Mon Sep 14

Listen up, little ones

Especially for the littles in your household.

Listen for the words God and serpent.

Reading

Genesis 3:1-15—The First Good News

Optional Reading

Luke 2:1-20

Keys for kids

Also for the littles. Young households might choose, after Keys for Kids, to go directly to praise and prayer.

Satan tempted Adam and Eve to sin against God.
Their sin brought misery into the world.
God promised that Someone would come and defeat Satan.

Questions

(Some read the ?s before the notes/ ask them after.)

How do we know the serpent is Satan?
What did Adam’s sin cause?
How is Jesus promised in Gen 3:15?

Catechism

(1 Q&A each week related to the preaching text)

WSC #22

How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?

Christ, the Son of God, became man, by taking to himself a true body, and a reasonable soul, being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost, in the womb of the Virgin Mary, and born of her, yet without sin.

Heb. 2:14, 16; Heb. 10:5; Matt. 26:38; Luke 1:27, 31, 35, 42; Gal. 4:4; Heb. 4:15; Heb. 7:26

Notes

(See Saturday for authors.)

The angels in Luke 2 announce to the shepherds the glorious Good News of the birth of Jesus—the Savior, Messiah, and Lord. This good news had been anticipated ever since the Garden of Eden. But the good news always comes in the context of bad news. Here in Genesis 3, sin has destroyed the beauty of the “all very good” creation (Gen 1:31).

After listening to the serpent (later identified as the devil and Satan Rev 12:9) and believing his lie about God, the man and his wife took of the forbidden fruit and ate it, plunging the world into sin and misery. They were then afraid of God and hid from Him. They were ashamed of their nakedness. And they began to blame others for their sin. But in that context of bad news and misery, good news comes in Gen 3:15 as God curses the serpent.

As Ferguson puts it, The curse is really this: “There’s going to be enmity between your seed and the seed of the woman, Eve, and there is going to be conflict that will go on until the seed of the woman crushes your head.” And in that curse, there is a promise that Christ will come and defeat the power of sin and Satan. That is good news!

Swedish Method questions

See the Sunday notes for meaning of the symbols.

Praise

Psalm 14a, 119v

Prayer

Rejoice in the good news that Christ has defeated Satan!
Pray for a specific application from yesterday’s sermons.
Pray for a member of our church, for your family, and for a non-Christian friend/family member.