Genesis 3:8-13
God pursues sinners, exposes sin, and reveals the broken response of fear and blame.
8 They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
9 Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”
10 The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.”
11 God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13 Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
God pursues sinners, exposes sin, and reveals the broken response of fear and blame.
To show God's initiating pursuit of fallen humanity, expose the reality of guilt and hiding, and reveal the human tendency toward fear, evasion, and blame after sin.
Humanity Rebels Against God, Falls Under Curse, and Receives the First Hope of Redemption
When humanity rejected God’s word in pursuit of autonomous wisdom, sin, shame, curse, and death entered the world, yet God answered rebellion with righteous judgment and the first promise of redemptive victory.