GOD’S BIG PICTURE – TALK OUTLINE UNIT 2 - THE PERISHED KINGDOM

Distorts God’s motives Gen 3:5 ‘It’s not fair’

THE FALL
• An act of rebellion

RECAP
• The Bible: one book, one divine author, one
subject, one story
THE SPREAD OF SIN AND DEATH
• The theme: THE KINGDOM OF GOD
• The story so far: THE PATTERN OF THE Gen 4 Cain murders Abel
KINGDOM - a series of perfect relationships
Gen 5 Genealogy ‘…and then he died’

Gen 6 – 9 The Flood

BROKEN RELATIONSHIPS Gen 11 The Tower of Babel

Man and Woman

• Coverings to hide their nakedness Gen 3: 7
THE KINGDOM OF GOD
WHERE DID EVIL COME FROM? • Shame and squabbling Gen 3: 16b

• God is sovereign, holy and loving

Human beings and creation
• A rebellion in the angelic world, • ‘Cursed is the ground because of you; through
2 Pet 2:4, Jude 6 painful toil you will eat food from it’ Gen 3: 17

God and human beings

SATAN’S TACTICS
• So the LORD God banished him from the
Distorts God’s word Gen 3:1 ‘It’s not clear’ Garden of Eden’ Gen 3: 23
Next study- The PROMISED KINGDOM
Questions God’s word Gen 3:4 ‘It’s not true’
Now do the bible study for Unit 2

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 GOD’S BIG PICTURE – BIBLE STUDY UNIT 2 - THE PERISHED KINGDOM (GENESIS 3)

Read Genesis 3 The consequences

How do we see sin damaging relationships in Genesis 3 and today
The serpent between:
How do we see Satan using the same tactics today? - Men and women
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What did Adam and Eve do wrong? What signs of hope can be seen in this chapter?
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 GOD’S BIG PICTURE – LEADERS’ NOTES UNIT 2 - THE PERISHED KINGDOM (GENESIS 3)

Read Genesis 3 - Human beings and creation

• “cursed is the ground because of you” (v17). Works is a good part of God’s creation
(see 1:28; 2:15), but it will always involve frustration in a fallen world.
The serpent •
How do we see Satan using the same tactics today? - Human beings and God
• They are ashamed and hide from God (v8-10)
The talk has pointed out that Satan causes us to doubt the clarity, truth and fairness of
God’s word. Check that people have understood this and then focus on application. Make it • They are banished from God and therefore from eternal life.
specific and concrete by discussing one or two specific temptations. E.g. How might Satan ‘cherubim’ (v24) are winged lions with human heads. They appear elsewhere in the Bible as
try to tempt you to lie or to gossip. the guardians of holy places.

The sin What signs of hope can be seen in this chapter?

What did Adam and Eve do wrong? • Despite their sin, God comes looking for Adam and Eve (v8-9)
They are disobeying God’s clear command and deciding that they will decide the standards • God promises that in the future a saviour will come who will crush Satan (v15)
by which they will live, rather than submitting to him. It is an act of fundamental rebellion. • God shows his continued love for Adam and Eve by providing clothes for them (v21).
This has been the nature of sin ever since.
How can we be encouraged by this hope?
The consequences Verse 15 is a gospel promise that points to Christ. Paul teaches that he will finally crush
The talk has already shown how sin damages the perfect relationships of the Perfect Satan at his second coming (Rom 16:20), but he has already achieved the decisive victory on
kingdom. Briefly get the group to repeat those points, referring to the verses in Genesis 3, the cross (Col 2:15.)
while also mentioning other examples. Then ask them to describe the continuing impact of
sin today.

How do we see sin damaging relationships in Genesis 3 and today

between:
- Men and women
• They cover themselves (v7). The complete openness and intimacy of 2:25 has
gone.•Adam blames Eve (v12)
• V16b seems to describe a power struggle. ‘Desire’, is used in 4:7 to speak of sins
‘desire’ to master Cain. It seems it refers in 3:16 to Eve’s desire to dominate Adam,
but he resists and seeks to ‘rule’ her.

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