Genesis 3:1-4:26; Matthew 2:13-3:6; Psalm 2:1-12; Proverbs 1:7-9
Comment/Observation:
Gen 1:15
15 God told him, “No. Anyone who kills Cain will pay for it seven times over.” God put a mark on Cain to protect him so that no one who met him would kill him.
ADR: God still showed mercy for Cain and protected him even in Cain's punishment.
Garden of Eden
Mesopotamia
Gen. 4:26 Adam & Eve had another son, Seth and Seth had a son named Enosh
*** New Testament *** Observation
Matthew Chapter 2/3
ADR:
The story of Jesus' birth was introduce (Chap 2)
The introduction of John (the forerunner) was introduce
** Psalm **
ADR:
Psalm 2 - Why do the heathen rage?
The people of this time hates God, hates the Messiah
They want to break away from any thing that resembles God
*****Garden of Eden
Gen. 4:26 Adam & Eve had another son, Seth and Seth had a son named Enosh
*** New Testament *** Observation
Matthew Chapter 2/3
ADR:
The story of Jesus' birth was introduce (Chap 2)
The introduction of John (the forerunner) was introduce
** Psalm **
ADR:
Psalm 2 - Why do the heathen rage?
The people of this time hates God, hates the Messiah
They want to break away from any thing that resembles God
The God-deniers, the Messiah-defiers:
“Let’s get free of God!
Cast loose from Messiah!”
God warns them that there life is in danger! They better run to God if they know what is good for them!
God warns them that there life is in danger! They better run to God if they know what is good for them!
Proverbs: 1:7-9
ADR
The first thing you need to know, the first piece of knowledge that you need is to Fear the Lord, bow down to God; Anything opposite of that is foolish!
Genesis 3:1-4:26; Matthew 2:13-3:6; Psalm 2:1-12; Proverbs 1:7-9 -
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Genesis 3:1-4:26; Matthew 2:13-3:6; Psalm 2:1-12; Proverbs 1:7-19 –
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Genesis 3-4King James Version (KJV)
3 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which
the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye
shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the
trees of the garden:
3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden,
God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye
die.
4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes
shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it
was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took
of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her;
and he did eat.
7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were
naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in
the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence
of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
9 And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art
thou?
10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid,
because I was naked; and I hid myself.
11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten
of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she
gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
13 And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast
done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
14 And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done
this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field;
upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy
life:
15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy
seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy
conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall
be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice
of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying,
Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt
thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou
shalt eat the herb of the field;
19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return
unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto
dust shalt thou return.
20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of
all living.
21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of
skins, and clothed them.
22 And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to
know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the
tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to
till the ground from whence he was taken.
24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden
of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way
of the tree of life.
4 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and
said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.
2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of
sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the
fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord.
4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the
fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was
very wroth, and his countenance fell.
6 And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy
countenance fallen?
7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest
not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou
shalt rule over him.
8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when
they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew
him.
9 And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he
said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood
crieth unto me from the ground.
11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her
mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto
thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
13 And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can
bear.
14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the
earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a
vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth
me shall slay me.
15 And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain,
vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain,
lest any finding him should kill him.
16 And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the
land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he
builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son,
Enoch.
18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and
Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
19 And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah,
and the name of the other Zillah.
20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents,
and of such as have cattle.
21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as
handle the harp and organ.
22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every
artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.
23 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye
wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my
wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and
sevenfold.
25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his
name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel,
whom Cain slew.
26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his
name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.
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Matthew 2:13-3:6
Matthew 1Matthew 4
Matthew 2:13-3:6King James Version (KJV)
13 And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord
appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and
his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word:
for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
14 When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night,
and departed into Egypt:
15 And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled
which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I
called my son.
16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was
exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in
Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under,
according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
17 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet,
saying,
18 In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and
great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because
they are not.
19 But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in
a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
20 Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go
into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's
life.
21 And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came
into the land of Israel.
22 But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room
of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being
warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee:
23 And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be
fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.
3 In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of
Judaea,
2 And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
3 For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying,
The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord,
make his paths straight.
4 And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern
girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
5 Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region
round about Jordan,
6 And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
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Psalm 2
Psalm 2 King James Version (KJV)
2 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel
together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,
3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from
us.
4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have
them in derision.
5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his
sore displeasure.
6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
7 I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my
Son; this day have I begotten thee.
8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance,
and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in
pieces like a potter's vessel.
10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the
earth.
11 Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when
his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust
in him.
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Proverbs 1:7-9
Psalm 150Proverbs 2
Proverbs 1:7-9 King James Version (KJV)
7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools
despise wisdom and instruction.
8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law
of thy mother:
9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains
about thy neck.
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Genesis 3-4The Message (MSG)
3 The serpent was clever, more clever than any wild animal God had
made. He spoke to the Woman: “Do I understand that God told you not to eat
from any tree in the garden?”
