MAN UP Week 1 - Adam

(Genesis 1:26-28; 2:7-25; 3:1-25; Genesis 4:1-2, 5:1-5)

MEMORY VERSE – GENESIS 1:26:

26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

Profile:

• First man
• Created in the image of God. (Gen 1:26-28)
• Father of humankind (Gen 4:1—2)
• Father of three boys, Cain, Abel  & Seth. (Genesis 4:25)
• A wife made just for him. (Gen 2:23)
• Lived a total of 930 years (Gen 5:5)

GOD GIVEN RESPONSIBILITIES AS A MAN

• Rule over all the earth and its creatures (Gen 1:26)
• Take care of the Garden of Eden (Gen 2:15)
• Obey God’s commands (Gen 2:17)
• Name the animals (Gen 2:19)
• Husband to Eve (Gen 2:24)
• …Be fruitful and increase in number…” (Gen 2:28)
• Father to his sons (Gen 4:1-2)

FAILURE TO MAN UP

• Failed test of obedience (Gen 3:17)
• Failed to protect his wife Eve (Gen 3:1-5)
• Failed to acknowledge his wrongdoing (Gen 3:12)
• Failed to be trustworthy (Gen 3:12)
• Failed to take responsibility for his responsibilities (Gen 3:12)

LESSONS LEARNED FROM HIS LIFE

• God wants us to freely choose to follow and obey him out of love.
• Nothing we do is hidden from God
• No excuses for not taking care of our responsibilities (
• MAN UP and be accountable for our failures (Gen 3:12)
• “It is not good for a man to be alone…” (Gen 2:18)
• Satan’s truths are full of lies (eyes open… Gen 3:5)
• You lose part of yourself in marriage to gain a whole (Gen 2:21)
• Every man has a wife being formed by God just for him (Gen 2:22)
• satan uses people who are close to us to tempt us. (Gen 3:6)
• We’re slaves to the one whom we obey (Rom 6:16)
• We’re convicted by our own guilt (Gen 3:8-11)
• Sin separates us from God and we become slave to sin (Gen 3:17-19, 23-24)
• Punishments for disobedience are real (Gen 3:14-19)
• God gives us the ability to choose freely.
• We choose with the consequences in mind.

CHEW ON THIS – Take 10 Minutes each day to meditate on these questions?

• Friday: Disbelief – Disregarding God’s word and believing satan instead (Gen 2:16-17, 3:1-7).
• Meditate on any areas where you deliberately did something against what you know to be God’s will?
• Did you feel any guilt about it?

• Saturday: Disobedience – Acting on personal desire and rejecting God (Gen 3:6)
• What areas of your life do you need to be more obedient to God, your parents and other authority figure?

• Sunday: Father’s Day – Appreciate the special men in your life (Eph 6:1)

• Monday: Responsibility – Taking responsibility for your actions, good, bad or ugly.
• What areas of responsibilities have you neglected to Man Up in?

• Tuesday: Trust – Being trustworthy in every area of life
• Can God, your parents, teachers, friends trust you?

• Wednesday: Lusting – Not being content with what is given and what we have (Genesis 3:6; 1 John 2:17-18; Matthew 4:1-11)
• What areas of your life do you wish you could have more of?