00:00:00.000By God's grace, we continue through Genesis, and I plan to move actually quickly through Genesis, or at least that was my plan.
00:00:15.040I'm trying to get larger portions of text, but last week we had two verses, verses 14 and 15 of chapter 3, and this week we get a whopping one verse.
00:00:24.360We're going to go through verse 16 today, and this is part of a three-part series that
00:00:32.380I titled, God's Curses on the Serpent and Judgments on the Sexes.
00:00:39.980Now, if you were here last week, you remember that we studied God's curse upon the serpent,
00:00:47.240where we saw in the darkest moment of human history, the fall of man,
00:00:54.580we see God concealing the greatest promise, the first messianic promise,
00:01:01.420the protovangelium, the first gospel right there in Genesis 3.15.
00:01:09.920We also learned about the serpent's sentence of humiliation to lick the dust on its belly.
00:01:17.240We saw how God relocated the enmity that was between him and man.
00:01:24.820And he located that enmity between the woman's seed and the serpent's seed.
00:01:32.060And we traced that spiritual, those two spiritual lines or two spiritual seeds that run through history.
00:01:39.480And we saw how it ultimately manifests in the ultimate seed, Jesus Christ.
00:01:47.240And we also saw how that Jesus becomes the new Adam, the new and better Adam, the new humanity.
00:01:56.920And out of his side, through his resurrection, when water and blood flows out, his church, just like Eve was pulled out of Adam's rib,
00:02:07.120we see the church being pulled out of Jesus' side.
00:02:10.440And this beautiful realization that we have a new Adam and a new Eve.
00:02:16.300And in the same way that Adam and Eve were called to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth,
00:02:22.160we see Christ and his bride being fruitful and multiplying and filling the earth.
00:02:28.400And so lots of beautiful parallels that were happening there.
00:02:31.940Now today we move on from the curse on the serpent to the judgment on the woman.
00:02:40.380And so very important text, especially in our generation.
00:02:45.360This sermon is titled, The Fall, Feminism, and the Fight for Order.