Genesis 3:15
[God speaking to the Serpent]
“And I will put [hostility] between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
„Og fjandskap (átök) vil ég setja milli þín og konunnar, milli þíns afkomanda og hennar afkomanda. Það skal merja höfuð þitt, og þú skalt merja hæl þess.“
Old Testament characters (Noah, Abraham, Moses, David...) all follow the Adam pattern:
They give us a glimpse of JESUS when they TRUST
They reveal who WE ARE when they MISTRUST
Old Testament “Covenants” (sáttmáli)
God makes a covenant with…
In each case…
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.’
Old Testament “Covenants” (sáttmáli)
God makes a covenant with…
In each case…
Genesis 22:1–18
Genesis 22:1–18
Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!”
“Here I am,” he replied.
Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”
Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.”
Genesis 22:1–18
Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife.
Genesis 22:1–18
Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife.
Genesis 22:1–18
As the two of them went on together, Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?”
“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.
“The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.
Genesis 22:1–18
When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”
“Here I am,” he replied.
“Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”
Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram[a] caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”
Hebrews 11:17-19
By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, even though God had said to him, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.” Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death.
“...dead in our sins…” (Ephesians 2:1)
Sin
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Mistrust
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Breaking Relationship with God
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Exile
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Separation From the Source of Life
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Death
Isaiah 53:4–6 (Prophecy ~700 years before Jesus)
Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our sins,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the [sin] of us all.
John 4:25-26
The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.” 26 Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”
Konan segir við hann: „Ég veit að Messías kemur – það er Kristur. Þegar hann kemur mun hann útskýra allt fyrir okkur.“ Jesús segir við hana: „Ég er hann, ég sem við þig tala.“
Matthew 4:10
Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’”
„En Jesús sagði við hann: „Burt með þig, Satan! Skrifað er: Drottin, Guð þinn, skalt þú tilbiðja og þjóna honum einum.“
Mark 1:15
"The time has come," he said. "The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!"
„Tíminn er kominn,“ sagði hann, „og konungsríki Guðs nálgast. Iðrist synda ykkar og trúið fagnaðarerindinu!“
Mark 10:46-52
Then they came to Jericho. As Jesus and his disciples, together with a large crowd, were leaving the city, a blind man, Bartimaeus (which means “son of Timaeus”), was sitting by the roadside begging. When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”
Many rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”
Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.”
So they called to the blind man, “Cheer up! On your feet! He’s calling you.” Throwing his cloak aside, he jumped to his feet and came to Jesus.
“What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asked him.
The blind man said, “Rabbi, I want to see.”
“Go,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you.” Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road.
Harsh Jesus quotes:
“You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you: ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.” (Matthew 15:7-9)
“Then [Jesus] said to him, “Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.” (Luke 11:39)
Matthew 27:39-43
Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, “...Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!” In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him. “He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself! He’s the king of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”
Isaiah 53:11
After he has suffered,
he will see the light of life (be resurrected) and be satisfied;
by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many,
and he will bear their iniquities.
Philippians 3:3-8
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant being made in human likeness.��And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross! And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Mark 8:34–35
"Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it."
Hann kallaði til sín bæði mannfjöldann og lærisveina sína. „Allir þeir sem vilja fylgja mér verða að afneita sjálfum sér, taka upp krossinn sinn, og koma með mér,“ sagði hann. „Sá sem reynir að bjarga lífi sínu mun missa það, en sá sem missir lífið vegna mín og fagnaðarerindisins mun bjarga lífi sínu.
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
„Ég er krossfestur með Kristi. Ég lifi ekki framar sjálfur heldur lifir Kristur í mér. Og það líf sem ég lifi nú í holdinu lifi ég í trúnni á Son Guðs sem elskaði mig og gaf sjálfan sig fyrir mig.“