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The Big story!
Posted by Phil in Bible, Old Testament, covenant on September 3, 2010
I have found what must be the shortest telling of the Big Story of the Bible over at 9marks.
It is part of an Article on 'How does Hell glorify God'. Anyhow, here is the big story:
THE BIBLE’S BIG STORY
The Bible’s plot, like all plots, has a beginning, middle, and end.
Beginning
God creates a perfect place and puts an innocent man and woman in it. God sets the terms and clearly states the consequence of transgressing his terms. An enemy lies to the innocent woman. She believes the lie, breaks God’s terms, and the man sins with her. God curses the enemy and initiates the consequences of transgression, cursing the land also. In the curse on the enemy, God states that the seed of the woman would strike the enemy’s head, while the enemy would strike the seed’s heel. The man and woman are then banished from the perfect place.
Middle
Humanity has been divided into two groups: the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, the righteous and the wicked. The seed of the woman are initially a subset of the nation of Israel, a line of descent that God has chosen to bless. They experience a re-do of the plot’s beginning. God puts them in a land of promise and sets the terms. They transgress the terms and are banished from that land, but God continues to promise that the enemy will be defeated even though it will be through a painful purging of the seed of the woman.
Then Jesus comes as the promised seed of the woman. He crushes the enemy’s head, with the enemy striking his heel—he dies on the cross. Because he is innocent and has resisted all temptation, death cannot hold him. He triumphantly overcomes death, satisfying God’s wrath against sin and opening the way of salvation for all who will trust him.
End
Creation will be like a woman in childbirth suffering labor pains, with the wicked viciously attacking the righteous, who trust God and testify to God’s truth until they are killed. This will continue until Jesus comes again. When Jesus comes again, he will judge the wicked and consign them to everlasting punishment, and he will take those who believed the word of God and the testimony of Jesus into a new, better, perfect place.
Read the whole article here: http://www.9marks.org/ejournal/how-does-hell-glorify-god
Read The Bible!!! Pt 2
If you were in church this previous Sunday, can you remember
what the sermon was about? What passage of the bible was
it based on? what has this to do with reading the bible? well
Paul said to Timothy "devote yourselve to the public reading
of scripture,to extortation, to teaching2 1 Timothy 4:13 (esv).
After reading this I now realise I need to pay more attention
to what is being read and preached on from the bible in the
sermon. Even if the sermon is boring I can at least think
about what has been read from the bible, or maybe Iam not
listening with the right attitude!
God gave teachers, to equip the saints (ephesians 4:12,13) maybe we need to start paying
more attention this coming Sunday?
Read The Bible!!!
Those of us who are christians know we should read the bible,as I once read
to read it, to understand it, to obey it, or as the apostle Peter says,"long for the
pure spiritual milk that by it you may grow up into salvation 1 Peter 2,2(esv).
Job says that he "treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of
food" Job 23:12
For to many years,far to many I am ashamed to say,I read the bible because
it was what I felt I should do as achristian,not always to understand it much
less to obey it. I have learned that I need to have the same heart attitude of
Peter and Job if I am to read the bible regularly and to obey it.
If you have this attitude great if not "cry out for this nourishment" 1 peter 2,2(nlt)
and read and pray through Psalm 119. But remember that the goal is to read it,
to understand it, to obey it.
Do we strip God of His sovereignty!
The total sovereignty of God. I like this guys video's, here we have RC Sproul excerpts from a conference (04). I love this talk myself.. at the end of the video there is Horatius Bonars' hymn ''Not what my hands have done can save my guilty soul" I have put the words to the Hymn below the video.
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight." (Ephesians 1:3-9 ESV)
"We love because he first loved us". (1 John 4:19 ESV)
What an amazing awesome grace, an amzing grace that shone upon a sinner like me 
anyhow, make a cup of coffee sit back and listen to the video.
Not what my hands have done can save my guilty soul;
Not what my toiling flesh has borne can make my spirit whole.
Not what I feel or do can give me peace with God;
Not all my prayers and sighs and tears can bear my awful load.
Your voice alone, O Lord, can speak to me of grace;
Your power alone, O Son of God, can all my sin erase.
No other work but Yours, no other blood will do;
No strength but that which is divine can bear me safely through.
Thy work alone, O Christ, can ease this weight of sin;
Thy blood alone, O Lamb of God, can give me peace within.
Thy love to me, O God, not mine, O Lord, to Thee,
Can rid me of this dark unrest, And set my spirit free.
I bless the Christ of God; I rest on love divine;
And with unfaltering lip and heart I call this Savior mine.
His cross dispels each doubt; I bury in His tomb
Each thought of unbelief and fear, each lingering shade of gloom.
I praise the God of grace; I trust His truth and might;
He calls me His, I call Him mine, My God, my joy and light.
’Tis He Who saveth me, and freely pardon gives;
I love because He loveth me, I live because He lives.
Horatius Bonar.
Soli Deo Gloria
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I though I would share this email I got today with you all.
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R.C. Sproul & John MacArthur Debate Baptism
R.C. Sproul & John MacArthur Debate Baptism.
Infant baptism or believer's only baptism? For the past two days on Renewing Your Mind, Drs. R.C. Sproul and John MacArthur have discussed their views on the Biblical meaning and mode of Christian baptism. Dr. MacArthur presents the credo-baptist position and Dr. Sproul presents the historic paedo (infant)-baptist position. Listen in as these two friends discuss a historic doctrinal divide.
I have not had a chance to listen to any of these myself yet… But, I will tonight. should be good.