Noah and The Ark

O.T.#21  "Noah and The Ark"
April 9, 2013
Genesis 6-Part 2
But with thee will I establish my covenant...  Genesis 6:18a KJV

LET IT GLOW

I don't live near an ocean nor a lake. I have only been on a small ship a few times. (Of course, that is fine with me because I am afraid of water that's over my head.) I have seen pictures of the Titantic and have walked around on a replica. How huge it was. My mind can't comprehend its actual size, nor can I picture that of the ark Noah and his sons built. (1 1/2 football fields) Before we get into that, let's check out the builder.

Noah was the great grandson of Enoch, who walked with God and was translated instead of dying. Chapter 6 tells us about the evil, corrupt, and violent men upon the earth during Noah's time. In our last lesson, we saw that Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. (verse 8) Grace means to bend or stoop. God bent down to Noah and showed him grace, by warning him of the coming judgment by flooding all the earth.

What else do we know about Noah? Look at verses 9 and 14. These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. (verse 9)

• He was a just man. Just means lawful, righteous (man). He was in right relationship with God.
• He was perfect in his generations. Perfect refers to integrity, truth, without blemish, complete, full, whole. It conveys the idea of maturity or completeness. This is how Noah lived among the wicked people that God wanted to destroy, and did. He stood alone for God.
• He was instructed by God to build an ark. The word ark means box. Noah was given the details for making the barge-like vessel.
• He obeyed God, though it took 120 years to complete. His family was saved as a result of Noah's obedience.
• He walked with God.

Noah was saved by grace through faith in the coming Savior (Eph. 2:8-9) as we are.
Remember that it had never rained before, only midst rose up from the ground to water it.

We see the great faith of Noah to:
*believe the unbelievable; flood everything and killing everything;
*to do the incredible; build an ark in the middle of nowhere (verses 14-16); saving his family;
*accept God's Word at face value; God was going to destroy both man and earth (verse 13);
*obey God by standing up of God and His Word, by standing against the ridicule and mockery of the
  world; capture and bring all the animals by two's into the ark, which had to be a male and female.

Do I walk with God, listening and obeying Him? Are my ways just and perfect? How strong is my faith in God and His Word? What about you, sister?

LET IT GROW

Here's some interesting information about the ark:

• 450' long, 75' wide, 45' high (a boat that was 1 1/2 football fields in size);
• 3 stories, decks tall;
• a barge-like vessel, that floated, not sailed across the water;
• had a window at the top;
• had a door on its side;
• held 2 of each animal, male and female; (could have been 17,000 to 1,000,000);
• housed 8 people;
• held enough food for the animals and people;
• withstood water-40 days of rain and 150 days of prevailing on the earth;
• made of pitch and gopher wood.

Just as the ark was safety and salvation for Noah and his family, so Jesus is our ark of salvation in which our soul is saved and safe.

Verse 18 is the first mention of the covenant God established. It was made with Noah and his family. Covenant is in the sense of cutting; a compact (made by passing between two pieces of flesh). The pledged covenant is actually explained in 9:9-17 of Genesis. It was a one-time act, as the rainbow reminds us. God has kept his promise.

How strong is my faith and trust in God's Word? When I see a beautiful rainbow in the sky, do I remember God's faithfulness? Do I have enough faith to do a gigantic job for God?

LET IT GO

Believe the unbelievable; do the incredible; accept God's Word; obey God.

Walk by faith in God.

Trust Jesus to be my Ark.

Daffodils and Grace

O.T. #20  "Daffodils and Grace"
April 8, 2013
Genesis 6-Part 1
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.  Genesis 6:8 KJV

LET IT GLOW

I stopped the car in the field where the old house used to stand. Then I wade through the tall green grass. I know they are there, beautiful yellow daffodils, early spring flowers seen from my country dirt road. Aha, there they are. I bend down and pick a handful, sniff their sweet fragrance, then my mind wanders down memory lane.
Our neighbors, when I was growing up, lived there in an old brown stucco house, without running water or indoor plumbing. She was a Sunday School teacher in my junior department. He was a farmer that rode an old tractor that went putt-putt across the field in front of my house. Such sweet people, they were the age of my grandfather. Anyway, the house has since been torn down.
I take another sniff of the flowers she planted at least 60 some odd years ago. The fruit of her labors so long ago can still be enjoyed if one just looks beyond the tall grass.
And so a loving God bends down, picks me up out of my field of problems and sin, and shows beautiful grace to this heart full of sin, cleansing and making it a sweet fragrance of His love again.

