Well, let me invite you to turn in your Bibles this morning to Genesis 3. We are doing a series through the book of Genesis and as we continue in our series through this book, we come to Genesis 3, verse 6. My goal today is to look at verses 6 through 8 as we continue. To study what one writer has described as the most tragic chapter in all of the Bible.
And yet inside of this tragedy that plays out in Genesis chapter 3, we see, hope, the early rays of hope, that is found in, in the gospel. So this is a wonderful textured A chapter full of tragedy and brokenness, as well as hope and glory all at the same time and we'll be looking at verses 6 through 8 as the narrative of all of this, unfolds. Genesis 3. When I was a kid, we lived, for a short spell in Laurel Bay, South Carolina, and we lived about a mile from, an inlet, that came up to the bay, from the Atlantic Ocean and during certain times of, of the year, we would often, go shrimping.
Near our house. Shrimping is where you catch Shrimp. and we would, wade out into the waters of Laurel Bay about waist-deep with shrimp nets, and, we would cast those nets and we would catch a variety of things, shrimp and a number of other things that we didn't even know how to identify, but it's one of my great memories of my childhood. shrimping with my dad and my siblings.
sometimes when we would try to find a better spot and we would try to move from one spot, to another, we would find ourselves walking in a really muddy, mucky area, along the bay, and I'm talking real mud, like, where when you're walking, your, your shoes are going like 4 inches into the muck. there on the bay, this muddy area that sometimes we would walk on would feature what looked like mud puddles. of various sizes. And I have a distinct memory one day of walking with my dad through one of these muddy, mucky areas that featured these puddles and my dad, pointed to the puddles and he said to me, whatever you do, don't step in those puddles....
