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Listen - "Adam & Eve's Disobedience" as told by Grant Lovejoy ( 7:09 ) Choosing to Follow Jesus - Includes more than 65 Old Testament and New Testament stories to simultaneously evangelize and provide a biblical foundation for discipleship following conversion. Includes the JESUS Film Project’s audio presentation on two CDs. (10 CDs total). Excerpts PRE-STORY DIALOG: In this story I want to talk about the disobedience of Adam and Eve. As I tell the story I would like you to be thinking about these things: think about the world in which God had placed Adam and Eve, think about the privileges He had given them and then think about in this story, why did they choose to obey the one whom they obeyed. Why did they choose to disobey the one that they disobeyed? Then to be thinking about what was the consequence of the choice that they made. This is the story of how Adam and Eve disobeyed God. GENESIS 2:15-3:23: Now God had told Adam that you may eat from any tree that is in the garden, except you must not eat from the tree that is in the center of the garden, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God told him in the day you eat from that tree you will surely die. Now the serpent was the craftiest of all the animals that the Lord had made and one day the serpent came to the woman in the garden and asked her, did God really say that you must not eat from any tree in the garden? The woman answered the serpent you can eat fruit from any of the trees in the garden, but God said you must not eat from the tree that is in the middle of the garden and you must not touch it or you will surely die. Oh, the serpent said, you will not surely die, for God knows that when you eat from that tree your eyes will be open and you will be like God knowing good and evil. The woman went and looked at the fruit from that particular tree and it looked good for food and it was pleasing to the eye and it was also desirable to have wisdom, to know like God. So she took some and she ate it. And she gave some to her husband, the man who was there with her, and he ate it. And when they did eat it their eyes were opened and they realized they were naked and they were ashamed and so they made some coverings for themselves out of leaves and hid themselves. Now in the cool of the day, the man and the woman heard the sound of God coming from the garden and so they hid among the trees in the garden. But God said to them, where are you? And the man answered, I heard you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked so I hid. And God said, who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from? The man answered, he said, the woman, the woman you gave me, she gave me some the fruit and I ate it. And the Lord said to the woman, what is this you have done? And the woman said, the serpent, he deceived me and I ate it. So the Lord spoke to the serpent and said that because you have done this you are cursed above all the animals, you will crawl on your belly all the days of your life, through dust. And I will put hatred between you and the woman and hatred between your offspring and her offspring. The son of the woman will crush your head and you will strike his heal and to the woman God said I will greatly increase your pains in child bearing. Only with great difficulty will you give birth. Your desire will be for your husband and he will rule over you. And to the man, he said, because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree which I told you that you shall not eat from that tree, cursed is the ground because of you, only by painful toil will you raise your food from the crops. They will produce thorns and weeds for you and only by the sweat of your brow will you have food. From the ground you were made and to the ground you will return at your death. And then God made coverings for the man's and the woman's nakedness, he covered them with clothing made of animal skins. And then God said if we allow the man and woman to remain in the garden they may eat from the tree of life and remain in this state forever. And so he sent the man and the woman out of the garden and placed at the entrance there a flaming sword, which moved back and forth, and an angel to ensure that they could never again return. This is the story of the disobedience of Adam and Eve. POST STORY DIALOG: [What] kind of world was it? [What] kind of garden? Was it good? Did [Adam and Eve ]have everything that they needed? What did that show about God's attitude towards them? [What] choice [did] Adam and Eve [make]? Who did they choose to believe? Why do you think they chose to believe the serpent instead of believing what God had said? Did that seem to be a big decision when Adam and Eve made it? Did it turn out to be an important one? What was the punishment, the results of their disobeying God's Word? What was the result for the serpent? What was the result for the woman? What was the result for the man? What [did] the serpent say? Did he speak the truth? Did he deceive? If so, how? Today, are there those who encourage people not to follow God's Word? And what would be consequence of doing that? What does this show about God? What did we learn about God from the fact that he clothed them with animal skins? What [does] clothing them with animal skins suggest? What did Adam's and Eve's choice do to their relationship with God? What did it do to their relationship with each other? Inquiries should be made to info@fjseries.org Additional information may be obtained online at http://FJseries.org or by writing: Mr. Mark Snowden
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