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    Blessed Families Study Guide
    Blessed Families Study Guide
    Blessed Families Study Guide
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    Blessed Families Study Guide

    By Robert Morris

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    What is the secret to having a truly happy home life?

    Every person comes from a broken family. The spiritual genetic tendencies from Adam and Eve have been passed down to us through the curse of the fall. But Jesus came to redeem us from the curse! Through Him, every family can find redemption and discover that:

    Marriage represents God on earth.
    Believers are adopted into God's family.
    Parenting requires training, teaching, and trust.

    This study guide is a companion to the DVD series and is designed for group discussion or individual reflection. In this series, you will learn about God's design for families and how they can move from broken to blessed.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateAug 12, 2019
    ISBN9781949399745
    Blessed Families Study Guide
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    Robert Morris

    ROBERT MORRIS is the founding senior pastor of Gateway Church, a multicampus church in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. He is featured on the weekly television program The Blessed Life and is the bestselling author of twelve books, including The Blessed Life, From Dream to Destiny, The God I Never Knew, and The Blessed Church. Robert and his wife, Debbie, have been married thirty-five years and are blessed with one married daughter, two married sons, and six grandchildren. Follow Robert on Twitter @PsRobertMorris.  

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      Blessed Families Study Guide - Robert Morris

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      THE BROKEN FAMILY

      The spiritual characteristics and genetic tendencies from Adam and Even have been passed on to us through the curse of the Fall. But Jesus came to redeem us from the curse!

      ENGAGE

      If you could direct a movie, what would the title and main plot be?

      WATCH

      Watch The Broken Family.

      Think about how Satan got Adam and Eve to doubt their God-given identities.

      Look for the solution to our shame, blame, and fame problem.

      (If you are not able to watch this teaching on video, read the following. Otherwise, skip to the Talk section after viewing.)

      Read

      We all come from a broken family. Even if you came from a Christian home, your parents were still broken. We’re all broken because we all come from the first broken family—Adam and Eve.

      We all have biological DNA and genetic characteristics that come from Adam and Eve. We also inherited spiritual DNA from them. I’m going to share with you the three results of the Fall.

      Before the Fall, every person on Earth was in a perfect relationship with God and each other. But only a few verses later in the book of Genesis, everyone on Earth was in a broken relationship with God and each other.

      Genesis 3:1 says,

      Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?

      To get someone to sin, the first thing Satan did was cast doubt on the Word of God.

      Genesis 3:2–6 goes on to say,

      And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’"

      Then the serpent said to the woman, You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.

      So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

      Adam was with Eve while the devil was talking to her, but he never did anything about it. The Fall of mankind cannot be fully blamed on a female. Both man and woman sinned against God.

      There are three things Eve saw in the fruit. First John 2:16 says there are three things in the world: The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. The lust of the flesh represents Eve’s eyeing the fruit and seeing it was good for food. The lust of the eyes was Eve’s noticing the fruit was pleasant to look at. And the pride of life was Eve’s belief that the fruit from the tree could make her wise.

      Three things entered the world at the Fall that still affect us to this day:

      SHAME

      Adam and Eve hid from God in shame after they sinned. Genesis 3:7–11 says,

      Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.

      And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

      Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, "Where are you?"

      So he said, I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.

      And He said, "Who told you that you were naked?"

      Adam had fear because he had shame. No one had to tell him he was naked. Shame immediately entered the world when sin entered. Adam and Eve were hiding from God and each other.

      Genesis 3:21 says, For Adam and his wife the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them. God made clothes for Adam and Eve from animal skin. He had to shed blood to make coverings for them until His plan to cover mankind forever in Jesus’ blood was complete.

      Revelation 3:18 says, "I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed. Gold represents God’s Word. The Bible says His Word is more precious than silver. God is not referring to real clothes but to a spiritual covering for shame. Isaiah 61:10 says, For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, / He

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