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Genesis 3:13-15
Excerpted from: Jesus Christ's Purposeful Manifestation

Please turn with me to Genesis 3, verse 13. By doing all He came to do, the Son of God has fulfilled the ancient promise given to the man and woman immediately after they initially sinned: the seed of the woman shall bruise his head [the serpent's head]. He misled her with subtle deceit. But God said to Adam and Eve that He would send someone, that is, Jesus Christ, who would bruise Satan's head.

So we must view Christ coming into this world in terms of all that Satan had done and had produced. Christ came to fight it; He came with a mighty sword.

He came to destroy and to undo the works of the Devil and He did it like this. His coming in the flesh tells us one thing more than anything else: that God is love and that God has loved us with everlasting love.

Satan says God is against you, God hates you, and He enjoys making you slaves. But Christ came in the flesh, which makes a great statement that God loves us. And His sacrifice and resurrection even proves it all the more - that God loves us, and always has and always will. But He loves His church even more than the average human being. And we are so thankful for that.

So here is a world that has rebelled against God. It spat in His face. In arrogance, it lifted itself up against Him. A world like that deserves punishment. It deserves condemnation. Yet into that same world, God sent His Son. He came to contradict Satan's lies in His appearing and coming to undo the original lie. It is proof that God loves us because it is for us that He has done this. Often I wonder about the world's mentality when they are proven, or maybe scientists prove, that God exists. How in the world they can deny it?

Genesis 3:14-16
Excerpted from: Government (Part One)

We begin to see a fulfilling of the instruction that God undoubtedly gave them as a part of what we see there in Genesis 2:16-17 - which I am sure is just an encapsulation of all of the other instruction that He also gave them. What we see in chapter 3 is an unfolding of the result that takes place whenever lawbreaking occurs. And we see again the reaction of the supreme Governor of everything; and He shows us, then, another function of government in the way that He reacts.

The Governor - the Government - reacts by making a judgment and issuing a sentence. So we see here that another purpose, or responsibility, of government is to enforce its rules. We also see the warning that, because of law , the process toward disorganization will be sped up. That is what we begin to see, especially in those things regarding the curse that came upon Eve and then Adam. Especially the one with Adam - cursed is the ground for your sake.

We are beginning to see the fruit of disobedience to government - the process of disintegration, of disorganization. The movement toward chaos will be increased incrementally by the disobedience of the government, let us say, that is in power. Now, in chapter 4, we see a similar occurrence. We will not go through that, because it is very similar to chapter 3. But I want you to note that what we have here is a very clear record in regard to government, and we are only in the fourth chapter of this most important of all books.

Genesis 3:14-15
Excerpted from: Joshua's Four Miracles (Part Two)

Now, why? It is always a good question to ask, why. We have a bit of trail to follow on this one, but it is an interesting trail to follow to get an answer. And we have to start at the beginning, in Genesis 3, verses 14 and 15. Now, of course, this is the first prophecy. This is the curse on the serpent that we are talking about. But I want you to pick up an idea from this.

You may not see it here, but the reason you may not see it is because bruise is a bad translation here. It is better as crush. The word means to compress, a downward pressing motion, like you would crush an olive in a mill or grapes or that sort of thing, or just to apply a lot of pressure so that whatever you are applying it to goes splat. That is the idea of this Hebrew word. I know that was really colorful, right?

Genesis 3:14-15
Excerpted from: Christ Coming in the Flesh

So right here at the beginning, at the foundation of the world, we have a prophecy that foresees that a Savior would come and He would win the battle over sin, over Satan. But notice that He is described as her Seed, the woman's Seed. So even in this very early chapter of the Bible, we understand that the Savior of the human race would be a man, someone born of a woman, but someone powerful enough and righteous enough to overcome Satan and be the Redeemer.

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Ecclesiastes and Christian Living (Part One)
Leadership and Covenants (Part Eleven): Signs
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Prepare to Meet Your God (Part Five): Religion and Holiness
Seeking God (Part Two): A Foundation
The Beast and Babylon (Part Ten): Babylon the Great Is a Nation
The Binding of Satan
The Christian Fight (Part Three)
The First Prophecy (Part One)
The First Prophecy (Part One)
The First Prophecy (Part Three)
The Sovereignty of God: Part Five
Why Hebrews Was Written (Part Eight): Hebrews 1  (2)

Bible Studies
Tithing: Second Tithe

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Prepare to Meet Your God! (The Book of Amos) (Part Two)

Essays
Cain's Assumption (Part Two)

Sermons
Jabez: 'That I May Not Cause Pain'
Sovereignty, Election, and Grace (Part 5)
Where Is the Beast? (Part 11)
Christianity Is a Fight! (Part 4)
The Days of Noah
Passionate Patience
The Problem Of Leadership
His Eye Is on the Sparrow (Part Two)
Is America a Christian Nation? (Part One)
Is America a Christian Nation? Summary (Part One)
Jabez: a Roadsign of Hope
The Works of the Devil Destroyed
Faith and the Christian Fight (Part One)

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