Lesson 7: Adam only ate a fruit PART 1

(Genesis 3 ) (Genesis 2: 16, 17)


Fun inspires most of the activities people in the world do. Examples of what the world defines as fun are eating whatever, drinking alcohol, smoking, sensuality, fornication, Music to arouse sexuality and violence, Pornography and such like this. One of the biggest challenges is to let go of these activities when the Bible requires us to do so. And the most common excuse used is, “ But I’m not harming anyone surely God is fine with this”

This week’s lesson is subject to all humans living today. The results of chapter 3 were detrimental to all of us living today. When God created Humans they were given a rule not to eat the fruits of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil (Gen 2:17). The consequences of eating the fruits of this tree were death or loss of immortality.

Satan comes in the form of a Serpent to trick Eve into eating the fruit (Genesis 3: 1-5). Note that what makes Eve fall for Satan’s deception are the fun credits that come with eating the fruit i.e “be like God”, “good for food”, “delight to the eyes”, “make one wise” (Gen 3:6). In the end Adam and Eve eat the fruit. The consequences that come along are multiplied pain when women give birth (Gen 3: 16), secondly the Ground became hard and the man had to toil to get food out of it (Gen3:17), Man were to die and return to the dust from which they were made from (Gen 3:19).


This lesson simply displays the importance of God’s commandments. When God gives a commandment, though it may not be fun and convenient for us, we have to follow. Adam and Eve only ate a fruit and the state of our dying world is the result of it. We have people dying of disease, hunger, Murderers, disasters that kill thousands of humans, Wars around the world, all because Adam ate a fruit. The commandments that God has given us may not be fun but we have to follow them because the consequences of rejecting them may lead to disastrous results that we will later regret.

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