Finish Well (Genesis)
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CJ Walker
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· 22 viewsIn a world fraught with lies and deception, it is wonderful to know that God has revealed to us the truth about who we are and how we can relate to Him through His plan of redemption.
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Formal Elements / Descriptive Data
Formal Elements / Descriptive Data
Text: Genesis 1-50
Text: Genesis 1-50
CIT:
CIT:
Moses laid forth the beginning of all things and the corruption of paradise with an eye toward the redemptive line through whom Messiah would come
Proposition:
Proposition:
In a world fraught with lies and deception, it is wonderful to know that God has revealed to us the truth about who we are and how we can relate to Him through His plan of redemption.
Statement of Purpose:
Statement of Purpose:
(1) MO –
(1) MO –
Doctrinal
(2) SO –
(2) SO –
To understand how God desires a genuine relationship with His creation (mankind) while describing man’s primeval condition in light of his fall into sin which rendered salvation necessary.
Title (Topic/Name):
Title (Topic/Name):
From Creation to Christ
Informal Elements / Rhetorical Data
Informal Elements / Rhetorical Data
Intro:
Intro:
Key Words - Beginnings (contrast God with NO beginning); Key People - Adam, Eve, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph; Key Events - Creation (general —> man), fall of man, the Flood, the Abrahamic Covenant, Abraham’s trip to Canaan, Jacob’s family moves to Egypt.
Human author - Moses (see Jn. 5:46, Lk. 24:27, 44).
State Purpose (above)
State Proposition (above)
Relate (briefly) the “story” of the Book of Genesis - God created the world and man. Man fell into sin, but God made a covenant of salvation with him. In the course of 1600 years wickedness so increased that God sent the judgement of the Flood. The different nations sprang from the three sons of Noah—Shem, Ham and Japheth. At the Tower of Babel God confused the tongues of men as a result of their pride, and because they failed to spread out. Thus we have the origin of nations and languages. God called Abraham to found the Israelitish nation and renews the covenant to his son, Isaac, and his grandson, Jacob. The book ends with God’s chosen people down in Egypt, and with the death of Joseph, the great-grandson of Abraham. Genesis covers the period 4004 B. C. to 1635 B. C. or 2,369 years.
Body – Development – Outline:
Body – Development – Outline:
I. The Truth About Creation (Gen. 1-2).
I. The Truth About Creation (Gen. 1-2).
EXP: God created the heavens and the earth, and created man in His own image and likeness. The name of God is mentioned 32 times in 31 verses. The creative act of God is given as the only sufficient cause of creation. Science has no word beyond this. Man is the chief work of creation for which all else is brought into being.
Genesis tells us there is ONLY ONE God, and opposes the doctrine of the many gods of the heathen.
Genesis announces the EXISTENCE of God, and opposes the doctrine of Atheism. Everything in the universe was created by God and is subject to Him.
Genesis declares that God EXISTED BEFORE ALL THINGS and apart from all things, showing that He is independent of matter.
Genesis asserts that MAN WAS CREATED, not evolved, thus accounting for the moral and spiritual nature in man.
ILL: See John 1:1-3; 3:16; 1Cor. 8:6; Col. 1:15-17; Eph. 1:10; 1 Tim. 4:4; Heb. 1:1-3; 11:3; 2Pet. 3:5.
APP: Just as the world was without form and void when God’s Spirit moved on the face of the deep, so is our heart and soul in a state of deep darkness before the new creation and the new birth.
TS: Understanding the truth about our creation leads us to consider...
II. The Truth About Mankind’s Fall (Gen. 3).
II. The Truth About Mankind’s Fall (Gen. 3).
EXP: The infector of sin was Satan, acting through a serpent. The nature of sin, was getting man to doubt God’s word, His authority and His goodness. When tempted to see if man would freely serve God, he failed in the test and wanted to be as God himself. The results of the Fall were shame and separation from God. The penalty of sin was sorrow in the heart, and a curse upon the ground and upon nature.
ILL: Observe living in a fallen world (e.g. decay, corruption, etc.)
