22 “For
since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through
a man. 22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.”
v.
This is why Christ is
called the second Adam.
b. God then gives Eve the opportunity
i.
Instead of confession,
Eve blames the Satan, the serpent in the Garden
ii.
The command and word
of God was given to Adam
iii.
It was Adam’s
responsibility to ensure Eve understood the Word of God
iv.
We know Adam did tell
Eve, because she repeated it to Satan
v.
Although Adam is held
to a higher accountability, Eve is still responsible for her actions and for
breaking God’s Command
c. To Satan, God immediately condemns and punishes
i.
We see in Genesis 3:11 God offers confession to Adam, “Have you eaten
from the tree?”
ii.
In Genesis 3:13 God offers it to Eve, “What is this you have
done?”
iii.
In Genesis 3:14 God immediately condemns the serpent Satan for his
role, “Because you have done this…”
II.
God
Disciplines and Punishes
a. God punishes Satan first
i.
Cursed are you above
all livestock and all wild animals
1. Satan is an angel, but cursed above all other
created things
ii.
You will crawl on your
belly and eat dust all the days of your life
1. Symbolic speech here, shows us the serpent is not a
“snake”, because they don’t eat dust.
2. However, eating dust could mean the serpent Satan would
never taste of the living waters again because of his sin against God.
3. Crawling on his belly could be symbolic of being the
lowliest of low, beneath all of creation.
iii.
I will put enmity
between you and the woman
1. Prophetic/symbolic of hatred between Satan and the
woman (Israel)
iv.
Between your offspring
and hers
1.
Those belonging to
Satan’s kingdom and Jesus
v.
He will crush your
head (Jesus destroys all of Satan’s authority “head”)
vi.
And you will strike
his heel (a minor wound “the cross” compared to the damage done to Satan’s
kingdom)
b. God punishes Eve secondly
i.
I will make your pains
in childbearing very severe
ii.
With painful labor you
will give birth to children
iii.
Your desire will be
for your husband, and he will rule over you
c. God punishes Adam lastly
i.
Cursed is the ground
because of you
ii.
Through painful toil
you will eat food from it all the days of your life
iii.
It will produce thorns
and thistles for you and you will eat the plants of the field
iv.
By the sweat of your
brow you will eat your food
v.
Until you return to
the ground, since from it you were taken
vi.
For dust you are and
to dust you will return
In verse 20, seemingly out of place, Adam names his wife Eve
because she would become the mother of all the living.
However, this is not out of
place, but revealing something to us.
·
Until the punishment for
sin, Eve was not said to be the mother of all the living
·
It is only after Adam names
her Eve
·
They really didn’t have
names, Adam literally means man, Eve means mother of man
III.
God
Reveals His Plan for Salvation
a. The Lord God made garments of skin (sacrifice
for covering)
i.
Vs 21 “The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and
his wife and clothed them.”
ii.
James
1:14-15 “each person is tempted
when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has
conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth
death.”
iii.
The Lord God reveals
to us in Genesis, immediately after humankind broke God’s command and sin was
introduced, God made a way
iv.
The Lord God
sacrificed an animal…sin brings death
v.
Blood was shed for a
covering of their sin
1.
Their admitted
nakedness is symbolic of their sin, guilt and shame. Their desire to hide from
God because of it.
2.
The Lord God
sacrificed an offering, blood was shed and their sin, guilt and shame were
“covered” so they could once again stand before God
vi.
This was only a
covering though. A foreshadowing of the great work that the Lord God would do
by going to the cross, as a substitutional sacrifice, shedding His blood, not
for the covering of our sin, but the removal.
vii.
God’s plan of complete
redemption of mankind began in Genesis 3
b. God banishes man from the Tree of Life and the
Garden
i.
Now that humankind
knew they could choose whether or not to obey God’s commands, “knowing good and
evil”, God limited our lifespan, which is part of the punishment, death.
ii.
So the Tree of Life
had to be taken away from us so our flesh could not exist everlasting.
iii.
Vs 23 says, “So the Lord God banished him from the
Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.”
1.
God took Adam and
placed him “in” the garden in Genesis 2:8
2.
Genesis
3:23 Adam is banished and
returned to the land from where he was taken
c. After He drove man out He placed guards
i.
Interesting words in vs 24
ii.
“After he drove the
man out…”
1. From the sounds of it, Adam didn’t want to leave,
and may have even resisted the Lord God.
2. So the Lord God “drove” (pushed, shoved, steered)
him out
iii.
I am certain Adam did
not want to go.
iv.
I am certain he was
“sorry” for what happened, but when it comes to breaking God’s commands, it
takes more than, “I’m sorry”
v.
It takes confession,
repentance!
vi.
Acts 3:19 “Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins
may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord,”
vii.
1 John 1:6-9
1. Must repent “If we claim to have fellowship with God and yet
walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth…”;
2. Must confess “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just
and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.”
viii.
Matthew
3:8 “Produce fruit in keeping
with repentance.”
1. Our lives we live must reflect our repentance, the
turning away from the sin we confessed!
CONCLUSION –
Acts 3:19
“Repent, then, and turn to God, so that He will forgive your sins.”
Acts 2:38
““Each one of you must turn away from your sins and be baptized in the name of
Jesus Christ, so that your sins will be forgiven; and you will receive God’s
gift, the Holy Spirit.”
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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