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Genesis | Week 2 | Full Service · Rewind

Rock Point Church

76 min

Pastor Daniel Goulding · Jan 16, 2023 · 4 min read · 76 min listen

The big idea

Sin makes us hide, but God comes looking for us not to condemn us but to set us free.

In this message

The big idea
Point 1 of 7Sin makes us hide, even though we're never hidden from God
Point 2 of 7Satan tempts subtly, questioning what God really said

Point 3 of 7Eve adds to God's word, and that mistake becomes the opening Satan needed
Point 4 of 7The enemy trades the ultimate for the immediate, and it's fun until it isn't
Point 5 of 7Adam was present the whole time and failed to lead
Point 6 of 7Shame drove them to hide behind fig leaves, and we still hide behind our own
Point 7 of 7God pursues us and asks 'where are you' not to condemn but to invite honesty
Take it into your week
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Genesis 3
Genesis 1
Genesis 2
Genesis 3:1
Genesis 3:2
Genesis 3:6

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Pastor Daniel Goulding · Jan 16, 2023 · 76 min watch · 2 min read

Genesis | Week 2 | Full Service

In this message

Big Idea
Key points
Application

Scripture in this message

Genesis 3
Genesis 1
Genesis 2
Genesis 3:1
Genesis 3:2
Genesis 3:6

Big Idea Key points Application

Big Idea

Sin makes us hide, but God comes looking for us not to condemn us but to set us free.

God isn't hunting you down to catch you in trouble — He's pursuing you to set you free. Genesis 3 shows that sin always makes us hide in shame, but God calls out "where are you?" not because He needs the answer, but because He wants us to stop running and be honest so He can begin His best work in us.

Key points

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1Sin makes us hide, even though we're never hidden from God
Pastor Daniel opens with a story about his daughter playing hide-and-seek with her flashlight left on, convinced she was hidden when everyone could see exactly where she was. He says that's a picture of how we approach sin spiritually — we think we're hiding well, but God already sees.
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2Satan tempts subtly, questioning what God really said
The serpent, a fallen angel once in charge of worship in heaven, approaches Eve not as something terrifying but as something harmless, and his opening move is the question, 'Did God really say...?' Pastor Daniel argues this same subtle question — did God really say you can't live that way — is still the enemy's go-to tactic to plant doubt about God's goodness.
3
3Eve adds to God's word, and that mistake becomes the opening Satan needed
Eve tells the serpent God said not to eat or even touch the fruit, though God never said anything about touching it. Pastor Daniel points out this small addition to Scripture is exactly the crack Satan exploits, which is why knowing the word of God accurately matters so much.
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4The enemy trades the ultimate for the immediate, and it's fun until it isn't
Satan convinces Eve that God is withholding good things from her, when in reality God was protecting her from shame, guilt, and judgment. Pastor Daniel says sin is genuinely fun for a while, but the problem is what happens after the fun ends, and the enemy always pushes instant gratification over what we want most.
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5Adam was present the whole time and failed to lead
Pastor Daniel notes Adam was standing right there during the entire exchange between Eve and the serpent and could have stopped it, but instead abdicated his responsibility to lead. He connects this to men today sitting on the sidelines while wives carry the spiritual weight of the home, calling it a root cause of cultural brokenness.
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6Shame drove them to hide behind fig leaves, and we still hide behind our own
The instant Adam and Eve sinned, their eyes were opened and they felt shame, sewing fig leaves to cover themselves instead of running to God. Pastor Daniel says we all have our own 'fig leaves' — success, family, even church attendance — that we hide behind rather than dealing honestly with God.
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7God pursues us and asks 'where are you' not to condemn but to invite honesty
God walks in the garden and calls out to Adam, 'Where are you?' — not because He doesn't know, but because He wants them to admit it. Pastor Daniel connects this to the gospel: unlike every other religion where people work back to God, Christianity is God running after us, culminating in Jesus as the second Adam who succeeded where the first failed.

