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June 10, 2018 Evil After Expulsion
Genesis 4:1-8
[1] Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.” [2] And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground. [3] In the course of time Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit of the ground, [4] and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and his offering, [5] but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell. [6] The LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen? [7] If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it.” [8] Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
DEEP SHEET: Sermon Study Questions
1. Where do we continue to see God’s grace in this passage? What do these verses invite us to do?
2. What was wrong with Cain’s offering, and what are some implications for our worship?
3. Why was Cain “very angry,” and what does that tell us about his heart?
4. What is God’s message to Cain in vv. 6-7, and how does he respond?
5. What are some of the effects of anger that you have witnessed in your life?
6. What does the story of Cain and Abel tell us about life after the Fall?
References: Isaiah 55:6-7; Genesis 1:28; 3:20; 2 Samuel 24:24; Hebrews 11:4; Proverbs 21:27; James 1:20; 4:7-10; Ecclesiastes 7:9; Ephesians 4:26; 1 John 3:12; Jude 11.
59 min
June 03, 2018 Expelled With Grace
Genesis 3:20-24
[20] The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. [21] And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.
[22] Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” [23] therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. [24] He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden ofEden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.
DEEP SHEET: Sermon Study Questions
1. How would you describe the relationship between Adam and Eve and the entire human race? What does it mean to say that the story of sin runs through every biography?
2. In what specific ways does the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the garden serve as punishment?
3. How does Adam’s naming of Eve demonstrate faith?|
4. How does God’s act of covering them with animal skins point to Christ? What does it mean to say that the covering of guilt and shame is God’s work?
5. How is God’s expulsion of Adam and Eve a means of protection? How does God protect us from ultimately being lost?
References: Genesis 4:8, 23; 6:5; Romans 3:23; 5:12; Ephesians 2:3; Hebrews 11:1, 4.
54 min
May 27, 2018 The Divine Judgment
Genesis 3:16-19
[16] To the woman he said,
“I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing;
in pain you shall bring forth children.
Your desire shall be contrary to your husband,
but he shall rule over you.”
[17] And to Adam he said,
“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
and have eaten of the tree
of which I commanded you,
‘You shall not eat of it,’
cursed is the ground because of you;
in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
[18] thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;
and you shall eat the plants of the field.
[19] By the sweat of your face
you shall eat bread,
till you return to the ground,
for out of it you were taken;
for you are dust,
and to dust you shall return.”
DEEP SHEET: Sermon Study Notes
1. What comes to your mind when you think of a “fallen world”?
2. How do we see the hope of grace, relationship, victory, and reversal leading into God’s words of judgment?
3. What would it look like to be more serious about sin in your daily life?
4. In what ways does “painful toil” affect men and women? How have you seen the outworking of this in your own life?
5. How does this passage help us to understand the cause of strife in marriage? What is God’s remedy in this life?
6. What does it mean to say that Christ died so that death will die forever?
References: Proverbs 8:13; Genesis 4:7; 5:29; Ephesians 5:18, 22, 25; Colossians 3:18-19; 1 Peter 3:1, 7; Genesis 2:7; Job 14:1; Romans 8:22; 1 Corinthians 15:47-49.
1 hr 4 min
May 21, 2018 The Defeated Devil
Genesis 3.14-15
1 hr 1 min
May 20, 2018 The Defeated Devil
Genesis 3:14-15
[14] The LORD God said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this,
cursed are you above all livestock
and above all beasts of the field;
on your belly you shall go,
and dust you shall eat
all the days of your life.
[15] I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring;
he shall bruise your head,
and you shall bruise his heel.”
DEEP SHEET: Sermon Study Notes
1. What does it mean to be “sober-minded” and “watchful” concerning Satan (1 Peter 5:8)?
2. In what ways do we see God’s sovereignty in this passage? Why should that increase our confidence in him?
3. What is the relationship between the serpent and Satan? What curse is placed on Satan?
4. Why has v. 15 been called the “first gospel”? How does this verse impact the way we read the Bible from beginning to end?
5. Why should Christians not be afraid of the devil?
References: John 17:5; 1 Peter 5:8; Revelation 12:9; Romans 3:19; Job 1:6-12; 2 Corinthians 12:7-10; Genesis 9:5; Exodus 21:28; Leviticus 20:15, 16; Genesis 5:28-29; 49:10; Deuteronomy 18:15-19; Galatians 4:4-5; Hebrews 2:14; 1 John 3:8; Isaiah 53:5; Romans 16:20.
