God Always Has A Plan Series

• Adam was with her the entire time, and he did nothing!

• God punished Adam for being dumb and for not caring enough to stop Eve! He allowed his wife to sin without a peep, as a matter of fact, he partook of the fruit with her!

• Adam’s life was no longer going to be easy.

• Adam ushered in physical death for the human race as a result of his disobedience.

• We all die physically because of Adam, we die spiritually because of our own sin.

• When God told Adam in Genesis 2:17 to stay away from the tree, the Hebrew reads DYING YOU SHALL DIE.

• Adam and Eve did not drop dead the moment they ate, the process of death started.

• Here is where I want to go in verse 15 and 20-21

Genesis 3:15 CSB

15 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.

Genesis 3:20–21 CSB

20 The man named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all the living.

21 The LORD God made clothing from skins for the man and his wife, and he clothed them.

IV. God has a plan that offers deliverance.

• This situation is a mess which there seems to be no way out. Adam and Eve brought a curse to creation, they began the process of their own death as well as ushering in death to all.

• Childbirth was going to be more painful, the ground was going to be more difficult to harvest, the woman role in the home was changed, AND ON TOP OF IT ALL, THEY WERE GOING TO GET BOOTED FROM THE GARDEN!

• How is that for a day's work!

• Is all lost? No, there is hope because of the grace of God, God has a plan.

• Genesis 3:15!

Genesis 3:15 CSB

15 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.

› The great promise in Genesis 3:15 has long been known as the Protevangelium (the “first gospel”), promising the ultimate coming and victory of the Redeemer.

› It obviously entails far more than a trivial reference to the physical enmity between men and snakes, though this may be included as a sort of secondary pictorial parallel.

› The prophecy clearly looks forward to the time when Satan will be completely crushed beneath the feet of the woman’s triumphant Seed. Jesus! (The Genesis Record)

• God also made clothing for Adam and Eve by shedding blood of an animal to cover Adam and Eve.

• This is the first item we see that sins require the shedding of blood as an atonement.

CONCLUSION

• When all seems lost, God still has a plan.

• I do not think any of us has had a day as bad as Adam and Eve on that fateful day. God’s grace opened the door for hope, when you are at your lowest, God will offer you a way to salvation!

› Add to 2020 the fact that more Hall of Fame baseball players died that year than any other year in history (Lou Brock, Whitey Ford, Bob Gibson, Al Kaline, Joe Morgan, Tom Seaver, and Phil Niekro).

› Niekro died the day after Christmas at the age of 81 after a long battle with cancer.

› Tributes to the famed knuckleball pitcher recalled intriguing facts about his 24-season career that didn’t end until his retirement at 48. By his own admission, Niekro acknowledged, “I was a one-pitch pitcher.”