The Biggest Story: “The Hope in the Fall”

1 Corinthians 15:22 – “For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.” 

Genesis 2:8, 15 – “And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed...The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.” 

Deuteronomy 12:10 – “But when you go over the Jordan and live in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to inherit, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies around, so that you live in safety,” 

Genesis 3:23 – “therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.” 

I. Satan Deceives (Genesis 3:1-5)

Ephesians 2:2 “...the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—” 

James 1:13–14 – “Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.” 

II. Man is Absent (Genesis 3:6-7)

III. Man Blames (Genesis 3:8-13)

IV. God Provides (Genesis 3:14-15, 21)

Genesis 3:7 – “Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.” 

Matthew 11:28 – “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” 

Genesis 3:21 – “And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.” 

V. Man Needs Rescued.

Genesis 3:24 – “He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.” 

John 14:6 – “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” 

Romans 5:14-18