And the man answered, “The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
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… Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat? The man said, the woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate. Then the Lord God said to the woman, what is this that you have done? The woman said, the serpent deceived me, and I ate. The Lord God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, Cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field. On your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel. To the woman, God said, I will surely multiply your pain and childbearing. In pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you. And to Adam, God said, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded, you shall not eat of it. …
And the man said to the woman, the man said, the woman whom you gave to me with me, she gave me of the tree and I ate. Your fault, God. the Lord said to the woman what is this you have done the woman said the serpent deceived me and I ate so the Lord God said to the serpent because you have done this you are cursed more than any cattle and more than every beast of the field on your belly you shall go and you shall eat dust all the days of your life and I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed he shall bruise your head and that doesn't mean bruise like cute little bruise Hebrew word literally means a gaping hole crush your head gaping Thank you. and you shall bruise his heel. He won't leave unpierced. and you will not leave undefeated. I want to talk today, I want to kick this series off today from this subject, This Means War. …
… that you should not eat? Then the man said, the woman, here you go. Instead of him saying, yes, Lord, I did it. Please forgive me. I think God would have forgiven them and you and I right now would have been in paradise. But nope, you know, God, it's your fault. You gave me that faulty woman. the woman whom you gave me to be with me she gave me the tree gave me uh of the tree and I ate and the Lord God said to the woman what is this that you've done and the woman said that serpent deceived me and I ate so the Lord God said to the serpent I mean just down the line because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle and more than every beast of the field on your belly you shall go, which is interesting, which meant previously on its belly, it did not go. so this whatever the serpent was it didn't it didn't exist on its belly the curse put it on its belly wow and so on your belly you shall go and you shall eat dust all the days of your life and I will put enmity, there's that verse, between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed, he shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel. …
… of those things were there before this and then they immediately experienced conflict in their relationship with each other listen to genesis chapter 3 verse 12 adam starts blaming eve the woman whom you gave to be with me she gave me the fruit of the tree and i ate the chapter goes on to describe them clashing with each other. That's the word that we see in the Hebrew there. They're contrary to each other. And then by the next chapter, we see murder introduced into the world that is now wrought with evil, suffering, chaos, and death. Do you see this? The core of all conflict we experience in this world comes back to conflict we have chosen with God. You might say, wait, wait, we? This is Adam and Eve's story. No, this is our story. Every single one of us has had the audacity to look God in the face and say, either I'm going to live like you're not even there like you don't even exist or I'm going to live like I know better than you what's best for my life either way I'm choosing my way We've all chosen conflict with our creator in ways that lead to all kinds of efforts to try to fix ourselves and overcome the conflict we feel inside us in ways that lead to conflict with others and conflict in the world. …
… And the woman said to the serpent, we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden from Trader Joe's, 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 open 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 desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and she ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were open and they realized they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to them, where are you? And he answered, I heard you in the garden and I was afraid because I'm naked. So I hid. And he said, who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from? And the man said, the woman you put here …
… Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat? And the man said, the woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me from the tree and I ate. And the Lord God said to the woman, what is this you have done? And the woman said, the serpent deceived me and I ate. And the Lord God said to the serpent and he didn't say anything. You know why? Because there wasn't anything to say. He knew exactly where he was and he knew exactly what was going on and what was happening. And so there wasn't any point in him making any excuse about what was going on. And so I want us to look at this passage and deal with something that all of us have to deal with. Because the truth is all of us at times are prone to blame someone else for our circumstances. Or blame someone else for something that they've said or something that they've done. …