"God's Workers, Building God's Kingdom, God's Way!" Pastor Edward V. Lightfoot
MID-WEEK BIBLE STUDY
December 10, 2024
PASTOR E.V. LIGHTFOOT
Introduction
I. Primeval History: Establishing the Need for Redemption (1:1–11:26)
A. Perfect Creation: The Absence of Sin (1:1–2:25)
1. An Overview of Perfection (1:2–2:3)
a. Inanimate Perfection (1:2-19)
b. Animate (Animal) Perfection (1:20-25).
c. Human Perfection (1:26-2:3)
2. A Close-Up on the Human Ideal (2:4-25)
a. The Ideal Creation of Man (2:4-7)
b. The Ideal Place of Man (2:8-14)
c. The Ideal Responsibility of Man (2:15-25)
B. Fallen Humanity: The Advent of Sin (3:1-21)
1. The Lead Up to Sin (3:1-6)
a. Step One: Wrongly Recalling God’s Word Recalling God’s
Word (3:1-3)
b. Step Two: Wrongly Assessing God’s purposes (3:4-5)
c. Step Three: Wrongly Approving What Seems “Good” (3:6)
2. Humanity’s Response to Sin (3:7-8)
a. Conviction (3:7a)
b. Division from Each Other (3:7b)
c. Division from God (3:8)
3. God’s Response to Sin (3:9-21)
a. Gentle Confrontation (3:9-13)
b. Merciful Chastisement (3:14-20)
c. Gracious Forgiveness (3:21)
C. Dire Consequences: The Aftermath of Sin (3:22–4:26)
1. Exile: The Communal Aftermath of Sin (3:22-24)
a. The Problem (3:22)
b. God’s Gracious Solution (3:23)
c. The “Eastward” Paradigm (3:24)
2. Murder: The Personal Aftermath of Sin (4:1-22)
a. The Priority of Heart Attitude (4:1-8)
b. God’s Mercy, Again (4:9-12)
c. Cain’s Repentance and God’s Grace (4:13-22)
3. Injustice: The Legal Aftermath of Sin (4:23-26)
a. Injustice as a Result of Ignoring God’s Example (4:2324)
b. Injustice Not Preclusive of God’s Blessing (4:25)
c. Injustice as a Catalyst for Turning People to God (4:26)
D. Fallen World: The Attachment of Sin (5:1–11:26)
1. Break in the Prosecution: God’s Blessing Despite Depravity
(5:1–6:8)
a. Hope of Redemption (5:1-32)
b. God’s Gracious “Cap” on Depravity (6:1-4)
c. Measure of True “Spirituality” (6:5-8)
2. The Flood: Humanity’s Chance to “Come Clean” of Depravity
(6:9–9:29)
a. Prelude: A Righteous Remnant in a Depraved World (6:9-10)
b. Corruption of the Land (6:11-12)
c. God’s Covenant with Noah (6:13-20)
d. God’s Provision for Life (6:21-22)
e. Entering the Ark (7:1-9)
f. Prevailing of the Flood (7:10-24)
g. Subsiding of the Flood (8:1-14)
h. Exiting the Ark (8:15-22)
i. God’s Provision for Life (9:1-7)
j. God’s Covenant with Noah and All Life (9:8-17)
k. Corruption of the Land (9:18-19)
l. Postlude: A Righteous Remnant in a Depraved World (9:20-29)
3. The Depth of Depravity in Post-Flood Humanity (10:1–11:26)
a. Setting the Stage for Universal Rebellion (10:1-32)
b. Rebellion Expressed: The Rise and Fall of Universal Human Pride
(11:1-9)
c. Transition to Pardon (11:10-26)
II. Patriarchal History: Delineating the Path of Redemption
(11:27–50:26)
A. Descendants of Terah: God Making His Own Name for Man
(11:27–25:11)
1. The Abrahamic Covenant: God’s Promise for Israel and the Nations (11:27–12:20)
a. God’s Sovereign Choice: Abram’s Passivity (11:27-32)
b. God’s Gracious Promises: Resetting Abram’s Direction (12:1-9)
c. God’s Unshakable Hold: Abram’s Deep Depravity (12:10-20)
2. Living in the Land: God’s Affirmation of the Covenant (13:1–14:24)
a. Affirming Abram’s Right to the Land (13:1-18)
b. Affirming Abram’s Might and Prosperity (14:1-16)
c. Affirming Abram’s Blessing and Status (14:17-24)
3. Ratifying the Covenant: God’s Compromise with Weak Faith (15:1-
21)
a. Answering Abram’s Doubt about the Son (15:1-5)
b. Affirming Abram’s Imperfect Faith (15:6)
c. Answering Abram’s Doubt about the Land (15:7-21)
4. Doubting God: The Fall Reprised (16:1-16)
a. The Temptation (16:1-4a)
b. The Human Consequences (16:4b-6)
c. The Divine Response (16:7-16)
5. Circumcision: The Sign of the Covenant (17:1-16)
a. The Effected Covenant as the Basis of the Rite (17:1-8)
b. Content of the Rite (17:9-16)
c. Abram’s Response to the Rite (17:17-27)
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