Staying in God's Presence

The 1st Book of God's Word is Genesis. Within it’s pages God tells of our creation after God made all the rest of the Cosmos through Christ. Humans were the crown of creation, made in the Creator’s image. Then man embraced sin instead of obedience and the long line of ravaged, ruined and buried bodies testified to sin’s destroying power.

But all along the way are clues on how God wanted His creatures to be restored in fellowship with Him. Coming back to God had to involve the shed blood of animals to show a substitutionary atonement.

¸ That is why God killed animals to clothe Adam and Eve.
¸ The altar of sacrifice was offered to both Cain and Abel.
¸ The grace at the Flood for Noah and his family.
¸ God's Calling Abram from the idolatry of Ur.
¸ The many altars of meeting in the pages of Genesis all speak of God's desire for restoring His own to fellowship.

Then the offering of an only son on an altar of sacrifice culminates the story. Isaac is saved by the substitution of a Lamb provided by God! And the story is complete. God's plan is substitutionary atonement, bloody sacrifice and heart prompted obedience.

That was Genesis. The 2nd Book of God's Word is our study tonight. The Book of Exodus continues the incredible story of God's desires for us His creations. Please turn there with me as we uncover within these pages the wonders of Jesus Christ. He is perfectly all we need.