back to indexWednesday Bible Study: Foundations of Redemptive History (Session 10) - 11/19/2025
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If we can make our way to our seats and just take a moment to just prepare our hearts before we go into a time of praise. 00:10:09.420 |
That we would meditate and really sing these lyrics to you as an act of worship from our hearts, knowing that, God, you are worthy of all our praise. 00:10:17.600 |
And we are just so thankful for just who you are and your holiness and just your kindness, God, towards us, Lord. 00:10:26.560 |
And so, I pray that, and we are in the same way, amen, and we are in the same way, amen. 00:12:06.360 |
Pouring out the riches of Your glorious grace 00:15:10.580 |
His Word will not fade His promises shall never fail 00:15:25.580 |
Faithful He has been Faithful He will be Time and time again His Word returns complete 00:15:39.580 |
To His truth I claim When the night is deep Faithful He has been Faithful He will be 00:15:54.580 |
God is gracious When I doubt He draws near though I retreat 00:15:55.580 |
God is gracious when I doubt He draws near though I retreat 00:15:55.580 |
God is gracious when I doubt He draws near though I retreat 00:15:57.580 |
God is gracious when I doubt He draws near though I retreat 00:15:57.580 |
God is gracious when I doubt He draws near though I retreat 00:16:01.580 |
God is gracious when I doubt He draws near though I retreat 00:16:05.580 |
God is gracious when I doubt He draws near though I retreat 00:16:06.580 |
God is gracious when I doubt He draws near though I retreat 00:16:12.580 |
God is gracious when I doubt He draws near though I retreat 00:16:16.580 |
God is gracious when I doubt He draws near though I retreat 00:16:18.580 |
God is gracious when I doubt He draws near though I retreat 00:16:19.580 |
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God is gracious He draws near though I retreat 00:16:25.580 |
God is gracious He draws near though I retreat 00:16:26.580 |
God is gracious He draws near though I retreat 00:16:28.580 |
God is gracious He draws near though I retreat 00:16:29.580 |
God is gracious He draws near though I retreat 00:16:30.580 |
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God is gracious He draws near though I retreat 00:16:35.580 |
God is gracious He draws near though I retreat 00:16:36.580 |
God is gracious He draws near though I retreat 00:16:36.580 |
God is gracious He draws near though I retreat 00:16:38.580 |
God is gracious He draws near though I retreat 00:16:39.580 |
God is gracious He draws near though I retreat 00:16:45.580 |
God is gracious He draws near though I retreat 00:16:46.580 |
God is gracious He draws near though I retreat 00:16:47.580 |
God is gracious He draws near though I retreat 00:16:48.580 |
God is gracious He draws near though I retreat 00:16:49.580 |
God is gracious He draws near though I retreat 00:16:50.580 |
God is gracious He draws near though I retreat 00:16:51.580 |
God is gracious He draws near though I retreat 00:16:52.580 |
God is gracious He draws near though I retreat 00:16:53.580 |
God is gracious He draws near though I retreat 00:16:54.580 |
God is gracious He draws near though I retreat 00:16:55.580 |
God is gracious He draws near though I retreat 00:16:56.580 |
God is gracious He draws near though I retreat 00:16:56.580 |
God is gracious He draws near though I retreat 00:16:58.580 |
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God is gracious He draws near though I retreat 00:17:13.580 |
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God is gracious He draws near though I retreat 00:17:16.580 |
God is gracious He draws near though I retreat 01:07:15.340 |
I think most people are back in the room, so let me pray and jump in. 01:07:22.020 |
Father, we thank you for this evening and thank you for just the last 10 weeks of studying through material that some people may have already known. 01:07:30.500 |
And many of us, Lord God, is wrestling through for the first time. 01:07:34.620 |
I pray that all that we've learned would, that we would be able to retain and have a better grasp of redemptive history and what you are doing, Father God, even now. 01:07:50.100 |
So we'll save the overview at the end before you guys get into your small group. 01:07:55.440 |
Basically, going over chapter 10 and 11, if you see, it starts with the genealogy or at least the descendants of Noah, then three parts, the Jephthah, Ham, and Sham. 01:08:06.820 |
And so because there's so much name, if you get into the nitty-gritty of all this stuff, sometimes you're going to miss what's the point. 01:08:17.500 |
So give me an idea, like some of you guys who, you know, discuss in your group. 01:08:25.520 |
