2. How did we get here? Satan is very wise Eve questioned...
God’s Word
God’s Integrity
God’s Goodness
Eve chose her “good” over God’s
Adam chose Eve over God

3. Now reality sets in…

4. Genesis 3:16-19 To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth, In pain you will bring forth children; Yet your desire will be for your husband, And he will rule over you.”

5. Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life.

6. “Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field; By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return.”
New American Standard Bible : 1995 Update. LaHabra, CA : The Lockman Foundation, 1995

7. They experience death Death…Not what you think
Death…Not primarily physical
Death is separation
Covering
Hiding in fear
Blaming and accusing

8. They experience death
“Mistrust and fear have…taken the place of trust and free communion with Yahweh…instead of running to Him they run from Him…”

9. “…in an entirely loveless fashion [Adam] lays the blame for it all first on his wife and then by wicked charge upon God Himself…” (Leupold, pp. 156 and 159)

10. They are given the curse
To Eve…pain and conflict will be her lot
To Adam…opposition and unending toil will be his lot

11. They are given the curse
“Sin has turned the harmonious system of God-ordained roles into distasteful struggles…” (MacArthur Study Bible)

12. They are judged Ongoing nakedness and guilt
Expulsion with no chance to return

13. They receive mercy and grace
God seeks sinners
The blessing remains
Relationships despite dysfunction
God covered their shame
God protected their lives

14. Where do the waters flow?
God judges sin
Eden is irreplaceable
Pain and toil is a daily experience
There is grace and mercy to help
Learn to listen and lean
Long for heaven and eternity

15. “We leave this chapter with a sigh over the glory that was lost and with deep regret…and so it becomes a very helpful chapter for the one that is ready to accept it.” (Leupold, pg. 185)