The Bible Has A Story To Tell

Genesis

The Bible Has A Story To Tell

G. K. Pennington©

The Bible Has A Story To Tell

Starting with a problem of disobedience but ending with an invitation to join God in heaven.

It’s All About the Story The Old Testament lays the foundation The gospels tell the story Acts tells the result of the story The letters and the Revelation

Offer encouragementCourse correction for the church

The Old Testament Is the Foundation for the Main Event

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Genesis

The Book of Beginnings

Genesis is the Book of Beginnings

Beginning of :

– Time

– Life

– Man

– Sin

– Death

– Covenants

Genesis has Four Main Events

Creation

Fall of man

Flood of Noah

Tower of Babel/Dispersed into nations

Creation The first verse of the Bible contains five

essentials we have come to accept as necessary for life as we know it. – In the beginning… Time– God …………….. Power/Force– Created…………..Action– Heavens………….Space– Earth …………….Matter

Creation The Genesis account does

not contain the errors of the polytheistic creation myths.

_______________________ A platform for life An orderly creation,

essentials for life, simple to complex.

No primeval ponds or gods feuding as a source of creation.

_________________________ Science leads us to believe

these things are necessary. How did the biblical writer get it right thousands of years before scientific observation?

Creation and Science

Initial Creation: Chaos – There was a beginning and

ordering

Solar system – Sun and moon

– Earth prepared for life

Plants Animals

– Simple to more complex

– Man a late comer

In the beginning…– God brings order heavens and

earth

1. Light 2. Expanse –waters separated

3. Vegetation 4. Sun and Moon 5. Birds and marine creatures 6. Land animals and man

What do these have in common?A beginningAn orderingEssentials for life set into placeA movement from simple to complexMan is the latecomer

In the absence of modern mans insight, how did the author of the Genesis account get it right when everyone else was so far off?

Genesis From The Fall Points to Jesus 3:15 And I will put

enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."

Tale Of Two Trees Knowledge of good and evil Of life

Good and Evil Life

(Gen 3:24 NIV) After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

Tale Of Two Trees Knowledge of good and evil Of life

Life

(Rev 22:14 NIV) "Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.

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Genesis Points to Jesus

Gen. 22:18 And through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me."

Gal. 3:8 The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: "All nations will be blessed through you."

The Flood

The earth destroyed by water because of sin God preserves a faithful family (a remnant) God makes a covenant with Noah The reminder of the covenant is the rainbow

Abraham ……….. Isaac

……………......Jacob …………………………….Joseph

The Genesis Story Has Four Main People Who are called the “Great” Patriarchs

Abraham ……….. Isaac

……………...…Jacob– Jacob’s twelve sons including…… Judah

…The family line preserved by God using

Genesis starts the story of the ancestry of Jesus.

The Genesis Story Points to Jesus

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Genesis 49:10The Messiah promise is through Judah

"The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs and the obedience of the nations is his."

Genesis Ends Looking to the Future

(Gen 50:25-26 NIV) And Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath and said, "God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up from this place." {26} So Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten. And after they embalmed him, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.