All these names and their descendants and what is it conveying, like overall, other than just facts? 01:08:59.540 |
So a lot of these names, like we may not be familiar with, but I guarantee they did, right? 01:09:06.000 |
They knew exactly who these descendants were. 01:09:08.780 |
They're mentioned for a reason because this is for the people who are looking at this. 01:09:29.080 |
The land that they're covering, so it's kind of connected to the nations. 01:09:36.980 |
Where did the spreading of the languages come from? 01:09:40.140 |
So basically, if you look at the broad picture, these are some major things that he's covering. 01:09:45.620 |
It may be a little bit lost to us, but we may have to dig through archaeology and history, 01:09:53.220 |
and then you can kind of connect the dots of why he's there. 01:09:55.360 |
But when he first wrote this, they would have known exactly what this is, right? 01:10:07.760 |
So remember, chapter 1 through 11, it's what? 01:10:15.080 |
So this is the beginning of all these nations. 01:10:17.220 |
So from Genesis chapter 1 through chapter, what, 10, 11, like up to the Noah's flood, 01:10:25.100 |
it would have been general information that they would have known, 01:10:29.820 |
But as they get closer to Abraham, they would have known 01:10:32.360 |
that these are the very specific names that they were using, right? 01:10:36.440 |
A lot of the names that are prior to that, they may not have known, 01:10:38.960 |
but these are names that they would have known, okay? 01:10:40.960 |
And so this is how, if you look at where they spread out, 01:10:46.540 |
this is kind of, generally speaking, how they spread out. 01:10:50.060 |
So Japheth, his descendants are the ones who end up going out to Europe 01:10:55.980 |
or that area, and then they're spreading further out. 01:11:01.660 |
And then Asia, which includes Middle East, is Shem, which is the covenant, okay? 01:11:08.820 |
And so if you look at where that dot is, that's where the Tower of Babel would have been, 01:11:15.860 |
So again, if you go into the details, and I'm not assuming that you would have known this, 01:11:22.200 |
but if you go into the details, that's kind of how it fares out. 01:11:30.420 |
So let me just quickly go over some of the significant names of Japheth and why these names would have been important. 01:11:42.240 |
They appear in Daniel's prophecy, Magog appears in Ezekiel 38 and 39, Revelation 20, at the end times. 01:11:48.960 |
And then Tubal and Meshach appears in prophecies, and again, Ezekiel 27 and 38. 01:12:02.520 |
And the significance of Japheth's descendants is that that's the line where the Gentile nations, majority of the Gentile nations are formed. 01:12:13.640 |
Fulfilling 927 is where Japheth will be enlarged, right? 01:12:17.880 |
And he has the greatest number of descendants that are mentioned, okay? 01:12:22.340 |
Significance of the names of Ham's descendants. 01:12:32.620 |
They appear in 1 Kings and Chronicles and Isaiah. 01:12:36.120 |
Nimrod, the son of Cush, first empire builder. 01:12:40.820 |
Here, his descendants are the ones who create the city of Babel. 01:12:45.580 |
And then later on, on the bottom, the city of Nineveh, the capital of Assyria. 01:12:50.900 |
And then Mizraim, a Hebrew word for Egypt, and that's the father of Egypt. 01:12:56.180 |
One of Israel's biggest historical opponents. 01:12:59.660 |
And then Castlehem, from where we get the Philistines, Genesis 10, 14. 01:13:06.580 |
And then they're the ones that dominate judges and kings. 01:13:12.440 |
This is the nation that majority of the names here would have been very familiar with the Jews when they first read it. 01:13:20.480 |
Then we go to the direct descendants of Canaan. 01:13:25.400 |
Okay, so some of you guys who are a bit more familiar with Old Testament history. 01:13:29.200 |
Most of these names you probably would recognize. 01:13:33.660 |
They appear in, oftentimes, in the prophetic writings. 01:13:41.340 |
You probably would have remembered that, maybe. 01:13:50.260 |
This is the nations in Canaanites, where they were going to directly go and fight against these nations. 01:13:56.320 |
So the descendants of Canaan are the ones that Moses is preparing to fight. 01:14:00.940 |
These guys on the left, Cush's descendants, they were historic. 01:14:07.000 |
Even after they go into the promised land, they still are enemies. 01:14:10.000 |
But right now, the reason why this is highlighted, and why Canaan's descendants are described as cursed, right? 01:14:18.200 |
Is because they're the ones that they're going to have to overthrow, right? 01:14:21.540 |
And so when God tells the nation of Israel, when you go into the promised land, don't touch anything, because it's all under a ban. 01:14:28.260 |
And the word ban in Hebrew basically means under God's curse, right? 01:14:32.780 |