Grace comes from a root meaning "to bend or stoop;" thus the condescending or unmerited favor of a superior person to an inferior one is implied. (Falwell)

Grace, meaning graciousness, kindness, favor, pleasant, precious, well favored. (Strong's Concordance)

This is the first occurrence of grace in Scriptures. Why was there a need for grace?

• Man had become so wicked. (verse 5)
• Every imagination of the thoughts of man's heart was only evil continually; (verse 5) imagination is derived from the potter's verb formed, and implies a design or purpose;
• It repented  the LORD that He had made man on the earth (verse 6); repented  doesn't mean God made a mistake in His dealings with men, but rather indicates a change in divine direction resulting from the actions of man.
• It grieved God in His heart (verse 6);
• God planned to destroy men, animals, and fowl He created from the face of the earth.

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

God would call out a remnant unto Himself. God showed His grace and favor upon Noah. Noah was chosen to be the person to be saved through the coming judgment. Noah had faith and believed  in the promise of God, in the coming Savior, to save him. As a result, Noah and his family were spared, saved, from the Flood.

All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. (Romans 3:23)
Every person is saved just like Noah was: by the grace of God through faith in the Savior, Jesus Christ.  (Ephesians 2:8-9)

Have you asked God for this grace?

LET IT GROW

Man became lawless as well as immoral in developing the first society. There were giants in those days (verse 4), which means fallers, apostates from true religion; falling on men with violence; strong and robust in body, and leaders of others. (William Wilson)
 They were strong, lawless, lustful, immoral, self-gratifiers. The children of Cain and Seth became living for and in the flesh, not for God. Who do we know that was behind all of this? None other than Satan himself. I'm not going to list such sins, but they can be found in Galatians 5 and 2 Timothy 3.

Mankind became so bad that God wanted to wipe him off the face of the earth. Now that is bad, huh?
And He did, except for the remnant of Noah.

Is our society heading down the same road? What with homosexuality, adultery, murders, break up of the family, all out in the open and unashamed, aren't we headed for judgment, too? Except for the grace of God go I.

Are we warning people?

LET IT GO

Repent of my sins and seek God's grace.

Have giant faith in Jesus, not a giant in sin.




 

That's as Old as Methuselah

O.T.18  "That's as Old as Methuselah"
April 5, 2013
Genesis 5-Part 1
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
Genesis 5:27

LET IT GLOW

How old is or was the oldest person you have known?
My aunt was 100 years old when she died. Her daughter celebrated her 90th birthday a few months ago. My grandfather was in his 90's when he died. These relatives are all on my mother's side of the family. (My aunt did not consider it a blessing to have lived so long.) I sure don't desire to live that long, considering all the aches and pains I have been experiencing lately, and I'm not 60 yet. A long life is considered to be a blessing from the Lord.
I remember a common saying, "That's as old as Methuselah." Apparently, the speaker consider something very old, or else they didn't realize how long Methuselah lived.

In chapter 5, we read of the longest living man-Methuselah, who lived 969 years. Who was this guy? He was the son of Enoch. They knew each other for 300 years. Isn't that amazing, to have such a long relationship with your father? Enoch had the right influence on his son because Enoch walked with God those 300 years.

What kind of influence are we having on our children and grandchildren? Are we showing them how to walk by faith in Jesus? Are we teaching them the Bible with our life?

LET IT GROW

Methuselah means "man of a dart," according to Strong's Concordance.
Matthew Henry said that the name could mean "he dies, there is a dart, or sending forth."
Liberty Bible Commentary states that the name means "when he is dead it shall be sent."
Arthur Pink said it means "when he dies, it shall come."

Anyway, it's a testimony of God's wonderful grace in blessing the godly line and people while upon earth. Also, it's a testimony of God's coming judgment unless men repent of their ungodliness.
(The Preacher's Outline and Sermon Bible)

Within 1600 years, men of the chosen lineage of the Savior became wicked (6:5).
Methuselah's long life was no accident, from eating health foods, or exercise. It was due to God's grace being extended. His grandson was Noah.

