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Journeying Through Deuteronomy Apr 02, 2018

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God repeats Himself because we are so prone to forget! Deuteronomy was given to remind God's people of who He was and what He desired for them. In this book we learn to get past our past and ready for our future.

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Journeying Through Numbers Apr 01, 2018

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Every story given in Scripture serves as an example for us. Through both positive and negative examples in Israel we learn the importance of believing and obeying God. Our journey is to be a journey of faith and obedience.

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Journeying Through Leviticus Mar 29, 2018

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God is holy, and He desires for His people to be a holy people. Leviticus teaches us the importance of a life of holiness. It is the very life of the holy God being lived through us!

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Journeying Through Exodus Mar 28, 2018

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As we journey through Exodus we discover the power of divine redemption. Only God is able, and willing, to bring us out of the bondage of sin and into true liberty and life.

Transcript: "Journeying Through Exodus"

“Redeemed how I love to proclaim it. Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. Redeemed through his infinite mercy, his child, and forever I am.” Those were written by Fanny Crosby long ago. We love to sing them. But where can you find that truth of redemption? There is a scarlet cord woven Throughout the entire Word of God. Perhaps the fullest teaching is found in the New Testament book of Romans, but it is first introduced to us in the Old Testament.

Remember that in the Book of Genesis, God killed an innocent animal to cover the nakedness of Adam and Eve (Genesis 3:21). Today we journey through the second book of the Bible, Exodus. What Exodus is to the Old Testament, Romans is to the New Testament - It is a revelation of what it means to be redeemed. You find in seed form this truth in the Old Testament, and then you find it in its fully developed form in the New Testament.

An Overview of Exodus

Exodus is an amazing book. The first six verses of Exodus 1 are really a summary of the last five chapters of the Book of Genesis. There's a natural progression here. The Book of Genesis ends with the death of Joseph, and the Book of Exodus begins with the birth of Moses. When you see the children of Israel in Genesis 50, they're living in bounty in Egypt; as the curtain lifts in Exodus 1, they're living in bondage. About 300 years lapsed between Genesis and Exodus. When the people of Israel went down into Egypt, there were only about seventy souls; 430 years later, when they went out, there were approximately 3,000,000 of them! God prospered had them, and everything God ordains Satan opposes.

While the children of Israel are living in Egypt, suddenly they find themselves living in bondage. The Book of Exodus is literally the story of their exit, their departure, their deliverance, out of Egyptian bondage. And it's a beautiful picture of the redemption that is available to all of us through the Lord Jesus Christ. Redemption is the only way to have a real relationship with God. Redemption is the great theme, not just in Exodus but in the entire Bible. Redemption. The Bible says, “Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins” (Hebrews 9:22). There's no freedom apart from the shedding of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. These Israelites were slaves in Egypt when the Lord brought them out. This act of deliverance for God's people set a pattern that is followed all the way until its perfection in Jesus Christ.

The Key Verse of Exodus

The key verse of the book is Exodus 12:23. We read this verse in the context of the first Passover. Now, the Jews still celebrate the Feast of Passover. Where do we even get that word, that name Passover? Exodus 12:23 says, “For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.”

Did you catch the words? “The Lord will pass over.” God always either passes through or passes over. He passes through in judgment - this will be the case for every person who does not know the Lord Jesus Christ. But He passes over in mercy those who have received Christ's payment for their sins. Everybody must choose which it will be for you. Will Christ pass through in judgment or will he pass over in mercy?

The Passover in Exodus

In this first Passover, God required several things:

They were to take a lamb from the flock. The lamb had to be a male without blemish. That's an amazing picture of the sinless Lamb of God that was to come (John 1:29, 36). Christ, who would be our full, final, and forever sacrifice for sins, a Lamb without blemish.
They were to set that lamb apart on the 10th day of the month, Nisan. As we study the New Testament, we find that this is the exact day that the Lord Jesus Christ rode into the city of Jerusalem (on the 10th day of that very same month). On the day the Passover Lamb was set aside, Christ presented himself as the sacrifice for sin.
They killed the lamb on the 14th day in the evening. And if you look at the timeline of the Passion week of Christ, you'll find that the Lord Jesus was crucified on that same day, on the very day the Passover Lamb was slaughtered. In the evening, in the afternoon hours between twelve and three, our Lord Jesus gave his life and shed his blood for our redemption (Matthew 17:35-54). Hebrews 12:24 says that we’ve come “to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling.” What does that mean, “the blood of sprinkling”?
They were to take the blood of that lamb and sprinkle it on the doorpost. The blood had to be applied. Understand this with your heart. God said that His Son was “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world” (Revelation 13:8). That means from the very beginning of time, before Genesis, in the mind of God, the Lord Jesus Christ was already sacrificed for our sins. That's powerful. But it also means the blood must be applied to our life. In other words, redemption must become personal. It has to be put on the doorpost of your heart into eternity.

