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Introduction
Over the next 3 weeks we are going to take some time to find Jesus in the midst of the Old Testament.
This week we find Jesus in the creation story.
As many as have read the creation story is as many people that have had some objection.
I think we need to establish the floor for our thinking.
Let’s see how this fits.
Jesus was present in Creation.
I’m going to stay away from a verse that many point to regarding the Creation
Genesis 1.26 uses a “kingly” reference by using us.
This is a huge topic in itself and maybe next year in the winter we can completely discuss...
Here is that verse...
Genesis 1:26 (ESV)
26 Then God said, “Let [US] make man in our image, after our likeness...”
This probably is not a reference to the Trinity and an Old Testament appearance of Jesus.
When God is seen in the Old Testament it is called a
Theophany - A visible appearance of Christ in the Old Testament.
Because according to Exodus 33 we cannot see God and live
So...
Most scholars put all of the “I saw,” “he sat,” “I heard Him say” in the category of aTheophany.
Let me give you a couple of examples.
from the New Testament.
Paul is absolutely clear that Christ was present at Creation.
Here is another
“His voice...”
“His form...”
So today’s message is primarily from the Creation story primarily found in Genesis but the echoes of that Creation appear all throughout the Old and New Testaments.
Today we are focusing on the earliest parts of the Old Testament.
The first 5 books
So the books of the Pentateuch are:
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
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BIG QUESTION: Why does it matter if Christ is in Creation?
Before we make that big leap of answering the BIG QUEStion, Let’s see where Jesus appears.
Here is one to get us started
Genesis 1:3–4 (ESV)
3 And God [SAID] , “Let there be light,” and there was light.
4 And God [SAW] that the light was good.
And God separated the light from the darkness.
A “formless” person does NOT speak or see.
These are probable Theophanies.
For some people..
Genesis 1:26 (ESV)
26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness...”
Here is another in the story of the coming Patriarchs.
This “Angel of The Lord” was a Theophany.
The Son in this case, as the second person of the God-head is labeled as the “Angel of the Lord.”
Christ is seeking out the fleeing and disheartened Hagar.
This reveals the Gracious care that God provides
The Grace that we experience, that we benefit from is from God!
Grace - Is defined as God’s favor towards the unworthy.
In His grace, God is willing to forgive us and bless us, despite the fact that we fall short of living righteously.
Here is how God delivered it
God’s Grace is delivered by Jesus even in the depths of the Old Testament
So God is without form… But yet they “heard the sound of the LORD God or Yahweh walking...
This is a Theophany...
There was some form… had to be Jesus that Adam and Eve where hiding from before God started all missionary work...
“Where are you?” - Of course God knew where they were, he wanted Adam and Eve to confess and repent and to be “right with God.”
God’s Grace — His unmerited favor is established firmly in the Old Testament.
God delivers Grace by The Son, Jesus.
Here is a reminder for you
BIG QUESTION: Why does it matter if Christ is in Creation?
POINT #1 - The Grace that we experience is from God, Through Jesus.
You know where we all would be without the Grace of God… Dead in our trespass, “between and rock and hard place” “Up a creek without a paddle.”
and the many more way to describe it.
Most are PG but some verge on R.
And Finally...
Christ belongs in Creation.
He saw the Graceful way that God the Father treated the few and chose to make that available for EVERYONE!
There are 182 passages in the Bible that highlight the Grace of God.
Most of those passages you can clearly see the actions of God in the Old Testament and Jesus and His disciples acts in the New Testament
God could have treated in any way that He pleases we are HIS creatures… God Chose to be gracious to us!
The Grace of God was delivered to us, as an opportunity to partake in the Gospel.
Jesus ultimately acted with Grace towards us when He willing went to the CROSS.
To freely accept the burden that was waiting him them.
POINT #2 - The Grace that God delivered in the Old Testament through Jesus forms the foundation of The Gospel in the New Testament.
The Gospel...
The Gospel is an announcement of The Good News.
In particular, The Gospel is that Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection have brought about salvation for the world.
The world got started in bad way even if we don’t understand the big picture of God.
The two that he sent made a choice and sinned
One of the original children of Adam and Eve murdered his brother.
And the list goes on...
God stayed true His Word as he saw the patriarchs raised from “no standing” to become the foundations that the world still exists firmly planted where we belong!
This was accomplished by God’s Grace and Mercy found throughout the Old Testament.
BIG QUESTION: Why does it matter if Christ is in Creation?
So… Does it matter that Christ is or is not in creation
POINT #3 - Christ forms the foundation of the activities of God within the whole of scripture.
Within the New Testament
1Tim3.16
And I’ll just add… In Eternity!
As we look back from our present view we see Jesus and all of acts both in the New and Old Testaments.
In the Old Testament
Jesus physically held back the hand of Abraham from sacrificing his son.
We need to know that without Jesus… Our faith is no different than those who worship at the foot of an unknown God.
Jesus… God with skin on came to earth, humbled himself as a baby and a child.
Grew into His role as King, Preacher and Savior and left the earth in the hands of his followers.
Someday he will return… we don’t know the day or the hour, but his day is coming!
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