The Major Issues Our World Is Facing
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The Situation
The Situation
1. The world resides in darkness but unto it a great light has dawned (Matthew 4:16).
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2. By the first Adam, sin entered the world and death by sin (Romans 5:12).
3. The world chose to forsake its knowledge of God and in its chosen ignorance, God gave it over to depravity to work all sorts of evil (Romans 1:18—32).
4. The fall brought a struggle of temptation, lust, desire, enticement, and spiritual death (James 1:14—15).
Pain and suffering are in this world because of the evils of this world.
Pain and suffering are in this world because of the evils of this world.
1. Our own sin.
(The pain of childbirth and the agony of death are specifically connected with the original curse of humanity at the fall (Genesis 3:16—19; Romans 5:12—21).
2. The sin of others.
(The Hebrew people suffered as slaves to Pharoah until the Exodus.)
3. The sin of Satan.
(Job suffered the loss of his income, business, and family by the evil actions of men working as agents of Satan (Job 1:1ff).
The Nature of Man According to the Bible: Discussing the biblical view of human nature, sin, and redemption.
The Nature of Man According to the Bible: Discussing the biblical view of human nature, sin, and redemption.
I. The doctrine of man (anthropology).
I. The doctrine of man (anthropology).
Genesis 1:26—31.
a. To be made in God’s image is to partake, as finite creatures, of his intellectual and moral capacities (and have a soul that survives death).
i. Colossians 3:9.
ii. Ephesians 4:22.
iii. 2 Corinthians 3:18.
iv. Romans 12:1—12.
b. And man has a soul that is immaterial and lives on after the death of our physical bodies.
i. Matthew 10:28.
ii. Luke 12:4.
c. The basis for the value of human life is the truth that man is made in God’s image:
i. Genesis 9:6.
ii. Proverbs 14:31.
iii. James 3:9—10.
iv. Psalm 8:4—8.
v. Psalm 139:13—16.
d. Because God is holy, and because God created in man, his image, to have fellowship with him, the fundamental purpose of man is to obey God.
i. Ecclesiastes 12:13.
ii. Deuteronomy 6:5.
iii. Leviticus 19:18.
iv. Micah 6:8.
v. Psalm 119:73.
vi. Leviticus 19:2.
vii. Genesis 17:2.
e. Moral values are based on the character of God.
i. Proverbs 9:10.
ii. Proverbs 12:22.
iii. Proverbs 11:1.
iv. Zechariah 8:16—17.
II. Companionship & Help
II. Companionship & Help
Genesis 2:4—24.
Genesis 2:4—24.
a. The theme of the creation account is that God created everything to meet man’s needs, creating man first, then providing him plants for food, rivers for water, the metallic elements, all the animals, etc.
But it was not good for man to be alone (vs. 18), so God created the woman from his rib as a suitable partner helper for him.
Marriage is the high point of this account, established to meet his need (vss. 18, 22—24).
God had marriage in mind when he created man, as witnessed here and in Genesis 1:26—28.
While we do not know the form it would have taken in the Garden, man’s priority is showed because his is the name for humans (Genesis 1:26—28; 2:7), man was created first and then the woman to meet his needs (2:7, 18), and man named the woman as he did the animals (2:23), a common indicator of dominion.
b. Read the passage together.
III. The Origin of Evil.
III. The Origin of Evil.
a. The Moral and Physical Corruption we experience in this world results from man’s sin.
b. In its original state, God’s creation was perfect, and man was fully equipped to obey him.
i. Genesis 1:31
ii. Ecclesiastes 7:29.
iii. Genesis 2:17.
iv. Genesis 3:14—19.
c. How does the Bible define “death” as the penalty of sin? Some say this means only spiritual death, others only physical death. But the biblical definition of death is wholistic; corruption of man’s environment, his subjection to disease and death, and separation from God and his blessings, ultimately culminating in eternal death.
d. What is sin? 1 John 3:4. Sin is transgression of the Law.
Wayne Grudem’s definition of sin is very helpful: “Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature.” (Grudem, 2020)
i. Romans 5:12.
ii. Romans 8:18—23.
iii. 1 Corinthians 15:26.
iv. Colossians 1:19—20.
v. Isaiah 59:1—2.
