Sin Nature of Eve
The sin nature of Eve speaks of the sin nature inherited by all women and this sin nature creates a tendency in women to seek to manipulate and control their own husbands. This lesson is therefore placed under “Men topics” because all men must understand that women have a tendency to control and manipulate men so they must be on guard against this tendency in women and know how to rule their own household without being controlled by women.
1 Peter 3:7 (HCSB)
7 Husbands, in the same way, live with your wives with an understanding of their weaker nature yet showing them honor as coheirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
The married man must live with his wife in an understanding manner and know and realize that the woman has inherited the same sin nature as her mother Eve and so there exists an inherent (weakness) or tendency for women to seek to control their husbands. The husband is therefore to have an understanding of the weaker sin nature of the woman and learn how to deal with them accordingly.
The following eight bible translations all say that the desire of the woman will be to her husband. But this is a poor translation because they are saying something so rudimentary that it does not need to be spoken because that is already understood. That is like saying humans have a thirst for water or a hunger for food which is already obvious and therefore unnecessary to say. It is only natural that a woman should desire to be married because she is not complete without a husband and will remain barren as an unmarried woman. Being married is as natural to a woman as is thirst for water or hunger for food. Therefore, it is unnecessary to say that the woman’s desire will be for her husband and this statement misses the whole point of what this scripture is saying. This is an example of how all eight of the following bible translations missed the main point of what this scripture is intended to communicate.
Genesis 3:16 (KJV)
16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Genesis 3:16 (NKJV)
16 To the woman He said: “I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; In pain you shall bring forth children; Your desire shall be for your husband, And he shall rule over you.”
Genesis 3:16 (NASB)
16 To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth, In pain you will bring forth children; Yet your desire will be for your husband, And he will rule over you.”
Genesis 3:16 (AMP)
16 To the woman He said, I will greatly multiply your grief and your suffering in pregnancy and the pangs of childbearing; with spasms of distress you will bring forth children. Yet your desire and craving will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.
Genesis 3:16 (CJB)
16 To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your pain in childbirth. You will bring forth children in pain. Your desire will be toward your husband, but he will rule over you.”
Genesis 3:16 (NIV)
16 To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
Genesis 3:16 (NIV2011)
16 To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
Genesis 3:16 (HCSB)
16 He said to the woman: I will intensify your labor pains; you will bear children in anguish. Your desire will be for your husband, yet he will rule over you.
In this case the (NLT2) was the only translation out of nine translations that got this scripture in Genesis 3:16 correct. This translation says that it is the desire of the woman to control her husband but he will rule over her.
Genesis 3:16 (NLT2)
16 Then he said to the woman, “I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy, and in pain you will give birth. And you will desire to control your husband, but he will rule over you.”
It is evident that all women have the same tendency to usurp authority over men as their mother Eve did. Eve usurped authority over Adam and assumed leadership over her husband and this female leadership brought a curse to the entire earth!
The Deception of Eve
Genesis 3:1 (NIV2011)
1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
Satan appeared in the Garden in the form of a serpent. This is significant because a serpent is limited in what they can do (being without arms or legs) so the only threat that a snake has is the venom that comes out of their mouth. In the same way, Satan has no real power over humans other than the deception that comes out of his mouth. Satan can insert thoughts into the human mind and when humans speak out the devil’s words and take action based on his satanic thoughts then they can destroy everything including themselves! It is no wonder that Satan targeted Eve because the woman was the weaker vessel and the woman has an inherent tendency to be deceived.
1 Timothy 2:14 (NASB)
14 And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.
It was the woman who was deceived (not the man Adam) because Satan used the feminine-thinking of the woman against her and this proved to be her greatest weakness.
Genesis 3:2-4 (NASB)
2 The woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;
3 but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.’”
4 The serpent said to the woman, “You surely will not die!
Eve had misinformation and thought that if she even touched the tree she would die. Satan used this misinformation against Eve telling her she would not die. When Eve touched the fruit, she found she did not die and from that point she began to doubt God’s command not to eat it. If she did not die touching it, then she thought she most certainly would not die for eating it either!
