 Dear all welcome to today's session on the book of Genesis. Today we are going to study on the first book of Genesis from our Old Testament survey. So before I could start our session I will just present the notes from our PDF book. I hope everyone I've downloaded this PDF version of a textbook. Have all of us downloaded the book? Yes, yes, master. Thank you. I'm just trying to present. Okay the introduction of the book of Genesis before we could start the five the first five books of the Bible are called the Pentateuch. The Pentateuch is derived from this Greek word which simply means the five books or the five scrolls. The Jews refer to them as the Torah or the law. The first five books can be divided into unequal parts. The first part being the Genesis and the second part being from Exodus to Deuteronomy. I also request you all to keep please keep your Bible and the notepad side by side so that as we share as we study you can make a note of that. And the book of Genesis narrates the creation story the spread of sin and also records the ancestral origin of Israel. We see God interacting with Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph and many other people in this first book. Whereas Exodus to Deuteronomy recount the salvation of Israel from Egypt and the journey in the wilderness and the law given to Moses by God and the holy mountain. Well these four books are a mixture of narrative and law set during the time of Moses and we see his story from his birth and his death in this book. Let's survey this book of Genesis. If we keep our Bibles open it will be good for us to survey through this book. Before we could study the background of this book we see Genesis is the first book of the Pentateuch. That is the first five books and it is also the first book in the Hebrew Bible and this book has been very important to the Jewish people and also for our Christians. So Genesis is the first book of the Pentateuch. The word Genesis comes from a Greek word called Genesis which means beginning or origin. So the Bible as a whole is God's progressive revelation of himself and his desire to have a covenant based relationship with mankind. The Old Testament is the first step that God takes in this progressive revelation. So in the Old Testament we see that God created the whole universe and finally he created man in his own image. Now he created man to have the fellowship, have a relationship with him and to be his representative on this earth and man sinned and the very relationship that it was designed between man and God was broken. He lost his God given position and all of creation was manned. However through this man God multiplied the human race. We see that the fallen humanity continued to rebel against God and his ways. God chose different people at different times to fulfill his plan and purpose. One of them was Abraham. God made a covenant with Abraham to make his descendant into a great nation and we see that in Genesis chapter 12 and give them a land of their home as promised. God chose his descendants, blessed them, redeemed them from their presses, gave them the law through Moses and prepared them to enter the promised land and eventually conquered the land with God's help and settled there under the leadership of different judges. The chosen by God to rule over the nation and protect him from the enemies. Overtime a kingdom was formed and Israel's king we appointed by God but not long after. Israel was divided into two kingdoms. One was northern kingdom and the other was southern kingdom. Both these kingdoms were destroyed eventually and the people were taken into captivity because of their unfaithfulness to the covenant of God had established with them. Throughout this time we see that God has been warning his people by different means especially through his prophets. Sadly the messages they shared were often rejected and their lives were endangered. See some of our friends have joined. Let me admit them. So God remained faithful even by his people were in exile and as he promised he brought the Israelites back to the land. God showed his people a shadow of the coming Messiah Jesus Christ who would come to deliver his people. In fact the whole world the entire Old Testament paved the way for the Messiah. As we study book after book we'll see how the shadow of the Messiah has been predicted in that particular book. As we survey the Old Testament we will understand that God and his redemptive work is a great way. We will also see his relationship with chosen people prior to the cross. The law which is which is from the book of Genesis to the book of Deuteronomy that is the book of Pentateuch. The history books again from Joshua to Esther and the book of Wisdom from Job to song of Solomon and the prophetic books from from the book of Isaiah to the last book of the book of Malachi. Every book of the Old Testament was inspired by the Holy Spirit and revealed to us the character or and the nature of God. With us we see a diagram in our notes that the book focuses on the four events and on the four people. The four events are from the creation from chapter one. We see in chapter one talks about the creation and in chapter three talks about the fall of the man. Chapter six talks about the flood, the complete wash of the human race and by grace how God saved only the Noah and his family and in chapter 10 we talks about the nation and in chapter 12 we see the call of Abraham and in chapter 25 we see how God leads Isaac with the promises what he made with his father Abraham and 27 Jacob. As our God has been faithful even