Amen.
What a chapter of the Bible, Genesis chapter 3, there's so much in there.
I'll see if I can get through it all this evening. But we were in
Genesis 2 last week so we're just up to the
third chapter of Genesis and already we've seen a lot happen haven't we?
We saw God resting on the seventh day at the beginning of Genesis 2 and
we talked about how that's a picture of the rest in Christ that
he received with salvation. Even on
day 7 of creation or the day after
creation you could say he's just giving us a picture of rest
in Christ which we saw explained in more depth in Hebrews
3 and particularly chapter 4 with Hebrews 4.10 saying
for he that has entered into his rest he also ceased from his own works as
God did from his. Chapter 2 in
Genesis 7 went into more depth about the creation of the first man and woman
with Adam becoming a living soul and we looked at the tree of life,
the tree of knowledge of good and evil, the tree of life for me picturing the preserved
word of God where Proverbs 11.30 was one of many places he went
which says the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life and he that winneth souls is
wise and for me a tree of life is the fruit being what
comes out of the righteous mouth and that being ultimately the word of God
which is a tree of life. I think that's what it is there, the tree of knowledge of good and evil
showing free will and the choice to obey God of sin and the resulting
loss of innocence with that. We looked at the four rivers going far and wide
to sustain life, plan for mankind to spread far and wide too.
We looked at how Adam had a job, he was a gardener,
he was put there to dress and keep the garden wasn't he and
we also saw how the woman was made to then help
meat which is suitable for him, she was bone of his bone
and flesh of his flesh wasn't she and not there for a lesser
being however she is to submit to him as his help and
that's often an easier job that as well, we'll talk about that in a bit.
We saw that the Bible says for this cause
do they leave and cleave, talked about that as well
that leaving and cleaving and something sadly that has changed
a lot in our day and age and then the chapter finished with
and they were both naked, verse 25 of chapter 2, the man and his wife
and were not ashamed because at this point they were innocent as young children
weren't they? We're going to carry on with Genesis chapter 3 now, verse 1 says
Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord
God had made and he said unto the woman Yea, hath God
said ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden. I'd like to pray before
we continue Father, thank you for this great chapter of the Bible
a chapter which just shows us so many things, gives us so many lessons
help me to just preach this clearly now and accurately Lord
help everyone to just really have attentive ears to what your word has to
say, fill me with your spirit please Lord and just help me to preach boldly
as well and just thank you for all this, Amen. So we've gone from the
creation of the world and mankind to talking serpents within
well we're into the third chapter now, what's going on here? Well a combination
of verses in scripture makes it clear that this serpent is Satan
okay and who seems to have either controlled an actual serpent or
taken a form of one, whatever you want to believe there
turn to Revelation 12 whilst I read John 8 44
where Jesus is rebuking those reprobate Jews and he says ye are
of your father the devil and the lusts of your father
ye will do he was a murderer from the beginning and
abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him when he speaketh a lie
he speaketh of his own for he is a liar and the father
of it okay so the devil he was a murderer
from the beginning he was a father of lies in Genesis 3 has the first lie in the
world as far as I'm concerned he's a father of lying in Revelation
12 talks of when Satan is eventually cast out to heaven verse
9 says and the great dragon was cast out that old serpent
called the devil and Satan which deceiveth the whole world he was cast out into the
earth and his angels were cast out with him. Job 40 chapter 20
in Revelation when we see Satan called that old serpent again this is
now just before the millennial reign Revelation 20 from the beginning and verse
1 says Revelation 20 and verse 1 and I saw an angel come down
from heaven having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand and he
laid hold on the dragon that old serpent which is the devil
and satan abounded him a thousand years and cast him into the bottomless pit
and shut him up and said to seal upon him that he should deceive the nation as I
more till the thousand years should be fulfilled and after that he must be loosed
a little season so go back to Genesis 3 where
not only is he called the serpent but in verse 15 God
gives this prophecy so in Genesis 3 15 it says and I will put
enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and
her seed it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise
his heel and you don't have to turn it but Romans 16 20 says and the God of peace shall bruise
satan under your feet shortly the graceful Lord Jesus Christ be with you
amen so back in verse 1 it's not much study is it of the Bible we're
to understand this serpent is satan the devil and I say that just because you get the kind of
the Bible mockers out there who talk about talking snakes like it's all a big laugh
and everything else well the Bible is pretty clear who the snake is
represented who he is basically for one reason or another there he is
the devil he is satan and we see him as early as chapter 3
in the Bible who I believe you know like the other
angels was clearly a correct you know creative being along with
everything else in that first week for me we would use the word
snake now okay for serpent Webster's 1828 describes
a serpent as an animal of the order of serpentes creepers crawlers of the class of
amphibious serpents or amphibious animals breathing through the mouth by means
of lungs only having tapering bodies without a distinct neck the jaws not articulated
but dilatable and without feet fins or ears serpents move along the earth by a winding
motion and with the head elevated okay that's a snake now the
serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made
we see in verse 1 he said unto the woman yea hath God said you shall
not eat of the tree sorry of every tree of the garden
and we're going to continue reading just the next few verses and then see what we should then
learn about our adversary the devil from there verse 2 said the woman said unto the serpent
we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst
of the garden God have said you shall not eat of it neither shall you touch it lest
you die and the serpent said unto the woman you shall not surely die
for God doth know that in a day ye eat thereof then your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as gods
knowing good and evil and when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and
that it was pleasant to the eyes and a tree to be desired to make one wise
she took of the fruit thereof and did eat and gave
also unto her husband with her and he did eat right so what can we
learn then from this first appearance first Peter 5
8 you don't have to turn there says be sober be vigilant because your
adversary the devil as a roaring lion walketh about
seeking whom he may devour so we're told to be sober
which is switched on and alert isn't it vigilant we should have our eyes
open to the various attacks if you've ever seen those nature documentaries
of animals in lion country on the plains of Africa
they're constantly scanning aren't they they're not just kind of wandering along not really paying any
attention there is a prick the whole time their eyes are everywhere
they're always that they're the animals which are you know the lion's
prey they're not just kind of just switched off are they they're constantly
well sober and vigilant aren't they okay and even then
they still end up getting eaten okay but that you know that's part of it isn't
it when you've got a predator as powerful as a as a roaring lion walking
about seeking whom he may devour you need to be vigilant don't you and
do you know when they're most susceptible to attack as well for me it's when they're eating
and drinking when they're appeasing the flesh isn't it when they're having to focus on the flesh
focus on their fleshly needs is when they're most most susceptible
to attack the verse uh verse one said now the serpent
was more subtle than any beast of fear which the lord god had made and he said unto the
woman yea hath god said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden so things we can learn
from the first appearance first appearances are important in life in general as well
i often look back on first impressions i got from people
and realize if only i trusted that first instinct that first impression
because often i get this little inkling i try and give someone the benefit of the doubt
and then sort of have a long after i realize yeah that first impression was probably
