DID GOD ACTUALLY SAY?

There’s no way around it. This Sunday is going to be rough. Adam and Eve set in motion an event that altered the trajectory that God had offered to humanity. Perfection. Forever. Face-to-face fellowship with God in an indescribably beautiful and lush garden that provided everything anyone would ever need. But it wasn’t to be. Eve caved first. Then Adam. They believed the lie, succumbed to pride, and crossed the one boundary God had set. Sin entered. Death too. And that was that. You and I are suffering the consequences to this day. Every day. Now, the reason it will be rough is because there’s no way to avoid the hard message for us. We can’t blame Eve because we would have done the same had it been us. And we gladly give ourselves up to temptation and sin on a regular basis. Even those of us who have confessed our sin and found forgiveness in Christ. That’s the rough. We’re going to take a hard look at ourselves and see what still needs to be done to not abuse the grace of God. That is, to deal with the remaining sin in our lives. Best not listen if you’re not up for this. But I’d counsel you to listen anyway and let the Holy Spirit do his work in you.

Series: Genesis – The Things that are Revealed
Message: 6 – Did God actually say?
Text: Genesis 3:1-13
Todd Dugard
Harvest Bible Chapel
June 21, 2026

Sin against God happens when I…

…underestimate the power of temptation (v. 1a)

John 8:44

Matthew 16:23

Romans 16:20a

Revelation 12:9

…fail to grasp his Word (v. 1b-5)

Ephesians 6:11

Ephesians 6:17b

Psalm 119:11

…succumb to my own unbridled passions (v. 6)

…the desire for pleasure

…the desire for possessions

…the pride in having power

The way of rebellion puts immediate pleasure in front of possible consequences and sets our own perceptions of what is good for us against what God has told us about ourselves and his world.
– David J. Atkinson

…forfeit his goodness, choosing instead

…shame (v. 7)

…fear (v. 8-10)

…guilt (v. 11-13)

To gloss over the losses sustained in the fall of man and its reverberations would be to deny the cost of the rescue, the worth of our ransom, and the surpassing joy Christ saw that made him scorn the shame of the cross. And it would cause us to miss entirely what’s coming.
– Amy Baik Lee, This Homeward Ache

And God asks, “Where are you?” (v. 9)

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