Nothing in there is to be touched, and that's why Saul gets into trouble, right? 01:14:36.740 |
Or not Saul, Israel gets into trouble, because they go in there, and they begin to get greedy, and they begin to touch stuff. 01:14:43.740 |
And this is all the descendants, and so basically God is saying everything in this line is cursed, okay? 01:14:49.440 |
So from this line comes the Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Assyrians, right? 01:14:56.480 |
All the big nations that end up challenging Israel. 01:15:00.420 |
And then Shem's descendants is the covenant line. 01:15:08.080 |
Elam, where we get the Elamites, mentioned in Genesis 14. 01:15:13.080 |
Asher is the father of Assyrians, a group responsible for the exile in the northern kingdom. 01:15:22.380 |
And there's where we, the line of where the Aramaic language comes from. 01:15:29.360 |
And Eber, this is the line where Abraham comes from, at least that's what it says here. 01:15:35.500 |
Peleg says, in his days the earth was divided, and most likely it was during Peleg's time where the Tower of Babel happens. 01:15:42.940 |
And the Joktan is the father of the 13 Arabian tribes. 01:15:46.240 |
So Shem's line carries the promise, the Hebrews, and ultimately Abraham, Israel to Christ. 01:15:52.840 |
And so this is the line where, again, at the end of chapter 11, it gives us a detailed outline until it gets to Abraham. 01:16:02.060 |
So it's a lot of names, but again, don't miss the big picture of it. 01:16:06.280 |
The big picture of it is, one, it's preparing Israel for war with the Canaanites. 01:16:10.800 |
It's describing the history of where they came from. 01:16:24.400 |
And so, you know, there's a, even right now in the Middle East, and that's the big fight. 01:16:30.100 |
Like, who was here first, who was there first? 01:16:32.660 |
If you're a believer in God, ultimately, man doesn't own land, right? 01:16:38.020 |
You don't own the land just because you were there, because there's somebody always before you. 01:16:42.980 |
So this shows you, at least the nation of Israel, that God is the one who placed them there. 01:16:48.940 |
So the ownership comes from God, and this is, these are the people who went there first, okay? 01:16:54.560 |
Again, so why would this be important for the nation of Israel? 01:17:04.000 |
They don't possess land yet, and God promised them land. 01:17:07.080 |
So he's giving, basically, a history of how the nations got their land, right? 01:17:15.980 |
Ultimately, if God gives you and say, I'm going to put you here, that's their land, right? 01:17:20.180 |
Some of the most theological names, significant names in here, Nimrod, founder of Babel, Babel, the origin of Babylon, 01:17:30.580 |
Asher, Assyria, Miserum, Egypt, Canaan, Eber, Peleg. 01:17:34.800 |
But the main point is, to the right, these seven names explain world empires, Israel's enemies, God's plan for the nations, origin of language, and dispersion, and the covenant lines protection. 01:17:49.820 |
So these two chapters covers this right side. 01:18:02.080 |
God's plan for nations, what is God's ultimate plan for them? 01:18:05.040 |
Where did these languages come from that caused them to be divided? 01:18:10.160 |
And then God's covenant line, that he's going to be faithful to his promise. 01:18:14.380 |
So the big picture is summarized in these five things. 01:18:25.880 |
And the Tower of Babel, as significant as this story is, there's only a few verses that mention this. 01:18:38.720 |
In Genesis 11, 3-4, they said to one another, 01:18:41.220 |
Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly. 01:18:43.980 |
And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. 01:18:47.060 |
They said, Come, let us build for ourselves a city and a tower whose top will reach into heaven. 01:18:52.040 |
And let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth. 01:18:57.200 |
So, what was so wrong about this, that they wanted to gather together and make a big tower? 01:19:05.060 |
You can yell out, whatever question, answer you have. 01:19:44.760 |
So if you notice the language here, it says, Come, let us. 01:20:05.220 |
So as soon as they gather together, what do they do? 01:20:18.660 |
That's mentioned, that Matthew mentioned, is part of the creation mandate is be fruitful, 01:20:27.940 |
One is they're using all the technology, and it begins by saying that they started learning 01:20:33.580 |
how to make bricks, and then they used the tar as mortar, and so their technology is advancing, 01:20:38.360 |
and instead of using that to worship and glorify God, they're using that to exalt themselves, 01:20:45.180 |
And then in order to exalt themselves, they have to stay together, right? 01:20:48.400 |