quite quite sound well first impressions of the devil here first
things we can learn number one the devil comes in disguise the devil
comes in disguise he didn't have his pitchfork his red horns
and his forked tail did he or arrow tail or whatever it is
yeah he didn't come looking like this horrible ghoul or anything else
he came as a serpent he came as a snake and turn to second
crinthians 11 because for us he comes as a friend
as a family member as a fellow believer as a soul winner
as a pastor he comes in disguise
he doesn't come with everyone going oh look there's the devil
again that's a bit of a con out there in the world isn't it where people are kind of
seeing all these so-called images of the devil and everything else no he doesn't come like that
second crinthians 11 and verse 13 says for such a false apostles deceit for workers
transforming themselves into the apostles of christ and no marvel
for satan himself is transformed into an angel of light
but satan is an omni present like god i know many people like to talk about him
as if he is he has an army of devils and willing vessels
verse 15 says therefore it is no great thing if his ministers
also be transformed as a minister of the devil
also be transformed as a ministers of righteousness whose end shall be
according to their works so look you're not here i doubt
going to be getting conned by some open satan worshiper talking about burning
you know burning people on the heath later on or something you're going oh they just seem
so nice yeah no however even though we're not
going to be conned by that even though the bible warns us how many still marvel
the bible says marvel not for satan himself is transformed
into an angel of light therefore it is no great thing if his ministers
also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness whose end shall be
according to their works the villagers i just can't believe it i saw them so winning
i can't believe it because that pastor or that whoever it was i mean
he seemed to once preach grace through faith i can't believe it because that person
who is in my life just seemed to be so friendly i can't believe it because that teacher
or whoever else just seemed to be you know just seemed to really like kids or whatever else
that's what they come as they come in all these different areas yet
we still marvel don't we we still marvel sadly and we're told not to marvel
which is why because people marvel why it often needs preaching why the bible
he says full of warnings about this full of warnings and here in chapter
three of the bible first appearance of the devil and he doesn't come
as the devil he comes as a serpent
let's carry on though where are we
right so we've got we looked at
we were in 2 Corinthians 11 and 13 go back to Genesis
chapter 3 and verse 1 says now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of field
which the lord god had made and he said unto the woman yea hath god said you shall not eat
of every tree of the garden lesson number two the devil is subtle
the devil is subtle we've got he was a serpent point number two right
in verse number one he was more subtle than any beast
of the field which the lord god had made subtle is sly
artful cunning crafty insinuating his devils
his ministers behave the same way so again most people
here we're probably not going to go toe to toe with the devil we're going to go toe to toe with his ministers
they will probe for weakness they'll sow a little seed
of doubt a little comment a little joke
they will sow discord but not quite enough to kick them out
believe me when you start dealing with this you realise wow it's clever how these people work
it's just not quite enough it's always just on the edge
it's just enough that you don't quite have the extra witnesses
you don't it's not quite concrete enough
they probe they sow discord they preach not
quite blatant enough heresy to expose them when they're passers and preachers etc
just not quite enough there's something up but it's not quite enough
but they'll weaken you instead
so they're not preaching the open heresy the open downable heresy
yet they'll just weaken you with what they do preach
they'll just weaken soul winning they'll just weaken your faith
they'll just slowly just start grinding it out of you
weaken week out they'll drop a little comment here the various
versions of a message there to appear to be something they're not
so they're clever they'll be on one hand
doing all sorts of wickedness behind the scenes then when it's in front
of people and when it's you know when they've got the audience it'll just be a little comment to make them seem
so on board you know a little little comment about
something to make them seem like they're part of the gang
it's crafty it's flattery a lot of flattery because it
makes you want to like them because they're flattering they're charming it's full of guile
okay he's subtle okay and we have to understand
that we have to constantly remind ourselves because we don't want to believe it
and you know something that we obviously therefore then should avoid
is being that way trying to sow seeds in conversations
and you always see it when people do that always trying to gear up you can just see them
people trying to angle a conversation then sow a seed it's guile
we don't want to behave like that planning how to manipulate someone to get what you want
okay it's wicked now look people can do that stuff it doesn't mean they must be
of the devil but it's something we obviously want to steer clear of don't we
psalm 34 you don't have to turn there 13 says keep thy tongue from evil and thy lips
from speaking guile okay so it's something that we have to be careful not to be like that
not to try and manipulate conversations not to try and gear conversations not trying to angle
things not to speak with guile not try and be manipulative
verse 1 said now the serpent was more subtle than any beast to feel which the Lord God had made
and he said unto the women so we've seen that he came
in disguise we see that he's subtle and number three the devil
targets the weak the devil targets weak now i talked about this on sunday
here he went for the weaker vessel and predators target the weak don't they
okay so this is just normal predatory behavior they go for the young
they often go for the young they go for the new believer
they go for the newcomer to church they
they they angle towards them they try and get them on their own they try and
charm them they try and do all this stuff and and it's hard because obviously
look we don't want to ignore newcomers either we want to be nice and pleasant to them but
you see this sort of behavior and you start to see a sort of
and with that there'll be then the flattery and there'll be all the other stuff as well
they often target the women and this is done in various ways for
advertising the media propaganda is constantly targeting
women so it's not just the infiltrator it's not just the false prophet
we see it in various places as well women are often targeted
heavily okay with this sort of stuff ever noticed by the way how
many women will be amongst the latest brainwashed protesters
and i ever notice that yeah when you see that the sodomite
protesters teamed up outside a bible preaching
church they'll be much usually from what i could see a lot more than 50
percent of women yeah with all their funnily colored hair
and all that weird stuff and you'll see that with other things you'll see like the latest liberal
protest all them idiots walking in shops pouring milk on the floor in the country
a while ago most of them are women women or men that look like women
that's what you see don't you so they're constantly being targeted by this sort of stuff
they work on their emotions a lot of the time okay so women a lot of the time
and and are more emotional and the thing is it could be such a benefit
in many ways as well like we've talked about before and without that you know
the world would be a pretty hard place without women in there and the emotional side
they have but the devil targets that he targets that weaker vessel
and in churches like ours preaching the truth the men will often
outweigh the women that's just the way it is
it's a lot rarer to see single women in churches like ours than it is single men
okay that's just the way it is why because they're the
weaker vessel and you'll but you go down to the liberal fund centre and
it will be full of women yeah you go down a lot of these pentecostal
churches and others it'll be full of women okay and that's the reason
okay because they're targeted that they'll go down the liberal truth swerver
okay because they're they're pulled into that stuff easier
they're not as spiritually strong that's the truth now you'll get exceptions to the rule
but that's just the truth that's what the bible says they are the weaker vessel
who's to blame then about these women who's to blame about these women down the liberal fund centre
who's to blame about the the protesting women
it's the men the men that should be leading their women
the the fathers that should have dragged their daughters to church
that instead of allowing them to put on rainbow face paint
