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Foundational Themes in Genesis - Study 37
Study Aired February 20, 2014
All in the first Adam were made subject to vanity, and all flesh is still completely under the process of corruption in the hand of the Potter. This is the physical and spiritual state of the first 'vessel of dishonour [an... [read more]
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The theme of generations runs throughout this book of beginnings or origins, namely Genesis. 'Genesis' is a Greek word for 'generation' or 'origin', and the equivalent Hebrew word 'toledaw' appears 13 times in Genesis alone (Gen 2:4, Gen 5:1, Gen 6:9 (2), Gen 10:1, Gen 10:32, Gen 11:10, Gen 11... [read more]
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12 years ago
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Foundational Theme in Genesis - Study 34
The generation of the first fleshly Adam is a shadow of the true generation whom God is using to bring forth in the last Adam, Jesus Christ (Mat 19:30). The flesh and all outward things also serve as an adversary or opposition to our spiritual developmen... [read more]
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12 years ago
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Foundational Theme in Genesis - Study 33
The natural is our first experience, and through this natural we learn so much about God's spiritual works in the generation of the first Adam (1Co 15:46, Rom 1:20). However, everything in the physical is just a shadow of the spiritual, meaning God is us... [read more]
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The theme of blood is foundational to our understanding of the work of Christ in the generation of the first Adam. The Bible has been called 'the book of blood' because of this particular theme running through it. Killings and shedding of blood make the Scriptures unattractive to the natural man w... [read more]
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God's unveiling of Jesus includes the progressive unmasking of the man of sin (the first man Adam) by the brightness of His coming in spirit and truth in us (2Th 2:1-8;1Co 15:45). It is through the natural (or 'the first') that we can understand and be "seated" in the invisible spiritual things of... [read more]
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12 years ago
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Foundational Themes in Genesis - Study 29
The foundation of earthy man was built on sand as God made it from "the dust of the ground", which is a temporary dwelling for all in the first Adam (Gen 2:7, Mat 7:26-27). This Adam was given a body of sin and death which reflects the spiritual condition... [read more]
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12 years ago
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Foundational Themes in Genesis – Study 26
Jesus said these words which reveal the depths of spiritual darkness in our natural hearts which is the "darkness... upon the face of the deep" (Gen 1:2):
Mat 6:23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light... [read more]
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12 years ago
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Foundational Themes in Genesis - Study 25
Not one person in the generations of the first man Adam can be separated from the love of God, not even the nakedness of flesh with all its inherent evil as created by the Potter (Isa 45:7, Jer 18:4, Rom 8:20):
Rom 8:35 Who shall separate us from the lo... [read more]
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12 years ago
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Gen 3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves [Hebrew: chaba] from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
Gen 3:9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
T... [read more]
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12 years ago
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Psa 119:160 Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
Genesis is a book of firsts, and all the great themes of the Bible have their origins in Genesis. The first major theme that is revealed in this chapter is that God is the cause or reaso... [read more]
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12 years ago
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When the eyes of Adam and Eve were opened after their disobedience to God's commandment, they discovered that their flesh was naked and not suited for the holy presence of God. They hid themselves from God, and like all natural minds, they came up with what seemed good and right in their own eyes ... [read more]
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