Salvation Small Group Study Lesson 2
by Joyce Webb 2011
Lesson 2
1. How does sin change our relationship with God?
Sin put a death penalty over our head. Death would come to the body. Death would come to the soul/spirit. Sin breaks our relationship with God.
Choosing our will over God’s will is disobedience and it is sin.
Sin entered the world through Adam and Eve. Adam was held responsible. Sin broke the relationship Adam had with God. Adam hid in shame. He did not come for his evening walk and talk with God. God had to call to him.
Sin makes us feel guilty. We feel shame. We do not want to speak to God. We want to stay away from him.
God keeps his word. They did not obey, they would die. Death is now hanging over their head. Death must be done.
God in love has a plan. He had a plan even before he created (made) the world.
I Peter 1:18-20, Revelation 13:8
Every man is tempted by his own lust (desire, wanting), lust becomes sin, sin in the end is death. James 1: 14, 15
Not believing in Jesus is a sin. John 3:18 He that believes on the Son whom God sent, is not condemned (judged guilty). He that does not believe, is condemned.
John 5:40 Jesus said., “You will not come to Me, that you might have life.”
Sin put a death penalty over our head. Sin breaks our relationship with God.
2. How does sin affect our relationship with others?
Sin is choosing our own will. Choosing our will develops selfishness, lack of discipline and self control. We choose our way over another person’s.
Sin and selfishness grows until it makes a person mean and selfish—-caring only about what they want.
3. What can we do about the death over us?
We will die in our bodies. There is nothing we can do about that. God has not changed that.
Because God loved the people so much, He had a plan of what He would do so the people’s souls and spirits would not die forever.
God told Adam in the Garden of Eden that some day He would send a child who would be born of a woman. That child would step on Satan’s head and crush him. Satan would hurt this child a little. Genesis 3:15
The child that God was talking about was Jesus. Jesus was born of a woman.
The woman did not have sex with a man to get pregnant. The Holy Spirit made her pregnant. So Jesus was born of a woman.
Jesus was hurt a little by Satan. Jesus died on the cross. That really hurt a lot when you talk about pain. But it hurt only a little because Jesus did not stay dead. Jesus came to life again. But Jesus broke Satan’s power to hold death, or blame us of sin.
Because Jesus died on the cross for our sin, now we do not have to die for our sin. Jesus paid the death for us. We get to go free of death. We must believe in Jesus and ask Him for forgiveness. We must obey Jesus. He is the One who paid for our death, so He is the One we ask..
Some people do not want to believe in Jesus. Because if they come to Jesus for forgiveness, then they will have to obey what Jesus said. They do not want to obey Jesus.
They do not want their spirits to die forever. So they tell themselves that they are good people—–so they will go to heaven. They think that if they have not done really bad sins, that God will let them in heaven.
Sin is not just doing very bad things. Sin is wanting your way more than God‘s way. Sin is choosing your own way—–not God‘s way —-deciding for yourself—–that you are good.
If we could be good enough to go to heaven——Jesus would not have needed to die on a cross.
Why would Jesus come as a baby, and let men hurt him, and die if he did not need to do it?
He did it for us. He did not want us to die forever for our sin. So he came and died for us.
If we say we are good enough—–we do not need Jesus—–how does Jesus feel about that?
Jesus told the people that they would not be saved from their sin but only if they came to him and asked for forgiveness and then followed him and would obey what he said.
4. What happens when we repent of our sin and turn away from our sin? Some churches call this “being saved from your sins”.
When we come to God and He forgives our sin, we have peace in our mind and heart.
Romans 5: 1 “…we have been made right with God by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ has done for us.”
Sin makes us feel guilty. When God forgives us we feel clean, we feel like a big weight has been lifted off of our heart. Our mind feels peace and happy.
We are given the gift of eternal life. Romans 6: 23 “For the payment of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
John 3: 16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him, should not die, but have everlasting life.”
When our sins are forgiven—-we can live in heaven. No sin can be in heaven. When our sins are “washed away in the blood of Jesus” we know we will live in heaven.
We become a new creature II Corinthians 5:17 “…those who become Christians become new persons. They are not the same anymore, for the old life is gone. A new life has begun.”
When we are forgiven and we ask Jesus to be part of our life, the Holy Spirit begins to help us understand how to live in a way that pleases God. We do things in a right way. We think in a right way. We like things about God. We want to learn more about God.
The old sinful things we did before we do not do any more. We are different. We are changed. Our spirits are “born again”. John 3:3
5. Does God forgive all of our sin?
Psalms 103: 2 “Who forgives all your iniquities (sin).”
Psalms 103: 12 “As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed (taken away) our transgressions (sin) from us.”
Isaiah 43:25 “I even I am he that blots out (marks it out) your transgressions (sins) for my mine own sake and will not remember thy sins.”
Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord, though your sins be as scarlet (red), they shall be as white as snow, though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”
Revelation 7: 14 “….and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”
Galatians 2: 13,14 “….. the great God and our Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us that he might redeem (made payment) from all iniquity (sin) and purify (made clean) unto himself a special people.”
I John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
John 8: 36 “If the Son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free, true”
John 1: 12 “But as many as received him, to them he gave the power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.”
Jeremiah 31:34 “…..I will forgive their iniquity (sin) and I will remember their sin no more.”
Hebrews 8:12 “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.”
Questions About Salvation Lesson #2
1. God told Adam and Eve that if they ate from the tree—-what would happen?________
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2. Death would come to the body, and death would come to the __________________.
3. Our ___________________________________ or meeting and talking with God was broken because of sin.
4. Sin makes us feel _______________________________. We do not want to speak to
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5.God said we will die. Is that still true?________________-
6. Will everyone’s body die?________________
7. Will everyone’s soul/spirit die forever? _____________
8. What did Jesus do to help us?___________________________________________
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9.What will let some people’s souls live forever? If they do what?
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10. Can all sin be forgiven? _______________Is there anything too bad?____________