and and spend their days surrounded by freaks and perverts they're to blame
the husbands that should be leading their women
the husbands that should be leading their wives to things of god instead of things of the world
they're to blame but let's not completely
absolve the women of blame if you're aware of the fact that you're the weaker vessel
if you're a bible believing female out there
and you're in fact you don't even have to be bible believing I mean it's pretty obvious isn't it
yeah then if you're aware that you're a target
of the devil and his devices you need to submit your
husbands or your father's leadership don't you
okay because look you're not absolved of blame you know
the bible says then the bible tells you to submit as well so not only are you going no thanks
no no god but I'll tell you what no I'll just do it myself
no I don't need to submit I'm not I'm not submissive type well then you're
even more of a moron because you're clearly warned in the bible
that you need to because you're not strong enough that's the truth
and look and you might go well I don't well what if
I don't have a bible believing husband or I don't have a bible believing father
well then you have to submit to Christ leadership so
it's one or the other and then you look and hats off to women that are able to do that okay
because for most of them they're not they need that they need but they need leadership
and ultimately then it has to be Jesus Christ leadership you have to turn to Ephesians
5 22 says wives submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto
the lord they're commanded to do so and it's for good reason
it's for their own good it's not because god's like I just want those women to really get walked all over
oh this will really demean them or whatever else you know the junk you see out there in the world
no it's because they need it they need leading
they need leading and the women that find
it hard they need to drop the pride that incidentally satan encourages
in you through the whorish role models that are pushed on you
it's all propaganda drop the pride
trying to be like any of these whores in the media drop the rebelliousness
that's pushed on you drop the resentment and submit to the stronger vessel
because you're commanded to do so for good reason it's for your own good
and you know what it can actually be great do you know that I remember
running jobs for years so I've had my own businesses for years
and I was running a landscape company for a long time
and then I started getting into coaching and I started doing less and less of the landscaping
and doing coaching and look sometimes it was tough and at my busiest times
I had a few different teams working for me in busy summers and then I started doing less
and less because I was coaching a lot and then basically I stopped coaching at the gym
because I was coaching at another gym and then I started
up my own gym eventually but while I started up I'd stopped
a lot of the landscaping because I'd been coaching a long time and suddenly it was
man I need some work really I didn't have enough so I had some friends
who had their own things and one of them I used to employ
and then he now was doing his own thing he was more into carpentry and building
another guy didn't and they started they gave me a bit of work here and there
because I didn't have as many contacts anymore as many clients because I hadn't been doing so much
anymore and I was trying to build up my new business and you know what it was brilliant
absolutely good do you know why because I didn't have the responsibility anymore
I turned up I worked you know my backside off and
I was appreciated I was paid at the end of the day
I didn't have any of the stress I didn't have to deal with the customers I didn't have to do any of that
I took my money I went home and it was a nice job
and you know what it was a lot easier than having a responsibility of running the show
because the world will make out like somehow if you're running things oh well that's the
place to be therefore you'll be happiest but it's not really the case is it
and often submitting to someone else's lead you having that responsibility is hard
and the responsibility of a man in a godly
home leading a family is not actually always a bed of roses
if you're doing it properly and you're taking a responsibility seriously
so it's not it's not some bad thing to do and like I said
when I when I got into some work I didn't have that I've been working as well at the same time for some guy
we're installing solar panels and stuff just great turned up worked hard
it's nice working hard get appreciated you know and let him
deal with everything else let's carry on so
you got first one said now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of Phil which the Lord God had made
and he said unto the woman yea hath God said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden
so we've looked at the serpent so we looked at the devil coming
well ultimately in disguise we looked that he's subtle we saw that he
targeted the woman for a reason
he targets the weaker one and there there was only man or woman to choose from
there there weren't children to prey on either then number four
the devil questions God's word and again we're still in verse one
verse one of Genesis 3 and we see the devil questioning God's word
he came in disguise and he came in to question
God's word basically did God really say that is what he's asking
and this is done in various ways and you can't escape whenever I look at this
straight away I always just start thinking false Bible perversions
what did God really say it's such a tactic of the devil
isn't it flood the English speaking world
with 400 or so so called Bible versions which are really
perversions and really all you're really saying is what did God really say
and you question it people don't really know what to believe but
it's not just the Bible perversion of course there's a lot of Bible perversions out there
but what about things like the Quran ultimately what was the Quran
just questioning God's word you've got the Bible where you know with someone saved
showing you it you can see clear as day it's grace through faith you know it's salvation it's a gift
etc and then you've got suddenly the Quran comes along 700 800 whatever
eight years later and it's back to work salvation isn't it
and a load of other just ridiculousness with it and you've got people
and then what happens with people in the world when you get all these fake books out there they're going well
which ones of God I don't know which one to choose all these different religions
the Talmud questioning God's word because suddenly you've got
all this extra away from the Bible just absolute blasphemous
rubbish and the commandments of men and again
people are going well what did God really say the Bhagavad Gita
I mean you name it all these sort of so called books
and everything else just questioning what God said but it's the same with the infiltrator
types so they will they're not just going to come in and just just attack with
false doctrine most the time it will it will start a lot of the time with a
question rather than that straight out attack
what do you think this verse means we had that here
Hebrews 10 20 I think it's 26
is it onwards you know it's just like what do you think that means then
you know funny claim to have been safe for about seven years
following following good preaching for the last however many years
coming to our church soul winning and your your question does look like
work salvation moron but but but what do they do
they ask the question instead what do you think what do you think about this
the same guy that clown Ben Franklin before
we started this church I remember him coming to our to my house I was talking with brother
Dan there about him where the words were a little bit sketchy said
didn't we repent of our sins though and trying to act like it was
kind of like after but it's just like just sowing that little seed just seeing
seeing if he could get his little support because I'm sure those sort of
conversations went on between them which is why they were suddenly all best
buddies well we did when we were saying yeah it's a funny verse there where it's
talking about you know then you know that's when I gave my life something he's
like didn't we we repented of our sins didn't we
it's like yeah after salvation and it just goes quiet
it's like not quite enough is it it's a question it's not just a
straight out I believe in work salvation but I'll tell you what that
don't believe in work salvation I've got no doubt about it
but then it'll be things like is this a contradiction in the Bible
and you gotta watch for that stuff I was talking about that earlier watch out for that stuff
oh you know it's just you know it's a little contradiction there
well if you think it is how about you go home and look at it yourself and study
it yourself instead of questioning random people in the church about that perhaps
bit strange isn't it maybe you don't have to call upon
the name of the Lord we had one of those in our church
didn't we I think yeah just just doesn't that
