Scheme of

Redemption
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Goals of Our Study
• To learn how God moved from man's problem
of sin to His solution of Jesus on the cross
• To understand how everything in the scriptures
relates to, and points to, Jesus and the cross
• To understand how everything in the Bible
reveals God to mankind - who He is and what
He is like
• Get a better understanding of how we got here
tonight on the orange carpet

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Recap
•"Scheme of Redemption" - The plan of God,
established before creation, to redeem
mankind from sin
•View the Bible as one book with the real
division taking place at Genesis 3:6 rather
than between Malachi and Matthew
•This division covers two drastically
different worlds: The world prior to sin and
the world after sin
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Recap
•Genesis 1-2: God and perfection, man and
innocence
• Strife and tragedy were unheard of
• Adam did not lie awake at night stressing over
how he was going to resolve a problem in his life
or how he was going to survive.
•Genesis 3-12 – “The Background of
Redemption”
• The true division of the Bible takes place at
Genesis 3:6. Everything changed here
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Recap
•Sin the source of all suffering and no
one is immune from its effects
•God is not to blame – It was our choice
•Romans 3:23 – For all have sinned and fall
short of the glory of God
•Each of us have indirectly eaten of the
wrong tree
•Each of is responsible for the nails in Jesus

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Last week we discussed…
•How sin changed the earth in physical
ways, and also how it affected the lives
of mankind
•Survival suddenly became a serious
issue for mankind
•The first foreshadowing of redemption
was spoken of by God in Genesis 3:15
(bruise heel/head)
•The fall of Cain and his evil descendants
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Evil descendants of Cain
• Genesis 4:23-24 - Lamech said to his wives,
“Adah and Zillah, Listen to my voice, You wives
of Lamech, Give heed to my speech, For I have
killed a man for wounding me; And a boy for
striking me; 24 If Cain is avenged sevenfold,
Then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.“
• Lamech is a 5th generation descendant of Cain,
yet is fully aware of Cain’s curse from possibly
hundreds of years earlier
• The stories were passed down!
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The path to the cross begins
•Genesis 4:17-24 - Adam had relations with
his wife again; and she gave birth to a son,
and named him Seth, for, she said, “God has
appointed me another offspring in place of
Abel, for Cain killed him.” 26 To Seth, to him
also a son was born; and he called his name
Enosh. Then men began to call upon the
name of the Lord.
•Can we safely assume that Adam and Eve
instilled a love of God into Seth?
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 Timeline From Adam to Noah
0 500 1000 1500 2000
Seth 930912905
9365
10
895962 969
777 950

Methuselah
died the
same year
the flood
started
(1656).

0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6

Birth Lifespan Flood (1656) Adam's Death (930)

Lineage from Adam to Noah
•Interesting points on this lineage
•It covers just over 2000 years!!
•It’s possible that all of Noah’s ancestors, to
include his father, may have met and
personally known Adam
•Noah’s grandfather, Methuselah, died the
same year that the flood began
•Possible that he died in the flood, but
unlikely with him being the son of Enoch
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Lineage from Adam to Noah
•What’s the big deal?
•It helps us to put it all together in our
minds
•The story of God is passed along
•Just as Cain’s 5th generation grandson
was fully aware of Cain’s curse, so would
Noah be aware of his God-fearing lineage
•Noah would continue to pass the
knowledge of God on to his descendants
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Total Corruption of Mankind
•Genesis 6:1-2 – Now it came about, when
men began to multiply on the face of the
land, and daughters were born to them, 2
that the sons of God saw that the daughters
of men were beautiful; and they took wives
for themselves, whomever they chose

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Total Corruption of Mankind
•Genesis 6:1-2 – Now it came about, when
men began to multiply on the face of the
land, and daughters were born to them, 2
that the sons of God saw that the daughters
of men were beautiful; and they took wives
for themselves, whomever they chose
•Who are the “sons of God” and the
“daughters of men” referring to?
• The righteous lineage of Seth
• The evil lineage of Cain
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Oil and water…
•Righteousness and unrighteousness do not
mix!
•It’s much easier to pull someone down than
it is to pull someone up
•More often than not, evil corrupts
righteousness
•Even the best of us can succumb to evil and
can have our lives destroyed by it

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Oil and water…
•1 John 2:15-16 - Do not love the world nor
the things in the world. If anyone loves the
world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the
flesh and the lust of the eyes and the
boastful pride of life, is not from the Father,
but is from the world
•1 Corinthians 15:33 – Bad company corrupts
good morals

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Oil and water…
• 2 Corinthians 6:14-16 – Do not be bound together
with unbelievers; for what partnership have
righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship
has light with darkness? 15 Or what harmony has
Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common
with an unbeliever? 16 Or what agreement has the
temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of
the living God
• KJV uses the phrase “unequally yoked”
• Bottom line – There is much danger in partnering
ourselves up with unbelievers and the immoral. One side
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Oil and water…
•Deuteronomy 7:3-4 – Furthermore, you shall
not intermarry with them; you shall not give
your daughters to their sons, nor shall you
take their daughters for your sons. 4 For they
will turn your sons away from following Me
to serve other gods
•Wise King Solomon was led to destruction by
pagan women
•Samson was led to destruction by a pagan
woman
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Admonition for our children
• We must strongly urge our young people to
make bonds of friendship with God fearing and
God following people!
• Many of us stress our desire for our children
to attend Christian colleges, and there is a
reason why!
• We must strongly urge our young people to
marry God fearing and God following people!
• And we must make no apologies for this. This is
absolutely nothing for us to be ashamed of!
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What’s the worst that could happen?
• Genesis 6:5-7 – Then the Lord saw that the
wickedness of man was great on the earth, and
that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was
only evil continually. 6 The Lord was sorry that He
had made man on the earth, and He was grieved
in His heart. 7 The Lord said, “I will blot out man
whom I have created from the face of the land,
from man to animals to creeping things and to
birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made
them.”
• It doesn’t get much worse than this
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More insight to God’s hurt
•Genesis 6:11-12 – Now the earth was
corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth
was filled with violence. 12 God looked on
the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all
flesh had corrupted their way upon the
earth.

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The plan for the flood begins
• Genesis 6:3 – Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall
not strive with man forever, because he also is
flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred
and twenty years.”
• A 120 year countdown begins, during which God
would work with a man named Noah to spare
mankind
• What does all of this say about God?
• He is just – Evil must be handled
• He is merciful – He could have ended it all
• He is longsuffering
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Meet Noah
• Genesis 6:8-9 – But Noah found favor in the eyes
of the LORD…Noah was a righteous man,
blameless in his time; Noah walked with God
• Why is this such a monumental statement?
• Of all the people on the earth (most likely millions),
only Noah found favor with God
• What was different about Noah?
• Safe to assume that Noah did not mix himself up with
the unrighteous
• He remained faithful to God
• He was blessed to have parents who led him to God
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A preacher of righteousness
•2 Peter 2:5 refers to Noah as a preacher of
righteousness
• Do you think God would have spared anyone
else who repented during the 120 year
timespan?
• You can bet on it!
•Note that we are never told that Noah’s
wife, his sons, nor his son’s wives were
upstanding and righteous people. We just
assume so.
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Coming Up
•Genesis 3-12 – Continue on with
studying the background of
redemption
•The flood
•State of mankind after the flood

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