Cover to Cover: Understanding the Bible's Big Story Part 2
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“If we allow at the Bible to tell its own story, we find a coherent and meaningful whole. To understand this meaningful whole we have to allow the Bible to stand as it is: a remarkable complexity yet a brilliant unity, which tells the story of the creation and the saving plan of God.” Graeme Goldsworthy
It is the story of a Shepard warrior who conquered the giant.
It is the story of God’s people freed from bodage to a cure king who walk across the sea on dry ground.
It is the story of a land given to a people.
The Bible tells the story of who God is and how He redeems His people through the provision of His Son.
The Bible tells the story of who God is and how He redeems His people through the provision of His Son.
“In the christian view, the ultimate evidence for the existence of God is Jesus Christ. If there is a God, we characters in his play have to hope that he put some information about himself in the play. But Christians believe he did more than give us information. He wrote himself into the play as the main character in history, when Jesus was born in a manger and rose from the dead.” Tim Keller
“If we allow at the Bible to tell its own story, we find a coherent and meaningful whole. To understand this meaningful whole we have to allow the Bible to stand as it is: a remarkable complexity yet a brilliant unity, which tells the story of the creation and the saving plan of God.” Graeme Goldsworthy
So when you open up the bible to page one you begin learning about who God is.
1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
The story of the Bible begins with God.
The story of the Bible begins with God.
The Bible shows us something of who God is in the opening chapters of the book.
God is the Creator.
God is the Creator.
6 “You are the Lord, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.
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These six days of creation culminates in God’s great work - namely man.
God is omnipotent.
God is omnipotent.
10 times in the first chapter we see these words “God Said”
v. 3, 6, 9, 11, 14, 20, 24, 26, 28, 29
God creates “ex nihilo” from nothing.
God creates “ex nihilo” from nothing.
26 But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
14 Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.”
God is good.
God is good.
31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
God is sovereign.
God is sovereign.
God doesn’t make request He gives commands.
Sometimes those command are positive.
(Do this)
28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Sometimes those commands are negative.
(Don’t do this)
gen 1 28
15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden,
17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
Gen 2
When God speaks this happen. That is what a king does. When the king speaks his word is law.
34 At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives forever, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation;
35 all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”
God is good.
God is good.
The Bible tells the story of God’s people in God’s place under God’s rule experiencing God’s blessing.
The Bible tells the story of God’s people in God’s place under God’s rule experiencing God’s blessing.
From cover to cover that is where the bible story moves.
“The story of Adam and Even is not a prescientific fable or a pious fiction of human origins. Rather, it is a theologically embedded story of God’s creation of the human race; a story with characters as real as the earth they stand on, and yet they stand for more than being our primal parents, as their story testifies to the creative power of God over the world of human beings and explains how God’s perfect paradise went wrong. 4. Paul clearly believed in a literal Adam, who was prototype and antitype to Christ, the second Adam (; , ). If there never was an original Adam, there never was an original sin; and if there was no original sin, that puts Jesus (risen or otherwise) into the realm of the unemployed.” Michael F. Bird
Living under God’s rule means enjoying His blessing.
Living under God’s rule means enjoying His blessing.