Genesis 2

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Series: Genesis
Date: 2023-10-08
Scripture: Genesis 2:4-25
Additional file: Sermon Notes

Genesis 2:10-14 (NKJV)

10 Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads.

11 The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

12 And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and the onyx stone are there.

13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush.

14 The name of the third river is Hiddekel; it is the one which goes toward the east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

 

Sermon Notes:

  1. 1  Genesis Chapter 2 gives us extra details that God wanted us to know about creation. Don’t worry about what you don’t know. God didn’t intend for you to know it.

  2. 2  After creation, the earth was watered by mists of evaporation and condensation. There was no rain until the Flood.

  1. 3  We must always remember our lives are just a vapor. They are a mist. We were made from lowly dust and to dust we will return. Yet, we were made in “God’s Image.”

  2. 4  God put man in “Eden”, meaning “delight.” He commanded man to eat from all the trees, but not from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

  3. 5  We will learn that man’s disobedience revolved around man making up his own rules instead of following God’s rules. When Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden tree, they “experientially knew evil” in that they had disobeyed God.

  4. 6  Modern satellite imagery may give us an idea of where Eden was. The images follow the biblical text precisely.

  5. 7  Work is not a curse. God put man in the garden to “tend it” before the fall of man.

  6. 8  Eve was “comparable” to Adam, and she was equal to him. She was made from “his side,” and being at her husband’s side is a wonderful place for a woman.

  7. 9  Before a man takes a wife, he needs to have a plan for a home and a job, and he must cut the apron strings. That’s God’s way!