Life Sentence: Genesis 3:20 Eve Life Sentence: Genesis 3:20 Genesis 3:1-6, 13-16, 20-24

If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live? What would your home be like? Who would be there? What would be your ideal job situation?

Better late than never. The clothes do not make the man. Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched. Let sleeping dogs lie. Better safe than sorry. Forbidden fruit is the sweetest.

What did God allow? What did God forbid? What would be the result of disobedience?

DISCUSSION GUIDE 1. How does Genesis describe the serpent? What did the serpent ask and how did the woman respond? (Genesis 3:1-3) The serpent is described as “crafty.” The serpent asked if God had commanded that they not eat any of the fruit of the garden. The woman responded that God had given permission to eat of the fruit of any of the trees with the exception of the one in the center. She said that God had forbidden them to eat from that tree and they could not even touch it.

DISCUSSION GUIDE 2. How did the woman’s response differ from God’s original instruction? What might have caused the woman to add “you must not touch it?”

DISCUSSION GUIDE 3. Why did God put the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden if he did not want the man and woman to eat of its fruit?

The result of disobedience is death. DISCUSSION GUIDE 4. What is the result of disobedience? (Genesis 3:3) The result of disobedience is death.

DISCUSSION GUIDE 5. How did the serpent respond? (Genesis 3:4- 5) The serpent told the woman that disobedience would not bring death. He went on to say the reason God didn’t want them to eat of that tree is that if they did it would cause them to be like God.

DISCUSSION GUIDE 6. What is the significance of the serpent’s statement? What message was he sending? What is the problem with having the knowledge of good and evil?

DISCUSSION GUIDE 7. Genesis 2 says that God planted many kinds of trees in the garden and that these trees were pleasing and good for food. He allowed the man and woman to eat from any of the trees with the exception of one. The serpent focused the woman’s attention on the one exception. Why are we attracted to what God has forbidden?

8. What do these verses tell us about temptation and how to resist it? DISCUSSION GUIDE 8. What do these verses tell us about temptation and how to resist it?

9. With this event in mind, how would you define “sin?” DISCUSSION GUIDE 9. With this event in mind, how would you define “sin?”

When confronted with her sin the woman blamed the serpent. DISCUSSION GUIDE 10. How did the woman respond when confronted with her sin? (Genesis 3:13) When confronted with her sin the woman blamed the serpent.

11. When you or I sin who is responsible? DISCUSSION GUIDE 11. When you or I sin who is responsible?

DISCUSSION GUIDE 12. How did the woman’s sin change her status? (Genesis 3:16) As a result of sin God greatly increased the woman’s pain in childbirth and proclaimed that she would be ruled over by her husband.

DISCUSSION GUIDE 13. What name did Adam give to his wife? Why is this name significant? (Genesis 3:20) Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living.

The serpent came to the woman when she was alone The serpent came to the woman when she was alone. Strength and safety comes with association with other believers. Accountable relationships can help us through times of temptation. God acts in redemptive ways even when we sin. Sin has consequences. If sin is the result of a person’s desire for self-assertion and determination to be independent from God, one thing that I can do to avoid sin is to submit myself daily to God.