2. The Bible Has A Story To Tell Genesis

3. The Bible Has A Story To Tell G. K. Pennington ©

4. The Bible Has A Story To Tell Starting with a problem of disobedience but ending with an invitation to join God in heaven.

5. It’s All About the Story u The Old Testament lays the foundation u The gospels tell the story u Acts tells the result of the story u The letters and the Revelation  Offer encouragement  Course correction for the church

6. The Old Testament Is the Foundation for the Main Event Adam Great Patriarchs Abraham Isaac Jacob Joseph Israel in Egypt Exodus Mt. Sinai Wanderings Conquest Judges United Kingdom Saul David Solomon Divided Kingdom Israel Judah Captivity and exile Return from captivity

7. Genesis The Book of Beginnings

8. Genesis is the Book of Beginnings u Beginning of : –Time –Life –Man –Sin –Death –Covenants

9. Genesis has Four Main Events u Creation u Fall of man u Flood of Noah u Tower of Babel/Dispersed into nations

10. Creation u The first verse of the Bible contains five essentials we have come to accept as necessary for life as we know it. –In the beginning… Time –God ……………..Power/Force –Created…………..Action –Heavens………….Space –Earth …………….Matter

11. Creation u The Genesis account does not contain the errors of the polytheistic creation myths. _______________________ u A platform for life u An orderly creation, essentials for life, simple to complex. u No primeval ponds or gods feuding as a source of creation. _________________________ u Science leads us to believe these things are necessary. How did the biblical writer get it right thousands of years before scientific observation?

12. Creation and Science u Initial Creation: Chaos –There was a beginning and ordering u Solar system –Sun and moon –Earth prepared for life u Plants u Animals –Simple to more complex –Man a late comer u In the beginning… –God brings order heavens and earth u 1. Light u 2. Expanse –waters separated u 3. Vegetation u 4. Sun and Moon u 5. Birds and marine creatures u 6. Land animals and man

13. What do these have in common? u A beginning u An ordering u Essentials for life set into place u A movement from simple to complex u Man is the latecomer In the absence of modern mans insight, how did the author of the Genesis account get it right when everyone else was so far off?

14. Genesis From The Fall Points to Jesus u 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."

15. Tale Of Two Trees u Knowledge of good and evil u Of life Good and EvilLife (Gen 3:24 NIV) After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

16. Tale Of Two Trees u Knowledge of good and evil u Of life Life (Rev 22:14 NIV) "Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. Beginning to the end of the Bible Genesis Revelation

17. Genesis Points to Jesus u Gen. 22:18 And through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me." u Gal. 3:8 The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: "All nations will be blessed through you."

18. The Flood u The earth destroyed by water because of sin u God preserves a faithful family (a remnant) u God makes a covenant with Noah u The reminder of the covenant is the rainbow

19. u Abraham u ……….. Isaac u ……………......Jacob u …………………………….Joseph The Genesis Story Has Four Main People Who are called the “Great” Patriarchs

20. u Abraham u ……….. Isaac u ……………...…Jacob –Jacob’s twelve sons including…… Judah u …The family line preserved by God using Genesis starts the story of the ancestry of Jesus. The Genesis Story Points to Jesus Joseph

21. The Promise Leads to Jesus Abraham Jacob Isaac Judah Ishmael Reuben Zebulun Levi Simeon Issachar Joseph Naphtali Asher Gad Dan Benjamin

22. Genesis 49:10 The Messiah promise is through Judah "The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs and the obedience of the nations is his."

23. Genesis Ends Looking to the Future u (Gen 50:25-26 NIV) And Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath and said, "God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up from this place." {26} So Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten. And after they embalmed him, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.