Doctrine 1 – Unit 8

The God Who Saves

Marks of Creation?

- Dependant

- Good

- Reliable

- Christ Centered

- God Glorifying

Recap

Genesis 2:16-17, 3:12-13, 3:14-19, 21

Why did God show grace in the midst of his judgment on sin? What was at stake if He didn’t?

And so from Gen 3 the purposes of God’s salvation to restore the glory of his name begin to unfold…

The God who saves?

What pattern do we discover in:

Genesis 6:6, 7,13 8, 18 9:1-7

Judges 2:10-13 14-15 16 18

Isaiah 5:1-4, 7 5:5-6 37:31-36 57:13-19

God works in patterns of salvation

Sin Judgment Grace Rule

The nature of the Old Testament

A model of God’s People in God’s Place under God’s Rule?

COAT HANGER DIAGRAM

OT Salvation History

Break

Atonement?

Tabernacle?

Kingship?

OT Salvation Structures (Typology)

Adam (Gen 3:15)

Abraham (Gen 12:1-3)

Moses (Deut 18:15)

David (2 Sam 7)

Isaiah (Is 53:5-6)

Jeremiah/Ezekiel (Jer 30:30-31)

Jesus Christ – Every promise is yes in Him!

1 Timothy 1:15

1 John 4:10

1 Peter 3:18

Mark 10:45

What other messages misrepresent the gospel today?

New Testament testifies to Jesus

A young preacher asked an older minister what he thought of his sermon. He gently replied that he didn’t like it because he did not see that Christ was in the text. But the young preacher explained, “I did not see Christ in the text.” The minister replied…

Don’t you know, young man, that from every town, and every village, and every hamlet in England, wherever it may be, there is a road to London…So from every text in Scripture, there is a road to the metropolis, Christ. And my dear brother, your business is when you get to a text, to say, now what is the road to Christ?…I have never yet found a text that had not got a road to Christ in it, and if I ever do find one…I will go over hedge and ditch but I would get at my Master, for the sermon cannot do any good unless there is a saviour of Christ in it.

- C H Spurgeon

Ephesians 2:18-22

God’s People Today

So how were Old Testament believers saved from sin?

Assignment:

How does Jesus fulfill the Old Testament theme of salvation? (1000 words)

Reading

Unit 9 – The God who rules history

Extra Mile:

Digest the handout - Overview of the Bible: A Survey of the History of Salvation

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