when Jacob sinned and went away how God restores him back the wrestle with Jacob and how God restored him back and he renamed him from Jacob to Israel and and in the last few chapters from 37 to 50 we see we see the life of Joseph the situation the circumstances that he went through and how God brought, how God blessed Joseph and the first book from chapter one to 12 talks about the human race and chapter 12 to chapter 50 talks about the Hebrew race. So with this we will move on to discuss about the author Moses some believe Genesis was the work of several authors over many years even some believed Moses wrote this Exodus to Deuteronomy but what does the scripture says? The scripture says that Moses wrote this book whereas in the in the Old Testament and also in the New Testament the scripture clearly mentions Moses that he was the author of this first five books. A few of the points we see that during his year in the Egyptian royal family Moses could have been a skilled writer and historian because he had the knowledge of the Egyptian terms and customs and he also may have had the access to the historical books through which he could record if we see this in Exodus chapter 2 verse 1 to 11 and also in the New Testament Acts 7 22 and the various places we also see Jesus saying that Moses as recorded so Jesus himself said that Moses recorded so this is one of the witness that we could take that Moses was the author of first five books of the Pentateuch. The date and location though the exact time of Moses wrote Genesis is unknown it is likely near the close of the first 40 years when he was still in the Egyptian court and had success to the access to the historical documents maybe during that time and the scholar suggests that it may be in 1446 BC and the very purpose of this book we see to reveal the origin and purpose of the universe of life and humanity to show the personal relationship to the covenant making nature of God and it also records the early history of the Hebrew people revealing Jesus is the Messiah we also see the general purpose now to furnish an account of the beginning of all things Genesis records 11 beginnings and they are given below the beginning of the earth has the first point is the beginning of the earth as man's habitation and then we see the beginning of the human race in chapter 1 verse 26 and also we see in chapter 2 verse 4 to 25. I will just leave out as the scriptures says in the meanwhile I also request you all to open up your Bible and take up each verse so I will take up the first point verse somebody else take up the next verse Genesis chapter 1 verse 26 and 27 the next person so that when we study the scripture then we would know what exactly the the word of God talks about each and every point so I'm reading Genesis chapter 1 verse 1 have everyone turned your bibles through Genesis chapter 1 verse 1 it says in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and chapter 2 verse 30 no chapter no same chapter verse 30 also to every beast of the earth to every bird of the hair and to everything that creeps on the earth is in which there is life I have given every green herb for food and it was so then God saw everything that he had made and indeed it was very good so the evening in the morning where the sins today so we see that how God created God created the heaven and earth and all the habitations that man needs even before God could create man he created everything that is needed for the man the next point is the beginning of the human race can one of us take chapter 1 verse 26 27 Genesis chapter 1 verses 26 then God said let us make man in our own image in our likeness and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air over the lifetops all over the earth and all over the creatures that move along the ground thank you thank you so what does the scripture talk about does it talk about let us when it said let us who's that us mam I think pre-nity God the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit yes you're right and even in the first point we see in verse 3 verse 3 it said then God said let there be light and there was light what do you think is it very important for us to speak out God don't have to you know say the minute he thinks things can be created it or maybe the very look of God you know pointing out certain things he has the power to bring things into existence when he has so much is so much power why is it in verse 3 it says God said all the creations you see everywhere God calls things into existence do you think it is important for us to speak and call things into existence God teaching us the importance of calling things into existence class you can unmute and speak out I think God was calling out words basically because he was bringing Jesus Christ into the mix because when you read Father in the Bible it says that the word was with God and that word was Jesus Christ I think was putting Jesus Christ into the mix thank you thank you okay mom in that in that text too I also see faith mixed with action broad thinking is creation is an act of fitting himself and speaking it out is the action he took on the faith so faith must always come with action to create what we are thinking to go create what our thoughts thank you thank you thank you yes anyone else okay yes we have many points that we can discuss as we go and it's a good thing yes God wants us to speak out there is power when we speak out there is power because in Proverbs 18 21 we see that death and life lies in the power of your tongue and we shall have the fruit of it so it is very important