Whats Inside the Bible: Genesis

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Whats Inside the Bible? Genesis

• In the Beginning

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Introduction

• Genesis birth or beginning
• Beginning of life on earth
• Origin of sin and death and promise of a saviour
• The flood a new beginning
• Beginning of the nation of Israel Gods chosen
  people (Abraham-gtIsaac-gtJacob etc)

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The creation account
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Order of Events

• World was created
• World was filled
• Man and Woman given charge over the animals
• God rested
• Man and Woman sinned
• God began working (John 517)

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Order of Events

• Did these things actually happen?
• Or were they written as a story to teach a point?
• What else has God done to teach us a point?
• The Jews and the Old Covenant
• Jesus lived a real life, and died a real death
• God is still doing real things to teach us
  lessons the Jews are His witnesses

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A spiritual pattern
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Symbols in Genesis
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Life created

• Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in
  our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of
  the sea and the birds of the air, over the
  livestock, over all the earth
• Genesis 125

• If anyone is in Christ, the new creation has
  come The old has gone, the new is here!
• 2Corinthians 517

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Adam and Jesus

• LORD God formed the man from the dust of the
  ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath
  of life, and the man became a living being
• The Hebrew for man (adam) sounds like and may be
  related to the Hebrew for ground (adamah) it is
  also the name Adam (see Gen. 220).
• Genesis 27

• "The first man Adam became a living being" the
  last Adam (Jesus God Saves), a life-giving
  spirit.
• 1Corinthians 1545

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Eve and the Church

• So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon
  the man
• And the rib Heb side that the LORD God had
  taken from the man he made into a woman Genesis
  2

• Jesus had to die for his bride to be created
• Jesus side pierced with the spear and water and
  blood flowed out we are saved by water and
  blood Jn1934, 1Jn56
• We, as the church, are figuratively married to
  Christ Eph532

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The Flood and Baptism

• Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the
  people of his time, and he walked with God Gen 6
• Noah was, in type, a new Adam and after the
  flood was also given a covenant and authority
  from God
• God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them,
  "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the
  earth.

• In it (the flood) only a few people, eight in
  all, were saved through water, 21and this water
  symbolizes baptism that now saves you alsonot
  the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge
  of a good conscience toward God 1Peter 320

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The Flood and Baptism

• It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus
  Christ, 1Peter 320
• How?

• just as through the disobedience of the one man
  (Adam) the many were made sinners, so also
  through the obedience of the one man (Jesus) the
  many will be made righteous. Romans 5
• all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus
  were baptized into his death anyone who has
  died has been freed from sin. Romans 6

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Given Authority

• who has gone into heaven and is at God's right
  handwith angels, authorities and powers in
  submission to him. 1Peter 322

• But I want you to understand that the head of
  every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her
  husband, and the head of Christ is God.
• 1Corinthians 113

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Symbols in Genesis
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Gods promises
Genesis 174-8 As for me, this is my covenant
with you You will be the father of many nations.
No longer will you be called Abram your name
will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of
many nations. I will make you very fruitful I
will make nations of you, and kings will come
from you. I will establish my covenant as an
everlasting covenant between me and you and your
descendants after you for the generations to
come, to be your God and the God of your
descendants after you. The whole land of
Canaan, where you are now an alien, I will give
as an everlasting possession to you and your
descendants after you and I will be their God.
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Gods promises
Genesis 2215-18 The angel of the LORD called
to Abraham from heaven a second time and said, "I
swear by myself, declares the LORD, that because
you have done this and have not withheld your
son, your only son, I will surely bless you and
make your descendants as numerous as the stars in
the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your
descendants will take possession of the cities of
their enemies, and through your offspring all
nations on earth will be blessed, because you
have obeyed me."
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Why?

• Isaac being sacrificed by Abraham
• Son of promise, loved of his father, ordered to
  be sacrificed by God (Is. 53, Acts 2)

• Abraham believed God would raise Isaac
• even though God had said to him, "It is through
  Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.
  19Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead,
  and figuratively speaking, he did receive Isaac
  back from death. Hebrews 11

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Symbols in Genesis
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A type for Jews
Joseph
Jesus

• Beloved of his father
• The good shepherd (cf his brethren)
• A predicted ruler (Josephs dreams)
• Rejected by his own brethren - sold for 20 pieces
  of silver
• Consigned to the pit ......
• ....... later found empty
• Goes into a far country
• Revealed in power - to be worshipped by his
  brethren

• This is my beloved son
• I am the good shepherd (cf the Jewish
  religious leaders)
• The Messiah - The king of the Jews
• He came to his own ...but his own received him
  not ..
• Laid in the tomb ......
• ...... raised the 3rd day
• Ascended into heaven
• They shall look on him whom they pierced, and
  mourn

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A type for Gentiles
Joseph in Egypt
Jesus

• A faithful servant (to Potiphar)
• Tempted but sinless
• Paid the price - with two others one of whom is
  saved
• Exalted to glory and power
• Appointed to save the world
• Provides the bread of life
• All nations are saved by coming to him
• Marries a Gentile bride who joins Gods people

• Took ..the form of a servant
• Tempted ... without sin
• He was numbered with the transgressors
• All power is given unto me ...
• God so loved the world...
• I am the bread of life ...
• In Christ, there is Jew nor Greek
• The bride has made herself ready

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Father of the faithful

• Galatians 36-9

Understand, then, that those who believe are
children of Abraham. The Scripture foresaw that
God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and
announced the gospel in advance to Abraham All
nations will be blessed through you.

• Galatians 3 26-29

You are all sons of God through faith in Christ
Jesus, for all of you who were baptised into
Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There
is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male
nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's
seed, and heirs according to the promise.
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The Future

• Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the
  first heaven and the first earth had passed away,
  and there was no longer any sea. 2I saw the Holy
  City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of
  heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully
  dressed for her husband. 3And I heard a loud
  voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling
  of God is with men, and he will live with them.
  They will be his people, and God himself will be
  with them and be their God. 4He will wipe every
  tear from their eyes. There will be no more death
  or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order
  of things has passed away."
• He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I
  will be his God and he will be my son
• Revelation 21