Day 7: Genesis 22
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Before Jesus left this Earth, he told his disciples to go make other disciples. But what is a disciple? A disciple is a person who is in the process of learning. They follow the teachings of a master. A master is one who practices or masters what they teach. He gave what is often referred to as “The Great Commission,” which was a clear direction of what to do while He was gone. You see after Jesus rose from the dead He promised to return one day and establish a new kind of Kingdom. A kingdom of peace and security where there would no longer be pain and human suffering. The original mandate from God was to rule over the Earth by representing Him well. We were to be fruitful and multiply while walking in relationship with Him but we failed at that calling in the garden. Jesus gave us a new opportunity to fulfill the same basic calling but He first had to heal our hearts of shame, blame and self-centered living. He needed to teach us how to Love again by demonstrating what true love looks like. We had to be loved ourselves first before we could understand what love is.
Jesus promised to place His Spirit (literally breath) inside of us in such a way that our hearts would be transformed by his life teaching us from within. He told His disciples to Go to wherever people groups were in the Earth and continue His work of making learners (disciples) by immersing them in an understanding that God is a Father, He became a human Son and wants to live inside us by His Spirit. He wanted us to teach people to fix their eyes continually on what He told us to be and do. Christ’s teaching wasn’t meant to restrict us but rather to free us to be the people He created us to be. Jesus said “You will know the truth and the truth will set you free.” This freedom was to come by continuing to persevere in our understanding of God and His word to us. The aim of this video enhanced course is to teach you to journey through the scriptures as you journey through life.
The next set of stories are both historical accounts of what happened to the family line of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (renamed Israel) and also metaphors for what we have to go through as we initiate and progress on our Spiritual journey. Remember, Jesus quoted these books and called them scripture. Jesus said that the scripture “cannot be broken,” meaning that it would all one day be fulfilled. He assumed that people had knowledge of these stories when He was teaching and this is why we are taking you through the main story line of the Hebrew scripture, also referred to as the Old Testament in the Christian Bible.
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