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SUNDAY SCHOOL
GENESIS BIBLE STUDY
Read Genesis 1-3.
In reading this familiar story, what was
something you learned that you had
never noticed before?
How did God create people?

Genesis 1:26-28
Genesis 2:7
Genesis 2:18, 20-23
What changed when Adam and Eve
disobeyed God?
Genesis 2:25 and 3:10
Genesis 2:17 and 3:3-4, 22b
Genesis 3:5, 7, 22
Genesis 3:8
When Adam and Eve sinned, what did
God do about it?
Genesis 3:8-9, 11, 13
Genesis 3:14-19, 23-24
Genesis 3:21
 God created the world and started the human race.
 God explains this past, present and future relationship with mankind
 God prepared life and gave us good, clear directions for living it.
 God wants to come walk with us in the “cool of the day” so we can
personally know and love Him.
 But we each have chosen to believe a lie and disobey Him.
 So, God, as the Righteous Judge, declares us guilty and allows the
consequences of our sin to separate us from Him; and life becomes misery
and death
 But God loves His creation and has a plan to bring us back to Himself and to
cover all our sin and guilt.
 In this story we see God on a mission to redeem and
reconcile the world to Himself. First, He went “looking
for” Adam and Eve, although He knew exactly where they
were. He asked why they were afraid and hiding, already
knowing all about what they had done. He practically said,
“Come now, let us reason together. ...
 Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as
snow” (Isaiah 1:18, NIV). Sin and Satan and man’s
rebellion wrecked God’s perfect creation, but God had a
plan and a promise.
InGenesis 3:15, who was God judging?
Who is the “offspring (or seed) of the
woman”?
What does “crush (or bruise) your head”
mean?
What does “you will strike (or bruise)
his heel” mean?
InGenesis 3:21, where did
God get the skin or hide to
make garments?
How are the clothes in
Genesis 3:21 like those in
Matthew 22:11-13?
How are the “clothes” in Genesis 3:7
like those in Isaiah 64:6?
 In the judgment in the Garden of Eden, God declared
His mission plan in coded words. He promised a
Messiah, a descendant of Eve, who would conquer
Satan and rescue His creation. He also foretold that this
Messiah would be assaulted by sin and death on the
cross. His plan was Jesus, the Lamb of God, “slain
from the creation of the world” (Revelation 13:8, NIV).
 Imagine Adam and Eve standing naked, guilty and terrified before the
God and Creator of the universe, childishly draped with useless dried-
up fig leaves.
 They watched as God revealed the only solution to the sin problem.
He called an innocent animal, perhaps a lamb, and killed it in front of
all creation.
 Then God Himself took the skin of the animal and made clothes to
cover the shame and guilt of His two “children.”
 In this He pictured the awful price of sin that His Son would pay. He
instituted atoning sacrifice and declared that our righteousness and
efforts to cover our guilt are like filthy rags or dried-up fig leaves.
Only He can clothe us in “robes of righteousness” and only at the cost
of the life of a perfect sacrifice.
How do you stand now with God?
Are you “washed in the blood of the Lamb,” “dressed
in His righteousness alone, faultless to stand before His
throne”?
Have you considered the price Christ paid for you on
the cross and the love of the Father who sent Him there
to die?
Have you accepted His awesome gift?
If not, do it now! If you have, take time to thank Him
for His incredible sacrificial love for you.
Thanks for listening

Next Sunday, Lesson 2

Noah: Obedient Builder