The Sad Story Of Sin - NIV

1. What God Made at Creation was Very Good.

Genesis 1:31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was ____________, and there was morning--the _________ day.

2. God Planted a Garden and Placed the Man and Woman There to Live and Keep it.

Genesis 2:8-9 Now the LORD God had ____________ a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. [9] And the LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground--trees that were ______________ to the eye and good for food. In the __________ of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the ________________ of good and evil.

Genesis 2:15-17 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. [16] And the LORD God ________________ the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; [17] but you must not eat from the tree of the ________________ of good and evil, for when you eat of it you _______ __________ die."

Genesis 2:18 The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a __________ ______________ for him."

Genesis 2:21-23 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was ______________, he took one of the man's ribs and __________ up the place with flesh. [22] Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. [23] The man said, "This is now bone of my _________ and flesh of my flesh; she _________ be __________ 'woman, ' for she was taken out of man."

The man and woman were told they could eat from every tree freely, Except for one tree. Which tree was that? _____________________________________________.

3. The Serpent was Used by Satan to Talk with Eve When She Came near the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Genesis 3:1-3 Now the serpent was more __________ than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God __________ say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?" [2] The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the _________ in the garden, [3] but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the __________ of the garden, and you must not _________ it, or you will die.' "

4. Satan, Speaking through the Serpent, Convinced Eve to Try the Fruit from the Tree That God Had Told Her Not to Eat from.

Genesis 3:4-7 "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. [5] "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." [6] When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and ______________ to the eye, and also ________________ for gaining wisdom, she took some 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 ______________ they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves ______________ and made ________________ for __________________.

No one made Eve take the fruit. She became convinced that what God had said might not be true.

Here we see two great untruths that are taught today, even in some churches:
1) You will not die.
2) You will become like God.

5. After Adam and Eve Ate the Forbidden Fruit, God Came Looking for Them.

Genesis 3:8-12 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was ____________ in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. [9] But the LORD God __________ to the man, "Where are you?" [10] He ______________, "I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid ____________ I was naked; so I hid." [11] And he said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I ________________ you not to eat from?" [12] The man said, "The _________ you put here with me--she gave me some _________ from the tree, and I ate it."

6. God Asked Eve If She Had Picked the Fruit.

Genesis 3:13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The ____________ ______________ me, and I ate."

Notice that Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed the serpent.

7. God Pronounces Judgment on the Serpent.

Genesis 3:14-15 So the LORD God said to the serpent, "____________ you have done this, "Cursed are you above all the ________________ and all the wild ____________! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. [15] And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your ________________ and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."

8. God Pronounces Judgment on Eve.

Genesis 3:16 To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pains in _____________________; with pain you will give birth to ______________. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."

9. God Pronounces Judgment on Adam.

Genesis 3:17-19 To Adam he said, "Because you ______________ to your wife and ate from the tree about which I ________________ you, 'You must not eat of it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through ____________ toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. [18] It will ____________ thorns and ______________ for you, and you will eat the __________ of the field. [19] By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."

10. God Made Clothes for Adam and Eve.

Genesis 3:21 The LORD God made ______________ of skin for Adam and his wife and ____________ them.

11. God Sends Adam and Eve Out of the Beautiful Garden of Eden.

Genesis 3:22-24 And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, ____________ good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live ____________." [23] So the LORD God ______________ him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. [24] After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden ______________ and a ____________ sword ______________ back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

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