Application

Pastor Daniel's charge centers on one question God still asks: where are you?

Stop hiding and admit where you are
Instead of pretending or performing spirituality, honestly tell God the mess you're in — that honesty is where He begins His best work.
Identify your fig leaf
Name the thing you hide behind, whether it's success, busyness with family, or simply showing up at church while living like God doesn't exist the other six days.
Men, step back into leading your home
Rather than sitting on the sidelines and letting your wife carry the spiritual weight, take up the responsibility to lead your family, even when it's uncomfortable.
Respond to Jesus right now
If you've never surrendered your life to Christ, confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus is Lord, laying down the running and hiding for good.

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Scripture in this message

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“We are continuing today in a series we started last week walking through the book of Genesis. And today is what I would argue the most important chapter in the entire bible. We're looking at Genesis chapter three”
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“And in Genesis chapter one, we see that God created the world. And we often read Genesis one trying to get into the minutiae of how God created the world, but that's not the point of Genesis one”
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And in Genesis chapter one, we see that God created the world. And in Genesis two, he creates you and I. He creates Adam and Eve. And Genesis two ends and it looks like the 60s on steroids.
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“God gave Adam and Eve one instruction in Genesis two. He says, you can eat from anything in this garden except for that one tree”
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“Here's how the story begins in verse one. It says that a serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the Lord God had made”
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“And Eve responds to him in verse two, she says, of course we may eat from the trees in the garden. The woman replied, it's only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden that we're not allowed to eat”
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“In verse six, the saddest verse in the Bible, it says, the woman was convinced. She was convinced that the enemy was right. She was convinced that God was keeping something from her”
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“Here's what happens after she gives it to her husband and he eats it. In verse seven, it says, at that moment, their eyes were open. And suddenly they felt the thing that God was trying to keep them from ever experiencing, shame at their nakedness”
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“Here's how the story finishes. It says in verse eight, when the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man and his wife heard the Lord God walking about in the garden so they hid from him among the trees”
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“And the Bible tells us in first Corinthians chapter 15 that just like through one person death entered the world, all of us sit here born into chaos, born into a mess, not because of our own doing, but because of the fall in the Garden of Eden”
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“But look at what it says in first Corinthians 15 as we begin to wrap this up. It says, so you see, just as death came into the world through a man, now the resurrection from the dead has begun through another man”

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Day 1

There is a reason the serpent opened with a question rather than a command. 'Did God really say?' is not a frontal attack — it is a slow lean, a gentle nudge toward suspicion. Satan's oldest strategy is to make you wonder whether God is actually trustworthy, whether His words mean what they say, whether perhaps He is holding something back from you. Pastor Daniel pointed out that this strategy has never changed. The same whisper that reached Eve in the garden reaches us today — through a culture that tells us God's boundaries are arbitrary, through moments of personal disappointment when we quietly wonder if God really has our best interest at heart. What makes the question so dangerous is that it sounds reasonable. It doesn't demand that you reject God outright; it only asks you to hold His word a little more loosely. But loosely held truth is truth that can be slowly replaced. The invitation of this first day is simply to notice where that question shows up in your own life. Where do you find yourself subtly doubting that what God says is actually true or actually good? Naming it honestly is not a failure — it is the beginning of the kind of honesty God is after.

For reflection

Where in your life right now do you hear the quiet question, 'Did God really say?' — and what has that doubt been costing you?

Pray

Pray for eyes to recognize the specific places where subtle doubt about God's word has taken root in your thinking.

