Genesis 3:17-24 – 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.
Why is the ground cursed (verse 17)?
What will the ground produce (verse 18)?
Where will Adam return to (verse 19)?
Why did Adam name his wife Eve (verse 20)?
What did the Lord
God make for Adam and Eve (verse 21)?
What must “the man”
not be allowed to do (verse 22)?
What was “the
man” banished to do (verse 23)?
Where were the
cherubim and flaming sword placed (verse 24)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this
passage?
In your opinion, what does this
passage teach us about how God cares for us?
Matthew 8:23-27 - New International
Version (NIV)
23 Then he got into the boat and his disciples followed him. 24 Suddenly a
furious storm came up on the lake, so that the waves swept over the boat. But
Jesus was sleeping. 25 The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Lord, save us! We’re
going to drown!”
26 He replied, “You of
little faith, why are you so afraid?” Then
he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and it was completely calm.
27 The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the
winds and the waves obey him!”
Who followed Jesus “into the boat”
(verse 23)?
Why did
the waves sweep over the boat (verse 24)?
What did the disciples think was going to happen (verse 25)?
What did Jesus say to the disciples (verse 26)?
How did Jesus respond to “the winds and the waves” (verse 26)?
How did “the winds and the waves” respond to Jesus (verse 26)?
What was the disciple’s reaction (verse 27)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage teach us about how God cares for
us?
In your opinion, what connection is there between the ground being “cursed”
in Genesis 3:17-24 and the waves that “swept over the boat” in Matthew
8:23-27?
Romans 8:18-27 - New International Version (NIV)
18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth
comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 For
the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be
revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to
frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected
it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be
liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory
of the children of God.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as
in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not
only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the
Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to
sonship, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope
we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for
what they already have? 25 But if we hope for what we do
not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do
not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for
us through wordless groans. 27 And he who searches
our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit
intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.
What does Paul think shouldn’t be compared with “the glory that
will be revealed in us” (verse 18)?
Who does the creation wait in “eager expectation” to
be revealed (verse 19)?
What was “the creation” subjected to (verse 20)?
What will the creation be brought into after it is
liberated from “its bondage to decay” (verse 21)?
How has the creation “been groaning” (verse 22)?
What do Christians “groan inwardly as we wait
eagerly for our adoption to sonship” for (verse 23)?
How do we wait if “we hope for what we do not yet have”
(verse 25)?
How does the Spirit help us when “we do not know what we
ought to pray for” (verse 26)?
How does the Spirit intercede “for God’s people”
(verse 27)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion,
what does this passage teach us about how God cares for us?
In your opinion, how does Romans 8:18-27 help us understand
the consequences of Adam eating the “fruit from the tree about which I
commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’’ in Genesis 3:17-24?
In
your opinion, how is Jesus saving the disciples in Matthew 8:23-27 similar to
the help of the Spirit in Romans 8:18-27?
Colossians 1:15-23 - New International Version (NIV)
15 The Son is the image of the
invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For
in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and
invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things
have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before
all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And
he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the
firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have
the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have all his
fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to
reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in
heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
21 Once you were alienated from God and
were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. 22 But
now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to
present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from
accusation— 23 if you continue in your faith,
established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the
gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every
creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.
Who is “the
firstborn over all creation” (verse 15)?
What has been
created through Jesus (verse 16)?
How are “all things” held
together (verse 17)?
Who is the “firstborn
from among the dead” (verse 18)?
How did God “reconcile
to himself all things” (verse 20)?
Why were we “alienated
from God” (verse 21)?
How has God
reconciled with Christians (verse 22)?
Who has the gospel
been “proclaimed to” (verse 23)?
In your opinion,
what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion,
what does this passage teach us about how God cares for us?
In your opinion, what
does Colossians 1:15-23 show us about how the things that are broken in Genesis
3:17-24 will be repaired?
In your opinion, how does Colossians 1:15-23 answer the
question, “what kind of man is this”, that the disciples ask in Matthew
8:23-27?
In your opinion, what
does Colossian 1:15-23 reveal about the “hope” of Romans 8:18-27?
In your opinion, what do these Scriptures from Genesis, Matthew,
Romans, and Colossians teach us “what kind of man” Jesus is?
In your
opinion, how does God “intercede” for us today?
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