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As as we begin this morning, I want a kind of preface some things because these are sermons honestly that I loved the kind of information and I'm looking at the nuts and bolts of scripture.

I mean I eat that up.

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So but as I come this morning, I have to remind you of what is said in first and second Timothy and and Titus about an elder or Pastor, they they should be able to teach.

And in this morning it's going to be a little bit more like teaching rather than preaching.

And there is there a little bit of a difference between the two and this morning we're going to be looking at information.

Where we're going to be looking at the setting and and it will help us better understand Genesis as we approached it.

And part of that teaching is the give you the context.

Because context, when you study scripture is is vital without it is, it's a very dangerous way to come in and study the scriptures and packed.

When we come to to the Bible, when we come to the scriptures, we need to allow the scriptures to speak for themselves.

So often when we come to the scriptures in our our time and God's word, we come with our own backgrounds, we come with our own preconceived ideas, and Notions are our own understandings or misunderstandings.

And so often we allowed that to feed into what we read in scripture, rather than allowing the scriptures to speak for themselves.

They're there is a reason importance to allow when you come to the scriptures to look for the meaning of scripture, not read, meaning into it.

And that's hard to do sometimes.

So this morning, we're going to look at at God's word in context.

I appreciate what John MacArthur said.

He says the truth is, it doesn't matter what a verse means to me to you or to anyone else, all that matters is what the verse means.

Essentially, when we come to the scriptures, we don't open it up.

Read a passenger.

That is all that, just touched my heart and then ask what, what is it and whatever is going on in our life, we based at put that into the scripture and so often, we catch ourselves even in our time, doing that very thing, rather than looking at the scripture finding out.

What does the scripture mean?

And then the appropriate asked question to ask is now that I understand what it means.

How does that mean, how does that scripture apply to my life and we are to apply that scripture in its proper context, is proper meeting in for Mike, we are to apply it and we should be asking that question.

The thing is, is we as we come in and we dig out and often pull out a text, we allow a we we study a text without context and we make a pre-test I know that's that's a complicated convoluted set of words there but essentially in other words we're taking scripture.

We we are allowing scripture do to be in the context.

The verse that it's in because often people even take portions of verses out the verse that it's in the chapter, that it's in the book that it's in the Testament that it's in.

And then the context of the complete scripture and often we sailed to, look, or consider those things, when we study a pass it, It's going to be vital as we approach Genesis to do that way.

When we do that, we find that each book has a specific purpose.

We find that each book has an author has an audience that has a message that was intended to be heard and we will learn more about God in that context.

I appreciate I appreciate what was George?

Bristow States on?

On a study of the Old Testament?

In Genesis play, the Old Testament is sometimes neglected or thought of, as a Jewish Bible, which has been made obsolete by the Christian New Testament.

But this is like saying that a building once, it is complete its foundations and lower stories are no longer necessary.

The ancient Hebrew words are as Paul States and Timothy sacred writings which are able to give you wisdom that leads to Salvation.

As we approach Genesis, we have to understand that this is not just some old ancient Hebrew text that we are looking at.

This is foundational.

For what you.

And I believe and understand in all aspects of scripture and pertaining to Salvation itself.

and I know for some a day like today where you look at the nuts and bolts of of a book, if it's exciting things with some of you, it's like Really, let's get on with it.

Okay, there's some really cool stories in Genesis and there are and we are going to look at those but we will not understand why we even have those if we don't understand these things.

So when you come to a book, you want to understand the book, you want to ask some questions of it, like who is it soft.

And if you don't have a Bible that answers, some of these things in the beginning and you can get some amazing commentaries and pack all of you and part of Grace Bible Church have access.

Even to faithlife bible study tools that you can have on your phone, your computer, or just go online and access but you can find out the things like the author, the audience, the Chandra of of writing and yes, that is important and how we interpret it, how we understand and will you can understand the purpose for which it was given As we look at Genesis, and we're going to look at these things this morning, I didn't give a lot of slides this morning.

