Understanding the
Purposes of God
Luke 24:17
And he said to them, “What is this
conversation that you are holding with
each other as you walk?”
And they stood still, looking sad.
Luke 24:21
But we had hoped that he was the one
to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all
this, it is now the third day since these
things happened.
Luke 24:27
And beginning with Moses and all the
Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the
Scriptures the things concerning himself.
Luke 24:44
Then he said to them, “These are my words
that I spoke to you while I was still with you,
that everything written about me in
the Law of Moses and the Prophets
and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”
Jesus
The Whole Bible points towards Jesus from the beginning.
In the Old Testament God points forward to him and promises
of his coming in the future. In the NT God proclaims him to be
the one who fulfils all those promises.
PROMISE FULFILMENT
OT NT
45 Then he opened their minds to understand
the Scriptures, 46 and said to them, “Thus it is
written, that the Christ should suffer and
on the third day rise from the dead, 47
and that repentance and forgiveness of
sins should be proclaimed in his name
to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
Luke 24:33
33. And they rose that same hour and
returned to Jerusalem. And they found
the eleven and those who were with them
gathered together,
Luke 24:52
And they worshiped him and returned
to Jerusalem with great joy,
Understand the
WHOLE STORY
of the Bible
Two should
Christ should suffer and on the third day rise
from the dead
Repentance and forgiveness of sins should be
proclaimed in his name to all nations.
Two Lines
Blood Line
Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead
Blessing Line
Repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his
name to all nations.
I will put enmity between you and the
woman, and between your offspring
and her offspring; he shall bruise your
head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
Gen 3:15
Atonement
11 'For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I
have given it to you on the altar to make
atonement for your souls; for it is the blood by
reason of the life that makes atonement.’ Lev 17:11
Gen 22:7
Abraham said, "God will provide for Himself the
lamb for the burnt offering, my son." So the two
of them walked on together .
Exo 12:3
3. Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth
day of this month every man shall take a lamb
according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a
household.
Lev 16:21
21. And Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live
goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the people of Israel,
and all their transgressions, all their sins. And he shall put them
on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by
the hand of a man who is in readiness.
John 1:29
29. The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said,
“Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
John 19:30
When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is
finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his
spirit.
It is finished
It is Finished
When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said,
“It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave
up his spirit. John 19:30
Tetelestai
3 meaning
a) Servant reporting to Master after completing a task.
The Job you gave me is finished
b) In commercial term, the completion of a transcation
when the debt is paid in full. The debt is finished or paid
in full
c) The selection of a lamb for sacrifice in the temple
after finding the unblemished lamb, one would say
tetelestai
Jesus cried out: The job is completed, the debt is paid,
the sacrificial lamb is found.
IT IS FINISHED
ETERNITY
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God said to
them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the
earth and subdue it; and have dominion
over the fish of the sea and over the birds
of the air and over every living thing that
moves upon the earth." (Genesis 1:28 RSV)
Isaiah 43:7
Every one who is called by my
name, whom I created for my
glory, whom I formed and made.
Gen 9:1
And God blessed Noah and his sons and
said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply
and fill the earth.
Gen 9:1 ESV
Genesis 11:1
Now the whole earth had one
language and few words.
(Genesis 11:1 RSV)
Genesis 11:3-4
And they said to one another, "Come, let us make
bricks, and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick
for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said,
"Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with
its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for
ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the
face of the whole earth."
(RSV)
Gen 10:32
These are the families of the sons of Noah,
after their generations, in their nations: and of
these were the nations divided in the earth
after the flood.
Gen 10:32
Genesis 12:1-3
Now the LORD had said to Abram: "Get out of your
country, From your family And from your father's house,
To a land that I will show you. I will make you a great
nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And
you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the
families of the earth shall be blessed."
Israel
Gentiles
Why God blessed Abraham?
3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who
dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families
of the earth shall be blessed.”
God blessed Abraham and through his descendants
all the nations shall be blessed.
Shall be-Future
WE ARE
BLESSED
TO BE A
BLESSING
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Created by Kenneth Von Alt, US Noun Created by Nociconist from the Noun Project
Project
What is the blessing?
7 “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are
forgiven, and whose sins are covered;
8 blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not
count his sin.”
9 Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or
also for the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was
counted to Abraham as righteousness.Rom 4
26 And he made from one man every nation of
mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having
determined allotted periods and the boundaries of
their dwelling place,
27 that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their
way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not
far from each one of us, Acts 17:26-27
Promise to Issac
And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars
of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these
countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations
of the earth be blessed;
Gen 26:4
Promise to Jacob
And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth,
and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and
to the east, and to the north, and to the south:
and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families
of the earth be blessed.
Gen 28:14
● Abraham
● Esau and Jacob
● Jacob 12 sons
● Joseph
Exodus 19: 5-6
Now if you obey me fully and keep my
covenant, then out of all nations you will be
my treasured possession. Although the
whole earth is mine, you will be for me a
kingdom of priests and a holy nation.
Isa 49:6
I will make you as a light for the nations,
that my salvation may reach to the end
of the earth."
Habakkuk 2:14
For the earth will be filled With the
knowledge of the glory of the LORD, As
the waters cover the sea.
(Habakkuk 2:14 NKJV)
Matthew 1:1
The book of the generation of Jesus
Christ, the son of David, the son of
Abraham.
John 10: 16
I have other sheep that do not come from this
sheepfold. I must bring them too, and they will
listen to my voice, so that there will be one flock
and one shepherd.
John 11: 51-52
(Now he did not say this on his own, but because
he was high priest that year, he prophesied that
Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation,
and not for the Jewish nation only, but to gather
together into one the children of God who are
scattered.)
Mat 28:18-20
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in
heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the
Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to
observe all that I have commanded you. And
behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Acts 1:8
But you will receive power when the Holy
Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my
witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea
and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Eph 3:11
According to the eternal
purpose which he purposed in
Christ Jesus our Lord:
Eph 1:9,10
making known unto us the mystery of
his will, according to his good pleasure
which he purposed in him
unto a dispensation of the fulness of
the times,
Eph 1:10
sum up all things in
to
Christ, the things in the heavens, and
the things upon the earth; in him,
Eph 2: 13-15
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near
by the blood of Christ.
For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and
has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility
by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he
might create in himself one new man in place of
the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one
body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
And he came and preached peace to you who were far
off and peace to those who were near.
CHURCH
Israel Gentiles
Galatians 3:28-29
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is
neither slave nor free man, there is neither
male nor female; for you are all one in
Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ,
then you are Abraham's descendants, heirs
according to promise.
Revelation 5:9
And they sang a new song, saying: "You are
worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals;
For You were slain, And have redeemed us to
God by Your blood Out of every tribe and
tongue and people and nation,
Revelation 21:5-6
And he who sat upon the
throne said, "Behold, I make
all things new." Also he said,
"Write this, for these words
are trustworthy and true."
And he said to me, "It is
done! I am the Alpha and
It is done! the Omega, the beginning
It has happened and the end.
IT IS FINISHED IT IS DONE
ETERNITY
IT IS FINISHED IT IS DONE
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UNDONE
ETERNITY
Are you willing to join
with God to
accomplish His
purposes?
THERE IS ONLY ONE THING
MISSING AS GOD FULFILLS
HIS
P RPOSE
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