of every word that we speak we have to be a person who calls things into existence as as Paul says in the book of Romans you know because very clearly God's you know Genesis records and verse three thing God said God though God saw the darkness if you read verse two you see the earth was without form it says the earth was without form and void and darkness was on the face of the deep and the spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters so there was darkness there was void it was uneven and the spirit of God was just hovering over this place but not doing anything he was waiting for God's command the minute God said God looked at darkness and he called upon light God looked at darkness and he called upon light what is the opposite of darkness light yes so what is the opposite of our trouble of our of our trial that we each of us are facing in our life are we calling things opposite to what we are facing today or we are talking about our trouble our situation our problem every time we go through it are we talking about our sickness or are we claiming our healing are we talking about the curse which is coming from the generation to generation over us or are we talking about God's blessing in our life what are we talking about we need to look into it because our God is a God who calls things into existence and our words have power when God saw darkness he called light when we see sickness we need to speak healing when we see curse we need to speak blessing when we see something not not right or not well situation we are going through a season of tunnel in our life speak God's word to have your breakthrough because the word of God says that you are more than an overcomeer and when we speak we see the power of God we see the Holy Spirit more because we have released the word of God we have released this promise in and through us okay and we'll see the power of God more and we can discuss about this much later at the time of discussion the third point we can move and if anyone is ready with third point the beginning of Sabbath chapter 2 verse 2 and 3 Genesis chapter 2 please go ahead anyone up here Genesis chapter 2 verses 3 and God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done so what did God do he rested he rested so it is so important for us even to have rest so that we will not get burned up we need to rest and don't have to feel like we are lazy if you're resting one day no God expects us to rest God the rest is not needed for God but God shows sets an example for us though I worked for all the seven days on the seventh day six days on the seventh day God rested okay and the fourth point fourth point can anyone else read so the Lord Genesis chapter 2 verse 21 so the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep and while he was sleeping he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man and he brought her to the man then the man said this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh she shall be called woman for she was taken out of man for this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife and they will become one flesh thank you amen so what does this scripture say teaches about the Lord created Adam and Lord created Eve Lord was a creator man just did not exist with through a cell okay but God created man from the dust he created them he breathed life into them okay we are created by God by his image by his likeness we have been created anyone would like to share what is their point of view on this verse and also it talks about marriage talks about marriage Lord you know he brings them together he does not want man to be alone but then he creates a suitable partner and you know he brings them together and he and Adam looks at Eve and says this is now the bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh she shall be called women because she was taken out of man there was a man and therefore man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and they shall become one flesh and they were both naked and the man and his wife and they're not ashamed okay so what God is saying is God has brought these two together so in marriage we see that you know when they get married a couple gets married and they need to they are no more two individuals they have been made one they have been united in Christ you know united and God as a three-fold card so we see that in in the scripture again and again saying that a man and women are been united as one flesh they're no more two individuals but they have been united and God has been there with them as a three-fold card with this we will move on to the next point chapter five of fifth point the beginning of sin chapter three verse one two seven chapter three verses one two seven now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made he said to the woman did God really says you must not eat from any tree in the garden the woman said to the serpent we may eat fruits from the tree in the garden but God did not say what God did say you must not eat fruits from the tree that is in the middle of the garden and you must not touch it or you may die forth you will not surely die the serpent said to the woman for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God knowing good and evil when the woman when the woman saw that fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye and was desirable for gaining wisdom she took some and ate it she also gave some to her husband who was with her and he ate it when the eyes of both of them were opened and they realized that they were naked so they sewed the fig leaves together