Lesson 1 · October 3, 1903

Adam as Sub-Ruler in God's Kingdom

Memory Text.—"For God is the King of all the earth; sing ye praises with understanding." .

Questions

1.To whom and how fully was the dominion of this earth given? .
2.What commission was given to Adam and Eve? How much of the earth were they to subdue? .
3.What object lesson did the Lord give them of what He designed the whole earth should become? .
4.What did the Lord cause to grow in this garden? .
5.By obedience to what command was man to acknowledge that God was the supreme Ruler of the world? .
6.By acknowledging God's claim to this one tree, what would man have acknowledged concerning everything which the Lord had made?
7.What was the first insinuation of doubt, received into the human heart, concerning the goodness and love of God? .
8.This doubt, cherished in the heart, prepared the way for what more bold assertion by the tempter? . Note 1.
9.What character did that statement attribute to God?
10.Whose character was thus attributed to God? .
11.By what still stronger statement did the serpent misrepresent the character of God? .
12.What did the woman then see? .
13.What enabled the woman, and what enables others, to see that which does not exist? .
14.To what state of wickedness did this first act of disobedience lead? .
15.What did the Lord then say He would do? .
16.What promise had He already made? How much was included in that promise? . Note 2.

Notes

1. Temptation is not sin, but the moment we allow an insinuation of doubt to find a lodging-place in the heart, and begin to parley with the tempter,—begin to reason that, perhaps, the wicked thing is right,—we are on the enemy's ground; and by his cunning and deception, practised for six thousand years, he will make wrong appear right. The Lord has given us one sure and safe weapon with which we can successfully meet every temptation of Satan, "It is written." That weapon of defense has been tested and proved by One who met and conquered in every temptation that can ever come to humanity.

2. The whole plan of human redemption, which is revealed in the Bible, and which "will be the song and the science of the redeemed throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity," is included in the promise of the seed which was to bruise the serpent's head. Adam had gone into bondage to Satan, and had forfeited to him all the rulership and dominion with which he had been entrusted. This promise of the seed is a pledge to the universe that God will never relinquish His kingship of this world. That kingship, perpetuated through the promised Seed, will be the central thought running through this quarter's lessons.

Bible texts in this lesson

Psalms 47:7 · Genesis 1:26 · Genesis 1:28 · Genesis 2:8 · Genesis 2:9 · Genesis 2:16 · Genesis 2:17 · Genesis 3:1 · Genesis 3:4 · John 8:44 · Genesis 3:5 · Genesis 3:6 · 2 Corinthians 11:3 · Genesis 6:5 · Genesis 6:7 · Genesis 3:15

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