God created humans to be in friendship with Him but when Adam and Eve sinned, humanity lost grace and was born in a state of sin. To solve this problem, God promised to send a Savior. God shows His mercy by giving humanity hope. Jesus was the fulfillment of this promise made by God to save humanity from sin and reconcile people with God. By dying on the cross, Jesus restored friendship between God and humanity and fulfilled the Father's plan for people to share in His divine life for eternity. However, the story is not over as the graces Jesus won must be given to people, which is the work of the Holy Spirit.

1. THE CREATION
LESSON #4
THE MERCY OF GOD,
AND HIS PROMISE
“JESUS” The Promise and Plan of Salvation

2. THE FALL
 God created man and woman in his images
and likeness and He made them friends of
himself.
 He intended for them to live in friendship
and happiness with Him in Earth knowing and
loving Him
 And then they would be take to heaven,
where they will be happy with Him for ever
 But when Adam and Eve freely chose to
turn away from God and rejected his
friendship, they lost His Grace and their Sin
was pass on to all people.
 So humans born Not in a STATE OF
FRIENDSHIP with God, but in State of SIN

3. THE MERCY AND PROMISE
OF GOD
 Sin has caused a terrible
problem, and it is a problem that
we can not solve for ourselves
and our own strength.
 Remember our human nature is
hurt, and we born with
concupiscence: we have a
tendency to sin.
 So, the only one who can solve
the Sin problem for us, is God.
because He is the only one who
have the grace. We don’t have it;
we lost it by sin.
 But don’t worry, The Story Of
Creation did not ended in
tragedy, desperation, or sadness. But
in HOPE!
 God himself enter the scene, and
shows us his mercy by giving us hope.
 God responds to the sin of humans is
not to abandon them, but to show them
Mercy and Love.
 When God tells Adam and Eve the
consequences of sin, He also promised
them to send a SAVIOR.
 God the Father promised that sin
and evil will not prevail and all
descendants of Adam and Eve will
defeat and overcome Sin. (Gen 3:15; Gen
12:13)

4. THE PROMISE SEED: JESUS
 God created the world out of love,
and He always loves his creatures
even when they sin.
 God response to sin of humanity
with generous Love, and a promise
of a REDEEMER.
 This promise is called the 1st Gospel,
because it is the first hint of the
Good News of our Salvation in
Christ.
 Here we learned
 the depths of God’s Love for his
children,
 and the length he will go in order to
save them

5. JESUS MESSAGE
 Jesus became man and by the Holy Spirit
was incarnate of the Virgin Mary,
 For us men and for our salvation, Jesus came
down from heaven and give us this message:
“God Our Father in heaven, created you and
He Loves you and want you with Him in
Heaven.”

6. WE ARE NO MERELY PRODUCT OF EVOLUTION
 Pope Benedict XVI:
We are not some causal or meaningless
product of evolution. Each of us is
Willed! Each of us is Love! Each of us is
a thought of God! Each of us is
necessary!
 Remember Man is the summit of God’s
creation. Everything in the Creation was
created and prepared for man and
woman and for them to use and enjoy.

7. EVERY MAN IS GOOD
 After God created everything else that is in the
world, (air, plants, sea, animals, etc.) he said: “it’s
Good”
 But after God created man he said: “it’s Very Good”
 Every single man is good.
 Everything that God made is good, because He is
good.
 We may be sinners, yes!; but sinners by our own
choice.
 Our WILL is free, we can freely choose to love or
not to love, to do good or bad.
 Remember we all are Good because “Our real
essence” is good; we are made at God’s image and
likeness.

8. EACH OF US IS A UNIQUE THOUGHT OF GOD
 Remember our real essence is good.
 If we believe that each of us is important, and
each of us is necessary…
 Then, We going to think about ourselves
differently.
 And We going to think about others very
differently, too.
 We will treat others with dignity and respect
 We will treat each person as a very unique
thought of God.
 Our life become meaningful and find its purpose.

9. JESUS HAVE BEING WITH US SINCE THE
CREATION. The gospel of John tells as that
Jesus is the WORD, and He is God,
who has been with us since the
beginning:
 In the beginning was the Word, and
the Word was with God,
 and the Word was God. 2 He was with
God in the beginning.
 3 Through him all things were made;
without him nothing was made that
has been made.
 4 In him was life, and that life was the
light of all mankind.
 5 The light shines in the
darkness, and the darkness has not
overcome it. (John 1)

10. WHY DID THE WORD BECAME FLESH?
 The Word became flesh to save us from sin and reconcile us to
God.
 For God so love the world that he gave his only Son, so that
everyone who believe in him not perish but might have eternal
live (John 3:16)
 God became man that we may partake in the divine nature. “He
has bestowed on the precious and very great promises, so that
through them you may come to share in the divine nature” (2 Pt
1:4)

11. ST PAUL WROTE A LETTER TO THE
CORINTHIANS
 Christ Jesus is the image of the invisible God, the
firstborn of all creation.
For in him were created all things in heaven and on
earth, the visible and the invisible, whether
thrones or dominions or principalities or powers;
all things were created through him and for him.
 He is before all things, and in him all things hold
together.
He is the head of the body, the church.
He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead,
that in all things he himself might be preeminent.
 For in him all the fullness was pleased to dwell, and
through him to reconcile all things for him,
making peace by the blood of his cross
through him, whether those on earth or those in
heaven (Corinthians 1:15-20)
.

12. GOD HIMSELF BECOMES MAN IN ORDER TO SAVE US.
 By God becoming man, shows us His love, more than any other
work of God—even the work of creating the world.
 We can be certain of God’s love without any shadow of doubt.
 Because He didn’t spare even His only Son in order to save us,
when we His children were lost in Sin.
 God Himself became a man in order to save us.
 At the end of His time on earth, Jesus offered His life to the
Father as a Sacrifice: for sin— our sins.

13. JESUS FULFILL THE PLAN OF THE FATHER
 Jesus offered His life to the Father as a Sacrifice: for our sins.
 By this Act of Jesus restored the friendship between God and
the Human race, that have being broken when Adam and Eve sin.
 The Fathers plan from the Beginning was that we share in His
life of self giving love for all the Eternity
 This is why He created the world and everything in it, for us.
 By dying for us in the cross, Jesus wan back all that Adam
and Eve had lost through sin,
 And he fulfill the Plan that the Father had have in the
beginning for us—To share in His divine life.

14. THE STORY IS NOT OVER, YET!
 Now that the friendship between God and man
is restored, It is possible to have God’s life in
us.
 CAUTION!: Maybe we are tempted to think
that this is the end of the story, after all the
problem has been resolved, and that’s when a
story usually end,
 But There Is More!  There is something
need it, and other person to come at the
scene.
 But what is need it? Hasn’t Jesus done it all?
 Well, Yes! but what is needed: is a way for the
GRACES Christ has wan for us, to get to us.
 And this is the Work of the 3rd person: “The
Holy Spirit”.

15. FINAL LESSON OF THE CREATION
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