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 Redemptive History is the unfolding of God's plan of salvation in history

. This level of hermeneutic recognizes the present work within its redemptive-historical context. Thus, at this level one takes into careful consideration all that has come to pass thus far in the Biblical story of redemption, and all that will come after, according to the rest of the canon of Scripture. The Old Testament leads to Jesus. It promises it, and one should not be surprised about the things Jesus is saying and doing. One must understand the Old Testament before they can even begin to understand the New Testament because they are linked. The Old Testament leads to the New Testament and everything unfolded in the Old Testament first. The idea that redemptive history is both organic is very much evident. Progressive basically means that there is a sense of development in the history of revelation. It is not just everything happens at once. The organic process is from seed-form to the attainment of full growth. We do not say that in the qualitative sense that the seed is less perfect than the tree. The feature in question explains further how the sufficiency of the truth could belong to it in its first state of emergence: in the seed-form, the minimum of indispensable knowledge was already present. The gospel was first show, in its smallest form, in Genesis 3: (14-) 15 right before Adam and Eve are going to be kicked out of the Garden. It promises Jesus' coming and satanic deliverance. In 3:15, God promises that there will be a son who comes to conquer over Satan. In Genesis 15:4, God promises that the child is going to be the head of a great nation. As one progresses through history, it becomes more clear and specific. In 2 Samuel 7:12-16 it talks of zerah (seed, used for the child/heir in Hebrew) being God's son. Zerah will be his son and he will sit on the throne for all eternity and be a great king. This leads to the lineage of David. With the judgment it talks about, he will be punished because he takes on the word's sin and he is suffering for the sake of others and he is eaten with the rods of men, just as the verse says. In Isaiah 9 it goes into detail as to what zerah is supposed to be, an everlasting father, prince of peace, etcetera. In Isaiah 42, it goes even further developing how the zerah is going to be a suffering servant. In Galatians 3:16, Paul explains the seed and understands the zerah word and he knows they are talking about the same thing in all of the Old Testament verses. The promise he refers to is Genesis 3:15. So in being organic, the same thing exists from beginning to end, but in being progressive it also develops along the way. The redemptive historic hermeneutic is going through everything and seeing it unfold through history, One example would be the offering of Isaac by Abraham. Isaac is an offering out of obedience. In the New Testament, Jesus is doing exactly that. Jesus is offering himself as a sacrifice for the people out of obedience. The story is foreshadowing the events to come in the future. "Only God's revelation could maintain a drama that stretches over thousands of years as though they were days or
 hours. Only God's revelation can build a story where the end is anticipated from the beginning, and where the
 guiding principle is not chance or fate, but promise. Human authors may build fiction around a plot they have 
devised, but only God can shape history to a real and ultimate purpose." -Clowney The unfolding mystery. The purpose of God's plan of salvation is the main theme running throughout scripture. Salvation, however, is not the end of the story. Just as we are saved from something, we are saved to something. "The cross is portrayed as the central event in history." -Wilkinson. A question that arises is does scripture warrant to read the Bible in this manner? The answer is yea, because scripture supplies is own hermeneutic in Luke 24. Another aspect of the redemptive historical context is the inclusio. An inclusio is when a story ends the same way that it begun. For example the tree of life is mentioned in Genesis 2:9, which is the beginning and then again in Revelation 22:1-5, which is the end. It begins and ends in the same fashion. We are designed to worship in both settings; the tree of life is in both settings, but then in Genesis, Adam and Eve sin and then get kicked out. But it starts with worship and ends with worship. Once they get kicked out, the whole Bible is about how God is going to bring his people back to worship, and that is by sending his son to die and save us and then we are able to go to heaven in the end and it is a life of worship. 
 We are saved to worship God and enabled to worship Him. 





