SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY                      

GUIDE       Chongni-Church S S Lesson

Chongni Church

Quarter 4

lecturer: dr. Sookyoung Kim

Supervision of Deacon Hong and Pastor Kang  (your connection for requests)

           Study-Guide : Sabbath School Study : 101a +2012Ba

Unit 3      Man: God’s Handiwork

Warm up:  Put (T) = true        or (F) = false

T  F  1. Do you think I am a product of my father and mother only?

voca  product = (Psalm 100:3)(1)                       

T  F  2. Do you think that the essence of identity is myself?

voca  image = (Genesis 1:27)(2)                       

T  F  3. God’s plan was that it should be a world only for men?

voca  plan of God = (Genesis 1:26)(3)                             

T  F  4. Adam was not a real person but only a myth or legend?

T  F  5. We originated by chance and not by design?

voca  design = (Genesis 1:26)(4)                                   

T  F  6. God wanted us to dominate the animals and world?

voca  dominate = (Genesis 1:26)(5)                               

T  F  7. A tiger is named a tiger because God called it that way?

voca  naming = (Genesis 2:19-20)(6)                              

T  F  8. Do you think God likes to control people as toy soldiers?

voca  control = (If you love me keep my commandments)(7)                       

T  F  9. Eve was made out of Adam so that Adam can rule over her?

voca  why woman = (Genesis 2:24)(8)                                       

T  F  10. God created the world with its sins?

voca  origin of sin = (Genesis 1:31)(9)                                    

Let's Talk

Three or four in a team.    Rotate the questions.

1. Do you think that through Adam everyone is a sinner and dies and through Jesus everyone is saved and will live again?

voca  Adam and Jesus = (Romans 5:12-19)(10)                             

Partner answer: Yes. Jesus likes everyone and wants to save all.

voca  salvation for all = (John 3:16)(11)                             

 (your answer)                                                                

 (extension?) = say more?

Well, you have to accept or receive [verse 17] Jesus to be saved.

voca  receive = (Romans 5:17)(12)                             

2. If I suffer pain and troubles, is it God punishing me?

Partner answer: Yes. God wants me to stop sinning so He punish me.

(your answer)                                                                

(extension?) = say more?

No. God never originates pain. But, He also suffers it through His Son and with us.

3. How does one restore the defiled image of God in us?

Partner answer: One must work hard on it and stop sinning.

 (your answer)                                                    

 (extension?) = say more?

God starts the process alone and without me and out of thanks for salvation, I work together with Him to stop sinning.

4. Do you think one can never be totally in the image of God restored?

voca  conformed = (Romans 8:29)(13)                                                 

Partner answer: No. It is impossible. We are too sinful.

(your answer)                                                    

(extension?) = say more?

Yes. Paul says that we can comform to the image of God.

Step up now

5. To take up the full armor of God means to join the army

voca  armor of God = (Ephesians 6:10-13)(14)                                                 

Partner answer: Any evil fighting the church should be resisted.

(your answer)                                                    

 (extension?) = say more?

No. It does not say fight but stand firm. Stand is not fight (Ephesians 6:11).

6. Paul says that the Law did not come until Moses. Did the people before Moses sin and did they know that?

voca  law with Moses = (Romans 5:13-14)(15)

Partner answer: No. The law is a late invention in Moses’ day and was designed by Moses himself. When Jesus came He nailed the law on the cross.

(your answer)                                                                

 (extension?) = say more?

The law was upon their hearts and minds. It is because people in Moses’ day forgot the law that it was written explicitly for them like that. There was always law.

voca  not under the Law = (Galatians 5:18)(16)

7. It is possible to sin and keep the Sabbath?

voca  carnal mind = (Romans 8:7)(17)                                                  

Partner answer: No. I think that Sabbath also means saved by grace from sin and sin will break the Sabbath and nullify it.                                               

(your answer)                                                    

 (extension?) = say more?

Yes, because the Pharisees were keeping the Sabbath while they were sinning.  

8. Is the image of God in the Christian something I can see?

voca  fruits of the spirit = (Galatians 5:22)(18)                                                 

Partner answer: Yes. You can see the fruits of the Spirit. All the good things are like God’s image.  

(your answer)                                                    

(extension?) = say more?

No. It is a relationship and you cannot see a relationship. It is spiritual and individualized.

9. Do you think man was created by God but man must create his own future?

voca  determining of future = (Acts 17:26)(19)                                             

Partner answer: Yes. If I sit at home nothing will happen. It is me who must make things happen.                

 (your answer)                                                                

(extension?) = say more?

No. Even your thoughts are known to God and the Spirit inspires and leads. It is not my own. All honor must go to the Creator.

10. If I am dressed fashionable and my personality is very sweet and I focus on showing a lot of kindness and friendliness to people, is that the image of God?

voca  image of God proper = (2 Thessalonians 2:17)(20)                                                   

Partner answer: Yes. To be stylish and fashionable and businesslike is a good image of God.

 (your answer)                                                               

(extension?) = say more?

No. The image of God is more on the interior than the exterior. Yes, if the image of God is renewed in you people can see the fruits thereof.

Express Orally Together

“Know that the Lord is God. It is He that has made us, and not we ourselves” (Psalm 100:31).