How will his people respond to his loving generosity? Will they believe him or continue to believe the Serpent? That’s the story we’ll hear together this weekend. He will one day give a Serpent-crushing Savior to his people.
He will bring them into a land filled with beauty and abundance again. All through the Old Testament, God so loved, he gave! God proves again and again and again the true story: He loves his image-bearers. First to Noah, then to Abraham, then to Abraham’s descendants. This week, we’ll see that when hope seems lost, God does something surprising: he gives again. Going into Genesis 4 and beyond, we ask: “Whose story will they believe? The story of the God of the Gardens or the Story of the Serpent?” The outlook isn’t very hopeful. We left off with Adam and Eve cast out of the provision and presence of God in the garden with nothing but a promise that one day an offspring of the woman would crush the head of the Serpent. Their disobedience had disastrous results. Tragically, as we saw last week in Genesis 3, Adam and Eve were tempted by the Serpent to distrust God’s loving generosity on display for them and instead try to secure their own blessing through disobedience. We saw two weeks ago from Genesis 1–2 that God loved Adam and Eve by creating a world filled with abundance and a garden for them to live in and enjoy God’s very- goodness. God so loved, he gave! This isn’t just true when God sent Jesus into the world God has always loved by giving. Display Title: In Christ alone my hope is found First Line: In Christ alone my hope is found Tune Title: In Christ alone my hope is found Author: Keith Getty, b. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” Familiarity with this passage can dull our response. This week, we’ll be looking closely at one of the most familiar passages in the Bible: John 3:16.
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