Lessons from the Fall Genesis 2 15 17

Lessons from the Fall Genesis 2: 15 -17; 3: 1 -15

The Covenant (Genesis 2: 15 -17) • 1. God’s blessing of mercy • The weighted covenant (Deuteronomy 3: 22; Ephesians 1: 13) • Application: Faith vs. Works • Salvation by works doctrine vs. cheap grace doctrine? • Deuteronomy 30: 11 -18

The Covenant (Genesis 2: 15 -17) • 2. God’s blessing of liberty • Freedom to choose • Freedom to be with God • Freedom from sin/death • Application: True Liberty • The liberty (slavery) of the world • The liberty (slavery) of Christ (Romans 6: 16 -18)

The Devils Tempts Man to Break Covenant (Genesis 3: 1 -5) • 1. “God’s selfishness” • Vs. 4 -5, “God doesn’t want you to be as he is” • 2. “God’s strictness” • Vs. 1, “God is restricting you” • Application: Doubting God’s Word • James 1: 5 -8

Man Breaks Covenant (Genesis 3: 6 -13) • Trying to be a god • This is good for me • This is delightful to me • This will make me wise • Application: What we “run on”

“What Satan put into the heads of our remote ancestors was the idea that they could "be like gods"-could set up on their own as if they had created themselves-be their own masters-invent some sort of happiness for themselves outside God, apart from God. And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history-money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery-the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. The reason why it can never succeed is this. God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on gasoline, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on…God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. ” -C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Man Breaks Covenant (Genesis 3: 6 -13) • Trying to be a god • This is good for me • This is delightful to me • This will make me wise • Application: What we “run on” • Do we run on God? (Psalms 3: 5) • Application: Seriousness of sin • Ephesians 2: 1 -3

Man Breaks Covenant (Genesis 3: 6 -13) • Trying to flee from God • Vs. 8 -10 – Hiding • Vs. 11 -13 - Avoiding • Application: Excuses • We need to be afraid of the wrong we have done • We need to be more afraid of the wrong we have excused

God Redeems Covenant (Genesis 3: 14 -15) • The crushing of Satan • Ephesians 1: 3 -4 • Application: Our hope • 2 Peter 3: 4 -13

Will you be on Christ’s side?