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Call to worship: Ephesians 4:17-24

Text: Genesis 5:1-32

Summary:

Set against an idolatrous civilization, Moses records the line of grace, from Adam to Noah. We're reminded of the fact and spread of sin and its consequences. The chapter is filled with funerals. But we're also stirred by the record of Enoch who, residing in the line of Seth, and giving rise to Lamech and Noah, walked with God and seems to have avoided the otherwise typical route to being with God forever. Death is not the end for those who walk with God. Salvation reigns supreme over sin. The text ends on a faithful father's hope: Noah. As Eve with Cain, then Abel, then Seth, so Lamech with Noah: perhaps he's the Lord's Christ. Well he is a type, but Jesus is the Christ. Jesus is the Savior Who overcomes sin and death and the curse. Jesus is the One Who can return sinners to eternal, worshipful Rest.

Sermon Outline:

1. The spread of sin.
2. The supremacy of salvation.
3. The certainty of the Seed.

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Discussion Questions:

1. Read Genesis 5:1-32.
2. What does Moses intend for us to understand in 5:1-5 as it relates to God's begetting Adam in His own likeness, then Adam's begetting Seth in his own likeness? What themes do you find to be repetitive in the text? Consider Romans 5:12 and onward.
3. Why is this family line given? What relationship does it bear to the line of Cain? What is Moses meaning to track?
4. Is there any person listed whose record is distinct from all the rest? Who is it? What's distinct about him and it? Why is this person so encouraging in the text? Consider the letter of Jude.
5. What's the relationship between Genesis 3:15 and Lamech's hope? What does that tell us about the preaching of the Gospel at that time? What sort of salvation are believers looking for? Is Noah the Christ? How does all this lead us to Christ? What sort of family ought the church of Christ be in this world?