Genesis

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• Genesis

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Do you know God?

• The Old Testament (OT) is the photo album of the
  God we know in the NT
• The OT begins the Story we are in
• The Story was not meant to be read alone
• So lets begin together
• Now
• This month

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Overview

• Snapshots of a growing relationship (DTRs)

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Genesis 128-30

•  28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be
  fruitful and increase in number fill the earth
  and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and
  the birds of the air and over every living
  creature that moves on the ground."
•  29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing
  plant on the face of the whole earth and every
  tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be
  yours for food.

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The Big Idea

• He wants us to Love him.
• Style a lover who pursues with blessings
• Nation (people)
• Land
• He wants us to learn to live well (choose good,
  hate evil)
• His plan was to choose some people to use to
  illustrate what this means to everyone else

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Our Themometer

• How did people do?
• Through out the book of Genesis, there are
  stories of people who were tested
• Loving God
• Walk in his ways (Hate evil, love good)
• The land/nation theme acts as a thermometer.

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Gen 316-19

•  16 To the woman he said,        "I will greatly
  increase your pains in childbearing        with
  pain you will give birth to children.     
• Genesis  1 28 God blessed them and said to them,
  "Be fruitful and increase in number

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Gen 316-19

• 17 To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your
  wife and ate from the tree about which I
  commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,'       
  "Cursed is the ground because of you       
  through painful toil you will eat of it       
  all the days of your life.
• 28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be
  fruitful and increase in number fill the earth
  and subdue it.

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Gen 316-19

• 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
         and you will eat the plants of the field.
  
• 19 By the sweat of your brow        you will eat
  your food        until you return to the ground,
         since from it you were taken        for
  dust you are        and to dust you will
  return."
• Genesis 129 Then God said, "I give you every
  seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth
  and every tree that has fruit with seed in it.
  They will be yours for food.

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Pre-flood

• Stories that show us how we do with no rules no
  constrictions from God.
• Note this is before the 10 Commandments
• But they force us to think about good and evil

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Genesis 65-8

•  5 The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the
  earth had become, and that every inclination of
  the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the
  time. 6 The LORD was grieved that he had made man
  on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain.

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The Big Idea

• He wants people to love him.
• His plan was to choose some people who would
  illustrate what it means to live well
• Pre-flood no rules lets them go at it did
  not live well
• How is the land/nation thermometer?

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Genesis 65-8

• 7 So the LORD said, "I will wipe mankind, whom I
  have created, from the face of the earthmen and
  animals, and creatures that move along the
  ground, and birds of the airfor I am grieved
  that I have made them."
• Genesis 128 - "Be fruitful and increase in
  number fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over
  the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and
  over every living creature that moves on the
  ground."

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Sidebar

• I Peter 318-20
• For Christ died for sins once for all, the
  righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to
  God. He was put to death in the body but made
  alive by the Spirit, through whom also he went
  and preached to the spirits in prison who
  disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in
  the days of Noah while the ark was being built.
• In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved

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Genesis 65-8

• 7 So the LORD said, "I will wipe mankind, whom I
  have created, from the face of the earthmen and
  animals, and creatures that move along the
  ground, and birds of the airfor I am grieved
  that I have made them."
• 8 But Noah found favour in the eyes of the LORD.

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Genesis 65-8

• Thought to ponder
• Loving God
• Choosing to Love good and hate evil
• What does it matter?

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Post-flood

• Gods project to choose a nation who would
  illustrate to the world what it means to live
  well
• Noah gt
• Abraham gt
• Isaac gt
• Jacob(Israel) gt
• Joseph
• and all Jacobs sons (Judah)gt
• Jesus

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Genesis 91-3 

• God's Covenant With Noah
•  1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to
  them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and
  fill the earth. 2 The fear and dread of you will
  fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the
  birds of the air, upon every creature that moves
  along the ground, and upon all the fish of the
  sea they are given into your hands. 3 Everything
  that lives and moves will be food for you. Just
  as I gave you the green plants, I now give you
  everything.

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• Genesis 1
• 28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be
  fruitful and increase in number fill the earth
  and subdue it.
• Genesis 9 
• 1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to
  them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and
  fill the earth.
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Genesis 95-6

• 5And from each man, too, I will demand an
  accounting for the life of his fellow man.
•  6 "Whoever sheds the blood of man,        by
  man shall his blood be shed        for in the
  image of God        has God made man.

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Genesis 10-11

• Mankind starts over two lines
• One line known for technological achievements
  (tower of Babel)
• Failure building towers of their greatness
  idolatry
• One line will become known for trusting God
  (Abraham)

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Post-flood

• Gods project to choose a nation who would
  illustrate to the world what it means to live
  well
• Noah gt
• Abraham gt
• Isaac gt
• Jacob(Israel) gt
• Joseph
• and all Jacobs sons (Judah)gt
• Jesus

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Genesis 1131,32

• Terah took his son Abram, his daughter-in-law
  Sarai, and his grandson Lot and left Ur of the
  Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But they
  stopped instead at the village of Haran and
  settled there. Terah lived for 205 years and died
  while still at Haran
• The Lord had told Terah to go to a Land (Abram
  was the only one to do it)

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Genesis 121-3

• The Call of Abram
•  1 The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your
  country, your people and your father's household
  and go to the land I will show you.  
• 2 "I will make you into a great nation       
  and I will bless you        I will make your
  name great,        and you will be a blessing.
•  3 I will bless those who bless you,        and
  whoever curses you I will curse        and all
  peoples on earth        will be blessed through
  you."

