Sin is Crouching at Your Door

 

 

 

 “Sin is Crouching at Your Door” - Genesis 4-5             

 I. The Tactics
1. Doubt
2. Denial
3. Deception
4. Conspirator

 

 II. The Symptoms
1. Shame
2. Fear
3. Hiding
4. Covering
5. Lie
6. Anger
7. Justification
8. Punishment

 

 III. The Punishment

 

 IV. The Real Punishment: Banishment from God

 

 V. The Sin Repeats (4:1-8)

 

 VI. The Judgment Repeats (4:9-16)

 

 VII. Application
People speculate about the reasons why God would put the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden knowing that Adam and Eve would eat it. Was God testing them? Could they have resisted?
Have Satan’s tactics changed much since the day he tempted Adam and Eve? What do you think of the way Adam and Eve responded after the fall? Has that changed much since?
God said, “You will surely die” and they did. At that moment they experienced or set in motion three kind of death. What are they? Which came first? (Answer: spiritual, physical, and eternal)