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Adult II Couples Class
WELCOME
QUESTION OF THE DAY
Adult II Couples Class
Physical
Spiritual
Practical
Church
Misc
 Benevolence Fund
 Monthly Fellowships
 January
 February
 March
 Dinner Out Friday (27 Jan)
 5th Sunday Breakfast (29 Jan)
 Quarterly Service Project
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Deacon Meeting (today-3pm)
Blood Pressure Checks (today)
Men’s D.U. Class (today-4:30)
Budget Cmte Mtg (11 Jan)
Youth SNAC (15 Jan)
Heart 2 Heart w/YAH (16 Jan)
Special Prayer for Youth (18 Jan)
Long Range Task Force Mtg (18 Jan)
Ladies Mentoring Mtg (21 Jan)
Youth Winter Retreat (20-22 Jan)
Olive Grove Terrace Visitation (22 Jan)
E-Sunday (29 Jan)
Adult II Couples Class
QUESTION OF THE DAY
Iva May and Dr. Stan May
• God created the world out of nothing (ex nihilo)
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Created man and placed him in the Garden of Eden
Created Eve from Adam
Gave first task (subdue and fill the earth)
First temptation by Satan and fall of humanity into sin
Delineation of godly line of Abel (followed by Seth) and
wicked line of Cain
• Earth is completely corrupted; God sends the flood
• Noah and family are saved to repopulate the earth
• The world is divided at the tower of Babel
• The Patriarchs are introduced
• Line of Shem is blessed by Noah
• Line of Abram traced from Eber (father of Hebrews) to Terah
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God reveals His goodness in creation.
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God establishes a hierarchy among equals when he creates Adam
and Eve.
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God reveals His mercy and redemption in the Fall.
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God reveals the WAY of redemption through the Fall and the story
of Cain and Abel.
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God reveals His hatred of sin and sins consequences in the story of
Adam and Eve, Cain, the people of Noah’s day and the tower of Babel.
Creation – Gen 1
God Formed a Perfect Environment
made up of Systems
Physical systems ordered by God-authored
universal laws (1-4)
 Matter
 Space
 Time
Ecological systems (5-26)
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Atmosphere
Continents and oceans
Plants and animals
Man
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Creation – Gen 1
God acts in creation
God speaks in creation
 “Then God said, ‘Let there be…..’”
God reveals His nature in creation
through His speech and action
 Good
 Systematic
 Powerful
 Intentional
 Evaluative
 Sovereign
 Bountiful
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Characters
 God
 Good, involved, systematic, powerful, in-charge, caring, originator of life
 Adam and Eve
 Adam created by God in His own image
 Eve is companion for, yet comparable to Adam
 God establishes hierarchy among equals by communicating His Garden
instructions to Adam
• Adam is responsible for communicating them to Eve
 Commanded to be fruitful and multiply
 Serpent
 Beautiful, cunning, knowledgeable
 Creates doubt and suspicions about God’s character and Word
Narrative – Gen 2
God Gives Instructions to Adam
Instructed concerning two types of trees(16)
 God prohibited Adam from eating of the tree of life
• Adam had to have faith in God’s goodness
• Adam had to trust God’s word
 All other trees were acceptable
Instructed to name the animals(18-20)
 Required Adam to exercise obedience
 Obedience led to illumination of Adam’s need for a
suitable companion
Narrative – Gen 2
God Gives Instructions to Adam
Creates Eve from Adam’s rib (21-22)
 Instructs Adam and Eve regarding family dynamics
 Requires faith, obedience and teaching to successive
generations
God’s instructions indicate His interest in a
faith-based relationship with man
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Fall – Gen 3
The Serpent questions God’s
goodness (1-5)
 Approaches Eve because of her subordinate
position (Eve had trusted Adam’s instructions)
 The serpent wanted Eve to act independently
of her husband
Eve gives in to temptation and sins
 She makes a decision based on:
• Desire of the flesh
• Desire of the eyes
• Desire of pride
 Adam disregards God’s instruction; listens to
his wife
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Fall – Gen 3
 Both suffer the consequences of their sin (8-24)
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Separation (from God and the security of the Garden)
Fear (of God…”I was naked; so I hid myself.”)
Shame (aware of ‘self’)
Guilt (tries to avoid responsibility for actions)
Death (spiritual and physical)
Man continues to suffer consequences of sin today
 Suspects God’s character and doubts His word; blames God and
others for the imperfections of the world
 Man struggles to submit to authority (divine and human)
 Man’s dominion over creation is lost to serpent (1 Jn 5:19)
 Judgment falls on the world in the flood
 Man is afflicted with insecurities and fears
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Promise – Gen 3
God’s promise (15)
 One would come
 He would deal with the serpent
God’s provision
 A sacrifice and covering for man’s sin
 Visual lesson that sin is costly
 An innocent animal died to cover man’s nakedness
God’s mercy
 Adam and Eve are evicted from the Garden
 Denying access to the Tree of Life keeps them from
living eternally separated from God
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What does this lesson teach about God? Man? Sin? Redemption?
What did the sin of Adam and Eve cost…
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God?
Adam and Eve?
Creation?
 What did Cain & Abel understand about worship?
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Where did they learn about worship?
 Why does Noah build an altar to the Lord after
God releases his family from the ark?
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What does Noah understand about God &
redemption?
 Nimrod, the first king, wanted to build a city that
would reach up to heaven. Why did God bring
judgment on that city?
GOD SPEAKS to the earth and animals and they obey.
But God speaks to humans and they disobey.
GOD ACTS in an orderly way to create shape and fill His
world. He judges Adam and Eve and puts them out of
the Garden of Eden. He sends a flood on the world to
judge a depraved humanity.
GOD REVEALS His creativity, order, planning,
evaluation, and His opportunity for humans to enter into
a relationship with Him. He reveals His hatred of sin and
His judgment on sinners.
 Benevolence Fund
 Monthly Fellowships
 January
 February
 March
 Dinner Out Friday (27 Jan)
 5th Sunday Breakfast (29 Jan)
 Quarterly Service Project
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Deacon Meeting (today-3pm)
Blood Pressure Checks (today)
Men’s D.U. Class (today-4:30)
Budget Cmte Mtg (11 Jan)
Youth SNAC (15 Jan)
Heart 2 Heart w/YAH (16 Jan)
Special Prayer for Youth (18 Jan)
Long Range Task Force Mtg (18 Jan)
Ladies Mentoring Mtg (21 Jan)
Youth Winter Retreat (20-22 Jan)
Olive Grove Terrace Visitation (22 Jan)
E-Sunday (29 Jan)
 Name one of the first two tasks God instructed
Adam to accomplish.
 Cultivate and keep the Garden
 Name all the animals
 What was God’s physical curse on Eve for giving
in to the temptation of the serpent?
 Pain in childbirth
 What famous saying that is still used today, did
Cain utter when God questioned him concerning
the whereabouts of his brother, Abel?
 “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
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