I feel it only fitting that a woman start this that’s all right because for far too long women have been relegated and punished because of what took place in the garden this moment where a woman served as a Gateway for sin to enter the world and as she served as this Gateway for sin to enter the world one of the reasons why I love what happens in Genesis so much is that God doesn’t allow the beginning to be her end as well because when God got ready to clean up the mess of the garden he started off with a woman who knew how to facilitate
glory in the Holy Spirit but when we go back to Genesis 3 and13 when we initially see this woman in the garden what we recognize is that When sin entered the world it paved the way for ultimately what we know as Jesus coming to save us our ultimate path of redemption and while we often consider often how much or why Jesus got got on the cross I want to talk a little bit about the moment that required us to need a savior to begin with Genesis 3 and13 says and the Lord God said to the woman what is this you have
done the woman said the serpent deceived me and I ate this text stands out in my mind because it helps me to understand that we don’t just fall into sin I wonder when God created man and woman and he gave the woman the charge of being fruitful and multiplying if she recognized that in order to fulfill the Mandate on her life that she would literally have to face off with hell to get it done we make it sound so simple like why didn’t she just deny the fruit but the reality is that When sin enters our world it’s not so easy as just denying
it because before we even engage in the action of sin there is a deception that takes place in our mind you see the enemy isn’t just after what you do the enemy is after what you think because if the enemy can get your mind he can change your actions and we see his plan laid out in Genesis 3 in which he wants to distort our image of God did God really say you didn’t just sin you didn’t just mess up you you may have known better but before you actually engaged with the action there had to have been a deception in your
mind some of us were born into the deception of other people’s minds that means before we even had an encounter with God that we were born in a framework that made things okay that really weren’t okay and it wasn’t until we had an encounter with God that we began to realize that I am going to have to be transformed by the renewing of my mind because I was born into sin I was born thinking that it was okay to act this way I was born thinking that retaliation was my only option I was born thinking that it was okay to be
