the story of the bible

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

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)

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

Abraham

Founder of a New Race

Father of New Faith

ThePromise

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ThePromise

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Gen 12:1-31 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

I. Land PromiseI. Land Promise

The Promise To Abraham

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• 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)

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• 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)

Gen. 15

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The ExtentGen. 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.

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The Extent

The Sign

• Circumcision (Gen. 17)• “Everlasting” = “long duration, antiquity,

futurity..” (BDB)

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The Extent

The Sign

The Fulfillment

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)

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.

Joshua 21:43-45

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.

Joshua 23:14

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)

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The Extent

The Sign

The Fulfillment

There is no promiseyet to be fulfilled

concerning the land!



II. Nation PromiseII. Nation Promise

Into Egypt - 70

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Gen. 46:27Exo. 1:5

Into Egypt - 70

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Out of Egypt - 600,000 +

Exo. 12:37

Into Egypt - 70

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Out of Egypt - 600,000 +

At Sinai - Covenant

Exo. 19:4-6Exo. 20:1-7; 24:1-8; 34:27,28




III. Seed PromiseIII. Seed Promise

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• 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)

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Seed of Abraham

• Gen. 12:3; 22:18• Seed = Christ

• Acts 3:25-26 - raised up Jesus• Gal. 3:16 - “seed who is Christ”

Gal. 3:16Now 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.

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How does the promise relate to us?

Our Salvation is a ResultOur Salvation is a Resultof the Seed Promiseof 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."


Gen 12:3

“And in youall the families

of the earthshall beblessed”

Acts 3:26

“turning awayevery one

of you fromyour iniquities”

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Gal 3:26-2926 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.

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Childrenof God

(Baptized)

Gal. 3:26-27

Abraham’sSeed

Heirs ofPromise

Gal. 3:29




III. Seed PromiseIII. Seed Promise

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