It is his policy to send temptations by hands we do not suspect, and by those that have most influence upon us. God revealed this to Adam, not to drive him to despair, but to quicken him to look for life and happiness in the promised Seed, by whom a new and living way into the holiest is laid open for us. Blessed be God for his Son our Lord Jesus Christ. Adam sinned with his eyes wide open, in open rebellion against God. Obviously, they covered their genital areas. Now he moves in for the kill, with an outright contradiction of what God said. WebGenesis chapter 3 tells the story of the fall of man through the temptation of Eve and the entrance of sin into the world. (2-3) Eves Genesis 3:19. (Genesis 3:4-5) Satans direct challenge to Gods Word. More than 90% of the subscribers to New Age Magazine are college graduates, compared to half the general population. The Lord God did not ask the serpent anything, for he knew that he was a liar, but he at once pronounced sentence upon him. (Spurgeon). range of evangelical traditions, all of the ideas and principles conveyed Satan ruined himself by desiring to be like the Most High, therefore he sought to infect our first parents with the same desire, that he might ruin them too.
Genesis 3 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Major Prophets Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings. She couldnt rightly say, the devil made me do it.. The principle of Adams headship as a husband was established before the fall (see Genesis 2:18 and 2:22).
Genesis 3 Pentateuch Who then can say that Adam's sin had but little harm in it? We can see the precise truth of Pauls statement in 1 Timothy 2:14, that Eve was deceived when she sinned. b. It is the fruit of this enmity, that there is a continual warfare between grace and corruption, in the hearts of God's people. Observe the steps of the transgression: not steps upward, but downward toward the pit. Though Adam and Eve and their descendants were prevented from eating the fruit of the tree of life (by Gods mercy), they could still come there to meet God. The tempter was the devil, in the shape and likeness of a serpent. i. Jewish rabbis embellished on Satans temptation to Eve: Nothing but malice has prompted Gods command, because as soon as you eat of it, you will be as God. A complete lie is rarely effective in temptation. WebBut the serpent said to the woman, You shall not surely die (Genesis 3:4) God had expressly declared to Adam, in the day that you eat of (the forbidden tree) you shall surely die.. Thus the devil was from the beginning a murderer, and the great mischief maker. In our courts of law, we do not require men to answer questions which would incriminate them, but God does; and, at the last great day, the ungodly will be condemned on their own confession of guilt (Spurgeon). Thank you for registering. Luke-Acts But God made them coats of skin, large, strong, durable, and fit for them: such is the righteousness of Christ; therefore put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ. i. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point Beings engaged in evil designs have no other way of going, but with tricks, devices, concealments, double meanings. Our use of these terms is not merely cultural, it is Biblical. To this point, death had been mentioned only as a threatened punishment for sin ( Genesis a. Then the eyes of both of them were opened: Seemingly, it was only after the sin of Adam that they knew of their sinful state.
Genesis 3:19 - Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary Sin has corrupted both the willing submission of the wife and the loving headship of the husband. Not only does Adam unjustly accuse Eve, but also he refused to accept proper responsibility for his part in her sin. Sin is failure to do what God has commanded us. We can assume this is God, in the Person of Jesus Christ, appearing to Adam and Eve before His incarnation and birth at Bethlehem, because of God the Father it is said, No one has seen God at any time. But in our desire to be gods, we become like Satan. i. Let it not lessen our sorrow for sin, that we were beguiled into it; but let it increase our self-indignation, that we should suffer ourselves to be deceived by a known cheat, and a sworn enemy, who would destroy our souls. Every attempt to cover our own nakedness before God is just as foolish. ii. His victory over Satan thereby. (6-8) God calls upon Adam and Eve to answer. Because you have heeded the voice of your wife: It wasnt just as if Adam took Eves advice. you shall eat bread, Until you return to the ground, from which you were taken; For you are dust, and to dust you shall return. It was Eve's weakness to enter into this talk with the serpent: she might have perceived by his question, that he had no good design, and should therefore have started back. iii. If this fruit is something good for her, why doesnt God want her to have it? Many have speculated that Adam sinned because he didnt want Eve to be alone in the fall, and he ate of the fruit out of a romantic impulse. Has God indeed said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden? Your desire shall be for your husband, In response, God issues three individual ''curses'' which affect humanity to this day. In toil you shall eat of it Their hearts must have been sorely perplexed within them while they were waiting to see what God would do to them as a punishment for the great sin they had committed. (Spurgeon). And still the devil draws people into his interest, by suggesting to them hard thoughts of God, and false hopes of advantage by sin. i. Perhaps they felt if they left the garden, they might never see God again because it was the only place where they met Him. In all probability the reptile called the serpent was a nobler creature before the Fall than now. Sin brought death into the world: if Adam had not sinned, he had not died. So the rule of love founded in paradise is replaced by