January 16, 2023
Grow-Go-Sow Lesson 3
THE FALL
Text: Genesis 2:15–3:24
Topic(s): Pride, Sin, Redemption
Big Idea of the Message: Despite Adam and Eve’s disobedience in the garden of Eden, God foretold a Savior who would “bruise” evil’s head and make the world right again.
Application Point: Even in a broken and fractured world, God loves us enough to provide a way for our sins to be forgiven.
Discussion Questions:
1. What is one thing that stood out to you from this week’s message?
2. How do you fall into the same trap Adam and Eve did: questioning God’s wisdom?
3. How does the prophecy about Eve’s descendant bruising the serpent’s head point us to Jesus?
4. Where can you see God’s mercy at work in this story?
5. Where do you see God’s mercy at work in your life?
Before leaving earth, Jesus commands his followers to make disciples of all nations.
Jesus rose again, his physical body made alive again. Although Thomas had his doubts about the resurrection, Jesus presented him with the evidence he needed.
All of Scripture points to Jesus’s death, burial, and resurrection.
Though innocent, Jesus was crucified to fulfill God’s promise of redemption.
At the Passover meal, Jesus instituted the practice of Communion—a vital ritual that reminds us of the atonement.
In this passage, Jesus explains that following him involves being willing to embrace enormous sacrifices.
Jesus didn’t come to destroy God’s work in the Old Testament but to fulfill what it had been always pointing toward: a pure righteousness through Jesus Christ.
Jesus displayed his power to heal spiritually by healing physically.
As Jesus explains to Nicodemus, it is only through being recreated by the Spirit (made possible by Jesus’s ministry) that one can be made right before God.
Jesus’s baptism and temptation represent his identification with humanity’s failures and sin, as well as his anointing and preparation to preach the gospel.
