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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
God's Redemption Started in the Garden
"We start out saying, 'If God were really a good God, He would not keep from me the things I want.' So we go on our own way to get those things and get hurt in the process. Then we blame God for the pain and in our anger we lash out at Him, 'Why did God let this happen to me?' It all starts with a question: 'Why won't God give me this?' And it ends with a question: 'Why did let this happen to me?' These are the effects of the fall of man.
God did not intend to leave man lost and hopeless. From the very beginning He had a plan. His first revelation of that plan is in Genesis 3:14-15. "And the Lord God said to the serpent, 'Because you have done this, Cursed are you more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly shall you go, And dust shall you eat all the days of your life; And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise Him on the heel."
This is the first promise of the Savior, the Messiah. What the Lord God describes here is the work of the cross, where Satan would bruise the heel of Jesus Christ, but Jesus Christ would smash the head of the serpent. Sin is the barrier between God and man. At the cross, Jesus Christ would remove the barrier and open the door to God so that anyone could have freedom to approach God by faith in Him. The rest of the of the Bible is an account of God keeping the promise He makes here.
"And the Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them." (Gen. 3:21)
God's clothing of Adam and Eve is the first Biblical picture of redemption. A guiltless animal is sacrificed to provide a covering for sinful man. In accepting the covering, Adam and Eve acknowledge that they are helpless to bridge the spiritual separation from God that their sin has brought into the world.
Though they are helpless, they are still free, and they exercise their freedom this time by choosing to look forward in faith to the coming of the promised Redeemer." -Exert taken from "The Basics," by Gene Cunningham
God did not intend to leave man lost and hopeless. From the very beginning He had a plan. His first revelation of that plan is in Genesis 3:14-15. "And the Lord God said to the serpent, 'Because you have done this, Cursed are you more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly shall you go, And dust shall you eat all the days of your life; And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise Him on the heel."
This is the first promise of the Savior, the Messiah. What the Lord God describes here is the work of the cross, where Satan would bruise the heel of Jesus Christ, but Jesus Christ would smash the head of the serpent. Sin is the barrier between God and man. At the cross, Jesus Christ would remove the barrier and open the door to God so that anyone could have freedom to approach God by faith in Him. The rest of the of the Bible is an account of God keeping the promise He makes here.
"And the Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them." (Gen. 3:21)
God's clothing of Adam and Eve is the first Biblical picture of redemption. A guiltless animal is sacrificed to provide a covering for sinful man. In accepting the covering, Adam and Eve acknowledge that they are helpless to bridge the spiritual separation from God that their sin has brought into the world.
Though they are helpless, they are still free, and they exercise their freedom this time by choosing to look forward in faith to the coming of the promised Redeemer." -Exert taken from "The Basics," by Gene Cunningham
Friday, February 4, 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Making Sense of Your Life
Francis Chan returns to Cornerstone Church after doing mission work in China and India. Powerful testimony of what God is doing around the world. Also, if we believe the Bible, what should our lives look like?
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