How did God warn these immoral, worldly, godless men of Cain and Seth?

• Adam taught, preached, and warned his descendants for 930 years.
• Enoch also preached and warned the world of their ungodly deeds and of the coming judgment of God upon all ungodliness (Jude 14-15).
• Methuselah probably preached about God's judgment coming, because of his very name.
• Noah was a preacher of righteousness, warning the people up to the very end (2 Peter 2:5).

As we read of the immorality in chapter 6, we aren't justified in pointing a finger at those people. Our society is sounding more like them by the day. Romans 1:18 tells us that There is none righteous, no, not one.

In Genesis 6:3, the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man.

When the Holy Spirit speaks, offering salvation, one should surrender to it right then. God's grace is extended on His timetable, not ours. Today if ye hear His voice, harden not your hearts. (Heb. 4:7, Ps. 95:7)

Jesus said in John 14:6, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Jesus Christ is the only only way to heaven, to God our Heavenly Father. Have you believed on Him?
Have you asked Him to forgive you of your sins and be your Savior?

Friends, are we sharing the gospel of hope to a lost world?

LET IT GO

Walk by faith all the days of my life.

Share Jesus.

Show His grace and mercy.




  

How am I Walking?

O.T. 18  "How am I Walking?"        April 4, 2013
Genesis 4-Part 2
And Enoch walked with God and he was not, for God took him. Genesis 5:24

LET IT GLOW

I like walking outside along my country road, especially in the springtime-flowers and trees are in bloom, new baby calves are prancing around, birds are singing. More important is my walk with God. Am I walking by faith, living a surrendered life? How am I walking? Where do you like to walk?

Verse 17 tells us that Cain went out from the presence of the Lord. He physically and spiritually left.
You can read about him and his descendants in the rest of the chapter. I'm not going to dwell on them. Another murder happened in Cain's family, since he didn't have a change of heart. As for something good coming from Cain's family, we see a city built, Nod, musical instruments, and metal working.
Adam and Eve had other children, obviously their sons had children by their sisters, nieces, or great nieces. (Commentaries say that  their genes were pure and intermarriage did not deform them at that time.)
Shall we go on?

Adam lived to be 930 years old, so he could have had many children that the Bible does not record. A son that is mentioned is Seth, which means annointed one. It is through Seth's lineage that Jesus came. Did you notice that after Seth's son Enoch is mentioned in verse 26, then men began to call upon the name of the LORD.

Liberty Bible Commentary explains it this way: It is a testimony that the religious worship of the community of faith was organized for their public worship of God together.

The MacArthur Bible Commentary states: As men realized their inherent sinfulness with no human means to appease God's righteous indignation and wrath over their multiplied iniquities, they turned to God for mercy and grace in hopes of a restored personal relationship.

Luke 3 gives the geneology of Jesus. He is related to Adam through Seth, not Cain nor others. God was working His plan. Since these men lived to be hundreds of years, I wonder if they out lived their wives. Probably so. Some say it was due to the pre-Flood environment, with a canopy of water filtering out the ultraviolet rays of the sun that resulted in longivity of life back then. (MacArthrur)
I say that God has our length of days pre-determined.

Are we teaching our descendants to call upon the name of the Lord?

LET IT GROW

Moving into chapter 5, we read of Seth's descendants. Seventh from Adam is a man named Enoch. We don't know much about Enoch, but two specific things that we remember about him are:

1. Enoch walked with God according to verse 22 and 24. Only one other man was said to have enjoyed this intimacy of relationship in walking with God-Noah. Enoch was 300 years old when his first son, Methuselah was born. He walked with God after he had Methuselah. I never caught that until now. Walking means forward movement, steady progress. This man must have had a conversion experience. Maybe he realized his responsibility of teaching his child about God and his sinful, ungodly life.

The Preacher's Outline and Sermon Bible states, To walk with God means:

•  to believe God and to be diligent in seeking after God's promises;
•  to develop an unbroken communion and fellowship with God; it means to walk about with God, to live with God;
• to keep His mind on God; casting down every imagination and to captivate every thought for God;
• to live a holy and godly life, a life of separation, completely different from the sinful lives of others;
• to walk just like God and live just like God;
• to bear a strong witness and testimony for God.