verse say that you know because it because they did it what was it they didn't confess
him before men you know for fear of the Pharisees or something
maybe you don't have to call upon the name of the Lord oh funny
oh funny that why are you just asking random people in our church because what they do is they
don't just it's not just for the attack on they also they probe they're trying to probe
you see who's friendly to their cause so they'll ask a little question
here a little one there so on one time predators want other predators
they pack animals but then secondly they want to also sow seeds of doubt in
God's children as well and you gotta gotta watch out for that
turn to 2 Corinthians 11 it's subtle and it's to beguile you
okay it's to beguile you with the questions 2 Corinthians
11 and verse 1 says this
2 Corinthians 11 1 would to God
you could bear with me a little in my folly and indeed
bear with me for I am jealous over you with godly jealousy you know
God's jealous over you for I have a spouse you to one husband
that's the Lord Jesus Christ I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ
but I fear lest by any means is a serpent beguiled Eve
through his subtlety so your mind should be corrupted
for the simplicity that is in Christ for if he that cometh preacheth
another Jesus whom we have not preached if you receive another spirit which you have not received
or another gospel which you have not accepted you might well bear with him
so both the non-believers and the believers often tolerate
false prophets they try to justify them
but they refuse to accept what they are and who they are
okay and that's why he's saying you might well bear with him so whether they're believers or non-believers
there'll be some non-believers sadly you know in the church in Corinth as well
but ultimately speaking majority to believers and say you might even
bear with them and people do people will bear with them put up with them
turn the other cheek just kind of well just kind of
ignore that little comment ignore this and that and if you
look at the wording back in Genesis 3 and verse 1
he said yea hath God said you shall not eat of every tree
of the garden it seems like he's insinuating with the question
that this means God won't let you eat all the fruit type thing
it's like yea hath God said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden
what didn't God let you eat every tree so a lot of the time
it's like a little snipe at God as well because really they hate God these types of people as well
hate God obviously Satan hates God and like I said
they probe they probe for weakness they often
they'll probe for discontent as well so they'll
probe to see if you're on board they'll probe for fellow
wolves and then what they also do is they try and probe for discontent so they like to get
people that maybe look like they're on the outside a bit look like they're
maybe just you know not that happy at church don't come all that
often or maybe you know whatever thing they just ask a few questions
try and get a little one on one so what do you think about this
what do you think about that you know and they try and get the teenagers the kids
with that and this is the sort of tactics you see a lot okay they're subtle
they're questioning God questioning God's word the devil
started questioning God's word what was Eve's response well look at verse 2 and a woman said
unto the serpent we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden
but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden God have said
ye shall not eat of it neither shall ye touch it lest
ye die now go back to Genesis 2 to see if that was in fact what God said
in verse 16 Genesis 2 16 says and the Lord God
commanded the man saying of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat but of the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it for in the day that thou eatest
thereof thou shalt surely die so nothing to do with
touching it is there but is before we get onto that there's another
interesting thing here as well Eve said in Genesis 3
3 but of the fruit of like just the word the
the tree which is in the midst of the garden
so she mentioned the tree singular
that is in the midst which is the middle of the garden okay one tree in the middle
Genesis 2 9 says and out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that
is pleasant to the sight and good for food the tree of
life also in the midst of the garden and the tree of knowledge of good
and evil so which tree is she talking about
because here it seems that the tree of life is in the midst or middle doesn't it
I've never noticed this before he talks about the tree in the midst but
we see that the tree of life is in the midst of the garden could they
be the same tree maybe or am I wrong there
if the tree of life represents the word of God isn't
it the word of God that gives us knowledge of good and evil as well
maybe I don't know this is just something I was thinking about there but there's definitely
there's a discrepancy there because she's saying the tree in the midst of the garden
but the one that was described as the tree in the midst of God was the tree of life also
in the midst of God and the tree of knowledge of good and evil now they might both be in the middle of the
garden but why did she talk about the tree in the midst of the garden so she
there's something up there isn't there okay and we'll keep
going though and if you've got any thoughts about that I'll be interested afterwards something I noticed
that's about as far as I got with that but Eve added on not to touch
it either okay so what difference did that make so I
suppose the not touching it was something that maybe could have
been accidentally broken and made it seem less likely
that the punishment was death maybe you could say not touch it and
maybe are you really going to get you know if you accidentally touch it are we really going to get punished
with death so maybe that kind of that misunderstanding of God's
word is maybe what made her a little bit more more open
to the deception regardless she was wrong she didn't
know God's commandment God's word well enough really that's the
lesson there isn't it whose fault was that though
well look at verse 16 in Genesis 2
and the Lord God commanded the man the man
saying of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat but of the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it for in a day that thou eatest of thou shalt surely die
and the Lord God said it is not good that the man should be alone I will make him
and help me for him so it seems to me that Adam was given
the command and he didn't relate to Eve well enough
did he Adam Adam should have taught his wife
probably Adam should have led his wife Adam
should have made sure she understood one of the one of the only commandments
they had been given and and nailed it down and made sure
she got it it was Adam she got it wrong where does the buck
stop leadership the buck stops at leadership and often
as husbands we can complain and moan about about our wives
or about our kids or whatever it is but ultimately the buck stops with us
okay we're that we're the we're the ones responsible you go to
you go to a company and or you go to a shop you go to a business
and you go and make a complaint don't just go oh yeah well it's just that imply no nightmare
what can I do no the buck stops at the leadership
why haven't you trained them well enough why have you not made them better at what at their job
and that's the same with us the buck stops at us
Adam was the one commanded his wife Eve got it
wrong verse four says and the and the serpent said unto the woman
ye shall not surely die
number five the devil lies the devil lies
so these are all lessons we're learning about the devil he didn't lie straight away
okay so back to sorry that was Genesis three and verse four we're back to he didn't
lie straight away that came after that came once he had the dialogue going
once she showed her weakness in God's word but eventually
he lied and his ministers lie about God all the time
they lie about God all the time lie about salvation lie about the
wages of sin lie about who he is lie about
what is sin and what isn't they're just constantly lying aren't they
but they'll they they'll question and then the lie will come out
further down once they think they've got people it's just constant lies
and the goal of it all is what the goal of it's all death isn't it
goal about lying about the wages of sin about salvation
about all of it the nature of God about
you know what is you know just even about what real sins
are about it's all it's all whether it's
to the unsaved or it's ultimately to weaken the saved and
prevent them from pulling people out the fire it all the goal is basically more
people going to hell that's what it's about he wants to destroy the word of God
he wants to destroy families he wants to destroy real churches
that's his goal okay and proverbs 26 28
again you have to turn this there's a lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by
and a flattering mouth worketh ruin a lying tongue
