For All Generations To Come

Genesis 5 & 6

Joel Miles

January 7, 2024

With a friend, your family or in your small group, discuss the following questions:

1. Read Genesis 5:1-2. In light of these verses, discuss what we already know from Genesis 1-4, and what parts of those chapters 5:1-2 are highlighting. 

  2.   Read Genesis 5:3-5. How do these verses remind us about the fall. 

  3.   Read the rest of Genesis 5 (I know its long). What bothers you the most in reading these verses? In light of what we know from Genesis          1-4, why should their death be the most bothersome thing to us? How does the genealogy make us the feel the unnatural nature of d            death?

  4.   Read Genesis 6:1-3. Compare verse 2 with Genesis 3:6. While it is hard to see in the English, the wording is almost the exact same in                Hebrew. Why is that important? What does it show us is happening in Genesis 6:1-3?

  5.  Read Genesis 6:4. This is saying that these Nephilim were military/violent heroes that were renowned because of their violent prowess.           In light of Genesis 1-4, why should this make us mourn? 

  6.  How does Genesis 5:1-6:3 help us understand why God does what he does in Genesis 6:5-7? Why is it important that God ruins what we         have already ruined with our sin? Why is it important to see that God’s anger does not come up, but his grief does?

  7.  How awful is sin being depicted in these verses? How seriously do we need to take sin?

 8.  Read Genesis 6:8. The word favor is the word “grace”. Why is that important? How does talking sin seriously help us see how gracious            God is? 

 9.  How can this text help us to understand the necessity of the cross of Jesus to save us? How can it help us stand in awe of how gracious        God is to send Jesus for our salvation?