Day 2

Eve knew God had spoken. She just didn't know exactly what He had said — and that small gap was enough. When she told the serpent that God said they must not eat the fruit 'or even touch it,' she added words God never spoke. Pastor Daniel's observation here is worth sitting with: imprecision with Scripture leaves us exposed. This is not about memorizing chapter and verse for its own sake. It is about the practical reality that when you don't know what God actually said, you are far more likely to accept a reasonable-sounding substitute. We live in a moment when it is easier than ever to be spiritually busy without being scripturally grounded — podcasts, social feeds, Sunday attendance — and none of those things are bad. But they are not a replacement for knowing God's word well enough to recognize when something is slightly off. The good news woven into this point is that the remedy is available to every one of us. You don't need a seminary degree. You need a Bible, a little consistency, and the willingness to let what you read actually land. Growing in your knowledge of Scripture is one of the most practical ways to love yourself well and to resist the kind of slow drift that started in the garden.

For reflection

How consistently are you spending time in Scripture on your own, and what might it look like to take one small step toward more regular engagement with God's word this week?

Pray

Pray for a genuine hunger for God's word and for the practical consistency to feed it.

Day 3

The enemy's deepest lie is not that God doesn't exist — it is that God is stingy. 'You won't die,' the serpent told Eve. 'God knows that when you eat it you will become just like God.' In other words: God is keeping something from you, and you deserve better. Pastor Daniel was clear that this is still the lie underneath so many of the choices we make that pull us away from God. We reach for the thing we were told not to have because somewhere we have absorbed the idea that God's 'no' is a deprivation rather than a protection. But think about what the fruit actually delivered. It promised wisdom and godlikeness. It produced shame, fear, and hiding. The restrictions God sets are never arbitrary — they mark the edges of what will harm us. This doesn't mean life within God's design is painless or easy. But it does mean that the path the enemy advertises as the fuller life is always the one that leads to the very things we were trying to avoid: guilt, isolation, and a sense that we have to cover ourselves. Where are you currently living as though God is withholding something good from you? That belief, more than almost anything else, is what keeps people running from Him.

For reflection

Is there an area of your life where you have been treating God's guidance as restriction rather than protection? What would it mean to trust His intention there?

Pray

Pray for a growing trust in God's character — that His boundaries come from love, not limitation.

Day 4

One of the most striking details in the fall narrative is what Adam was doing while Eve was being tempted. According to the text, he was right there with her — and he said nothing. Pastor Daniel named this plainly: Adam's silence was a failure of the responsibility he had been given. He was designed to lead, to protect, to stand in the gap — and instead he stepped back and let the moment pass him by. This resonates far beyond the garden. Many men today find it easier to be present without being engaged — there for the family in body, but checked out from the harder work of spiritual and relational leadership. And the consequences, as Genesis shows, don't stay contained. This is not about performance or pressure. God didn't design leadership as a burden He drops on men to crush them — He designed it as something they were built for and something that actually works when it's lived out. If you are a man reading this, the question is not whether you are failing. The question is whether today you are willing to step back into the room, re-engage with the people who need you, and take responsibility for your presence. If you are not a man, you likely love men who need this encouragement — and your own understanding of why this matters is worth deepening.

For reflection

In what relationship or responsibility have you been physically present but spiritually or emotionally on the sidelines — and what would stepping back in actually look like?

Pray

Pray for the courage to re-engage where you have been passive, and for the humility to take responsibility in your home, relationships, or community.

Day 5

The moment everything broke, Adam and Eve reached for fig leaves. Before God said a word, before any verdict was announced, shame was already doing its work. They sewed coverings for themselves and hid among the trees. Pastor Daniel pointed out that this instinct — to cover up and disappear when we have failed — is not something we inherited only as a theological idea. It is visceral. We feel it. When we step outside of God's design, the first impulse is not confession; it is concealment. We construct our own fig leaves — busyness, accomplishment, a carefully curated version of ourselves we show the world — because exposure feels like it would be the end of us. But here is what the story actually shows: the fig leaves didn't work. They never do. They covered the body but not the soul. And hiding from God doesn't make the shame go away; it just makes us lonelier in it. The question the rest of this week builds toward is whether you are willing to trade your fig leaves for the honest conversation God has been waiting to have with you. That conversation does not begin with God's anger. It begins with Him walking toward you.