I was like, man I could do PowerPoint overload or just allow you to, to kind of take some of this in.

So I chose the second that and I was running really short on time and making all those to us, life would have been time-consuming as well.

But as we consider this week, we look at the Book of Genesis and Holden States and I love how he puts it for the English title is based on the name given by the Greek translators.

Okay, where we look at Genesis, we see the name given through through that.

The Greek translators were those who took the Hebrew scriptures, And they translated in into Greek, when Jesus came and at the time of the Apostles and all, that was the, the spoken language around the world.

Okay, we have Alexander the Great Greek, that, that language.

So, everybody reading the scriptures could understand what was going on, what God was saying and in that that the Greek translation is called the Septuagint.

Maybe you've heard that word and it's basically the Old Testament, Hebrew writings taken and put into Greek.

When when you look at FBI the translation in Hebrew the word, or in Greek.

Sorry.

When you look at it and Greek and could be translated Source or or generation, but when you look at the original Hebrew, the Hebrew word is Ferris veriship.

I think I'm pronouncing that right?

My computer programs headed.

That way in an Su you look at that word is taken from the very first word in Genesis.

Berishes is the first word of the Hebrew scriptures and it means in the beginning we have to supply three words for this but their ship in the beginning is as they look at this book, they they named it from the very first word, we are going to be looking at Beginnings as we go through Genesis.

It's a very apt title.

And as we, as we consider this study of of different Beginnings, we need to understand who wrote it.

Genesis itself does not State who the author is like some, which will dictate your state, who wrote the book.

Genesis does not however tradition and and most Scholars agree that the author of Genesis is Moses.

I like, wait a minute.

Moses doesn't even come on the scene till exit, it, you're right.

Okay.

But as as we look at this, Genesis is part of a group or a combining of Five Books.

The first five books of the Bible today and and those are considered to be the Torah or or the pentateuch the books of law.

In those five books have been attributed to Moses as writing through Hebrew tradition and so on.

So as we look at and Moses being the author, when would he have written these things?

What we know that Moses really wasn't in Great Fellowship with, with God, prior to the burning bush situation, and thank you was trying to do things on his own.

He ain't got ran off 40 Years yet to figure things out before Galvez ready to use it.

And then we got was ready to use Amigos and we see him come into Egypt and we see that use him to lead the people out to the Wilderness and Mount Sinai.

God gives Moses the law.

And we all can think of it as the Ten Commandments and remember that that Bible story from Sunday school, but it was not only the Ten Commandments, it was the entire wall, the Jewish law, that God gave them.

So it's probably in that time that God had Moses.

Also write the thing that we are seeing in Genesis

so, the audience consider them, who the first audience is, The Book of Genesis.

Not Abraham, it's not no it's not Adam or Seth or any of those and if you're doing you staying up with are reading together at the church, some of those names sound familiar already, don't they?

Okay, but with as as you look at it, the first audience, Is Israel.

As they're out in the wilderness.

Think about it.

The first time we read the words through Genesis and read those accounts in an event is the first time they've actually been written down now a Hebrew, amazing at passing things down verbally as well.

So now the the stories of of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and how God used Joseph and all those things in and Noah, and the flood, and all of that would have been passed down as well.

But we have it recorded in the Book of Genesis in the audience.

Is Israel.

think about it as as the read-through Genesis for the first time they would understand fully they were and whose they were

Genesis answers that doesn't It answers The Who and the hoops.

Nns, they would read this there.

They would understand greater think about this.

The context of it.

They they needed this.

Did the people of God needed to understand those Beginnings?

Those Foundation as God was laying out the Lawson?

This would be pertinent to understand.

So, as we come to this, we we look at that and and think about where they came from.

You know, we see Israel being separate from from Egypt, they they live in different areas and all of that and God establish that through through Joseph and will discover that in the the last chapters of Genesis.

But they were, they were segmented like that but they were also very influenced.

They were influenced by the Egyptian World, they lived in the Egyptian gods that they worship the practices, the the the worldly desires that would be prevalent there.