hateth those so when people are lying to you and people are lying about
things and lying about whatever it is they're you know things in their life
they're not respect to you when they're lying and people just lie to your
face lie about their wealth their money all that stuff they're not lying to you
because they just like you so much they're lying because really they hate you
really they don't like you they despise you they just want to make themselves
appear this themselves appear that a lying tongue
hateth those afflicted by especially when the result of their lies is to weaken
you the result of their lies is to end up with you basically
either weaker in your faith or sadly unsaved
because of those that you know that are unsaved in the first place getting led to hell
and a flattering mouth worketh ruin don't forget that okay
because well the flat I've seen it so often now the flatterers the
flatterers watch out for the flatterers and the lies come in various
forms like I said and often it's along the line of this one and this is
basically what the devil did God doesn't want what's best for you God
doesn't want what's best for you and that's a lie that often we'll see angled at people
and it's done in a subtle way and I don't you know there's various ways and
angles that it's done where people will be going you know well God doesn't
care about me God doesn't want what's best for me etc etc
or maybe that a sin will make you happier
that's that lie as well you know well you'd be happy if you did this and again
that comes from the mainstream media a lot can't see promoting pushing sin like
somehow that will make you happy but it's a lie isn't it it's a lie it won't
make you happier you'll be better off if you just go out of God's will you'll be
better off if you go down this route you'll be better off if you go into this sin
you'll be better off if you go to a more liberal church you'll be better off if but the truth
is it's a lie the devil's
full of lies they come in various ways for God does know he said in verse 5
back back to Genesis 3 verse 5 for God does know that in the day you eat thereof
then your eyes shall be opened and you shall be as God's knowing good
and evil and that's one of the temptations with the false Bibles isn't it
you get to play God and decide what it should say
so I've been at churches you know the first church I was really kind of
a part of was was one of these false virgin churches
when I was newly saved and it would be something along these lines and I
go with my King James Bible and which was quite an
eye-opener because with time you just couldn't you couldn't go there anymore because this is ridiculous
over time we're just seeing all these differences but this is one of the ones
I'd hear a lot yeah so and it's it would be like
they're not stuck on one Bible version so they go well the NIV
says this the ESV says
this the RSV says this
but I think it actually means this
and everyone's just like wow
they go but what the Greek actually says
sometimes they'll add the KJV they'll go and the KJV says this
sounds so poetic but what the Greek actually says is
this and what's really happening is everyone's sitting there just
going like wow you know
they speak such good Greek they know which one's right and which one's wrong but what they're
really doing they're going thus saith the pastor instead of
thus saith the Lord and when you've got a Bible that you know is preserved
you know is inspired you just say this is what my Bible says
thus saith the Lord we don't need to go back to the Greek we don't need to go back to the Hebrew we don't need
any of that junk we just say what the Bible says right but for them
it's like well when they say the Greek says this they're saying like my lexicon
no they don't even speak Greek if they did speak Greek I'm sure they don't speak it as well
as these 50 or so translators spoke Greek let alone the fact they're
using a false Bible manuscript anyway or you can't even call it a Bible manuscript
you've just got a false manuscript a fraud a fake but anyway
this is one of those but ultimately what they're saying
the temptation is that they can be as gods they can decide what the word of God says
and many people like that anyway I've spoken to people before they go well I like to take
a bit of this one I like to look at what five different Bible versions say
so what are you saying you get to choose well that one doesn't really fit with my plans
that one doesn't go with where my heart is so I'll go with that one
and that's what it is they're basically trying to be as gods knowing
good and evil but isn't it the temptation as well
with New Age mysticism the higher power stuff the
Buddhism stuff the temptation of that is that they can be as gods people
believe that they're going to get this like spiritual power from it seriously
half of those people in those yoga classes it's not just because they think they're going to get more flexible
they think they're getting more spiritual and if you get to know any of these people when
they talk to you they kind of act ultra spiritual and they're like
oh yeah you know well when I was talking to my higher power
they act like they're some sort of god basically and they're constantly
trying to teach you and tell you what to do and stuff when you're not even asking them
based on their spiritualism and everything else and
again what is it really they're trying to be as gods
that's the temptation with all that stuff verse six then says
when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the
eyes and a tree to be desired to make one wise
she took of the fruit thereof and did eat and gave also unto her husband with her
and he did eat number six the devil finds your
weaknesses okay he will find your weaknesses we all have weaknesses
okay he'll find your weaknesses it was pleasant to the eyes
that was a weakness wasn't it it got all these lovely fruits all these lovely trees
this one was pleasant to the eyes so that was a temptation
it was pleasant to the eyes and a tree to be desired to make
one wise that's how he built it didn't he to her so she's
thinking oh great so there's a the temptation there for her
now he knew as well I believe that Adam would
do what she did and notice this it's in verse six and gave
also unto her husband with her
with her Adam was there wasn't he
didn't say and gave also unto her husband for me it's he said
took of the fruit thereof and did eat for she so she took of the fruit thereof and did
eat and gave also unto her husband with her and he did eat
Adam Adam I think experienced the whole temptation
and even though he angled it to Eve he probably knew that if she
did then Adam would as well turn to Psalm 64
Adam was to blame yeah don't make no mistake about it I know I've mentioned this
a couple of times now he was the leader he was to blame Romans 5 12 says talking of
Adam wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin
so death passed on all men for that all have sinned that one man is talking about Adam
look just because your wife sins you don't have to
okay men you don't have to
you need to try and lead her not to but if your wife sins you don't do that
well it's her fault we'll just both get involved oh it's her fault she don't want to come to church
so we're not coming to church she doesn't want to do this and we're not doing it
it's not acceptable yeah Adam didn't have to he was the one responsible
if he was there which I think he was he should have intervened as well
he should have got involved because really he probably liked the idea as well didn't he
however he still blames it on the women afterwards
Psalm 64 like I said earlier it shows that the devil's children
look for weaknesses like he did there so he knew the weaknesses
and what they do is they look for them so they probe for the weaknesses
okay and they they'll ask little question they're looking and they're analyzing I've been around
these people where you sometimes watch them and their eyes are just darting everywhere
especially if they come inside your home or maybe inside your
office or something you just see their eyes just they're just looking for anything looking for
anything you might maybe go to show them something on your phone you just see them just like
really wanting to look at everything that's on it they're just looking for something and
sometimes you do and then you check yourself like someone goes to show you something they're trying to scroll through photos
I just like look the other way I don't want to see all your photos you know someone's like oh let me
show a photo and they start like the normal thing to do is well that's your private business
but then you get those people you get it out you go to try and look for something and they're just
like just just need to see everything just
and they're probing you know and I'm not saying every single person that does that's wicked but it's a bit weird
it's a bit nosy at the least isn't it but this sort of thing I've experienced with these people
is they're just they're trying to find they're looking for something looking for something looking for something
Psalm 64 shows that it says in verse one
