3. The Curse upon Creation

Gen. 3:13; Ps. 90:10; 144:4; Eccl. 1:2b; 3:20; 12:7;

Rom. 8:2b, 20a, 22; Gal. 3:19b; 4:4–5; 1 John 3:8b

All have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God.  We all lie or do something the bible has told us not to do.  The result is that God no longer looks at you as his but God said you must die.  Now if your looking for a nice warm hug from the Lord this day go find another place but tonight I need to make you see you need Jesus and you do not the  afterlife is not going to be nice.  But this life is not going to be fun either, 

^GEN The Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”  So the Lord God said to the serpent:

“Because you have done this,

You are cursed more than all cattle,

And more than every beast of the field;

On your belly you shall go,

And you shall eat dust

All the days of your life.

And I will put enmity

Between you and the woman,

And [1]between your seed and her Seed;

He shall bruise your head,

And you shall bruise His heel.”

First the devil has done this so God gave him his punishment.  Just a Shadman thought do not start telling to the devil and telling him stuff.  He is not going to listen to your talk cause your not a powerful thing.  Ask Jesus to deal with Devil cause Jesus is so much power in his life.  Jesus power is Jesus word.  Anyhow the first punishment is for the devil and the last 3 lines.  Jesus is going to die and be risen thus he is going to slam the devil and defeat him.  We get in when Jesus is our king and rules our life.  Devil is going to a hell to.  Yes we die but Jesus gives us the heaven and the devil is not going to win

^1JNFor this purpose the Son of God, ^GAL the Seed,  ^1JN was manifested that He might destroy the works of the devil. ^GAL When the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born  of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under ^ROM the law of sin and death.

^GEN To the woman God said:

Jesus is going to make this a perfect earth and all the work of the devil is going  to be over and finished.

Here are some works of the devil

            He makes you think He is God

            He sows tares into the wheat (fakes)

            He gives and starts false teaching (its all over the church)

            He perverts the truth of the bible

            He hinders the works you do

            He hinders your prayer life

            Be takes salvation away or its seeds

            He reminds God of your sins

            He tempts you to sin

            He tricks you

            He wants you to tresgress Gods Holyness

“I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception;

In pain you shall bring forth children;

Your desire shall be for your husband,

And he shall rule over you.”

Eve punishment:  Child bearings going to hurt.  The man is going to rule the woman.   God made the rule.  Marrige is going to take work and getting into fights are going to happen.  It is not going to easy to marry.

Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:

“Cursed is the ground for your sake;

In toil you shall eat of it

All the days of your life.

Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you,

And you shall eat the herb of the field.

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread

Till you return to the ground,

For out of it you were taken;

For dust you are,

And to dust you shall return.”

Work is going to hard,  The earth is going to be hard to farm.  I am not farmier but I had picked rocks and made fence.  I know the soil can get hurt and weather is not always the best.  Love farmer but it is work. 

We are going to die.  Death is hard and painful for loved ones.  I lost many people and the only reason is sin. 

^ROM For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it. ^ECCL Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. ^ROM For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.

^PS Man is like a mere breath; his days are like a passing shadow. ^ECCL All are from the dust, and all return to dust. ^PS The days of our lives are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. ^ECCL Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it. 

^GEN And Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. Also for Adam and his wife the Lord God made [2]tunics of skin, and clothed them.

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

We lost the Garden out of sin, Our life is now a shadow and short.  If you age you find life is short.  Make each day a gift to the Lord. 

It gets better in Jesus

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[1] between your seed and her Seed. After cursing the physical serpent, God turned to the spiritual serpent, the lying seducer, Satan, and cursed him. This “first gospel” is prophetic of the struggle and its outcome between “your seed” (Satan and unbelievers, who are called the Devil’s children in John 8:44) and her Seed (Christ, a descendant of Eve, and those in Him), which began in the garden. In the midst of the curse passage, a message of hope shone forth—the woman’s offspring called “He” is Christ, who will one day defeat the Serpent. Satan could only “bruise” Christ’s heel (cause Him to suffer), while Christ will bruise Satan’s head (destroy him with a fatal blow).

[2] tunics of skin. The first physical deaths should have been the man and his wife, but it was an animal—a shadow of the reality that God would someday kill a substitute to redeem sinners.

