History of Redemption

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History of Redemption Part 2 God Speaks
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We approach this survey of the Bible from two
points of view

• What God has done and
• is accomplishing in history
• What God has spoken or revealed in terms of
  Scripture

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God is Speaking

• What God says is related
  to what God is doing.
• Amos 37-8
  Surely the Lord God does
  nothing unless He reveals His secret counsel to
  His servants the prophets. A
  lion has roared! Who will not fear?
  The Lord God has spoken! Who
  can but prophesy?

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The Creator has spoken to mankind.

• The mighty God, the Lord, has spoken
• He has summoned all humanity from
• east to west!
• Psalm 501
• He has spoken through Israel in times past and
  through Jesus Christ more recently.
• Heb. 13 God, who at various times and in various
  ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the
  prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by
  His Son (in Son).

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• Gods declarations have never been in some secret
  corner He has spoken in a way that all can know
  Him.
• One could never know God in any sort of personal
  way without His communicating to us.
• Isaiah 4519, 22
• I have not spoken in secret,
• In a dark place of the earth
• I did not say to the seed of Jacob,
• 'Seek Me in vain.'
• Look to Me, and be saved,
• All you ends of the earth!
• John 173-4
• And this is eternal life, that they may know You,
  the only
• true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

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Gods ultimate communication to the human race
was through Jesus Christ.
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us,
and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only
begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth
No one has seen God at any time. The only
begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father,
He has declared Him. (John 11, 14, 18)
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Before Christ there were two main forms of Gods
communication to man. First, there are the
heavens and the testimony of
design in the universe. Second, there are the
written words of God as recorded and preserved
in the Bible.
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• Psalm 191-11
• The heavens declare the glory of God and the
  firmament shows His handiwork. Day unto day
  utters speech, and night unto night reveals
  knowledge. There is no speech nor language where
  their voice is not heard. Their line has gone
  out through all the earth, and their words to the
  end of the world.

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• Psalm 191-11
• The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the
  soul the testimony of the LORD is sure, making
  wise the simple the statutes of the LORD are
  right, rejoicing the heart the commandment of
  the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes the fear
  of the LORD is clean, enduring forever the
  judgments of the LORD are true and righteous
  altogether.
• More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than
  much fine gold sweeter also than honey and the
  honeycomb. Moreover by them Your servant is
  warned, and in keeping them there is great
  reward.

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What God Has Said
The importance of Gods words cannot be
overemphasized.
The eternal destiny of every human being
depends on their response to His words. In this
portion of our study, we will consider the main
sections of the Bible that give us Gods words.
God is communicating with His people. God speaks
when there is a need. God speaks at different
times and in different ways. (Hebrews 11-3)
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What God Has Said
In our study, we will look for the
following 1. The Need (Occasion) Why is
God speaking now?

2. The Content What does He
say?
3. The Method of
Revelation How does He speak?
4. The Response
Required What does He expect?
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• The Seven Major Times that God has Spoken
• The Abrahamic Covenant. Gen. 12
• The Mosaic Covenant. Ex. 20
• The Poetic Books-The Davidic Covenant. 2Sam.
  712-17
• The Prophets-The New Covenant Announced.
  Jer. 3131-34
• The Gospels-The New Covenant Secured by the Son.
• The Epistles-The New Covenant Explained.
• Revelation-The New Covenant Consummated.

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What God Has Said
In our study, we will look for the
following 1. The Need (Occasion) Why is
God speaking now?

2. The Content What does He
say?
3. The Method of
Revelation How does He speak?
4. The Response
Required What does He expect?
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The Promise The Abrahamic Covenant
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Genesis 121-3 Now the Lord had said to Abram
Get out of your country, From your family And
from your father's house, To a land that I will
show you. I will make you a great nation I
will bless you And make your name great And you
shall be a blessing. I will bless those who
bless you, And I will curse him who curses you
And in you all the families of the earth shall
be blessed.
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Genesis 121-3
The first time
God spoke,
apart from the introduction. This is the
first word given concerning
Gods program of redemption for
the human race. Gods first word to Abraham is
an unconditional covenant. The only condition
attached was that Abraham had to leave his land
and follow Gods leading.
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Gods desire to Bless
Genesis 121-3
The Lord said
unto Abraham in you shall all the families of
the earth be blessed. This is more than the
promise of a prosperous era. It is the
promise of a Personal Messiah.
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The Need God spoke to Abraham at the start of
Gods great history of redemption.
The need was
critical
God desires that Abraham know what
He has planned to give
him. -And- God desires that Abraham trust Him in
a faith based
relationship. Surely the Lord
God does nothing without revealing His decree to
his servants the prophets. (Amos 37)

So faith
comes form hearing the Word of God. (Romans
1017)
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• The Content
• What does God say He will do?
• God is going to take Abraham to a land
  that He will show him.
• God is going to make of Abraham a great nation
• Make his name great and make him a blessing.
• God will bless those who bless Abraham, And curse
  him who curses Abraham
• And in Abraham all the families of the earth
  shall be blessed."

