Talk Tuesday-The JESUS Series: The Beginning

The story of Redemption begins with the Fall of Mankind. However, it is the Creation Narrative that provides the backdrop for the unfolding story. What is beautiful about this is that GOD, the Creator of the Universe, desires a relationship with us! We are created in His image and likeness. It is here, in the beginning, that we meet our Triune GOD-The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit.

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters,” Genesis 1:1-2 (New King James Version, NKJV).

“26 Then God said, 'Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,  and over all the creatures that move along the ground.' 27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” Genesis 1:26-27 (New International Version, NIV).

“1 In the beginning was the Word: the Word was with God and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things came into being, not one thing came into being except through him,” Gospel of John chapter 1, verses 1 to 3 (New Jerusalem Bible; NJB).

The Fall takes place in the Garden of Eden. “16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, 'Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die,'” Genesis 2:16-17 (NKJV). The Serpent deceives Eve, “4 'You will not certainly die,' the serpent said to the woman. 5 'For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil,'” Genesis 3:4-5 (NIV). The serpent is described in Revelation 12:9 (NJB) as, “The great dragon, the primeval serpent, known as the devil or Satan, who had led all the world astray...” Adam and Eve ate. Death, sorrow, heartache, pain and separation from GOD came as a result of deception and SIN. GOD said to the Serpent, “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel,” Genesis 3:15 (NIV). 

So why did JESUS come? Join us next week as we continue to explore both the Old and New Testaments to discover the One who John the Baptist describes as, “..the lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world,” John 1:29 (NJB).

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