The Theme of the Bible

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The Theme of the Bible

• Old New Testaments are under one encompassing
  theme the redemption of mankind from sin

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SIN

• Repent therefore and be converted, that your
  sins may be blotted out, so that time of
  refreshing may come from the presence of the
  Lord, and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was
  preached to you before, whom heaven must receive
  until the times of restoration of all things. .
  .
• (Acts 319-21a)

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GENESIS 3-11
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The Curse Of Sin
CONSEQUENCES
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Genesis 3-11
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WHAT SIN BROUGHT

• Sorrow Pain
• Genesis 316
• Cursed Ground
• Genesis 317, 18
• Death (loss of loved ones)
• Genesis 319 51ff
• Sacrifice (loss of animal life)
• Genesis 321

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Genesis 3-11
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WHAT SIN BROUGHT

• Separation From God
• Genesis 324
• Enmity Against Fellow Man
• Genesis 48
• Enmity Against Natural Environment
• Genesis 717-24
• Enmity Between Man Beast
• Genesis 92-5
• Confusion
• Genesis 117

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The Promise To Abraham
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• Genesis 121-3

The Beginning of the Solution to Sin!
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Now the Lord had said to Abram Get out of your
country, from your family and from your fathers
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 Genesis 121-3

• Land (121, 7, 1518)
• Great Nation (122 155)
• Protection (122, 3)
• Seed (linked to many nations, 174-6 2217, 18
  cf. Rom. 413-25 Gal. 316)

Fulfilled (Josh. 2143-45)
Fulfilled in Christ (Gal. 316)
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The Law of Moses
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• THE PURPOSE OF RELATIONSHIP TO THE PROMISE TO
  ABRAHAM

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The Law of Moses was the Law of God

• These are the statutes and judgments and laws
  which the LORD made between Himself and the
  children of Israel on Mount Sinai by the hand of
  Moses
• did not originate with Moses, but God
• made to ONE nation Israel
• not the church or to any other nation
• delivered by Moses

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Not to Any Other Nation

• He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and
  His judgments to Israel. He has not dealt thus
  with any nation And as for His judgments, they
  have not known them. Praise the LORD (Ps.
  14720)
• And what great nation is there that has such
  statutes and righteous judgments as are in all
  this law which I set before you this day? (Deut.
  48)

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Wasnt Made Before Moses

• The LORD did not make this covenant with our
  fathers, but with us, those who are here today,
  all of us who are alive (Deut. 53)
• SABBATARIANS ERR IN TEACHING
• this covenant was made at creation
• was made for all nations
• was made for the church

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General Thoughts about the Law

• All Israelites were required to
• know it (Ex. 1816)
• observe it (Deut. 62)
• lay it up in their hearts (Deut. 66)
• remember it (Mal. 44)
• teach their children (Deut. 67)
• Kings were supposed to write down a copy of it
  (Deut. 1718, 19)
• Priests and Levites to teach (Mal. 27)

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PURPOSE OF THE LAW
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• any great nation needs law (Gen. 123)
• law clarifies what sin is (Rom. 77)
• added to stifle transgression(Gal. 319)
• law shows mans need for grace(Rom. 323)
• to bring man to Christ (Gal. 324)

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Limitation of the Law

• does not justify
• Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to
  Christ, that we might be justified by faith
  (Gal. 324)
• Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no
  flesh be justified in his sight for by the law
  is the knowledge of sin (Rom. 320).
• For what the law could not do in that it was
  weak through the flesh, God did by sending His
  own Son. . . (Rom. 83)
• for the law made nothing perfect (Heb. 719)

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SIN
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• originated with Satan (Gen. 31ff Jn. 844)
• violates Gods Law (1 Jn. 34)
• unrighteousness (1 Jn. 517)
• begins in the heart (Matt. 1519, 20 528)

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SIN
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• rebellion against God
• committing what He forbids (1 Thess. 522)
• omitting what He requires (Jas. 417 Deut. 81,
  11)
• adding to what He authorizes (Deut. 42)
• subtracting from what He demands (ibid.)
• substituting mans ideas and machinery for Gods
• Davids new cart 1 Chron. 131-10 152, 12-15

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SIN-CURSED WORLD
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• Sin has turned this beautiful world into a
  graveyard
• Such is the real underlying reason for
  degeneration, deterioration, disease death?
• To those who deny the reality of sin
• where did the concept of sin originate from?
• where did death originate from?

