Christmas Family Devotional Guide

5 Reasons Jesus Had To Come

# 4 To Undo What Adam Did

Turn to Luke 3:23-38 (Struggle your way through this long list of people) – but emphasize to your children the more significant ones –(Enoch, Noah, Isaac, Abraham, Jacob, Boaz, King David)

Ask your family: “What did all of these people have in common? (Point out that every single one had sinned and were separated from God because of their sin.)

What went wrong? Things had started out so good. Gen 1:27-31 tells us man was created and given dominion of the earth. This dominion was to rule over. It is like being a king. Man also had perfect fellowship with God and there was no death.

Ask your family, “What happened to Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden?”
They sinned – through one man came the curse and death.

Look back at Luke 3, and look at the last words of this chapter, “Adam, the son of God”.
God created Adam from the dust and placed him in the garden. But Adam rebelled against God. Adam as our king allowed sin and death to reign in creation.

God placed a curse on Adam and Eve and since they are the parents of all people, that curse was passed down also.

So all these people here in Luke 3 have one thing in common. They had sinned against God and they have a sin nature. Also, because of this sin, each one is separated from God.

But God loved us way too much to leave us in this mess.

There was nothing they could do to get back fellowship with God. Since this sin nature of the curse is passed down, God had to intervene. God placed His Son in the womb of Mary. Since the baby Jesus was born of God, He did not possess that sin nature and Jesus could then undo what Adam had done.

Read Romans 5:17-21

Through one man (Adam) came sin and death. Through this one man came wrath.

Through one God-man (Jesus) came life, forgiveness, adoption, and an innocent verdict.

Jesus also came to bring us eternal life if we would just believe in Him!!!

1 Corinthians 15:21-22 says, “For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
Discuss as a family how happy you are that God sent Jesus as a man to undo the mess that we had made.