Genesis 3:8-9 KJV,ASV

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 3:8-12

MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Genesis 3:8-12THE SAD EFFECTS OF YIELDING TO TEMPTATIONI. That yielding to temptation is generally followed by a sad consciousness of physical destitution. “And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together and made themselves aprons” (Genesis 3:7). Many a man has thought to enrich himself by yielding to the temptations of Satan, he has expected not merely to gain knowledge, but also social influence,... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 3:1-24

Genesis 3:0 Consider: (1) some of the consequences, and (2) some of the corroborative proofs of the fall. I. Beside and behind the outward consequences, there were inward results far more terrible. A disease had appeared on earth of the most frightful and inveterate kind. This disease was (1) a moral disease. The grand disease of sin combines all the evil qualities of bodily distempers in a figurative yet real form, and turns not the body, but the soul, into a mass of malady. (2) The disease is... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 3:8

Genesis 3:8 I. That which strikes us first of all is, that Adam represents the average sinner. A man may do worse than Adam. Many men have done and do worse than hide themselves from God after outraging Him by sin. Adam's conduct proves that the sense of God's presence, awfulness, greatness, was still intact in his soul. II. "They hid themselves." It was not the result of a consultation; it was an instinct. Two motives would concurrently have determined the action of Adam. (1) Fear. God's... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 3:8-9

Genesis 3:8-9 As the account of Eve's temptation and fall truly represents the course of corruption and sin, so the behaviour of our first parents afterwards answers exactly to the feelings and conduct of those who have forfeited their innocence and permitted the devil to seduce them into actual sin. Shame makes the sinner shrink and draw back, and not endure to have his thoughts and doings watched by any eye whatever. As often as he sins wilfully, he must secretly wish there were no God to see... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 3:9

Genesis 3:9 I. Note here the anticipative sentence of the human conscience pronouncing doom on itself. The guilty rebel hides from the Divine Presence. II. The inexorable call which brings him immediately into the Divine Presence. III. The bringing to light of the hidden things of darkness. The soul has many hiding-places. There are: (1) The hiding-place of self-complacent propriety; (2) the hiding-place of the reasoner; (3) the hiding-place of theological dogmas. But the true hiding-place for... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 3:1-24

Chapter 3Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden ( Genesis 3:1 )?Now the serpent was not always what it is today. It didn't always writhe along on the ground. That is a part of the result of the curse-living in the dust, eating the dust. What its mode of propelling itself was we really don't know. Whether or not it was in erect position, whether or not it... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 3:1-24

Genesis 3:1. The serpent. The rabbins and the christian doctors have largely sported their opinions here. St. Cyril contends that Satan assumed the figure of the serpent, and so talked with the woman, while the letter of the text indicates that he spake in the serpent, as the angel spake in Balaam’s ass. The main point here is, the origin of evil, which occasioned the ruin and miseries of man. These most eventful and interesting occurrences were, no doubt, delivered by Adam to Methuselah,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 3:8

Genesis 3:8They heard the voice of the Lord GodGod’s voice in natureWhether their ears as well as their hearts heard God’s voice does not much matter.It would have mattered if their ears and not their hearts had heard. They doubtless often heard Him in the evening hour--the twilight which all the faiths of all cultivated nations have chosen as their special season of devotion. When they heard, and when men now hear God’s voice in garden, meadow, wood, of what does it tell? I. OF GOD’S PRESENCE.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 3:9-12

Genesis 3:9-12Where art thou?--God’s questionI. The speaker is God; the person spoken to is the representative of us all. II. The call is--1. Individual. 2. Universal. III. God calls in three ways. 1. In conscience. 2. In providence. 3. In revelation. IV. His call is--1. To attention. 2. To recognition of God’s being. 3. To reflection on our own place and position. V. It is a call which each must answer for himself, and which each ought to answer without delay. (Dean Vaughan.)An important... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 3:8

Gen 3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. Ver. 8. And they heard the voice of the Lord. ] Either speaking something by himself of that which Adam hath done against his command; as who should say, Hath he served me so indeed? or else calling to Adam in a mighty thunder, as to Pharaoh, Exo 9:28 or in a terrible whirlwind, as to Job, Job 38:1... read more

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 3:8-12

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 3:8

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 3:8-9

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 3:9

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 3:1-24

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 3:1-24

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 3:8

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 3:9-12

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 3:8

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