Aug. 31, 2025

Saints & Sinners

Adam

Primary Text: Genesis 1-3             

Last Teaching: Reviving the Weary

1) Endurance

Hebrews 12:2-3:  Let us fix our eyes on Jesus….  Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

DQ 1) Are you weary in your Christian journey?  Why?

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2) An Easy Yoke

Matthew 11:28-30: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.  Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.  For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” 

DQ 2) What makes Jesus’ yoke easy and His burden light?

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This Week’s Teaching:  

1) In His Image 

Genesis 1:26-27:  Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule….”  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 

Genesis 5:1-2:  When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.  He created them male and female and blessed them.  And when they were created, he called them “man.” 

DQ 1) What does it mean that humans are created in the image of God?

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2) The Command

Genesis 2:16-18:  And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.”  The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone.  I will make a helper suitable for him.”

DQ 2) Why was there a “tree of the knowledge of good and evil” in the garden?

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3) Eyes Wide Open

Genesis 3:6-7:  When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it.  She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.  Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. 

DQ 3) Why were Adam and Eve immediately afraid after they ate of the fruit of the tree?

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4) Cursed

Genesis 3:17-20:  To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’ Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life….”  Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.

DQ 4) What were the ramifications of the curse on the man and woman?

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5) Banished

Genesis 3:22-23:  And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil.  He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever.”  So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 

DQ 5) What does it mean to become like God and know good and evil?

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