Lesson 26: Washing At the Cross Review
Questions 1 and 2
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Review
The next three lessons of the course will be a reminder of our three foundational truths for freedom, then one final lesson will combine all three to clarify how to implement these in your life.
Question 1. What are the three foundational principles of freedom?
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A Dialogue with Satan
In this lesson, we will return to the Garden of Eden and observe the temptation and subsequent fall of Adam and Eve and the response of God Who does something that had never been done before. Doing this will help us to understand both the need to wash at the cross and the power of doing so.
During this lesson we should see that turning to alcohol, drugs and/or cigarettes is simply partaking of forbidden fruit, that is, we are sinning against God. But God has provided an amazing solution in advance, and our sin is dealt with fully by this solution and we are free because of it.
The first five verses of Genesis 3 show Eve entering into dialogue with Satan, who had disguised himself as a snake. Satan spoke half-truths, she responded with her version of God's instructions.
Right away, we learn that if we enter into dialogue with Satan, who is tempting us, we will lose. It is best not to trust in our own understanding (Proverbs 3:5). Better to flee, run, get out of there like Joseph did when tempted by Potiphar’s wife (Genesis 39:12), or if unable to leave then “resist the devil, and he will flee from you” (James 4:7).
“When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves."
Genesis 3:6-7 NIV
Question 2. What things do you see, from Genesis 3:6-7, that led to the fall of Adam and Eve?
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