Genesis 3:5-6 (NASB)
5 “For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.
The evil genius Satan preyed upon the misinformation of Eve and got her to touch the fruit and then sowed doubts in her mind that she would not die if she also ate the fruit. Satan then used her feminine-thinking against her. The feminine-thinking of the woman (is based on equality for all) so Satan told her that it was not right that God was on a higher level than Eve. If Eve would only eat the forbidden fruit the she could be like God (or be equal to God)! This was the exact same sin for which Satan was expelled from heaven because he attempted to be like the Most High God and tried to be equal with God! So, Eve was deceived with her feminine thinking of equality for all and so she ate the fruit.
At this point, Eve died spiritually but Adam was still alive! Then Eve brought the fruit to her husband and apparently Adam did not want to be separated from his wife by death so he willfully committed suicide with Eve and he also ate of the fruit (with full knowledge of the consequences).
1 Timothy 2:14 (NASB)
14 And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.
Adam was not deceived but instead he willfully ate the fruit of his own human freewill. But was Eve who was deceived to eat the fruit and then she assumed leadership over her husband and brought the fruit to Adam after she had already eaten it herself.
Until today women have sought to rebel against God’s appointed role for them as helpmeets to men. Whenever women assume leadership roles this brings a curse to households and societies and nations.
Men must have an understanding of the sin nature of women and the natural tendency of women to seek to control over their husbands. Men are called by God to be leaders of the home but if men are passive, they will allow women to rule and this will bring a curse to their household!
1 Corinthians 11:3 (NIV2011)
3 But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
God has established a divine chain-of-command with God the Father as the head of Christ and Christ the head of the man and the man as the head of the wife. Also, parents are placed in authority over unmarried children so there is to be submission to authority from the top to the bottom with God as the head of all things!
See the lesson “Head Covering and Submission” for more details
Deuteronomy 24:5 (NASB)-M
5 “When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out with the army nor be charged with any duty; he shall be free at home one year and shall happily be united as “one-person” together with his wife whom he has taken.
It should be clarified that the purpose of a man spending a year at home with his new bride was so that the man and the woman could become unified together as “one-person” in marriage. This requires some time and communication and understanding between them because a man cannot force his wife to submit to him. She must choose to submit out of her own human freewill and do so in order to honor and glorify God just as Sarah did who honored her own husband Abraham.
1 Peter 3:5(AMP)
5 For it was thus that the pious women of old who hoped in God were [accustomed] to beautify themselves and were submissive to their husbands [adapting themselves to them as themselves secondary and dependent upon them].
1 Peter 3:6 (AMP)-M
6 It was thus that Sarah obeyed Abraham [following his guidance and acknowledging his headship over her by] calling him lord (master, leader, authority). And you are now her true daughters if you do right without being frightened by any fear (of submission to male authority).
Sarah called her husband her “lord” because she understood God’s divine chain-of-command. If the woman will honor her husband and submit to him then she is in fact honoring and submitting to Christ who placed her husband in authority over her.
Ephesians 5:22 (AMP)
22 Wives, be subject (be submissive and adapt yourselves) to your own husbands as [a service] to the Lord.
God has called the woman to adapt herself to her own husband because the man is placed as head over the wife and if she is trying to rule the household there will be conflict. A creature with two-heads could not accomplish anything without conflict so God has called the wife to submit to her husband’s leadership. Submitting to the husband is a service to the Lord by the woman who fears God and obeys God’s commands.
Ephesians 5:22-24 (NIV2011)
22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
The wife is commanded by God to submit to her husband in everything because without submission they can never become “one-person” together as a married couple.
Genesis 2:20-24 (NASB)
20 The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him.
21 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place.
22 The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.
23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.”
24 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.
It is significant that Eve was not created from the dust of the ground in the same way that Adam was created. If Eve was created from the dust, she would have been a separate being or equal with Adam. But instead Eve was created from the flesh and bone of Adam and at that time God also removed everything that was feminine from within Adam and placed these feminine qualities in Eve. When a man is joined to his wife in marriage then everything that was once missing in the man is now restored in marriage to a woman. Also, the woman is made complete when she is married to her husband. Both single men and single woman are barren until they are joined together in marriage to the opposite gender and become “one-complete” person together.
