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1. The Garden
of Eden
07
KNOWING

2. - Where does man lives?
- What did he eat?
- Could man eat the fruit of any tree?

3. - Why did God allow a forbidden tree in the garden?- Why did God allow a forbidden tree in the garden?
- What happened?
Genesis 3:1Genesis 3:1

4. Genesis 3:1Genesis 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’?”

5. - Who was the serpent??
- Why does the serpent talks??
- Who started the conversation??

6. - Is being cunning evil in itself??
- Were not other animals also cunning??
- Is there any sin or evil yet??
2 Corinthians 11:3

7. 2 Corinthians 11:3
But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve
by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted
from the simplicity that is in Christ.

8. - If it deceives, what
type of cunning is it?
- What type of question
does the serpent makes?
- What was the intention?
to confuse?
- Who is the only one that
has questioned God?
- Who was the serpent?
Revelations 12:9

9. Revelations 12:9
So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old,
called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole
world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were
cast out with him.

10. - How did God call Lucifer after he was cast out of heaven?
- What are the angels made of?
- Do spirits can be seen?
- Do they need a body to
manifest themselves?
- Why did Lucifer
possessed an animal?
- Does the animals
have personality?

11. - How did Satan know what God has said?
- Was he in Eden as Lucifer when
God was commanding them?
- What did the woman answers?
Genesis 3:2-3

12. Genesis 3:2-3
And the woman said to the serpent, “We may
eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of
the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of
the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it,
nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’”

13. - Did God said not to touch the tree?
- Who told Eve? - Adam or God?
- Why did she add to God’s word?
- Was there any fear?
- Was anything wrong?
- Is there sin yet?
- What happened then?
Genesis 3:4-5

14. Genesis 3:4-5
Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not
surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it
your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God,
knowing good and evil.”

15. - What did God say?
- What did the serpent say?
- What is the serpent implying with this statement?
- Did God lie?

16. - What is Satan doing?
- Is he trading?
- Is he conspiring against God?
- What was Eve reaction?
Genesis 3:6

17. Genesis 3:6
So when the woman saw that the tree was good for
food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree
desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and
ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he
ate.

18. - How was the desire born in Eve?
- What did she see new on this tree?
- Did God make the tree pleasant?
- Who made it desirable?
- What happens when we take our eyes from God?
- Where was Adam? - Was he there watching?
- When did she give him of the fruit?
- Was Adam deceived too?
1 Timothy 2:14

19. 1 Timothy 2:14
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being
deceived, fell into transgression.

20. - Why did Eve eat from the
fruit forbidden by God?
- Was she deceived into believing
she could be like God?
- Why did Adam eat?
- Was he pleasing his wife?
- Did he eat willingly?
Romans 5:12

21. Romans 5:12Romans 5:12
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the
world, and death through sin, and thus death spread
to all men, because all sinned

22. - How did sin enter the world?
- Who was the command given to?
- Eve or Adam?
- Whose responsibility is it?
- Is there any hope for mankind?
1 Corinthians 15:21-22

23. 1 Corinthians 15:21-22
For since by man came death, by Man also came
the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die,
even so in Christ all shall be made alive.

24. - What happened then?
Genesis 3:7

25. Genesis 3:7
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they
knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig
leaves together and made themselves coverings.

26. - Did Adam and Eve fall dead?
- What does death means?
- Is a branch detached from a tree dead?
- Does it look dead at the time it is cut off?

27. - How does the branch
looks after a week?
- Will we die if we are detached from God’s presence?
- How long can we live without God?
John 15:5

28. John 15:5
“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who
abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for
without Me you can do nothing.

29. - What does it mean for their eyes to be opened?
- Were they blind?
- Did they have any clothing before eating the fruit?
- Were they ashamed of their nakedness before?

30. - What do they start to see?
- What is the first thing they do?
- What need do they want to
cover in their new state?
- Why are they now concerned
with their image?
Genesis 3:8

31. Genesis 3:8
And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking
in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and
his wife hid themselves from the presence of the
LORD God among the trees of the garden.

32. - If they were dead,
how could they
hear God?
- Why did they hide
from the presence
of God?
- Can we hide from God?
- Did God know already what had happened?
Genesis 3:9

33. Genesis 3:9
Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to
him, “Where are you?”

34. - Was God looking for
Adam geographically?
or
- Was God concerned
with their relationship?
- Was God angry?
- Was He complaining?
- What does God
wants with man?

35. - Who is looking first?
- Why was Adam
hiding from Him?
- Could Adam had ask
to be forgiven?
- Why he didn’t do it?

36. WHAT DID WE LEARN TODAY?
- We shall not add to the word of God.
- The woman was deceived by Lucifer, not man.
- We have not believe God in what He has said.
- The knowledge of good and evil has made us self-conscious.
- Death is our separation from God.
- The shame for our disobedience makes us hide from God.
- God was not angry with them,
but concerned about their relationship.
- Our desire and reason cannot overrule
our trust in a loving God.
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