In Genesis 1:1-2 the world goes from being full of nothingness to being something. It goes from void to fullness. In the first three verses discuss the expanses that were there, the next three verses, four though six, gave the bodies that were to govern over those expanses. In verse one there was light and darkness, in verse four the sun, moon, and stars were given to rule over the day and the night. In verse two there was sky and water. In verse five the fish and the birds were given to fill the sky and that water. Then, finally in the third verse the trees and the plants and the land were there, and in verse six the animals and the man were given. The man was given to rule over the land and over creation. Man is a ruler. In the Suzerain-Vassal treaties of the Old Testament there is always a lesser king and a greater king. The greater king in this situation is God, the lesser king is man. There are several steps within a suzerain (the greater king) -vassal treaty (the lesser king). The first step is the preamble, which establishes who the greater king is. Second step is the historical prologue. This discusses why the great king is the great king in comparison to the lesser king. The third step lists the stipulations of the treaty, which are basically the requirements of it. The fourth step is the documentary clause, which states that there needs to be two copies. The fifth is witnesses. People must witness the treaty. The sixth is sanctions, basically, if one do not do this, the greater king will kill the lesser king. It is the consequences that will happen if one does not keep the stipulations of the treaty. The seventh and final step is the ratification ceremony. This is the sign given in order to show that a covenant was being made. It made the whole covenant official. To give an example of how this is relevant in the Bible, a suzerain-vassal treaty is given in Genesis 1:1-2:3. The preamble is stated in Genesis 1:1. The historical prologue discusses who the great king and the lesser king are. God is established as the great king and man as the lesser king. The stipulations, on the man's part, are that he is to have lots of kids and rule over the earth. The documentary clause is that man is God's own image (not only so that he can be established as the lesser king, but also so therefore he is the second copy. When God said, let US make man in OUT own image, he was establishing witnesses. The sanctions of this treaty are that if the man is to eat of the tree than he will die. Life if the reward for keeping the covenant, and Adam and Ever get kicked out, because they broke the covenant, hence to do not get the rewards. If God let them eat from the tree of life, they would have to life forever in their fallen life, so he kicks them out of the garden in order to redeem them. Kicking them out is an act of grace on God's part. The first covenant was to keep God's word and then they will get life. The treaty and the covenant of works are basically one in the same. In the treaty, God tells Adam and Eve that if they do not eat from the tree than they get life, and if they do then they will die. The covenant of works states the same thing. He promises them life, until they mess up. Then, moving on, in Genesis 3:15, God gives them a covenant that tells that someone will come and give them freedom from Satan, that someone will be one that comes from their line. When Adam and Ever have Cain, they think that he is the child that God was talking about. The child comes to keep the original Genesis covenant, to give the people the tree of life. He is there to keep the fist covenant that God made with man. The only way he will keep the promise of defeating Satan Is to do all the work that is involved in the original covenant. The new child will come and fulfill the covenant Adam could not and give the people the tree of life. The only way that they would get the tree of life is by dying: if they tried to get to the tree of life in the garden, there is a cherubim who has a sword and they will die if they try. The only way to get to the tree of life is to die. This directly points and foreshadows the New Testament, the gospel, and Jesus, who died in order to get us to the tree of life. If Adam was created under the first covenant, Jesus is born under that first covenant. Adam had to work to keep the covenant of works, Jesus also had to. But it is by Jesus' works we are saved, hence the covenant of grace. The covenant of grace still exists for all of those in the world today.



The covenant of works is a covenant established with God and his people that requires work on the end of the people. It is saying, if you do this then you get this, but if you don’t, then you will suffer these consequences. A covenant of grace on the other hand, is a covenant that God establishes with his people that requires no work on their part; it is solely an extension of God's grace and love to them in the form of a promise. When Adam and Eve were in the garden, God had one rule for them. He told them that they were not to eat of the tree of life, and if they did that they would suffer consequences. In this case, Adam and Eve had rule over the land and the creatures; their only rule was that dealing with the tree. This covenant is made with the people in Genesis 2. God explicitly states that they are not to eat of the tree. The man was placed in the garden to work it and take care of it. Hence, the covenant of works was established. In Genesis 3:15 God tells the He will put "enmity" between the woman and the serpent; and also between her offspring and the serpent. At this point in the passage, one might need to take into account that the word offspring can be replaced with the word seed, or zerah. This, as discussed in the first essay, leads directly to Jesus and his development and story throughout the Bible. Eve is the mother of all humanity; all life came through her. Jesus therefore is one of her "offspring." In God saying that He would put enmity between the serpent and Eve's offspring, it can be taken to mean that there will be enmity between Jesus and Satan. As for the covenant with Abraham, God tells him that He will make him the father of many nations. God also tells Abraham that kings will come forth from him. Jesus fulfills both of these covenants. When Jesus was born, he was the one who was going to fulfill the promise that God made that someone was going to come and crush Satan. He was the one who would rid him for good. As for Abraham, the promise made to him was that he would be the father of many nations and would have kings come from his line, Jesus was the ultimate king. Jesus came from Abraham's line.

