Sermon Tone Analysis

Genesis

 

What does this say about God….Theme

God has used evidence to demonstrate trust…especially the way he treats enemies.

Most difficult stories are a record…are most convincing.

Why did God comes down to earth in fire, smoke, thunder at Sinai (father or son?) and the people shuddered and said all God said we will do, but it didn’t work…remember 1 John?

No fear in love…fear has to do with punishment…  Moses stood among the people and said there is no need to be afraid.

God’s glory as a fire….

Why the 10 commandments when the law of love cannot be commanded?

Why so much use of Law…Exodus, Lev, Num, Deut…?

We were made in freedom…

 

John 16:26  Let me tell you plain…In the light of this statement….why in Exodus does he give the priesthood and mediation?

Read all versions?

What did he say plain?

I will not pray the Father for you…Why?

The Father loves you himself!  1 Cor 10:4  Christ gave that system…and then said we don’t need it.

Contradiction?

What is the meaning?

The people requested someone in between….NOTE.

Note how God talked to Moses (Num) as a friend.

10 Plaques?

Compare to the last plaques…Was not to punish but to reveal something.

1st born…some were good people….Who hardened Pharoah’s heart?

All mean the same thing.

What about Abraham?

 

Creation to Joseph is dead in his coffin…when did they go into captivity….when

did they come out?

Dates?

4000 to 1800 bc…Creation…sin…salvation announced…flood…tower…(scared of God…not that they believed)…decline in length of life…Sarah was 90 when Pharoah wanted her…Abraham was 100 when he had the baby.

Did people mature later…no…captivity in Egypt…Joseph…

 

Create the original setting…Creation week…who was watching?

Man was just a visitor.

Man’s seventh day was Thursday.

Was the Lord’s day that He gave to man.

We have to read the record…who watched?

Go to Revelation 12.

The angels had already divided…Satan cast out…was he God’s enemy before creation?

It would appear that loyal and disloyal angels (Sons of God) were watching…God took six days….could

have done it in a thought…they had heard Satan’s changes…exacting,, vengeful, severe, arbitrary, selfish in his creative power…Is this slow creation an answer?

Is 14:12-14  Ez 28: 2….I will be like the most high…Lucifer wanted to be worshipped…Matt 4:8…(Light bearer)  now he is bearer of lies.

Phosphorus…morning star…Jesus’s name.

All same word…Cephas..Peter…rock.

Satan means the adversary.

Wilderness temptation exposed Satan.

A created being asking his creator to worship him….?   Rev 13:4…achieved his goal of total worship except for the few  who remain loyal to Jesus.    2 Cor 11:14  Masquer as an angel of light…John 8:44…angel of lies…  Who is telling the truth?

Job 1, 2   Zec 3  Rev 12:10….covering

angel fallen…Job 38 4…8  1 Cor 4:9  Spectacle to angels…theatre to the universe….platform…universe

watching.

Eph and Col Christ died to make peace in the universe….Setting for Creation week…What was Satan doing after he was cast out?

How could he hold the loyalty of the fallen angels?

He cannot create life but manipulate….Chaos…moon is raw…emptiness and wasteness…mars…Jupiter….no text but it makes you wonder.

Chaos to cosmos (order and beauty)  Cosmetic…word derived.

We wake up in the morning in chaos and then work our way to cosmos…do our cosmetics make us look more orderly?

Ha Ha

 

Chaos day one…let there be light…second…third…etc…unhurried drama unfolded his plan for our world.

God is gracious…He took his time…some things became clear as the beauty unfolded.

Then he created us man…free to love or trust him or spit in his face….Jesus didn’t hit back when he was spit upon.

Then he allowed Satan to approach Adam and Eve…but only at the tree (protection).

He suggested they don’t go near it….

PP showed the angels warned them of our history….they

wandered…did Eve sin before she was tempted?

Did Adam sin by letting her go?

Why did God make us male and female?

Angels sexless?

Jesus said we’ll be like the angels…it is different.

Human beings are of a distinct order.

One of Satan’s charges was God would not share his creative power (he was not included in the creation of the world)…man creates others in their own image.

Why did the animals have that ability too?

How Godlike?  “lower than the angels really means lower then God”.

Psalms…little gods?

Jesus quotes it too…We’re creatures but God treats us as his friends.

Sabbath does remind us of our creaturness….lest

we get to high.

God shared his creative power with us…We are not worms such as I.

 

Friday evening celebration answered questions…God rested….not

because He was tired…like rest his case (lawyer).

1st Sabbath celebrated what God said about himself.

Next week, God told us to remember Sabbath and what it represents.

Throughout the Bible he added more meaning to it.

Arbitrary?

No…that would support the devil’s charges.

Full of meaning that is the basis of our love and trust and how he values our freedom and let him treat us with dignity and respect.

God had lied about death?

Creation week didn’t answer that…Crucifixsion week did.

Most meaningful of all our observations…

 

Details…issues raised…Adam and Eve disobed and God didn’t like that?

He just expelled them?

How do we understand what happened?

Adam and Eve were confronted with the Great Controversy and chose the wrong side…Adam’s decision….Eve was deceived (Paul comments…Eve was deceived…Adam knew better)  What should have Adam had done…if Eve must die I will die with her…how could you fault him?

Should he have just said too bad…God will give me another wife.

Could they have stayed together had Adam stayed loyal?

Eve would have had to stay out and not eat of the other tree of life.

Adam cast his lot with Eve.

Did Adam think God would forgive them?

Would forgiveness take care of them…he understood the legal understanding of salvation.

He didn’t understand that sin is something that happens in people it changes us and we need to be healed.

Forgiveness doesn’t heal.

Dying thou shalt die meant dying thou shall definitely die….

Cast out and put under discipline…EGW’s quote about work.

Plan of Salvation is not designed to get you out of legal trouble.

Adam even misunderstood this.