says um it's of Psalm of David says hear my voice I got in my prayer preserve my
life from fear of the enemy hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked
from the insurrection of the works of iniquity who went to the
works of iniquity who wet their tongue like a sword and
bend their bows to shoot their arrows even bitter words they're looking for
things they can say ways they can weak and way they can they can harm you with their words
that they may shoot in secret at the perfect suddenly
do they shoot at him and fear not and the perfect here obviously being those whole complete in
in Christ they encourage themselves
by the way that last bit there suddenly do they shoot at him and fear not
never cease to amaze me as well the people that claim to to to love
the Lord because they claim to be believers who just seem to have no fear of God
they'll be attacking men and women of God and just no fear at all
yeah because really because they don't really they don't you know they're just driven by the devil
they fear not they encourage themselves in an evil matter
they commune of laying snares privately they say
who shall see them so like we said even
though sometimes for some of them you know i've always wondered how aware are
some look obviously many are aware that they're trying to lace theirs
privately privately basically saying who shall see them they encourage
themselves again they're pack animals encourage themselves they look at verse six
they search out iniquities they're looking for them they're trying
to search them they accomplish a diligent search
it's not just that they're just glancing around they're doing a diligent search for what they
can anything they can find on you both the inward thought of every one
of them and the heart is deep okay they're not just they're
just like what can i find what can i take this person down with what can i get
on them what can i do how do i pull them down and
if you think oh he's just talking about so look they'll do the same with you they'll do the same for people that they
believe that they can attack yeah they'll find they do a diligent search they're trying to
look for it and and that's exactly for me the
devil saw the way the angle in he knew the way in to get adam was through
through eve and that's the first time we see the devil and then the barber's just
telling us what his children are doing the whole time
six lessons from those first six verses number one the devil comes in disguise
number two the devil is subtle number three the devil targets are weak number four the
devil questions god's word number five the devil lies and number six
the devil finds your weaknesses now we've got a little
bit of time so i'm going to try and hit the rest of it because you're probably thinking what on earth that was six verses
yeah six verses six tactics but i'm going to try and speed
up a little bit now okay but it might go over a little bit okay verse seven says and the
eyes of them both were open and they knew that they were naked and they sewed fig leaves together and
made themselves aprons so they're no longer innocent they have the knowledge of sin and with that is
an awareness of their nakedness but don't miss a picture here okay they attempt
to cover themselves with the work of their hands sewing leaves
together we see later that god shows the only way to cover them a picture of the covering
of sin in verse 21 where it says under adam also and to
his wife did the lord god make coats of skins and clothe them so the picture is a
blood sacrifice covering their sin yeah but we'll continue verse eight
and they heard the voice the lord god walk in the garden in the call of the day and adam and
his wife hid themselves in the presence of the lord god amongst the trees of the garden so we're
now seeing the consequence of sin firstly they were they were working to
attempt to cover their sin now they're hiding from god
and this is so often the case people sin
they get into sin they do something bad
and then they hide from god then they don't want it then they don't
suddenly bible readings off oh i just don't feel close to god
right now oh i feel like god hasn't been there for me no you
sinned you're out of god's will now you're finding it hard to then
pray to god you find it hard to read the bible that's when they stop coming to church
it's so often the case now they'll make out like there's all
these other reasons and often they'll try and pin it on this or that blame you know
someone at the church blame whatever it is but the truth is they're hiding from god
that's what happens they hide from god here they hid themselves
the first sin we see in the bible and they're hiding themselves to the presence
of the lord god amongst the trees of the garden verse nine says the lord god called unto
adam and said unto him where art thou and you know when you're hiding from god god calls to you
okay he calls you he calls you when you're hiding your bible is calling you
when you're hiding it's there isn't he just calling you you know
you know if you're trying not to read you know you just put off it a bit it's just there
just go read me read me yeah it does
your bible's calling you church is calling you isn't it
you know because you just don't feel right you might try and justify it you
might try and blame you know brother or sister so and so at church for why you're not there
or something else but the real reason is or the real truth is that you're being called
by church god's calling you when people disappear from church
stop praying stop but i don't really god's saying where art thou isn't he
that's it that's what's going on he's there just going where art thou and you know it
and you can't hide and you might convince yourself well i'll be better off i've just been it all
oh i'll be much happier you know and really it's because of your own sin but i'll be happier
but the truth is god's just going to be calling you where art thou and you're going to keep
hearing that call and you'll never be content until you're back in god's will
and he said i heard thy voice in the garden
verse 10 and i was afraid because i was naked and i hid myself and so often
i believe it's a fear of what god's word will will say isn't it
it's a fear of what's going to be preached at church it's a fear
of the sin being exposed it's a fear of other people and it's a fear
it's a fear of other people at the church maybe recognizing that there's an issue
that knowing or seeing through you or whatever else it is
there's all these reasons that people then try and hide from god and god's people
and they're afraid because they feel naked they feel like they're naked
they're feeling like it's exposed to all and sometimes it's like they know
if it gets preached on they're just going to give the game away or something you know
and and so often that's what happens people then try and run away because
they're scared they're afraid because i was naked i hid myself
and that's kind of that nakedness because of sin there and he said who told
thee that thou was naked has thou eaten of the tree where of i commanded thee
that thou shouldest not eat and the man said
the woman whom thou gavest to be with me she gave me of the tree
and i did eat now it's the blame game but often we look at this we think oh
adam's blaming the woman but who's he really blaming he's blaming god
he's not saying oh it's that woman he is but he's
it's the woman that you gave me and it's your
and look again how many christians will do this it's your fault for giving me
this wife it's your fault for giving me this husband it's your fault for giving
me this job it's your fault for giving me this roller it's your fault for
making me who i am it's your fault that i'm not and people turn on god
they blame god they blame god because of their choice to sin
it's their choice we're responsible we make the choice
then so often the blame goes to god your fault i can't believe i don't feel i
can't believe god let this happen i can't believe that happened how many
do how many people do who aren't even saved but i had someone today
unfortunately praise god she got saved but she did have that question well
after the you know i lost this person that you know and but she did it in a
nice way sometimes they do it in a horrible way don't they god you and then
they slam the door in your face after they have a rant about god but i did
politely say to her look i'll be honest i said if if if you've been saved if you
were a child of god as the bible says you would have more right to go well i
you know i have been questioning why this happened but considering the vast
majority of these people have no interest in anything of god whatsoever
yeah no interested in south asia or none of it and then they're like why didn't
you just like put all the strings and then and part of that comes from the
false doctrines of calvinism and all the and there are many versions of many
religions have this sort of puppet on a string sort of idea don't they and you
have to explain that to people don't you but here he's blaming god and so many
people do that he's blaming him for for for his wife and the lord god said unto
