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Week 1 The Big Picture

Please fill out questionnaire now located on the last page your booklets. Week 1 The Big Picture. Discovering the Bible Instructor: Bill Covert b ill.covert@me.com. Note-taking outline. Introduction . Course goal: that you would learn to study, apply, and love the Word of God

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Week 1 The Big Picture

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  1. Please fill out questionnaire now located on the last page your booklets Week 1 The Big Picture Discoveringthe Bible Instructor: Bill Covert bill.covert@me.com

  2. Note-taking outline

  3. Introduction • Course goal: that you would learn to study, apply, and love the Word of God Psalm 19:10  Psalm 1:1-3

  4. Introduction • Course goal: that you would learn to study, apply, and love the Word of God “Sweeter than honey, more desirable than gold” (Psalm 19:10)

  5. Introduction • Course goal: that you would learn to study, apply, and love the Word of God Psalm 1:1-3 How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked…    2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD,         And in His law he meditates day and night.    3He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water,         Which yields its fruit in its season         And its leaf does not wither;         And in whatever he does, he prospers.

  6. Syllabus • Daily Bible Reading Assignment #1 (due at the beginning of Week 2) • Name _____________________ Instructor _________________ Date ___ • Starting tomorrow, set time aside in your schedule to complete the readings below. Check the box next to each chapter that you read. The checked boxes should honestly reflect the Bible reading you have done that week. • Beside each reading below are things to watch for & questions for reflection. These questions are to help guide your reading. I am not asking you to turn in written answers to these. The part for which I do want written answers is on the other side of this sheet—the application questions under “looking back on the week.” At the beginning of each week of class, please turn in this sheet of readings and your written responses to “looking back on the week.” • Day 1 •  Genesis 1 & 2. In these two chapters notice how things were BEFORE sin entered the world. Things have been abnormal ever since. Look for signs of God’s original design for people. • Day 2 •  Genesis 3. Notice how the serpent focused his attack on what God said. That was his prelude to getting them to disobey. Notice how Adam and Eve changed

  7. Daily Bible Reading Assignment #1 (due at the beginning of Week 2) • Back of sheet • Looking back on the week: • Did you complete the readings for this week? • Which passage struck you the most? What about that passage struck you? • How might your life change if you were to believe and/or act on the truth you found in this passage? • Can you think of any reason God might want you to encounter this truth at this particular time in your life? • How are going to respond to what you’ve learned? • Think about what you can do to act on the truths you studied, who it will involve, and when you will do it. • To help with this, consider whether the passage reveals something you should thank God for, or promise to believe in, or a new attitude you should adopt, or a scary step of faith that God is prompting you to take or a decision you should make, or a talk you should have with someone. Syllabus Application

  8. Getting into the Bible • Using your Bible, turn to the Table of Contents. You should notice two main sections of the Bible. What are those sections? 10

  9. Getting into the Bible • 2 Timothy Book Chapter:verse=> 2 Timothy 1:3

  10. Why believe the Bible? • The Bible’s view of itself (2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Peter 1:21; Hebrews 1:1,2; 1 Thess. 2:13) • See handout, “Why Believe the Bible?”

  11. Why believe the Bible? • Resources: • Reason for God, by Tim Keller • The Case for Christ and The Case for Faith by Lee Strobel. • The Bible itself: The best evidence that the Bible is true is the Bible itself. Read it and see what you think!

  12. The Big Picture

  13. What kind of book is the Bible? • What the Bible is not: • Disconnected stories with moral lessons • What the Bible is:

  14. What kind of book is the Bible? • What the Bible is not: • Disconnected stories with moral lessons • What the Bible is: • A Single Revealed Story • --God’s Loving Pursuit of Rebels through Jesus Christ

  15. What kind of book is the Bible? • The Main Focus of the Bible: Luke 24:44“These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”

  16. What kind of book is the Bible? • The Main Focus of the Bible: Luke 24:44“These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” • Jesus (God saves)

  17. What the Bible Is • The Bible’s Four-Act Drama about Jesus • Creation: how things were supposed to be • Fall: • Redemption: • Restoration:

  18. What the Bible Is • The Bible’s Four-Act Drama about Jesus • Creation: how things were supposed to be • Fall:what went wrong • Redemption: • Restoration:

  19. What the Bible Is • The Bible’s Four-Act Drama about Jesus • Creation: how things were supposed to be • Fall:what went wrong • Redemption: what God has done about what went wrong • Restoration:

  20. What the Bible Is • The Bible’s Four-Act Drama about Jesus • Creation: how things were supposed to be • Fall:what went wrong • Redemption: what God has done about what went wrong • Restoration: how things are made right

  21. Key Events in God’s Story

  22. Creation • Genesis 1:1, 2 • Ultimate Reality is personal & relational --John 17:5, 24 • Genesis 1:26-28 • Genesis 2:16, 17

  23. Creation • Genesis 1:1 • Ultimate Reality is personal & relational --John 17:5, 24 • Genesis 1:26-28 • Genesis 2:16, 17 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed… 24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

  24. Creation • Genesis 1:1 • Ultimate Reality is relational --John 1:1; 17:5, 24 • Genesis 1:26-28 • Made to relate to, reflect, & rule with God • Genesis 2:16, 17

  25. Creation • Genesis 1:1 • Ultimate Reality is relational --John 1:1; 17:5, 24 • Genesis 1:26-28 • Made to relate to, reflect, & rule with God • Genesis 2:16, 17 • Made free, not programmed

  26. The Fall

  27. The Fall • Read Genesis 3:1-5

  28. The Fall • Genesis 3:1-5 The Serpent and his goal: to undermine the relationship between God and humans.

  29. The Fall • Genesis 3:1-5 The Serpent and his goal: to undermine the relationship between God and humans He slanders God and sows suspicion about His will.

  30. The Fall • Problem 1: LOST RELATIONSHIP Genesis 3:8,9 Genesis 3:24

  31. The Fall • Problem 1: LOST RELATIONSHIP Genesis 3:8,9 alienated from God Genesis 3:24

  32. The Fall • Problem 1: LOST RELATIONSHIP Genesis 3:8,9 alienated from God Genesis 3:24 lost sense of God’s presence

  33. The Fall • Problem 1: LOST RELATIONSHIP • Problem 2: LOST DOMINION Genesis 1:26; 3:17-19 “cursed is the ground”

  34. The Fall • Problem 1: LOST RELATIONSHIP • Problem 2: LOST DOMINION Genesis 1:26; 3:17-19 “cursed is the ground” 1 John 5:19 “The whole world lies in the power of the evil one.”

  35. Redemption • God’s plan foreshadowed

  36. Redemption • God’s plan foreshadowed • Genesis 3:15 “From now on, you [the serpent] and the woman will be enemies, and your offspring and her offspring will be enemies. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” (NLT)

  37. Redemption • God’s plan foreshadowed • Genesis 3:15 “From now on, you [the serpent] and the woman will be enemies, and your offspring and her offspring will be enemies. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” (NLT) John 12:32 “If I [Jesus] be lifted up, the ruler of this world [the serpent] shall be cast down.”

  38. The Rebellion Spreads… Genesis 6:5 continuousevil & judgment

  39. The Rebellion Spreads… Genesis 6:5 continuousevil & judgment Genesis 11:4 Babel: the “city of man.” Its aim:

  40. The Rebellion Spreads… Genesis 6:5 continuousevil & judgment Genesis 11:4 Babel: the “city of man.” Its aim: human glory God scatters them into “nations’ (vs.8).

  41. Into this bleakness,God answers with TWO sets of promises…

  42. God’s Promise to Abraham • Gen. 12:1-3 (turn there) • 1. Abraham's family will grow into anation. • 2. This nation will occupy thelandof Canaan. • 3.Allthepeoplesof the world will beblessedthrough one of Abraham's descendants. He will restore the lost relationship

  43. The Patriarchs (Gen. 12-50)

  44. The Patriarchs (Gen. 12-50) • Moses leads the Jews out of Egypt (Exodus 1-14)

  45. The Law (Exodus 20-23)

  46. The Law (Exodus 20-23) The lesson of the Law: The death of an innocent sacrificepays the penalty for human sin.

  47. The Law (Exodus 20-23) The lesson of the Law: The death of an innocent sacrificepays the penalty for human sin. “You were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold… but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ. For He was foreknown before the foundation of the world…” (1 Peter 1:18-20)

  48. The Law (Exodus 26-40) The lesson of the Law: The death of an innocent sacrificepays the penalty for human sin. But there is a veil in the tabernacle.

  49. The Tabernacle Butthere is a veil in the tabernacle.

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