Sermon Notes January 28,2024

When All Hell Broke Loose                                                      “In the Beginning”                                      

The Garden of Eden  – – See Genesis 2:8-17,25

  1. Of all the things that could have been said to summarize life in the Garden of Eden, it was that it was ____________________.
  2. God created an opportunity — a choice — to make sure that the __________________________ between Him and human beings was really going to be a _________________________.
 

The Temptation—Genesis 3:1-6, Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,  but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will  die.’” “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

  1. 3. Who is Satan?   Jesus _____________________________.
 

The Fall – – Genesis 3:7-13, 14-19, 20-24  

 
  1. Result of the Fall, Eve turned from her dependence on God, so now she would depend ________________ — this allows    the husband, or man, to take _____________________ .

 

Romans 8:22, “We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.”
 
  1. God let us ___________, and we did, and our ____________  have brought continual pain and heartache and destruction