Genesis 3:17-19 - Feminism, Weak Leadership & the Curse on Work
Pastor delivers the powerful final part of a 3-week series on Genesis 3 and the Fall.
Key takeaways:
- God never cursed Adam or Eve directly — only the serpent and the ground. Yet Adam bears the ultimate federal responsibility as the head of humanity.
- Adam’s two-fold sin: (1) He listened to the voice of his wife instead of God, and (2) he disobeyed God’s direct command.
- This “listening to the wife over God” is the root of centuries of male passivity and the reason weak men allowed (and even enabled) feminism to flourish.
- Classic effeminate slogans (“happy wife, happy life,” “she wears the pants,” etc.) are exposed as sinful expressions of marital disorder.
- Feminism is ultimately men’s fault — weak fathers in the 1940s-50s failed to lead and disciple their homes, producing the rebellion of the 1960s and beyond.
- The curse on the ground = poetic justice: Adam disobeyed over eating, so now eating (providing food) will be painful, sweaty, thorn-filled labor until he dies.
- Work itself is not the curse (work existed before the Fall), but now it is frustrating and exhausting.
- The entire curse pronounced on Adam is perfectly fulfilled and borne by Jesus, the Second Adam: sweat (Gethsemane), thorns (crown), death on a tree, laid in the dust — Christ absorbs it all so His people can be redeemed.
- Only the gospel of the Second Adam can reverse the curse and restore godly order in men, women, marriages, families, and society.
If you’re tired of chaos between the sexes and want biblical clarity on masculinity, responsibility, and redemption — this sermon is for you.
Ireland