Adam and Eve | Pastor Greg Ford Sermon | One Church Columbus

ICEBREAKER:

If you were required to talk for 30 minutes at a moments notice, which topic would you choose and why?

MESSAGE NOTES:

Series: Eden Talks

Sermon: Adam and Eve

Text: Genesis 1-3

“Effective communication requires a body of agreed-upon words, terms, and ideas, a common ground of understanding. For the speaker, this often requires accommodation to the audience by using words and ideas they will understand. For the audience, if they are not native to the language and cultural matrix of the speaker, this means reaching common ground may require seeking out additional information or explanation. In other words, the audience has to adapt to a new and unfamiliar culture.” - John Walton, Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament

[Genesis 1:1]

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

[Genesis 1:30]

And I have given every green plant as food for all the wild animals, the birds in the sky, and the small animals that scurry along the ground—everything that has life.”

“An ancient text can communicate things that address a modern audience, but that’s very different than reading an ancient text as if it was written in the modern age.” - Tim Mackie (The Bible Project)

[Proverbs 22:6]

Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.

[Genesis 2:8-9]

Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made. 9 The Lord God made all sorts of trees grow up from the ground—trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit. In the middle of the garden he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

[Genesis 2:15-18]

The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it. 16 But the Lord God warned him, “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden— 17 except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.” 18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.”

[Genesis 2:23]

“At last!” the man exclaimed. “This one is bone from my bone, and flesh from my flesh!

[Genesis 2:24]

This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.

[Genesis 2:25]

Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.

[Ephesians 5:25]

For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her.

[Ephesians 5:28]

In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself.

[Genesis 2:18]

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.”

[Genesis 1:27-28]

So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. 28 Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it.

[Genesis 3:1]

…One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”

[Genesis 3:4]

“You won’t die!” the serpent replied to the woman. 5 “God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be like God, knowing both good and evil.”

[Genesis 3:6]

The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her. So she took some of the fruit and ate it.

Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too. 7 At that moment their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves.

[Genesis 3:12-13]

The man replied, “It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit, and I ate it.” 13 Then the Lord God asked the woman, “What have you done?”

“The serpent deceived me,” she replied. “That’s why I ate it.”

[Genesis 3:19]

By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return.”

[Romans 5:12-14]

When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned. 13 Yes, people sinned even before the law was given. But it was not counted as sin because there was not yet any law to break. 14 Still, everyone died—from the time of Adam to the time of Moses—even those who did not disobey an explicit commandment of God, as Adam did. Now Adam is a symbol, a representation of Christ, who was yet to come.

[John 15:5]

“Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.”

[John 12:24]

Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

[Galatians 5:22-23]

But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

QUESTION 1: What is the difference between reading the Bible and studying the Bible?

QUESTION 2: How can we maximize scripture’s use and application in our every day lives?

QUESTION 3: In this season of life, what area of your faith journey is God calling you to grow in?

GUIDED PRAYER:

God thank you for the gift of your word. Let it lead, guide, and direct my steps. Show me how to leverage it for all it’s worth in my faith journey, and use it as a tool to grow and mature me in every aspect of life. I praise and worship you today. AMEN.

One ChurchJuly 24, 2023