Breath of Life and
Water of Life
Genesis 2:5-17 –
New International Version (NIV)
5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had
yet sprung up, for the Lord God
had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, 6 but
streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. 7 Then
the Lord God formed a man from the
dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the
man became a living being.
8 Now the Lord
God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had
formed. 9 The Lord
God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to
the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life
and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10 A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it
was separated into four headwaters. 11 The name of the first is
the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 (The
gold of that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx are also there.) 13 The
name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of
Cush. 14 The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs
along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 The Lord God
took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And
the Lord God commanded the man,
“You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you
must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat
from it you will certainly die.”
Why had no shrub
appeared or plant sprung up (verse 5)?
How was the “whole surface of the ground” watered (verse 6)?
What did the Lord
God form man from (verse 7)?
When did man
become a living being (verse 7)?
Where was the
garden planted (verse 8)?
In your opinion,
why did God place the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil in the middle of the garden (verse 9)?
Where did the
river watering the garden flow from (verse 10)?
What is in the
land of Havilah (verse 11)?
Where does the
second river wind (verse 13)?
What is the name
of the fourth river (verse 14)?
Why did God put
man in the Garden of Eden (verse 15)?
What was the
consequence of eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (verses
16 and 17)?
In your opinion, what is the basic
message of this passage?
John 5:24-29 - New
International Version (NIV)
24 “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes
him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over
from death to life. 25 Very truly I tell you, a time is coming
and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those
who hear will live. 26 For as the Father has life in himself,
so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. 27 And
he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.
28 “Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who
are in their graves will hear his voice 29 and come out—those
who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is
evil will rise to be condemned.
Who has eternal
life and will not be judged but has “crossed
over from death to life” (verse 24)?
What is coming and has now come (verse 25)?
In your opinion,
who are the dead (verse 25)?
Where does the Son
have life (verse 26)?
Why does the Son
of God have the authority to judge (verse 27)?
What is coming
(verse 28)?
In your opinion,
who are the “all who are in their graves”
(verse 28)?
Who will rise to
live (verse 29)?
Who will be
condemned (verse 29)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message
of this passage?
In your opinion, what is the difference
between the life that was breathed into man in Genesis 2:5-17 and the life that
is being given to those who believe in John 5:24-29?
2 Corinthians
5:14-21 - New International Version (NIV)
14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that
one died for all, and therefore all died. 15 And he died for
all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who
died for them and was raised again.
16 So from now
on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded
Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone
is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All
this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the
ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the
world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has
committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are
therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through
us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God
made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the
righteousness of God.
What
compels Paul (verse 14)?
In your opinion, what does Paul mean when
he says “one died for all, and therefore
all died” (verse 14)?
How should those who live, live (verse 15)?
In your opinion, what does it mean to
regard someone “from a worldly point of
view” (verse 16)?
What is anyone who is in Christ (verse 17)?
How did God reconcile us to Himself (verse 18)?
What has God given us (verse 18)?
In your opinion, what is the message of
reconciliation (verse 19)?
Who does God make His appeal through (verse
20)?
Who became sin for us (verse 21)?
Why did He become sin for us (verse 21)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message
of this passage?
In your opinion, what does Paul’s
discussion of Christ’s death in 2 Corinthians 5:14-21 help us to understand how
Jesus was able to say in John 5:24-29 that “whoever
hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be
judged but has crossed over from death to life”?
In
your opinion, how does Paul’s statement that “one died for all, and therefore all died” in 2 Corinthians 5:14-21 help us to understand how God’s
statement to Adam that “you must not eat
from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you
will certainly die” in Genesis 2:5-17 is fulfilled for those who Paul says
are reconciled to God?
Revelation 22:16-17
– New International Version (NIV)
16 “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for
the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning
Star.”
17 The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let the one who
hears say, “Come!” Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes
take the free gift of the water of life.
Who sent the angel to give testimony (verse 16)?
What does the Spirit and the bride say (verse
17)?
What is the one who hears to say (verse 17)?
Who is to come (verse 17)?
In your opinion, what is the “free gift of the water of life” (verse 17)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message
of this passage?
In your opinion, what
does Revelation 22:16-17 help us understand about the “ministry of reconciliation” that Paul in 2 Corinthians 5:14-21 says
he (and John in Revelation says that the one who hears) has?
In your opinion, what do the words of
Jesus in John 5:24-29 help us to understand about the source of the “water of life” that John quotes Jesus
as offering in Revelation 22:16-17?
In your opinion, what
is the difference between the people who receive the breath of life from God in
Genesis 2:5-17 and the people who take “the
free gift of the water of life” in Revelation 22:16-17?
In your opinion, what do these passages
from Genesis, John, 2 Corinthians and Revelation help us understand about life
and crossing from death to life?
In your opinion, what should these
passages inspire in us today?
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