Genesis 3:15
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Introduction —
The Gospel was a Threat
The Gospel was a Threat
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
Genesis
The Good News is a Threat
The Good News is a Threat
I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near: a star shall come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel; it shall crush the forehead of Moab and break down all the sons of Sheth.
Numbers
She sent her hand to the tent peg and her right hand to the workmen’s mallet; she struck Sisera; she crushed his head; she shattered and pierced his temple.
Judges
And a certain woman threw an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head and crushed his skull.
Judges
And David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone and slung it and struck the Philistine on his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground.
1 Sam
The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden underfoot;
Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had put the mediums and the necromancers out of the land.
1 Sam
Behold, the storm of the Lord! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked.
You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked, laying him bare from thigh to neck. Selah
Behold the storm of the Lord! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked.
The Lord said, “I will bring them back from Bashan, I will bring them back from the depths of the sea, that you may strike your feet in their blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from the foe.” Your procession is seen, O God, the procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary—
The Lord said, “I will bring them back from Bashan, I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,
He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses; he will shatter chiefs over the wide earth.
For you equipped me with strength for the battle; you made those who rise against me sink under me.
For you equipped me with strength for the battle; you made those who rise against me sink under me. You made my enemies turn their backs to me, those who hated me, and I destroyed them. They looked, but there was none to save; they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them. I beat them fine as the dust of the earth; I crushed them and stamped them down like the mire of the streets.
2 Sam
May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor! May they fear you while the sun endures, and as long as the moon, throughout all generations! May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth! In his days may the righteous flourish, and peace abound, till the moon be no more! May he have dominion from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth! May desert tribes bow down before him, and his enemies lick the dust!
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2 Sam 22:
I will establish his offspring forever and his throne as the days of the heavens.
My faithfulness and my steadfast love shall be with him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
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Psalm 89:2
Yet God my King is from of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the sea monsters on the waters. You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
Psalm 74:
The enemy shall not outwit him; the wicked shall not humble him. I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him. My faithfulness and my steadfast love shall be with him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
Isa
Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame.”
Micah
they shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds; they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God, and they shall be in fear of you.
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Matthew 12:
You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?
Luke 10:1
And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.
The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
Israel believed this promise and interpreted things in light of God’s Promise.
This is also a reminder that the Gospel is about the defeat of evil on this earth. (This is incompatible with the way we think about Christianity. WE think the Gospel is about Jesus coming to meet our needs and make us happy — which is why we can’t understand the vast majority of the Psalms.
But, the defeat of God’s enemies, although the job of Israel and her Kings, was ultimately the job of Israel’s great King.
The Gospel is Still a Threat...
The Gospel is Still a Threat...
...to us
...to us
The Scriptures systematically strip away the veneer that covers the real truth of the Christmas story. Jesus did not come to add to our comforts. He did not come to help those who were already helping themselves or to ll life with more pleasant experiences. He came on a deliverance mission, to save sinners, and to do so He had to destroy the works of the Devil (Ma . 1:21; ).
~ Those whose lives were bound up with the events of the first Christmas did not find His coming an easy and pleasurable experience.
~ Mary and Joseph’s lives were turned upside down.
~ The shepherds’ night was frighteningly interrupted, and their futures poten ally radically changed.
~ The magi faced all kinds of inconvenience and family separation.
~ Our Lord Himself, conceived before wedlock, born probably in a cave, would spend His early days as a refugee from the bloodthirsty and vindictive Herod (Ma . 2:13-21).
There is, therefore, an element in the Gospel narratives that stresses that the coming of Jesus is a disturbing event of the deepest proportions. It had to be thus, for He did not come merely to add something extra to life, but to deal with our spiritual insolvency and the debt of our sin. He was not conceived in the womb of Mary for those who have done their best, but for those who know that their best is “like filthy rags” ()—far from good enough—and that in their esh there dwells no good thing (). He was not sent to be the source of good experiences, but to suffer the pangs of hell in order to be our Savior.
…to the wicked
…to the wicked
Why do they hate us?
Why would Jesus end the Beatitudes with persecution? Why would these kids of people be persecuted?
Why would Herod kill babies?
Why does the World out there attack us?
“'Cause the world can't stand what it can't own”
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How Did Jesus Achieve this Victory?
How Did Jesus Achieve this Victory?