God’s Invitation to the Banished
Genesis 3:17-23 - New International
Version (NIV)
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.”
20 Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the
mother of all the living.
21 The Lord God
made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. 22 And
the Lord God said, “The
man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be
allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat,
and live forever.” 23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to
work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After
he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of
Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to
guard the way to the tree of life.
What had Adam done with the fruit from
the tree that God commanded “you must not eat from it” (verse 17)?
What happened to the ground because of Adam (verse
17)?
How will Adam eat food from the ground (verse 17)?
What will the ground produce (verse 18)?
Where will Adam return (verse 19)?
Why did Adam name his wife Eve (verse 20)?
Who made garments and clothed Adam and Eve
(verse 21)?
How had Adam and Eve become like God (verse 22)?
How did God keep Adam and Eve from eating from
the tree of life (verse 23)?
Why were the cherubim and the flaming sword
placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden (verse 24)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage teach
us about our opportunity to come to eternal life?
John
1:35-39 - New
International Version (NIV)
35 The next day John was there again with two of his
disciples. 36 When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look,
the Lamb of God!”
37 When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed
Jesus. 38 Turning around, Jesus saw them following and
asked, “What do you want?”
They said,
“Rabbi” (which means “Teacher”), “where are you staying?”
39 “Come,” he replied, “and you will see.”
So they went and saw
where he was staying, and they spent that day with him. It was about four in
the afternoon.
Who was with John (verse 35)?
What did John say when he saw Jesus (verse 36)?
Who followed Jesus (verse 37)?
What did Jesus ask them (verse 38)?
How did Jesus answer when they said “where are you
staying” (verse 39)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this
passage?
In your opinion, what
does this passage teach us about our opportunity to come to eternal life?
In
your opinion, how is the banishment of Genesis 3:17-23 beginning to be rescinded
by the invitation of Jesus in John 1:9-18?
1 John 5:5-13 – New International Version (NIV)
5 Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that
Jesus is the Son of God.
6 This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. He did
not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who
testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 7 For there
are three that testify: 8 the Spirit, the water
and the blood; and the three are in agreement. 9 We accept
human testimony, but God’s testimony is greater because it is the
testimony of God, which he has given about his Son. 10 Whoever
believes in the Son of God accepts this testimony. Whoever does not
believe God has made him out to be a liar, because they have not believed
the testimony God has given about his Son. 11 And this is
the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his
Son. 12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not
have the Son of God does not have life.
13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of
God so that you may know that you have eternal life.
What
does the one “who believes that Jesus is the Son of God” do (verse 5)?
Who
came by the “water and the blood” (verse 6)?
Who
is “the truth” (verse 6)?
Who
are the “three that testify” (verses 7 and 8)?
Why is God’s testimony greater (verse 9)?
Who “accepts this testimony” (verse 10)?
What is the testimony (verse
11)?
Who has life (verse 12)?
Why did John “write
these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God” (verse 13)?
In your opinion, what
is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage teach
us about our opportunity to come to eternal life?
In your opinion, how does
1 John 5:5-13 provide an answer to the banishment of Genesis 3:17-23?
In
your opinion, how is the invitation of Jesus to the two disciples to “come”
in John 1:9-18 expanded from a day to an eternity in 1 John 5:5-13?
Revelation 22:16-21 – 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.
18 I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this
scroll: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to that person
the plagues described in this scroll. 19 And if anyone
takes words away from this scroll of prophecy, God will take away
from that person any share in the tree of life and in the Holy City, which
are described in this scroll.
20 He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming
soon.”
Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
21 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God’s people. Amen.
Who sent the angel “to give you this testimony for
the churches” (verse 16)?
Who
is “the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star” (verse
16)?
What
do the Spirit and the bride say (verse 17)?
What
should the “one who hears say” (verse 17)?
Who
is to be allowed to “take the free gift of the water of life” (verse 17)?
What
will happen to the one who adds to the “words of prophecy of this scroll”
(verse 18)?
What
will happen to the one who “takes words away from this scroll of prophecy”
(verse 19)?
Who
says “yes, I am coming soon” (verse 20)?
What
does John pray will “be with God’s people” (verse 21)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage
teach us about our opportunity to come to eternal life?
In your opinion, how
is the banishment of Genesis 3:17-23 resolved by the invitation of “the
Spirit and the bride” in Revelation 22:16-21?
In your opinion, how is the prayer “Amen.
Come Lord Jesus” in Revelation 22:16-21 the perfect response to Jesus’s
invitation in John 1:9-18 to “Come”?
In your opinion, what does 1 John 5:5-13
help us understand about the “free gift of the water of life” that
Revelation 22:16-21 invites the thirsty to take?
In
your opinion, what do these passages from Genesis, John, 1 John and Revelation teach
us about how those who were once banned from eternal life are invited by God to
enter it?
In your
opinion, how can you confidently pray “Come, Lord Jesus”?
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