more exo.deut essays

In Genesis 1:1-2 the world goes from being full of nothingness to being something. It goes from void to fullness. In the first three verses discuss the expanses that were there, the next three verses, four though six, gave the bodies that were to govern over those expanses. In verse one there was light and darkness, in verse four the sun, moon, and stars were given to rule over the day and the night. in verse two there was sky and water. In verse five the fish and the birds were given to fill the sky and that water. Then, finally in the third verse the trees and the plans and the land were there, and in verse six the animals and the man were given. The man was given to rule over the land and over creation. Man is a ruler. In the Suzerain-Vassal treaties of the Old Testament there is always a lesser king and a greater king. The greater king in this situation is God, the lesser king is man. There are several steps within a a suzerain (the greater king) -vassal treaty (the lesser king). The first step is the preamble, which establishes who the greater king is. Second step is the historical prologue. This discusses why the great king is the great king in comparison to the lesser king. The third step lists the stipulations of the treaty, which is basically requirements. The fourth step is the documentary clause, which states tat there needs to be two copies. The fifth is witnesses. People must witness the treaty. The sixth is sanctions, basically, if one do not do this, the greater king will kill the lesser king. It is the consequences that will happen if one does not keep the stipulations of the treaty. The seventh and final step is the ratification ceremony. This is the sign given in order to show that a covenant was being made. It made the whole covenant official.



-SEE PLANNER OCT 14 for the chart establishing man as the LK-


God=GK
Man=LK because he is given command/govern over all things on earth

Preamble: Gen 1:1
Historical prologue: who GK and LK are....established as God and man
Stipulations: have lots of kids, rule over the earth
Documaentary Clause: man is God's own image(not only so that he can be established as the LK but also)....so therefore he is the second copy
Witnesses:let US make man in OUR image.....hence, witnesses
Sanctions:If you eat of the tree...you will DIE
Ratification Ceremony:

tree of life is reward for keeping the covenant and adam and eve get kicked out so they can't have it, because they didnt keep the covenant. If God let them eat from the tree of life, they would have had to live their life forever in their fallen life, so he kicks them out in order to redeem them. The kicking them out is an act of grace on God's part. FIrst covenant: keeop my word and you will get the tree of life. Gen 3:15-->God gives covenant: someone will come and give you freedom from satan, someone you will give birth to(like eventually, from your line) hence, Eve=mother of all life

When they have cain they think that the 'recieved' the child that God was talking about, the redepmtion from satan.

The child comes to keep the original gensis one covenant....to give the people the tree of life....he is there to keep the first covenant. The only way he will keep the promise of defeating satan is to do all the work that is involved in the original covenant. The new child will come and fulfill the covenant that adam could not and give the people the tree of life.

The only way you can get to the tree of life is by dying: if you try to get to the tree of life in the garden is through the cheribum who has a sword...you will die...if you try...so the only way to get to it is to die....DUN DUN DUN...the NT...the gospel...Jesus died in order to get us to the tree of life.

Romans 5:12-14

If adam created under first covenant, Jesus is born under that first covenant...adam had to do work to keep covenant, jesus had to also. By JESUS' works we are saved.

Genesis chapter one is theology

and again i get to use this to rite my papers

How would you feel if you were not allowed to be anywhere near those you loved. You had to be banished from the city and sent to live with a whole bunch of other people that were banished too. You were known as "dirty" and "untouchable" and "repulsive." No one wanted to be near you. That's exactly what the case was for those who had leprosy. Leprosy is a skin disease that is highly contagious and that has serious and permanent damage to the body, like the loss of fingers and the like. In the Bible times, these people were required before they came anywhere near anyone to shout, "Unclean! Unclean!" that way people knew that they were approaching and could get out of the way so they didn't catch the disease. But Jesus was different. He didn't run from the lepers. Today we're going to look at a passage in Matthew that talks about an encounter that Jesus had with one of many lepers of His time.

When he came down from the mountain, great crowds followed him. And behold, a leper came to him and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, if you will, you can make me clean." And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, "I will; be clean." And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. And Jesus said to him, "See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a proof to them."

One of the first things we notice is that when Jesus came down from the mountain, there was "great crowds" following him. This shows that Jesus was a very popular person. People had heard of what he had done, and came to see him. He wasn't just another guy on the street, people knew of him and wanted to see him in person. Even though there was a large crowd, that doesn't necessarily mean that all of those people were there out of discipleship, most were probably there due to curiosity as to whether or not the things they had heard were really true. In this story, Jesus gives them something to see.

