Genesis 3-5

3:1 The serpent was a creature (creeping animal).  That means he was under man's authority.

He suggested to the woman to doubt God's goodness.

3:2 In youth group we're going to talk about what Eve's response SHOULD have been - perhaps she should have said "Hey God, the serpent is trying to say you're not good, is that true?" Instead she answers in her own (already deceived) strength.

3:3 And she adds to what God said to them.

3:4 Serpent directly calls God a liar.

3:6 Woman takes the bait.  Adam was with her.  This is a big point.  That means that he had failed to do his job (of protecting) by standing by and watching this interchange between the serpent and the woman without doing anything.He also obeyed the serpent, so he failed to do his job (protect) and he abdicated his authority and dominion to someone who he was over, by obeying them.  He had been the one in charge.  His obeying the serpent made the serpent the de facto ruler.

3:7 The first consequences of their sin.  They felt ashamed at their nakedness.

3:9-11 God's interchange is first with Adam.  he's the one who should be in charge.

3:12 Man blames woman, whom he should have been protecting.

3:13 Woman blames serpent, who was under her authority, not the other way around.

3:14 The serpent gets the first consequences from God.

1 - he's cursed

2 - he has to crawl on the ground (I wonder how he moved before?)

3 - women will hate snakes

4 - serpents head will be crushed by woman's seed (who's heel is injured in the process)

3:16 Woman's consequences from God.

1 - increased pain in childbirth - her call to multiply and fill the earth is now much more difficult.

2 - she desired to rule over her husband - something she had done when giving the fruit to Adam.

3:17 Adam's consequences from God.

1 - his call to tend the garden is much more difficult - the ground is cursed.

2 - he will die.

In our youth group we'll notice that God didn't take away the tasks He had given them.

3:20 Adam names the woman Eve.  This is beautiful - God just handed them consequences, difficult ones, ending with death.  Adam shows that he gets God's plan of saving them from death through the seed of the woman, by naming his wife "the mother of all the living" instead of "the mother of the dying".

3:21 God rejects the fig leaf clothing they made for themselves.  He clothes them with animal skin.  Note that the first animal death (sacrifice) came just after the first sin.

3:24 Before people have access to the tree of life, they now have to first go through death.

4:1  They have a child, it's the hope that he will be the one to conquer the serpent.

4:5 Cain knew what was wrong with his offering (the Bible doesn't tell us), but he sulks because he's called out for it.

4:7 God gives Cain the opportunity to repent and get right.  Cain doesn't take it.

4:9 Cain still doesn't repent.

4:11 Cain was a worker of the ground, so the ground was cursed for him.

4:17 Instead of working the ground, Cain built a city, and named it after his son (Enoch - not the same Enoch that was in the line of Seth later)

4:24 Lamech takes Cains curse and makes it a boast.

4:25 Another son for Adam and Eve - their hope can be renewed.

5:21 Enoch, descended from Seth, is the one who walks with God.  (Enoch descended from Cain has a city named after him.)

5:26 Seth also had a Lamech in his line.  This one was the grandfather of Noah.  Here's some math, because I find this interesting:

Adam had Seth at 130.

Seth had Enosh at 105, so Adam was 235

Enosh had Kenan at 90, so Adam was 325

Kenan had Mahalel at 70, so Adam was 395

Mahalalel was 65 when Jared was born, so Adam was 460

Jared had Enoch at 162, so Adam was 622.

Enoch had Methuselah at 65 so Adam was 687

Methuselah had Lamech at 187, so Adam was 874

Lamech had Noah at 182, so 1056 after Adam was created.  Adam lived to be 930.  So Adam lived at the same time as Noah's father, but not at the same time as Noah.