Sunday 11.6.11: Genesis 3:20-24
Click here for last Sunday’s sermon on Genesis 3:14-19. We’ll be in Genesis 3:20-24 this week. After the pronouncement of the curse, Adam and Eve were expelled from the garden. The communion with God was abruptly ended with the disobedience of man. The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them. Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and...
Read MoreSunday 10.30.11: Genesis 3:14-19
Click here for last Sunday’s sermon on Genesis 3:7-13. We’ll be in Genesis 3:14-19 this week. From the very beginning, there is punishment for sin. No sin can go overlooked. All parties involved face consequences. The LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” ...
Read MoreSunday 10.23.11: Genesis 3:7-13
Click here for last Sunday’s sermon on Genesis 3:1-7. We’ll be in Genesis 3:7-13 this week. After Adam and Eve choose to listen to the serpent instead of the Lord God, we immediately see some new insights into the new human condition: Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths. And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. But the LORD God called...
Read MoreSunday 10.16.11: Genesis 3:1-7
Click here for last Sunday’s sermon on Genesis 2:18-25. We’ll be in Genesis 3:1-7 this week. After the creation of the world, the creation of man, placing him in the garden, and then supplying him with a helper, a cunning serpent comes along that tempts Eve. Sin entered the world and we’ve struggled to get back to Eden ever since. So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate....
Read MoreSunday 10.9.11: Genesis 2:18-25
Click here for last Sunday’s sermon on Genesis 2:4-20. We’ll be in Genesis 2:18-25 this week. We’ll talk about why the woman Eve was more fit to be a helper of Adam and some other gender roles that are revealed in the very beginning. 23Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” (Genesis 2:23 ESV) Click here for this week’s study...
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