When God created man, it was His desire to have a family of men and women in His likeness and in His image with whom He could fellowship, share his life, and love. God spent the first five days of creation preparing a home for the sons and daughters of His love. The Lord God created all the stars of heaven, the sun and the moon to give light upon the earth for His sons. 
All the beautiful flowers, tree, mountains, rivers and all the brilliant colors of the world were given and prepared for the enjoyment and pleasure of the men and women whom He would create to be His own. On the sixth day of creation, God made man and woman in His image and gave them the breath of life. And God saw all His creation and acknowledged that it was good God placed the man and woman He had made in a beautiful garden prepared just for them. Among the trees in the garden were the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the tree of life. God gave them permission to eat from any tree in the garden, including the tree of life. However, there was one tree from which God commanded them not to eat; for if they ate from it they would die. Notice that God set before His beloved ones a choice of whether to obey God, love Him and live – or to disobey Him, not love Him and die. The God of heaven and earth has never forced man to love Him – or serve Him, but desired that they would love Him and choose Him with their free will and from their heart.
Memory Verses:
Romans 5:9 - And since we have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God’s condemnation.
Galatians 1:4 - Jesus gave his life for our sins, just as God our Father planned, in order to rescue us from this evil world in which we live.
1. What did Adam and Eve choose to do?
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We see that Adam and Eve chose not to love God and obey Him, but they chose to rebel against God and disobey Him.
ReplyDelete2. What was the secret motive of their heart?
(See Genesis 3:5 and Isaiah 14:13-14)
This is the basic sin of all men and women. Each has tried to be his god and exalt his will above God's will.
ReplyDelete3. On what three things were Adam and Eve's sin based? (See Genesis 3:6 and 1 John 2:16)
The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life are the root cuases to all sin in this world.
ReplyDelete4. What do we find God doing in the garden, and what was the desire of His heart? (See Genesis 3:8-9)
The God of heaven and earth came to the garden to fellowship with the sons and daughters of His love and to share His heart with them, finding only that they had broken His commandment and had gone their own independent way. By turning away from God in disobedience, man lost the blessing and protection of God and came under a curse and the power of the devil. They were cast out of the garden losing their fellowship with the Father. Because of Adam and Eve's transgression, the knowledge of good and evil has come to all men; every unregenerate man has desires bent toward sin.
ReplyDelete5. What does the Scripture teach about the spiritual condition of a man or woman who willfully sins against God? (See Romans 3:10-19, 23)
6. If all have sinned willfully and are not seeking God, then how can men come to God? (See Isaiah 19:20, Luke 19:10, and John 6:44)
ReplyDelete7. Therefore what is it that brings men to repentance? (See Romans 2:4)
ReplyDeleteIt is the love and kindness of God that goes out and seeks rebellious men. It is the love of God that strives with the heart of men and women convicting them of sin and drawing them to Himself. It is the love of God that continues to push the stubborn and rebellious man and woman into a corner until he gives up and surrenders his life of sin and death. Yet, God has given every man a free will to choose Him and live or to reject His provision and die.
ReplyDelete8. Can we save ourselves by our own good works? (See Ephesians 2:8-9, Titus 3:5)
9. Can we be saved by keeping the law? (See Galatians 3:21, Romans 3:20)
ReplyDelete10. What was Paul's testimony about himself in regard to the law and to sin? (See Philippians 3:6, 1 Timothy 1:15)
ReplyDelete11. What was the purpose of the law? (See Romans 3:19-20)
ReplyDelete12. Under the Old Covenant, how was a man cleansed from sin and brought into a right relationship with God? (See Leviticus 17:11)
ReplyDeleteThe blood sacrifice as the atonement and covering for sin was instituted by God from the beginning of time. Adam, Abel, Abraham, Jacob and finally the nation of Israel all offered blood sacrifices for the atonement of sin. God required animal sacrifices, for their blood is pure, innocent and undefiled; it is free from the nature bent toward sin. Under the Old Covenant, the shedding of this blood brought a covering and atonement for man's sin.
ReplyDelete13. What did Jesus come to do? (See Matthew 1:20-23 and 1 John 3:5)
14. What was said of Him? (See John 1:29)
ReplyDeleteThe blood line comes from the father. The Bible tells us that the life of the flesh is in the blood. In Jesus there was no sin. He was not born from Adam. The blood of God ran through Jesus' veins, and it was that blood which was shed for the sins of the world.
ReplyDelete15. Is the blood of Jesus a better sacrifice than the blood of animals? (See Hebrews 9:13-14)
The atonement that Jesus made was greater than the atonement under the Old Convenant. His atonement was more than just an offering for the forgiveness of sins was available through the blood of animals under the Old Covenant.
ReplyDelete16. What did Jesus actually do for us on the cross? (See 1 Peter 2:24, Galatians 3:13, Romans 6:6-7)
Consequently, we see that the atonement of Jesus not only provided forgiveness but brought complete deliverance from sin, sickness, and the curse.
ReplyDelete17. What is the "New Covenant" that Jesus established and made available through His blood? (See Hebrews 8:8-12, and Ezekiel 36:26-27)
18. How can we become partakers of this New Covenant? (See Acts 3:19, Romans 10:9-10)
ReplyDelete19. Why did Jesus come? (See John 3:16-17)
ReplyDelete20. Who is under God's judgement? (See John 3:18-19)
ReplyDeleteIf men and women reject God's provision for them under the New Covenant through Jesus the Messiah, there is no way they can be saved; for there is no other atonement apart from the cross of Jesus Christ.
ReplyDelete21. What is the final end of all unrepentant sinners? (See Matthew 25:41, Revelation 20:12-15)
22. What is God's desire? (See 2 Peter 3:9)
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