Genesis Part I: 1-11

Lesson 14: Nature of Sin

Genesis 31Now the serpent was more subtil than

any beast of the field which the LORD God had made.

The serpent was crafty.

II Corinthians 113But I fear, lest by any means, as the

serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty …

The serpent was a serpent.

Why do we call him Satan?

Satan is an old serpent.

Satan is crafty.

Revelation 129And the great dragon was cast out, that

old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: …

John 844Ye are of your father the devil … He was

a murderer from the beginning … When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.Satan is an old serpent.

Satan is crafty.

Satan murdered in the beginning.

Satan invented the lie.

Satan is the serpent created by God.

Ezekiel 2812Son of man, take up a lamentation upon

the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, “Thus saith the Lord GOD; ‘Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.The King of Tyre was not perfect, wise, and beautiful, but his position is analogous to one who was.

Physical attraction may be used as deception.

Proverbs 623For the commandment is a lamp; and

the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

24to keep thee from the evil woman, fromthe flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart;neither let her take thee with her eyelids.Educational exercise guards against beautiful deception.

Isaiah 532… He hath no form nor comeliness; and

when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:The appearance of Jesus did not en-hance His message.

The king of Tyre used his appearance to influence others..

Ezekiel 2813Thou hast been in Eden the garden of

God … in the day that thou wast created.

The King of Tyre was like a perfect creature in the Garden of Eden.

14Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God;

The King of Tyre was like an angel over the ark of the covenant and one who gave the law to Moses.

Galatians 319Wherefore then serveth the law? It was

added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

sin → law → seed

Acts 753who have received the law by the

disposition of angels, and have not kept it.

Hebrews 22For if the word spoken by angels was

stedfast and every transgression and diso-bedience received a just recompence …

3how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;

4God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost …?

Ezekiel 2815Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the

day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.The King of Tyre is like an angel in the garden of Eden who sinned.

II Peter 24… God spared not the angels that sinned,

but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be re-served unto judgment;

Revelation 201And I saw an angel come down from

heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

2And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan …

3… that he should deceive the nations no more … after that he must be loosed a little season.

Demons are chained in prison, but sometimes are allowed on earth.

John 1327And after the sop Satan entered into

him. Then said Jesus unto him, “That thou doest, do quickly.”

Satan may use any part of nature.

The agent Satan uses is culpable.

John 1712… those that Thou gavest Me I have

kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition …

Job 27So went Satan forth from the presence of

the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

Satan may use disease.

Satan may use politics.

Luke 1316And ought not this woman … whom

Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond …?

I Chronicles 211And Satan stood up against Israel, and

provoked David to number Israel.14So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel:

and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

17And David said unto God, ”Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? Even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? …”

Romans 512Wherefore, as by one man sin entered

into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men …

14… even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression

Adam brought death by sin.

Christ brought life by obedience.

18… even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.

Genesis 314And the LORD God said unto the

serpent, “Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

Wages of Sin

1. Serpent must slither.

2. Christ must sacrifice.

Genesis 315and 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.

Wages of Sin

1. Serpent must slither.

2. Christ must sacrfice.

The woman’s seed will bruise Satan, the head of the serpent.

Wages of Sin

1. Serpent must slither.

2. Christ must sacrifice.

Who is the woman’s seed?

Galatians 44but when the fulness of the time was

come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

Wages of Sin

1. Serpent must slither.

2. Christ must sacrifice.

Who is the woman’s seed?

Revelation 1217And the dragon was wroth with the

woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

The church.

Wages of Sin

1. Serpent must slither.

2. Christ must sacrifice.

Romans 1620And the God of peace shall bruise Satan

under your feet shortly. …

3. Women must submit.

Wages of Sin

1. Serpent must slither.

2. Christ must sacrifice.

Genesis 316Unto the woman He said, “I will greatly

multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.”

3. Women must submit.

Wages of Sin

1. Serpent must slither.

2. Christ must sacrifice.

I Timothy 212But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor

to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

3. Women must submit.

13For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

Wages of Sin

1. Serpent must slither.

2. Christ must sacrifice.

I Timothy 23. Women must submit.

14And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the trans-gression.

Wages of Sin

1. Serpent must slither.

2. Christ must sacrifice.

3. Women must submit.

Genesis 312And the man said, “The woman whom

Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.”

13… And the woman said, “The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.”

Wages of Sin

1. Serpent must slither.

2. Christ must sacrifice.

3. Women must submit.

4. Man must sweat.

Genesis 319In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat

bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

II Thessalonians 310For even when we were with you, this

we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

I Timothy 58But if any provide not for his own, and

specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.To not work is to not believe.

Matthew 631… take no thought, saying, “What shall

we eat?” or, “What shall we drink?” or, “Wherewithal shall we be clothed?”

33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Sweat from work and not from worry.

Putting the kingdom first involves working, which provides necessities.

Genesis 32And the woman said unto the serpent,

“We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

3but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, ‘Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.’ “

Life vs. Death

The tree of death was in the middle of the garden, next to the tree of life.

Genesis 29… the tree of life also in the midst of the

garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Life vs. Death

God has given man the option of life or death.

Deuteronomy 3019I call heaven and earth to record this day

against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: there-fore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

Life vs. Death

Jeremiah 218And unto this people thou shalt say,

“Thus saith the LORD; ‘Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.’ “

Genesis Part I: 1-11

Lesson 15: Nature of Worship