It seems also that the nipples seen on men are an indication that at one time men had feminine qualities which were later removed and placed into the woman Eve. Men having nipples shows that a trace of these feminine qualities remain and speaks of the fact that when a man is joined together with his wife in marriage then everything that was missing in him is again restored.
It is only natural for men and woman to be joined together in marriage because what is missing in them is completed by being joining together with their spouse of opposite gender. Two men do not complete each other because they both have all of the same parts and two women cannot complete each other because they also have all of the same parts. Only the marriage of those of opposite gender will fulfill and complete both genders in marriage as they become “one-complete” person together.
Unification of Man and Woman in Marriage
Deuteronomy 24:5 (NASB)-M
5 “When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out with the army nor be charged with any duty; he shall be free at home one year and shall happily be united as “one-person” together with his wife whom he has taken.
It can take many years for a man and woman to become fully united as one-person. There is much to be done as they get to know each other and learn to become “one-person” together. But this process can be greatly hindered if the woman refuses to do her part in adapting herself to her own husband. Any type of resistance in this process can keep a man and woman from fully becoming “one-person” together. Giving a man free time to spend with his wife for a full-year is helpful so they can begin the process of becoming “one-person” together as newlyweds.
Setting things In Order
When I was first married, I set my wife down and read to her the scriptures concerning God’s requirements for a wife to submit to her husband in everything. It is important that the wife understand this because it is part of her sin nature as a woman to seek to usurp authority or control her husband (if he is passive and allows this to happen). So, I wanted to get this part straight from the beginning and established a clear-cut chain-of-command in our household as based on scriptural precedent!
Ephesians 5:22-24 (NLT2)
22 For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
23 For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church.
24 As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything.
Wives are to submit to their husbands as unto the Lord which means that when they submit to their male authority, they are submitting to the Lord who placed his male authority over them.
Matthew 22:1-7 (NASB)
1 Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying,
2 “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son.
3 “And he sent out his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding feast, and they were unwilling to come.
4 “Again he sent out other slaves saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited, “Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and my fattened livestock are all butchered and everything is ready; come to the wedding feast.”‘
5 “But they paid no attention and went their way, one to his own farm, another to his business,
6 and the rest seized his slaves and mistreated them and killed them.
7 “But the king was enraged, and he sent his armies and destroyed those murderers and set their city on fire.
When the king sent out his servants and these same servants were dishonored and abused and mistreated then the king took it personally! This enraged king sent his armies and destroyed those murderers and burned their city! This parable communicates that truth that a king delegated his authority to his servants and when the servants were disdained it was the same thing as if the king himself who sent them was also disdained.
In the same way, when God places a male authority over a woman and this same woman dishonors her male authority then it is the same thing as if she dishonored God who placed that authority over her. For this reason any type of rebellious behavior toward male authority from the wife can bring judgment upon the woman.
Wife Submission is First Requirement
It is evident that God first commands the wife to submit to her husband and secondly after she submits the husband is required to love his wife. This cannot be done backward because a man cannot love a woman who constantly resists him and denies him his God-given right to be head of the home (by her lack of submission).
Colossians 3:18-19 (NLT2)
18 Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting for those who belong to the Lord.
19 Husbands, love your wives and never treat them harshly.
The scripture above first mentions wife submitting to her husband and then secondly it mentions the husband loving his wife. It is backward when a rebellious woman says, “If he will love me first then I will submit to him!” This will never work because a man cannot love a rebellious wife who is resisting him from assuming his rightful place of leadership in the home.
Ephesians 5:22-25 (NASB)
22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body.
24 But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,
Again, the wife is first commanded to submit to her husband and secondly the husband is to love his wife. This order was established in the scripture for the important precedent that the wife is the first one to render submission to her male authority and when that is done then the husband is able to love his submissive wife as God commanded.