1 hr 1 min
May 13, 2018 The Divine Interrogation
Genesis 3:9-13
[9] But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” [10] And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.” [11] He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” [12] The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.” [13] Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
DEEP SHEET: Sermon Study Questions
1.  How does this text present God as a loving Father who seeks the lost?
2. What is God doing by addressing Adam and Eve with questions, and with these questions in particular?
3. What are some evangelistic and parental implications of God’s address to Adam and Eve?
4.  What does it mean to say that they are “missing”?
5.  How would you characterize the attitude of the first humans towards their sin? How have you seen the same attitude in your own life?
6.  In what ways do we tend to blame our sin on our circumstances? How does this subtly shift the blame to God?
References: Romans 5:12; Luke 19:10; Psalm 139:7; Jonah 1:3; Ephesians 2:1-3; Titus 3:3.
1 hr
May 06, 2018 The Deadly Deed
Genesis 3:6-8
[6] So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. [7] Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.
[8] And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
DEEP SHEET: Sermon Study Questions
1. How does the Fall begin with doubting God’s Word and goodness?
2. Does the Devil make us sin? How would you describe what is going on in Eve’s heart according to v. 6?
3. How have you seen the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life at work in your own life?
4. What does it mean in Proverbs 9:10 that “the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom”?
5. Where do we see unbelief, pride, and idolatry in the Fall?
6. In what ways do we have the breakdown of both horizontal and vertical relationships in this passage?
7. How does Christ restore the peace lost in Eden?
References: 1 Corinthians 15:22; 2 Corinthians 11:3; James 1:14-15; Deuteronomy 5:21; Genesis 2:9; 1 John 2:16; Proverbs 9:10; Genesis 2:16-17; 1 John 3:4; Genesis 2:25; 3:17; John 14:27.
1 hr 2 min
April 29, 2018 The Deadly Dialogue
Genesis 3:1-5
[1] Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” [2] And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, [3] but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” [4] But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. [5] For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
DEEP SHEET: Sermon Study Questions
1.  Why must we keep Christ’s righteousness and obedience in view as we consider the Fall?
2. Who is Satan, and why should we take him seriously?
3. How does Satan subtly undermine God’s Word and character with his initial question, and what are the implications for us?
4.  In what ways does Eve alter God’s Word? What does this suggest about what is going on in her heart?
5.  How does Satan tempt people into thinking there are no consequences for disobedience?
6. By the time we reach v. 5, how would you describe Satan’s portrayal of himself and of God?
References: Romans 5:18-19; Genesis 2:16-17; Revelation 12:9; John 8:44; Ezekiel 28:11-19; Isaiah 14:12-15; Matthew 4:4, 10.
1 hr 1 min
April 22, 2018 The Man With His Wife
Genesis 2:18-25
[18] Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” [19] Now out of the ground the LORD God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. [20] The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field.But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. [21] So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. [22] And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. [23] Then the man said,
“This at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man.”
[24] Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. [25] And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
DEEP SHEET: Sermon Study Questions
1. How is God presented as a loving Father in Genesis 2?
2. Why is isolation not God’s will for human beings? In what ways do you see a tendency towards isolation in yourself?
3. How does God prepare the man to recognize the immense value of his wife?
4. How does this account of creation run contrary to Evolution?
5. In what ways does this passage instruct us about the nature and dignity of marriage? What are some practical ways that we can respond in our own marriages?
6. How does this passage ultimately point us to the gospel?
References: Genesis 1:26-28; Ecclesiastes 4:9-12; Proverbs 31:11-12, 27-28; Proverbs 18:22; 1 Timothy 2:13; 1 Corinthians 11:8-9; Ephesians 5:22-33; 1 Peter 3:7; Matthew 19:5.
59 min
April 15, 2018 The Man In His Home
Genesis 2:8-17
[8] And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. [9] And out of the ground the LORD God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
[10] A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. [11] The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. [12] And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. [13] The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush. [14] And the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. 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 keep it. [16] And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, [17] but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
DEEP SHEET: Sermon Study Questions
1. In what ways does God provide abundantly for man in the garden?
2. What is the significance of the fact that God is the author/originator of human pleasure and delight?
3. How does the description of the garden give us hope?
4. How does v. 15 show us that rest is not to be equated with aimless idleness?
5. What do the verbs “work” and “keep” in v. 15 tell us about the nature of Adam’s work?
6. What does this passage teach us about authority? What does it mean to say that all sin is an issue of authority?
7. How does the manner in which God’s command is given demonstrate his love, goodness, and care towards human beings?
References: Acts 17:26; Genesis 12:3; Matthew 28:19; Revelation 7:9-10; 1 Timothy 6:16; Genesis 13:10; Revelation 21-22; John 14:3; Genesis 19:16; Deuteronomy 26:10; Numbers 18:5-6; Colossians 3:23.
1 hr