The document summarizes the entire story of the Bible in just five weeks. It does this by focusing on five key people in the Bible - Abel, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jesus Christ - and the redemptive acts associated with each. It explores how each person prefigures or points to Jesus' ultimate redemptive work to pay the price for sin, restore mankind to God, and fulfill God's redemptive purpose. Key Bible passages are referenced for each person to show how their stories and sacrifices foreshadowed Jesus' sacrifice on the cross to redeem mankind.

1. The entire redemptive story of the Bible presented in just five weeks
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4. re·deem - to buy back
Three essential things when you
“buy back” something:
1. You pay a price for it
2. Returned to its rightful owner
3. Restored it to its proper
purpose

5. Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
he will crush your head,
and you will strike his heel.”

6. Romans 5:12-14 Therefore, just as sin
entered the world through one man, and
death through sin, and in this way death
came to all people, because all sinned—To
be sure, sin was in the world before the
law was given, but sin is not charged
against anyone’s account where there is no
law. 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 is a pattern
of the one to come.

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8. Hebrews 11:4 By faith Abel brought God
a better offering than Cain did. By faith he
was commended as righteous, when God
spoke well of his offerings. And by faith
Abel still speaks, even though he is dead
Matthew 23:35 And so upon you will
come all the righteous blood that has been
shed on earth, from the blood of righteous
Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of
Berekiah, whom you murdered between
the temple and the altar.

9. Hebrews 12:24 to Jesus the mediator of
a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood
that speaks a better word than the blood of
Abel.

11. Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, when
warned about things not yet seen, in holy
fear built an ark to save his family. By his
faith he condemned the world and became
heir of the righteousness that is in keeping
with faith.
1 Peter 3:20-22 to those who were
disobedient long ago when God waited
patiently in the days of Noah while the ark
was being built. In it only a few
people, eight in all, were saved through
water, and this water symbolizes baptism

12. now saves you also—not the removal of
dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear
conscience toward God. It saves you by the
resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone
into heaven and is at God’s right hand—
with angels, authorities and powers in
submission to him.

14. Hebrews 11:17-19 By faith
Abraham, when God tested him, offered
Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced
the promises was about to sacrifice his one
and only son, even though God had said to
him, “It is through Isaac that your offspring
will be reckoned.” Abraham reasoned that
God could even raise the dead, and so in a
manner of speaking he did receive Isaac
back from death.

15. • Only begotten Son (Genesis 22:2; John 3:16)
• Offered on a mountain / hill (Genesis 22:2; Matt. 21:10)
• Took donkey to place of sacrifice (Genesis 22:3; Matt. 21:2-1)
• Two men went with him (Genesis 22:3; Mark 15:27)
• Three day journey/in the grave (Genesis 22:4; Luke 24:13-2)
• Carrying wood on his back up hill (Genesis 22:6; John 19:17)
• God provides for Himself the lamb (Genesis 22:8; John 1:29)
• Son was offered on the wood (Genesis 22:9; Luke 23:33)
• Ram in thicket of thorns (Genesis 22:13; John 19:2)
• The seed will be multiplied (Genesis 22:17; John 1:12)
• Abraham went down (Genesis 22:19; Luke 23:46; Heb. 1:3)
• Servant gets bride for son (Genesis 24:1-4; Eph. 5:22-32;
Rev.21:2,9; 2:17)
• The bride was a beautiful virgin (Genesis 24:16; 2 Cor. 11:2)
• Servant offered ten gifts (Genesis 24:10; Rom. 6:23; 1Cor. 12)

16. Notes
• Slide 2 - “The Creation of Adam” section from the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo
• Slide 3 - From “The Fall of Man” by Hendrik Goltzius
• Slide 4 - “Redeem” definition from Merriam-Webster
• Slide 7 - 19th century Bible illustration
• Slide 10 - “The Promise” by Tom Dubois
• Slide 13 - “The Sacrifice of Isaac” by Caravaggio
• Slides 5-6, 8-9, 11-12,14 – Text from the New International Version®, Copyright ©
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