T H E B I B L E F A S T F O R W A R DPutting the Pieces of the Bible Together

Week 2

W E A R E G O I N G T O B U I L D A F R A M E W O R K

O F T H E B I B L E T O G E T H E R

W H AT D O Y O U C A L L I D E A S T H AT C O N N E C T T O G E T H E R

T O F O R M A C O H E S I V E W H O L E ?

W O R L D V I E W

S Y S T E M AT I C T H E O L O G YThe main topics of the Bible when it comes

to God’s salvation project

The nature of God

The nature of Man

The person of Christ

The work of the Cross

The final Resurrection

B I B L I C A L T H E O L O G YThe unfolding plan of God through the

biblical record.

Examining how the central topics of the Bible (revealed by systematic theology) play out in human history. The unfolding story of redemption.

The events and promises and covenants of the Old Testament come to fulfillment in the person of Jesus Christ.

O U R P U R P O S ETo give a practical, historical overview of the Old

Testament emphasizing the unfolding plan of salvation as God reveals it through His covenants with the nation of Israel, and the fulfillment of those covenants in the

person of Jesus of Nazareth.

1 2 M A J O R E V E N T S1. The Call of Abraham

2. The Birth of Isaac

3. Joseph in Egypt

4. The Exodus

5. Moses Gets the Law

6. Joshua Conquers the land

7. The three kings of the United Kingdom (Saul, David & Solomon)

8. The Kingdom Splits: Israel & Judah

9. The Assyrian Dispersion (of Israel)

11. The Return to the Land

12. The Coming of Messiah

10. The Babylonian Captivity (of Judah)

T H E M A I N T H E M Eof the Bible is:

R U L E R S H I P

From beginning to end, the Bible is all about the

R U L E R S H I Pof God.

G O D ’ S S T E W A R Dover the Earth

Man is

T H E P R O B L E MMan wants to live outside of God’s

rulership and authority.

Man has rejected God’s rulership over his life, and in doing so brings upon ourselves a problem that only God can solve.

S E T T I N G T H E S C E N EUnderstanding Sin the Fall of Man

G E N E S I S1:31

Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening

and the morning were the sixth day.

T H E T E M P TAT I O NWhat was the heart of the temptation in the

Garden of Eden?

The temptation in the garden was not pleasure, it was about rebellion and autonomy from the rulership of God.

T H E T W I S T I N GSatan twists God’s words and motives to get

Adam and Eve to distrust God’s character.

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.” - Gen 3:4-5

T H E L E G A C Y O F S I NThe fruit of rebellion and autonomy

W H AT R E S U LT E D F R O M O U R

D I S O B E D I E N C E ?

1 . G O D ’ S W R AT HWe have angered God and become

His enemies

We all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others. E P H E S I A N S

2:3

2 . W E O W E G O DWe have transgressed His holy law

and are in His debt

For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all. J A M E S

2:10

3 . B O N D A G E T O S ATA NWe walk in the ways of a world that

is opposed to God

But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe 2 C O R I N T H I A N S

4:3-4

4 . S P I R I T U A L D E AT HWe are unplugged from the

life of God.

“...for in the day you eat of it you shall surely die.”

G E N E S I S2:17

M A N ’ S P L I G H T1. Our relationship with God has been severed.

2. Our relationships with each other have been warped.

3. Our relationship with creation has been compromised.

4. Our individual souls have been corrupted.

F A C T:

with every new generation

A F T E R E D E N , M A N G E T S W O R S E

“Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts

of his heart was only evil continually.”

G E N E S I S6:5

B A B E L“The symbol of man’s

God-defying disobedience and pride.”

- Unger’s Bible Dictionary

G E N E S I S11:1-9

M A N ’ S P L I G H T W O R S E N S

1. God thwarts their plans and scatters men abroad.

2. God confuses their words (and creates languages).

3. Limited spread of truth and no holiness.

4. There was no sign of salvation from anywhere.

G O D ’ S R E S C U E O P E R AT I O NHow God invades history for our sake

G O D D E V E L O P S A 3 - P H A S E

R E S C U E P L A NFor rescuing mankind

G O D ’ S 3 - P H A S E P L A NFor rescuing mankind

1. God sets apart one man.

2. God promises to make a nation from that man.

3. God commissions that man, and nation to be a blessing to the world.

T H E C A L Lof Abraham

T H E A B R A H A M I C C O V E N A N T

T H E C A L L O F A B R A H A Mand The Abrahamic Covenant

Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go forth from your country, and from your relatives, and from your father’s house, to the land which I will show you…

G E N E S I S12:1-3

T H E C A L L O F A B R A H A Mand The Abrahamic Covenant

And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, and so you shall be a blessing.

