Listening To God ~ Summary of Last Week's Bible Time

Listening to God

 Genesis 6-8

     God has always given us directions in life. In Genesis he gave Noah specific directions on how to build the ark. It was to be but so big and so tall… and so many floors. The point is though that God never leaves us on our own. The more we don’t listen to Him, the further away we get from Him. Thus it gets harder and harder to hear Him. The world got so far away from listening to God that He was disgusted with the world He had created. He instructed Noah to save only two of every animal, male and female. The only people that were allowed to be on Noah’s new boat where his family members and their wives. After about what we would call a year… Noah was allowed to come off of the ark. God had cleansed His world from all the sin, and Noah was to start all over again. God placed a rainbow in the sky as His promise to us to never flood the earth again!

God’s Love and His Gift to Us

   God loves us so much that he wrote the Bible to give us a guideline on how to live. The first five books of the bible are: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. These books are what is called the Pentateuch. Genesis is a book about the Sovereignty of God. This book is about learning to trust God because he is our everything, He will never lead us into danger. Exodus is about history; we can come to know God better by studying what he did for us. Leviticus is the fallen conduct of humanity; God made our world perfect and without sin, our life was good. When sin entered the Garden of Eden our world was quickly changed to a life of sin and evil (it’s all Eve’s fault!). We experienced separation from our Creator because of our sin. Numbers is about salvation; after we sin we need to be forgiven for our sins, without salvation we couldn’t be saved from our many sins. God loves us so much that he gave us a way out of our sins if we just confess to Him and be redeemed. Deuteronomy is about holiness; God is holiness and sovereignty, He wants us to reflect His image with a meek and quiet heart (just like His). God wants us to be able to come close to him, and learn about Him. He wants us to learn about what He has done for us. Just remember He loves you and you are never alone.

________________________

Written by Duck for Year 1/Week 2 of her Bible Road Trip summary

Putting on the Armor of God

Good evening everyone,
I know it has been some time since I posted anything on our blog, but now school has started up you will see more and more posts published. We are studying Bible Road Trip for school this year and one of the weekly assignments are to post a blog entry on what we learned this week. Kiddo, aka Duck has written her first in a series of articles to blog today so I will share with you what she wrote about.

 

Putting on the Armor of God

Psalm 119:10-12

 I seek you with all my heart;
    do not let me stray from your commands.
 I have hidden your word in my heart
    that I might not sin against you.
 Praise be to you, Lord;
    teach me your decrees.

      We can not have God in our hearts unless we know His word by heart. If we don’t know what He has to tell us than how can we back ourselves up during trials or conflicts? Paul uses an example in Ephesians 6:17 ‘’ Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God.’’ What good would a knight be without a sword? Kind of useless, and unable to defend, right? Well, as Christians we should know and have memorized at least most of what God has to say, or at a minimum know where to find it in the Bible. Jesus teaches us in Matthew 13 that we should not only hear ‘’The Word’’ but understand it as well. We should be able to share with others what we learned because we not only heard or read it, but we understood what it said.

Bible Road Trip ~ Year One/Week One