Sermon Bible Study Guides

Genesis 5:1-32 - April 27th 2018

From Adam to Noah

Read Genesis 5:1-32

1. What is this passage?
2. How does this section start? What previous passage is it referring to?
3. What is the significance of starting the genealogy this way?
4. What statement occurs most often in this passage? What does the repetition teach us?
5. What is the exception to this statement? Why did it occur?
6. Why was Noah named Noah? What hope was Lamech expressing? What is this referring to?

Application:

1. Summarize the different truths about humanity that this passage teaches.
2. Why are these truths that matter for our lives today?
3. What encouragement should we find from this text?
4. How does this teach us to think about rest?

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?