8: Education and Redemption – Teaching plan
Key Thought: God intended this process of education to distinguish us from other life forms. He made us in His own image- He did it so that He can teach us and we can learn from Him, until His image is reflected in ours.
November 21, 2020
A. Have a volunteer read Genesis 1:26,27 ; 5:1,3.
- Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
- What do these texts teach us about how God originally created humanity, and what happened after sin?
- Personal Application: What is our commitment to Christian education at home, in church, and in school? Share your thoughts.
- Case Study: One of your relatives states: “I haven’t got time to teach my kids, that’s what the schools are for. All I want for my kids is to stay out of trouble, get a good job, support themselves, and be happy.“ How would you respond to your relative?
B. Have a volunteer read Isaiah 11:1-9.
- Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
- What does this reveal about the teaching role of the Messiah?
- Personal Application: What part do we have in having the knowledge of the Lord going all over the world? Share your thoughts.
- Case Study: One of your friends states, “You can’t share what you don’t know. In order to be effective in sharing the knowledge of God worldwide, or even in your neighborhood, you need to learn what is true and know how the people you are sharing it with?” How would you respond to your friend?
C. Have a volunteer read 2 Timothy 3:14-17.
- Ask class members to share a short thought on what the main idea of this text is.
- What part does Scripture take in Christian education?
- Personal Application: How do we properly apply some Old Testament instructions regarding civil, social, and health laws as teaching material for our time? Share your thoughts.
- Case Study: One of your neighbors states, “There’s not much difference between public education and church school. Why should I spend extra money for my child to go to church school when they will learn the same thing in public school?” How would you respond to your neighbor?
D. Have a volunteer read I Kings 4:29-34.
- Ask class members to share a short thought on what the main idea of this text is.
- What does wisdom mean, and why is it so important?
- Personal Application: How can we have wisdom? How can we pass it on to those who come after us? Share your thoughts.
- Case Study: Think of one person who needs to hear a message from this week’s lesson. Tell the class what you plan to do this week to share with them.
(Truth that is not lived, that is not imparted, loses its life-giving power, its healing virtue. Its blessings can be retained only as it is shared.”Ministry of Healing, p. 148).
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Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Gen 1:26-28.
The Lord opened my mind to understand this scripture more clearly. The Godhead at creation wanted to make humans in:
#1. Their image and likeness. (To bear their character and having their mind) Phil 2:5. What they did was to reproduced their mind/character in humans. #2. To have dominion just like the Godhead over the things that they created on the earth and given to man in Eden. #3 To reproduce the same as themselves (Adam and Eve), so the earth can be filled with the glory of God. Then all humans were supposed to have the same character as of the Godhead.
When sin entered into the world, sin tarnished this plan. All of the Godhead plans were twisted or turned in another direction. Christ, the Second Adam came to both restore and relive that plan mentioned above (but not the plan of physical reproduction) Matt 12:50. When the Second Adam came He was living and acting in the first domain as that of the first Adam (before sinning) to show us how we can be reinstated to our original state in Eden.
When Christ said to the winds and the waves be still, the became still because he had dominion over the winds and the waves. To the demon possess, be quiet and get out of the persons, immediately the people were healed because he had dominion over those fallen angels. Had humans maintained their allegiance to God we had that same dominion.
Now, because of Calvary and the blood of Jesus, he is restoring man to the pre sin states at present in this present world.
Then he/Jesus will come for his people when his character is fully reproduced in us as was before sin entered this world.