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Big Idea:
Check in on them with their Bible reading plan…should be starting Exodus Chapter 1 tomorrow morning.
- Totally fine to just start there if you are either already behind or if you are just starting new with it.
Trust me, there will be plenty of time to catch up.
I want to do something I normally won’t do (explain each book as its own self-contained unit)…each week we get a fresh start…but, we split Genesis into two parts.
I told you guys that I want to do three main things each week or else we will get lost in the enormous story of the Bible chasing after things that don’t add to our understanding of the big picture.
And so, I am going to quickly recap last week as I reintroduce you to those three things we are going to do each week:
Story overview - what is the main story of this book trying to communicate through its various narratives, characters, commands, or images?
I showed you Genesis 1 & 2 and the different ways the Bible tells the same creation story.
We looked at how chapter three begins the long descent of mankind into sin and results in our being kicked out of God’s kingdom paradise.
We saw how chapters four through eleven is the story of mankind spiraling out of control and the eventual judgment of all mankind through the flood narrative.
We talked about the different toledots…anybody remember what a toledot is? Explain...
Finally, we saw the tower of Babel and the table of nations narrative.
NEXT:
Study Concepts - the reading, study, and interpretation tools needed to read the Bible for yourself in a way the remains faithful to the text and connects you to the truth that can change your life.
I gave you a single sentence bit...
The Bible cannot mean something for us today that it did not mean to the original intended audience.
Explain material origins of the universe not being it...
They were more interested in what the creation narrative told them about who God was and who we are in relationship to him.
That’s the overall story of the Bible anyways and we know that and yet, we still go into Genesis one and two treating it like a science book…IT ISN’T!!!
The Bible may have some things that inform our view of science but it isn’t trying to communicate scientific facts and if you go into it looking for that, (listen to me really closely…)you will ALWAYS be disappointed!
The Bible also isn’t a history book.
Although it will inform the way you view history, its goal is not to give you an in-depth history lesson.
If you go into it looking for those things you will always be disappointed.
We have to see it the way they did.
And the way they saw it was a story about the creator God of the universe revealing himself to mankind.
When we find ourselves in relation to that, that is when it begins to affect our life.
And speaking of that, it leads us to the final thing we talked about last week and the thing we will talk about every week:
Pictures of Christ and the Gospel - The portions of the Gospel and images of Christ that are foreshadowed or played out in the events of other stories in the Bible.
Do Mt.
Rainer in the background image that we often fail to focus on bit...
And we looked at over half a dozen of those last week.
You’ll just have to go back and check those out as you have time.
Alright…so that’s Genesis 1-11 recapped.
Let’s get into the rest of the story:
Story Overview
Ask for some stories out of Genesis 12-50 from the audience…If you are in my shoes, how do you pick the stories you tell during this sermon?
Talk about how we typically like to arrange the story on concrete sequential steps...
Abraham and Sarah
Lot
Isaac
Jacob and Esau
Jacob in Haran
Jacobs Sons
Joseph...
If you arrange the story that way, you are not being faithful to the way the author intended to tell it and you will inevitably miss things or be confused by things:
Give Judah and Tamar story in Gen 38...
Instead, let’s arrange the story the way the author has written it and I think it’ll make a lot more sense.
Remember last time I told you that Genesis is basically two different books…well, broken down, it looks a little like this:
INSERT PICTURE NUMBER ONE AND TALK THROUGH IT:
I also told you that Genesis acts sort of like the key on a map last week
Explain map key bit…this is what a mountain looks like etc…if you don’t know what is what you will end up lost.
And so, Genesis 11 ends with one of the genealogies that we typically skip but we definitely shouldn’t because in this genealogy, we meet a man named Terah who has three sons; Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
We meet their wives and then get this weird little detail that is different than any of the other genealogies in Genesis 11:30
And then chapter eleven finishes the genealogy the way they are all completed and then chapter 12 begins and something really neat happens.
Honestly, I cant stress the importance of the beginning of chapter twelve.
Let’s go back to the chart and look at it:
INSERT PICTURE NUMBER 2 HERE...
Verses 1-3 of chapter twelve act as the link between the two separate parts of the book of Genesis.
These three verses are like the key to the map of understanding the book of Genesis and if Genesis is the key to understanding the entire rest of the Bible then you can understand why I can’t stress their importance enough.
So lets read them:
Explain God speaking up to this point in the story has been a radically bad thing for mankind.
Give examples of telling Noah to build an ark, arbitrating a murder trial, and cursing humanity and the earth...
Explain family importance bit as you go through.
If you want to understand how the overview and message of the book of Genesis, you need to look no further than 12:1-3.
Let’s go to our chart one more time and see how the entire book is arranged:
INSERT PICTURE THREE HERE...
The book of Genesis is arranged around the three concepts of Covenant, Seed, and Land.
Explain…its not arranged concrete sequentially.
It is arranged around these three concepts.
Explain that the Bible will build onto this covenant over time but it will never be less than the three elements seen here in verses 1-3.
So instead of trying to pick out which stories to highlight, let’s just try and see all of the stories in light of these three concepts.
All right, first up is:
Covenant
A covenant is a promised agreement made to be unbreakable.
A covenant is not just a promise and it is also more than a contract.
A contract can be broken and may even have stated terms that allow it to be broken.
We honestly don’t really even have concept in our modern culture that comes close to what a covenant is.
Marriage is supposed to be a covenant but because there are legal precedents for divorce in our culture it doesn’t really get the picture across.
But the language of marriage is really meant to convey that idea of covenant.
When a man and women leave their fathers and mothers and come together in marriage, we say that they are becoming what?
One flesh.
Do tearing someone in half bit...
That’s even the picture God uses to convey this promise to Abraham just a few chapters later.
Check this out from chapter 15.
See if you can pick out the themes of land and seed in the covenant language in this next part:
What a weird thing to do right?!?
In Abrahams culture this was how you would signify a covenant.
That is to say, may we be like these animals if we break the covenant.
Did you notice that Abraham didn’t walk through the animals?
God knew we wouldn’t be faithful to the terms of His covenant promise and so He is upholding it based on His own faithfulness.
That covenant has two parts to it: Land and Seed.
Let’s Start with:
Seed
By seed, the author of Genesis is meaning descendents.
Genesis 12:2 (NASB95)
2 And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing;
Abraham was just one man and he and his wife were well beyond child bearing years.
In fact, chapter eleven tells us the reason they didn’t have any children was because Sarah was incapable of having children.
Two people don’t make up a nation.
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