1. THE ROAD TO EMMAUS
Genesis 12-50

3. QUIZ Passage Content Chs. 1-3 Chs. 6-9 11:1-9 12:1-3 Ch. 22 Ch. 32

4. QUIZ Passage Content Chs. 1-3 Creation and Fall Chs. 6-9
Flood and covenant
11:1-9
Tower of Babel
12:1-3
Abrahamic covenant
Ch. 22
Isaac is offered up
Ch. 32
Jacob wrestles with God
Ch. 37
Joseph is sold by his brothers
Ch. 49
Jacob blesses his sons

6. THEME
God is making a gracious covenant with one man and his descendants which will bless the entire world. In this covenant God has promised to be their God and they His special people. They will live in the place of His choosing and will enjoy a unique relationship with Him, under His rule.
Kingdom: God’s people in God’s place under God’s rule

7. GOD’S PLACE
Gen 12:1 Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.”
Gen 12:6-7 Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built there an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

9. GOD’S PLACE
Heb 11: By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.

10. GOD’S PLACE
Heb 11: These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.

11. GOD’S PEOPLE
Gen 12:1-3 Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."

12. GOD’S PEOPLE
Gen 12:1-3 Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."

13. GOD’S PEOPLE
Gen 15:5 And [God] brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."

14. GOD’S PEOPLE
Gen 15:6 And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness.
Rom 1: For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith."

15. GOD’S RULE
Covenant - a solemn bond & agreement between two parties

16. GOD’S RULE
Gen 15: [God] said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon." And he brought him all these, cut them in half, and laid each half over against the other. But he did not cut the birds in half.

17. GOD’S RULE
Gen 15: When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land…”

18. ELECTION
Gen 25: The children struggled together within [Rebekah], and she said, "If it is thus, why is this happening to me?" So she went to inquire of the LORD. And the LORD said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger.”

19. ELECTION
Rom 9: …When Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad--in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls--she was told, "The older will serve the younger." As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
Eph 2:8-9 …For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

20. ELECTION
Deut 7:7-9 It was not because you [Israel] were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but it is because the LORD loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations.

21. JOSEPH
Gen 37: Then [Joseph] dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, "Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me." But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?" And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind.

22. JOSEPH
Gen 37: They saw him from afar, and before he came near to them they conspired against him to kill him. They said to one another, “Here comes this dreamer.”
Gen 37: Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our own flesh." And his brothers listened to him.

23. JOSEPH
Gen 45:4-5 So Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." And they came near. And he said, “I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt. And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.”
Gen 50: But Joseph said to them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of God? As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.”

24. SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD
Rom 8: And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

25. WHO IS THE SEED?
Gen 49:8 Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father's sons shall bow down before you.
Gen 49:10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.

26. > > > < < < > > > V WHO IS THE SEED? Adam
Cain / Abel
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Seth
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Noah V
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Abraham
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Isaac
Jacob
12 sons (tribes)
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Judah
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David

27. WHO IS THE SEED?
JESUS CHRIST

28. SCHEDULE
HOMEWORK:
Memorize the OT books in order
Read Exodus
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