Video Transcript: The Fall of Humanity in Genesis 3

Hi, I'm Henry Reyenga. And welcome back to ministering with victory over sexual sin. So last  time, we talked about how God created male and female, and he said be fruitful and multiply  and subdue the earth and put God put Adam and Eve in a garden than it was pleasurable to  create and to work and it was pleasurable to eat it, it was pleasurable to have sexual union in  that beautiful garden. Well, today we're gonna talk about the fall of humanity, and how that  changed everything in it had a huge effect on us. Satan goes after the dopamine response, I  just want to have you think about that, before we get into the passage, the dopamine  response. So deep inside of us, there was a pleasurable response that goes back to the pre  fall state with Adam and Eve. And in our brain, God created it so that this dopamine release  was something that we found pleasure in, we found pleasure in life. And when God created a  living being, you know, body, and spirit, so soul, body, and spirit, all of it was biologically and  spiritually connected. Just amazing. If we can go back and study the pre fall human, and see  how all of it was connected, I think there would be dissertation of dissertation about what that would have looked like. So I'm going to read the story of the fall from Genesis three and you  and you'll, you may have a different Bible translation here. But here we go. Now the serpent  was more cunning than any of the beasts 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. 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, nor shall you  touch it, lest you die. 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 open, and you'll be like God, knowing  good and evil. Now, notice just some things going on here you see, eating, the pleasure of  eating, and Satan bringing up this problem well, are is God prohibiting the pleasure of eating,  now, no, we can eat all the trees, but there's one tray not okay, and then bringing up then the serpent says of the woman, You will not surely die for God knows and the day you eat of it,  your eyes will be open and you'll be like God knowing good and evil. It is God prohibiting one  tree from you that is more pleasurable, you will know good and evil in the joy of knowing good and evil, the pleasure you have and in naming the animals and all that, but even holding one  pleasure, the knowledge of good and evil. So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food pleasurable and it was pleasant to the eyes it looked good too. Is a treat desirable? Oh,  here we go some endorphins to make one wise to even do our work better. This work of  subduing the whole planet and developing the whole planet be smarter and wiser in it as it  she took its fruit and ate and also gave to her husband with her and he ate and that is  interesting. Her husband with her. Her partner's there. There's a oneness that they share that  was created in the pre fall humanity than the eyes have both of them are opened. And they  knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves  coverings. So immediately, when they rebelled against God, separating themselves, that  intimacy was already affected that which was pleasurable, and without shame. Now  somehow, shame and, and separation and nakedness was created, the eyes of both of them  were opened, and they knew they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together and made  for themselves coverings. And they heard the sound of the Lord God in the Garden and the  cool the day. And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God,  among the trees of the garden. So now what occurred is the result of the fall in you know, I  thought about that for years, like, what was this the next day? You know, and I've speculated,  and so yes, it could be the next day, well, what if it was 10 years? In their real time? You  know, what, what if, when they fell into sin, they went whole hog, at first into this fallen state,  to know knowledge of good and evil and, and who knows? If that was the next day, or if it was a long period time we're going to know someday in heaven. But in my mind, I imagine that,  that when the Lord shows up there some time and they actually have reveled for a while in  the Fallen knowledge of good and evil that they have experience with this knowledge of good  and evil. And the reason I feel that's in the text is what happens next. They hid themselves.  And I believe that that hiding is because they reflected and they didn't, they were angry at  God. Like they were in their fallen state. Maybe they felt God was to blame for this. And in  fact, that's what we read. The LORD God called Adam and Eve, where are you notice he did  not just judge them. He just asked them, Where are you? So he said, so he said, I heard your 

voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, and I hid myself. And he said, Who  told you that you are naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, you  should not eat. Then the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me  of the tree and I ate. And the Lord God said to the woman, what is this you have done? The  woman said, The serpent to deceived me and I ate. So the Lord God said to the serpent,  Because you have done this, now, I find that interesting, too, is, why was the serpent there  was he hanging around with them, and in helping them invent evil and, and yet the pleasure  at first felt pleasurable, and then all of a sudden, something was wrong, but his company is  still hanging out with them. Because of what you have done this, you are cursed among all  the cattle, and more than every beasts of the field, and on your belly, you should go and you  shall eat dust and all the days of your life, now put entity between you and the woman, and  between your seed and her seed, and he shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel.  To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply your sorrow and, and your conception in pain you shall bring forth children and your desire shall be for your husband, and he will shall rule over  you. And then to add to me said, because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and, and  have eaten from the tree which I commanded you saying, You shall not eat of it. Curse that is  the ground for your sake, in the toil shall you eat a bit all the days of your life, both thorns and thistles shall bring forth to you, and he shall eat them. You shall eat their herb herbs of the  field, in the sweat of your face, you shall eat bread, till you turn to the ground, for out of it you are taken for dust you are from dust you shall return. And Adam called his wife Eve because  she was the mother of all of living. And then it goes on to talk about how they're banished out of the Garden of Eden. But, again, it's so fascinating, what eating is involved and work and  work would be with thorns, the pleasure that they were given in the pre fall state was not the  same anymore, and things were going to be different and hard and separate themselves from God. So that's what we read. So now that we reflect on it, in our next presentation, we're  gonna go just a little deeper to talk about what happened, and why this has everything to do  today with how we can be walking a path that's glorifying God, ministering with victory over  our sexual sense