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God Wrote a Book

God made us to know Him. He chooses to primarily reveal Himself to us through His Word.

• “God continues to reveal himself today, and the primary way he reveals himself is through the divinely inspired, inerrant, and authoritative Bible. The Bible is uniquely and solely God’s completely trustworthy revelation to us today. Scripture is the court of highest authority for Christians and their leaders, by which any alleged revelation from God is to be tested.” – Doctrine written by Mark Driscoll & Gerry Breshears

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The Holy Bible

The English word Bible comes from the Greek word biblia, meaning “books.”

• Although the Bible has many books, it is really one book- one continuous story- with two distinct parts or “testaments,” from the Latin word testamentum, meaning “oath” or “covenant.”

• 66 Books in The Bible

o 39 Old Testament (originally written on papyrus)

o 27 New Testament (originally written on parchment)

• Written in 3 languages

o Hebrew

o Greek

o Aramaic

• Written over the span of 1500 years

• Written on 3 continents

o Asia

o Africa

o Europe

• Written by over 40 “authors”

o Kings, peasants, philosophers, fishermen, poets, statesmen, a doctor and scholars.

• The Bible consists of history, sermons, letters, songs, love letters, geographical surveys, architectural specifications, travel diaries, population statistics, family trees, inventories and legal documents.

(All of these facts about the Bible are amazing but they are not what makes the Bible Holy. The power of the Scriptures is that they are God speaking His truth to us in human words. The Word of God in the words of men.)

The Story

• Creation

o Genesis 1-2

• Rebellion

o Genesis 3-Malachi 4

• Redemption

o Matthew - John

• New Creation

o Acts - Revelation

It’s All About Jesus

The message of the Bible is that Jesus Christ is the one sent by God- the one prophesied by the prophets and witnessed by the apostles; the one sent to die for our sins- to forgive us and to save us; the one sent to reconcile us with God the Father- and also with each other.

The Word of God reveals The Word in Flesh

• God Reveals Himself

o John 1:1-14 – In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. 8 He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.

9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.

14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

• They Testify of Him

o John 5:39-40 – 39 You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life.

• It’s Jesus Throughout

o Luke 24:27 – 27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

▪ (give OT examples: promises, types, titles…)

We look for answers and find Jesus!!

2 Corinthians 1:20 – 20 For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God.

• Love = Jesus

o 1 John 3:16 – 16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.

o Romans 5:8 – 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

• Eternal Life = Jesus

o John 3:16 – 16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

• Forgiveness = Jesus

o Acts 13:38-39 – 38 “Therefore, my friends, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. 39 Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses.

• Freedom = Jesus

o Galatians 5:1 – It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

• Peace = Jesus

o Romans 4:25-5:2 – 25 He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.

5 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God.

• Belonging = Jesus

o 1 Corinthians 12:12-14 – 12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by[c] one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.14 Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.

• New Creation, Reconciliation, Purpose, Righteousness = Jesus

o 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 – 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

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