Panoramic: Seeing the Gospel in All of Scripture
Summer 2011 Sermon Series
A Person, A People, & The PromiseGenesis 10-22 | Pastor Joshua Michael Soto | June 12, 2011 | 46mn:38sc
Renown biblical theologian, Graeme Goldworthy writes,
The most compelling reason for Christians to read and study the Old Testament lies in the New Testament. The New Testament witnesses to the fact that Jesus of Nazareth is the One in whom and through whom all the promises of God find their fulfillment. These promises are only to be understood from the Old Testament. The fulfillment of the promises can be understood only in the context of the promises themselves.
The New Testament presupposes a knowledge of the Old Testament. Everything that is a concern to the New Testament writers is part of the one redemptive history to which the Old Testament witnesses. The New Testament writers cannot separate the person and work of Christ, nor the life of the Christian community, from this sacred history which has its beginnings in the Old Testament.
This Summer we will discover how the story of the bible does not begin with Jesus in the New Testament but rather begins with Jesus in the Old. Joins as we discover how the Panoramic of the Scriptures point is to Jesus.
Panoramic: Seeing the Gospel in All of Scripture
A Person, A People, & The Promise
So last week, we finished up in Genesis 9 after the flood with Noah cast as something like a new Adam. It was our hope as we read the narrative that Noah would be the one that would reverse the curse of Adam. But instead, like Adam, Noah failed to be obedient to the command of God.
Noah, planted for himself a garden and like Adam he missed the fruit. Instead of being the Savior, Noah is more like a deadbeat on one of those COPS episodes, that gets drunk and naked, and curses a portion of his family.
Genesis 10, consist of a genealogy of 70 nation that represent all the nations of the world from the perspective of Israel. The purpose the this chapter is threefold:
- Sets The Context: We are introduced to the nations and people that will play a prominent role in the rest of the story of the bible. We discover that the descendants of Canaan (Canaanites) and Shem (Israel) in particular will play a prominent role in the story. It anticipate a day with the descendants of Shem will conquer the descendants of Canaan and occupy their land.
- Reveals Rebellion: Genesis 10, anticipate and introduces us to a world that again even after the flood is broken because of sin. In Genesis 10, the nation are exiled because of their rebellion. We don’t learn why they are exiled until Genesis 11. There we learn that like the pre-flood world the decedents of Noah are wicked. The don’t heed the command of God in Genesis 9:1 to, “be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.” Instead of making the name of God great, they wanted to make a name for themselves. They were seeking to live independently from the rule of God. So like Adam and Cain, before them God’s exile them, confusing their language and dispersing them over the creation.
- Points To Hope: From the midst of the the divided and broken world will emerge Abraham who will find favor in the sight of God and God through him will nations will be blessed, return from exile, and be brought back to God. So Genesis 11, picks up with the 10 member genealogy Shem that mirror the genealogy of Seth that produce the last savior like figure. It is interesting that Genesis 1-11 makes up a 1,000 year of human history while next 10 chapters focus on the 25 years in the life of one family. It is as if the writer of Genesis wants you to notice that all of history was leading up to this point.