Where do you see this curse being reversed in the Bible? 01:20:59.080 |
All the nations are gathered together, the apostles are praying and preaching, and they hear in their 01:21:07.220 |
So it's the curse of Babel being reversed in the Holy Spirit, right? 01:21:14.320 |
Here they're judged, and then they're scattered. 01:21:19.840 |
There they're gathered together, and then they also scatter, but why do they scatter? 01:21:25.040 |
Because of persecution, judgment of men, right? 01:21:29.800 |
And so they take the blessing of God, the gospel, and they begin to go, basically obeying God's 01:21:36.880 |
mandate, to go and be fruitful, multiply, and fill the land, but now they're doing it in 01:21:44.080 |
So this scene, if you read this, and you read the Pentecost, you can see the parallel between 01:21:52.400 |
So all of this that happened, the man was scattered, right? 01:22:02.820 |
Christian, non-Christian alike, atheists, theists alike, one of the goals of humanity is what? 01:22:28.820 |
I mean, you could be a Christian, atheist, whatever nation you're from, you say world 01:22:35.080 |
It's just that how do we attain world peace is going to be different, right? 01:22:39.840 |
But world peace is like you could, universities say you want to be together, we want to be 01:22:49.780 |
See, if you look at the Bible, they're gathered together, they're united, they're speaking the 01:23:05.800 |
Just because people are together are not fighting, right? 01:23:12.160 |
And he didn't look at these people gathering together and say, oh, look at them getting along, 01:23:16.380 |
speaking the same language, they're working together, they're building a huge tower. 01:23:24.680 |
They go right back to their rebellion, right? 01:23:29.480 |
And so if you think about humanity who's pursuing world peace without God, ultimately is rebellion 01:23:39.120 |
World peace can only be had when the king of peace is on his throne. 01:23:43.620 |
And only then can there be war of peace, right? 01:23:47.180 |
And everything else is human arrogance in rebellion against God, even if it's in the name of peace, 01:24:00.080 |
And this happens, obviously, in a worldwide, in a national setting, but even with us. 01:24:04.540 |
How much of what we pursue when we say peace and grace and love is ultimately for God or is it for us? 01:24:14.860 |
And a lot of times in the name of peace, we end up doing much more damage when Christ is not at the center. 01:24:24.200 |
When God is king over us, over the church, over us individually, right? 01:24:28.800 |
You don't have peace just because you're not fighting. 01:24:30.740 |
You don't have peace because everybody is together, right? 01:24:34.440 |
You get a bunch of sinners together and try to be united, it's just a matter of time it blows up. 01:24:51.020 |
The Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. 01:24:57.060 |
They all have the same language and this is what they began to do. 01:25:00.340 |
And now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them. 01:25:03.900 |
So if you think about this, on the surface, it may seem like God is jealous, right? 01:25:12.140 |
Oh, and we don't want them to have what we have, only we can get the glory, right? 01:25:16.020 |
But the problem that he is seeing here is not that they're united, it's what they're doing with their unity, right? 01:25:23.140 |
It said, Lord, behold, they are one people and they have the same language and this is what they began to do. 01:25:30.680 |
It wasn't because God is jealous or he's, you know, he's threatened by the unity of, oh, they're going to become like us. 01:25:37.540 |
It's just that when they have the power with sin, what happens? 01:25:41.940 |
The whole American government system is based on the gospel. 01:25:50.940 |
All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, right? 01:25:54.700 |
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. 01:26:00.000 |
And that's why you have three branches of government to keep accountability, right? 01:26:04.660 |
Because it's based on the fact that when you give power to, too much power to one person, then it has a tendency to corrupt. 01:26:12.480 |
That's why there's checks and balances, right? 01:26:16.920 |
All right, I don't want to go off, but this is one of those passages that people go, oh, didn't God scatter because he was, he was kind of concerned that he didn't want mankind to be like him. 01:26:26.540 |
The purpose, the point of it was not the unity. 01:26:28.800 |
But in fact, God always calls us to unity, right? 01:26:36.240 |
So that's something that I think, especially in modern day where people get confused, where if we're Christians and we believe that Christ is king, unity, unity for the sake of unity is rebellion against God. 01:26:52.900 |