the woman what is it that thou has done and the woman said the serpent beguiled
me and i did eat so she's blaming the devil and by the way a lot of people do
that as well don't they oh you think about it in the pentecostal churches you
know the devil made me do it it's the spirit of this oh i've been done with
the spirit of alcoholism again oh man that devil you know all people are just
like the devil's really on my back no the flesh is on your back yeah it's your
flesh it's not the the devil hasn't got you know he's not on your back every
time now don't get me wrong we do get tempted yeah there are those those ways
that he works however so often it's the flesh and so often people want to blame
now ultimately the devil did beguile her okay the devil did but he didn't make
her do it he didn't make her do it and we're gonna get temptations in life
whether it's the flesh whether it's the devil or whatever else however what are
we gonna do are we just gonna are we just gonna choose to sin because well you
know he beguiled me are we gonna go no I take responsibility I'm not gonna sin
yeah verse 14 and the Lord God said unto the serpent because thou has done this
thou art cursed above all cattle above every beast of the field upon thy belly
shalt thou go and dush shalt thou eat all the days of the life now this is a
literal serpent here it is an interesting fact yeah there is an organ
in the roof of a snake's mouth called Jacobson's organ anyone ever heard of
this before this helps a snake to smell in addition to its nose it's darting
fork tongue samples bits of dust by picking them up on the points of the
fork which it then presents to its matching pair of sensory organs inside
its mouth once it has smelt them in this way the tongue must be cleansed the
process can be repeated immediately so they do actually eat dust okay and many
people are kind of must be some allegory well I think actually snakes do eat
dust yeah but yeah that seems to be the result of that but ultimately that's the
result that's a result of you know for the serpent there and maybe there's a
good picture there I don't know but then we see them to the lick to literal Satan
in verse 15 what the repercussions for him are when you could go well it was a
bit tough on the snake there wasn't it well maybe the reason for that is it's
just something that will always remember as well and it's funny isn't it that
you've got the snake you've got the serpent you've got clearly in Genesis 3
you've got him called the serpent throughout the Bible or at least in many
places in one way or another throughout in the Bible and then you've got a load
of weird different religions where they've got snake gods and gods with
snakes around their heads and necks and all that weird stuff and people just you
know loving snakes on their coats of armor and snakes here and there dragons
if not I mean the Chinese love a dragon don't they and really all they're really
doing is this worshiping at least the image of Satan aren't they anyway so we
see that that we've got that snake and it is it is if you think about it it's
quite it's interesting to watch a snake and you watch snakes on rocks and you
ever see those things and those documentaries and things like that it's
quite fascinating and I suppose we should be just being reminded that he
was actually made to be like that and then we see though with a little with
literal Satan and verse 15 where it says and I will put enmity between thee and
the woman and between thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy head and thou
shall bruise his heel so now we see the repercussions for him now as mentioned
earlier this is prophetic with the seed of the woman eventually being the Lord
Jesus Christ born of a virgin obviously both 100% man 100% God yeah the enmity
is between the spiritual seed of the devil and Jesus Christ with Christ then
in that spiritual seed the children are God bruising Satan's head because it's
not just Christ because I'll show you this in a second Satan obviously bruises
his heel with the crucifixion and and then continuing to bruise the children
of God through his spiritual seed and it's spiritual seeds okay don't get
caught up in any like this bizarre crazy you know I don't even want to go down
that route yeah it's just absolute madness okay clearly a spiritual seed
because what do you say to the Jews ye are of your father the devil and they
were of the physical seed of Abraham okay so it's just madness this junk the
ear from absolute damnable heretics like Jean Kim and the rest of these absolute
clowns yeah okay but we're talking about spiritual seed as we know because these
people deny really in a way that we're spiritual seed as well they just have to
deny the whole thing it's everything's physical with them isn't it everything's
a genealogy but anyway to the point of going bizarre and then Satan having
children with Eve and so just madness okay anyway so okay so like I said he
continues to bruise the children of God so Romans 16 if you turn to Romans 16
shows that it's an ongoing battle okay so if you turn to Romans 16 and verse 17
Romans 16 and verse 17 says this
there's a famous kind of pat a couple of verses because because obviously it goes
it hand in hand with church discipline but think about who these people are
that are getting kicked out Romans 16 17 says now beseech you brethren mark that
mark them which caused divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which
you have learned and avoid them okay these are false prophets for they that
are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ but their own belly and by good words
and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple not good being simple okay
wise enough if you are for your obedience has come abroad unto all men
I'm glad therefore on your behalf but yet I would have you wise unto that
which is good and simple concerning evil and the god of peace shall bruise Satan
under your feet shortly the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you amen so
for me it's an ongoing battle between God's children and devil's children so
we see it fulfilled by Jesus Christ his crucifixion and probably you could say
ultimately with with Satan eventually being cast into hell but there is an
ongoing battle with his children and God's children as well with us bruising
Satan under our feet shortly and and how does that work well because so often
they're manifest aren't they manifest and destroyed at least spiritually and
and but they do they they do bruise our bruise our feet as well don't they they
do bruise our heels and they do come and cause us trouble in many different ways
verse 16 back to Genesis chapter 3 says this unto the woman he said so we're
onto the woman now I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception
in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children and thy desire shall be to the husband
and he shall rule over thee so due to sin there's a multiplied sorrow with
childbirth and there's a multiplied it seems like childbirth as well multiplied
conception perhaps my thoughts are to keep them close to God because I think a
lot of people look at these verses and they look it's punishment punishment
punishment but but is God punishing all of all of mankind because of Eve and
that and people look at that and think now and I can understand why or is there
a method to what he's doing there's a reason why these things happen and we'll
see it with a man as well but with Eve he multiplies her sorrow and her
conception but bear in mind she now has a knowledge of good and evil so we're
there's now sin and there's obviously that inherited sin nature as well and
turn of first Timothy 2 because I don't think this is a this is necessarily as a
punishment I think it's a safeguard against distancing from God so I don't
know about you guys here and ladies as well really but during my wife's labors
and and I'm sure for her as well it's probably been when we've drawn closest
to God I'm sure for many of you it's a scary time isn't it childbirth and so
often like that's when you're praying most that's when you're you're just kind
of calling on God when you it's you know because it is a high-risk time isn't it
and and that's a pretty kind of that's a time when you are close to God when
you're calling on God when you're just like you want to make sure you're right
in God's eyes you really need him to help you and bless you through it all
well first Timothy 2 and verse 12 says but I suffer not a woman to teach nor to
usurp authority over the man but to be in silence for Adam was first formed the
need and Adam was not deceived but the woman been deceived was in the
transgression notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing if they
continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety now it seems to
me like a call to drawing near to God to get through that labor doesn't it
that's what I see there it's a it's a call and look I know that stuff can
happen anyway I'm not saying it's all just that oh you you know if you had a
bad labor or something you must be out of God's will I'm not saying that but