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The Content continues to develop and become more
specific over the next 10 chapters of
Genesis. Over thirty (30) times God says He will
provide! Note the progression as God expands His
promise Genesis 127 Then the Lord appeared to
Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give
this land." And there he built an altar to the
Lord, who had appeared to him. Genesis1314-18
And the LORD said to Abram, after Lot had
separated from him "Lift your eyes now and look
from the place where you are -- northward,
southward, eastward, and westward for all the
land which you see I give to you and your
descendants forever. And I will make your
descendants as the dust of the earth so that if
a man could number the dust of the earth, then
your descendants also could be numbered.
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Note the progression as God expands His
promise Genesis 121-3,7 1314-18 151-21
Genesis 151-21 One who will come from your
own body shall be your heir. Then He brought him
outside and said, "Look now toward heaven, and
count the stars if you are able to number them.
And He said to him, So shall your descendants
be On the same day the LORD made a covenant
with Abram, saying I have given this land, from
the river of Egypt to the great river, the River
Euphrates...
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Note the progression as God expands His
promise Genesis 121-3,7 1314-18 151-21
171-21 Genesis 171-21 When Abram was
ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram
and said to him, "I am Almighty God walk before
Me and be blameless. And I will make My covenant
between Me and you, and will multiply you
exceedingly." Then Abram fell on his face, and
God talked with him, saying "As for Me, behold,
My covenant is with you, and you shall be a
father of many nations. No longer shall your name
be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham
for I have made you a father of many nations. I
will make you exceedingly fruitful and I will
make nations of you, and kings shall come from
you. And I will establish My covenant between Me
and you and your descendants after you in their
generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be
God to you and your descendants after you. Also I
give to you and your descendants after you the
land in which you are a stranger, all the land of
Canaan, as an everlasting possession and I will
be their God."
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Note the progression of content centers on His
promise Genesis 121-3,7 1314-18 151-21
171-21 Genesis 2211-18. So Abraham went and
took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt
offering instead of his son. And Abraham called
the name of the place, The-LORD-Will-Provide as
it is said to this day, "In the Mount of the LORD
it shall be provided." "By Myself I have sworn,
says the LORD, because you have done this thing,
and have not withheld your son, your only son --
blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will
multiply your descendants as the stars of the
heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore
and your descendants shall possess the gate of
their enemies. In your seed all the nations of
the earth shall be blessed, because you have
obeyed My voice."
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The Method of Revelation God spoke to him as a
friend (James 223). and
the Scripture was fulfilled which says,
Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him
as righteousness and he was called the friend of
God. This method is appropriate as
God shares His plans with
Abraham. This is the way we speak when we
are sharing with a friend,
or promising to do
something for another person. Jesus said to his
disciples, I call you friends.
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The Response Required The Right Response
Genesis 15 Abraham believed God, and it was
accounted to him for righteousness. Wrong
Response Genesis 161-4 When man tries to do
what God said He would do
Ishmael When God says He
will do something Waite and Expect God to Do It!


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The Right ResponseRomans 4

• Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to
  him for righteousness... He did not waver at the
  promise of God through unbelief, but was
  strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and
  being fully convinced that what He had promised
  He was also able to perform. And therefore "it
  was accounted to him for righteousness.

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The Right ResponseHebrews 10

• Let us hold fast the confession of our hope
  without wavering, for He who promised is
  faithful... Do not cast away your confidence,
  which has great reward. For you have need of
  endurance, so that after you have done the will
  of God, you may receive the promise "For yet a
  little while, And He who is coming will come and
  will not tarry.
• Now the just shall live by faith But if anyone
  draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him. But
  we are not of those who draw back to perdition,
  but of those who believe to the saving of the
  soul.

The righteousness of faith
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• Review
• NEED That Abraham know what God has planned to
  give him, And that Abraham trust God in a faith
  based relationship.
• CONTENT God will provide the promised seed who
  will bless all the families of the earth. God
  will also provide The Land for Abrahams
  descendants.
• METHOD God spoke to Abraham as a friend would
  when revealing future plans and promises.
• RESPONSE Wait, and expect God to be the author
  and finisher of His promise.

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By The Way The Abrahamic Covenant deals with
Israels title deed to the land if this section
of scripture is taken literally. The
Eschatological Implications Unto thy seed will
I give this land (Gen.127). For all the land
will I give to thy seed forever. And I will make
thy seed as the dust of the earth (Gen.1315).
To thy seed after thee all the land of Canaan,
for everlasting possession (Gen.177). If its
literal, then there must be a restoration of the
nation for a permanent possession of the promised
land. The Amillennial view of the seed of
Abraham is that promises are given only to the
spiritual seed, the whole household of faith,
or all believers of all ages. The issue literal
vs. figurative method of interpretation.
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• NEED That Abraham know what God has planned to
  give him, And that Abraham trust God in a faith
  based relationship.
• CONTENT God will provide the promised seed who
  will bless all the families of the earth. God
  will also provide The Land for Abrahams
  descendants.
• METHOD God spoke to Abraham as a friend would
  when revealing future plans and promises.
• RESPONSE Wait, and expect God to be the author
  and finisher of His promise.