Whats inside

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Whats inside

• Week 3 - The Old and New Testaments

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Course structure

• Week 1 (Thu 10 May) Whats insidethe Bible?
• Week 2 (Thu 17 May) Righteousness and Sin
• Week 3 (Thu 24 May) The Old and New Testaments
• Whitsun break (Thu 31 May)
• Week 4 (Thu 7 June) Introducing Jesus Christ
• Week 5 (Thu 14 June) The Kingdom of God
• Week 6 (Thu 21 June) What does God want from us?

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Whats Inside Week 3

• Bible Study Tools
• The Old and New Testaments
• Do I need Saving?

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Bible Study tools
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Bible Study Tools

• Why use tools?
• Bible is incomprehendible? Archaic? Obscure?
• Bible is old? Written in a foreign language?
• Corruption in the text?
• Cross references
• What are these?
• Using a concordance
• A what!?

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Why use tools?

• Bible is old
• Parts as old as 4000 years
• Written in a foreign language
• Hebrew
• Greek
• Tools can help us get back to what the writer
  intended
• They can also help us eliminate corruptions that
  have crept in over the years

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Cross references

• Example Luke 1 v.3133 from the New King James
  Bible.
• In verse 32, if you wonder what is the throne of
  his father David? See 2Samuel 7 v.1417, Acts 2
  v.33 and Acts 7 v.55

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Concordances

• An alphabetical listing of almost all the words
  in the Bible, giving the original Hebrew or Greek
  words, together with their literal meaning and
  transliteration (the original word expressed in
  English letters).
• A concordance is useful when trying to locate a
  verse when you can only remember just a phrase or
  word

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Concordances

• Use a concordance to find a phrase you cant
  entirely remember, or to find the meaning of a
  word.
• Exercise, use the concordances provided to find
  where this phrase is written
• No longer will you be called Abram
• What does Abraham mean?

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Old and new testaments
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The Old and New Testaments

• Why two testaments?
• The Promises of God
• The Law of Moses its purpose
• The Prophets
• The Gospel in the Old Testament

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Why two Testaments?

• What is a testament/covenant?
• Its an agreement between two parties
• Exodus 1920
• Ch193-6 Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD
  called to him from the mountain and said, "This
  is what you are to say to the house of Jacob and
  what you are to tell the people of Israel

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Why two Testaments?

• Exodus 201-17 the commandments
• Leviticus 253 The IF
• v14 The BUT
• Hence the Old Testament is often called
• THE LAW

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Why two Testaments?

• What is the first testament in the Bible?
• The first agreement?
• Try Genesis 216
• And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free
  to eat from any tree in the garden 17 but you
  must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of
  good and evil, for when you eat of it you will
  surely die."

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Abram or Abraham?

• What other testaments/agreements did God make?
• Promises to Abraham

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Abram or Abraham?

• Promises to Abraham
• 4 "As for me, this is my covenant with you You
  will be the father of many nations.5 No longer
  will you be called Abram your name will be
  Abraham, for I have made you a father of many
  nations.6 I will make you very fruitful I will
  make nations of you, and kings will come from
  you.7 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. Gen 174-7 (NIV)
• Abram means Exalted Father
• Abraham means Father of Many

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Descendants of Abraham?

• So Gods promise was with Abraham and his
  descendants
• Who are the descendants of Abraham?
• Abraham was the father of Isaac,       Isaac ...
  Jacob,      Jacob ... Judah,     Judah ...
  Perez
• Perez ... Hezron,          Hezron ... Ram,
           Ram ... Amminadab,          Amminadab
  ... Nahshon,          

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Descendants of Abraham?
Nahshon ... Salmon,      Salmon ... Boaz
Boaz ... Obed       Obed ... Jesse,

• Matthew Ch1         

      Jesse ... King David.        David was
... Solomon       Solomon ... Rehoboam,
      Rehoboam ... Abijah,        Abijah ...
Asa,        Asa ... Jehoshaphat,       
Jehoshaphat ... Jehoram,

•        Jehoram ... Uzziah
• Uzziah ... Jotham,        Jotham ...
  Ahaz,

   Ahaz ... Hezekiah,         Hezekiah ...
Manasseh,          Manasseh ... Amon,
         Amon ... Josiah,          Josiah ...
Jeconiah          Jeconiah was ... Shealtiel,
         Shealtiel ... Zerubbabel,          
Zerubbabel ... Abiud,          Abiud ...
Eliakim,          Eliakim ... Azor,          
Azor ... Zadok,          Zadok ... Akim,
         Akim ... Eliud,           Eliud ...
Eleazar,          Eleazar ... Matthan,
         Matthan ... Jacob,           and Jacob
the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of
whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
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An eternal covenant

