The first ever gospel message
September 9, 2018
Genesis 12 begins with the words ‘now the Lord said to Abram…’ but who was Abram? Why did God speak to Him? And why did God make such incredible promises to an idolater from Babylon? In the first part of our new series ‘Adventures with Abraham’ we take a look at the problem of sin. The problem facing all mankind. The reason the world is not all as it should be, and we trace the meta-narrative of the very first gospel promise all the way to Jesus Christ. We’ll see how Jesus is a better Adam, how he succeeds where Adam & Eve failed, & how He is the Saviour we’ve all been waiting for. We’ll discover that in order to fully appreciate the salvation that comes through Jesus Christ we must understand what happened in Genesis 3 and then how it all begins to change with Abraham! As we do so we’ll worship & then be propelled into the mission of King’s Church and the purposes of God for our generation!
Stephen Morrison
In this series:
Genesis 3:1–15 (Listen)
The Fall
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, ‘You1 shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” 2 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.’” 4 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.” 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,2 she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. 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.
8 And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool3 of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”4 10 And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.” 11 He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” 12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.” 13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14 The LORD God said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this,
cursed are you above all livestock
and above all beasts of the field;
on your belly you shall go,
and dust you shall eat
all the days of your life.
15 I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring5 and her offspring;
he shall bruise your head,
and you shall bruise his heel.”
Footnotes
[1] 3:1
[2] 3:6
[3] 3:8
[4] 3:9
[5] 3:15
(ESV)
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