Topic: Immediate Consequences Of The Fall Of Man Part 6
Text : Gen 3: 17 – 19
And to the man he said, “Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat, the ground is cursed because of you. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it. It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains. By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return.”
Question 1- What actually formed the basis of God’s anger towards Adam?
1. Adam listened to his wife
2. Listening to his wife made him disobey God’s instructions to him.
Question 2 – Looking at the experience of Adam, At what point will it be wrong for a man to take the advice of his wife or listen to the advice of her husband?
At the point where the advice from either the husband or wife is in contradiction to the instructions of God. In order to maintain the peace of the home, such refusal should be done in the spirit of love.
Question 3 – Why did God curse the ground and not Adam himself?
The ground was the only source of food, provisions and income for the man and his family, so cursing the ground meant cursing the source of his earthly provisions. The garden of eden the man was to tend, was a representation of the ground that now has been cursed.
In addition the curse on both the man and the woman was on their responsibility/assignment. It was the woman’s responsibility to bring children into the world, while its the man’s responsibility to provide for the family. The two curses were in line with their given responsibilities.
The woman’s responsibility has to do with her physical body so the curse was direct on her. The man’s responsibility has to do with the ground so the ground was curse to become difficult for him.
Question 4 – So for us today as believers in Christ are we cursed or under any curse?
[NIV] Colossians 2:14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.
The death and resurrection of Christ free humans from any known or unknown curses, therefore in Christ we are all free.
Take Away
Every curse was a form of indebtedness to the devil but Christ through His death and resurrection paid in full the debt owed the devil by humans and equally satisfied the anger of God towards all humans. All that humans needs to do to be free of every curse/debt is to accept Christ, secondly understand what our new position in Christ offers and daily live in the reality of your discovery through the Holy Spirit.
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Last modified: May 22, 2017
