The Bible:
One Bite at a Time
Expository Sermon Series Notes
Genesis to The Revelation
Sid Galloway © 1999


 Genesis 3:1-24
"The Luciferic Lie:
You can be like God"
(An outline of the Fall)

Audio Tape # 16 - Feb 6, 2000         (Notes Updated ..... May 31, 2000)
(Some images are from http://www.answersingenesis.org , by permission)


Don't miss the pictures of my zoo days. The Lord willing, Creation Creature Features soon.


Review: (Gen 1:1-2:23) Days 1-6 See the notes on the Web

 Weekly Memory Verse - Genesis 3:1
"Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Has God indeed said, 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?"

 

An Outline of the Fall - Genesis 3
     (Exposition and Commentary in the weeks to follow)

I. The Serpent (Gen 3:1 a)
A. Who, What, When, Where ?
B. Why ?

II. The Seducer's First Ploy (Gen 3:1 b)
A. Question God's Word - Doubt
B. Twist God's Word -Distort

III. The Woman's Deception (Gen 3:2-3)
A. Dialogue with the Devil
B. Religious Rules Replace Relationship

IV. Denying God & His God's Word (Gen 3:4-5)
A. Denying Death: "You will not _____"
B. Denying Deity: "You will _____"
 1. The Cause and goal of all sin.
  2. The Search for Self-Deification.
  3. The Road Most Travelled.

V. Temptation in 3-D (Gen 3:6)
A. The Woman Deceived
B. The Man's Rebellion

VI. A Disordered Family Always Becomes Dysfunctional (Gen 3:7-8)
A. Sin Exposed by the fruit of decay (entropy - 2nd Law of Thermodynamics)

The rebellion of Adam (Gen 3) and the subsequent escalation of "entropy" (disorder, death, & decay - dysfunctional 2nd law of thermodynamics) is the reason for imperfections as well as the selfish competition, violence, pain, suffering, fear, and death we see in the "wild kingdom" now.  *  The second law of thermodynamics was functional before Adam sinned, such as in the process of digestion, chemical processes, etc., but death and disease were not.

B. Man's Religious Rituals Begin (Work added to faith FAILS)
C. The fruit of the flesh grows

VII. The Father's Parenting Principles: Raising Godly Children (Gen 3:9-19)
A. A Call to Examine the Heart (9) (Personal example - "Sid, where are you?")
B. The Blame Game (10-13)
  1. Man First
  2. Woman Second
C. Punishment with a Positive Purpose (14-19) A Corrective Curse: Terminal Entropy
 1. Mercy
  2. Grace
D. The First Prophecy (Gen 3:14-15)
  1. Seed Wars
  2. Prophetic Proofs for Apologetics

VIII. God the Father's Corrective Curse:
The Disease of Terminal Entropy (Gen 3:14-19)
A. Eve, the Mother of All Sinners
B. Covered both Body & Soul
C. Eternal Life Withheld

XI. The Tree of Life: Off Limits (Gen 20-24)
A. Eve, the Mother of All Sinners
B. Covered by the Blood
C. Eternal Life Withheld