Genesis Week 5
Sharable notes for the September 10, 2023 message. You can post these notes on your social platform!
Scriptures used: Genesis 13:13; 18:25; 19:1, 9-16, 29; Ezekiel 16:49-50; 2 Peter 2:6-8; 1 John 2:15-17; Revelation 3:15-16; Jude 1:7; Matthew 10:14-15; Luke 17:28-33; Matthew 13:58
Passages referenced: Genesis 18-19; Deuteronomy 29:23; Isaiah 1:9-10; 3:9; Jeremiah 23:14; Amos 4:11; Zephaniah 2:9; Matthew 11:21-24; Luke 10:13-15
Our choices may be personal, but the consequences of our choices are not always private.
There is a progression of sin that wants to lead us to destruction, and that progression starts with a love of the world. This is why we love the Father and our relationship with Him more than anything.
Don’t just take notice of the wickedness you need to avoid, believe in and follow the one who came to save you from the wickedness.
God has intervened through Jesus Christ, and when we believe in and follow Christ, we don’t have to live in fear.
God’s grace can cover you from God’s judgement.
Do your prayers feel with God’s heart and seek with God’s eyes?
You have been placed in this community and in your family to pray on it’s behalf.
Jesus didn’t allow his disciples to stay huddled in homes hidden in fear. He empowered them with the Holy Spirit to go forward boldly in his name.
Abraham followed God, trusted God and prioritized God. We have to do the same.
Reflect or meet with someone to discuss:
Reading and hearing Genesis 18-19 regarding Abraham, Lot, Sodom & Gomorrah - what are some of the most surprising parts of this account for you? What stood out the most?
Why do you think God decided to act in the way that he did both with Abraham, and with Sodom and Gomorrah?
How does Abraham's pleading with God over Sodom and Gomorrah challenge you? How does God's response encourage you?
What lesson can we learn from Lot's wife?
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Abraham's bold prayer for his nephew Lot and the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah is a great example for us. We too can go to him with confidence, persistence, and boldness, and he will hear us.