Dust to Life
Genesis 3:16-19 –
New International Version (NIV)
16 To the woman he said,
“I
will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
with painful labor you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.”
with painful labor you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.”
17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate
fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’
“Cursed
is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return.”
through painful toil you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return.”
How will the woman
give birth to children (verse 16)?
Who did Adam
listen to (verse 16)?
What is cursed
because of Adam (verse 17)?
In your opinion,
why was the ground cursed instead of Adam (verse 17)?
How will Adam eat
food (verse 17)?
What will the
ground produce (verse 18)?
When will Adam
stop eating by the sweat of his brow (verse 19)?
Where did Adam
come from and where is he returning to (verse 19)?
In your opinion, what is the basic
message of this passage?
John 3:31-36 - New
International Version (NIV)
31 The one who comes from above is above all; the one who
is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The
one who comes from heaven is above all. 32 He testifies to what
he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. 33 Whoever
has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. 34 For the
one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without
limit. 35 The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in
his hands. 36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but
whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.
Who is above all (verse
31)?
In your opinion, what is meant by “from the earth” (verse 31)?
Where does the one
who is above all come from (verse 31)?
What does the one
who is above all testify to (verse 32)?
How can we certify
that “God is truthful” (verses 32 and
33)?
Who speaks “the words of God” (verse 34)?
What does God give
“without limit” (verse 34)?
Who has placed
everything in the Son’s hands (verse 35)?
Who has eternal
life (verse 36)?
Why will whoever
rejects the Son “not see life” (verse
36)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message
of this passage?
In your opinion, how is God’s punishment
of Adam, “for dust you are and to dust
you will return” in Genesis 3:16-19, referenced by then transformed by John
in John 3:31-36?
1 Corinthians
15:45-54 - New International Version (NIV)
45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living
being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. 46 The spiritual
did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. 47 The
first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven. 48 As
was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly
man, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 And just as we
have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the
heavenly man.
50 I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood
cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the
imperishable. 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all
sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 in a flash, in the
twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead
will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the
perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with
immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the
imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written
will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
What is written about the first man, Adam (verse 45)?
What is the last Adam (verse 45)?
When did the
spiritual come (verse 46)?
What was the first man of (verse 47)?
What is the second man of (verse 47)?
In your opinion, who are “those who are of heaven” (verse 48)?
What will we bear (verse 49)?
Who cannot inherit the kingdom of God (verse 50)?
What will happen to all (verse 51)?
When will the dead be raised imperishable
(verse 52)?
In your opinion, what does it mean to
cloth the perishable with the imperishable (verse 53)?
What saying will come true when the mortal
is clothed with immortality (verse 54)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message
of this passage?
In your opinion, how does Paul in 1
Corinthians 15:45-54 further our understanding about the one who comes from
earth and the One who comes from heaven that John talks about in John 3:31-36?
In
your opinion, how can the one who came from dust and who is returning to dust
according to Genesis 3:16-19 become imperishable according to Paul in 1
Corinthians 15:45-54?
Revelation 20:11-15
– New International Version (NIV)
11 Then I saw a great white throne and him
who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and
there was no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing
before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the
book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded
in the books. 13 The sea gave up the
dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them,
and each person was judged according to what they had done. 14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of
fire. The lake of fire is the second death. 15 Anyone
whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake
of fire.
What did John see (verse 11)?
How did the earth and the heavens respond
to “him” (verse 11)?
Who did John see “standing before the throne” (verse 12)?
How were the dead judged (verse 12)?
What gave up the dead that were in them (verse
13)?
Where are death and Hades thrown (verse 14)?
Who was not thrown into the lake of fire
(verse 15)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message
of this passage?
In your opinion, how
does John’s vision in Revelation 20:11-15 vividly illustrate Paul’s statement
in 1Corinthians 15:45-54 that “death has
been swallowed up in victory”?
In your opinion, how does John in John
3:31-36 reveal how someone’s name is entered into the “book of life” he sees in the vision of Revelation 20:11-15?
In your opinion, what
is the difference between the punishment that Adam and Eve received for eating
the fruit in Genesis 3:16-19 and how the dead are judged and thrown into the
lake of fire in Revelation 20:11-15?
In your opinion, what do these passages
from Genesis, John, 1 Corinthians and Revelation reveal to about being from
dust and the earth but being given life and being clothed in immortality?
In your opinion, how
do these passages help us to clearly see the most basic choice we have to make;
do we believe or reject the Son of God?
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