The Cost of the Cross
Group Questions
What do you want to remember about this past week?
What subject in school did you dislike?
What is something you really want?
Text Questions
What is sin and where did it come from?
Read Genesis 2:17
What was God warning?
Read Genesis 3:1-7
What stuck out to you?
How did the serpent deceive them?
Why did they eat the fruit?
How has this decision affected the universe?
Read 1 John 2:16
What stuck out to you?
What do we learn about how sin works?
Read Genesis 6:5
What stuck out to you?
How had sin impacted these people?
Read Ephesians 2:1-2
What stuck out to you?
What does it mean that you were dead in your transgressions and sins?
Read 1 John 1:8
What stuck out to you?
What do we learn about sin?
Read Romans 3:23
What stuck out to you?
Who has sinned and fallen short of God’s Glory?
Read 1 John 1:9
What stuck out to you?
What is God’s role and what is our role in dealing with sin?
What does confession mean?
Personal Questions
How has sin impacted your life?
How do you deal with the sin in your life?
Do you remember a time when you were dead in your sins?
Do you want to be cleaned of all sin?
Do you believe God will forgive you and clean you if you confess?
Application
Decide what you believe about sin
Take inventory on how sin has impacted your life
Ask God to show you any sin in your life
Confess and receive forgiveness
Live in victory
Verses
Origin
Genesis 2:17 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
Genesis 3:1-7 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
1 John 2:16 For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.
Genesis 6:5 The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.
Ephesians 2:1-2
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.
1 John 1:8 8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
