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THE GARDEN OF EDEN

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notes about the Garden of Eden and the Fall of humans

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THE GARDEN OF EDEN

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Pain? Why me? Why them?

• Of all the days to get sick...why today??

• Why are they so rich? Why can’t we have more money?

• Really - she made the team and not me?

• Why does she get so lucky and win things and I never do?

• Why? Why? Why?

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Serious why questions …

• Why does my only friend have to move away?

• Why does my mom have to get cancer?

• Why do my parents always fight?

• Why did my uncle have to get hurt in that bad car accident?

• Why did their baby die?

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Confusion

Pain entered our world...why?

We get hurt, disappointed, confused...and wonder why?

The questions we all ask at some point in our lives…..if things

started out so good, how did things end up becoming so bad???

God created a perfect world….then sin entered the world. Pain,

hurt, disappointment, confusion followed.

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God’s story to be continued…

The next part of the story has the potential to

change the way you view and understand

your world. So let’s go back to the

garden...back to where we started.

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God gave Adam and Eve one rule to obey…..

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Genesis 3

Adam and Eve

enjoyed the

garden, had

a perfect

relationship

with each

other and

God.

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What is Satan trying to do?

• tempt Adam and Eve

with good food from an

off-limits tree?

• He was trying to create

doubt in their minds

about God...not the

rule but about the

creator of the rule.

• He plants

uncertainty into

their minds…

• He wants them to

begin to question

God….

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What did Satan want them to think?

• He made God out to be the enemy… he was

keeping something from them…

• God was too strict….

• Satan got Adam and Eve to believe that the

they knew better than the very Creator of

the world…

• So….

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Why did they see a benefit from disobeying God?

• Eve saw that the fruit was desirable for

gaining wisdom… she wanted to know

more….

• They both wanted control that was not

theirs to possess…

• They wanted to be like God… and they

thought they knew better than God did for

them

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Results….

• There was a rift between people and God…

• Things were not perfect anymore… between

God and between each other.

• God was still good… but people were not

and the entire world was affected by this

decision.

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Results...

• Every part of Creation is broken because of

sin….

• relationships

• bodies & minds

• creation itself

• all the evil, hurt, and brokenness in the world

that you see on the news or hear about from

your friends.

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God curses the snake, Adam, & Eve

• these are the consequences for their

actions…

• the results of the distrust that Adam and

Eve felt towards God when they ate the

fruit…

• Adam and Eve have to leave the garden and

are banished from the “Tree of Life”

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Why is this important?

• Everything you see in the world is a result

of that decision…

• Why the pain? hurt? anger? disease? natural

disasters? selfishness? anger? - because of

that decision made in the garden

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But I did not eat the fruit….

• We may not have been there, but everyday

you and I make decisions to choose our way

over Gods way…..

• We choose our selfish interests over God’s

best intentions….

• some of the bad things happen as a result

of our not trusting God….

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When we look at this story….

• We see ourselves… we do the same things

Adam and Eve did in the garden…

• We need to remember that the world was

once perfect and good…

• We are looking at world now that is hurting

and broken… people, animals, natural

disasters, disease, etc.

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When we look at this story….

• We need to remember that God did not

cause all the evil and sin in the world…

• We were created to have God at the center

of our lives, just like Adam and Eve, and we

have said NO to God.

• That is the major problem in the world and

inside of us….

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God does not end the story here...

He make 2 major promises in this chapter….

1.) He tells the serpent that his head will be

crushed….

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God does not end the story here...

He make 2 major promises in this chapter….

1.) He tells the serpent that his head will be

crushed….

Who is the person who crushed his head….

JESUS CHRIST on the cross, crushes the

power of Satan!

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God does not end the story here...

He make 2 major promises in this chapter….

1.) He tells the serpent that his head will be

crushed….

2.) He kicks them out of the garden and does

not allow them to eat from the tree of life.

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God does not end the story here...

• When God kicks them out they will

eventually die…

• They do not have to live in this broken

world forever, they will be perfect again in

heaven.

• God is using all the things in our lives, good

and bad to help us grow and learn and trust

Him.

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A dark day in God’s story...

• A lot of things were lost in the garden, but

not God’s goodness.

• As bad as things get in our lives and in the

world around us...God is still our loving

creator who loves us and shows mercy to

us.

• Even when we mess up, God never

abandons us, His grace is unending.