Larry Siegle · Rom. 15:4-7; I Cor. 10:11-13
Link to sermon video: What was Meant and What it Means? – L Siegle
Redemption Realized
“From the Beginning: The BIG Picture”
(Rom. 15:4-7; I Cor. 10:11-13)
Thesis: What is the inseparable connection between SOTERIOLOGY and ESCHATOLOGY?
INTRODUCTION
1. The title of this series is, “Redemption Realized”
2. The time of this message is, “What it MEANT and What It MEANS”
3. How does the Bible present the relationship between redemption and what is teaches about last things?
THE “TIMES OF SILENCE”
1. There are common reactions I have gotten over the decades, since 1986—(40 years ago) as I began to study and to teach the fulfilled view of ‘last things’ and of course this is the FACE of people looking at me as I present the information [2].
2. There will no doubt be some things presented in this series that you have not heard before, or thought about carefully and so that PUZZLED LOOK may also shine across your face.
a. Be patient and we will explore these things together and I hope that our love for God, and desire to understand His word will be ignited so that we can share these things with our own friends, neighbors, relatives, children and
grandchildren.
3. Is understanding the Bible and the purpose of God THIS complicated (as some seem to make it)[3]
a. I promise that if you stay with me in this study, we will be able to condense and to simplify what the Bible actually teaches…[4]
b. Habakkuk was written in between 626 and 612 BCE, as he was sent to the people in Judah to warn them of approaching judgment and invasion of the Babylonians who began ‘the carrying away’ from the land in 597 BCE,
with the destruction of Solomon’s temple in 586 BCE.
c. The prophet was told to write these things down on a “tablet” (his tablet was not an iPad) (Hab 1:1, 2, 6, 12, 13; 2:1-3).
d. As we will discover, when God’s judgment is pronounced, it is according to “the appointed time” (a technical term used throughout the Scriptures)—God is never late, never early, He is on time.
e. A sidenote: Throughout the Bible God used the instrumentality of “nations” to execute judgment on His behalf
f. Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome (World Powers of Bible History).
4. Where to we begin our study of the inseparable relationship that existed within redemptive history?
a. We need to begin with the beginning [5]
b. This quote helps us in our understanding of the Old and New Testaments [6]
1) The world (in general) and our brotherhood (specifically) understands that the “ends of the ages” remain “yet future” to our own time, and therefore God must do something more that what was accomplished and recorded in the pages of Scripture.
2) Redemptive History (to many) is not yet complete and people want to ‘write themselves into’ the Biblical context, instead of understanding God’s Word as a fulfilled revelation.
WHOSE ‘STORY’ IS THE BIBLE ITSELF?
1. People want to make the Bible into their story, but from the very “beginning” the Bible is GOD’S STORY (Gen. 1:1).[7]
2. In the “end” the Bible remains GOD’S STORY (Rev. 21:5-7)
3. First century believers understood that they stood at the “ends of the ages” (I Cor. 10:11)
4. The Bible, is best described by three things: [8] Adam—Christ and Israel
a. There are other aspects such as what occurred with the “nations” that we will address later, but Adam is seen as the “Federal Head” of humanity at the “beginning” (Gen. 1:26-28), Christ is seen as the “Federal Head” of humanity at the “end” (Matt. 28:1; John 17:2).—These are pictured as a corporate identity (includes individuals) who are “in Adam” and “in Christ” from the perspective of sovereignty and also as it pertains to relationship and corporate identity.[9] and comparison with [10]
b. The whole of redemptive history is the pageantry of what God was doing to bring fallen humanity out of Adam and under the rule and authority of Christ and how that was accomplished. Israel became the parenthesis between the results of the entrance of sin and death into the world and the accomplished salvation was to be available to believers “in Christ” (relationally).
5. ILLUSTRATION: There are two states, Ohio and West Virginia. It is possible to be a resident of West Virginia and to cross over into Ohio, and while you are IN Ohio you are amenable to all of the laws and provisions of being IN Ohio. Some things that are legal in West Virginia may not be legal in Ohio. Your accountability is determined by your LOCATION.
a. Since Christ has been given authority over “all flesh” it means that all of humanity is accountable to Him. Being “in Christ” relationally is the provision believers have with all of the benefits of what it means to be “in Him”—not the case for those who are simply under the authority of Christ (John 8:21-25)
b. What Adam failed to do in his TEST, Christ was VICTORIOUS the redemptive scales of God’s justice, mercy, and righteousness were settled and put back into balance [11]
COMPARISON BETWEEN ADAM AND CHRIST [12]
A STUDY OF REDEMPTIVE RESTORATION [13]
THE WHOLE PICTURE OF REDEMPTIVE HISTORY[14]
CONCLUSION
1. Most people have an incomplete understanding of how all these things worked together.
2. The Cross is the basis THROUGH WHICH salvation was “accomplished” for those who come to Him in faith and obedience.
3. People need to understand WHERE we are in relationship with all that God has done.
4. The Bible is a fulfilled revelation on the basis of what God has done, with the reality that HIS work is complete.
5. If you need to pass from accountability apart from relationship you are invited to do that TODAY.
Outline (Word document): Backup_of_Redemption_Realized2.docx