Hebrews 11:5-6 says, By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.

Jude 14-15 tells what Enoch prophesied-The Lord will come with ten thousands of His saints, to execute judgment upon the ungodly.

2. He didn't die, for God took him to heaven alive, translated Enoch. This only happened to Elijah later (2 Kings 2:1-12). Now this was a first. Translated means carried over or carried across. God translated Enoch because Enoch walked so closely to God, to demonstrate His power to execute judgment, symbolize the promise of eternal life, and to encourage other believers.


How closely do I walk with God? How closely do I want to walk with God? Am I willing to pay the price?

LET IT GO

Surrender my all to God.

Walk with God all day long.

Live a separated life from the world so others see Jesus.

Teach others to call upon the name of the Lord.

*I am sorry this is so late. A skunk got under my house and sprayed it's unpleasant scent. 

Apple Seeds

O.T.17 "Apple Seeds"     April 3, 2013
Genesis 4-Part 1
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy see and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.  Genesis 3:15 KJV

LET IT GLOW

Lately I have been buying juicy, red delicious apples for us to eat. And delicious they are. Even my granddaughter likes them. well, we had a discussion out the apple coming from a tree, which comes from a seed. She had me save the seeds so we can plant them. I'm not sure it will work, but we will try to grow an apple trees from the seeds.
I didn't want to skip an important point about the seed mentioned in our key verse.

God is speaking to the ones guilty of sin-Satan, Eve, and Adam. He is dishing out the punishments, consequences of their sin. The order of the dishing is this: God is speaking to the serpent, which is possessed by the devil.

1. This cunning serpent is humiliated to a position of slithering through the grass.  
2. God puts enmity between him and the woman; enmity means hostility, hatred. (Most women hate snakes.) The family is attacked by evil in the form of divorce, drugs, alcohol, war, death, illness, pride, rebellion, adultery,etc.
3. Enmity, hatred, will always be between the Devil's seed, referring to demons (created angels, not increasing in numbers) and Eve's seed, man in the form of the Messiah, Jesus Christ. Keep in mind the Satan didn't know which man the seed would be.
4. He will bruise the Devil's head and the Devil bruised His heel. I'm sure the Devil thought he "got Him" when Jesus died on the cross. The opposite is actually true-God's will was accomplished, redemption for man is provided. Hope is not dead, but alive, with Jesus rising from the dead on the third day.
5. The Devil's time, final punishment, is coming. We read about it in Revelation 19:20; 20:10.
6. The Devil was left guessing who the Deliverer would be, so he kept trying to destroy the seed of the woman, the chosen Jew. He tried to accomplish it through Cain, Esau, Pharoah, David's sons, Jehoshophat's sons, Jehu, Ashasuerus, Herod, Nazareth's citizens. God was always in control and always protecting the lineage of the Messiah.
7. The ultimate is inevitable-the Devil looses in the end!!!

That is good news to me. Amidst the sinning and consequences, good comes out of the bad. (Of course, those people didn't see it at that time in their life.)

LET IT GROW

Shall we go onto chapter 4?

Here we have another first-the first children, which leads to the first pregnancy, and the first birth. (Poor Eve didn't have another woman to share her discomforts and joys like we do/did.)
What do we know about these two brothers?
 Liberty Bible Commentary has this to say:

