9 Things the Cross Means to Me #1 A Promise Kept
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2 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, 2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. 3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
The New King James Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982), .
Paul knew there was something coming, a “falling away.” We clearly abhor the results: someone else sitting “on God’s throne” where God should be in our herats, minds, and lives.
But how do we get there? What do we fall away from.
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In our Series, 9 Things the Cross Means to be, we uncover 5 Cross-scriptural gems of truth that find central focus and meaning in the Cross.
Each night, we will also take one step back from the falling away and one step forward toward what the Bible really meant.
Tonight we see that the Cross is A Promise Kept.
#1, a promise kept.
Let’s start from the beginning since this is the beginning.
15 Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 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.”
The New King James Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982), .
But what happened? They ate.
Natural consequence of their action as demonstrated by God: Death.
Immediately, they distrust each other, distance themselves form God and experience shame.
Yet amidst this: God presents a solution to the problem:
14 So the Lord God said to the serpent:
“Because you have done this,
You are cursed more than all cattle,
And more than every beast of the field;
On your belly you shall go,
And you shall eat dust
All the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her Seed;
He shall bruise your head,
And you shall bruise His heel.”
The New King James Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982), .
He addressed the serpent but he’s talking to you and Me.
Let’s define the sides in this conflict. Who is the serpent really?
9 So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
The New King James Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982), .
So It’s the devil.
The image we have painted by the this prophecy is striking!
Adam and Eve were created and given responsibility over the original garden, by caring for the plants and increasing yeilds they would get to directly impact he food source for not only their human family, but every living creature!
From here on out, there would now be evil something to have enmity against, something to protect the world from.
The picture is of a man, offspring of Adam and Eve, crushing the enemy, crushing the foreign invading force with his foot in it’s head.
However, in the process of saving us, He will be bit!
This is clearly pointing forward to what Jesus would do on the cross, how somehow, an offspring of Adam and Eve would defeat evil for us!
One of my favorite speakers, Pastor Ty Gibson, said it best:
The Old Testament is a Promise MADE.
The New Testament that promise KEPT.
You may think you know this.
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