Genesis 3:14-20

Genesis 3:14-20 View this email in your browser SUBSCRIBE TO THESE LESSONS Click Here for Previous Lesson Q 1: What did the woman tell the serpent that will happen to her if she ate from the tree of knowledge? Q 2: Did the devil lie to the woman about the tree? Q 3: What is the first thing Adam and Eve noticed after they ate the fruit? Reply to Submit Answers Genesis 3:14-20   God first looked at the serpent and said "“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. 15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspringa and hers; he will crushb your head, and you will strike his heel.”   ---- Interjection ---- This is the very first time that we see where God is already planning our redemption from our sin.  This is the first time we see where God gives us clues to what Jesus will do on the cross.  The serpent is being cursed, but Satan is being cursed ultimately. "he will crush your head" - refers to Christ crushing Satan at the cross and winning back humanity to God (for those who believe in His son).  "and you will strike his heel" - I believe refers to the pain it took to get to the cross and the sacrifice Jesus made for us to crush the devil.   The curse of woman: 16To 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.”   ----Interjection---- Childbearing is VERY painful, and so is everything leading up to and after childbirth for a woman - from puberty, to birthing, to menopause. This is our curse because Eve disobeyed God.  You don't have a choice in this if you are a woman.  Women have been trying to gain their rights in this world all the way back to day one.  This is because of what Eve did.  Man has always ruled over women and even today.  You can thank Eve for that :)   17To 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. 18It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. 19By 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.” 20Adamc named his wife Eve,d because she would become the mother of all the living.   ----Interjection----  Adam was cursed by not being able to eat that fruit.  God now curses the ground because of Adam's sin.  This means that man will now have to work hard for his food and it will produce thorns and thistles.  This means that the ground will work against Adam, meaning he will have to make a living working the fields just to produce his food.  We see this VERY true for men.  They are always worried about money and food and making a living.  You can thank Adam for listening to Eve and disobeying God for this.  We can see how man today feels like he can never get ahead no matter how much money they do or don't have, they always feel the need more.  This is due to the curse.  We also see how the ground works against man.  In America, we've tried to get around famine by genetically altering food, but it still works against us as we lose the valuable nutrients by doing this.  The ground is cursed by God and man will always sweat trying to make it produce the food we need to live.  Then God curses man (and woman) with death.  We were created from the dust of the ground, and to the dust we return.  We know this is true because we know that bodies decompose when they are dead and buried.   This is a really cool truth that I love to share!!!  We see God's grace EVEN IN THE CURSE!!  You see, God's plan was for us not to die and to be able to freely walk with Him and talk with Him.  But when Adam and Eve "fell" by disobeying God, sin entered the world and tainted our life and bodies.  God loves you and me so much that He didn't want us to live forever in these terrible minds and bodies.  So we see how it's actually a BLESSING that God causes us to die first, so that He can redeem us from death.   We will see in the next study how God banishes them from the garden and about some pretty cool speculation about where the garden of Eden is today! 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