The Sad Story Of Sin - RSV

1. What God Made at Creation was Very Good.

Genesis 1:31 And God saw __________________ that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was ____________, a sixth day.

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

Genesis 2:8-9 And the LORD God ____________ a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed. [9] And out of the __________ the LORD God made to grow every tree that is ______________ to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, 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 till it and keep it. [16] And the LORD God commanded the man, __________, "You may __________ eat of _________ tree of the garden; [17] but of the tree of the ________________ of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die."

Genesis 2:18 Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man __________ be alone; I will make him a __________ fit for him."

Genesis 2:21-23 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and __________ up its place with flesh; [22] and the rib _________ the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. [23] Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my _________ and flesh of my flesh; she _________ be __________ Woman, because 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 other wild ______________ that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God say, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden'?" [2] And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; [3] but God said, 'You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree which is in the _________ of the garden, ____________ shall you _________ it, lest you 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 But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not die. [5] For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, ____________ good and evil." [6] So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a ____________ to the eyes, and that the tree was to be ____________ to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her ____________, and he ate. [7] Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves ______________ and made __________________ aprons.

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 And they heard the sound of the LORD God ____________ in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the ______________ of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. [9] But the LORD God __________ to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?" [10] And he said, "I heard the sound of thee in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid __________." [11] He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I ________________ you not to eat?" [12] The man said, "The _________ whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me _________ of the tree, and I ate."

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

Genesis 3:13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this that 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 The LORD God said to the ____________, "____________ you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above all wild ____________; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. [15] I will put __________ between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel."

8. God Pronounces Judgment on Eve.

Genesis 3:16 To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in _____________________; in pain you shall bring forth ______________, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you."

9. God Pronounces Judgment on Adam.

Genesis 3:17-19 And to Adam he said, "Because you have ______________ to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree of which I ________________ you, 'You shall not eat of it,' __________ is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life; [18] __________ and ______________ it shall bring forth to you; and you shall eat the __________ of the field. [19] In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

10. God Made Clothes for Adam and Eve.

Genesis 3:21 And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife ______________ of skins, and ____________ them.

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

Genesis 3:22-24 Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, ____________ good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever" -- [23] ________________ the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. [24] He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden he __________ the ______________, and a ____________ sword which __________ every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

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