You can only have unity with people where Christ is king, right? 01:26:59.840 |
I hope you understand what that means, that paradigm, because that, if you don't understand that paradigm, you get confused thinking that God's ultimate goal for mankind is everybody getting along. 01:27:12.360 |
Everybody loving each other, you know, there's no judgment, you know, just, would you believe this and I believe that? 01:27:19.320 |
Biblical unity is when Christ is king, right? 01:27:31.260 |
And then I just wanted to show you this because this is another version of what we saw earlier about the degradation of humanity, where Shem begins and he lives 600. 01:27:42.060 |
And you can see each year goes by, they're living less and less. 01:27:48.140 |
For us, 175 years is still a lot, but now, drastically, the years that they're living is reduced. 01:28:00.020 |
So, for the next five minutes, I want to kind of see how much of this you've retained, okay? 01:28:05.780 |
What was the main question that Moses was trying to answer in writing Genesis? 01:28:35.480 |
That's the central question that's being answered. 01:28:43.240 |
Why is there territorial, you know, why are we oppressed? 01:28:46.620 |
And so Moses is basically preparing a nation of Israel to go battle the enemies, the Canaanites. 01:29:04.540 |
There's a phrase that repeated over and over again. 01:29:18.840 |
That was the point that he was trying to make. 01:29:33.600 |
That just, that, again, you have to, you have to understand from that period of time to say male and female and emphasizing male and female is paradigm shifting. 01:29:44.160 |
As much as people think that, oh, that's being oppressive because we don't have female leaders and all that. 01:29:49.040 |
The Bible is, because if you live in a society where, if you live in a society where, if not influenced by scripture, whoever is more powerful dominates. 01:30:03.380 |
If you live in a sinful culture where there is no restriction and you play out, right, a sinful culture, whoever has the most power ends up dominating. 01:30:14.540 |
And they suppress and violate the ones who don't. 01:30:17.620 |
The only reason why women don't get dominated in Western Christian culture is because the scripture doesn't allow it. 01:30:26.580 |
So, this feminism idea of thinking that somehow Christianity oppresses women is complete the opposite of creation history. 01:30:43.820 |
And so, he says everything was created that was good. 01:30:46.840 |
And then chapter two is humanity and gives the creation mandate. 01:31:00.940 |
And then the curse comes in, in chapter three. 01:31:05.880 |
So that men are going to have a hard time just working, you know, is going to produce thorns and thistles. 01:31:12.600 |
And then this is where he says, at the end of all of your hardship, death comes. 01:31:16.100 |
Women come in and they are created to be a suitable helper. 01:31:20.580 |
But the contingent is going to be with the husband. 01:31:22.560 |
She's created so that she can help be fruitful, multiply, but she's going to bear children in pain. 01:31:29.080 |
But in the midst of all of this, God makes a promise to see that the woman is going to come and crush the head of the serpent. 01:31:35.820 |
And then so now we begin to see, after he makes that promise, starting from chapter four, we see the lines. 01:31:47.680 |
And Cain and Abel come out and their first fruit is what? 01:31:52.880 |
And then so curse comes into Cain and his line. 01:31:57.720 |
Cain and get pushed out further out from the Garden of Eden. 01:32:02.040 |
And then so we see the trouble that's coming in. 01:32:05.680 |
And then so we see that basically it's telling us where sin is happening and why sin is multiplying. 01:32:13.300 |
Then we get to chapter five and it gives us genealogies of people and we see their days. 01:32:20.640 |
And their days are getting shorter and shorter and shorter. 01:32:25.640 |
And at the end of multiplication, in chapter six, it says, sons of God, marry the daughters of women. 01:32:34.820 |
Basically, it says, as the increase of number is happening, what's happening? 01:32:38.400 |
Wickedness is increasing with the number of people. 01:32:42.800 |
It's not getting, because the sin is not in the system. 01:32:49.620 |
So if the man increases, there's greater sin. 01:32:53.040 |
And I know some of you guys thought I was joking. 01:32:55.980 |
When there's a lot of people, if you go to cities, there's more sin. 01:33:03.960 |
But wherever there's a concentration of people, there's more sin. 01:33:18.740 |
And then he prophesies about what's going to happen. 01:33:47.680 |
So creation mandate is repeated in chapter 9. 01:33:54.260 |
And he makes a covenant and reminds them through the rainbow that this is not going to happen again. 01:34:00.120 |
