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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:
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.
PARADISE
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
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
Statement — Adam choses Eve over God.
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.
Statement — The entire human race is now guilty, and in judging Adam & Eve, God judges the entire human race.
PROMISE
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
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
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
#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
If / Then promises of blessings/cursings (conditional covenant)
Motive for Obedience is Love
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:
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
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
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
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
#4 — Son of David
SOLOMON’S SON, REHEBOAM RAISED THE TAXES, AND SPLIT THE KINGDOM
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
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
[VIRGIN BORN, GOD WITH US]
[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
#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
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