1 Peter 3:1-2 (NASB)
1 In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives,
2 as they observe your chaste and respectful behavior.
Godly women are required to submit to their own husbands (even those husbands who are unbelievers). The submissive attitude of a godly woman can actually lead an unbeliever husband to the Lord without the wife saying a word to him or preaching to him about salvation. All men need to have a submissive wife and such godly behavior can even win unbelieving husbands to the Lord because they will want to accept the God of their godly wives because they are so grateful for this wife submission. It is easy for a husband to love a submissive wife because his heart will naturally be filled with love for her. It is only rebellious refusal of a wife to submit which will provoke the husband into a rage because of the disrespect being shown to him as God’s ordained leader in the home!
Titus 2:5 (NLT2)
5 to live wisely and be pure, to work in their homes, to do good, and to be submissive to their husbands. Then they will not bring shame on the word of God.
This scripture says that an unsubmissive wife will bring shame on the word of the Lord because a believing wife should obey God and submit to her male authority. It is the ungodly unbeliever women who are displaying female rebellion against male authority but this type of bad behavior should not exist with a God-fearing woman who is a believer.
Proverbs 14:1 (NIV2011)
1 The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.
This scripture above is not referring to a natural house made or bricks and lumber but it speaks of the spiritual covering of authority of a man over his wife. A wise woman will build up and edify her man so that he will be empowered to success so that she will equally share in his rewards as a joint-heir of all of God’s blessing that comes to them as a married couple. But if the woman disdains her man and puts him down it is like she is crawling on top of her own roof and tearing a hole in the roof. She is tearing down her own man and her man is the source of blessing for her. Only a foolish woman will tear down her own man because he is her covering and her source of blessing from God. To tear down a husband is like tearing down your own house! It only does harm to the woman herself when she tears down her husband who is her spiritual covering.
All women must be taught how to build up their husband and edify them and empower them to success. Young girls should be mentored about this long before they marry so they will not yield to the sin nature of Eve within them but instead learn to submit to male authority so they can become “one-person” together with their own husbands.
1 Corinthians 14:34 (NASB)
34 The women are to keep silent in the churches; for they are not permitted to speak, but are to subject themselves, just as the Law also says.
Again, women in the church (speaking of believers) are required to submit themselves to their own male authority. If they do not do this then there is no hope of them becoming “one-flesh” or “one-person” together with their own husbands. The households of the believers are to be examples of order and martial unity as husbands and wives flow as one-complete person together with the wife submitting to her own husband.
There are some carnal Christian women who will not submit unless the husband gives into their demands first but behavior this is no submission at all. Rebellious women also have many types of feminine tricks that they employ to control their husband (such as removing peace from the home in order to get their husbands to give them what they want). They may bang pots and pans and slam doors and stomp around in stiff-legged manner and all of these things are intended to control and manipulate their husband to give them what they want. This is not submission and should not have any part of the behavior of woman who is a believer.
Men must be forewarned never to give in or yield to the feminine tricks of a manipulating woman or else she will usurp his authority and rule the home and every type of disorder and evil will exist within that household. A man who seeks to gain peace by compromise will not be the head of his own household and there will be constant strife and resentment in his heart when he loses his leadership in the home to a manipulating woman.
1 Timothy 3:5 (NKJV)
5 (for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?);
In fact, it is a sign of immaturity when a weak and passive man is being controlled and manipulated by a woman. All of the offices of spiritual leadership for the Fivefold Ministry and (even the deacons) require that a man have his household in order with his wife submissive and his children obedient. If a man does not know how to rule his own household then he has no business trying to take care of the church of God. All of the leadership positions within the church require that the men leading the church have a household at home that is orderly with their wives and children under submission to their authority.
If a man has disorder in his home with the wife ruling the household and his children disobedient then it is a sign of spiritual immaturity. It is as if such a passive man is still a baby wearing diapers and using a bottle because no real man will permit such disorder in his household.