IV. The Universality of Sin.
IV. The Universality of Sin.
a. All people have sinned and fall under the penalty of death.
i. Romans 3:23.
ii. Psalms 143:2.
iii. Ecclesiastes 7:20.
iv. Proverbs 20:9.
v. Matthew 10:18.
V. Hamartiology—Study of Sin.
V. Hamartiology—Study of Sin.
a. Sin is defined as disobedience to the law of God, as we have said.
i. 1 John 3:4.
ii. Leviticus 4:2, 13, 27.
b. Sin may involve either doing what God has forbidden (malfeasance), or failing to do what he has commanded (misfeasance). {Sins of commission and omission.}
i. James 4:17.
c. The consequences of sin are death and separation from God.
i. Genesis 2:17.
ii. Genesis 3:17—19.
iii. Isaiah 59:2.
iv. Romans 6:23.
d. Sin is contrary to God, who is holy and apart from sin. God must punish sin.
i. Psalm 5:4—5.
ii. Habakkuk 1:13a
iii. Psalms 7:11.
e. Ultimately, sin results in eternal punishment.
i. Mark 9:43—48.
f. Historically, sin was introduced by Adam’s sin, tempted by Satan.
i. Romans 5:12.
ii. Genesis 3:1—5.
iii. 2 Peter 2:4.
iv. Jude 6.
VI. The Fragmentation of Man:
VI. The Fragmentation of Man:
a. Because of sin, man is corrupted intellectually, morally, and emotionally. Wounded human reason cannot discern the will of God with special revelation because it is deluded. Morally, man has been corrupted by sin and cannot do the good he knows and wishes to do. He is often mastered by his emotions and commits sin. The faculties of the soul have been fragmented by sin, so that man knows and even wills to do what is right, but he cannot.
i. Romans 7:15—16.
ii. Romans 7:25.
iii. Galatians 5:17.
iv. James 1:19—20.
God’s Role in Counseling
God’s Role in Counseling
VII. Redemption.
VII. Redemption.
Soteriology—The Good News of God’s Salvation Plan.
Soteriology—The Good News of God’s Salvation Plan.
a. Justification is a forensic term showing the process in which one is declared “not guilty” of sin before God here and in final judgment. The Hebrew stem, tsadak, in the Piel means “to pronounce just.”
i. Deuteronomy 25:1
ii. Proverbs 17:15.
iii. Psalm 143:2
b. The Greek dikaioo—means to declare innocent or just.
i. Acts 13:38—39.
ii. Mark 12:37.
c. We are justified solely be the atoning sacrifice of Jesus.
i. Romans 3:24—25.
ii. Romans 5:9.
iii. Romans 4:25.
d. Justification is necessary because we will one day stand before God in eternal judgment.
i. Hebrews 9:27.
ii. 2 Corinthians 5:10.
e. Atonement—the death of Christ was necessary to reconcile us to God.
i. Ephesians 5:2.
ii. 2 Corinthians 5:18-19.
iii. 1 John 2:2.
iv. 1 John 4:10.
v. Romans 5:10—11.
vi. 1 Peter 3:18.
vii. 2 Corinthians 5:21.
VIII. The Gospel is God’s Compassion to Save
VIII. The Gospel is God’s Compassion to Save
a. God’s Power to Save Believers.
Romans 1:16.
b. The Gospel Defined.
1 Corinthians 15:1—4.
c. The Gospel Must be Obeyed.
2 Thessalonians 1:7—9.
d. How to Obey the Gospel.
Romans 6:3—4.
Review Questions and Topics for Biblical Anthropology, Hamartiology, and Soteriology.
Review Questions and Topics for Biblical Anthropology, Hamartiology, and Soteriology.
1. How is man unique among God’s creatures?
2. What does it mean that man is made in the image of God?
3. What is meant by The Fall?
4. What are the consequences of man’s sin?
5. The Universality of Sin.
6. What do the Scriptures teach about the depravity of man? (Not the Calvinist’s response, please.)
7. Fully explain the sinful behaviors of man.
8. How? Will you introduce redemption to your counselee?