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Genesis 4:1-26 - April 20th 2018

When Sin Masters Man

Read Genesis 4:1-16

  1. What does Eve say when she becomes pregnant? What might this be referring back to?
  2. What is the reason for Cain’s murder of Abel?
  3. How did God respond to Cain’s actions?
  4. How does Cain respond to God’s judgment?
  5. How does God respond to Cain’s objection?

Application:

  1. What should we learn from the difference in Cain and Abel’s offerings?
  2. How can we apply the warning God gives to Cain (v6,7)?
  3. Why do you think the Lord gives Cain the mark? What does that teach us about God’s character?

Read Genesis 4:17-26

  1. What happens to Cain after he goes away?
  2. What things to Cain’s descendants accomplish?
  3. What is the meaning of Lamech’s song to his wives?
  4. At the end of the chapter, Moses goes back to an earlier point in time to point out something. What is it, and why is that important (compare with Gen. 3:15)?
  5. What does it mean that people began to ‘call on the name of the Lord’?

Application:

  1. What do we see happening to the pattern of Cain’s jealousy and hatred toward his brother?
  2. God provides another ‘offspring’ for Adam and Eve. What does this teach us about God’s character and provision? How can this apply to our lives?

 

Posted by Jon Pentecost with
Tags: abel, cain, sin, jealousy
in Genesis

Genesis 3:1-24 - April 13th 2018

the Fall

Read Genesis 3:1-6

  1. Who is introduced in v.1 and what does he do?
  2. What does his question imply and what does it seem to suggest?
  3. Who responds and how? Why is this significant?
    1. Where is the Adam?
  4. What does the serpent say and what effect does it have on the woman and man?
  5. What was God's designed order for the world and what happened to it?

Application:

  1. What do we learn about temptation?
  2. How does the devil seek to tempt us?
  3. How can we fight temptation?

Read Genesis 3:7-24

  1. Working through this whole section - what are the consequences of sin?
    1. Consider in terms of relationships.
    2. Consider in terms of our role(s).
    3. Consider in terms of the world we live in.
  2. How do the man and woman explain themselves?
    1. What does this show?
  3. What signs of mercy and grace are given, even within the context of God's judgment? How is this fulfilled in the story of the Bible? 

Application:

  1. What does this whole chapter teach us about the world we live in?
  2. How should the consequences of sin cause us to think, feel, act?
  3. What is the solution to the fall? How can it's consequences be reversed?
Posted by Mark Donald with
Tags: adam, eve, grace, judgment, mercy, satan, serpent, sin, temptation, the fall

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