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• The rest of Genesis is all about these 7
  promises.
• Land Nation Bless you A Blessing
  Bless/Curse All Nations
• Genesis 12-50 is a collection of stories about
  tests, failures and stories of faith.

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• Just one example
• The Land

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The Theme of LANDGenesis 12-50

• 121 The command to go to the land
• 125 Abram set out for the land of Canaan
• 126 He travelled through the land to Shechem
• 127 The Canaanites lived in the land - test
• 127 I will give you this land see 157
• 1210 There was a famine in the land so they went
  down to Egypt - test
• 137 The Canaanites Perizzites were in land
• 139 The whole land lay before Lot
• 1311 Lot chose the whole Jordan plain

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The Theme of LANDGenesis 12-50

• 1312 Abram lived in the land of Canaan - faith
• 1314-15 All the land you see to your offspring
  forever
• 1317 Walk through the land
• 157 I will give you this land
• 158-21 The Covenant ceremony regarding the land
  to be possessed
• 1518-21 The boundaries of the land that was
  promised
• 178,9 The land was given in an everlasting
  covenant, as an everlasting possession
• 231-20 Abraham purchased Ephron's field in
  Machpelah
• 241-9 The servant promises not to take Isaac
  from the LAND
• 261-12 Another famine - test/faith
• 2813-15 God promised to bring Jacob back to
  the land

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The Theme of LANDGenesis 12-50

• 313,13,18 God told Jacob to go back to the land
• 329 Go back to your country
• 3318,19 Jacob buys land at Shechem
• 348-12 Hamor, suggests Israel could be
  assimilated
• 3413-17 The sons of Israel deceitfully accept
  this offer
• 3420-23 Shechem's motives to acquire Israel's
  property
• 351-15 Jacob returns to Bethel
• 463-4 Do not fear, I will bring you back
• 4729-31 Jacob was to be buried in the land
• 4821,22 Joseph was given the ridge of land his
  father conquered
• 4929-32 Jacob was to be buried in the land
• 501-14 Jacob's burial near Mamre
• 5024-26 Joseph's was to be buried in the Land
  (see Joshua 2432)

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Genesis 121-3

• The Call of Abram
•  1 The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your
  country, your people and your father's household
  and go to the land I will show you.  
• 2 "I will make you into a great nation       
  and I will bless you        I will make your
  name great,        and you will be a blessing.
•  3 I will bless those who bless you,        and
  whoever curses you I will curse        and all
  peoples on earth        will be blessed through
  you."

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• For echoes of the promise of a Great Nation see
  Genesis
• 1316 152-6 161-16 172-6 1715-18,20
  1810 1812,13,15 1814 211-7 218-21
  221-19 2217,20-24 2460 251-4, 21,23
  267-11 2931-3024 3516-20 3523-26
  361-43 468-27 4727 5015-21

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• For echoes of the promise I will bless you see
  Genesis3222-32 359,10.
• As Prosperity 132 136 2122 241 2435
  2511 2612-14 2628-29
• As Protection 1418-20 2816-22 311-55
  323-3320 355
• As Fertility 1716 2217 2624
• Blessings lost 271-40 3425-31 495-7
  3521-22 493,4

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• For echoes of the promise I will make your Name
  Great see Genesis
• 1216 1413,17-19 2122-34 235,6 2616
  2626-31 4141 475-7
• For echoes of the promise of a You will be a
  Blessing see Genesis
• 1823-33 1929 201-18 3027-30 392-6
  4156-57

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• For echoes of the promise of a Blessing those who
  Bless you and Cursing those who Curse you see
  Genesis 1211-20 1411-16,18-20 1513-14
  201-18 2217 2460 2611 2729 317,24,29
  3138-42 341-31

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• For echoes of the promise of All Nations Blessed
  see Genesis 1818,19 2218 264 2814.
• (Fortelling the church not as developed)

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• Throughout the narrative of Genesis 12-50 this
  package of promises was repeated and passed on in
  a simplified form. Name the person to whom it
  was repeated and circle the promises that were
  repeated?
• Genesis 171-14 _____________________
• Genesis 2215-18 _____________________
• Genesis 263-5 _____________________
• Genesis 283,4 _____________________
• Genesis 2810-15 _____________________
• Genesis 359-15 _____________________
• Genesis 483,4 _____________________
• Land Nation Bless you A Blessing
  Bless/Curse All Nations
• Next time
• Trusting God pays off Promises start to become
  realities.

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• Genesis We see mankinds need for God
• The rest of the OT God chooses a Nation to shows
  the world what it means to live well.
• NT and today God chooses individuals to shows
  what it means to live well.
• Love God
• Walk in his ways (Hate evil, love good)

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• Are we showing others what it means to live well?
• Loving God
• Walk in his ways (Hate evil, love good)

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Romans 323-25

• For all have sinned all fall short of God's
  glorious standard. Yet now God in his gracious
  kindness declares us not guilty. He has done this
  through Christ Jesus, who has freed us by taking
  away our sins. For God sent Jesus to take the
  punishment for our sins and to satisfy God's
  anger against us. We are made right with God when
  we believe that Jesus shed his blood, sacrificing
  his life for us.