JCC MIRITINI SUNDAY SCHOOL

DATE: 25/11/2023

THE FALL OF MAN

One day, while Eve was walking in the garden, a snake spoke
to the woman and said, “Has God said you cannot eat the
fruit of every tree in the garden?” Eve answered the snake
and said, “We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden, but
God has said, we are not to eat of the tree in the middle of the
garden. We are not even allowed to even TOUCH it, or we
will DIE.”

“You will not die!” the snake said. “God knows that the day
you eat the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden,
you will become wise as gods, knowing good and evil.” Then
Eve looked at the tree and saw that the fruit on the tree was beautiful and good for food. She
knew that if she would eat this fruit, it would make her WISE.

So she picked the fruit off the tree, took a taste, and handed it to her husband to eat. When Adam
ate the fruit, too, they both saw for the first time that they were naked. They ran and picked fig
leaves from a tree and used the leaves to make something to cover themselves and hide their
nakedness. Suddenly, they heard the voice of
God walking in the garden, and Adam and Eve
were frightened. So they hid themselves from
the Presence of God, by crouching down among
the trees in the garden.

And God called to Adam saying, “Adam, where

are you?”

Adam KNEW he was discovered so he

answered, “I heard your voice in the garden, and
I was afraid because I was naked. So I hid
myself.” God KNEW what they had done, but
still He asked, “Who TOLD you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree that I
commanded you not to touch?” And Adam answered, “The woman that you gave to be with me,
gave me the fruit to taste, and I ate it.”

And God asked the woman, “What have you done?” Eve answered, “The snake tricked me, and I
ate the fruit.”

God turned to the snake and said, “Because you have done this, you will crawl on your belly and
eat the dust of the ground all the days of your life.”
 Then he turned to the woman and said, “You will have much sorrow and pain when you have
children, and your husband will rule over you.”

And to Adam, God said, “Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate of the tree
which I forbid you to eat from, the ground will grow thorns and thistles to stick you, and you will
eat of it in sorrow all the days of your life. You were taken from the dust of the ground, and you
shall return to the dust of the ground.”

Then God took animal skins and made special coats to cover the nakedness of Adam and Eve.
And He drove them out of the garden so they would not eat of the tree of life also. And God
placed angels with flaming swords at the Tree of Life to keep Adam and Eve from returning.

QUESTIONS
1. Question: Who made you?
Answer: God made me.
2. Question: Who is the first man on earth?
Answer: Adam
3. Question What did God make man out of?
Answer: God made man out of the dust of the earth and breathed into his nose the breath of life
and he became alive.
4. Question: How long did it take God to make all these things?
Answer: It took God six days to make everything.
5. Question: what was the name of the garden home of Adam and Eve?
Answer: Garden of Eden

Memory Verse
Romans 3:23

All of us have sinned and fallen short of God's glory.

CAN YOU FIND THIS STORY IN THE BIBLE?

(Genesis 3:1-19)

PRAYER

Heavenly Father, thank You for Your Word. I am so grateful for the lessons I can learn from the
choices Adam and Eve made so long ago when they chose to disobey Your Word. Thank You
for this insight into the devastating fall of man and the ease with which we can be deceived and
tempted to sin against You and forfeit Your many blessings. May I not only know the truth of
Your Word but trust You in all things so that I will not be seduced by the lies of the enemy.
Thank You, Father, for Your wonderful plan of redemption and for sending Jesus to come to
save us. In Jesus name, Amen