struggle, tyranny and domination. (Susan T. Foh, cited in Boice). So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. This is because she did not receive the command to not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil directly from God but through Adam (Genesis 2:15-17). Before the curse on man, the ground only produced good. Satan assaulted our first parents, to draw them to sin, and the temptation proved fatal to them. (22-24). They have more care to save their credit before men, than to obtain their pardon from God. Few of us are willing to simply say as David did, I have sinned against the LORD (2 Samuel 12:13). Thus is the plaster as wide as the wound. Perhaps Satan knew by observation Adam didnt do an effective job of communicating to Eve what the LORD told him. b. Deceived me: The problem comes when we fail to see that being deceived is sin in itself. Are not his days also like the days of a hired man? We read of the travail of Christ's soul, Galatians 3:13. Man's food shall become unpleasant to him. It has been a sort of speculative opinion that the creature either had wings, or was able to move without creeping upon the earth as it now does. (Spurgeon). GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point
Enduring Word Bible Commentary Genesis Chapter 3 i. a. Despite that, Adam and Eve needed only a bit of prompting from a talking serpent to disobey their good Creator. Adam, being the head, is the problem here. And more than every beast of the field; d. They sewed fig leaves together: Their own attempt to cover themselves took much ingenuity, but not much wisdom. iii. c. And clothed them: This, together with the expression of faith in Gods promise indicated in the naming of Eve (Genesis 3:20), indicates that Adam and Eve were rescued from their sinful condition. iv. ii. b.
Genesis 19:3 Commentaries: Yet he urged them strongly, so they b. Isaiah 14 tells us Satans fall had to do with his desire to be equal to or greater than God, to set his will against Gods will.
Genesis 3:19 - Bible Verse Meaning and Commentary Adam probably had regard to the blessing of a Redeemer, the promised Seed, in calling his wife Eve, or life; for He should be the life of all believers, and in Him all the families of the earth should be blessed. When we know and remember the consequences of sin, we are more likely to give up the passing pleasures of sin (Hebrews 11:25). It speaks great encouragement to sinners, that their Saviour is the Seed of the woman, bone of our bone, Hebrews 2:11,14. iii. Rebellion against God is not better when motivated by a romantic impulse. No marvel that they became a terror to themselves, and full of confusion. There are many temptations to which being alone gives great advantage; but the communion of saints tends very much to their strength and safety. Ever since Adam, men run from Gods presence and dont want to listen to His Word. Let us, therefore, always think well of God as the best good, and think ill of sin as the worst evil: thus let us resist the devil, and he will flee from us. WebAlthough death was the fruit of Adam's sin, it was by God's grace that His curse did not fall upon Adam. d. You will be like God, knowing good and evil: The final enticement was the most powerful because it was how Satan himself fell, wanting to be equal with God. b. Satan took Gods positive command in Genesis 2:16-17 (Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat) and rephrased it in a purely negative way: God wont let you eat of every tree.. Therefore, it is Adam and not Eve who bears the responsibility for the fall of the human race and for the introduction of death into the created order (Romans 5:12, 1 Corinthians 15:22). 2. i.
Genesis 19 Commentary We need to let Jesus cover us (Revelation 3:5, 18), and put on Jesus Himself as our covering garment (Galatians 3:27). For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.. Blue Letter Bible study tools make reading, searching and studying the Bible easy and rewarding. Now work has a cursed element to it, with pain and weariness a part of work. i. He became obedient unto death. As the gospel gains ground, Satan falls. WebChapter 3. d. To the woman: Satan brought his temptation against the woman because he perceived she was more vulnerable to attack. All Rights Reserved. If nudity represented a higher, freer life, then God would have let Adam and Eve remain naked but He clothed them. a. e. The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate: Adams attempt to blame Eve is completely consistent with human nature. There is no doubt this is a prophecy of Jesus ultimate defeat of Satan. This same word for desire is used in Genesis 4:7 of the desire of sin to master over Cain. After the curse, it still produced good, but thorns and thistles will come faster and easier than good fruit. Then the serpent said to the woman, You will not surely die. If this is true, it wasnt so strange to Eve that an angelic being might appear to her in the form of a beautiful pre-curse serpent. We are clothed with a garment of righteousness that was purchased with the life of another, Jesus Christ. WebGenesis 19. God gave His approval of the sense of shame which had led our first parents to cover their nakedness. (Leupold). Humanity was originally given every perfect thing they could need or want, and virtually no restrictions. ii. Minor Prophets God Himself ate first of the fruit of the tree, and then He created the world. c. The LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden: We dont know if Adam and Eve wanted to stay in the garden of Eden. Albeit that henceforth all he ate was to be with the sweat of his face, yet still he was to have enough to eat, and he was to live on. (Spurgeon). By faith in this promise, our first parents, and the patriarchs before the flood, were justified and saved. Pauline Epistles God gave the earth to the children of men, to be a comfortable dwelling; but it is now cursed for man's sin.
