Adam and Eve: An Unfinished Story

Novation Church

Luke 3:23-38, Matthew 1:1-17

The making of a good story

Premise

Plot

Character

Prose

Theme

The Story Of Adam And Eve Is The Story Of Humanity

“So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; and to every animal of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to everything that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so. And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.” Genesis 1:27-31 NASB

“For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.” Genesis 2:24-25 NASB

To Understand This Unfinished Story, We Need To

• Know the plot

“And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.” Genesis 1:31

• Know the characters and their actions

Grandma Eve: Got deceived

Grandpa Adam: Lacked trust in God and lacked faith and leadership

• Know how the story ends

“He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise Him on the heel.” Genesis 3:15 NASB

“So he then handed Him over to them to be crucified.” John 19:16 NASB

“who (Jesus) was handed over because of our trespasses and raised because of our justification.” Romans 4:25 NTFE

“It is finished!” John 19:30 NASB (See Genesis 2:2)

“Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all mankind, because all sinned… So then, as through one offense the result was condemnation to all mankind, so also through one act of righteousness the result was justification of life to all mankind.” Romans 5:12,18 NASB

“But in fact the Messiah has been raised from the dead, as the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since it was through a human that death arrived, it’s through a human that the resurrection from the dead has arrived. All die in Adam, you see, and all will be made alive in the Messiah…When all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all in all.” 1 Corinthians 15:20-22, 28 NTFE

“Behold, I am making all things new.” Revelation 21:5 NASB

“And he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb, in the middle of its street. On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.” Revelation 22:1-2 NASB