First things first, the leper came to Jesus. In the passage, it does not mention anything about the leper announcing his coming presence like the law stated that he had to. The people that were gathered, i would image were freaking out. If someone that was "repulsive' and had a really contagious disease came running through the crowd, most would react by running away, but Jesus didn't. At this point, the leper kneels before Jesus. To kneel before someone shows respect, reverence, royalty. The leper knows of what Jesus can do, and seems to know that he is to be revered. When the leper says the Jesus, "Lord, if you are

CLFM: tues 11.20.07

Prayer

Benefits of a prayer life
1. Removes the habit of self-reliance and cynicism
2. Engages out will with God's and God's purpose
3. Conforms our hearts and attitudes to Christ's
4. Builds our faith and makes spiritual world real
5. Trains us in hearing and knowing God's voice

Qualities of healthy communications
1. It is two way
2. It respects the other
3. It is intimate and honest

Five ways o pray
1. Basic prayer
2. Praying the pslams
3. Memorized or written prayers
4. Ignatian prayer of Examen
5. Centering prayer

Five guides to discernment
1. The Holy Spirit
2. Scripture
3. The Christian community
   -Both recipient and the filter for discernment
   -Provides important checks and balances
   -A community that seeks God together
     -must be "safe"
     -Must be challneging
     -Members need to be honest
4. Reason and Experience
   -John Cassian's tests for weighing options
5. Solitude and silence
   -noise shuts out the voice of God

CLFM: tues 11.13.07

Spiritual Disciplines

-Unhurried life is key to the spiritual disciplines

1. Be intentional about time
   -Ortberg: "Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart."
   -Matt 6:21- For where your treasure is, there our heart will be also."

2. Slow down

3. Reclaim the gift of Sabbath rest

4. Be interruptible

What are spiritual disciplines
-"Any activity within our power that we engage to enable us to do what we cannot do by direct effort...they are designed to help us withdraw from total dependence on the merely human or natural ....and to depends also on the ultimate reality, which is God and his kingdom." -Dallas Willard
   -an ongoing lifestyle choice
   -not an end to themselves
   -become a regular part of your routine
-Purpose: to create opportunities for God to work
-Goal: freedom to do something you can't do now
   -training for a future need

Ortberg
1. Discipline of engagement
   -Help us reconnect with the kingdom
2. Disciplines of abstinence
   -Help us remove entanglements that hold us back
omission: sinning by not doing something---use engagement
commission: sinning by doing something---use abstinence

Foster
1. Inward disciplines:
   -Meditation
   -Prayer
   -Fasting
   -Study
   -Secrecy (Matt. 6:1-6)

2. Outward
   -Simplicity
   -Solitude
     -"Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us." -Ortberg
     -Mark 6:30-32: "He said to them, 'Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves & rest a while'"
   -Submission
   -Service
   -Chastity

3. Corporate Disciplines
   -Confession
   -Worship
   -Guidance
   -Celebration
   -Fellowship

-Why have a practice of studying the Bible
   -Col 3:16-17: Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; teach and admonish one another in all wisdom; and with gratitude in your hearts sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
   -Scripture is power of God to transform and shape us
   -As you grow in reading scripture you grow in knowing the heart of God.

Five ways to read the Bible

1. Inductive Bible study method
2. Lectio divina-meditating on scripture
   -"selah" in the Pslams (means to pause....slow down)
     -Ortberg: "the goal is not to get through scripture-but to get scripture through you"
     -Pslam 18-the message
3. Discuss
4. Memorize
5. Imaginative reading?

CLFM: thurs 11.8.07

Finding your purpose and design

Vocation
   -"he place wher your deep gladness meets the world's deepest need" -Frederick Buechner
   -Root meaning-"to call"

Distinctives of the Christian understanding:
   -Not just your job but your career
   -Called to act out God's reconciliation in this world
   -Includes our relationship with Christ, how we live it out
   - A lifelong journey, not a one-time event

Partnering with God to accomplish God's purposes
1. God is always at work around you (x. 2:23-25)
   -Key question: Where are you at work God?
3. God's invitation to work with Him often leads you to a crisis of faith (ex. 3:11, 4:1, 10)
   -Question: Will i trust Him and step out in faith?
4. You may need to make major adjustments in your life to join God in what He is going (Ex. 4:19-20, Heb 11:24-29)
   -Question: Am i willing to set aside my agenda to join God in what He is doing?
5. You come to know God as you obey Him and He accomplishes His work through you
   -Question: What is God revealing to me about Himself?

Discovering your DESIGN
-Desire
-Experience
-Spiritual Gifts
-Individual style
-growth phase
-Natural Abilities
-Goal: to be effective in ministry by using the gifts and abilities God has given in a way that satisfies your heart's desire and fits your personality, while drawing on life experiences.

Desire
- What do i love to do? What would i do if given the change?
- "May he grant you your heart's desired, and fulfill all your plans." -Psalm 20:24
-Desire comes from heart-our place of passion
-Questions for assessing desire:
   -1. What excites you in life?
   -2. In what situations do you feel most alive?
   -3. What activities do you get totally absorbed in?

