Genesis 3: 14 – 15
These verses address the sentencing of the serpent.
Notice that God does not ask the serpent whether or why he has done what he has done. In regards to the serpent, God bypasses arraignment and moves immediately to sentencing. Also, God grants no reprieve and leaves the serpent no room for hope of redemption (unlike Adam & Eve). The serpent’s curse is final.
Verse 14: How appropriate it is that the serpent who used pride to entice the woman to eat, is now humbled by having to move about on his belly and eat dust.
**Reminds me of the saying, “let the punishment fit the crime.”
In verse 15, the serpent’s ability to strike at man is limited to the man’s heel, while man is permitted a vital, crushing blow to the serpent’s head. Of the two, who is depicted as the victor here?
In Genesis 3: 1 – 5, the woman and the serpent appear to be having an amicable- even friendly- conversation, in that no hostility toward one another is expressed. Notice, then how God’s curse upon the serpent in verse 15 includes an ongoing enmity between the woman and the serpent. While one could hardly argue that the serpent was acting as a true friend, it can be noted that relationships of all kinds are often destroyed by sin.
**Are there relationships in your life which have been adversely affected by sin – either yours or theirs?
**Do you have friends like the serpent who would have you follow them into sin?
Notice that God does not ask the serpent whether or why he has done what he has done. In regards to the serpent, God bypasses arraignment and moves immediately to sentencing. Also, God grants no reprieve and leaves the serpent no room for hope of redemption (unlike Adam & Eve). The serpent’s curse is final.
Verse 14: How appropriate it is that the serpent who used pride to entice the woman to eat, is now humbled by having to move about on his belly and eat dust.
**Reminds me of the saying, “let the punishment fit the crime.”
In verse 15, the serpent’s ability to strike at man is limited to the man’s heel, while man is permitted a vital, crushing blow to the serpent’s head. Of the two, who is depicted as the victor here?
In Genesis 3: 1 – 5, the woman and the serpent appear to be having an amicable- even friendly- conversation, in that no hostility toward one another is expressed. Notice, then how God’s curse upon the serpent in verse 15 includes an ongoing enmity between the woman and the serpent. While one could hardly argue that the serpent was acting as a true friend, it can be noted that relationships of all kinds are often destroyed by sin.
**Are there relationships in your life which have been adversely affected by sin – either yours or theirs?
**Do you have friends like the serpent who would have you follow them into sin?
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