Adam & Eve are created to be . . .

- Image Bearers

- Connected to God

- Royalty or Co-Royalty

- Fruitful & Multiply

- Cultivate Fruitfulness

- Free to enjoy God's good creation, to create and cultivate and free of shame!

". . . you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil . . . ."

How to learn and define the knowledge of "good and evil" or right and wrong.

They ate it!

They decided to determine right and wrong.

1. Relationship with God - 3:8, 21-24

2. Relationship with Ourselves - 3:10

3. Relationship with One Another - 3:12

4. Relationship with Creation - 3:16-19

What do you think it means to "sin"? (Reference Genesis 4:7)

Is anyone without sin? What consequences does a life of sin lead to in these passages?

What does this passage tell us about the effect of sin?

God is the source of life. Separation from Him is spiritual death (Romans 6:23) and this is the first healed relationship God offers!

Define the different sins mentioned in this verse.

What is the difference between the "acts of the flesh" and temptation?

Review The Definition Sins in Galatians 5:19-21 below.

What does Paul's "warning" in v.21 mean? Is there any way to live this way and be a part of the kingdom?

How does this differ from the other lists? How does this relate to "good and evil"?

What is some "good" you have known but failed to do in your life?

Is even a "hint" of sin OK?

What "empty words" would people try to deceive you with?

What does this passage say we should do with sin?

See passages on confession below.

-How have you defined "good and evil" in your life" How does it compare to God's definition of sin?

-How have you seen the destructive force of sin in your life and the world around us?

-How does sin continue to damage the Four Broken Relationships?

God invites us to address the destructive sin in our life and allow Him to define good and evil.

-Prayerfully consider the sin that you have committed.

-Ask the following questions as you study the sin lists:

Q: Which sins have defined your life and character?

Q: What is the Holy Spirit moving you to share?

-Review the passages about Walking in the Light before the next study:

Genesis 2:25, 3:10, John 3:19-21, 1 John 1:5-9, James 5:16

Revelation 21:8, 24-27, Romans 1:21-32

1 Corinthians 6:9-11, Colossians 3:5-11, 2 Timothy 3:1-5, Matthew 5:48

1. Sexual Immorality (fornication KJV), Greek - (porneia) - sex outside of the marriage relationship between a man and a woman. Includes: adultery, homosexuality, masturbation, pre-marital sex, etc.

2. Impurity (uncleanness KJV), Greek - denotes those things that make us impure in a moral sense. It means to be dirty and filthy; to be infested with every kind of unclean, immoral, dirty, and polluted behavior.

3. Debauchery (sensuality NASB, licentiousness RSV, lasciviousness KJV), Greek - absence of moral restraint, lewdness, indecency. Overindulgence in anything, even good things (food, sleep, hobbies, etc.). How can you discern debauchery? The practice negatively affects our relationship with God and people, and functioning well in the world.

4. Idolatry (worship of idols/false gods) - putting something or someone other than God as number one in your life: both the worship of false gods and the failure to have a right relationship with God. Any person who does not worship God is worshiping some idol and almost everything upon earth can become an idol and consume the heart and passion of a person. What do we idolize? Job, school, family, money, popularity, self, etc. How can you tell who or what someone's idol is? What their life revolves around.

5. Witchcraft/Sorcery (spiritism LB) - Greek is root of "pharmacy." The use of drugs to produce an unnatural state of mind, sometimes accompanied by incantations and spells appealing to the occult powers. In the present context, it would include all forms of sorcery including astrology, palm reading, seances, fortune telling, crystals, and other forms of witchcraft.

6. Hatred (quarrels NEB, feuds JB) - attitudes and actions pertaining to enemies. The opposite of love (agape). It is the hatred that lingers and is held for a long, long time; it is a hatred that is deep within.

7. Discord (strife RSV, a contentious temper NEB) Greek - the expression of hatred or enmity toward another, bad temper. Slander. It means that a person fights against another person in order to get something: position, promotion, promotion, property, honor, recognition. Does not work well with others. The opposite of "accord."

8. Jealousy - Wanting and desiring to have what someone else has. It may be material things, recognition, honor, or position.

9. Fits of rage (bad temper Phillips) - denotes an outburst of hot anger, wrath, very similar to Discord, but focusing more on the heart condition that produces the outburst: angry tempers, fiery anger, intense fits of anger.

10. Selfish ambition - denotes a person who, being so consumed with self interest, always ends up in disputes and arguments; being consumed with self, pride, defensiveness.

11. Dissensions - denotes racism, a prejudiced attitude, bigotry, etc.; deciding that you or your group is better than another. Dispute, divisions, rebellion, standing against others, splitting off from others.

12. Factions (heresies KJV) - denotes the forming of a group or sect based on false teaching, with no regard to "the truth," usually a doctrinal issue.

13. Envy - the feeling of displeasure produced by witnessing or hearing of the advantage or prosperity of others, resentment, malice, etc.

14. Drunkenness - denotes intoxication, either getting drunk or the habitual use of alcohol or drugs. Getting drunk (methais) is to take intoxicating drink or drugs to affect the senses and faculties.

15. Orgies (wild parties LB, carousing NASB) - a gathering for licentious revelry and sensual indulgence; also carousing, a drinking bout or party.

16. And the like . . . (other things like these TEV) - involves anything else that indulges the flesh, including all variations of the sins listed: deceit, pride, smoking/vaping, independence, hypocrisy, stubbornness, etc.