Life and Death

SCRIPTURE REFERENCES

Romans 5:12 NASB

¹² Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned—

Genesis 2:16-17 NASB

¹⁶ The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; ¹⁷ but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”

Genesis 3:4-5 NASB

⁴ The serpent said to the woman, “You surely will not die! ⁵ For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Revelation 1:18 NASB

¹⁸ and the living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

Revelation 20:14 NASB

¹⁴ Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

OUTLINE

• Death Introduced – Genesis 2:16-17
• Death Invaded – Genesis 3:4-5
• Death Invaded – Revelation 1:18
• Death Introduced – Revelation 20:14

QUESTIONS

1. Death Introduced:  Without clearly defining the problem we will never find a solution.  How do you typically define the problems in the world?  Who do you tend to blame?  How does God define the problem?  Where have you gone off script like Adam and Eve and sought to writer your own story?  What has been the result of being separated from the Storyteller?  (Genesis 2:16-17 ; Romans 5:12)
2. Death Invaded: Death invaded God’s kingdom because we believed a lie and sought to write dour stories without God.  Death spread to all men because all of us have gone astray.  The result was immediate relational chaos.  Where have you experienced relation chaos and relational death because of sin in your life?  (Genesis 3,;Romans 6:23
3. Death Invaded: Death invaded God’s kingdom and God returned the favor. How has it strengthened you to know that God love and pursued you to the depths of death to rescue, ransom, redeem and reconcile you to Himself?  How does that love manifest itself I your relationships? (Revelation 1:18,; John 11:25; Romans 8:35-39)
4. Death Introduced: At the end of God’s story death is introduced to a new forever home.  How does it encourage you to run this race with endurance knowing that one day there will no longer be any pandemics, pain, poverty or passing of loved ones?  How does this truth strengthen you to be an Ambassador for Christ, encouraging all people to be reconciled to God through Christ and pass from death to life? (Revelation 20:14; 21:4; 2 Corinthians 5:20)