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ONLY THE BIBLE
gives suitable answers
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered
the world, and death through sin, and thus death
spread to all men, because all sinned (Rom.
512)
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The Remedy? Jeremiah 3131-34
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31 "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD,
when I will make a new covenant with the house of
Israel and with the house of Judah 32 "not
according to the covenant that I made with their
fathers in the day that I took them by the hand
to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My
covenant which they broke, though I was a husband
to them, says the LORD.
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The Remedy? Jeremiah 3131-34
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33 "But this is the covenant that I will make
with the house of Israel after those days, says
the LORD I will put My law in their minds, and
write it on their hearts and I will be their
God, and they shall be My people. 34 "No more
shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man
his brother, saying, Know the LORD, for they
all shall know Me, from the least of them to the
greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will
forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will
remember no more."
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When Did He Make THE NEW COVENANT?
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• not at creation
• not on Mt. Sinai when they came out of Egypt
• not in Jeremiahs day
• only after the death of Jesus (Heb. 916, 17)

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THE REMEDY?
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• O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me
  from this body of death? (Rom. 724)
• I thank Godthrough Jesus Christ our Lord!
  (Rom. 725a)

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The Remedy is Jesus!
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There is therefore now no condemnation to those
who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk
according to the flesh, but according to the
Spirit (Rom. 81)
The PLACE is In Christ The WAY is according to
the Spirit
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Anticipating His Coming

• In your seed all the nations of the earth shall
  be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice
  (Gen. 2218)

ABRAHAM
Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises
made. He does not say, And to seeds, as of
many, but as of one, And to your Seed, who is
Christ (Gal. 316)
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Anticipating His Coming

• But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you
  are little among the thousands of Judah,
  Yet out of you shall come forth to Me The One to
  be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from
  of old, from everlasting (Mic. 52)

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What An Event His Advent Was!

• the Image-giver was born to the image-bearer
• Infinity came to the finite
• the Creator visited the creation
• the King became a pauper
• the Lion came as a lamb

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How is Jesus the Remedy?
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• by providing a payment to put away sins
• Hebrews 922, 26, 28, And according to the law
  almost all things are purified with blood, and
  without shedding of blood there is no remission.
  . . . He then would have had to suffer often
  since the foundation of the world but now, once
  at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put
  away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. . . . so
  Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many.
  To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear
  a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.

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How is Jesus the Remedy?
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• by providing a payment to put away sins
• by reconciling us to God, viz., turning away His
  wrath (Rom. 56-11)

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Where is One Reconciled?
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• in the church that Jesus built with his blood
• Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the
  flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you
  overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He
  purchased with His own blood (Acts 2028)
• and that He might reconcile them both to God in
  one body through the cross, thereby putting to
  death the enmity (Eph. 216 note church is
  body 122, 23)

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When is One Reconciled?
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• when he is baptized into Christ
• COMPARE
• 9Much more then, having now been justified by
  His blood. . .10For if when we were enemies we
  were reconciled to God through the death of His
  Son. . . (Rom. 59, 10)
• Or do you not know that as many of us as were
  baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His
  death? (Rom. 63)

• when he is baptized into Christ
• COMPARE
• 9Much more then, having now been justified by
  His blood. . .10For if when we were enemies we
  were reconciled to God through the death of His
  Son. . . (Rom. 59, 10)
• Or do you not know that as many of us as were
  baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His
  death? (Rom. 63)

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For through Him we both have access by one
Spirit to the Father (Eph. 218)
THUS THE NEED TO STUDY THE BIBLE

• WE HAVE
• A Purposed and Perfect SaviorJesus (Heb. 59
  Rev. 138)
• A Purposed and Perfect PlanGospel (Rom. 116 2
  Tim. 19, 10)
• A Purposed and Perfect PlaceChurch (Eph. 221,
  22 310, 11 215 413)

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