2-3 The Woman said to the serpent, “Not at all. We can eat from the
trees in the garden. It’s only about the tree in the middle of the garden
that God said, ‘Don’t eat from it; don’t even touch it or you’ll die.’”
4-5 The serpent told the Woman, “You won’t die. God knows that the
moment you eat from that tree, you’ll see what’s really going on. You’ll be
just like God, knowing everything, ranging all the way from good to evil.”
6 When the Woman saw that the tree looked like good eating and
realized what she would get out of it—she’d know everything!—she took and ate
the fruit and then gave some to her husband, and he ate.
7 Immediately the two of them did “see what’s really going on”—saw
themselves naked! They sewed fig leaves together as makeshift clothes for
themselves.
8 When they heard the sound of God strolling in the garden in the
evening breeze, the Man and his Wife hid in the trees of the garden, hid from
God.
9 God called to the Man: “Where are you?”
10 He said, “I heard you in the garden and I was afraid because I was
naked. And I hid.”
11 God said, “Who told you you were naked? Did you eat from that tree
I told you not to eat from?”
12 The Man said, “The Woman you gave me as a companion, she gave me fruit
from the tree, and, yes, I ate it.”
God said to the Woman, “What is this that you’ve done?”
13 “The serpent seduced me,” she said, “and I ate.”
14-15 God told the serpent:
“Because you’ve done this, you’re cursed,
cursed beyond all cattle
and wild animals,
Cursed to slink on your belly
and eat dirt all your life.
I’m declaring war between you and the Woman,
between your offspring and
hers.
He’ll wound your head,
you’ll wound his heel.”
16 He told the Woman:
“I’ll multiply your pains in childbirth;
you’ll give birth to your
babies in pain.
You’ll want to please your husband,
but he’ll lord it over
you.”
17-19 He told the Man:
“Because you listened to your wife
and ate from the tree
That I commanded you not to eat from,
‘Don’t eat from this tree,’
The very ground is cursed because of you;
getting food from the
ground
Will be as painful as having babies is for your wife;
you’ll be working in pain
all your life long.
The ground will sprout thorns and weeds,
you’ll get your food the
hard way,
Planting and tilling and harvesting,
sweating in the fields from
dawn to dusk,
Until you return to that ground yourself, dead and buried;
you started out as dirt,
you’ll end up dirt.”
20 The Man, known as Adam, named his wife Eve because she was the
mother of all the living.
21 God made leather clothing for Adam and his wife and dressed them.
22 God said, “The Man has become like one of us, capable of knowing
everything, ranging from good to evil. What if he now should reach out and
take fruit from the Tree-of-Life and eat, and live forever? Never—this cannot
happen!”
23-24 So God expelled them from the Garden of Eden and sent them to
work the ground, the same dirt out of which they’d been made. He threw them
out of the garden and stationed angel-cherubim and a revolving sword of fire
east of it, guarding the path to the Tree-of-Life.
4 Adam slept with Eve his wife. She conceived and had Cain. She said,
“I’ve gotten a man, with God’s help!”
2 Then she had another baby, Abel. Abel was a herdsman and Cain a
farmer.
3-5 Time passed. Cain brought an offering to God from the produce of
his farm. Abel also brought an offering, but from the firstborn animals of
his herd, choice cuts of meat. God liked Abel and his offering, but Cain and
his offering didn’t get his approval. Cain lost his temper and went into a
sulk.
6-7 God spoke to Cain: “Why this tantrum? Why the sulking? If you do
well, won’t you be accepted? And if you don’t do well, sin is lying in wait
for you, ready to pounce; it’s out to get you, you’ve got to master it.”
8 Cain had words with his brother. They were out in the field; Cain
came at Abel his brother and killed him.
9 God said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?”
He said, “How should I know? Am I his babysitter?”
10-12 God said, “What have you done! The voice of your brother’s
blood is calling to me from the ground. From now on you’ll get nothing but
curses from this ground; you’ll be driven from this ground that has opened
its arms to receive the blood of your murdered brother. You’ll farm this
ground, but it will no longer give you its best. You’ll be a homeless
wanderer on Earth.”
13-14 Cain said to God, “My punishment is too much. I can’t take it!
You’ve thrown me off the land and I can never again face you. I’m a homeless
wanderer on Earth and whoever finds me will kill me.”
15 God told him, “No. Anyone who kills Cain will pay for it seven
times over.” God put a mark on Cain to protect him so that no one who met him
would kill him.
ADR: God still showed mercy for Cain and protected him even in Cain's punishment.
16 Cain left the presence of God and lived in No-Man’s-Land, east of
Eden.
17-18 Cain slept with his wife. She conceived and had Enoch. He then
built a city and named it after his son, Enoch.
Enoch had Irad,
Irad had Mehujael,
Mehujael had Methushael,
Methushael had Lamech.
19-22 Lamech married two wives, Adah and Zillah. Adah gave birth to
Jabal, the ancestor of all who live in tents and herd cattle. His brother’s
name was Jubal, the ancestor of all who play the lyre and flute. Zillah gave
birth to Tubal-Cain, who worked at the forge making bronze and iron tools.
