Family Worship Guide: Week of May 1st 2022

Joey Tomlinson   -   May 1, 2022

Memory Verse: 

Proverbs 1:8: ⁸ Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, 

and forsake not your mother’s teaching, 

Catechism Questions:

Q22: Did Adam and Eve stay Holy and happy? Answer: No, They sinned against God.

Q23: What is sin? Answer: Sin is any transgression of the law of God.

Monday

Scripture: Genesis 3:1-7

3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. 

He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” ² And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, ³ but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ” ⁴ But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. ⁵ For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” ⁶ So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. ⁷ Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths. 

Point of Focus: We are going to read this passage for the next three days, but we need to see the overall picture of what happened so many years ago in the garden. Man lost both his holiness and his happiness because he chose to not be happy in God alone.

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Tuesday

Scripture: Genesis 3:1-7

3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.

He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” ² And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, ³ but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ” ⁴ But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. ⁵ For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” ⁶ So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. ⁷ Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.

Point of Focus: As we continue to look at Genesis 3, we see that the serpent who is the devil sought to make Eve doubt God’s goodness. “Is God trustworthy?” is Satan’s ancient tactic.  And we still struggle with that sinister and twisted thought even today. But when the enemy tries to make us doubt the goodness and trustworthiness of God, we must remember that God did not withhold his only Son (with whom He is well pleased) from us so that we might be saved from our very sins (see Romans 8). His good unchanging character is always preached to us at the cross of Jesus.

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Wednesday

Scripture: Genesis 3:1-7

3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.

He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” ² And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, ³ but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ” ⁴ But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. ⁵ For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” ⁶ So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. ⁷ Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.

Point of Focus: The third and final thing we see is the shame sin brought. Adam and Eve knew after they sinned that things were no longer right between them and God. In fact, they tried to cover their shame by sewing fig leaves together. In other words, they tried to make things right on their own. The problem is that sinners can’t make things right. God had to come all the way down to make things right between us and him because of the sin in the garden. And God did that through Jesus Christ, who came and crushed the serpent’s head.

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Thursday

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 7:29

²⁹ See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes. 

Point of Focus: God originally designed us “upright”– that means morally good. But since that first “scheme” (disobedience to God) man has since at odds with God. As we saw yesterday, only God could make things right between us and Him. He made things right through the shed blood of Jesus– the only true “upright” one.

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Friday

Scripture: Hosea 6:7

⁷  But like Adam they transgressed the covenant; 

there they dealt faithlessly with me. 

Point of Focus: Since the sin of Adam, we have all added to that first sin with our own sins. We have a sin nature and if left to ourselves, we have no way to change. We cannot go from faithless to faithful. But God did all the work and by his Spirit he changes our hearts of unbelief (faithless) to hearts of belief (faithful).

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Saturday

Scripture: Romans 5:14

¹⁴ Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.

Point of Focus: Every man since the fall of Adam has been sinful. We all die. And we are all born spiritually dead. But the Bible teaches us (in this very chapter) that there is a second Adam— a better Adam. And that is Jesus Christ. He brought life. And when He returns, he will definitively destroy death.

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