Genesis:  After the Fall

Junior Level

Intro:
Our Sunday school topic for today focuses on the wickedness of man. If there is one thing we can say about the Bible in the way it presents man it is simply that it never presents man as righteous. There may have been men whom the Lord commended such as Enoch and Noah but man as a whole lived down to his fallen nature. In this passage we are around 1,550 years after the fall of Adam and things are in an un-alterable mess. Why is this so?
 

 

Handout: Genesis: After the Fall
 


outline:
  1. Ask the students - Do you think that God has always been happy with the men and women He created??
  2. Ask the students - Do you think Gd is happy with men and women, you and I, today?
  3. It may be surprising to find out that God does not see men and women as righteous creatures, and this has always broken God's heart.
  4. What does it mean in Jeremiah when the Bible says...  "It is only when a man is filled by the Spirit of God will he be something other than what his nature dictates." (Jeremiah 17:9)
  5. What else does the Bible say?
  6. Describe the joy and personal reward of worshipping God and fighting bad thoughts that we have
  7. Challenge students to serve others in humility this week
  8. Prayer

activity:



Bring a picture of a crowd of people to class for students to view



discussion:



Think on this for a moment about the nature we inherited from our first 
		parents and then every 
parent since. Those of us who have children have 
		had to correct our children is that not so? 
From the earliest years we 
		saw a tendency toward self centeredness is that not so? Have we not 
seen 
		the tendency to tell a little lie as they grew older? Have we not seen 
		them have the 
tendency to take something that was not theirs? Who taught 
		them that? Have you ever had to 
stop your very young children from 
		fighting? Isn't it true you never taught your child 
disobedience and yet 
		they have that tendency? Why is it written "Train up a child in 
		the 
way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." 
(Proverbs 22:6) From man's earliest years he has a tendency to 
		go contrary to God. 
Now think of one more thing on this vein. Aren't 
		they much like you were? The truth of the 
matter is yes and children 
		need training because it is not natural for them to be obedient 
all the 
		time. Our children need the same correction and training we received. 
		You raise your 
child without correction and see what you wind up with. 
		They will break your heart. Even with 
correction many times children 
		bring sorrow to their parents but without correction they 
will almost 
		certainly be lawless and uncontrollable.



prayer:




comments:
Deuteronomy 32:2

	My doctrine shall drop as the rain,

	my speech shall distil as the dew, as the

	small rain upon the tender herb, 

	and as the showers upon the grass: