Genesis 14:18-24
Vrs18 Melchizedek=”King of righteousness” Salem is another name for Jerusalem which means peace so He is the “King of peace”
Brought out bread and wine for refreshment of the troops and a congratulatory act. These were staples at the time.
Priest of God-This priesthood is not to be confused with that of priest’s of the law that brought the sacrifices to pay for sin under the law.
This is a different order of eternal peace and righteousness. Melchizedek is the first mention of a priest in the Bible and is generations before Aaron which God set up the Levitical priesthood through.
Psalm 110:4 A Prophecy of Jesus
“The LORD has sworn And will not relent, “You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek.
All priest’s died, but not Jesus. There is no account of where Melchizedek came from or when He died, But we see a few verses in Genesis in which he appears in had a huge impact.
Some even say He may have been the pre-incarnate Christ, meaning an appearance of Jesus.
But as we look at the book of Hebrews it seems to better understand He was a man that foreshadowed Jesus and was not Jesus.
Vrs 19 And he blessed him. We have talked about this before and a modern way to understand blessing is make someone happy
Vrs 20 and Abram gave him a tithe
Now lets take what we have read about Melchizedek and see how the writer of Hebrews connects him with Jesus
Hebrews chapter 5 starts out by saying that the job of a Levitical priest was to bring sacrifices for the sins of himself and the people, in order to be forgiven.
Then the passage goes on to say that Jesus is that High priest for all of us “according to the order of Melchizedek”
So what is this saying about Melchizedek and Jesus?
Hebrews 7:1-4 The writer of Hebrews is communicating to the Jewish audience that The law and the priesthood that comes with it could not save people but Jesus like Melchizedek “the king of righteousness and peace” can and has the power to save us from our sins.
Jesus
Like Melchizedek blessed Abram…Jesus came and blessed us with himself when he laid down his life in our place on the cross. Gospel
Hebrews goes on to say 7:22-25 so that in Jesus we can have surety that the new order or covenant is better and Jesus lives to forgive our sins. There is no sin he cannot forgive
Notice that when we celebrate communion we use bread and wine. Remember I said they were staples or necessities of the time. Jesus body and blood are a necessity for us to receive forgiveness.
Jesus was a priest that brought the Sacrifice to the next level, it was of Himself.
But through this study of Melchizedek how can we look more like Jesus?
Us
1 Peter 2:4-10 God calls us a holy priesthood and His chosen, special people. So how do we respond?
1. 1 Peter 2:7 Jesus is the Cornerstone- in ancient architecture the cornerstone was set and the building was build off of that, if that is out of wack the entire structure suffers and each stone needs to be adjusted to make up for it.
My bathroom ill
Jesus needs to be our cornerstone and what we align ourselves with in order to be on the right track.
If we align ourselves with anything but Jesus we will always be making adjustments to compensate and we will suffer the consequences
The text says we are building a spiritual house, our foundation must be Jesus and then we must continue to build. That means we always reach to learn more and apply those to our lives
2. When our lives are aligned with Jesus 1 Peter 2:5 we as a priesthood offer up spiritual sacrifices. What is that? That means we sacrifice things in our lives and replace them with things that please God. Replace sin with Righteousness.
3. 1 Peter 2:9-10 The response of us should be give back to God by proclaiming what He has done in your life. Tell others how God saved you
Remember how Abraham responded to the work of the Lord He gave the tenth to Melchizedek. How do you usually respond to God when He blesses you with, that extra money, job promotion, good grades, a relationship gets better, you have victory over a sin? We take it and we are happy and we often forget to give back to God. How should you respond?
Give= Time, talent, treasure
4. Melchizedek blessed Abram. Jesus blesses us. How can you bless the people around you?
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Monday, September 8, 2008
"You look like Jesus" Series: Adam
To define our terms, a type is a shadow cast on the pages of the Old Testament
An account in the Old Testament that is meant to illustrate a truth about Messiah (Jesus) and his mission.
Teaches us about Jesus before Jesus came to earth as a man so people would recognize Him.
Types have the following characteristics:
1. They are rooted in history and serve a purpose.
2. Types are prophetic in nature.
3. Types all point to characteristics of Christ in one way or another.
4. They edify, having spiritual meaning for God's people in OT, NT and Today.
Tonight I want to go back to the beginning of the Bible with the first man Adam. How do we know that Adam was a type of Jesus in the O.T? This one is easy to identify because the book of Romans tells us He is.
Romans 5:12-19 Sin entered the world through Adam and Jesus Christ came to this world to free us from sin if we trust in Him. 1 Corinthians 15:21 echoes that in saying “for in Adam all die through Christ all shall be made alive”
Lets give this the type Characteristic test.
1. They are rooted in history and serve a purpose.
The account of Adam gives us the history that we are all sinners. Some say this is just an allegorical story and don’t believe there is a creator who created. If that is the category you fall into, I want to ask you to consider reading the Bible and research its claims. What do you have to loose?
2. Types are prophetic in nature.
Genesis 3:15 is a prophecy of Jesus in the punishment of the serpent.
3. Types all point to characteristics of Christ in one way or another.
In the case of Adam we see he is actually an antitype in some senses because as we will see he was created to live the life in which Jesus lived sinless but he actually did sin and that is what we are going to look at.
4. They edify, having spiritual meaning for God's people in OT, NT and Today.
It is obvious that all generations can learn from Adam.
Genesis 1:26-30
1) Fill the earth with the image of God through procreation,2) Accomplish this task with the assistance of his bride Eve.
3) Exercise authority over the creation
4) Don’t eat the fruit off the tree of the knowledge of good and evil 2:16-17
But in all that the first Adam failed at, the second Adam, Jesus Christ, succeeded! How?
1) Jesus filled the earth with the image of God, not by procreation as the first Adam, but by making new creations out of us, who are being conformed to His image, the image of Christ, who is Himself the image of the invisible God. 2 Corinthians 5:17 “says that if any one is in Christ He is a new creation” How? The Gospel
2) And as the first Adam failed to pair with his wife Eve, to accomplish being fruitful and multiplying, Christ, the second Adam is using His bride, the church, to accomplish this work on earth! The church is the only organization that is set up by the Lord himself. Why do you think there are so many problems in it then? The number one reason is that we are first on the Satan’s hit list to destroy.
But God’s desire and design for the church is for us to proclaim the good news about Jesus and then help one another grow closer to Him.
3) Adam failed to subdue and exercise authority over the earth because he started to think of himself rather then his job of taking care of the land, animals and so forth.
Christ, the second Adam, holds all authority in heaven and on earth because He chose to give up Himself. Phil 2:7. A true authority or leader thinks of those that he will serve and help rather them putting him or herself first.
Adam got off focus from being the one that God put in charge of things and therefore sinned
4) And lastly unlike Adam who tried to grasp equality with God by taking the fruit, Remember what the serpent said? “you will not surly die, you will just be like God.” So through his sin Adam tried to grasp equality with God by eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
the 2nd Adam, Jesus Christ, did not use His equality with God to save Him from the cross, but willingly went to it, as Phil 2:6-8 states, “although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.”
-So in the disobedience and failure of the 1st Adam, we see how amazing the obedience of the 2nd Adam Jesus was and what it did for us.
So what do we learn from Jesus’ good example and from Adam’s disobedience?
1. As image bearers of God we are called to live a life that shows who He is. The hardest part of the Christian life is the Christian life. It is hard to live a life like Jesus did, sinless, selfless and obedient. But that is God’s desire for us. IN what areas do you work to look more like Jesus?
2. We are God’s helpers to do His work and be His hands in the work of spreading the Word and teaching others about Him. The church is called the bride of Christ. That means that we are to work together with Him for his kingdom. Are you doing anything to promote His kingdom? Used message
3. We all have responsibilities God gave us which in the case of Adam it was authority over the land and animals and to take care of those things. He got off focus. You have responsibilities in life, family, work, & school and God wants you to do certain things there.
When you start thinking to much of yourself you get off focus. If Adam’s focus was right he would have been right there to talk some sense into his wife and protect her from the deceit of Satan. Instead he was selfish and followed the lie as well. When we get selfish we get off focus. I can tell you the more you think of yourself the more miserable you will become. Remember we can find comfort in the fact that our spouse Jesus will never let us down so bring your responsibilities to Him.
4. Lastly we are not God, that means we have to answer to Him and go to Him with everything. Most of us live our lives as if we are in charge. Adam and Eve wanted to see things as God sees them, they wanted to be His equal. And we feel we deserve to know what He knows. We all have many questions that we all want answers to but the bible says Deut 29:29 “The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.”
An account in the Old Testament that is meant to illustrate a truth about Messiah (Jesus) and his mission.
Teaches us about Jesus before Jesus came to earth as a man so people would recognize Him.
Types have the following characteristics:
1. They are rooted in history and serve a purpose.
2. Types are prophetic in nature.
3. Types all point to characteristics of Christ in one way or another.
4. They edify, having spiritual meaning for God's people in OT, NT and Today.
Tonight I want to go back to the beginning of the Bible with the first man Adam. How do we know that Adam was a type of Jesus in the O.T? This one is easy to identify because the book of Romans tells us He is.
Romans 5:12-19 Sin entered the world through Adam and Jesus Christ came to this world to free us from sin if we trust in Him. 1 Corinthians 15:21 echoes that in saying “for in Adam all die through Christ all shall be made alive”
Lets give this the type Characteristic test.
1. They are rooted in history and serve a purpose.
The account of Adam gives us the history that we are all sinners. Some say this is just an allegorical story and don’t believe there is a creator who created. If that is the category you fall into, I want to ask you to consider reading the Bible and research its claims. What do you have to loose?
2. Types are prophetic in nature.
Genesis 3:15 is a prophecy of Jesus in the punishment of the serpent.
3. Types all point to characteristics of Christ in one way or another.
In the case of Adam we see he is actually an antitype in some senses because as we will see he was created to live the life in which Jesus lived sinless but he actually did sin and that is what we are going to look at.
4. They edify, having spiritual meaning for God's people in OT, NT and Today.
It is obvious that all generations can learn from Adam.
Genesis 1:26-30
1) Fill the earth with the image of God through procreation,2) Accomplish this task with the assistance of his bride Eve.
3) Exercise authority over the creation
4) Don’t eat the fruit off the tree of the knowledge of good and evil 2:16-17
But in all that the first Adam failed at, the second Adam, Jesus Christ, succeeded! How?
1) Jesus filled the earth with the image of God, not by procreation as the first Adam, but by making new creations out of us, who are being conformed to His image, the image of Christ, who is Himself the image of the invisible God. 2 Corinthians 5:17 “says that if any one is in Christ He is a new creation” How? The Gospel
2) And as the first Adam failed to pair with his wife Eve, to accomplish being fruitful and multiplying, Christ, the second Adam is using His bride, the church, to accomplish this work on earth! The church is the only organization that is set up by the Lord himself. Why do you think there are so many problems in it then? The number one reason is that we are first on the Satan’s hit list to destroy.
But God’s desire and design for the church is for us to proclaim the good news about Jesus and then help one another grow closer to Him.
3) Adam failed to subdue and exercise authority over the earth because he started to think of himself rather then his job of taking care of the land, animals and so forth.
Christ, the second Adam, holds all authority in heaven and on earth because He chose to give up Himself. Phil 2:7. A true authority or leader thinks of those that he will serve and help rather them putting him or herself first.
Adam got off focus from being the one that God put in charge of things and therefore sinned
4) And lastly unlike Adam who tried to grasp equality with God by taking the fruit, Remember what the serpent said? “you will not surly die, you will just be like God.” So through his sin Adam tried to grasp equality with God by eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
the 2nd Adam, Jesus Christ, did not use His equality with God to save Him from the cross, but willingly went to it, as Phil 2:6-8 states, “although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.”
-So in the disobedience and failure of the 1st Adam, we see how amazing the obedience of the 2nd Adam Jesus was and what it did for us.
So what do we learn from Jesus’ good example and from Adam’s disobedience?
1. As image bearers of God we are called to live a life that shows who He is. The hardest part of the Christian life is the Christian life. It is hard to live a life like Jesus did, sinless, selfless and obedient. But that is God’s desire for us. IN what areas do you work to look more like Jesus?
2. We are God’s helpers to do His work and be His hands in the work of spreading the Word and teaching others about Him. The church is called the bride of Christ. That means that we are to work together with Him for his kingdom. Are you doing anything to promote His kingdom? Used message
3. We all have responsibilities God gave us which in the case of Adam it was authority over the land and animals and to take care of those things. He got off focus. You have responsibilities in life, family, work, & school and God wants you to do certain things there.
When you start thinking to much of yourself you get off focus. If Adam’s focus was right he would have been right there to talk some sense into his wife and protect her from the deceit of Satan. Instead he was selfish and followed the lie as well. When we get selfish we get off focus. I can tell you the more you think of yourself the more miserable you will become. Remember we can find comfort in the fact that our spouse Jesus will never let us down so bring your responsibilities to Him.
4. Lastly we are not God, that means we have to answer to Him and go to Him with everything. Most of us live our lives as if we are in charge. Adam and Eve wanted to see things as God sees them, they wanted to be His equal. And we feel we deserve to know what He knows. We all have many questions that we all want answers to but the bible says Deut 29:29 “The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.”
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
"You look like Jesus" Series: Boaz
“You look like Jesus” Boaz
Into to the series – we are going to look out the doctrine of typology
To define our terms, a type is a shadow cast on the pages of the Old Testament
An account in the Old Testament that is meant to expound a significant truth about Messiah (Jesus) and his mission.
Teaches us about Jesus before Jesus came to earth as a man so people would recognize Him.
Types have the following characteristics:
1. They are rooted in history and serve a purpose.
2. Types are prophetic in nature.
3. Types all point to characteristics of Christ in one way or another.
4. They edify, having spiritual meaning for God's people in OT, NT and Today.
Tell the story of Naomi, Ruth and Boaz
Naomi and Elimalech leave Bethlehem with two sons, they marry two Moabite women. Elimelech and two sons Die and Naomi realizes she should go back o her land and her people and told her two daughters in law to stay with their people and their gods.
Ruth would not leave her and went to Bethlehem. So they got there and all the people heard and Naomi told them to call her Mara which means bitter because she feels that the Lord’s hand has went out against her.
1:20-21
Naomi and Ruth were poor so Ruth went to glean in the fields and happened to glean in Boaz’s field.
Boaz took notice of her, he also heard about what she had done for Naomi 2:11
Boaz gave her a protection and allowed her to work in his field during the Harvest.
Eventually at Naomi’s advice Ruth pursued Boaz to be her kinsman redeemer = Deut. 25 was a Leverite law in which the closest living relative of a widow would marry her and take care of her and the family.
Boaz was not the closest relative but he had already showed kindness and compassion to Ruth
When Ruth pursued him his response was that there was a kinsman redeemer closer then he was 3:12-13. Ruth asked
So Boaz sits down with the unnamed kinsman redeemer with the legal court which were the Elders and showed how this man was not the right man for Ruth.
The unmanned man said 4:1
So now Boaz took Ruth in marriage and they conceived a son named Obed who was grandfather to king David.
So what do we learn about Jesus from Boaz?
Look at the characteristics for a type
1. They are rooted in history and serve a purpose.
Ruth and Boaz fathered Obed who was David’s Grandfather and they were the family in which Jesus would come from.
2. Types are prophetic in nature.
v4:11 Famous not only Ruth and Boaz but the offspring who will eventually be Jesus will be famous. Matthew 1 Genealogy why?
Obligation and religion does not save (the loser kinsman who did nothing)
Having Ruth in Jesus’ genealogy communicates that Jesus is all about redemption and grace not religion and obligation. Matthew is saying look you thought it was “be good and God will love you” “you have an obligation to God”
Religion is like the unnamed kinsmen redeemer the loser it will let you down.
Christianity teaches “God loves you and wants to make you good”
3. They all point to characteristics of Christ in one way or another.
Character traits of Boaz that foreshadow Jesus… These are also things we can apply to our lives so we look more like Jesus.
Compassion-saw she had a bad situation and wanted to make it better. Jesus did that for us and many of his miracles were spurred on by compassion Challenge is how can you do that in another persons life? Maybe there is someone around you that is suffering and you have the resources to help, but you need compassion on them
Kindness-Boaz was kind to her and the passage actually says 2:13 Comforted with words of Kindness. Jesus did that in His earthy ministry and His Word is a comfort for us daily. Challenge for us is are we using our words to kindly speak to others and comfort them?
Provider-Boaz provided job and food for Ruth and Naomi. Jesus provides for us, “every good gift is from above” He provides a way for us to get to heaven. Challenge is how can you provide for other people? Maybe you have a gift or talent that you can use to provide a service for others, maybe it is financial, maybe it is time.
4. They edify, having spiritual meaning for God's people in OT , NT and Today.
Redeem means to pay off and the main parallel between him and Jesus is that it teaches about us about Redemption.
Boaz stepped in with grace and not obligation redeemed Ruth from her situation and one of the many reasons why is because Ruth asked.
Redemption- we all need to be redeemed from our desperate situation. Gospel Jesus was not obligated but willing to redeem us sinners. We only have to ask
Into to the series – we are going to look out the doctrine of typology
To define our terms, a type is a shadow cast on the pages of the Old Testament
An account in the Old Testament that is meant to expound a significant truth about Messiah (Jesus) and his mission.
Teaches us about Jesus before Jesus came to earth as a man so people would recognize Him.
Types have the following characteristics:
1. They are rooted in history and serve a purpose.
2. Types are prophetic in nature.
3. Types all point to characteristics of Christ in one way or another.
4. They edify, having spiritual meaning for God's people in OT, NT and Today.
Tell the story of Naomi, Ruth and Boaz
Naomi and Elimalech leave Bethlehem with two sons, they marry two Moabite women. Elimelech and two sons Die and Naomi realizes she should go back o her land and her people and told her two daughters in law to stay with their people and their gods.
Ruth would not leave her and went to Bethlehem. So they got there and all the people heard and Naomi told them to call her Mara which means bitter because she feels that the Lord’s hand has went out against her.
1:20-21
Naomi and Ruth were poor so Ruth went to glean in the fields and happened to glean in Boaz’s field.
Boaz took notice of her, he also heard about what she had done for Naomi 2:11
Boaz gave her a protection and allowed her to work in his field during the Harvest.
Eventually at Naomi’s advice Ruth pursued Boaz to be her kinsman redeemer = Deut. 25 was a Leverite law in which the closest living relative of a widow would marry her and take care of her and the family.
Boaz was not the closest relative but he had already showed kindness and compassion to Ruth
When Ruth pursued him his response was that there was a kinsman redeemer closer then he was 3:12-13. Ruth asked
So Boaz sits down with the unnamed kinsman redeemer with the legal court which were the Elders and showed how this man was not the right man for Ruth.
The unmanned man said 4:1
So now Boaz took Ruth in marriage and they conceived a son named Obed who was grandfather to king David.
So what do we learn about Jesus from Boaz?
Look at the characteristics for a type
1. They are rooted in history and serve a purpose.
Ruth and Boaz fathered Obed who was David’s Grandfather and they were the family in which Jesus would come from.
2. Types are prophetic in nature.
v4:11 Famous not only Ruth and Boaz but the offspring who will eventually be Jesus will be famous. Matthew 1 Genealogy why?
Obligation and religion does not save (the loser kinsman who did nothing)
Having Ruth in Jesus’ genealogy communicates that Jesus is all about redemption and grace not religion and obligation. Matthew is saying look you thought it was “be good and God will love you” “you have an obligation to God”
Religion is like the unnamed kinsmen redeemer the loser it will let you down.
Christianity teaches “God loves you and wants to make you good”
3. They all point to characteristics of Christ in one way or another.
Character traits of Boaz that foreshadow Jesus… These are also things we can apply to our lives so we look more like Jesus.
Compassion-saw she had a bad situation and wanted to make it better. Jesus did that for us and many of his miracles were spurred on by compassion Challenge is how can you do that in another persons life? Maybe there is someone around you that is suffering and you have the resources to help, but you need compassion on them
Kindness-Boaz was kind to her and the passage actually says 2:13 Comforted with words of Kindness. Jesus did that in His earthy ministry and His Word is a comfort for us daily. Challenge for us is are we using our words to kindly speak to others and comfort them?
Provider-Boaz provided job and food for Ruth and Naomi. Jesus provides for us, “every good gift is from above” He provides a way for us to get to heaven. Challenge is how can you provide for other people? Maybe you have a gift or talent that you can use to provide a service for others, maybe it is financial, maybe it is time.
4. They edify, having spiritual meaning for God's people in OT , NT and Today.
Redeem means to pay off and the main parallel between him and Jesus is that it teaches about us about Redemption.
Boaz stepped in with grace and not obligation redeemed Ruth from her situation and one of the many reasons why is because Ruth asked.
Redemption- we all need to be redeemed from our desperate situation. Gospel Jesus was not obligated but willing to redeem us sinners. We only have to ask
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