Jesse Tree - Week 1
November 27 - December 3

Day 1: Creation

Genesis 1:26-31 In the beginning . . . God created the universe, the sun, moon and stars.  He created our beautiful world and filled it with all kinds of plants and animals.  Last of all he created the first man and woman.  This was the beginning of the human family, the original source of everyone’s family tree.   

Day 2: Adam and Eve

Genesis 3:1-7 the first man and woman God created were Adam and Eve and He set them in the Garden of Eden.  They were God’s greatest creations because he gave them a mind to know the difference between right and wrong, a will to make choices and a soul to live forever.  

Day 3: Noah

Genesis 6:11-22 9:8-13 Many generations after Adam, when all the people had turned away from God, there lived a man named Noah.  Because Noah was good and obeyed God, God saw to it that he and his family and all the animals he had gathered onto his ark would survive the great flood.
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Day 4: Abraham and Sarah

Genesis 12:1-7 and Hebrews 11:8 The history of God’s chosen people begins with Abraham and Sarah.  In faith Abraham obeyed God’s command to leave his home country.  He left not knowing where he would go.  But he believed that God would fulfill his promise to him in a new land and descendants as numerous as stars.

Day 5: Isaac and Rebecca

Genesis 22:1-7 When Abraham was an old man, his faith was finally rewarded with the birth of a son, Isaac.  It seemed God’s promise of making him the father of a great nation was to be fulfilled.  But then one day God told Abraham to take Isaac and offer him as a sacrifice.  Abraham loved his son but he trusted God.  At the last moment God stopped him and provided a ram to be sacrificed in Isaac’s place.

Day 6: Jacob and Rachel

Genesis 28:10-22 One of Isaac’s sons was Jacob.  One day Jacob had a dream.  He saw a ladder stretching from earth to heaven with angels going up and down.  God told Jacob he would become the father of a great people with a land of their own.  From Jacob’s twelve sons came the people of Israel, the people from which Jesus came.

Day 7: Joseph
Genesis 37:1-4  Jacob’s favorite son was Joseph and one day he gave him a coat of many colors.  Joseph’s eleven brothers were jealous and they kidnapped him and sold him into slavery in Egypt.  There, with God looking after him, Joseph rose to a position of power.  Later, during a famine in that part of the world, Jacob, along with Joseph’s repentant brothers and their families, came to live in Egypt where Joseph had stored enough food for them all.