• Cain was born first, then Abel; Cain, in Hebrew is the word qayin, meaning to acquire or get; Abel, Hebel in Hebrew, means breath or vanity.
• Cain tilled the ground, was a farmer; Abel was a keeper of sheep, a herdsman.
• In the process of time, it came to pass (I like that wording), Cain brought the fruit of the ground as an offering to the Lord; Abel brought the firstlings of his flock and the fat of it. Here is the first true worship and the first false worship. (Many contend that God had commanded Cain and Abel to give offerings, and that He specifically required blood sacrifices. There is no record of this revelation. Most likely Cain's offering was rejected because of his attitude in offering it.
• The Lord had respect unto Abel and his offering; Cain and his offering He did not respect; respect means to have regard, consider, turn, look away. So Abel's offering was acceptable to God and Cain's was not. Abe; desired to give his best, the first and choicest of his possessions; pure devout worship. Cain gave out of formalism (it was time and custom to give).
• Cain's countenance fell and he was wroth. Wroth means burn, be wax hot, be angry, jealousy.
• God warned Cain-If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it. (verse 7, NIV) Sin is like a lion crouching at the door of our heart, ready to pounce on us, to devour us.
• Cain did not head the warning and killed his brother, Abel. This was the first murder.
• Cain lied, as his parents had done earlier, to God, who knows all things. Do our children repeat our sins?
• The Lord sent Cain out from the presence of God, as a homeless wanderer, with a mark so no one would kill him. 

Whew! Some of these firsts I could do without.

Unacceptable worship, anger, and lying were the three sins Cain committed that are in our Scriptures.
(MacArthrur)

Hebrews 11:4 states: By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.

Which speaks loudest, my righteousness or my sins?
How strong is our faith?
Do we have any hidden sins that need to be confessed and forsaken?

LET IT GO

Obey God in all things.

Confess my sins.

Beware of temptations.

Choices

O.T. 16 "Choices"    April 2, 2013
Genesis 3-Part 2
Unto 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.
Genesis 3:16 KJV

LET IT GLOW

Choices. We make thousands of them each day, it seems. We choose what to do with our time, where we will go, what we will do, with whom we will go and do, not to do, not to go. How many of us awaken to prayer the first thing of the day before jumping out of bed and running into the day of do's and don'ts and choices? How much time do we spend quietly before the Lord Jesus in listening to His Word speak to us? Then how many of us apply that Word throughout the day?(I'm asking myself, too.) Do I jump in the car and leave His Word behind, at home on my desk, or take it with me in my heart?
Wise Choices-Do I resist temptations to think on the wrong things, on judging others, on my agenda?
Wrong Choices-Do I take a bite of that forbidden fruit, not thinking of the consequences?
Am I using the Word to resist sinning? Just how much am I willing to sacrifice in order to live a Spirit controlled life?
God gives us choices to make. We are not robots. How we make them will determine our rewards in heaven.

Things to ponder, to consider-Am I giving my best and my all to Christ today? Do I detour from His agenda for me today? Am I willing to detour when He leads in a different direction?

What about Eve? From a woman's perspective:

• she was alone when tempted;
• she was Adam's wife, he ruled over her; (verse 20) her desire would be against her husband and his leadership;
• she was called the mother of all living; (What a responsibility!) verse 20
• her home was changed, had to move out of the royal Garden; (verse 23)
• made the first mistake, was the first one to sin; (verse 6) she gave birth to sin in the human race and genetically passes it on to all her children (MacArthur);
• sewed the first apron, from fig leaves; (verse 7)
• wore the first fur coat or wool sweater (verse 21)
• saw her husband having to work for his food for the first time.

LET IT GROW

Eve made some wrong choices-to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and to give it to her husband to eat. Her reputation lives on. She is only mentioned three other times in the Bible-Genesis 4:1, where she conceives Cain; 1 Corinthians 11:3 tells about her being deceived by the serpent; 1 Timothy 2:13 says Adam was first formed, then Eve.

What am I going to be known for after I leave this world? How about you, friend?
Will others talk about our walking by faith?

Sorrow, in verse 16 is used two times. They are translated from two different Hebrew words:
itstsabown, (its-tsaw-vone') means worrisomeness; labor or pain, toil; etseb (eh'tseb), means an earthen vessel, painful, toil, pang (whether of body or mind), labor. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Verse 16 in NIV says To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."

Isn't it painful to raise children? They hurt you, leave you, forget you as their mother; but a mother's love should never forsake her children. Are we faithful to pray for our children after they leave home?

LET IT GO

Don't yield to temptation, resist.

Submit to my husband and honor the Lord.

Love my husband and children.

Pray for them.
   



