The Bible's Big Picture
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PREFACE STATEMENTS:
About CoBeAc
Camp CoBeAc, which is a named derived from three words — come, believe, accept, is situated a couple of miles from Houghton Lake, and was started by a group of Baptist churches in 1959. Today, the camp owns 600 acres of land, and can house 500 people in its cabins. Every year, over 3000 people come to Camp CoBeAc for camps, retreats and conferences as hundreds of churches utilize Camp CoBeAc to help serve His Church through His Gospel for His Glory.
Family Camp
We had a great time together as a family. I can’t say that the week was a relaxing one, but it was definitely a change of pace. The best part was the preaching sessions, which we enjoyed in the morning and in the evening. We were challenged and refreshed by the preaching of God’s word, and I can’t think of a more profitable way to spend a family getaway.
Today’s Sermons
One thing that was hanging over my head the entire time was today. We rushed to pack up VBS last Sunday night, we quickly packed Monday morning, and we returned home from Family Camp yesterday afternoon. There was little to no time for study and preparation during the week, and I knew I had to be able to preach to you this morning and tonight.
So, with that need in mind, I asked God to use the preaching sessions during the week to challenge me personally, but also to impress upon my heart what lessons and truths I could adapt and share with you. And that’s exactly what He did. So this morning, and this evening’s messages are both adapted from messages that were preached to me, and were a blessing to me. They are by no means verbatim, I’ve tweaked them and condensed them, and so on and so forth, I’ve made them my own. But the idea for the messages today came from the sessions I enjoyed during the week, and I hope that these truths are as much a help to you as they were and are to me.
Adapted from Pastor Dwayne Morris of Calvary Baptist Church
Introduction:
Introduction:
When we study the Bible, we often do it in sections, or snippets. We break it down by book, or chapter, or verse. All of our Sunday School classes, in order to fit a subject into a quarter, will usually teach one principle, or one book, or one topic.
But the Bible is not a collection of short stories, it is one complete story that starts at Creation and ends with Eternity. If we are not careful, we can forget that we have been given by God a complete story of the universe. That we have all of the answers that men are trying to explain — where do we come from? where does human life get its value? where do we get morality from?
There is a myriad of worldviews and religions out there that try to do what only this story can — reveal God’s master plan for the universe — and that plan is Christ.
And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
PARADISE
PARADISE
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Statement — Adam and Eve had fellowship with God, and the world was a paradise.
Statement — In His creation, God instilled man with the ability to choose, and in giving him that ability, God gave man a choice to make — choose Obedience to God, or choose Sin (disobedience to God)
WARNING
WARNING
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Statement — God did not leave the man and woman uninformed, He laid it all out for them, their decision was not going to be one of ignorance at all.
Note: the phrase “thou shalt surely die” is in hebrew, literally, “and dying you shall die.” Death would be the pervasive force in their lives should they disobey. One preacher put it, “you will die in many ways, or die a thousand deaths.”
PARADISE LOST
PARADISE LOST
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Statement — Adam choses Eve over God.
For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
Statement — In this moment, the entire human race became guilty of disobeying God, became complicit in this sin, because the entire human race, in this moment, committed this crime against God.
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Statement — The entire human race is now guilty, and in judging Adam & Eve, God judges the entire human race.
PROMISE
PROMISE
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.
Statement — And from this moment in the story on, we are left asking, “Where is the Son of the Woman?” Every name, every character, every list of descendants, we are always asking, “Is this that Son of the Woman?”
#1 — Son of the Woman
#1 — Son of the Woman
Statement — The rest of Genesis confirms the sinfulness of humanity. Sin and violence reign supreme, through to the flood, then to the tower of Babel, all are sinners, all men, no matter how faithful, are also flawed, and all of them ultimately die.
THEN THE FOCUS SHIFTS TO ABRAHAM, AND GOD BUILDS A NATION.
ABRAHAMIC COVENANTS
ABRAHAMIC COVENANTS
Statement — the story of Abraham is a story of the promises of God
Land Covenant of Israel
Abraham’s Descendants would become a great nation
Blessing and Cursing Promise
Universal Blessing through a descendant
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
#2 — Son of Abraham
#2 — Son of Abraham
FROM ABRAHAM WE MOVE TO JOSEPH — JOSEPH TAKES US INTO EGYPT — EGYPT PRODUCES A NEED FOR MOSES — MOSES IS GIVEN THE LAW — AFTER WANDERING IN THE WILDERNESS GOD RAISES UP JOSHUA — JOSHUA REAFFIRMS THE LAW OF MOSES
MOSAIC COVENANTS
MOSAIC COVENANTS
If / Then promises of blessings/cursings (conditional covenant)
Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day: And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
Motive for Obedience is Love
Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
A substitutionary sacrifice is necessary for sin
Statement — The giving of the law was filled with sacrifices. Bulls, and goats, and lambs, all being sacrificed because of sin. Israel was commanded to teach the Law, and all the facets of it, diligently to their children. And as that little lamb would be slain for the passover, that lamb that all the children had grown so very fond of, God gave them an answer:
King James Version Chapter 12
And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? 27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD’s passover
#3 — Substitutionary Sacrifice
#3 — Substitutionary Sacrifice
Statement — The problem of sin had to be solved…and God promised it would be…so a once for all sacrifice would have to be made...
