05-22-2024

1. Breathing in New Life:
Part 3
Genesis Chapter 2

2. Genesis chapter 2 gives us additional insights into the creation of the
world which we discussed in chapter 1. God's creation of our world
marks the beginning of time as we know it.
Characters:
- God - The Creator of the universe, earth, animals, man, and
woman.
- The First Man (Adam) - God created man from the dust of the
ground.
- The First Woman (Eve) - God created woman from a rib taken
from the man.

3. Where?
(2:8). No one knows for sure! Where God planted this
garden. Our best hint is the names of the 4 rivers.
Flowed from Eden: the Pishon(pEE-shawn), the
Gihon(gee-uhn), the Tigris, and the Euphrates (2:10-
14).

4. Why don’t we know where it is?
● We are banished
○ Genesis 3:23-24 NIV
“So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of
Eden to work the ground from which he had been
taken. After he drove the man out, he placed on the
east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a
flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the
way to the tree of life.”

5. Why don’t we know where it is?
● Noah's flood
○ The floods devastation on the earth
○ Movement of the sedimentary strata(Grand Canyon)
○ Tigris, and the Euphrates possibly renamed
○ Some people have different opinions on its
location(Turkey, Middle East, Nile River
○ None of these match exactly. Due to there were four
rivers. Which had come from one head.

7. DAY 7 (2:1-3):
● After finishing His creation in 6 days, God rested
on the 7th.
● God blessed the 7th day and made it holy.
● God set the example for us
● Guard your rest
● The prevention of Spiritual tiredness

8. THE CREATION OF MAN (2:4-7):
Chapter 2 gives us more details about how God created
men and women.
● Man was created from the dust of the ground. God gave
him a soul by breathing life into his nostrils.
● Genesis 3:19 “By the sweat of your brow you will eat
your food until you return to the ground, since from it
you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will
return.””

9. ● God formed every part of his creation with his word
● God formed us separate from the dust of the earth
● God gave Adam a soul by breathing Life into his
nostrils
● Ezekiel 37:1-14

10. The Valley of Dry Bones

11. Ezekiel 37:1-3 NIV
“The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out
by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a
valley; it was full of bones. He led me back and forth among
them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the
valley, bones that were very dry. He asked me, “Son of man,
can these bones live?” I said, “Sovereign Lord, you alone
know.””

12. Ezekiel 37:4-6 NIV
“Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to
them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! This is what
the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath
enter you, and you will come to life. I will attach tendons to
you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with
skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life.
Then you will know that I am the Lord.’ ””

13. Ezekiel 37:7-8 NIV
“So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was
prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the
bones came together, bone to bone. I looked, and tendons
and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but
there was no breath in them.”

14. Ezekiel 37:9-10 NIV
“Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son
of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:
Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these
slain, that they may live.’ ” So I prophesied as he
commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life
and stood up on their feet—a vast army.”

15. Ezekiel 37:11-14 NIV
“Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of
Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone;
we are cut off.’ Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what
the Sovereign Lord says: My people, I am going to open your
graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the
land of Israel. Then you, my people, will know that I am the
Lord, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. I
will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in
your own land. Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken,
and I have done it, declares the Lord.’ ””

16. ● They weren’t alive until God put breathe into the bones
● Reviving of the dry bones shows God’s plans for the
future of Israel
● Shows that Israeli just like ourselves must rely upon
God's power and not man
● That God would not just restore them physically but,
also Spiritually
● Fulfillment of prophecy when God re-gathers believing
Israelites to the land

17. THE GARDEN OF EDEN (2:8-17):
● God planted a garden in the east in Eden. Decided put man in
it.
● God caused all kinds of trees to grow in the garden.
● He put two special trees in the middle of the garden, the Tree
of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

18. ● Four rivers flowed out of Eden and watered the garden, the
Pishon, the Gihon,the Tigris, and the Euphrates.
● God told the man he could eat from every tree in the garden
except the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
○ Freedom of choice
○ Obedience to God, allowing Adam and Eve to physically in
God's presence Genesis (3:8)

19. THE CREATION OF WOMAN AND THE NAMING OF THE
ANIMALS (2:18-25):

20. ● God saw that the man was alone and decided he needed
a companion.
● All of the animals were brought to the man and he
named each of them. None of the animals were a
suitable companion for him.
○ After the work of naming the animals. Adam demonstrated to God
that the animals where under his care and responsibility
○ Gods command in Genesis 1:28, restated in 2:15, and Adam acting on
this mandate Genesis 2:19-20

21. ● So God caused the man to fall asleep, and while he slept
God took one of his ribs and formed a woman.

22. ● The woman was the perfect companion for the man.
○ Helper was not a demeaning
○ Just means one who helps
○ Both sex’s where created in Gods image
○ both are equal in terms of being offered salvation
and receiving eternal life and reward in God’s
Kingdom

23. ● God designed men and women to leave their parents
and to be joined to a companion as "one flesh."
○ Male and female the way God created it
○ Emotionally, spiritally, intellectually, financially,
and every other which way you become one
○ Physically proof of this is in your children
○ Mark 10:2-12 “divorce“

25. Mark 10:2-4
The Pharisees came and asked Him, “Is it lawful for a man
to divorce his wife?” testing Him. And He answered and
said to them, “What did Moses command you?” They said,
“Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce,
and to dismiss her.”

26. Mark 10:5-9
And Jesus answered and said to them, “Because of the hardness
of your heart he wrote you this precept. But from the beginning
of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’ ‘For this
reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to
his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’; so then they are no
longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined
together, let not man separate.”

27. Mark 10:10-12
In the house His disciples also asked Him again about the
same matter. So He said to them, “Whoever divorces his
wife and marries another commits adultery against her. And
if a woman divorces her husband and marries another, she
commits adultery.”

28. ● Jesus reminds us that divorce is sin
● Remarriage is adultery. Due to it is a betrayal of the
original marriage covenant
● God hate divorce because, of the damage that it causes

29. Genesis 2:25 NKJV ”And they were both
naked, the man and his wife, and were not
ashamed.“

30. ● The man and woman were naked in the garden and
they "were not ashamed."
○ innocents
○ no sin
○ no guilt

31. Closing…
Genesis chapter 3 digs deeper into understanding
the value that condition of innocence really is.