Lesson 12: The Son of God

Genesis 3:14‑24  •  6 min. read  •  grade level: 4
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Gen. 3:14-24
I AM sure you are very sorry to hear that Adam and Eve were turned out of the garden? It was not so pleasant outside the garden. Many, many weeds and thistles now grew outside; but in the garden there were only pretty flowers and sweet fruits.
Adam was forced to dig the ground till he was hot and tired, for he could not always find fruit on the trees. Now Adam felt pain in his body sometimes. His hair became gray, and at last he was quite old. Eve was very often sick and weak, and tears ran down her cheeks.
Poor Adam and Eve! If they had obeyed God they would have been happy forever.
Adam and Eve knew that they must die at last. God gave them some little children, and Adam and Eve knew that their children must die too. God had told them that their bodies were made of dust, and that they must turn to dust again.
But there was something more sad still. They were now wicked. They did not love to praise God, as they once had done, but they liked doing many bad things.1 They were now like Satan. So Satan hoped that, when their bodies would be put into the ground, their spirits would be with him, for Satan knew that wicked people cannot live with God in heaven.2
And they would have gone to hell, and all their children too, if God had not taken pity on them. God, who is very kind, had found a way to save them.
God had said to His Son, a long, long while before then, ‘Adam and Eve and all their children must go to hell for their wickedness, unless Thou wilt die. 3My beloved Son, I will send Thee. Thou shalt have a body. Thou shalt go and live in the world and Thou shalt obey Me. And Thou shalt take the place of very many men and women and children and die instead of them.’ 4
The Son said to His Father, ‘I will come.’ He would do all that the Father wanted Him to do. He said, ‘It is My delight to obey Thee.’ 5 So the Son promised to come into this world to die.
How kind it was of the Father to send His dear Son, whom He loved so very much! 6How kind it was of the Son to come from His throne of light and His bright angels, and to take a body and to die! 7
You know that we are some of Adam’s children’s children. It was for such people that Jesus came to die. We are wicked, and we should go to hell, if Jesus had not promised to die for such people.8 We ought to love the Father and the Son, because They had pity on sinners.
Let us praise God with the angels, 9and say, ‘We thank Thee, O Father, for Thy tender love in giving Thine only Son.’
‘We thank Thee, O Son, for Thy tender love in coming down to bleed and die.’
The Father waited a long while before He sent His Son down to be a man. All the time the Son waited in heaven, He thought of what He promised to do. 10But He would not go and be a man till His Father was pleased to send Him.11
Adam has sinned, and on the ground
Shall thorns and thistles grow.
His body lie in dust; his soul,
Ah, whither shall it go?
Shall one who dared to disobey,
With God forever dwell?
When angels sinned God did not spare,
But cast them down to hell.
Yet long before the world was made
Our God contrived a plan,
By which his sinful soul to save,
And pardon guilty man.
The Father said His Son should die,
The Son replied, ‘I will.
A feeble body I will take;
This body men shall kill.’
Father, how great Thy love to man,
To send Thy Son from high!
How great Thy love, O glorious Son,
To come, and bleed, and die!
Questions
Were Adam and Eve happy after they had eaten the fruit?
Why not?
Who took pity on them?
What did God wish His Son to do for Adam?
What did God’s Son say to His Father, when He told Him to be a man so that He could die?
Are we some of Adam’s children?
If Jesus did not die, where would Adam and Eve and all their children go when they died?
Did Jesus come down into the world as soon as Adam became wicked?
Did He wait a long while, or a little while?
God sent a Savior
A verse from the Bible for you to learn:
The Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. 1 John 4:14.
 
1. ‘The carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.’ Rom. 8:7.
2. And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you.’ Luke 22:31. The constant efforts of Satan to tempt man to commit sin show that he is aware of the destructive nature of sin, as it is undeniable that he desires to destroy man.
3. ‘Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.’ 1 John 4:10. Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world.’
1 Peter 1:20.
4. ‘I have kept My Father’s commandments, and abide in His love.’ John 15:10.
5. ‘Then said I, Lo, I come... I delight to do Thy will, O My God: yea, Thy law is within My heart.’ Psa. 40:7, 8.
6. ‘Thou lovedst Me before the foundation of the world.’ John 17:24.
7. ‘The glory which I had with Thee before the world was.’ John 17:5.
8. ‘As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.’ 1 Cor. 15:22.
9. ‘I heard the voice of many angels... saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain.... And every creature... heard I saying Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb forever and ever.’ Rev. 5:11-13.
10. Visits of the Son of God to man, in anticipation of his sacrifice, are recorded often in the Old Testament. His visit to Abraham, in Gen. 18; to Jacob, Gen. 32; to Moses in the bush, Ex. 3; to Joshua, Josh. 5; to Isaiah, Isa. 6 compared with John 12:41. The Son of God is evidently referred to in the following passage: ‘He bare them, and carried them all the days of old.’ Isa. 63:9.
11. ‘When the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son.’ Gal. 4:4.