And I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.” G E N E S I S

12:1-3

S A LVAT I O N H I S T O R Y

passage in the Bible regardingM O S T I M P O R TA N T

This is the

G E N E S I S12:1-3

T H I S C O V E N A N T

is based on

Everything God does to rescue man

G E N E S I S12:1-3

T H E A B R A H A M I C C O V E N A N TGenesis 12:1-3

Abram’s Part God’s Part

Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go forth from your country, and from your relatives, and from your father’s house, to

the land which I will show you…

And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great,

and so you shall be a blessing…

T H E A B R A H A M I C C O V E N A N TGenesis 12:1-3

Abram’s Part God’s Part

…and I will bless those who bless you, and the one who

curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the

earth will be blessed.”

G O D ’ S 3 - P H A S E P L A NFor rescuing mankind

1. God sets apart one man.

2. God promises to make a nation from that man.

3. God commissions that man, and nation to be a blessing to the world.

T H E A B R A H A M I C C O V E N A N TNow the Lord said to Abram, “Go forth from your country, and from your relatives, and from your father’s house, to the land which I will

show you.

And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, and so you shall be a blessing.

And I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”

G E N E S I S 12:1-3

G O D ’ S P R O M I S E SFor Abraham’s Obedience

“I will make you a great nation”.

“I will bless you and make your name great”

“I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you.”

1. People 2. Land 3. Government

4. Prosperity

5. Protection

“And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, and so you shall be a blessing.”

Hebrew = “weheyeh beraka” “And be thou a blessing”

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching

them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

- Matt 28:29-30

O N E L I T T L E

P R O B L E M

G E N E S I S15:2-3

O Lord God, what will you give me, since I am childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?....Since you have given no offspring

to me, one born in my house is my heir.

T H E B I R T Hof Isaac

T H E B I R T H O F I S A A CGod’s Promises Begin to Come True

G E N E S I S15:8

“To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt as far as the great

river, the river Euphrates.

P R O M I S E 1 : L A N D

G E N E S I S17:9

“But God said,’No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac, and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting

covenant for his descendants after him.’ “

P R O M I S E 2 : P E O P L E

T H E N , T H E R E ’ S T H AT O T H E R

L I T T L E P R O B L E M

G E N E S I S16:15

“So Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram named his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael

to Abram.”

G E N E S I S21:12

But God said to Abraham, ”Do not be distressed because of the lad and your maid. Whatever

Sarah tells you, listen to her, for through Isaac your descendants shall be named.”

W H Y I S A A C O N LYand not the line of Ishmael?

1. Isaac’s birth was a supernatural sign from God.

2. God’s choice was based on election instead of tradition.

3. Protection from syncretism (mixing with other religions and their foreign gods).

Abraham

3 G E N E R AT I O N S I N …and God’s people are already in serious trouble.

Isaac (and Ishmael)

G E N E S I S35:1-3

So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods which are

among you, and purify yourselves and change your garments, and let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me

in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.”

Jacob

G E N E S I S35:4

So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which they had and the rings which were in their ears,

and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem.

Jacob

God’s people end up in…

T H E S O V E R E I G N T Y O F G O Din captivity of His people to Egypt

1. It showed God’s discipline for their syncretism.

2. It showed God’s grace in protecting them from inter-marriage and influence of the Canaanite culture.

3. In showed God’s wisdom in using their captivity and persecution as a means of preserving their identity and lineage.

4. It set the stage for God’s deliverance of his people the hand of Pharaoh and Egypt.

5. It prepared they way for God’s salvation through his chosen deliverer Joseph in a miraculous and glorious way.

Q U I C K R E V I E W :What We Have Covered So Far

T H E P R O B L E M1. Mankind is lost and cut off from God

2. Mankind has rejected God’s rulership and seeks to live apart from God.

3. God seeks to restore man to His original design and restore relationship.

G O D ’ S 3 - P H A S E P L A NFor rescuing mankind

1. God sets apart one man, Abraham.

2. God promises to make a nation through Abraham, despite him having no heir.

3. God commissions that man, and nation to be a blessing to the world.

N E X T W E E K :Joseph, the Exodus, Moses

and Joshua

S E E Y O U T H E N !