and made covering for themselves thank you thank you sin so we see the beginning of sin how did this sin begin there are three points that we could see in this verse what are there what left eave to sin what are the three points that we see in the scripture reading that led eve to sin we need to keep up this little faster because the time is running we have 15 20 minutes more okay we see the three points as the lust of eyes the lust of flesh and the pride of life you see these three things led eve to sin even today in our life if you see if something has led us to sin it may involve these three lust of eyes lust of flesh and pride of life so we need to be watchful we need to be very careful when we are been enticed with any of these things okay due to time we will not get into in detail of each and every point because we need to cover this whole chapter I will just go through and wherever required I will just briefly explain it but I would recommend you to do your bible study I would recommend you to go through each and every chapter and read for a better understanding of the scripture the sixth point here it says the beginning of redemptive revelation we see god revealing the plan what he has in store then we see in the seventh point the beginning of sacrifice what was the first sacrifice there chapter 3 verse 21 the lord god made garment of the skin for adam and his wife and clothed them so that was the first sacrifice to make a tunic for them god used the skin of what skin of an animal so god had to kill that animal to get them to clothe them so there was a covering to cover the nakedness god had to kill and now it was just a covering but then what was the redemptive revelation the sacrifice jesus will be our sacrifice in the new testament in the old testament we see every sacrifice that was made for the sin they they gave a lot of sin offering right we will study in detail when we come to the book of leviticus okay it was just the covering of sin but then in the new testament we see the complete forgiveness of sin washing off that sin is through the sacrifice of the only begotten son jesus christ this will go to the point eight the beginning of godless civilization how people rebelled against god and what was the result of their rebel because the bible says the scripture says the wages of the wages of sin is death the rebel the the people who rebelled against god had to face the consequence of their very action with this we will move on to ninth point the beginning of the nation god called a family out nova and through nova the generation spread and increased and how god called through jakep though he said and he deceived his own brother but god chose jakep to bring out a nation and god god renamed jakep as his right we see that in that chapter at the beginning of language new languages god introduced to scatter the people all over the earth so that they can multiply and in 11th point we see the beginning of the Hebrew race the covenant people god had a covenant he made his first covenant with Abraham sorry not the first covenant he made it before that he made a covenant with Abraham he chose Abraham and he made a covenant and Abraham just believed on god and how he stepped out or you know out of his father's house in faith on this god just the voice Abraham just heard the voice and that's why he was called the father of faith with these general purposes we also have some specific purpose that are the origin of the nation of israel as gods the cilia people from whom the redeemer would come in the genealogy of jesus in the book of matthew we see the genealogy of jesus completely from you know it starts from ibraham son of david it reads in matthew chapter one verse one and to the book of the genealogy of jesus christ the son of david the son of Abraham, Abraham begot isaac it starts from Abraham so god brought the origin from then on the unique features we see that genesis introduces single most important issue of life the problem of sin and evil and begot and begins to show the solution of that problem god as a solution to every problem he introduces three of the four god given institution foundational to human history marriage human government and the chosen nation of israel the four institution the church is introduced which is also we see that in detail in matthew chapter 16 it also records about the abrahamic covenant the first of the three most important unconditional covenant in the old testament and the other two are the davidic covenant and the new covenant we will be studying further about the davidic covenant new covenant for now we will study on the abrahamic covenant the abrahamic blessings what are the abrahamic blessings can we turn to genesis chapter 12 now the lord said to abraham get out of your country from your family and from your father's house to a land that i will show you i will make you a great nation i will bless you and make your name great and you shall be your blessing and i will bless those who bless you and i will curse who curses you and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed there are five points we see in abrahamic covenant we see that god calls a single person and he says i will make you a great nation just the way god promised did god bring out a nation out of abraham's generation though abraham walked out of his father's house having nothing but god said i will bless you and make your name great his name has been so great that still we are able to talk about him and there is a covenant abrahamic covenant is still active in us through jesus christ in us the third