Firm Foundations

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Firm Foundations

• Lesson 49
• The Meaning of Christs Death
• from the Old Testament
• Memory verse Hebrews 138

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Signpost

• The Old Testament is a signpost to God
• Points forward to death, burial, resurrection of
  Jesus

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God made clothes for Adam Eve

• What did Adam and Eve do when they sinned and
  realized they were naked?
• Genesis 37
• Did God accept their clothing?
• Genesis 321
• God refused their clothing
• Killed and made animal clothes for them
• To be accepted by God
• Admit hes a sinner and stop trusting in his own
  works
• Put his faith in Jesus and His finished work
• God clothes all believers with the righteousness
  of Jesus Christ

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Cain and Abels offerings

• Whose offering did God accept?
• Genesis 41-5
• Why did God reject Cain his offering?
• Cain came to God in his own way
• Offering from the field
• Abel came according to Gods way
• Blood sacrifice
• Blood sacrifice reminds us of Jesus
• John 129

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Noah and the ark

• How were people in Noahs time living before the
  flood?
• Genesis 65
• Mans wickedness provoked God to destroy the
  world
• Genesis 67
• Genesis 68,9,13,14
• God spared Noah and his family
• Genesis 616
• One door
• John 146
• Jesus is the only saviour

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What if you knew the future?

• Penguins
• Would you avoid things that could harm you?
• Would you make choices that would benefit you?

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Passover

• All Egyptians lost their firstborn
• God made a way for the Israelites to escape
  punishment
• 1. A lamb without blemish
• Exodus 125
• Just as Jesus was sinless, lambs were without
  blemish
• 2. The lamb had to die
• Exodus 126
• Israelites were not to break the bones of the lamb

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Passover God made a way of escape

• 3. The lambs blood had to be applied
• Had to get blood and apply it to door
• Exodus 127
• Must actively believe in Jesus sacrifice to be
  saved
• 4. None of the Israelites firstborn died
• Exodus 1227
• God passed over every house with the blood, just
  as He promised
• John 316

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The mercy seat

• God delivered the Israelites
• Led them through the Red Sea, to Mount Sinai
• Gave His commandments
• Told them to build a tabernacle
• Hebrews 97, 102-4
• Blood of animals could never pay for sin
• Mark 1537-38
• Curtain hung in front of most holy place
• God showed that Jesus paid full price for sin

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Conclusion
A.D.
B.C.
believers who look back to Jesus death for them
believers who looked forward to Jesus death for
them
believers who saw Jesus death for them