APP: Satan’s devices are still at the root of all evil now. He continues to influence mankind to doubt and disobey God. Punishment always has and always will follow sin.
TS: Herein is the truth about our fall, the wages of sin is death, so we now must consider...
III. The Truth About God’s Covenant to Redeem Mankind (Gen. 3:15).
III. The Truth About God’s Covenant to Redeem Mankind (Gen. 3:15).
EXP: Although man fell, a Deliverer is promised, who shall bruise the tempter’s head. This was fulfilled in John 3:16.
ILL: God made coats of skins for Adam and Eve.
APP: This pictures the robe of Christ’s righteousness provided for sinners through the shedding of His blood for the remission of sins by grace through faith in Him.
TS: Created but fallen, God reached down with hope of restoration, which leads us to now consider...
III. The Truth About the Flood of God’s Judgment (Gen. 6-9).
III. The Truth About the Flood of God’s Judgment (Gen. 6-9).
EXP: Because of man’s exceeding wickedness, God sent a world-wide Flood that covered the earth for 375 days. Noah and his wife, and his three sons and their wives and ceremonially unclean animals by twos and clean animals by sevens, by God’s direction, entered the Ark and were saved.
ILL: There was only ONE Ark, and ONE DOOR to the Ark.
APP: God has made a way of escape from judgment, if you will have faith like Noah, to be saved God’s way. There is ONLY ONE SAVIOR, and ONLY ONE WAY TO SALVATION—Faith in the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, our Ark of Salvation, that taketh away the sins of the world!
TS: Created, fallen, loved, but facing judgment for sin, we now consider...
III. The Truth About the Beginning of the Nations (Gen. 11).
III. The Truth About the Beginning of the Nations (Gen. 11).
EXP: Instead of spreading out as God commanded, the post-diluvian’s built a city and a Tower, at the top of which they placed an idol that they wanted the heavens and earth to worship. In judgment for this God confused their tongues and scattered them abroad.
ILL: The ONE race then dispersed into nations according to the sons of Noah. The sons of Japheth settled Europe. The sons of Ham settled Africa. The sons of Shem settled the Orient.
APP: Whenever man shuts God out, and places himself or anything else on a pedestal, there is confusion. Prophecy tells us that just before the end of the age, anti-Christ will set himself up against God, but he will likewise be overwhelmed with judgment.
TS: Created, fallen, loved, facing judgment, and scattered abroad, lastly, we consider...
III. The Truth About the Patriarchs of Israel (Gen. 12-50).
III. The Truth About the Patriarchs of Israel (Gen. 12-50).
EXP: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob - Out of the mass of idolaters, God chose a man named Abraham, to begin the history of his elect people Israel. Through Abraham’s Seed, the promise is given by God that one day all the nations of the earth would be blessed. Abraham was chosen that God might have a prepared people to receive His oracles and become a channel through whom the promised Deliverer should come and that his chosen people might be a witness for His glory on earth to the other nations, Genesis 12:1-4; 48:19.
ILL: By faith Abraham was about to offer up Isaac as sacrifice but God miraculously delivered Isaac. Isaac’s son Jacob succeeded his father in the Covenant relationship with God. His name was changed to Israel because of his faith and power in prayer. Thus we get the name by which God’s chosen people were called viz., Israelites. God permitted Jacob’s son Joseph to be sold into Egypt, and Jacob’s family to later follow him there in order that when a great famine prevailed, the Israelites might find food, and at the same time, keep themselves as a separate people for God to use later.
APP: God provides salvation for those who trust in His provided Redeemer, but also promises judgment for those who reject His way of salvation from sin’s consequence, death. Idolaters are put behind God’s back but believers are brought into His family, as He becomes their God, and they become His people to love and serve Him while taking His Word of glory to the world He came to save.
Conc:
Conc:
You were created by a loving God, but have become separated from Him through sin (Adam’s and yours), but God loves you, and made a way for you to return to Him through Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world, the Seed of Abraham, the Messiah of Israel. Through faith in His finished work of Calvary to pay for your sin, you can receive the righteousness of His sinless life and a relationship with your Creator in eternal life, for ever!