 
 

No change of Plans

O.T.15 "No Change of Plans"
April 1, 2013
Genesis 3-Part 1
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.  Genesis 2:16-17 KJV

LET IT GLOW

I'm always making plans and then sometimes I change my mind about them. Things like what's for supper, what I'm going to wear, where and when I'm going to go somewhere. Well, maybe I'm not alone. Somehow the old cliche' got started-It's a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
How it must frustrate the men in our lives. Maybe that's the way we were made. (giggle)

He could have changed His plans, you know. God knows everything, even our future. He knew what the old serpent would do to His perfect children (Adam and Eve) and what He would have to do because of it. Yet it all was allowed to happen, no change in plans-the temptations, the yieldings to sin, the provision for sin. Bring it on down to our day-our sins, our yieldings to sin, and the provision for our sins-the blood sacrifice of His only Son, Jesus Christ. However, He did not change a thing.

Here we are, the first man and the first woman, sinless, living in a perfect world, being confronted and yielding to the first temptation, and the first sin. Adam was told he could eat freely from every tree in the garden, except for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which would result in death.

You know how movies often show the ending first and then show what happened leading up to the end. Well, I'm doing that today. We have a good ending.
Skip to verse 21 and see how God provided for His children in sin-the blood sacrifice of animals, the shedding of blood is necessary to provide a covering for sin (Heb. 9:22). The animals' skins covered the fallen couple. There was a death-the animals. Thus, one day God would kill a substitute to redeem sinners-Jesus.

Do I take it seriously how Jesus provided for me, for my sins to be forgiven?

LET IT GROW

Shall we get down to the niddy griddy? We have four main characters in our story, which is a true story. Let's look at each one.

1. Serpent: 

• a manifestation of Satan, the Devil (Rev. 12:9, 14-15, 20:2) which had rebelled sometime after 1:31; (Ezekial 28 gives more detail);
• a fallen archangel, a supernatural spirit, who possessed the body of a snake;
• more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD had made; subtil means cunning (usually in a bad sense), crafty, prudent; Paul describes it in 2 Cor. 11:3,14;
• spoke to Eve; he was an enemy of God because animals could not speak;
• spoke a lie (John 8:44), saying she would not die if she ate the forbidden fruit;
• indicates that the path to knowledge is to bypass God's Word;
• received punishment from God-cursed above all cattle and every beast of the field; moves on its belly;
• Satan is the god of this world (2 Cor. 4:3-4), the prince of this world (John 16:11), the prince of the power of the air (Eph. 2:2), the ruler of the darkness of this world (Eph. 6:12), and the king of a kingdom (Matt. 12:26, 4:8-9). All will be destroyed in the end.

2. Eve, the woman:

• was alone, not where she belonged (stood by the forbidden tree);
• saw that the tree was good for food (lust of the flesh) see Gal.5:19-21);
• saw that the tree was pleasant, pleasing, and attractive to the eyes (lust of the eyes);
• There is the lust of the eyes after all kinds of evil, sex, pleasures and possessions, alcoholic drinks, and other gods.
• saw that the tree was desirable for gaining knowledge, experience, and wisdom (pride of life);
• was a stumbling block to Adam, not a helper;
• tried to hid from God, tried to cover up her sin, blamed the serpent for her sin;
• pain in childbearing;
• her desire would be to her husband, and he would rule over her;

3. Adam, the man:

• was told the rules and consequence-no eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, or else die;
• tried to hide from God;
• passed the blame of his sin onto the woman and God who made her;
• was held responsible for the family;
• had to work for his food, sent out of the Garden of Eden (the ground was cursed for his sake).

4. God

• keeps His Word;
• shows His goodness when disciplining His children;
• does not tempt us to sin (1 Cor. 10:13);
• provided a blood sacrifice and cover for His children; 
• would provide the particular seed (Jesus Christ) of woman to crush the tempter.(Gal 3:16)

We are born with a corruptible, sinful nature, and all have sinned (Rom. 3:23, 6:23).
There is no use in trying to hide from God nor denying our sins.
Because of His love for us, God became a man, a perfect sacrifice for our sins, and died so we can be acceptable to God for fellowship, by way of Jesus Christ. (John 3:16-17)

LET IT GO

Let go of my pride and admit my sins to God, asking His forgiveness.

Trust Jesus as my Savior and provision.

Resist the lust of the flesh and lust of the eyes.

Daily put on the armor of God (Gal. 6:13-15).