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1�The God who is life

The theme of LIFE through the Story of the Bible
1�The God who is Life	2�God creates Life	3�God creates Humans	4�Humans choose�Death	5�God promises New Life	6�God’s People choose�Death	7�Prophets promise New Life	8�Jesus �the Life gives Life	9�Jesus �the Life chooses Death	10�Jesus �Rises to give Life	11�Jesus �begins New creation
Before Creation	Creation	Creation	Fall	Abraham	Exile	Prophets	Jesus	Cross	Resurrection	New Creation
Eternity	At some point	After 2	After 3	2000 BC	700-500 BC	700-500 BC	33 AD	37 AD	37 AD	The future

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In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. �Genesis 1:1-2

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1�The God who is life

The theme of LIFE through the Story of the Bible
1�The God who is Life	2�God creates Life	3�God creates Humans	4�Humans choose�Death	5�God promises New Life	6�God’s People choose�Death	7�Prophets promise New Life	8�Jesus �the Life gives Life	9�Jesus �the Life chooses Death	10�Jesus �Rises to give Life	11�Jesus �begins New creation
Before Creation	Creation	Creation	Fall	Abraham	Exile	Prophets	Jesus	Cross	Resurrection	New Creation
Eternity	At some point	After 2	After 3	2000 BC	700-500 BC	700-500 BC	33 AD	37 AD	37 AD	The future

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3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.�Genesis 1:1-3-5

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3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.�Genesis 1:1-3-5

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1�The God who is life

The theme of LIFE through the Story of the Bible
1�The God who is Life	2�God creates Life	3�God creates Humans	4�Humans choose�Death	5�God promises New Life	6�God’s People choose�Death	7�Prophets promise New Life	8�Jesus �the Life gives Life	9�Jesus �the Life chooses Death	10�Jesus �Rises to give Life	11�Jesus �begins New creation
Before Creation	Creation	Creation	Fall	Abraham	Exile	Prophets	Jesus	Cross	Resurrection	New Creation
Eternity	At some point	After 2	After 3	2000 BC	700-500 BC	700-500 BC	33 AD	37 AD	37 AD	The future

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28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number�Genesis 1:28

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then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.�Genesis 2:7

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8 And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:8-9

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10 A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers

Genesis 2:10

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1�The God who is life

The theme of LIFE through the Story of the Bible
1�The God who is Life	2�God creates Life	3�God creates Humans	4�Humans choose�Death	5�God promises New Life	6�God’s People choose�Death	7�Prophets promise New Life	8�Jesus �the Life gives Life	9�Jesus �the Life chooses Death	10�Jesus �Rises to give Life	11�Jesus �begins New creation
Before Creation	Creation	Creation	Sin	Abraham	Exile	Prophets	Jesus	Cross	Resurrection	New Creation
Eternity	At some point	After 2	After 3	2000 BC	700-500 BC	700-500 BC	33 AD	37 AD	37 AD	The future

LIFE

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1�The God who is life

The theme of LIFE through the Story of the Bible
1�The God who is Life	2�God creates Life	3�God creates Humans	4�Humans choose�Death	5�God promises New Life	6�God’s People choose�Death	7�Prophets promise New Life	8�Jesus �the Life gives Life	9�Jesus �the Life chooses Death	10�Jesus �Rises to give Life	11�Jesus �begins New creation
Before Creation	Creation	Creation	Sin	Abraham	Exile	Prophets	Jesus	Cross	Resurrection	New Creation
Eternity	At some point	After 2	After 3	2000 BC	700-500 BC	700-500 BC	33 AD	37 AD	37 AD	The future

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“I will make you into a great nation,

and I will bless you;

I will make your name great,

and you will be a blessing.

3 I will bless those who bless you,

and whoever curses you I will curse;

and all peoples on earth

will be blessed through you.”

Genesis 12:3-3

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7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills, 8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey,

Deuteronomy 8:7-8

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15 “See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil. 16 If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules,[b] then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. Deuteronomy 8:7-8

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JUDGES

KINGS

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1�The God who is life

The theme of LIFE through the Story of the Bible
1�The God who is Life	2�God creates Life	3�God creates Humans	4�Humans choose�Death	5�God promises New Life	6�God’s People choose�Death	7�Prophets promise New Life	8�Jesus �the Life gives Life	9�Jesus �the Life chooses Death	10�Jesus �Rises to give Life	11�Jesus �begins New creation
Before Creation	Creation	Creation	Sin	Abraham	Exile	Prophets	Jesus	Cross	Resurrection	New Creation
Eternity	At some point	After 2	After 3	2000 BC	700-500 BC	700-500 BC	33 AD	37 AD	37 AD	The future

LIFE

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1�The God who is life

The theme of LIFE through the Story of the Bible
1�The God who is Life	2�God creates Life	3�God creates Humans	4�Humans choose�Death	5�God promises New Life	6�God’s People choose�Death	7�Prophets promise New Life	8�Jesus �the Life gives Life	9�Jesus �the Life chooses Death	10�Jesus �Rises to give Life	11�Jesus �begins New creation
Before Creation	Creation	Creation	Sin	Abraham	Exile	Prophets	Jesus	Cross	Resurrection	New Creation
Eternity	At some point	After 2	After 3	2000 BC	700-500 BC	700-500 BC	33 AD	37 AD	37 AD	The future

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10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army. �Ezekiel 37:10

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12 And on the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither, nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing.”. �Ezekiel 47:12

