“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed;
He shall bruise you on the head and you shall bruise Him on the heel” Genesis 3:15b
He shall bruise you on the head and you shall bruise Him on the heel” Genesis 3:15b
This lesson was originally written for children , however has been adapted here for more personal use. If you would like the entire children's version complete with games click here.
What do we know:
1. We know that God created the Heavens and the Earth, and all that is we see, hear, smell, taste, and touch.
2. We know that we did not just happen to come into existence by what is called evolution, God created everything.
3. We know that God said everything that He created was good and perfect.
4. We know that God created human kind in His image and gave us the responsibility to take care of all that He created.
5. We know that God created us to have a relationship with Him and that He loves us.
6. We know that God designed families to work together, love and care for one another.
7. We know that God gave everyone responsibilities within our families and that (the children's) is to honor, obey and respect your parents.
Solve this equation: 4 2=
What answer did you arrive at? Did you add them for a sum of 6? What about subtraction for a difference of 2? What about a product of 8 if you multiplied? Divided for a divided of 2? A better question is how did you know what operator to use? Did you just randomly pick one? The answer is... they are all wrong. The question is unanswerable because their is no operator. Someone has to give us one in order to correctly answer the question.
What answer did you arrive at? Did you add them for a sum of 6? What about subtraction for a difference of 2? What about a product of 8 if you multiplied? Divided for a divided of 2? A better question is how did you know what operator to use? Did you just randomly pick one? The answer is... they are all wrong. The question is unanswerable because their is no operator. Someone has to give us one in order to correctly answer the question.
Life is just like these two numbers , we assume we have the knowledge necessary to solve all of our problems. The truth is without God we don’t. Just like the equation here, without God something is missing, we don’t have all the information to solve the problems life brings to us. This lesson talks about the first sin that humans committed. You might already be familiar with the story of Adam and Eve. What did Adam and Eve do?
Eve disobeyed God when she let the snake (the devil) convince her to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, and when she gave the fruit to Adam, he ate of it. Now, Adam could have said, Eve where did this fruit come from? Or Eve, are you sure we should eat this fruit? But, He didn’t. He trusted Eve and Eve trusted the snake. Adam was just as guilty as Eve. Have you ever heard the phrase “Eat my dust” well guess who said it first? God did right here in Genesis chapter 3.
Let’s see what God’s word says together… read Genesis 3:1-15
Let’s act this out in our minds:
Eve was standing in the garden and the snake came to her and said “didn’t God tell you that can't eat from any tree in the garden” (v1) and she said “no silly, God said we can eat anything we want from any tree, except from this tree in the middle. God said do not eat from it or touch it or I will die”(v2-3) the devil laughed and said “goodness sakes, you wont die, if you eat it, God doesn’t want you to be as smart as He is. He know that if you eat it you will know that there both good and evil in the world He created, that’s all” (v4-5). Well, Eve she saw the fruit and thought well its pretty to look at and I bet it tastes good too, and it will make me smart like God. So she ate the fruit and then gave Adam some of the fruit to eat” (v6). As soon as they ate it they knew they were naked. So they started grabbing leaves from the nearby plants and trees to make coverings for their bodies. Who wants to be seen naked, right? (v7). They heard God walking through the garden and hid from Him. God called out to them “where are you?” and Adam said “here I am, I was hiding from you because I was naked.” God said “what, who told you, you were naked? Did you eat the fruit I told you not to eat?” Now, Adam he looks at Eve and said, well she gave it to me. I didn’t know where she got the fruit. Its her fault. “ God said to Eve “what have you done?” and she said “it was the snake, he lied to me”. God turned to the snake and said “you did this, so now you will be cursed more than all the cattle or every other beast of the earth. Now on your belly you will live and the dust of all the other creatures you will eat”
Neither Adam or Eve wanted to be in trouble with God so they passed the blame off on someone else. Adam said Eve tricked him and Eve said well the snake lied to me. The point is they were both guilty of disobeying God.
