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Mill Creek Notes 1 Session One: Saturday, April 1 at 10:00 AM (Pages 1-12) “The Story of the BiBle: Two Weddings” Most of my talks will be from the Bible, but not this one. It is mostly ABOUT the Bible. This talk is designed to offer three things: • Offer an introduction to what the Bible is all about. • Present a brief discussion of why knowing the Bible is essential as a Jesus follower. • Capsulize the whole narrative in a description of the whole story as one tale. Before we dig in, let’s place our hearts and minds in the right position for truth the changes us. If you have a Bible, turn to Ephesians 4. The letter was written by Paul to a growing church in the first century. It had three parts: The Call of the Believer (1-3), The Conduct of the Believer (4:1-6:9), The Conflict of the Believer (5:10-20) with some end notes. In the CONDUCT section, Paul made the point that God intended the Believer to walk in a way that creates a happy, healthy and holy environment for all. Paul offered five ways to live a life relationally that pleases God. He used the word “walk” five times to help you see what he was calling you to do. Mark the word “walk” in 4:1, 4:17, 5:2, 5:8, 5:15. 1) Live a life worthy of your calling (4:1) 2) Live distinctly from the lost world (4:17) 3) Live a life of Love (5:2) or more specifically, in relational matters (vv. 2-7). This means giving like Jesus (2). How do I walk in love? I cannot Be greedy, sensual or selfish in lifestyle (3); I must not Be lewd or filthy in speech (4-7). 4) Live as children of light: Exposed truths (vv. 8-14); Live the fruit (8-10), Avoid the rest (11-14). 5) Live Wisely: (“purposefully” 5:15-6:9) -Watch the times (vv.15,16); Watch the influences (18); The Spirit of God will transform your: Voice (5:19-20) and your relationships (5:21-6:9): • Wives (5:22-24): suBmit • HusBands (5:25-33): love • Child (6:1-3): oBey- honor • Fathers (6:4): understand-train • Workers (6:5-8): oBey-work hard • Bosses (6:9): respect In the section on walking DISTINCTLY, Paul made this statement: 2 Ephesians 5:14 As a result [of having God send us gifted trainers that help us grow], we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; 15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love. Look very carefully at what Paul said of those who do not know how to live differently: • They are like children in the faith. • They are carried by the forces around them. • They are tricked by people who are crafty. • They are duped by schemes. Now look at what Paul taught the response should be to them: • We must speak the truth in love. • We should be growing up in Jesus, fitting into the Body of Christ. • We should understand it is the right of the Creator to define things, not the created. • The proper function of the body will come from the proper commitment to the Head. God called the church to be a place where believers learned to do three things that would represent Him well: • First, be increasingly connected to the Head – Jesus Himself. • Second, to be interconnected to each other – the Church. • Third, to make the vehicle of these two connections the Word – the Bible. Fed by the Word of Christ and submitted to Him, I will lock arms with other believers and see the world through the lens of the Word. That is faith in action. Years ago the Special Olympics was held in Seattle, Washington. One of the races was a 100 yard dash where nine physically and mentally disabled young people gathered at the starting line. The gun went off, and the nine began to run (as best as they) could toward the finish line. It wasn’t exactly in a dash, but they were obviously enjoying themselves. Then one boy who stumbled on the asphalt, tumbled over a couple of times and began to cry. The other eight heard the boy cry. They slowed down and looked back. Then they all turned around and went back. Every one of them. One girl with Down's syndrome bent down and kissed him and said, "This will make it better." Then all nine linked arms and walked together to the finish line together. They say that that 3 day everyone in the stadium stood, and cheered for what seemed like forever. What those children did that day… is what God calls us to do. God calls us to love each other so much that when one of us stumbles and falls… we all turn back to help them up. And we link arms and walk together toward the gates of heaven. Our call is to do this directed by Jesus, and to do it together. First, let’s ask: “What did God provide to help us offer truth to the world?” By the work of the Spirit of God., the Bible is the primary vehicle of truth through which God has carefully made known His will. It was written during 1050 years of a 1500 year period in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek - - on stone, papyrus, and parchment. It was written by scribes, scholars, and statesmen as well as by slaves, shepherds, and seers. There are 10 ancient mss of Julius Caesar’s works, the earliest copy from 1000 years after the original. Neither Plato, Thucydides, Tacitus have originals that are closer than 1000 years from the original – with 30 mss between ALL THREE authors. The NT has 5700 mss, the earliest parts within 50 years, and the first whole copies of total codices within 250 years. The texts are more solidly preserved than ANY other ancient teXt in the Western liBrary. Like every great story, it follows a number of “Story Lines.” These are all introduced in the first twelve chapters of the first book. Let me offer you five: 1 God 2. The Enemy 3. The Mutiny 4. The Human Condition (self-sufficiency if move toward mutiny; submission is move toward discipleship). 5. The Redemption and Restoration 4 Second, let’s face the fact that the world isn’t poised to receive our message. In fact, there is an “attack on the BiBle” and an erosion in the right response of Believers.” Once Jesus was taken up to the Father, the testimony of His very eXistence began to be attacked. At the same time, God provided overwhelming, irrefutaBle and detailed evidence of His existence, His specific works and the impact of those works on the men of His time. Key Principle: The Gospel story is not a cleverly devised myth (2 Peter 1:6), but a carefully reconstructed story held together by a myriad of Providentially preserved details. I want to establish two critical and foundational truths that we will build from this weekend: 1) It is perfectly reasonaBle to Believe the record of the Gospel writers is both an accurate reflection of actual events. 2) When taken seriously, we can employ a mixture of disciplines like geology, geography, history, and archaeology to set the text more fully in context – and the story Becomes even more compelling. We are here at an important time in our nation. We are experiencing a wall of cynics being held back by a deeply weakened church. We are responding. Let me share it this way: Daniel B. Wallace offered this insight: "Those in ministry must close the gap between the church and the academy. We have to educate believers. Instead of trying to isolate laypeople from critical scholarship, we need to insulate them. They need to be ready for the barrage, because it is coming. Intentional dumbing down of the church for the sake of filling more pews will ultimately lead to a defection from Christ. Our increasingly secularized culture has confused people Both INSIDE and OUTSIDE the church aBout the Gospel accounts: • “The da Vinci Code” along with other movies and TV shows, have tried to form the notion that the Bible that is in your hands is not a reliable translation of original documents, but is a biased production, based on the politics of theology over the last 1500 years. 5 • ABC TVs “The search for Jesus” program by Peter Jennings was virtually unrecognizaBle in the story of Jesus to the average Christian. The story as told by Jennings was about a Jewish cynic who was born in Nazareth (not Bethlehem) and became a political dissident against Rome. He was executed, but before he could be buried was eaten off of the cross by dogs. More recently, Morgan Freeman and Reza Aslan have tried to do for CNN what Jennings did for ABC – offer alternative theories to the Biblical record. • National Geographic has challenged the objective reality as well as the historicity of the New Testament Gospel accounts. Over and over, the secular world offers the impression that the Bible is somehow missing parts were deliberately left out the text we now possess.
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