There & Back WK3

 

SLIDE:  There & Back Again.

 

SLIDE:  Biblically Based, Relationally Driven, Spirit-Led

 

SLIDE: Exploring the connections between the Old Testament and New Testaments is important for our faith journey.

 

If I Don’t know your story!  Can’t know you!

 

Jesus. NT not OT.   Just from when I met you!

 

2 levels:  “Family & Greater Culture”

where you grew up, family stories that are repeated,

struggle and joys.

 

Fran: Italian:  Sardinia, Sicily

Me:  British, German and Adopted!

 

Jesus:  He is Jewish. Single mom, Son of God.

His world was all about the Older Testament.

Jew… Faith in the God of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob

Adam and Eve, the fall, Moses, Messiah

Nazareth of the Galilee (Galilee of the gentiles)

 

The Older Testament Scriptures inform everything!

 

THE OT tells us about him!

Son of Man, Son of David, Son of God, Messiah.

 

 

The Road To Emmaus   2 men.

 

The women told them they… see Jesus!

 

Broken Hearted and Disappointed “Lost”!

 

Sundance Kidd.

Open.  Something beyond personal thoughts.

The Scripture for comfort, direction, and information.

Something deeper, trusted, eternal.

 

 

SLIDE:  Road To Emmaus    Pg. 859

Luke 24:25-27 He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” 27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

 

The Gospel of Luke …  THINK deeply about this!

 

!!  A LIFE GROUP  !!

 

SLIDE: Luke 24:31 “then their eyes were opened!”

 

“I was blind but now I see”

ah hah moment!  It all makes sense!

 

Story!  Fran and Her mom. My son and me.

 

SLIDE:  Luke 24:32  They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

 

HEAD & HEART collide!    FAITH  BELIEF  UNDERSTANDING!

 

Not just Emmaus…  Charlottesville

 

They story is told more deeply!

 

SLIDE: Luke 24:31 “then their eyes were opened!”

 

Genesis – Malachi

 

THE FALL  = God walking in the Garden!

 

Adam and Eve.

SLIDE: Genesis 3:7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked…

 

Genesis 2:25 Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

 

SLIDE: Genesis 3:6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; 8  they hid from the Lord God,

 

10  I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”

 

FEAR, SHAME, Separation, hiding!  Covering up.

Dysfunction…

 

Eve… “fell first”.

 

She – EVE…  was to blame!   She handed the fruit!

The wheels come off!

 

THE GARDEN OF EDEN.

 

A GARDEN TOMB!

 

SLIDE:  Mary Magdalene.

John 20:16  She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).

 

John 20: 18 Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!”

 

Mary Magdalene  (Migdal), 7 demons,  John 20

 

the gardener!

 

 

God is again, Walking in the garden!

 

This time!  “She” runs to him and clasping his feet worships him!!

 

It is “in a garden” that God announces “the curse, pain in childbirth, banishment from God’s presence and death”

 

It is to Mary M that He announces “resurrection life”!

 

 

God rewrites the story of the FALL  Garden of Eden

 

The Garden =  Fall to Resurrection!

 

Death has been defeated.

 

SLIDE: Exploring the connections between the Old Testament and New Testaments is important for our faith journey.