Tubal-Cain’s sister was Naamah.
23-24 Lamech said to his
wives,
Adah and Zillah, listen to me;
you wives of Lamech, hear
me out:
I killed a man for wounding me,
a young man who attacked
me.
If Cain is avenged seven times,
for Lamech it’s
seventy-seven!
25-26 Adam slept with his wife again. She had a son whom she named
Seth. She said, “God has given me another child in place of Abel whom Cain
killed.” And then Seth had a son whom he named Enosh.
That’s when men and women began praying and worshiping in the name of
God.
Matthew 2:13-3:6
Matthew 2:13-3:6 The Message (MSG)
13 After the scholars were gone, God’s angel showed up again in
Joseph’s dream and commanded, “Get up. Take the child and his mother and flee
to Egypt. Stay until further notice. Herod is on the hunt for this child, and
wants to kill him.”
14-15 Joseph obeyed. He got up, took the child and his mother under
cover of darkness. They were out of town and well on their way by daylight.
They lived in Egypt until Herod’s death. This Egyptian exile fulfilled what
Hosea had preached: “I called my son out of Egypt.”
16-18 Herod, when he realized that the scholars had tricked him, flew
into a rage. He commanded the murder of every little boy two years old and
under who lived in Bethlehem and its surrounding hills. (He determined that
age from information he’d gotten from the scholars.) That’s when Jeremiah’s
sermon was fulfilled:
A sound was heard in Ramah,
weeping and much lament.
Rachel weeping for her children,
Rachel refusing all solace,
Her children gone,
dead and buried.
19-20 Later, when Herod died, God’s angel appeared in a dream to
Joseph in Egypt: “Up, take the child and his mother and return to Israel. All
those out to murder the child are dead.”
21-23 Joseph obeyed. He got up, took the child and his mother, and
reentered Israel. When he heard, though, that Archelaus had succeeded his
father, Herod, as king in Judea, he was afraid to go there. But then Joseph
was directed in a dream to go to the hills of Galilee. On arrival, he settled
in the village of Nazareth. This move was a fulfillment of the prophetic
words, “He shall be called a Nazarene.”
Thunder in the Desert!
3 1-2 While Jesus was living in the Galilean hills, John, called “the
Baptizer,” was preaching in the desert country of Judea. His message was
simple and austere, like his desert surroundings: “Change your life. God’s
kingdom is here.”
3 John and his message were authorized by Isaiah’s prophecy:
Thunder in the desert!
Prepare for God’s arrival!
Make the road smooth and straight!
4-6 John dressed in a camel-hair habit tied at the waist by a leather
strap. He lived on a diet of locusts and wild field honey. People poured out
of Jerusalem, Judea, and the Jordanian countryside to hear and see him in
action. There at the Jordan River those who came to confess their sins were
baptized into a changed life.
Psalm 2
Psalm 2 The Message (MSG)
2 1-6 Why the big noise, nations?
Why the mean plots, peoples?
Earth-leaders push for position,
Demagogues and delegates meet for summit talks,
The God-deniers, the Messiah-defiers:
“Let’s get free of God!
Cast loose from Messiah!”
Heaven-throned God breaks out laughing.
At first he’s amused at their presumption;
Then he gets good and angry.
Furiously, he shuts them up:
“Don’t you know there’s a King in Zion? A coronation banquet
Is spread for him on the holy summit.”
7-9 Let me tell you what God said next.
He said, “You’re my son,
And today is your birthday.
What do you want? Name it:
Nations as a present? continents as a prize?
You can command them all to dance for you,
Or throw them out with tomorrow’s trash.”
10-12 So, rebel-kings, use your heads;
Upstart-judges, learn your lesson:
Worship God in adoring embrace,
Celebrate in trembling awe. Kiss Messiah!
Your very lives are in danger, you know;
His anger is about to explode,
But if you make a run for God—you won’t regret it!
Proverbs 1:7-19
Proverbs 1:7-19 The Message (MSG)
Start with God
7 Start with God—the first step in learning is bowing down to God;
only fools thumb their
noses at such wisdom and learning.
8-19 Pay close attention, friend, to what your father tells you;
never forget what you
learned at your mother’s knee.
Wear their counsel like flowers in your hair,
like rings on your fingers.
Dear friend, if bad companions tempt you,
don’t go along with them.
If they say—“Let’s go out and raise some hell.
Let’s beat up some old man,
mug some old woman.
Let’s pick them clean
and get them ready for
their funerals.
We’ll load up on top-quality loot.
We’ll haul it home by the
truckload.
Join us for the time of your life!
With us, it’s share and
share alike!”—
Oh, friend, don’t give them a second look;
don’t listen to them for a
minute.
They’re racing to a very bad end,
hurrying to ruin everything
they lay hands on.
Nobody robs a bank
with everyone watching,
Yet that’s what these people are doing—
they’re doing themselves
in.
When you grab all you can get, that’s what happens:
the more you get, the less
you are.
The Message (MSG)
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