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When we choose to follow Jesus

we become a disciple

A Disciple means you become a “Learner”(different sections of education such as arts, science, social etc.

are called “Disciplines”)

“Disciplines” suggest boundaries or restrictionsIn the this case it is a SET Path to follow

His footstepsWe need to get to know “What would Jesus do”

BUT first we need to get to know Jesus, who is he?

The Christian never takes the “L” plates off

There are 3,586,489 letters in the bible

31,173 verses;

777,692 words;

1189 chapters

66 books

Ezra 7:21 contains all the letters of the alphabet

Esther 8:9 is the longest verse in the bible.

Anyone know the shortest verse in the bible?

John 11:35. Jesus wept

So first THE FACTS

Bible means “Library” (Libria- greek)

17 books 17 books5 books = 39 books

The Old Testament

HISTORY

PROPHECY

POETRY (Books of Experience)

HistoryPoetry

(Experience) Prophecy

17 5 17

5 mainGenesis-Exodus-

Leviticus- Numbers-

Deuteronomy

5-12 (9+3) 5 -12 (9+3)

5 mainIsaiah

JeremiahLamentations

EzekielDaniel

129 before exile3 after exile

129 before exile3 after exile

JobPsalms

ProverbsEcclesiastes

Song of Solomon

The New Testament is similar in structure

HISTORY- THE 4 Gospels and Acts of the Apostles

EXPERIENCE- Epistles to Christians- how to enjoy

The Christian life-

PROPHECY- Revelation

The Bible is a record, of how

God has revealed himself to

Man (mankind)

His main revelations are seen in

CREATION- He is Great and Good

MOSES and the Law (Ten Commandments) He is Holy

JESUS CHRIST - God is Love-

The Bible is in two parts

The Old Testament

and

The New Testament

What is the difference?

(TWO AGREEMENTS BETWEEN God & Man)

What were the agreements about?

Why did God have to make a new agreement?

“Testament” means “Agreement” or “Covenant”

God has made Two Covenants with Man.

The purpose of the covenants was to ensure a right relationshipbetween the parties.

God & Man

God made “man” for himself, to love, and care for as his children

The First Covenant was based upon Law.

God gave Ten Specific commandments to Moses, written in stone.

The conditions were

Do this And you will LIVE and be BLESSED

Don’t do it And you will experience SICKNESS, DEATH and a CURSE

The Law promised salvation to those who kept it- “salvation by works”

So the Law could not save anyoneAll guilty

But the New Testament promises salvation, NOT to those who do good worksBut to those who have FAITH in Jesus Christ

Jesus did all the “works” necessary, on our behalf for God to be satisfied

He is our Saviour- He died to save us

Under the New AgreementThose who believe that Jesus is the Son of God

And that Jesus took our place on the crossHe died in our placeHe paid for our sins

He paid the debt we owe.BUT

To be saved we mustRepent - Believe - be Baptised

Justified before God by faith (as above) and not by our worksOr by keeping commandments

In Scotland when a man was hanged, a notice was pinned outside the prison that said

e.g. John McDonald was Justified at 9 am

THE KEY to the Scriptures is Jesus Christ

Ps 40:7-8Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

When prophesying about the coming Messiah, David wrote;

Notice what happened after Jesus rose from the dead

In Luke ch 24

Jesus appeared to two disciples while they were walking to Emmaus

Luke 24:25-2725 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

Then in the same chapter Jesus appeared to the other disciplesLuke 24:36-4636 And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.37 But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet.41 And when they could not believe it for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have you here any food?42 And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.43 And he took it, and did eat before them.44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spoke unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:

The Bible should not be read as a

Our desire to know what future holds is not one which God subscribes to or endorses.

He wants our PEACE to come by.

1. What is the factual, historical content.E.g, who wrote it when it was written, why it was written etc.

2. What does this scripture tell me of Christ

3. What does it say to me Personally.

We should read the Bible with three things in MInd

The Bible teaching in this school is based upon 3 things

1. Principles

2. Parables

3. Patterns

These show the INSPIRATION OF THE SCRIPTURES

The bible is the inspired word of God, not humanly inspired

God is number 1, top of the list, He always comes first

To worship God means to serve God.

The most important thing God looks for in a man or woman is Faith.

Man’s trust in God is shown by his obedience

Salvation is the work of God alone

The Bible is a spiritual book, written in the language of heavenThe Holy Spirit teaches us the language

God expects man to be 1. In a right relationship with Him2. A right relationship with his fellow human beings

Two divisions. Heaven & Earth, The Spiritual & NaturalThe Spirit and the Flesh, Saved & Lost,

The Kingdom of God operates from the centre1. Our right relationship with God2. Our right relationship with the church3 The church’s witness to the world

Three basics of Christian life1. Knowing the Word of God2. Prayer- fellowship with God3. Witness to unbelievers (the world)

The second always gets the blessing

Cain & Abel Ishmael & Isaac Esau & Jacob Saul & David

All parables of the Flesh and the Spirit

Animal skin and fig leaves

Salvation by works or faith in the blood

Noah’s ark Abraham & Isaac. Tabernacle offerings & sacrifices

All parables of Calvary

Joseph, Isaac Job, Moses, David, Solomon, Jeremiah,

All parables of Jesus Christ.

All parables of the church

Abraham to Joseph Ruth Esther Song of SolomonIsrael

Horses, stars, water corn, oil, wine, trees, mountains, colours, numbers

Just a few of the many natural things which are types of the spiritual

LIFE – SERVICE - SACRIFICE

GOD AND ME-THE CHURCH AND ME- THE CHURCH

AND THE WORLDJESUS- OTHERS- YOURSELF

PAIRS- Faith & Obedience: justification & sanctification Heaven Hell, Spiritual and Natural, Saved and Lost

CREATION

THE FALL

When God speaks of “LIFE” he is not thinking of Natural life in a human body

He is referring to SPIRITUAL LIFE which is living in a body yet at the same time In fellowship with God Himself.