why I'm saying is there is he does he does say she shall be saved in
childbearing if they continue in faith charity and holiness with sobriety and
then we've seen that God has given that it back in Genesis 3 he said I will I
will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception but bearing in mind that
I think maybe without that maybe we draw even further away from God maybe
it's a way of drawing us close to God it's drawing us into the things of God
the more children the more that stressful time you're going to the more
you're drawing close to God the more you're calling on him maybe he did say I
will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception because it's same with the
next bit and so thou shalt bring forth children and thy desire shall be to thy
husband and he shall rule over thee and again is that a punishment or is it like
we said earlier because women need that they they need to be ruled they need to
submit to their husbands and they need that leading don't know like I said
without the leading how many single women are turning up in churches like
this very few yet married women will because they're getting led to it yeah
and look it's because of that sin for me that she needs that ruling over and
the desire to him is basically like saying you'll be subservient to him okay
so he's saying look and you will be subservient to him okay your desires and
you're going to serve him and but it's for our own good it's for our own good
because even without that even before that sin nature she was beguiled by the
devil how do you think that's going to be then with that knowledge of good and
evil in that false in nature and that's why that's why they're commanded to be
under and don't get me wrong I'm not saying the men are perfect but they are
the stronger vessel and again you know they're usually able for various reasons
to do those more things they have that they're able to work hard for starters
and be able to pound those streets and do those long marathons all the time and
that all that the soul winning everything that they have that ability
more and and they look the women need that leading it's for their own good
though okay and then we see what's for Adam's own good here it says in verse
17 none to Adam he said because I was harken unto the voice of my wife and has
eaten of the tree of which I commanded he's saying thou shalt not eat of it
cursed is the ground for thy sake in sorrow shout thou eat of it all the days
of thy life thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee thou shalt
eat the herb of the field in a sweat of thy face shout thou eat bread till thou
return unto the ground for out of it was our taking for dust so art and unto dust
shut thou return it's for his own good isn't it now don't get me wrong I know
he started off tending the garden but it's a bit different to out of the sweat
of thy face and the thorns and the thistles and everything else but what
did he say in verse 17 cursed is the ground for thy sake it's for his own
good all these things are for their own good yeah it's for his own good that the
ground is cursed because let's be honest those without enough to do are usually
in the most sin people who don't have who have too much time time on their
hands are often in sin and a lot of time you know sins are slippery slope as well
it's not like oh well they just do something a little it just gets worse and
worse and that's why it's for his sake and and why because when you don't have
enough you have too much to think about too much time on your hands the
temptations are coming just it's just too much sin to get into it's everywhere
the temptations are everywhere aren't they you're not busy it's just everywhere
you pick up your phone now you just try and try look for a sermon on your phone
you watch a sermon it finishes and then the suggestive things next and
everything else or further down the screen it's always second I want my
subscriptions it's suggesting me clip of this clip of that and it's it might not
be the worst stuff but it's just temptation temptation temptation isn't
it and if it's not that then if it's not it doesn't have to be social mean it
could be anything at the least to just have a waste of time to just waste your
time and then and if and then when you waste your time you start getting into
whatever it is whether for some people it'll be some form of game computer game
or something else again at what point does that become sin when it starts to
then begin because so many things are addictive and then it starts to pull you
out of the things of God and then your Bible reading lacks now it's starting to
become now we're getting that line of sin aren't we when suddenly those other
things which were just a bit of a time filler because you had too much time time
on your hands starts to become addictive it starts to take over from the things
of God and and it's having too much time your hands that's why we need to work
we have to work and if for those people that don't work they need to find
something to do you know and you know if they're not looking for work for
whatever reason need to be doing something because if you're sitting
around believe me you know there aren't people that just sitting around doing
nothing they're just living godly holy lives doesn't work like that and that's
why all these people that kind of want what money to go out and and sit in
some country these clown missionaries that I've been at church to all they
talk about is these people that just go out and just do nothing all day they're
not so winning what they doing what they're doing and I'll tell you what
they're doing it just in sin just doing whatever else fighting temptation
everything else now they need to be working or they need to be working for
God so winning don't know and doing stuff getting busy and that's why you
know this sort of Chuck will always have a busy church because I've been a
churches where the the pastor does nothing I mean they'll have like I mean
I was at one church where the guy was a missionary from the u.s. full paid from a
big church out there one sermon one service story on a Sunday morning full
time what's he doing what was he doing he wasn't there on a Sunday evening he
wasn't there on a midweek he was right in 130 to 40 minute sermon what was he
doing all week I'll tell you what he's doing probably fighting if all and
probably losing the fight with temptation to sin because look being
busy isn't like we need to be busy don't we we need to be busy busy doing stuff
busy getting stuck in and don't ever resent the fact well I got to work you
know and then like do the things of God you know but it's good for you it's good
for you he said for thy sake curses are ground for thy sake okay we're just
going to finish off now verse 20 says and Adam called his wife's name Eve
because she was a mother of all living so so by the way Adam named her okay
Adam named his wife yeah she took the name that he gave her and Adam also
unto Adam also unto his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothe
them and the Lord God said behold the man is become as one of us to no good
and evil and now lest he put forth his hand take also the tree of life and need
to live forever so we talked about him clothing them with coats of skins but
the tree of life for me that salvation coming from the Word of God that's what
I believe I believe that it's a picture of the Word of God that that's where
salvation comes from isn't it's the Word of God it's it's it's a gospel verse 23
therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden to till the
ground for whence he was taken so he drove out the man he placed at the east
of the Garden of Eden cherubims and a flaming sword which turned every way to
keep the way of the tree of life and that for me is a preservation a picture
of the preservation of God's Word as well is the the flaming swords they keep
the way of the tree of life they keep in the Word of God which will never pass
away with it heaven and earth shall pass away but my word shall not pass away
okay story we went over a little bit there that was Genesis chapter 3 I'm
glad we did that in one no I could have tried to split that but I'm sorry if I
rushed the last bits a little bit but wow there's a lot in there isn't there
Father thank you for well just the so many lessons we can get out of Genesis
chapter 3 I hope I preach what you wanted me to today things that hopefully
our church can take away and think about and and and you know strengthen with and
Lord we thank you for your word we thank you for just you know the many truths
the many lessons you were giving us in you know in just the recording of those
those you know first moments in the world's history we thank you for just
you know all just just the richness of God's of your word you know your word is
just amazing it's just so much we can get from it help us to apply it to our
lives this week and ongoing you know many of the lessons we got from Satan
and his his people help us to you know just be wiser from that and help us to
get I'm safe and sound as well tonight in return on Sunday just don't throw this
Amen