JUDGES
JUDGES
WE ARE STILL LOOKING FOR THE SON OF THE WOMAN, THE SON OF ABRAHAM
Statement — The book of Judges, full of heroes, yet still we see 300 years of Israel’s downward spiral into idolatry and sin. Not one of these judges is the Son we are looking for. Every man is doing what is right in their own eyes.
Statement — The book of Judges chronicles “the Canaanization of Israel.”
UNITED KINGS
UNITED KINGS
Saul — no heart for God
David — whole heart for God (yet flawed)
Solomon — half heart for God (too many ladies — 1000 ladies (wives + concubines) that’s 999 too many)
Davidic Covenant
And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.
#4 — Son of David
#4 — Son of David
SOLOMON’S SON, REHEBOAM RAISED THE TAXES, AND SPLIT THE KINGDOM
DIVIDED KINGS
DIVIDED KINGS
Northern Kingdom had 19 kings over a period of 200 years, none of them good
Southern Kingdom had 20 kings over a period of 350 years, some good, but all sinners
THE NATION JUDGED
THE NATION JUDGED
North Destroyed by Assyria (Ninevites)
South carried away captive to Babylon
IT WAS DURING THE TIME OF THE KINGS THAT GOD RAISED UP PROPHETS, WHO SPOKE OF THE MESSIAH TO COME
PROPHETS
PROPHETS
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign;
Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son,
And shall call his name Immanuel.
[VIRGIN BORN, GOD WITH US]
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:
And the government shall be upon his shoulder:
And his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God,
The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
[THE SON IS THE MIGHTY GOD! THE SON IS THE EVERLASTING FATHER!]
[THIS PROMISED SON WILL BE THE MOST UNIQUE INDIVIDUAL THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN!]
Born of a virgin
Mighty God
Everlasting Father
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
#5 — Son of God
#5 — Son of God
AFTER THE PROPHETS, GOD DOES NOT SPEAK AGAIN FOR 400 YEARS. AND THEN, WE COME TO THE BOOK OF MATTHEW — WHICH STARTS WITH THAT DREADED GENEOLOGY…BUT LOOK AT IT IN LIGHT OF THE WHOLE STORY...
MATTHEW
MATTHEW
MATTHEW
MATTHEW
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
[ IS THE FULFILLMENT OF — EMMANUEL HAS COME!]
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
JOHN
Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
NOW THE ANTICIPATION HAS REACHED IT’S HIGHEST POINT — THE SON IS JESUS!!! IT’S JESUS!! WE SEE IT EVERYWHERE IN HIS LIFE, IT’S HIM, IT’S REALLY HIM!
AND THEN...
CRUCIFIXION
CRUCIFIXION
IMAGINE THE DISAPPOINTMENT OF A DISCIPLE — “I though he was the one…but he’s dead. If he died, how could Jesus be that king whose throne lasts forever??
AND THEN...
RESURRECTION
RESURRECTION
And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
JESUS IS...
JESUS IS...
Son of the Woman
Son of the Woman
Son of Abraham
Son of Abraham
Son of David
Son of David
Son of God
Son of God
Substitutionary Sacrifice
Substitutionary Sacrifice
CHURCH AGE
CHURCH AGE
What are we doing now??
Jesus does not set up His kingdom, He ascends
Jesus gives the great commission
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
This is God fulfilling His promise to Abraham, that through His Son, all the nations of the earth would be blessed, and Christ’s church is carrying that blessing, the gospel, to all nations
We also have the opportunity to be transformed in our life and our character through the work of Christ
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
That’s what God is doing now, and we get to be part of it!
FUTURE
FUTURE
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
PARADISE RESTORED
PARADISE RESTORED
Final Remarks
Final Remarks
That story makes sense of this reality the way no other worldview can! It explains the pain, the death, the suffering. It explains life and purpose, all of it! None of the other worldviews can do that!
This story is the ONE AND ONLY STORY
THIS IS YOUR STORY
Where you came from
Where you are going
Embrace it by faith — believe the gospel — trust Jesus Christ for Salvation — and live in service of Him.
HOW DO YOU FIT INTO THE STORY?
WHAT IS YOUR ROLE IN GOD’S MASTER PLAN?
ARE YOU PLAYING A PART?
EVERYTHING FALLS INTO PERSPECTIVE WHEN WE STEP BACK AND CONSIDER THE BIBLE’S BIG PICTURE