point we see is i will bless those who bless you and i will curse those who curse you we are the inheritance of this abrahamic blessing whoever blesses us will be blessed and the last point we see the fifth point we see is in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed we all inherit this covenant this abrahamic covenant in us through jesus christ our lord we all have the axis of this covenant but this we will move on to the comparison with the other bible books genesis has been compared with revelation as it records humanities genesis records human humanities first rebellion against god and revelation records the final rebellion and we also see genesis records the entrance of sin and revelation records it's exist so the same way there's other comparison in the following books of roman john john and john one john and also relations we need to read each and every chapter to know the comparison this may be one of the questions we've asked for our exam and the outline of genesis the outline of genesis is very important so that we know each and every chapter it talks about we see chapter one to two talks about the creation it talks about the fall in chapter three and four to five talks about the fall to the flood and then we see six to nine the flood and the flood to abraham and chapter 10 to 11 in chapter 12 we see the call of abraham and chapter 25 we see the blessed the covenant son isaac in this life story and then we read about the life of jakeb and the circumstances that he went through deceiving his own brother and what he went through at the at lapan's start and lost house and later we see joseph how joseph went through the difficult season in his life and how god was with joseph it you know joseph became so prosperous what was the reason that joseph became so prosperous can anyone say ma'am because the hand of the god was upon him yes that's how joseph could overcome many obstacles and we you know and bible also records that joseph ran away from potter first wife how could joseph run away because the hand of god was upon joseph god was with joseph and joseph was blessed and whatever he did whatever he did he was a man of blessing and that's how god left him and throughout his difficult time when he was in trial in you know he was persecuted by his own brother he was sold and then he was a slave in potter first house and then in the prison under the in the pharaoh's prison wherever he was god was with him god was with him and god led him and during every season bible does not say that joseph murmured joseph thought ill about his brother or joseph you know there was no negative emotions but every time he believed on the dream that god gave him saying that god will raise me up god will lift me up this season is not the same he will change he believed on the promises of god just the way abraham believed just as our joseph believed god lifted him up for god lifted him up god blessed and god revealed the secrets of that kingdom secret of the pharaoh's dream to joseph god gave him the wisdom to have the seven year none that's how we need to have a relationship with god when we walk with god when we have when we develop this relationship with god our god reveals the secret things to us a god is a god who tells first who reveals first and then he does if you see even in the life of abraham god first revealed and what god has a plan for him and how god is going to execute him god may not have told how he's going to execute the execution process but he gave him the final picture and abraham believed abraham believed and righteousness was credited into him when we believe we see god's grace been credited into our life in different ways that has been needed for us just like how god spoke to joseph through a dream revealed his future the plan that god had in store for joseph and then god again spoke to joseph dream and revealed the secret of the dream of pharaoh for and he also enabled him to interpret that dream the wisdom that courage comes from god because of the relationship that joseph had with god he never sinned throughout the time he could be strong even in the even during the season of trial or during the time of difficulty because god was with joseph we need to have that relationship that we can pursue what god wants us to do and god is a god who reveals things to us god is a god of wisdom he increases us in our wisdom so that we will be a blessing to many because that's the promise that's the covenant blessing that you and i have through jesus christ he wants to raise us he has called us he has set us apart and he wants to have a relationship with us that we may excel in every area of our life and we may be a blessing to the nation and to the nations this is the blessing that we have and i would also encourage you to go through the outline of Genesis so that we can in detail study about the many topics that has been listed in the book we have also the scriptures listed there the chapter wise i would encourage you to please go through it and we lastly we will study on the portrayal of or the shadow of jesus christ in the book of genesis adam is a type of christ adam is a type of christ we see in roman's chapter five verse 14 can any of us please turn to roman's chapter five verse 14 and read nevertheless death reigned from the time of adam to the time of moses even over those who did not sin by breaking a command as did adam who was a pattern of the one to come so if sin reigned through one man if death reigned through one man we have life eternal through one man and who is that one man who died on our behalf jesus