Why Is Our World So Broken? (Chantilly Sermon)

Genesis 3:1-13 CSB – Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden. 3 But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.’”
4 “No! You will certainly not die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “In fact, God knows that when[a] you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 The woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze,[b] and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 So the Lord God called out to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”
10 And he said, “I heard you[c] in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”
11 Then he asked, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 The man replied, “The woman you gave to be with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate.”
13 So the Lord God asked the woman, “What have you done?”

Romans 8:22 all of creation groans in suffering….

Jeremiah 17:9 CSB – The heart is more deceitful than anything else, and incurable

1 Corinthians 15:22 CSB – For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

The Way to a Fall

Genesis 3:1 CSB – Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?”

Ephesians 6:12 CSB – For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this darkness, against evil, spiritual forces in the heavens.

Genesis 3:1 CSB – Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made

Genesis 3:1 CSB – “He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the knowledge in the garden?’”

Genesis 3:6 CSB – The woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it;

Four Steps to Ruin

Step 1: Desire

James 1:14 CSB – But each person is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by his own evil desire. 15 Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death.

Matthew 26:41 CSB – Stay awake and pray, so that you won’t enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Proverbs 4:23 CSB – Guard your heart above all else,
for it is the source of life.

Step 2: Doubt (and anger)

Genesis 3:1b CSB – He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?”

Genesis 3:2-3 CSB – The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden. 3 But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.’”

Step 3: Deny God’s Word

Genesis 3:4 CSB – “No! You will certainly not die,” the serpent said to the woman.

Step 4: Twist God’s Word

Genesis 3:5 CSB – “In fact, God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

John 8:44b CSB – [Satan] was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Genesis 3:6 CSB – The woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it;

The Fall

Genesis 3:6 CSB – The woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it….

Philippians 4:8 CSB – whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable—if there is any moral excellence and if there is anything praiseworthy—dwell on these things.

Genesis 3:7 CSB – he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

Genesis 3:8 CSB – Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

James 3:16 CSB – …confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed.

Genesis 3:9 CSB – So the Lord God called out to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”

Genesis 3:10 CSB – And he said, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”

Genesis 3:11 CSB – Then he asked, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

Genesis 3:12 CSB – The man replied, “The woman you gave to be with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate.”

Genesis 3:13 CSB – So the Lord God asked the woman, “What have you done?”
And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

Genesis 3:16 CSB – I will intensify your labor pains;
you will bear children with painful effort.
Your desire will be for your husband,
yet he will rule over you.

1 Corinthians 15:22 CSB – As in Adam, all die. So in Christ shall all be made alive.

Genesis 3:15 CSB – I will put hostility between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring.
He will strike your head,
and you will strike his heel.

Redemption

Romans 3:10,23 CSB – There is no one righteous, not even one.
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God;

1 Corinthians 15:22 CSB – As in Adam, all die.

Genesis 3:15 CSB – He will strike your head,
and you will strike his heel.

John 3:16 CSB – For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

Isaiah 53:4-5 CSB – Yet he himself bore our sicknesses,
and he carried our pains….

He was pierced because of our rebellion,
crushed because of our iniquities;
punishment for our peace was on him,
and we are healed by his wounds.

Romans 3:22,24 CSB – The righteousness of God is through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe

Romans 8:1 CSB – there is now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus….

2 Corinthians 5:17 CSB – Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 CSB – Therefore we do not give up. Even though our outer person is being destroyed, our inner person is being renewed day by day. 17 For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory. 18 So we do not focus on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.