But basically, it mimics the covenant that he made in creation. 01:34:06.840 |
Except this time, the judgment is not going to come this way. 01:34:16.420 |
But as soon as Noah, just as Adam and Eve have their children, 01:34:19.460 |
the first thing that we see is a murderer comes in this court. 01:34:22.420 |
First thing that happens, they come out of the boat. 01:34:32.060 |
Except the difference now is that as judgment is coming in. 01:34:39.460 |
And Tower of Babel causes them all to be scattered. 01:34:42.320 |
And this is where all the nations are coming from. 01:34:44.080 |
The seed of the woman line is becoming much more clear now. 01:34:49.960 |
Where before it was kind of in the mix of all these people. 01:35:04.060 |
So 11 chapters of giving us the beginning of where this all begins. 01:35:08.560 |
And then when Abraham comes in, Abraham becomes, basically becomes the star from that point on. 01:35:18.400 |
So my hope is, I'm not going to have you all repeat all of this, that if you can at least have in your mind, just from memory, repeat what I said. 01:35:29.700 |
Then you have a good grasp of the beginning of Genesis. 01:35:30.480 |
Then you have a good grasp of the beginning in Genesis. 01:35:33.600 |
Now, as we go on, starting from chapter 12, it's not going to be as detailed. 01:35:37.400 |
Some chapters are going to have a lot more detail than others. 01:35:46.760 |
We can probably have a year, two years, just in the first three, four chapters of Genesis. 01:35:50.840 |
But we took a plane, just so that you have a deeper understanding of how we are getting to where we're getting. 01:35:59.240 |
So it leads to, this is where Abraham comes from. 01:36:07.420 |
And starting from chapter 12, starting from, I think it's early February, when we get into, starting from chapter 12. 01:36:14.980 |
Obviously, we're going to get straight into it. 01:36:16.460 |
And then, God's covenant and what he's trying to do in the seed of the woman is going to become clearer and clearer and clearer until he comes. 01:36:25.620 |
Where we see a broad picture, seed of the woman, Abraham's descendants, right? 01:36:31.240 |
The 12 tribes, the tribe of Judah, and then the king. 01:36:35.720 |
And so, that's why, if you look at the book of Luke, right? 01:36:44.640 |
A lot of the genealogy that you saw are in Luke's genealogy. 01:36:47.820 |
So, next time you go to Luke's genealogy, go back and see how many of these names you recognize. 01:36:51.660 |
Because they're in the line that we just studied. 01:36:58.080 |
In what way does our desire to make a name for ourselves creep into our pursuit? 01:37:02.300 |
How can we discern if what we are pursuing is for God's glory or ours? 01:37:07.180 |
If that's the repeated theme of man's rebellion, right? 01:37:13.520 |
Whether it's as a nation, whether it is as a church, or individually. 01:37:19.320 |
How much of your frustration is because you're not being recognized? 01:37:28.580 |
You want to be somebody, but you're not achieving it. 01:37:31.480 |
And if the core of human rebellion is this, how much of this actually plays a role that 01:37:39.220 |
Number two, what stood out to you the most in the study of Genesis 1 through 11? 01:37:45.200 |
What's something you learned that you did not know at the start of the study? 01:37:48.800 |
I'm guessing that almost everybody should have something. 01:37:51.960 |
I actually took a class on Genesis and wrote several papers in Genesis and a bunch of stuff 01:37:59.400 |
Like, I feel like I benefited more than you did. 01:38:01.920 |
So, I'm pretty sure if you did, you know, you put any time in it, there's something in here 01:38:08.820 |
How did the study of Genesis help you understand better who God is and who you are and the rest 01:38:18.100 |
And what did you learn about redemptive history in general? 01:38:21.400 |
And then, what are some applications that you made in thinking back to the last 10 years? 01:38:26.440 |
Let me pray for us and then I'll let you go to your small group. 01:38:35.140 |
Lord, there's still so much that we do not fully understand. 01:38:40.200 |
And help us, Lord God, to be students of your word so that all of our thoughts, 01:38:45.440 |
our feelings, our joy, what is right, what is wrong, Lord God, would not be dictated by 01:38:50.680 |
our life circumstance or our opinion or our prejudices, but that you would help us not 01:38:57.440 |
to conform to the pattern of this world but be renewed by the living, by your living word. 01:39:02.320 |
So, I pray that you would bless this time in our small group and that the discussions would 01:39:06.720 |
help solidify what we know and that it would make an impact, Lord God, in how you shape us. 01:39:13.820 |
We thank you, Father, in Jesus' name we pray.