The Story of the Bible

2. The Story of the Bible • Creation - Gen. 1-2 • Sin & Fall of man - Gen. 3 • Promise of redemption [seed of woman] - Gen. 3:15 • Wickedness increases - flood - Gen. 6-9 • Development of the nations - Gen. 10

4. Abraham • God chose Abraham as the one through whom the seed of woman would come • Decendant of Noah - through Shem • Name means “Father of a multitude” • Son of Terah (Gen. 11) • Lived in Ur of Chaldees (Gen 11-12)

5. Called to go to a land (12:1-3) • Promises to Abraham (12:1-3) • Journeyed to Haran

6. Abraham Founder of a New Race Father of New Faith

7. The Promise To Abraham

8. Gen 12:1-3 1 Now the LORD had said to Abram: "Get out of your country, From your family And from your father's house, To a land that I will show you. 2 I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. 3 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." Land Nation Seed

9. The Promise To Abraham I. Land Promise

10. The Promise • At Ur (Gen. 12:1-3) • At Shechem (Gen. 12:6-7) • Renewed to Issac (Gen. 26:1-5) • Renewed to Jacob (Gen. 28:3-4, 13-14) Land Promise

11. The Promise The Assurance Gen. 15 Land Promise • Abram asked how know? (v. 8) • Covenant ritual (vv. 9-11) • Prophecy - bondage (vv. 12-16) • Taken to strange land (v. 13) • Serve them 400 years (v. 13) • Return in fourth generation (v. 16)

12. The Promise The Assurance Land Promise The Extent Gen. 15: 18-21 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates-- the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.

14. The Promise The Assurance Land Promise The Extent The Sign • Circumcision (Gen. 17) • “Everlasting” = “long duration, antiquity, futurity..” (BDB)

15. The Promise The Assurance Land Promise The Extent The Sign The Fulfillment

16. The Fulfillment • Delayed • Egyptian bondage 400 yrs (Gen. 15:13; Gal. 3:17) • In wilderness for 40 yrs (Num. 14:33-34) • Received it all under Joshua (Josh. 21:43-45; 23:14-16)

17. Joshua 21:43-45 43 So the LORD gave to Israel all the land of which He had sworn to give to their fathers, and they took possession of it and dwelt in it. 44 The LORD gave them rest all around, according to all that He had sworn to their fathers. And not a man of all their enemies stood against them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand. 45 Not a word failed of any good thing which the LORD had spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass.

18. Joshua 23:14 14. Behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth. And you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spoke concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one word of them has failed.

19. The Fulfillment • Delayed • Egyptian bondage 400 yrs (Gen. 15:13; Gal. 3:17) • In wilderness for 40 yrs (Num. 14:33-34) • Received it all under Joshua (Josh. 21:43-45; 23:14-16) • Retain it conditionally (Deut. 28:15, 36) • Dwelt in land approx. 1405 bc - 586 bc (819 yrs) • Remnant returned (536, 458, 445 bc)

20. The Promise There is no promise yet to be fulfilled concerning the land! The Assurance Land Promise The Extent The Sign The Fulfillment

21. The Promise To Abraham I. Land Promise II. Nation Promise

22. Into Egypt - 70 Nation Promise Gen. 46:27 Exo. 1:5

23. Into Egypt - 70 Nation Promise Out of Egypt - 600,000 + Exo. 12:37

24. Into Egypt - 70 Nation Promise Out of Egypt - 600,000 + At Sinai - Covenant Exo. 19:4-6 Exo. 20:1-7; 24:1-8; 34:27,28

25. The Promise To Abraham I. Land Promise II. Nation Promise III. Seed Promise

26. Seed of woman • Gen. 3:15 - Promise of redemption • Christ = seed of woman • Born of a woman (virgin) - Isa. 7:14 • Made of a woman (Gal. 4:4) Seed Promise

27. Gal. 3:16 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. Seed of woman Seed of Abraham Seed Promise • Gen. 12:3; 22:18 • Seed = Christ • Acts 3:25-26 - raised up Jesus • Gal. 3:16 - “seed who is Christ”

28. Seed of woman Seed of Abraham Seed Promise How does the promise relate to us?

29. Our Salvation is a Result of the Seed Promise Acts 3:25-26 25 You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.' 26 To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities." Acts 3:25-26 25 You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.' 26 To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities."

30. Acts 3:26 “turning away every one of you from your iniquities” IS Our Salvation is a Result of the Seed Promise Gen 12:3 “And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed”

31. Our Salvation is a Result of the Seed Promise Gal 3:26-29 26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

32. Our Salvation is a Result of the Seed Promise Children of God (Baptized) Gal. 3:26-27 Abraham’s Seed Heirs of Promise Gal. 3:29 ARE

33. The Promise To Abraham I. Land Promise II. Nation Promise III. Seed Promise