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1�The God who is life

The theme of LIFE through the Story of the Bible
1�The God who is Life	2�God creates Life	3�God creates Humans	4�Humans choose�Death	5�God promises New Life	6�God’s People choose�Death	7�Prophets promise New Life	8�Jesus �the Life gives Life	9�Jesus �the Life chooses Death	10�Jesus �Rises to give Life	11�Jesus �begins New creation
Before Creation	Creation	Creation	Sin	Abraham	Exile	Prophets	Jesus	Cross	Resurrection	New Creation
Eternity	At some point	After 2	After 3	2000 BC	700-500 BC	700-500 BC	33 AD	37 AD	37 AD	The future
The Old Testament

LIFE

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NEHEMIAH

EZRA

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1�The God who is life

The theme of LIFE through the Story of the Bible
1�The God who is Life	2�God creates Life	3�God creates Humans	4�Humans choose�Death	5�God promises New Life	6�God’s People choose�Death	7�Prophets promise New Life	8�Jesus �the Life gives Life	9�Jesus �the Life chooses Death	10�Jesus �Rises to give Life	11�Jesus �begins New creation
Before Creation	Creation	Creation	Sin	Abraham	Exile	Prophets	Jesus	Cross	Resurrection	New Creation
Eternity	At some point	After 2	After 3	2000 BC	700-500 BC	700-500 BC	33 AD	37 AD	37 AD	The future
The Old Testament

LIFE

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1�The God who is life

The theme of LIFE through the Story of the Bible
1�The God who is Life	2�God creates Life	3�God creates Humans	4�Humans choose�Death	5�God promises New Life	6�God’s People choose�Death	7�Prophets promise New Life	8�Jesus �the Life gives Life	9�Jesus �the Life chooses Death	10�Jesus �Rises to give Life	11�Jesus �begins New creation
Before Creation	Creation	Creation	Sin	Abraham	Exile	Prophets	Jesus	Cross	Resurrection	New Creation
Eternity	At some point	After 2	After 3	2000 BC	700-500 BC	700-500 BC	33 AD	37 AD	37 AD	The future
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Jesus at Creation	Jesus at the Cross
Speaking/Words	Silence
Blessing	Cursed
Multiply	Childless
Dust/Clay/Body	Broken
Breath/Spirit	Asphyxiated
Fruit Trees	Crucified
River/Water	Thirsted

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1�The God who is life

The theme of LIFE through the Story of the Bible
1�The God who is Life	2�God creates Life	3�God creates Humans	4�Humans choose�Death	5�God promises New Life	6�God’s People choose�Death	7�Prophets promise New Life	8�Jesus �the Life gives Life	9�Jesus �the Life chooses Death	10�Jesus �Rises to give Life	11�Jesus �begins New creation
Before Creation	Creation	Creation	Sin	Abraham	Exile	Prophets	Jesus	Cross	Resurrection	New Creation
Eternity	At some point	After 2	After 3	2000 BC	700-500 BC	700-500 BC	33 AD	37 AD	37 AD	The future
The Old Testament

LIFE

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1�The God who is life

The theme of LIFE through the Story of the Bible
1�The God who is Life	2�God creates Life	3�God creates Humans	4�Humans choose�Death	5�God promises New Life	6�God’s People choose�Death	7�Prophets promise New Life	8�Jesus �the Life gives Life	9�Jesus �the Life chooses Death	10�Jesus �Rises to give Life	11�Jesus �begins New creation
Before Creation	Creation	Creation	Sin	Abraham	Exile	Prophets	Jesus	Cross	Resurrection	New Creation
Eternity	At some point	After 2	After 3	2000 BC	700-500 BC	700-500 BC	33 AD	37 AD	37 AD	The future
The Old Testament							The New Testament

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1 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2 down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. �Revelation 22:1-3

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3 No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him. 4 They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. �Revelation 22:3-4

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1�The God who is life

The theme of LIFE through the Story of the Bible
1�The God who is Life	2�God creates Life	3�God creates Humans	4�Humans choose�Death	5�God promises New Life	6�God’s People choose�Death	7�Prophets promise New Life	8�Jesus �the Life gives Life	9�Jesus �the Life chooses Death	10�Jesus �Rises to give Life	11�Jesus �begins New creation
Before Creation	Creation	Creation	Sin	Abraham	Exile	Prophets	Jesus	Cross	Resurrection	New Creation
Eternity	At some point	After 2	After 3	2000 BC	700-500 BC	700-500 BC	33 AD	37 AD	37 AD	The future
The Old Testament							The New Testament

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God is the author of your life

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God is the author of your life
The Bible is the better story

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God is the author of your life
The Bible is the better story
Life is only found in relationship with God

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God is the author of your life
The Bible is the better story
Life is only found in relationship with God
God made us to enjoy Him while we enjoy life

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God is the author of your life
The Bible is the better story
Life is only found in relationship with God
God made us to enjoy Him while we enjoy life
The Life of Jesus Provides Our Pattern for Living

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God is the author of your life
The Bible is the better story
Life is only found in relationship with God
God made us to enjoy Him while we enjoy life
The Life of Jesus Provides Our Pattern for Living
Community Is Essential to Experiencing God's Life

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God is the author of your life
The Bible is the better story
Life is only found in relationship with God
God made us to enjoy Him while we enjoy life
The Life of Jesus Provides Our Pattern for Living
Community Is Essential to Experiencing God's Life
Suffering Has Purpose in God's Story

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God is the author of your life
The Bible is the better story
Life is only found in relationship with God
God made us to enjoy Him while we enjoy life
The Life of Jesus Provides Our Pattern for Living
Community Is Essential to Experiencing God's Life
Suffering Has Purpose in God's Story
God's greatest desire for us is to multiply new life

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LIFE

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MAC Devotions:�A short devotional on part of Sunday’s passage��Delivered:�Sun, Tues, & Thurs �@ 9 PM for next day

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MAC Study:�A 10-15 Youtube talk by John Piper on part of Sunday’s passage.

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