Genesis
For our new series we start at the beginning of it all, creation. Pastor Noah walks us through 7 acts of creation and the fall pointing us to the truth of the Gospel in each of them. (We apologize for the background music on this recording, some wires were crossed.)
This week's text is probably one of the most well known Bible "stories" and the danger comes when we look at it as that and not as a part of the story of redemption. The focus of this narrative is not that God judges but the fact that God saves.
In this week's text we see Abraham, father of the Hebrew nation, a man who's faithfulness is counted as righteousness, promised and tested. And while he is faithful we also see many times he is faithless but that God is always faithful. This narrative is in fact about God's faithfulness to Abraham and Abraham's faithfulness to repent to God.
In this week's text we see the story of two brother's in competition and conflict even before they were born, but we see no clear example, no hero. Both Jacob and Esau were sinful, messed up men who are not worthy of emulating. But in the midst of this, the story points to Jesus as God's unmerited and undeserved grace.
Continuing with Jacob's story we learn that the deceiver gets deceived and his unlikely wife Leah gets caught in the middle. In the midst of scandal and brokenness Leah finds worth and beauty in God. This story points directly to Jesus because he reaches down into our brokenness and brings beauty through His sacrifice on the cross.
This week's text points us towards God's relentless grace. God did not relent in pursuing Jacob and Jesus does not relent in pursuing us.