Why Jesus came

It would no make no sense to study Jesus unless we understand the reason Jesus came to eareth.  Now most know this in the plan but it is worth looking at the truth that sin came into the life of the world thus a solution is needed to forgive.  God made this world and God makes all the rules and knew the best and only way.   God said do not eat and they ate.  God then put in place punishment for sin and rejection of Him and this is hell.  I am going to go over this in time.  But in this text I want to see some things about sin and evil and helll

^GEN Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. ^REV That serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, ^JN was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. ^GEN And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”    

Who is the devil?  He is a angel who in the past turned to try to take Gods place and for this God kicked him out of heaven and banned him.  He then Devil came to earth for some reason I thnk it was to make it fair to man and to show Jesus love and the glory  of God.  Some things about the devil.  He is a lair, murder and the father of evil.  Alone Satan brings evil into this race.  He is crafty and he is one that is out to kill and destroy you.  He hates your guts and hates Gods.  And he is a foe that God is going to send to hell forever.   We are to resist him and he flees.  We do not talk him down we are to let Jesus do that.  Jesus is the one he beat him when he rose from the dead. 

So the devil ask eve Did God say.  He is trying to do what he does best and that is to question the Lord and what he tells us to do. 

And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’” Then the serpent said to the woman, [1]“You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Eve bites and she begins to talk to Satan.  My advice to you, never mess with the devil.  Stay away from evil in everything you do.  He takes the word and twists it and makes it fit his plans.  Did is in the time of Jesus and he does it today.  False teachers are doing this and we bite into it.  Eve adds to the word and said the fruit is not to be touched.  So the devil said a lie that it does not cause death.  No just a little sin is not going to hurt us.  That little lie or that little candy is not a big deal.  But it is a major deal if you steal or lie.  It is sin and sin leads to death.  Satan then said no she is not going to die and with that lie Eve took and ate.  She sinned thus sin is now on earth and God is going to deal with it. 

^1COR The serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness. ^GEN So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. ^1TIM The woman being deceived, fell into transgression; ^GEN she also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

Then [2]the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings. And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

So she ate the apple and gives it to Adam and he ate it too.  Then they see hey they are naked?  They made something to cover themselves.  But God asked them who told them they are nude.  Is this GUILT?  God is now walking and they hid from God because they know they are not going to like the Lord when he finds out they are sinners.  

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Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, [3]“Where are you?”  So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.” And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?” Then the man said, [4]“The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.” 

God asked where they are and then they are found out.  God is offended and mad. 

^JAS Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, [5]brings forth death.

1 Sin is your fault.  Nobodys else did it you did.  God is going to hold you accountable.

2 One sin costs you death and God cannot look at you in sin.  So something has to be done.  Jesus is a thing but I am not going to cure this in one blog but we are going to take a look at what this did.  Its not good.

Here is a sermon to read on hell. 

http://www.gty.org/resources/sermons/80-376/the-truth-about-hell

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[1] You will not surely die. Satan, emboldened by her openness to him, spoke this direct lie. This lie actually led her and Adam to spiritual death (separation from God). So, Satan is called a liar and murderer from the beginning (John 8:44). His lies always promise great benefits (as in v. 5). Eve experienced this result—she and Adam did know good and evil; but by personal corruption, they did not know as God knows in perfect holiness.

[2] the eyes of both of them were opened. The innocence noted in 2:25 had been replaced by guilt and shame (vv. 8–10), and from then on they had to rely on their conscience to distinguish between good and their newly acquired capacity to see and know evil.

[3] “Where are you?” The question was God’s way of bringing man to explain why he was hiding, rather than expressing ignorance about man’s location. Shame, remorse, confusion, guilt, and fear all led to their clandestine behavior. There was no place to hide; there never is (cf. Ps. 139:1–12). Adam’s sin was evidenced by his new knowledge of the evil of nakedness, but God still waited for Adam to confess to what God knew they had done. The basic reluctance of sinful people to admit their iniquity is here established. Repentance is still the issue. When sinners refuse to repent, they suffer judgment; when they do repent, they receive forgiveness.

[4] The woman whom You gave. Adam pitifully put the responsibility on God for giving him Eve. That only magnified the tragedy in that Adam had knowingly transgressed God’s prohibition, but still would not be open and confess his sin, taking full responsibility for his action, which was not made under deception (1 Tim. 2:14).

[5] brings forth death. Sin is not merely a spontaneous act, but the result of a process. The Greek words for “has conceived” and “brings forth” liken the process to physical conception and birth. Thus James personifies temptation and shows that it can follow a similar sequence and produce sin with all its deadly results. While sin does not result in spiritual death for the believer (because he or she has been forgiven), it can lead to physical death (1 Cor. 11:30; 1 John 5:16). In the Fall of Genesis 3, the result of Adam’s sin brought both physical and spiritual death to the entire human race (cf. Romans 5:12–21).