How many of you have ever blamed someone else for something you did? I know I did. I had 2 sisters that I could blame. I remember one time when I was little where I blamed my little sister for something even though she got hurt, and it was really my fault. You see every year my grandfather would send my mom a box of homemade chocolate fudge. His fudge was the best and my mom would only give us a little at a time but it wasn’t enough for me, I wanted more and she wouldn’t share. I knew my mom hid the box of delicious chocolate on the shelf in her closet. Of course, I couldn’t reach it. So, I went to my sister and I said, I know where mom hides grandpas chocolate if you help me, I will give you some. So, we went to the kitchen and got a chair from the table and pushed it into our parents room.
Well standing on the seat of the chair, we still couldn’t reach it. We needed to be higher. So, I convinced my little sister that I was heavier than she was and I would stand on the rungs under the chair to keep her from falling only if she would stand on the back of it, so she could reach the box of chocolates. And you know what she did. I stood on the back with my feet on the rungs, she climbed onto the seat and then up onto the back of it and success, we had the box of chocolates. I was so excited that I forgot and moved from the back of the chair and she came crashing down to the floor, hitting her head on the corner of mom’s dresser.
If you ever look at her real close you will see a small scar in the eyebrow above her left eye. She had to go get stitches. She wasn’t happy with me and neither was our mother. Later, our mom said what were you doing, because you know my sister was laying on the floor bleeding so that had to be taken care of first. I said, well she got the chocolates down. I just stood on the back of the chair so she wouldn't fall. It was all her idea. I didn’t know she would fall if I moved. Of course, my mother; she knew I was lying and I got into trouble. OF course, now I can’t remember what my punishment was. But I never again asked my little sister to climb onto the back of a chair either.
My point is I wanted the chocolate, I came up with the plan to get it, and I asked my sister for her help. MY sister got hurt because of it. Now she could have said no, mom saves that candy but she didn’t she wanted some too and she trusted me that I could get it and that she wouldn’t get hurt. But she got into some trouble too because if I hadn’t asked for her help, she would never have tried to get the chocolate from the closet shelf.
Accepting blame is not a very popular thing to do. When we blame someone else, we save ourselves from any punishment. It makes us feel better even or a short period of time when we blame someone else. It gives us freedom from the punishment of what we did to disobey. The truth is even if no one ever finds out what we did, God knows. We all pass the blame, its easy to do. In fact we can all blame Adam and Eve for messing up can’t we. If they hadn’t disobeyed God then we wouldn’t do any wrong either, would we?
Sin is doing exactly what we are told not to do. The truth is even if Adam and Eve hadn’t disobeyed God someone would have. We all have a choice to either obey and do as God and our parents say or to disobey. It is a choice. Anytime you do something that you know you should not do, your disobeying. Anytime you do not do something that you know you should do, your disobeying. What are some example that you can think of?
Eve disobeyed God when she let the snake (the devil) convince her to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, and when she gave the fruit to Adam, he ate of it. Now, Adam could have said, Eve where did this fruit come from? Or Eve, are you sure we should eat this fruit? But, He didn’t. He trusted Eve and Eve trusted the snake. Adam was just as guilty as Eve. Have you ever heard the phrase “Eat my dust” well guess who said it first? God did right here in Genesis chapter 3.
