Genesis-post

Christian Students on Campus will be covering Genesis this semester in our Thursday night Ministry Series!

We’ll be looking at the big picture of God’s purpose presented in chapters 1-9. These few chapters take us all the way from the blueprint of God’s purpose before the need of redemption, to its fulfillment, in type, in the kingdom of God. We’ll see how Genesis ch. 1-2, especially, is a revelation of God’s eternal purpose, God’s central thought, and the controlling hermeneutic we should bring to the Bible in interpreting and understanding its message.

Here is Arthur W. Pink on the importance of Genesis:

The third chapter in Genesis is one of the most important in all the Word of God. What has often been said of Genesis as a whole is peculiarly true of this chapter: it is the “seed-plot of the Bible.” Here are the foundations upon which rest many of the cardinal doctrines of our faith. Here we trace back to their source many of the rivers of divine truth. Here commences the great drama which is being enacted on the stage of human history, and which well-nigh six thousand years has not yet completed.

Here we find the Divine explanation of the present fallen and ruined condition of our race. Here we learn of the subtle devices of our enemy, the Devil. Here we behold the utter powerlessness of man to walk in the path of righteousness when divine grace is withheld from him. Here we discover the spiritual effects of sin- man seeking to flee from God. Here we discern the attitude of God toward the guilty sinner. Here we mark the universal tendency of human nature to cover its own moral shame by a device of man’s own handiwork. Here we are taught of the gracious provision which God has made to meet our great need. Here begins that marvelous stream of prophecy which runs all through the Holy Scriptures. Here we learn that man cannot approach God except through a mediator.

—Gleanings in Genesis, p. 33

This series will include the following topics:

  1. Creation in Christ for the Fulfillment of God’s Purpose
  2. The Experience of Christ as Life Portrayed in Genesis 1
  3. God Creating Man in His Own Image for His Expression
  4. Dominion- Subduing the Enemy, Recovering the Earth, and Exercising God’s Authority over the Earth
  5. The Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
  6. The River of Water of Life
  7. The Type of Eve as the Counterpart of Adam
  8. The Serpent, the Woman, and the Seed of the Woman
  9. Abel, Enosh, and Enoch
  10. Noah- the Life and Work that Can Change the Age
  11. A Seed of the Church Life and a Shadow of the Kingdom

Be sure to check out our podcast for audio downloads. We’ll be updating it all semester with full length messages and also short topical downloads.

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