Summary

-Genesis 3:1-19 - For the Serpent: an eternal curse, condemnation to the ground, and enmity between Him and “woman.” It says, in Genesis 3:15 “I will cause hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.” - For the woman: pain in childbearing & the introduction of a gender hierarchy for the first time, in which she will be subject to man - For the man: Difficult work to get the earth to render sufficient resources - Genesis 3:15 (Amplified Bible Translation): “I will put enmity (open hostility) Between you and the woman, And between your seed (offspring) and her Seed; He shall [fatally] bruise your head, And you shall [only] bruise His heel.” - “The Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you.” - Romans 8:11 -We “get to crush the serpent under our head” together by living lives of mutuality and peacemaking under the New Covenant. THIS IS GOOD NEWS NOT JUST FOR YOU- BUT FOR THE WHOLE CHURCH AND THE WHOLE WORLD. IT IS GOOD NEWS FOR EVERY, MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD. - If you want to be a person of good news, it starts first in your family.