Let’s see what God’s word says together… read Genesis 3:1-15
Let’s act this out in our minds:
Eve was standing in the garden and the snake came to her and said “didn’t God tell you that can't eat from any tree in the garden” (v1) and she said “no silly, God said we can eat anything we want from any tree, except from this tree in the middle. God said do not eat from it or touch it or I will die”(v2-3) the devil laughed and said “goodness sakes, you wont die, if you eat it, God doesn’t want you to be as smart as He is. He know that if you eat it you will know that there both good and evil in the world He created, that’s all” (v4-5). Well, Eve she saw the fruit and thought well its pretty to look at and I bet it tastes good too, and it will make me smart like God. So she ate the fruit and then gave Adam some of the fruit to eat” (v6). As soon as they ate it they knew they were naked. So they started grabbing leaves from the nearby plants and trees to make coverings for their bodies. Who wants to be seen naked, right? (v7). They heard God walking through the garden and hid from Him. God called out to them “where are you?” and Adam said “here I am, I was hiding from you because I was naked.” God said “what, who told you, you were naked? Did you eat the fruit I told you not to eat?” Now, Adam he looks at Eve and said, well she gave it to me. I didn’t know where she got the fruit. Its her fault. “ God said to Eve “what have you done?” and she said “it was the snake, he lied to me”. God turned to the snake and said “you did this, so now you will be cursed more than all the cattle or every other beast of the earth. Now on your belly you will live and the dust of all the other creatures you will eat”
Neither Adam or Eve wanted to be in trouble with God so they passed the blame off on someone else. Adam said Eve tricked him and Eve said well the snake lied to me. The point is they were both guilty of disobeying God.
How many of you have ever blamed someone else for something you did? I know I did. I had 2 sisters that I could blame. I remember one time when I was little where I blamed my little sister for something even though she got hurt, and it was really my fault. You see every year my grandfather would send my mom a box of homemade chocolate fudge. His fudge was the best and my mom would only give us a little at a time but it wasn’t enough for me, I wanted more and she wouldn’t share. I knew my mom hid the box of delicious chocolate on the shelf in her closet. Of course, I couldn’t reach it. So, I went to my sister and I said, I know where mom hides grandpas chocolate if you help me, I will give you some. So, we went to the kitchen and got a chair from the table and pushed it into our parents room.
Well standing on the seat of the chair, we still couldn’t reach it. We needed to be higher. So, I convinced my little sister that I was heavier than she was and I would stand on the rungs under the chair to keep her from falling only if she would stand on the back of it, so she could reach the box of chocolates. And you know what she did. I stood on the back with my feet on the rungs, she climbed onto the seat and then up onto the back of it and success, we had the box of chocolates. I was so excited that I forgot and moved from the back of the chair and she came crashing down to the floor, hitting her head on the corner of mom’s dresser.
If you ever look at her real close you will see a small scar in the eyebrow above her left eye. She had to go get stitches. She wasn’t happy with me and neither was our mother. Later, our mom said what were you doing, because you know my sister was laying on the floor bleeding so that had to be taken care of first. I said, well she got the chocolates down. I just stood on the back of the chair so she wouldn't fall. It was all her idea. I didn’t know she would fall if I moved. Of course, my mother; she knew I was lying and I got into trouble. OF course, now I can’t remember what my punishment was. But I never again asked my little sister to climb onto the back of a chair either.
My point is I wanted the chocolate, I came up with the plan to get it, and I asked my sister for her help. MY sister got hurt because of it. Now she could have said no, mom saves that candy but she didn’t she wanted some too and she trusted me that I could get it and that she wouldn’t get hurt. But she got into some trouble too because if I hadn’t asked for her help, she would never have tried to get the chocolate from the closet shelf.
Accepting blame is not a very popular thing to do. When we blame someone else, we save ourselves from any punishment. It makes us feel better even or a short period of time when we blame someone else. It gives us freedom from the punishment of what we did to disobey. The truth is even if no one ever finds out what we did, God knows. We all pass the blame, its easy to do. In fact we can all blame Adam and Eve for messing up can’t we. If they hadn’t disobeyed God then we wouldn’t do any wrong either, would we?
Sin is doing exactly what we are told not to do. The truth is even if Adam and Eve hadn’t disobeyed God someone would have. We all have a choice to either obey and do as God and our parents say or to disobey. It is a choice. Anytime you do something that you know you should not do, your disobeying. Anytime you do not do something that you know you should do, your disobeying. What are some example that you can think of?
- What if your dad tells you to take out the garbage and you don’t?
- What if your mothers tells you to feed the dog and you don’t?
- What if your find money laying on the sidewalk and you saw who dropped it , what do you do?
- What if your friend leaves his/her favorite toy at your house and you want it? What should you do?