1. GOD THE FATHER God’s Got a Plan!
Christianity 101 – Lesson 5
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Clayton Township, Neenah, Wisconsin

2. Last Week’s Memory Treasure
My help comes…
Psalm 121:2

3. Last Week’s Memory Treasure
My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.
Psalm 121:2

4. First Article of the Apostles’ Creed First Half
I believe in God …

5. First Article of the Apostles’ Creed First Half
I believe in God the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth. What does this mean? I believe that God created…

6. First Article of the Apostles’ Creed First Half
I believe in God the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth. What does this mean? I believe that God created me and all that exists, and that He gave me my body and soul, eyes, ears, and all my members, my mind and all my abilities. And I believe that God still preserves…

7. First Article of the Apostles’ Creed First Half
I believe in God the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth. What does this mean? I believe that God created me and all that exists, and that He gave me my body and soul, eyes, ears, and all my members, my mind and all my abilities. And I believe that God still preserves me by richly and daily providing clothing and shoes, food and drink, property and home, spouse and children, land, cattle, and all I own, and all I need to keep my body and life...

8. Opening Discussion
Since God knows everything and He hates sin, why would He let Satan tempt Adam and Eve into sin and let all mankind fall? Did God want us to be sinful?

9. How Sin Entered the World
God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment.
2 Peter 2:4

10. How Sin Entered the World
God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment.
2 Peter 2:4

11. How Sin Entered the World
And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their own home—these He has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day.
Jude 6

12. How Sin Entered the World
And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their own home—these He has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day.
Jude 6

13. How Sin Entered the World
Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings.
1 Peter 5:8,9

14. How Sin Entered the World
Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings.
1 Peter 5:8,9

15. How Sin Entered the World
Some angels
disobeyed
God and now live as
demons
under the leadership of the
devil (“liar”), or
Satan (“enemy”).

16. How Sin Entered the World
The Fall into Sin
Genesis 3:1-15,20-24

17. How Sin Entered the World
The devil…
tempted Adam and Eve to disobey God
Adam and Eve…
deliberately disobeyed and lost God’s image

18. The Results of Sin
Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.”
John 3:5,6

19. The Results of Sin
Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.”
John 3:5,6

20. The Results of Sin
When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. He created them male and female and blessed them. And when they were created, he called them “man.” When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.
Genesis 5:1-3

21. The Results of Sin
When God created man, He made him in the likeness of God. He created them male and female and blessed them. And when they were created, he called them “man.” When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.
Genesis 5:1-3

22. The Results of Sin
We are all born in a sinful condition (inherited sin)

23. The Results of Sin
“For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.”
Matthew 15:19

24. The Results of Sin
“For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.”
Matthew 15:19

25. The Results of Sin
2. Our sinful condition leads to sinful words and actions (actual sin)

26. The Results of Sin
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned.
Romans 5:12

27. The Results of Sin
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned.
Romans 5:12

28. The Results of Sin
For the wages of sin is death…
Romans 6:23a

29. The Results of Sin
For the wages of sin is death…
Romans 6:23a

30. The Results of Sin
3. We deserve God’s punishment and eternal death

31. The Results of Sin
To the woman He said, “I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” To Adam He said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.” Genesis 3:16-19

32. The Results of Sin
To the woman He said, “I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” To Adam He said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.” Genesis 3:16-19

33. The Results of Sin
4. We suffer pain and sorrow as the consequence of sin

34. The Results of Sin
The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time Romans 8:19-22

35. The Results of Sin
The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time Romans 8:19-22

36. The Results of Sin
5. All of nature lost its perfection also

37. What Did God Do for Sinful Mankind?
“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
Genesis 3:15

38. What Did God Do for Sinful Mankind?
“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
Genesis 3:15

39. What Did God Do for Sinful Mankind?
“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
Genesis 3:15

40. What Did God Do for Sinful Mankind?
“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
Genesis 3:15

41. What Did God Do for Sinful Mankind?
“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
Genesis 3:15

42. What Did God Do for Sinful Mankind?
“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will crush your head, and you will strike His heel.”
Genesis 3:15