Every man either walks under the blood or over the blood. You either trample over the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, or you go under the blood because it's been applied to your life.

When God delivered His people, He did it through His own power. They could do nothing to save themselves. You and I can do nothing to save ourselves. He did it by means of a Deliverer. In the book of Exodus, that deliverer was a man by the name of Moses. It's a fascinating study to see the parallels between Moses and Christ. It's an amazing picture, but you must look beyond Moses, because a greater than Moses has come. Our Deliverer is the Lord Jesus Christ. But don't miss this truth that redemption was not only through the power of God and by the means of a deliverer; It was under the cover of blood. “Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins” (Hebrews 9:22).

An Outline of Exodus:

My friend, when you journey through Exodus, you meet God.

In Exodus 1-18, we see the Exodus - you meet God in His power.
In Exodus 19-24, we are instructed in the Law - you meet God in His holiness.
In Exodus 25-40, we are introduced to the Tabernacle - you meet God in his wisdom.

Christ in Exodus

All of those things are simply pictures pointing us to the One who is greater than all, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ. As Exodus opens in Exodus 1, the people are literally groaning. They're groaning under the burden of sin. They're groaning from their bondage in Egypt. But when you get to the end, Exodus 40, they're singing, there's glory. The presence of God has come among His people. May I ask you what takes a man from the groan of chapter one to the glory of chapter 40? Only one thing can do that: The redemption that is found in the person of Jesus Christ.

I want to challenge you today, first of all, be sure the blood has been applied to your own heart and life. Know for certain that you're one of the Lord's redeemed, bought back out of the bondage and slavery of sin. Trust the Lord Jesus as your savior. And if you are a redeemed soul, then rejoice in that redemption today. Praise God. Stop right now and thank the Lord that he set you free. He's brought you out of Egypt with a mighty hand and he has so much prepared for you.

Then determine today to pass the message of Exodus along to someone else. Tell someone else today about your Redeemer. This very day you'll meet people living in bondage, destined for an eternity without God. And what do they need? They need the redemption that is found only in Jesus Christ.

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Journeying Through Genesis Mar 27, 2018

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The Creator God is the God of new beginnings. In Genesis we meet the Lord who is able to speak and bring light out of darkness, perfection out of emptyness, order out of chaos. Begin again with God today!

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Overview: The Creator God is the God of new beginnings. In Genesis we meet the Lord who is able to speak and bring light out of darkness, perfection out of emptyness, order out of chaos. Begin again with God today!

Transcript: "Journeying Through Genesis"

"In the beginning. God created the heaven and the earth" (Genesis 1:1). We're beginning our journey through Scripture at the most obvious place; today we are journeying through Genesis. Now, there are fifty chapters in the Book of Genesis, and it covers thousands of years. So don't expect that we can cover, all of the details. All we can do is get a bird's eye view of this amazing book.

The name "Genesis" literally means "beginnings". It's the beginning of the Old Testament. Genesis is the beginning of the Law of Moses or the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible). It's the beginning of all of Scripture. However, you understand that Genesis is actually the beginning of God's revelation of Himself.

The name "Genesis" literally means "beginnings". It's the beginning of the Old Testament, the beginning of the Law of Moses or the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible) and it's the beginning of all of Scripture. However, you understand that Genesis is actually the beginning of God's revelation of Himself.

How to Study Genesis Main Events

There are many ways to study the Book of Genesis. For example, we could study it based on the main events found in the Book of Genesis. Genesis 1-11 covers four main events: The Creation of the World. The Fall of Man. The Worldwide Flood. The Tower of Babel, or the confounding of languages and the scattering of nations.

Main Characters

Then, you could go beyond the first eleven chapters. Genesis 12-50 is based on four main characters. We, refer to them as the Patriarchs of Israel - Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and then the book ends with the story of Joseph.

It is my belief that the greatest way to study the Word of God is always looking for God. The Bible is God's revelation of Himself, and this Book of Beginnings gives us foundational principles about the Lord and about our own lives. I have found myself going back again and again to the first pages of Scripture because these first principles are important to us today. The nearer we get to the end of time, the more I think we need to go back to the law of first mention, to the beginning principles.

The Foundation for All Scripture

Everything began in the Book of Genesis - everything that is in our world except for God Himself. God transcends all. He is the eternal God; He has always been. God set everything else in motion.

Overview:

In Genesis 1, God creates the world.
In Genesis 2, God creates the human race - that's us. Adam was formed by God's own hands.
- God records the establishment of marriage in Genesis 2. Marriage is God's wonderful creation, not a human idea to be neglected or destroyed.
In Genesis 3 we find something God didn't create, but we find the beginning of human sin. Man rebels against God.
- Amazingly, in the same chapter, we find the beginning of divine salvation. God makes a way for man to be restored.
In Genesis 4, we see the beginning of the family. The first children are born and seen as gifts from the Lord.
In Genesis 10, we find the beginning of nations and government.
In Genesis 11 we encounter the beginning of languages.
In Genesis 12, we learn of the beginning of the Hebrew race through the giving of the Abrahamic Covenant.