For reflection

What is the fig leaf you are most tempted to stand behind — and what are you afraid would happen if you put it down?

Pray

Pray for the courage to stop concealing and the faith to believe that what is on the other side of honesty is grace, not condemnation.

Day 6

God already knew where they were. That is not a small detail — it is the whole point. When God called out, 'Where are you?' He was not gathering information. He was extending an invitation. Pastor Daniel said it directly: God pursues us not to punish us but to set us free. The question was not a trap; it was a door. That same question is the one God is asking you today. Not because He has lost track of you, but because honest admission is where He does His best work. You cannot be restored while you are hiding. You cannot receive help you have not acknowledged needing. And here is the remarkable thing: God initiates. He is the one walking through the garden. He is the one calling out. You are not required to clean yourself up before He comes looking — He is already on His way. Whatever state your heart is in right now, whatever you have been hiding or running from, the God of Genesis 3 is the same God who is present with you in this moment — not to expose you, but to reach you. The honest answer to 'Where are you?' is not the beginning of your punishment. It is the beginning of your rescue.

For reflection

If you answered God's question 'Where are you?' completely honestly today, what would you say?

Pray

Pray for the honesty to answer God's question truthfully, and for the faith to believe that His pursuit of you is motivated by love.

Day 7

The whole week has been building here. Adam failed, and the consequences were real and far-reaching. But the biblical story does not end in the garden. Paul writes that just as death came through one man, resurrection and life come through one man — Jesus, the second Adam. Pastor Daniel summed it up this way: Jesus did everything the first Adam failed to do. He stood firm where Adam stepped back. He took responsibility for a mess that was entirely not His fault. He faced the full weight of sin and death and came out the other side, alive. That changes everything about how we read Genesis 3. The shame, the hiding, the fig leaves, the exile — none of it is the final word. Because of Jesus, the rescue mission that began with God walking through the garden and calling out a name is completed. You are not stuck in the consequences of the fall forever. The condemnation has been answered. The hiding is no longer necessary. This is the week's invitation distilled into one: stop running, answer the question honestly, and trust that the God who pursued Adam and Eve in their worst moment has already made a way — through Jesus — to bring you all the way home.

For reflection

Looking back over this week, where have you felt God pursuing you — and what is one real, honest step you can take today to stop hiding and walk toward Him?

Pray

Pray for the courage to stop hiding, and give thanks that the rescue mission God began in the garden was completed in Jesus and is alive in you today.

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This message takes us back to the very first hiding place — the garden of Eden — and makes the case that what happened there isn't just ancient history, it's a story still playing out in every human heart.

Discussion questions

1
In Genesis 3:1, the serpent opens with 'Did God really say?' — a question, not an outright denial. What makes that kind of subtle doubt more dangerous than a direct attack on God's word?
2
When God walks through the garden asking 'Where are you?' in Genesis 3:9, the sermon points out He wasn't looking for information — He was extending an invitation. What does that tell us about how God responds to human failure?
3
The message describes shame as the immediate result of sin — Adam and Eve's first instinct was to hide, from each other and from God. Why do you think hiding feels so natural, even when it makes things worse?
4
Pastor Daniel pointed to Adam's silence in Genesis 3:6 as an example of stepping back from responsibility rather than stepping in. What does it look like, practically, when people step into the kind of leadership and responsibility they were designed for — in a home, a community, or a relationship?
5
In 1 Corinthians 15:21-26, Paul calls Jesus the second Adam — the one who did what the first Adam failed to do. How does framing Jesus that way change the way we understand what He came to accomplish?
6
Pastor Daniel challenged everyone to answer God's question — 'Where are you?' — honestly, describing that kind of openness as the place where God does His best work. As a group, what might it look like to cultivate that kind of honesty with God together, rather than only in private?

Pray together

Ask God to give each person the courage to stop hiding — to answer His 'Where are you?' honestly — and to rest in the truth that He pursues us not to condemn us but to restore us.

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