God is
The giver of life
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We sin and this leads
to death
But God…
Take Home Sheet – Years 4 to6
Bible Story Summary
The Drumbeat of Death, Genesis 5:1-6:8
In the Bible, family trees are important. We heard about one today: Adam’s. His family tree is
particularly important to us because of the promise God made in Genesis 3. The snake, God’s
enemy the devil, had tempted Adam and Eve to turn away from God. But God promised that
someone from their family tree would come to earth and crush the snake. Who could it be? We
need to know, because we want to find out who will destroy God’s enemy the devil for us.
Whilst looking for the snake-crusher, Adam’s family tree shows us another enemy that needs
defeating for us: death. It keeps saying, ‘and then he died…and then he died…and then he died.’
Sin leads to death. This is what God warned back in Genesis 2:17. God has kept his word. If you
turn from God, the generous creator who gives life, you will die. Death is God’s punishment for sin.
But like with Genesis 3, when God brings judgement, he also gives us hope. One person in the
family tree broke the pattern of death. One man in the family tree did not die: Enoch.
The story gets worse before it gets better. As more and more people were born on earth, sin spread
more and more with them. Sin is not like an illness that people catch. Sin is a problem we all have
inside us. Sin comes from our heart and is very serious. So much so that God decided to wipe out
everything from the earth. God judges the earth. But one man stood out: Noah. In the midst of
judgement, God gives hope again, through one man. Next time we will hear what happened to Noah.
Digging Deeper
Each week this age group looks at a few verses from the Bible story in more detail.
Genesis 5:21-24
- Look at verse 22. What did Enoch do with God? How long did Enoch do this for?
- Look at verse 24. What did Enoch do with God? What happened to him? How does this
break the pattern of the rest of the family tree?
In the New Testament (Romans 6:23) God says, ‘the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is
eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.’
- According to this verse why is there death? How can we have life forever?