Of course, the blood of those bulls and goats couldn’t take away their sin, but it served as a symbol of hope – hope that one day, God’s promised Messiah – the Lamb of God – would come and would die in their place and His blood would take their sins completely away. It would take their punishment and it’s blood would temporarily cover their sin. Instead of the person being put to death for their sin (as they deserved), the animal would be put to death in their place. Even though the penalty for sin was death, God allowed the Israelites to bring an animal and offer it in place of the person who had sinned. Our sinful nature makes it impossible for us to fully obey God.īut of course, God knew that, and so in that covenant, He gave the Israelites another glimpse of hope. And with that sinful nature, there was NO WAY that they, (or anyone else for that matter), could possibly obey all of the terms of that covenant that God had just made with them. Every single one of them was already naturally inclined to reject God. Sounds familiar doesn’t it?īut the trouble was, everyone of the Israelites was already born with a sinful nature. And the basic gist of that agreement was that as long as the Israelites looked to God as the source of everything they needed and as long as they acknowledged God as their ultimate authority, their relationships would be sweet and life would be awesome. ![]() Then last week we fast-forwarded to Mount Sinai – where God made a covenant – or an agreement with the Israelites. The consequences of their sin would effect mankind for the rest of history, but God made a promise to Adam & Eve – that one day He would set things right again. Life became very difficult and painful for them – and all of us. As long as mankind looked to God as the source of everything they needed and as long as they acknowledged God as their ultimate authority, their relationships would be sweet and life would be awesome.īut of course, we know that Adam and Eve chose to reject God as their source and to reject Him as their authority – and as a consequence, their relationship with God and with each other was broken. And He setup mankind to have a perfect life. Just by way of a quick recap: Two weeks ago we started in the beginning – with God creating the heavens and the earth. All of history is HIS STORY.Īnd so today we’re going to continue looking at God’s story. He’s the central figure in world history. Jesus Christ the central figure of the Bible. Everything in the old testament points us ahead to the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ – and everything in the new testament is the result of the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. But over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been trying to do just that and what we’ve discovered is that the whole Bible is actually the Christmas story. ![]() ![]() Sometimes it’s difficult to put the whole Bible together – to see how one story connects with the others – to see how the old Testament fits with the new Testament. For the past couple of weeks, we’ve been looking at the Bible as a History of Hope.
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