Two Paths and God's Covenant

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Following the creation accounts we will trace the two paths that Genesis outlines, covering the stories of Cain & Abel, The Flood, the Tower of Babel, Abraham, Isaac, and God’s covenants to humanity. We will look at what life living in and outside of the blessing of God looks like and begin to unpack God’s plan for redemption.

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Following the creation accounts we will trace the two paths that Genesis outlines, covering the stories of Cain & Abel, The Flood, the Tower of Babel, Abraham, Isaac, and God’s covenants to humanity. We will look at what life living in and outside of the blessing of God looks like and begin to unpack God’s plan for redemption.
Layout of bible study
1 board per “seed”
Seed of Serpent board
What are the characteristics of the Fall
Story of Cain
Ham, Nimrod, and Babel
What can we learn about those who rebel against God?
Seed of Blessing
Noah
Abraham
What can we learn about the blessing of God & what God requires of us
Cain and Abel
What happens:
Cain and Abel make sacrifices
God is not pleased with Cain’s offering - Why?
Offering of blood, not of grain
What could Cain have done? Some suggest buying Abel’s animals
Cain gets angry
Lord gives Cain wisdom/advice & a warning
Cain goes with Abel into fields and kills him
God confronts Cain
God curses Cain
no longer able to yield harvest from the ground
Cain required to become a wanderer
Cain protests punishment
The Lord protects Cain
Cain "get sicks of wandering" and obeying God and creates a city and names it after his son
Seed of Cain 4:17-24
Sin of Cain & Sin of Lamech ()
- Lamech & polygamy - A man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife becomes a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wives.
- 4:24 - Cain's revenge was from God, Lamech's revenge is from himself. Lamech will protect and avenge himself instead of God being our protector and avenger.
What does this say about the seed of the serpent?
Obeying God is tiresome
Seek to serve self’s desires over God (polygamy)
Seek to protect self through violence (instead of protect Garden)
Dominion redefined/corrupted.
Pre fall: Garden dominion was domestication of the world and cultivating garden
Post fal: Dominion is achieved through violence and self-preservation
Seed of Blessing
- Seth is born - two seeds
: Genealogy from Adam to Noah - (see geneology chart Seth - Noah, no need to expound)
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Corruption of world + Noah
God sees the great wickedness of man, every thought and intention of their hearts evil continually. - What does continual evil look like?
God regrets/is sorry?
Same word in hebrew, antithesis of seeing creation is good
Noah builds a boat
Noah/fam/animals board boat
Rains 40 days 40 nights
Rain subsides
Noah sends birds out to see if it has dried
- The Blessing of God & The Covenant of God
After Noah has sent out birds, God tells Noah it's time to leave
God blesses Noah with the original blessing/charge to Adam -
What does God tell Noah to do?
Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth
What does this tell us about the seed of the promise?
Obedience → salvation, blessing, and promise.
What does this tell us about God
God enjoys blessing
God is grieved, possibly even regrets, when he sees the corruption of mankind.
Blessings and Curses - Noah’s Descendents
What does Ham do? Scholars agree it was something sexual
Shem and Japheth - who gets the blessing?
Shem
Understanding genealogy and the curse of Ham/Canaan
Many major nations come from Ham (and evil)
Through Cush comes a man named Nimrod
Who is Nimrod
Father of many cities (babel)
Established a kingdom on earth
What did this kingdom stand for → Babel
Canaanites are the ones that the Israelites took over in Joshua primarily
Founding Sodom and Gomorrah
Ham committed sexual sins, what are these two cities known for)
Tower of Babel - Two cities
What is wrong with the Tower of Babel?
Who does this image?
Cain got tired of wandering, and settled and built cities when God commanded him to wander the earth vs fill the earth (God said to fill earth )
11:4 lest we be disbursed - disobedience to God. Found power in each other instead of obedience to God
Sought the glory of man/king (Nimrod)
Images Genesis serpent - How does serpent tempt Eve? This will make you like God.