43. What Did God Do for Sinful Mankind?
“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will crush your head, and you will strike His heel.”
Genesis 3:15

44. What Did God Do for Sinful Mankind?
“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will crush your head, and you will strike His heel.”
Genesis 3:15

45. What Did God Do for Sinful Mankind?
“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will crush your head, and you will strike His heel.”
Genesis 3:15

46. What Did God Do for Sinful Mankind?
“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will crush your head, and you will strike His heel.”
Genesis 3:15

47. What Did God Do for Sinful Mankind?
But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His wounds we are healed We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 53:5,6

48. What Did God Do for Sinful Mankind?
But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His wounds we are healed We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 53:5,6

49. What Did God Do for Sinful Mankind?
God said that sin must be punished and paid for, but…
that a Savior would take the punishment for us.

50. What Did God Do for Sinful Mankind?
“Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.”
Leviticus 19:2

51. What Did God Do for Sinful Mankind?
“Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.”
Leviticus 19:2

52. What Did God Do for Sinful Mankind?
“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will raise up to David a righteous Branch, a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land. In His days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. This is the name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.”
Jeremiah 23:5,6

53. What Did God Do for Sinful Mankind?
“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will raise up to David a righteous Branch, a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land. In His days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. This is the name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.”
Jeremiah 23:5,6

54. What Did God Do for Sinful Mankind?
God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 5:21

55. What Did God Do for Sinful Mankind?
God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 5:21

56. What Did God Do for Sinful Mankind?
2. He said that perfection still was required for eternal life, but… that a Savior would give His holiness to us as a gift

57. What Did God Do for Sinful Mankind?

58. What Did God Do for Sinful Mankind?
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”
John 1:29

59. What Did God Do for Sinful Mankind?
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”
John 1:29

60. What Did God Do for Sinful Mankind?
3. God sent His Son, Jesus, as the perfect Lamb of sacrifice

61. What Did God Do for Sinful Mankind?
They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.”
Acts 16:31

62. What Did God Do for Sinful Mankind?
They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.”
Acts 16:31

63. What Did God Do for Sinful Mankind?
4. God gives salvation to all who presently trust in Jesus

64. Agree or Disagree?
God gave Adam and Eve the command not to eat of the one fruit because they needed a way to show God gratitude for all His blessings.
Evil has always existed.
It was the devil’s fault that Adam and Eve fell into sin.
With much effort human beings can make this world perfect again.

65. Discussion Question #1
Why did Satan and so many other angels rebel against God?

66. Discussion Question #2
If all people are totally depraved and unable to please God from birth, how do even unbelievers do so many helpful and beneficial things for others?

67. Discussion Question #3
If we are born dead in sin and unable to reconcile ourselves to God, how is God just in holding us accountable for our sinfulness?

68. Discussion Question #4
I've done some terrible things in my life. I'm afraid I'm not good enough to go to heaven. What must I do to have my sins forgiven and to be saved?

69. Memory Treasure
God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 5:21

70. First Article of the Apostles’ Creed
I believe in God the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth. What does this mean? I believe that God created me and all that exists, and that He gave me my body and soul, eyes, ears, and all my members, my mind and all my abilities. And I believe that God still preserves my by richly and daily providing clothing and shoes, food and drink, property and home, spouse and children, land, cattle, and all I own, and all I need to keep my body and life...

71. First Article of the Apostles’ Creed
God also preserves me by defending me against all danger, guarding and protecting me from all evil All this God does only because He is my good and merciful Father in heaven, and not because I have earned or deserved it. For all this I ought to thank and praise, to serve and obey Him.
This is most certainly true.

72. Closing Prayer
Lord our strength, the battle of good and evil rages within and around us, and our ancient foe tempts us with his deceits and empty promises. Keep us steadfast in Your Word, and when we fall, raise us up again and restore us through Your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.