jesus we see that in verse 12 onwards if we can read therefore just as through one man sin entered the world and death through sin and thus death spread to all men because all sin for until the law sin was in the world but sin is not imputed where there is no law nevertheless death reigned from man from adam to moses even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness the transgression of adam who was a type of him who has to who was to come but the free gift is not like the offense but for if by one man's offense many died much more the grace of god and the gift by the grace of one man jesus christ abounded to many through one man's death we are in verse 17 for if by one man's offense death reigned through the one much more those who receive abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness will reign in life through one jesus christ so if through one man sin entered the world through one man we have been saved that is through the blood of jesus christ he died on the cross to save each of us who believes and we have the eternal life which has been said in john 3 16 so with this so adam was the shadow of christ in this book we also see you know the skin of slain of a beast and that also shares the atonement of christ and melchizedek is another type of christ in the book of hebrew we read that because in mel in the old testament melchizedek was the high priest to whom abraham offered his offering and we also see joseph lifted from the pit to throne how joseph was humiliated before exaltation in the same way we see the life of joseph is a picture of jesus christ both are the objects of the special love of their fathers and both hated by their brothers both were rejected and the rulers over the brothers both are conspired against and sold for a silver and both are condemned and though they were innocent and both are raised from humiliation to glory by the palm of god so the book of genesis is not the textbook of history of mankind but is concerned only with events compared directly upon the selective plan of god in this redemptive work so with this we end this book of genesis and if there's any of y'all would like to share anything about this book of genesis you can go ahead we have five minutes of discussion i think it's out of time but still you can share if there's anything before we could end this class in a time of prayer is there anyone in the class would like to share or add anything to the book of genesis thank you pastor then it was really good to have outline of genesis and it's yeah there's nothing for us to add for like from my part nothing else to add yeah it was really good to just go through those chapters your minds of all the all the characters and stories and how god worked in their lives and thank you for those encouragements that you shared in between yeah make our blessing thank you thank you and yes dear friends i would like to request you all to read the life of people because it is very important to know the faith that Abraham carried when he was asked to offer his son Isaac you know we can talk about many stories of these people in their life but then due to time constraint i have to rest it but i would encourage you to read how Isaac in chapter 26 he tries to follow just what his father did but then god says no you don't have to go to Egypt during famine but then i will bless you in the place where you are you know from each and every character when we study you see god interacting with that person and he's continuously being a god of blessing the same way god is ready to interact with us when we have a relationship with him and always remember god is a god of blessing god has planned for us just the way he had planned for each of them okay but this we will in the class with the word of prayer dear god we thank you we love you we praise you you are the god we're seeing you are the god alpha and omega you are the same god even today you are a god who desires to have a relationship with us lord we thank you the way you chose Abraham Isaac and Jacob the same way lord you have chosen each one of us lord you have called us you have set us apart you are building and preparing us to have this covenant relationship with you lord lord we thank you that you have a plan for us plan to prosper us and give us a future lord we thank you lord help us to have faith like Abraham help us to perceive in the way that you have called us lord increase that perseverance in us increase that endurance in us lord just the way you were with joseph lord we pray that you will be with each of us lord so that we may not fall we may not give in to the temptation that comes our way lord but then we will stand strong and endure it and and and receive the reward of that endurance of our thank you lord for you are our god we are enriched by the blood of jesus we are enriched in this new covenant because you are with us thank you for the holy spirit who abides in us forever thank you lord if jesus most precious name we pray amen amen amen amen thank you so much for joining today's class see you all tomorrow and we will study of the book of the exodus i will request you all to please go through the chapter okay thank you but let's see you also uh can you also re-upload the notes please not the notes okay you want the notes to be thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you i will re-upload i will re-upload the notes thank you ma'am thank you thank you god bless thank you god bless thank you ma'am thank you thank you ma'am thank you thank you god bless thank you pastor i just wanted to share something uh