Experience
-What experiences help make me who i am?
-"God consoles us in all our affliction so that we may be able to console those who are in any affliction with the consolation with which we ourselves are consoled by God" -2 Cor. 1:4
-Questions for assessing:
   -1. How do you spend the majority of your time?
   -2. What are the most significant events of your life?
   -3. How have those experiences equipped you to minister those in similar situations?

Spiritual Gifts
-What has God gifted me to do?
-"Like good stewards of the manifold grace of GOd, serve one another using whatever gifts each of you has recieved." -1 Peter 4:10
-A spiritual gift is a supernatural ability, given by the Holy Spirit to every believer, to be used to minister to others and build up the body of Christ. THey are the manifestations of the Holy Spirit's activity in your life.

Individual Style
-What kind of personality do i have?
-"O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. You know when i sit and when i rise; you perceive my houghts from afar...you are familiar with all my ways." -Psalm 139:1-3

Growth Phase
-Where am i in my spiritual journey?
-"FOr we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." -Eph. 2:10

Natural Ability
-What talents and skills do i have?
-"There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all people." -1 Cor. 12:6


Four Words of Jesus: "Do you love me?"

Principle 1: Servant ministry is rooted in realtionship with God
   -2 Cor. 5:17: Therefore if anyone is in christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
   -LeChambon: "Wouldn't everyone do it?"

Principle 2: Servants minister not out of strength, but brokenness

Four words of Jesus: "Feed My Sheep

Principle 3: Servant ministry is practical
   -LeChambon: "We just did what needed to be done."

Four words of Jesus: "They will lead you where you don't want to go."

Principle 4: Serving is costly
   -Servant ministry is costle beacuse it means loving the unlovable
   -LaChambon: Magda Trocme's Dinner

Four words of Jesus: "Follow me"

Principle 5: Servant ministry is incarnational
   -LeChambon: daniel Trocome

speech: micro/macro evolution

Intro

In the beginning God created man. and God created every creature. So when i say evolution what is the first thing you think of? [allow for comments] So maybe you think of apes, and man coming from apes. Maybe you think of amoebas and single cell organisms. Maybe you think that it is all bogus. Maybe you think that some of it might be possible. According to Merriam-Webster's online dictionary evolution is defined as a process of continuous change from a lower, simpler, or worse to a higher, more complex, or better state. Today i am going to talk to you about two different types of evolution: macro evolution, and micro evolution, then I'm going to discuss both of their relationships to God.

MacroEvolution

Let's start by talking about macro evolution. For those of you who don't know exactly what that is, let me explain. Macroevolution generally refers to evolution above the species level. Something that involves one species evolving into another. For example, the idea that apes evolved into man over the course of time. According to trueauthority.com, a site dedicated to finding the truth within science, Macroevolution is the change of one kind of animal to another kind, like reptile to bird.

Now that we've looked at exactly what macroevolution is, lets talk about what microevolution is.

MicroEvolution
merriam-webster's online dictionary defines microevolution as comparatively minor evolutionary change involving the accumulation of variations in populations usually below the species level. That means minor changes like over time giraffes having longer necks. One baby giraffe has a longer neck and therefore gets more food, and makes more, hence passing on his gene for longer necks, soon the shorter neck giraffes die out because they don't get enough food or mates to pass on their genes, and all that is left are long necked giraffes. Again according to trueauthority.com, Microevolution is basically variation within a kind, like wolves, dogs, and coyotes, they are all different species, but the same "kind"

So now that you know a little bit about both macro and micro evolution, let's move on to talking about how both are related to God and creation.

Relationship to God

Christians believe that God created man, and the animals. In Genesis 1:24 it says, "And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so." If we look at the word kind within that scripture, it seems to prove that micro evolution is possible. As for macroevolution, it does not seem to prove it is possible as much. David Van Biema, director of the national human genome research institute says, "I see no conflict in what the Bible tells me about God and what science tells me about nature.Like St. Augustine in A.D. 400, I do not find the wording of Genesis 1 and 2 to suggest a scientific textbook but a powerful and poetic description of God's intentions in creating the universe. The mechanism of creation is left unspecified."

Conclusion

Today i have told you a little about what macro and micro evolution are and what how God and evolution are connected. I hope that in learning a bit more about this topic that you will be able to decide for yourself what your beliefs are on evolution and God. Can you believe in God and evolution?




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"Micoevolution." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2006. Merriam-Webster. 7 Nov 2007 .

"Micro vs. Macro evolution: objections against creation." trueauthority.com. 2004. TrueAuthority. 7 Nov 2007 .

Van Biema, David. "Can You Believe in God and Evolution?." TIME. 2005. TIME Magazine. 7 Nov 2007 .