Speaker: Pastor Neil Lindwall

ESV Genesis 1:26-28 & 31 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 And God blessed them. 31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

THE FIRM FOUNDATIONS FOUND IN GENESIS 1 – 3:  

1. Theology Proper (The Doctrine of God)• The Creator-Creature Distinction: 

• Sovereign Omnipotence: 

• The Trinity: 

• Supreme Goodness: 

2. Anthropology (The Doctrine of Humanity)

• The Imago Dei: 

• Gender and Sexuality: 

• Human Stewardship

• The Doctrine of Marriage

3. Bibliology (The Doctrine of Revelation and Truth)

• The Authority of God’s Word

• Clarity of Divine Command

4. Hamartiology (The Doctrine of Sin)

• The Origin of Evil

• The Nature of Sin: 

• Depravity: 

5. Angelology (The Doctrine of Spiritual Realms)

• The Reality of a Cosmic Adversary: 

• The Strategy of Temptation: 

6. Soteriology (The Doctrine of Salvation)

• The Protoevangelium: 

• Substitutionary Atonement

• Sovereign Grace

7. Eschatology (The Doctrine of Last Things

• The Cosmic Curse: 

ESV Genesis 2:5-9 When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, 6 and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground— 7 then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. 8 And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

ESV Genesis 2:15-17 The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

ESV Genesis 3:1a Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.

ESV Genesis 3:1b-7 He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” 2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, 3 but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” 4 But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.

What Was Lost

• Unhindered Loving Relationship With Each Other. – Now Shame.

• Unhindered Loving Relationship With God. – Now Hiding & Blaming.

• Unhindered Blessings From God. – Now Fallen & Cursed.

• Unhindered Joy In Their Purpose On Earth. – Now Sweat, Tears & Pain.

• Everlasting Life With God & Each Other. – Now Death & Eternal Separation.

Snake Oil Tactics:  

“Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” 

But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.

The SNAKE OIL of DOUBT & DISBELIEF

DON’T FALL FOR IT!!!  

THE ANTIDOTE: TRUST & FAITH.  

But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, 

The SNAKE OIL of PRIDE & REBELLION.  

DON’T FALL FOR IT!!!  

ANTIDOTE: HUMILITY & OBEDIENCE.

CHOOSE TO: TRUST GOD & BELIEVE HIS WORD!

CHOOSE TO: DENY THE LIES & SLAY YOUR PRIDE! 

CHOOSE TO: HUMBLE YOURSELF BEFORE GOD & OBEY HIS WILL!