GOD IS LIFE

In the Garden of Eden, when Adam sinned, he lost the personal fellowship with His Creator GodThe Light went out within Him. He was separated from God. This is what God meant when he told Adam that the day they ate of the forbidden fruit, THEY WOULD SURELY DIE

They did not die Physically, but spiritually “THEY SURELY DIED”

Man chose to know the difference between good and evilBlack on white, white on black, darkness and light,

joy and pain, love and hate.

CREATION

THE FALLMORAL DECLINE

THE FLOOD- THE ARK

In this ark three miraclesAre manifest.1. Tablets written by the finger of God2. A pot of manna that stayed fresh3. A severed branch of an almond tree stayed alive and budded

Is this believable?The Ark of the Covenant;Where God’s presence dwelt

ARK No 1

If the voice of God said “Come” (Gen. 7:1)

And later God’s voice said “Go” (Gen. 8:16) Then where was God?

If God the creator and sustainerof all life was manifest in the first ark, was also in this ark,Where would be a problem oflogistics in terms of food etc

ARK No. 2Noah’s Ark

It is agreed, even by those who think the story of Noah’s Arkis but a parable, that it points to salvation which is obtainedthrough the cross of Christ;As Noah’s ark took the full force of the judgment deluge, soChrist bore the judgment for our sins

The Cross as an arkis a greater and more

Unbelievable Ark than any of the first two.

If one can believe inthe Resurrection life

issuing from this, then surelyIt cant be difficult to

believe in the natural lifesustained in the first two.

CREATION

THE FALLMORAL DECLINE

THE FLOOD- THE ARKCALL OF ABRAM- CHANGED TO ABRAHAM

Abrahams faithBirth of Ishmael and IsaacMount Moriah

JACOB

JACOB’S 12 SONSJOSEPH

SLAVERY IN EGYPT- PHAROAH

CALL OF MOSES -AARON

DELIVERANCE FROM EGYPT

WILDERNESS

SINAI –THE LAW

THE PRIESTHOOD

THE TABERNACLE

THE PRIEST’S MINISTRY

SACRIFICES

OFFERINGS

WILDERNESS EXPERIENCES

DEUTERO --SECOND

NOMOS – LAW (WORD)

JOSHUA

CALL OF JOSHUA

ENTRY INTO CANAAN- PROMISED LAND

OCCUPYING THE LAND

NO KING-

JUDGES RAISED

STORY- A PARABLE OF THE CHURCH

FIRST OF THE PROPHETIC ORDER

FIRST BIBLE SCHOOLS

SAUL AS KING

DAVID CHOSEN

RECORD OF KINGS OF ISRAEL

DAVID

SOLOMON- TEMPLE

KINGDOM DIVIDED

JUDAH & ISRAEL

PROPHETIC MINISTRY

CAPTIVITY- BABYLON

CAPTIVITY - ASSYRIA

CHRONICLES

SAMUEL & KINGS WITHEMPHASIS ON THRONE AND TEMPLE

GOD’S VIEW OF THINGS

EZRA

RETURN FROM BABYLON

RE-BUILDING OF TEMPLE WORSHIPLED BY EZRA A PRIEST

ZERUBABEL- BUILT AN ALTAR

RETURN OF THIRD GROUP OF EXILES

RE-BUILDING OF THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM

STORY OF GOD’S PRESERVATION OF HIS PEOPLE

THE STORY OF A PERFECT MAN WHO SUFFEREDUNJUSTLY

THE STORY OF ONE MANS EXPERIENCE ANDRELATIONSHIP WITH HIS GOD

A PERFECT ILLUSTRATION OF CHRIST JESUS

FIRST OF THE BOOKS OF EXPERIENCE

PSALMS AND SONGS BY DAVID, MOSES AND OTHERS

A FULL RECORD OF ALL HUMAN EXPERIENCES

WORDS OF WISDOM FROM SOLOMON

PROVERBS – NOT PROMISES

WISE AND FOOLISH

HUMAN APPRAISAL OF NATURAL LIFE

WISDOM IN PRACTICE

ROMANTIC TALE OF ONE MAN AND HIS LOVEFOR AN ARAB GIRL

A PARABLE OF CHRIST AND THE CHURCH

SAFETY (SALVATION) - RUTH

SECURITY – KEPT - ESTHER

SATISFACTION - SONG OF SOLOMON

FIRST OF MAJOR PROPHETS

INCARNATION

CALVARY

HOLY SPIRIT - PENTECOST

LIFE OF GODLY IN BABYLON

SECOND COMING

JUDGEMENT

NINE PROPHETS BEFORE THE EXILE

THREE PROPHETS AFTER THE EXILE.

Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy

CREATION REDEMPTION WORSHIP FAITH OBEDIENCE

Trust In God Love for God

Key Word:“Believe”

Key Word“Remember”

GOD’S PART MAN’S PART

Natural Life;

Pilgrims:Altar:Well:Tent

Cameos;World History

Chs.1-11Creation- Flood

Church History Chs.12-50

Abram, Isaac,Jacob, Joseph

All sinsMen believe

in God.Men pray &

sacrifice Ends:

“Coffin in Egypt”

Word BloodSpirit

SALVATION& SERVICEBuilding

Tabernacle

AltarBreadLight

PriestService

WAY DOWN

WAY OUT

WAY UP

WAY ON

WAY THROUGH

NewBeginning