11:4 let us make a name for ourselves
What is the end result?
God disburses his people as planned, but has to force them by dividing them through language to accomplish his purposes.
Here is the question - Why does God care that humanity fills the earth?
God is attempting to fill the earth and have man carry out his mission - be fruitful and multiply, subdue the earth, and fulfill it.
Babel is attempting to have Man focus on his own achievements, consolidation, and kingdom.
Do we serve the kingdom of God or the kingdom of Man?
- geneology up until Abram
For sake of time, we are specifically going to look at the interactions between Abram/Abraham and God.
Call of Abram 12:1-9
God Calls Abram to leave his country (wander??)
God gives a promise to bless and make him great.
Through him all the families of earth shall be blessed
Abraham obeyed v4
Curse of canaan prophesied to be fulfilled v6-7
Abram built an altar
Abram continued wandering
Summary between the covenants
Genesis continues to recount the journeys of Abram
Abram says Sarai isn’t his wife because he is afraid of dying, so sarai gets married off and other nations cursed until repentance
Lot and Abram separate
Abram rescues Lot
Abram is blessed by Melchizadek
21 And the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the persons, but take the goods for yourself.” 22 But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted my hand to the Lord, God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth, 23 that I would not take a thread or a sandal strap or anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’ 24 I will take nothing but what the young men have eaten, and the share of the men who went with me.
Abram is trusting that his riches will come from the promise of God
God’s Covenant with Abraham 15:1-19 - What is their conversation?
God assures Abram of his reward
Abram asks God, does it matter if you give me much if I don’t have an heir?
God assures Abram of his promise to a lineage, and the success in his offspring.
Abram had faith/believed, and it was counted to him as righteousness v6
The Lord makes a promise regarding the land. v7
Abram questions, how do I know? V8
Ancient Covenant ritual set up (draw out) v9-11
The Lord gives Abram details regarding his promises and how they will come to pass v12-15
The Lord explains why Abram is not going to take the land promised to him yet. v16 (sin of amorites is not yet complete)
The covenant is affirmed v17-21
What does this tell us about God?
God promised to fulfill the covenant on both sides. He will fulfill our end of the bargain as well as his.
God will assure us of his promises
We are called to have faith in God
We are allowed to ask questions and it is okay to want affirmation
Summary between the covenants
We have sarah and hagar controversy
Covenant of Circumcision (optional) 17:1-14
God appears to Abram
God says walk before him and be blameless so that we can have a covenant and be multiplied v2
Abram falls on face in reverence
God establishes covenant with abram and renames him abraham
Promises blessings and power to come from you
Promises of covenant between offspring of Abraham and God forever (everlasting)
God requires that offspring of Abraham be circumcised as sign of the covenant
Anybody not circumcised will be cut off from the covenant
(if time permits can go into how baptism is a continuation of the covenant vs disp is god works differently)
Summary between the covenants
God promises to bless son of Sarah
Angels visit Abraham to foretell of the coming of Sarah’s son.
God is going to destroy Sodom
Abraham intercedes for Sodom
God rescues Lot & destroys Sodom
Lot’s daughters get him drunk to conceive children
Abraham lies about Sarah as his wife again
Isaac Born
Hagar and Ishmael cast out and protected by God
Sacrifice of Isaac
God calls abram to take Isaac and offer him as a burnt offering
Abraham obeys
Abraham prepares altar
Isaac asks where the lamb for the offering is v7.
Abraham tells Isaac God will provide for himself a lamb
Most scholars see this as a faith in God that he will provide - as he always has
Abraham binds Isaac to alter (he must have been thinking what am I doing?!)
Angel prevents Abraham from killing Son
Ran caught in thicket/thorns
Ram sacrificed
God will surely bless Abraham v17 (surely bless remind us of anything?)
Blessing affirmed.
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