God's Covenant With Abraham

When sin entered the world, God already had a plan to provide a Savior. God’s plan to provide a redeemer for His people began through a man named Abraham. God chose Abraham to be the father of the nation in which Jesus would be born. In this way, Abraham would bless all nations, as God had promised. God also saw Abraham’s faith in God’s promises and counted that faith as righteousness. It is our faith in Jesus’ perfect righteousness that brings salvation to God’s people.

Who is all-powerful?

God is all-powerful.

Job

The Book of Job speaks volumes to the problem of human suffering. It is also an important picture of how a suffering person should relate to God. Though Job sometimes doubted God, he never turned away. Job’s suffering actually brought him closer to God.

Job’s suffering and his request for a mediator give us a glimpse of our Savior, Jesus. Neither Job nor Jesus experienced suffering because they had sinned. Unlike Job, Jesus never questioned why He had to suffer. Jesus understood that we need Him to pay the price for our sin and to be our mediator before God.

What happens when people sin?

Sin separates people from God and one another.

The Tower of Babel

The account of the Tower of Babel helps us understand the devastating effects of sin. Even after God had destroyed all life on earth through the flood and graciously saved Noah's family and the animals, it wasn’t long before people disobeyed God again.

God instructed Noah to spread out and fill the earth. Instead, people decided it best to settle. Rather than bringing glory to God by following God’s plan, people decided to glorify themselves. They built a tower to make a name for themselves.

God’s plan to populate the earth following the flood could not be sidetracked. When God confused the languages of the people, they were forced to move away from one another and into people groups and nations bound by single languages. Eventually one of these nations would become God’s chosen people. Through the nation of Israel, Christ would come to save the world.

Why does sin separate people from God?

God is Holy

Noah and the Ark

Genesis 6:5 - 9:17

 

It is another exciting week of The Gospel Project for Kids! God’s gospel narrative continues this week as preschoolers will learn that God is serious about sin. People were sinning so much that God sent a flood to completely destroy all life on earth … all life, that is, except for one man, his family, and a boatload of animals.

Noah was a righteous man and God was gracious to him. God gave specific instructions on how Noah was to build an ark that would be used to rescue Noah, his family, and the animals. Noah was obedient to all God commanded.

As the account of Noah unfolds, we see a picture of Jesus. Sin caused separation between God and man, but God graciously provided a way of salvation for Noah and his family through the ark. Our sin separates us from a holy God, but God provides a way of salvation in the person of Jesus. Also, as Noah’s obedience and God’s grace saved Noah’s family and the animals, Jesus’ perfect obedience to God’s plan provides the way of salvation for us. When we acknowledge and trust God’s provision for us through Jesus, we are saved from the punishment our sin deserves.