Genesis 3:20-24 – Cameron Jungels - Sun PM. Feb. 2, 2014

“Dressed In His Righteousness” - Genesis 3:20-24 –

(Eastside Baptist/Sun PM/Feb. 2, 2014)

Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living. The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever." 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. (Gen. 3:20–24, NIV)

1. Adam responds with faith to the doom of the curse.

Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living. (Gen. 3:20, NIV)

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." (Gen. 3:19, NIV)

2. God’s grace covers what human effort cannot.

The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. (Gen. 3:21, NIV)

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-- and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God--not by works, so that no one can boast. (Eph. 2:8-9, NIV)

And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever." 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. (Gen. 3:22–24, NIV)

3. God graciously prevents the extension of sin-cursed life.

Main Idea: God is the only one who can provide a covering for the guilt of our sin.