1. Analyzing the Enemy’s Strategy
Temptation
Analyzing the Enemy’s Strategy

2. Genesis 3 in Context
Gen. 1:1-2:3 Global Account of Creation

3. Genesis 3 in Context Gen. 1:1-2:3 Global Account of Creation
Retelling of Creation of man, woman
Temptation, Fall, Announcement of Redemption
Line of Cain, Line of Seth

4. Genesis 3 in Context Gen. 1:1-2:3 Global Account of Creation
Retelling of Creation of man, woman
Temptation, Fall, Announcement of Redemption
Line of Cain, Line of Seth
Gen. 5:1-6:8 Adam to Noah

5. Gen. 3:1
Now the serpent was more crafty than any [[other]] beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God actually say, 'You shall not eat of any tree in the garden'?“ (ESV)

6. Key Questions
Who is the serpent?

7. Key Questions
Who is the serpent?
What is his strategy?
Dialog

8. Key Questions
Who is the serpent?
What is his strategy?
Dialog
Doubt

9. Key Questions Who is the serpent? What is his strategy? Dialog Doubt
Distortion
Reference to God

10. Key Questions Who is the serpent? What is his strategy? Dialog Doubt
Distortion
Reference to God
Reference to God’s saying something

11. Key Questions Who is the serpent? What is his strategy? Dialog Doubt
Distortion
Reference to God
Reference to God’s saying something
Reference to what God said

12. Gen. 3:2-3
And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, 3 but God said, 'You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” (ESV)

13. Key Questions
What did the woman do?
Left our “freely,” “all”

14. Key Questions What did the woman do? Left our “freely,” “all”
Referred to God

15. Key Questions What did the woman do? Left our “freely,” “all”
Referred to God
Referred to God’s “saying”

16. Key Questions What did the woman do? Left our “freely,” “all”
Referred to God
Referred to God’s “saying”
Added “do not touch”

17. Key Questions What did the woman do? Left our “freely,” “all”
Referred to God
Referred to God’s “saying”
Added “do not touch”
Left out “surely”

18. Deut. 12:32
"Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it. (ESV)

19. Gen. 3:4-5
But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” (ESV)

20. Key Questions
How did serpent follow up?
Denial

21. Key Questions How did serpent follow up? Denial Distortion
God’s character

22. Key Questions How did serpent follow up? Denial Distortion Deception
God’s character
Deception
Mixture of truth and lie

23. Gen. 3:6
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. (ESV)

24. Key Questions
Good for food 

25. Key Questions
Good for food 
Delight to the eyes 

26. Key Questions Good for food  Delight to the eyes 
Desired to make one wise 

27. Kidner’s Comment
“So simple the act, so hard its undoing. God [would] taste poverty and death before ‘take and eat’ [could] become words of salvation.” [Derek Kidner, Genesis (Chicago: InterVarsity Press, 1967), 68.]

28. Gen. 3:7
Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths. (ESV)

29. What Happened?
Eyes opened (Serpent correct)

30. What Happened? Eyes opened (Serpent correct)
Knew they were naked (contrast 2:25!)

31. What Happened? Eyes opened (Serpent correct)
Knew they were naked (contrast 2:25!)
Attempted to cover own nakedness

32. Conclusion
Trust the character of God, His generosity

33. Conclusion Trust the character of God, His generosity
Build lives on what God has revealed to us in Scripture

34. Conclusion Trust the character of God, His generosity
Build lives on what God has revealed to us in Scripture
Commit to trusting obedience

35. Conclusion Trust the character of God, His generosity
Build lives on what God has revealed to us in Scripture
Commit to trusting obedience
When we fail, confess (1 John 1:9), and move forward