THE CONSEQUENCES OF DISOBEDIENCE
Genesis 3:14-24
You will notice that the Lord brought judgment against the serpent. Eve, then
Adam in the order of their sin. The serpent started sin with his deception,
with Eve and Adam followed in disobedience.
THE FALL AND THE DEGRADING OF LUCIFER, (SATAN, DEVIL, SERPENT)
V:14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, \”Because you have done this, \”Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the 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.\”
A. Every time you see a snake crawling on the ground, it is a reminder of the fall of
man from the glorious position of walking in the Garden of Eden with God to his
low position of struggling on earth to make a living with pain and hardship.
1. We must remember that originally Lucifer was one of God\’s high angels until
sin was found in him.
a. Because of his pride, Lucifer rebelled against God and was kicked out of his
heavenly domain. Isa 14:12-17, Ezekiel 28:14-17
b. Satan appeared to Eve in a disguised form.
Satan verbally communicated with Eve.
2. As a result of God\’s second judgment, he was reduced to a cursed position
working in darkness and hated by man.
3. God made no animal with ability to verbally communicate with Him
or man. The word serpent is probably symbolic with the poison of a venomous
snake .
a. God allowed the fallen Lucifer to communicate with Eve as
the serpent as if there was some possibility of redemption.
b. The serpent is the Hebrew word hachash. The text added a definite article \”ha\”
which is the serpent, or the tempter. It is figurative language
to put emphasis on sin as the poison of life.
c. It probable that Satan appeared to Eve as an angel of light. 2 Cor 11:14
d. Lucifer used his sinful deception to corrupt God premiere creation
e. From an angel of light, God reduced him to the devil, Satan, the lord of
flies, the father of lies and the angel of darkness.
B. The word serpent is also symbolic of Lucifer\’s fallen defeated position.
Isa 12:1, Rev. 12:9, 20:2
a. The Lucifer has no possibility of redemption.
b. He is doomed forever to the eternal hell.
C. The word enmity is he Hebrew word eybah which means hatred, hostility.
1. The enmity maybe Christ himself.
2. It is the Lord God who made the devil a mortal enemy of mankind.
3. The seeds of the devil are his demons and those men and women who
operate under his influence.
4. The seed of the woman is all humanity.
5. Satan will bruise man on the heel which means he will
cripple man\’s ability to communicate with God.
D. The grace and mercy of God is here noted for the redemption of man.
1. The bruise on the head by the woman\’s seed is Jesus on the cross
2. After the second coming of Jesus, Satan will be locked into the eternal fire
of hell. Rev 20:10
3. All who accept Christ as their personal Savior will have a home in heaven.
THE SIN AND PUNISHMENT OF THE WOMAN
V:16. \” To the woman he said, \”I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.\”
A. The judgment for Eve is threefold.
1. She will have great pain in child birth.
2. She will have a desire for her husband which will produce
more pain in child birth
a. The word desire, from the Hebrew word which means longing
or craving.
b. God put the desire for intimate relationship with a man into the woman.
c. Since, God did not mention this for man, perhaps it is natural
for man to long for a woman.
d. The commission of Adam and Eve was to be fruitful. and multiply. Gen 1.28
e . Notice, there were no children born in the Garden of Eden.
3. Third, she was permanently reduced to the rule of her husband.
a. Before Eve sin, she was the help mate of Adam.
b. After her sin Eve had the added burden of being ruled by
her husband.
THE SIN AND PUNISHMENT OF ADAM
V:17 -19. \”To Adam he said, \”Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, \’You must not eat of it,\’ \”Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of 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.\”
A. Because of the sin of Adam, the ground was cursed for the life of man
on earth.
1. Before Adam\’s sin, the ground was easy to tend.
2. After Adam\’s disobedience the ground became hard and laborious to work,
3. To eat from the ground would require the pain of labor.
B. Introduced into the ground as a result of Adams sin is thorns and thistles which
prick the hand while harvesting the ground.
1. God made the ground hard then add thistles and thorns to make life difficult
for Adam to survive.
3. Thirdly, God added sweat glands as a curse and as a blessing.
4. As a blessing to cool the body of man as he toil and as a curse
to make man uncomfortable as he worked.
5. Forth, God added the curse of death as He promise for man\’s disobedience
a. The body of man was made from the dust of the earth.
b. Man is give a life span before his body returns to the earth.
c. Adam and Eve were spiritually separated from God the moment
they sinned.
A COMMIMENT TO MARRIAGE
V:20. \” Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living. \”
A. Adam accepted his punishment from God.
1. Adam continued to be a strong supporter of his wife.
2. Adam put his wife on a pedestal.
3. He named his wife Eve, which means life giver or first woman.
B. Adam position for his wife was if we succeed, we succeed together.
1. If we fail, we fail together.
2. Adam followed God\’s command of cleaving to his wife.
3. Men take a note from Adam.
a. Don\’t let you personal circumstances affect you love for your wife.
b. Be quick to make up for any mistakes you make.
c. What ever your spouse needs from you, they need it more in times
of turmoil.
THE ATONEMENT OF SIN
V:21. \” The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. \”
A. God showed His love for the first family.
1. The grace and mercy of God is displayed immediately.
2. God kill an animal to make a covering for them.
3. This sacrifice was the first for the atonement of their sins,
4. The blood of the animal was a sin offering for God.
5. Life is in the blood.
B. The sacrifice of the animal was symbolic of the death of
Jesus on the cross for our salvation.
1. The deception of Satan had separated man from God.
2. Adam and Eve\’s confession of their sin open the door for the
sacrifice.
3. They both confessed that they had eaten from the Tree Of Knowledge
And Of Good And Evil.
4. God\’s Grace favored them with the sacrifice of the animal.
5. God\’s Mercy was the forgiveness of their sin.
6. Victory over Satan was in the atonement of the blood sacrifice.
THE PROTECTION OF MAN
V: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.\”
A. God\’s Grace and Mercy endures for ever.
1. Even in bad times, God is at work in our lives.
2. Eating from the forbidden tree had given Adam and Eve a conscience.
a, It is good to know the difference between right and wrong.
b. It is good to know that there is a consequence for doing wrong.
B. Like us, Adam and Eve would sin again.
1. To prevent Adam and Eve from eating from the Tree of Life
which was in the middle of the garden of Eden, He had to
make provisions to make sure it didn\’t happen,
2. If Adam and Eve had eaten from the Tree Of Life in their
sinful state, they would have been condemned for life.
3. There would be no chance of redemption.
FRESH START IN A NEW HOME
V:23-24. \” 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 of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life. \”
A. Even though you are forgiven of your sin by the Mercy Of God, there are still
consequences.
1. Adam and Eve lost the home that God had prepared for them.
2. They lost the comfort of God\’s pleasure with them.
3. They had to start over again with the skills God had given them.
B. Even in our bad times, God is good.
1. By locking them out of the Garden Of Eden, God was protecting them from
themselves.
2. God locked one door, but He open another.
3. God gave Adam and Eve a place on the east side of the Garden Of Eden.
4. This closeness of their new home to the Garden of Eden would be a
reminder of what they lost by rebelling against God.
C. God placed one of His high angels to guard Eden with a flaming light.
1, Notice the angel was a Cherub.
2. This Guardian Angel was a reminder to Satan who was a Cherub before
his fall.
3. The sword may represent the power and control of the Almighty God.
THANK GOD FOR BEING IN CONTROL
Rev. M. Mitchell
Asst Pastor Of Greater Macedonia Baptist Church
5510 West Sam Houston Park Way North
Houston, Texas 77041
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