It's wonderful to see all that began in the heart of God; all that God did on the first pages of Holy Scripture. One of my favorite authors is J. Sidlow Baxter. Baxter wrote, "The major themes of Scripture may be compared to great rivers, ever deepening and broadening as they flow; and it is true to say that all these rivers have their rise in the watershed of Genesis" (Explore The Book, p.23).

In other words, if you trace all of the great doctrines of the Bible back upstream, you find this fountain flowing from this Book of Beginnings. Someone has even gone so far as to say that all the major doctrines of the Bible are introduced in the first eleven chapters of the Book of Genesis. At least in seed form, you're going to find the beginning of so many wonderful things as you study the Book of Genesis.

Key Verse: Genesis 3:15

I want to give you one verse today. It's not Genesis 1:1. It's found in Genesis 3. It is a key not only to unlocking the Book of Genesis but also to all that we believe from the Word of God. Genesis 3 is the first mention of the Messiah. I love this truth: It's in the context of man's sin. It's in the setting of man's fall in the garden.

Do you know what the Garden of Eden is? It is a reminder that God could have forsaken his fallen creation; instead, he decided to step into it to make a new creation. Don't you love that? Our God from the beginning was a God of love, a God of grace, and a God of mercy! And here's His promise. He's speaking to the serpent, to the devil, no less. Genesis 3:15, "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman." This answers why snakes and ladies don't get along too well, doesn't it?

Christ in Genesis

You must understand that there's a bigger picture. It's not just the physical. You see, he's talking here about a conflict, a war between the seed of the woman who was coming (the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ), and the seed of the serpent, which is the devil's offspring. Why do you think people like Pharaoh, Herod, and people of their sort keep striking at the Nation of Israel or at the promised line? Why do you think they hated Christ? There was a spiritual conflict going on.

Now see the rest of the verse, "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed. It shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel." May I ask you which is worse a heel bruise or a head wound? Well, you know the answer. A head wound. A heel bruise is a nuisance. It's annoying. It's a little painful, but, it's not life-threatening - it's not fatal. God Almighty said to the Devil in Genesis 3:15, you're going to bruise the heel of the seed of the woman - this points to what happened as our Lord Jesus Christ was bruised for our transgressions, wounded for our iniquities (Isaiah 53).

“That serpent struck at Christ at Calvary. He struck at Christ all through his earthly life and ministry. But then our victorious Savior turned around and put his foot squarely on the head of that old serpent, the Devil. When Jesus Christ came out of that grave alive forevermore, friend, he bruised the head of that serpent.”

We're told in the New Testament that "the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly" (Romans 16:12). He's already under Christ's feet, but soon he'll be under our feet as well.

What do you find in Genesis 3:15? You find that a God who could make everything out of nothing can also make something beautiful out of an absolute mess. When David had sinned his terrible sin with Bathsheba and had murdered her husband, he prayed in Psalm 51 these words "Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me." Did you know in Psalm 51 that David used the very same word create that is used in Genesis 1 and 2 for God creating the world? Literally, he was saying, God, I've given you nothing to work with. I have nothing to offer you. But would you create out of nothing? Would you create something absolutely beautiful?

The Message of Genesis

The great message of Genesis is that our God, the Creator and Sustainer of life, is a God of new beginnings. We come to endings. The devil loves to bring people to the conclusion of something, but our God is a God of new beginnings. Let today be your Genesis. Let today be your new beginning. Make David's prayer your prayer: "Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me."

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Charting a Course Through the Old Testament Mar 26, 2018

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The Old Testament lays the foundation for the New Testament and for all that we know about God. Begin where God begins to reveal Himself. Give attention to the 39 books of the Old Testament!

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A Journey Through Scripture Mar 25, 2018

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All of God's Word is inspired and profitable - even the portions that we are not familiar with! Today's episode previews a new series that will journey through Scripture. In this study we will briefly visit every book of the Bible and discover that each holds daily direction for our lives.

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A Revival of Bible Reading, Part 5 Mar 22, 2018

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In the last book of the Bible we are given a lasting encouragment for reading God's Word. The generation living on the edge of eternity should be most concerned about what the Scriptures have to say. Determine to have a personal revival of Bible reading today!

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A Revival of Bible Reading, Part 4 Mar 21, 2018

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Learn 7 helpful ways to get the most from your reading of God's Word. As you give yourself to God's Word, He gives you all that you need for daily living.

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A Revival of Bible Reading, Part 3 Mar 20, 2018

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God's Word is the vehicle that carries us to where we need to be. As we read the Scriptures the Holy Spirit begins to transform us into the believer He saved us to become.

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