Lesson 14 A Review of Creation with Respect to Man’s Solution for His Sin
A. Overall Lesson Objective
•To review God’s assessments, whose function of Oversight and Quality Control continue to be reflected in the New Testament.
B. Learning Competencies
•The New Testament shows the fulfillment of God’s intent to save us from our sins—the problem that has been with us since Adam and Eve.
•Coming to God requires a recognition of our condition, and that condition developed from what began in the first chapters of Genesis.
C. Lesson
Selected Readings on the Solution to Man’s Basic Problem
Read the portions of the Bible that are referenced below, which are mirrored in many other verses. They refer to God’s solution to the problem of sin in us and how it affects us as we live our life within his creation. Remember, He made our earthly home for a purpose that involved Him, so when it does not involve Him, things don’t go well in our soul. He remains the Master Overseer and Chief of all quality control functions. He prepares a people like a master chef prepares a special feast, except we are also to sit with Him at the feast.
Matthew 7:24-27; 16:24-27
🦕 CT? The storms of life, like those mentioned in Matthew 7, affect all of us. The issue is not whether the storms take place. The issue is whether we hear Him and His words, which, in house-building terms, means building on a proper foundation. Remember the Fall of man. What did Adam and Eve ignore? Remember the Genesis Flood. Who heard God and did what He said? Who did not? What happened? The Matthew 16 verses show the issue of hearing and following God in a similar way. What is the result if you seem to gain everything but ignore God and your relationship to Him? Wasn’t that the same problem that man had at the beginning?
John 3:16-18; 4:13-14; 6:35-40
The famous verses in John 3, 4, and 6 affirm over and over the purposeful love of God to save us from the power of sin that so easily twists and destroys life. As earlier lessons show, the problem begins with the Fall of Man in Genesis. The solution is in Christ, according to the Record, who makes a way to break the power of the sin. But what is our part if we choose to believe this? Look in each of these three portions of John with respect to 1 Cor 15:20-22,45 and answer the following questions:
🦕 CT? How is the first Adam the same as the last Adam?
🦕 CT? How is the last Adam different from the first Adam?
🦕 CT? If Christ, the last Adam, can be in the heart and soul of a person, what is He able to do for us that is different from the abilities and failures of the first Adam?
D. Assignment
Read Genesis 1 and 2.
E. Learning Activity
Divide into teams. Replicate Luke 6:46-49 by having each team get two pans, some sand, a flat rock, and a couple containers of water. Set up a house made of cards to replicate the house on sand and the house on rock in the two pans. Pour water near a corner of the houses to replicate the storm. Record what happens.
🦕 CT? Describe the parable in Luke 6:46-49 in your own words based on the experiment. Relate the findings to John 6:35 and conclude what is our responsibility and part if we want God.
F. Concluding Assessment
As the perfect Overseer and Quality Control Chief, God continues to offer us a solution to sin, which entered at the beginning (Genesis). Christ is the solution for our sin if we listen and respond to Him. This is the Good News.