Genesis 3 And he shall rule over you.. Eve was tricked into sinning; Adam knew exactly what he was doing (1 Timothy 2:14). This wasnt primarily a wardrobe problem or a fear problem or a self-esteem problem. It was as if God could not wait to announce His plan of salvation, to bring deliverance through the one known as the Seed of the woman. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point First, she gave in to the lust of the flesh (saw that it was good for food), then she gave in to the lust of the eyes (pleasant to the eyes), then she gave in to the pride of life (desirable to make one wise). We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: Eves knowledge of what she should not do is partially correct, but what she doesnt seem to know makes her all the more vulnerable to deception. We cant outsmart Satan, but we can overcome him with the power of Jesus. ii. Passwords should have at least 6 characters. f. He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel: In this, God prophesies the doom of Satan, showing that the real battle is between Satan and the Seed of the Woman. The stronger ones in a chain must expect an attack against weaker links and support them against those attacks. Humanity was originally given every perfect thing they could need or want, and virtually no restrictions. 1. i. Satan can only effectively work when he has established a foothold. He excused the fault by laying it on his They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: Adam and Eve knew that when they heard the LORD coming, He would want to be with them. (Genesis 3:14-15) Gods curse upon the serpent. i. i. Wisdom Literature We can almost picture Adam telling Eve, See that tree in the middle of the garden? Men know not that they shall die, even though they confess it with their lips almost daily. 3. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, (Hebrew/Greek Search by English Definition), * 'Number Delimiters' only apply to 'Paragraph Order', Search verses, phrases, and topics (e.g. This much was true: she had been deceived, and she did eat. d. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you: The idea is to contrast the womans desire and the husbands rule over her. In an echo of the flood story, God destroys Sodom for the wickedness displayed earlier in the chapter. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread His business, before he sinned, was a constant pleasure to him; but now his labour shall be a weariness. Labour is our duty, which we must faithfully perform; it is part of man's sentence, which idleness daringly defies. The serpent (Lucifer) deceives EveShe and then Adam partake of the forbidden fruitHer Seed (Christ) will bruise the serpents headThe roles of woman
Genesis 3:19 Commentaries: By the sweat of your face See here what is commonly the folly of those that have sinned. And I will put enmity Web3. Men and women have each known sorrow throughout history, yet the unique sorrow of women is well known. In Jesus, we share in the victory over Satan: And the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly (Romans 16:20). Did sweat come in with sin? General Epistles Satan questioned whether it were a sin or not, to eat of this tree. Has God said, Ye shall not lie, nor take his name in vain, nor be drunk, &c.? The beasts, from whose skins they were clothed, it is supposed were slain, not for man's food, but for sacrifice, to typify Christ, the great Sacrifice. iii. Adam and Eve made for themselves aprons of fig-leaves, a covering too narrow for them to wrap themselves in, Isaiah 28:20. a.
Genesis 3 Few subjects are more important! ii. Web2 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, WebGenesis 19 The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah A. This speaks of an inherent challenge in embracing the husbands role as leader of the home and family. c. Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat? Christ baffled Satan's temptations, rescued souls out of his hands. To eat dust has the idea of total defeat (Isaiah 65:25, Micah 7:17). The greatest potentate of evil was here doomed to cringe and crawl, and his seed have never forgotten their fathers posture. (Spurgeon). Luke-Acts Clarke on nor shall you touch it: Some Jewish writers state that as soon as the woman had asserted this, the serpent pushed her against the tree and said, See, you have touched it, and are still alive; you may therefore safely eat of the fruit, for surely you shall not die.. Of course, it was a good idea to completely avoid the temptation; no good could come from massaging the fruit youre not supposed to eat. On this occasion, Satan chose to indwell the body of a pre-curse serpent. Historical Books There is a sense in which idolatry of Eve was an aspect of Adams disobedience against God. But to this point, she was called a female (Genesis 1:27), a helper comparable (Genesis 2:18), a woman (Genesis 2:22, 23), and a wife (Genesis 2:24, 25; 3:8). Note: MLA no longer requires the URL as part of their citation standard. v. This is the first gospel sermon that was ever delivered upon the surface of this earth.