Journeying Through Genesis

Enjoying the Journey

Scott Pauley

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🗓️ 28 March 2018

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The Creator God is the God of new beginnings. In Genesis we meet the Lord who is able to speak and bring light out of darkness, perfection out of emptyness, order out of chaos. Begin again with God today! ----more---- Overview: The Creator God is the God of new beginnings. In Genesis we meet the Lord who is able to speak and bring light out of darkness, perfection out of emptyness, order out of chaos. Begin again with God today! Transcript: "Journeying Through Genesis" "In the beginning. God created the heaven and the earth" (Genesis 1:1). We're beginning our journey through Scripture at the most obvious place; today we are journeying through Genesis. Now, there are fifty chapters in the Book of Genesis, and it covers thousands of years. So don't expect that we can cover, all of the details. All we can do is get a bird's eye view of this amazing book. The name "Genesis" literally means "beginnings". It's the beginning of the Old Testament. Genesis is the beginning of the Law of Moses or the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible). It's the beginning of all of Scripture. However, you understand that Genesis is actually the beginning of God's revelation of Himself. The name "Genesis" literally means "beginnings". It's the beginning of the Old Testament, the beginning of the Law of Moses or the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible) and it's the beginning of all of Scripture. However, you understand that Genesis is actually the beginning of God's revelation of Himself. How to Study Genesis Main Events There are many ways to study the Book of Genesis. For example, we could study it based on the main events found in the Book of Genesis. Genesis 1-11 covers four main events: The Creation of the World. The Fall of Man. The Worldwide Flood. The Tower of Babel, or the confounding of languages and the scattering of nations. Main Characters Then, you could go beyond the first eleven chapters. Genesis 12-50 is based on four main characters. We, refer to them as the Patriarchs of Israel - Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and then the book ends with the story of Joseph. It is my belief that the greatest way to study the Word of God is always looking for God. The Bible is God's revelation of Himself, and this Book of Beginnings gives us foundational principles about the Lord and about our own lives. I have found myself going back again and again to the first pages of Scripture because these first principles are important to us today. The nearer we get to the end of time, the more I think we need to go back to the law of first mention, to the beginning principles. The Foundation for All Scripture Everything began in the Book of Genesis - everything that is in our world except for God Himself. God transcends all. He is the eternal God; He has always been. God set everything else in motion. Overview: In Genesis 1, God creates the world. In Genesis 2, God creates the human race - that's us. Adam was formed by God's own hands. God records the establishment of marriage in Genesis 2. Marriage is God's wonderful creation, not a human idea to be neglected or destroyed. In Genesis 3 we find something God didn't create, but we find the beginning of human sin. Man rebels against God. Amazingly, in the same chapter, we find the beginning of divine salvation. God makes a way for man to be restored. In Genesis 4, we see the beginning of the family. The first children are born and seen as gifts from the Lord. In Genesis 10, we find the beginning of nations and government. In Genesis 11 we encounter the beginning of languages. In Genesis 12, we learn of the beginning of the Hebrew race through the giving of the Abrahamic Covenant. It's wonderful to see all that began in the heart of God; all that God did on the first pages of Holy Scripture. One of my favorite authors is J. Sidlow Baxter. Baxter wrote, "The major themes of Scripture may be compared to great rivers, ever deepening and broadening as they flow; and it is true

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0:00.0	Welcome to Enjoying the Journey with Evangelist Scott Pauli.
0:13.0	Today we are on a journey through Scripture.
0:16.0	We hope you'll join us as we make 66 stops through each book of the Word of God.
0:21.6	In the beginning, God, God created the heaven and the earth.
0:40.1	We're beginning our journey through Scripture at the most obvious place.
0:43.6	Today, we are journeying through Genesis.
0:45.9	Now, there are 50 chapters in the book of Genesis, and it covers thousands of years.
0:51.2	So don't expect that in these few moments we have together, we can cover all of the details.
0:56.5	A matter of fact, really all we can do is get a bird's eye view of this amazing book.
1:00.5	But what an amazing book it is.
1:03.0	The name Genesis literally means beginnings.
1:06.5	It's the beginning, of course, of the Old Testament.
1:09.0	It's the beginning of what we refer to as the
1:10.9	law of Moses or the Pentateau, the first five books of the Bible. It's the beginning of all of
1:16.7	Scripture. But if I may step back from that just a moment and say to you, it is actually the beginning
1:22.1	of God's revelation of himself. I was on an airplane recently, and a man that didn't know the Lord, very
1:29.3	biblically illiterate, said to me, well, I do know the first three words of the Bible,
1:34.3	and I said, what's that? He said, in the beginning. And while I commended him for that,
1:39.3	I challenged him to read on because the rest of the story is very important.
1:49.6	As a matter of fact, the next word, the fourth word of the Bible, is in the beginning, God.
1:58.6	And I would remind you that all of Scripture is about revealing not things, not events, not people, but it's about revealing God to us.
2:02.0	You see, there are many ways to study the book of Genesis. For example,
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