• But the promises were not fulfilled in Abrahams
  lifetime
• 8 By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place
  he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed
  and went, even though he did not know where he
  was going.9 By faith he made his home in the
  promised land like a stranger in a foreign
  country he lived in tents, as did Isaac and
  Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same
  promise... 13 All these people were still living
  by faith when they died. They did not receive the
  things promised... Heb 118...13 (NIV)
• So Abraham will have to live again!
• Jesus said
• 56 Your ancestor Abraham rejoiced as he looked
  forward to my coming. He saw it and was glad."
  John 856 (NLT)

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A new testament

• Jeremiah 3131 - "The time is coming," declares
  the LORD , "when I will make a new covenant with
  the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

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A new testament

• Galatians 36Consider Abraham "He believed God,
  and it was credited to him as righteousness.7Unde
  rstand, then, that those who believe are children
  of Abraham
• v19 - What, then, was the purpose of the law? It
  was added because of transgressions until the
  Seed to whom the promise referred had come.
• V24 - So the law was put in charge of us until
  Christ came that we might be justified by faith

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About the two testaments/covenants
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The message of the new testament
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The new testament

• Recap Why did God decide on a New
  Testament/agreement?
• What does the New Testament say about the old?
• What Jesus said about the Old Testament
• Why the New Testament is all about Jesus

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The new testament

• What Jesus said about the Old Testament
• Reminder Your father Abraham rejoiced at the
  thought of seeing my day he saw it and was glad
  John 856
• "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law
  or the Prophets I have not come to abolish them
  but to fulfill them. Matthew 517
• How did Jesus fulfil the Old Testament?

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The new testament

• Jesus sent two disciples, 2saying to them, "Go to
  the village ahead of you, and at once you will
  find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her.
  Untie them and bring them to me. 3If anyone says
  anything to you, tell him that the Lord needs
  them, and he will send them right away."
•     4This took place to fulfill what was spoken
  through the prophet     5"Say to the Daughter
  of Zion,       'See, your king comes to you,
     gentle and riding on a donkey,       on a
  colt, the foal of a donkey.'

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The new testament

• So Jesus fulfilled, or completed the Old
  Testament.
• He also started the New Testament
• The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind
     'You are a priest forever.' 22Because of
  this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a
  better covenant. Hebrews 721-22
• Why is the New Testament better?

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Do I need saving?
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Do I need Saving?

• Recap Am I a sinner?
• Defining saved and salvation
• How can I please God?

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Types of Sin

• Defiant sin
• Anyone who sins defiantly . . . blasphemes the
  LORD, and that person must be cut off from his
  people. (Numbers 1530)
• Deliberate sin
• The acts of the sinful nature are obvious sexual
  immorality, impurity and debauchery idolatry and
  witchcraft hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of
  rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and
  envy drunkenness, orgies, and the like.
  (Galatians 51921)

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Types of Sin

• Unintentional sin
• If a member of the community sins unintentionally
  and does what is forbidden in any of the LORDs
  commands, he is guilty. When he is made aware of
  the sin he committed . . . (Leviticus 42728)
• Sins of omission
• Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do
  and doesnt do it, sins. (James 417)

Do we ever sin in any of these ways?
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Am I a sinner?

• How did you answer the question on the previous
  slide?
• What does the Bible say?
• for all have sinned and fall short of the glory
  of God Romans 323
• There is not a righteous man on earth  who does
  what is right and never sins. Ecc 720

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What are the consequences of sin

• Therefore, just as sin entered the world through
  one man, and death through sin, and in this way
  death came to all men, because all sinned Romans
  512
• Who was the man?
• Sin leads (directly and indirectly) to our deaths
• For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of
  God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our
  Lord. Romans 623

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What are the consequences of righteousness

• God demonstrates his own love for us in this
  While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
  Romans 58
• For if, by the trespass of the one man, death
  reigned through that one man, how much more will
  those who receive the gift of righteousness
  reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.
  Romans 517

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When are we saved?

• So Gods gift to us is Jesus
• Believing in Jesus saves us
• Is that the end of the story ?

continue working out your salvation with awe and
reverence (Philippians 212)
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When are we saved?

• Saved and Salvation
• Philippians 212-So then, my dear friends, just
  as you have always obeyed, not only in my
  presence but even more in my absence, continue
  working out your salvation with awe and
  reverence, for the one bringing forth in you both
  the desire and the effort for the sake of his
  good pleasure is God.

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How can I please God?

• Can I please God by my own efforts?
• Touched earlier on salvation coming not by good
  works
• Romans 117For in the gospel a righteousness from
  God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith
  from first to last, just as it is written "The
  righteous will live by faith.
• So nothing we do can save us!

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How can I please God?

• If not, how can I please God?
• Hebrews 11 6And without faith it is impossible
  to please God, because anyone who comes to him
  must believe that he exists and that he rewards
  those who earnestly seek him.
• But what is faith?
• Homework Hebrews ch11
• Why is the New Testament better?