It is for this reason that men must learn to put the monkey on the back of their rebellious wives who refuse to submit to them. Explain what the scriptures mean and tell them that it is their duty to obey God and submit to their male authority. From that time forth, the judgment will come upon the rebellious wife for her insubordination rather than the man.
But if the man does nothing at all and just allows this rebellion under his roof then the judgment will come first upon the passive man because God holds the man accountable as the head of the home for any disorder that exists in his household.
Exodus 4:24-26 (NKJV)
24 And it came to pass on the way, at the encampment, that the LORD met him and sought to kill him.
25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son and cast it at Moses’ feet, and said, “Surely you are a husband of blood to me!”
26 So He let him go. Then she said, “You are a husband of blood!”–because of the circumcision.
Moses apparently allowed his pagan wife to manipulate and control him because he disobeyed God and did not circumcise one of his boys as God had commanded. It was for this reason that God sought to kill Moses but then his wife Zipporah circumcised the boy and then God let Moses go and he did not die. This means that the judgment will come to the head of the home first if the man allows his wife to manipulate and control him. Apparently, Zipporah witnessed the circumcision of the first son and she threw a fit and said that Moses would never do that to her second son. Zipporah must have employed all kinds of feminine tricks to manipulate her husband until he finally gave into her and did not pursue circumcising the second son anymore.
But Zipporah was about to be made a widow and as Moses lay dying under God’s judgment, she circumcised the boy herself and threw the foreskin with disdain at the feet of Moses saying he was a husband of blood to her! This pagan woman disdained the religion of Moses and disdained his God and disdained Jewish circumcision. This is the reason the word of God forbids a believer to marry an unbeliever. If a woman like this can manipulate her husband by removing peace from the home (and this man disobeys God as a result) then the judgment will come to him first because he is the head of the home. After the man is killed off then the judgment will come to his rebellious widow!
1 Kings 21:24-25 (NIV2011)
24 “Dogs will eat those belonging to Ahab who die in the city, and the birds will feed on those who die in the country.”
25 (There was never anyone like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of the LORD, urged on by Jezebel his wife.
Ahab was a passive and weak man who allowed his wife Jezebel to control him. Jezebel used her husband’s authority as king to execute and kill the prophets of God and replace them with pagan priests of Baal. Jezebel did many murders and evil using the usurped authority of her passive husband Ahab. It was Ahab who was judged first and after he was dead then the judgement came to Jezebel who was thrown out of the window and trampled with horses and devoured by dogs.
All men should take notice that God holds them responsible for any disorder that occurs within their own households. If they do not use their God-given authority to set things in order then they will be judged by God for it. Judgment always comes to the man first because he is the head of the household in God’s sight.
But what if his rebellious wife refuses to submit to him? This is when the man of the house should put the monkey on the back of his rebellious wife and read the scriptures to her about God’s commands to submit to male authority. Then he can make his will known to her and tell her it is up to her to choose to submit to him or she can come under God’s judgment. By doing this the man has saved his own neck and he can tell God that he spoke with his wife and made his will clear to her and now it is up to the woman to choose to submit. At this point God’s judgment will come upon the rebellious wife and if she refused to repent and submit then she can perish under that judgment. The husband does not even have to pray for his rebellious wife but could let her perish under judgment and then he is free to remarry a submissive wife. So, this is a way that the man can relieve himself of judgment and place the judgment on his rebellious wife who refuses to submit to his male authority in the home.
If, however the man does nothing and remains passive with the disorder in his home then the judgment will come upon him first as head of the household. He will perish under judgment before his rebellious widow gets what is coming to her just like Jezebel did.
Genesis 3:16 (NLT2)
16 Then he said to the woman, “I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy, and in pain you will give birth. And you will desire to control your husband, but he will rule over you.”
The purpose of this lesson it to warn men that all women have the sin nature of Eve within them and it is their tendency to seek to control their husbands and manipulate them using feminine tricks. If the husband is a real man he will refuse to be controlled and he will take action to place the monkey on the back of his rebellious wife. In doing so the man will have saved his own neck and relieved himself of God’s judgment and from that point forward it will be the rebellious wife who will have God’s judgment instead of him.