Thorns And Thistles And Eat The Herb

I. EXORDIUM:

Are you cursed?

No, but the ground is, so the plant that I eat will be blessed if I pray for it with thanksgiving in my heart.

1 Timothy 4:4-5 (Amplified Bible)

For everything God has created is good, and nothing is to be thrown away or refused if it is received with thanksgiving.

For it is hallowed and consecrated by the Word of God and by prayer.

II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:

Believers/unbelievers

III. OBJECTIVES:

To show that GOD never intended us to be cursed that's why He sacrificed the ground on our behalf and now advises us to eat plant, grass or herb as our food.

IV. TEXT:

Genesis 3:18 (Amplified Bible)

Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field.

V. THESIS:

Praise, worship, glorify, adore, bless, honor, acknowledge and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You are pleased in the prosperity of Your servants and in everything we do, we do it for Your Name alone.

1 Corinthians 10:31 (Amplified Bible)

So then, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you may do, do all for the honor and glory of God.

Colossians 3:23 (Amplified Bible)

Whatever may be your task, work at it heartily (from the soul), as [something done] for the Lord and not for men,

VI. TITLE:

Thorns and thistles and eat the herb

VII. EXPLICATION:

A. Author: Moses

B. Date written: 1450 - 1410 B.C.

C. Purpose: Book of Origins

D. To whom written: People of Israel

E. Main theme: Man's sin and initial steps for his redemption initiated by GOD.

F. Keyword: Beginning

G. Key verse: First Messianic Promise -

Genesis 3:15 (Amplified Bible)

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her Offspring; He will bruise and tread your head underfoot, and you will lie in wait and bruise His heel.

VIII. MAIN BODY:

Genesis 3:18 (Amplified Bible)

Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field.

Genesis 3:18 (New King James Version)

Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, And you shall eat the herb of the field.

A. The ground will yield thorns and thistles for the husband

"Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth for you,"

Thorns or "" in the Hebrew language meaning:

What are thorns in this life that we will encounter and experience?

1. Unbelievers

2 Samuel 23:6 (Amplified Bible)

But wicked, godless, and worthless lives are all like thorns to be thrust away, because they cannot be taken with the hand.

Psalms 118:12 (Amplified Bible)

They swarmed about me like bees, they blaze up and are extinguished like a fire of thorns; in the name of the Lord I will cut them off!

Deuteronomy 1:44 (Amplified Bible)

Then the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do and struck you down in Seir as far as Hormah.

2. We ourselves are thorns for other people. That's why we need to be changed from within. We need a new heart from the LORD GOD.

Jeremiah 4:3 (Amplified Bible)

For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Break up your ground left uncultivated for a season, so that you may not sow among thorns.

Isaiah 32:13-15 (Amplified Bible)

For the land of my people growing over with thorns and briers—yes, for all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

For the palace shall be forsaken, the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and the watchtower shall become dens [for wild animals] endlessly, a joy for wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks,

Until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is valued as a forest.

Ezekiel 36:26 (Amplified Bible)

A new heart will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

3. idols - things, people, events that will stand in the way of GOD and us.

Hosea 10:8 (Amplified Bible)

The high places also of Aven [once Beth(el), house of God, now (Beth-)aven, house of idolatry], the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed; the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their [idol] altars, and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us! And to the hills, Fall on us!

that's why wealth, fame, riches, work/careers and position are called thorns because they prevent you to worship GOD.

Matthew 13:7 (Amplified Bible)

Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them out.

Matthew 13:22 (Amplified Bible)