Fellow BPers, I need your assistance. I have to write a sermon for my Genesis class on Genesis 3:1-7 keeping in mind the Church today (make sure to apply the text to their lives, considering the revelation of Jesus Christ). I haven't written a sermon or a homiletical outline before and am seeking your assistance.
I have thought about doing a sermon on temptation and supplementing the Genesis text with James 1:13-16.
What is the proper way to expound this text?
God Bless!
Added text:
[The Fall]
[3:1]*Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made.
He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You[f1] shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” [2]*And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, [3]*but God said, [v]‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” [4]*[w]But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. [5]*For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” [6]*So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise,[f2] she took of its fruit [x]and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, [y]and he ate. [7]*[z]Then the eyes of both were opened, [a]and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.
(Genesis 3:1-7 ESV)
[Cross References]
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Matt. 10:16; 2 Cor. 11:3; Rev. 12:9; 20:2
[v] ch. 2:17
[w] ver. 13; John 8:44; [2 Cor. 11:3]
[x] 1 Tim. 2:14
[y] ver. 12, 17; Hos. 6:7
[z] ver. 5
[a] ch. 2:25
[Footnotes]
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[1] 3:1 In Hebrew you is plural in verses 1–5
[2] 3:6 Or to give insight
I have thought about doing a sermon on temptation and supplementing the Genesis text with James 1:13-16.
What is the proper way to expound this text?
God Bless!
Added text:
[The Fall]
[3:1]*Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made.
He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You[f1] shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” [2]*And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, [3]*but God said, [v]‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” [4]*[w]But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. [5]*For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” [6]*So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise,[f2] she took of its fruit [x]and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, [y]and he ate. [7]*[z]Then the eyes of both were opened, [a]and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.
(Genesis 3:1-7 ESV)
[Cross References]
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Matt. 10:16; 2 Cor. 11:3; Rev. 12:9; 20:2
[v] ch. 2:17
[w] ver. 13; John 8:44; [2 Cor. 11:3]
[x] 1 Tim. 2:14
[y] ver. 12, 17; Hos. 6:7
[z] ver. 5
[a] ch. 2:25
[Footnotes]
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[1] 3:1 In Hebrew you is plural in verses 1–5
[2] 3:6 Or to give insight