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Scheme
Of
Redemption
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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Main concepts of our study
•"Scheme of Redemption" The plan of God,
established before creation, to redeem
mankind from sin
•View the Bible as a novel, with 66 different
chapters
•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
Slide 3
Main concepts of our study
•Genesis 1-2: God and perfection, man and
innocence
•Genesis 3-12 – The Background of Redemption
•Genesis 12-50 – Redemption through Abraham,
Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph
•Exodus 1-12 – Slavery In and Judgement On Egypt
•Exodus 13-18 – Two Month Journey to Sinai
•Exodus 19-Numbers 10 – One Year at Sinai
•Number 11-14 – Unbelief
•Number 15-Deut 34 – 40 Years of Wandering
•Joshua – Canaan Conquered and Divided
Slide 4
Recap
•Deception of Gibeon, and how their
recognition and fear of God saved them
from destruction, even though it led to a life
of servitude for them. This was better than
destruction, and they lived with Israel for
many hundreds of years more (850 years or
more perhaps)
•Joshua and Israel destroy numerous
cities/kingdoms. Joshua and Israel followed
the Lord fully. Achan’s keeping things under
the ban the only hiccup they had
Slide 5
Recap
•Cities of refuge and 48 cities of Levi
established
•Tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half tribe of
Manasseh return to their land on the east
side of the Jordan after fulfilling their work
in conquering Canaan with the rest of
Israel
•Conflict arises between tribes on the eastside and west-side of the Jordan
•Picking back up here tonight to discuss
more
Slide 6
Joshua 22 – Tribes return beyond Jordan
• Vs. 1-6 – Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites and the
Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and said to them, “You
have kept all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded
you, and have listened to my voice in all that I commanded
you. You have not forsaken your brothers these many days to
this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the
Lord your God. And now the Lord your God has given rest to
your brothers, as He spoke to them; therefore turn now and go
to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the
servant of the Lord gave you beyond the Jordan. Only be very
careful to observe the commandment and the law which
Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the
Lord your God and walk in all His ways and keep His
commandments and hold fast to Him and serve Him with all
your heart and with all your soul.” So Joshua blessed them and
sent them away, and they went to their tents.
Slide 7
“Ed” the altar (Joshua 22:34)
•Vs. 10-12 – When they came to the region of the
Jordan which is in the land of Canaan, the sons of
Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of
Manasseh built an altar there by the Jordan, a
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Slide 9
What is happening?
•East-Israel tribes have constructed an altar
on the west side of the Jordan river
•A replica of the real altar in the tabernacle
where the God-sanctioned sacrifices are
to take place
•West Israel sees this and has a conniption!
Slide 10
Why the west responded so harshly
• Deut 12:1-7 - These are the statutes and the judgments which you
shall carefully observe in the land which the Lord, the God of your
fathers, has given you to possess as long as you live on the earth.
You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you
shall dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains and on the
hills and under every green tree. You shall tear down their altars and
smash their sacred pillars and burn their Asherim with fire, and you
shall cut down the engraved images of their gods and obliterate
their name from that place. You shall not act like this toward the
Lord your God. But you shall seek the Lord at the place which the
Lord your God will choose from all your tribes, to establish His name
there for His dwelling, and there you shall come. There you shall
bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the
contribution of your hand, your votive offerings, your freewill
offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock. There also
you and your households shall eat before the Lord your God, and
rejoice in all your undertakings in which the Lord your God has
blessed you.
Slide 11
Why the west responded so harshly
•Deut 12:13-14 - Be careful that you do not
offer your burnt offerings in every cultic
place you see, but in the place which the
Lord chooses in one of your tribes, there
you shall offer your burnt offerings, and
there you shall do all that I command you.
•Moses had made it clear that the lawful
sacrificing was only to take place how,
when, and where God commanded
Slide 12
Why did west want to war over it?
•Deut. 13:12-15 - “If you hear in one of your cities,
which the Lord your God is giving you to live in,
anyone saying that some worthless men have
gone out from among you and have seduced the
inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘Let us go and
serve other gods’ (whom you have not known),
then you shall investigate and search out and
inquire thoroughly. If it is true and the matter
established that this abomination has been done
among you, you shall surely strike the inhabitants
of that city with the edge of the sword, utterly
destroying it and all that is in it and its cattle with
the edge of the sword
Slide 13
Why did west want to war over it?
•This is what Israel-west did
•They gathered themselves together at
Shiloh to go to war against Israel
•They sent over a delegation to
“investigate, search out, and inquire
thoroughly
•So, they were truly only doing what they
had been instructed by God, through
Moses, to do
Slide 14
The delegation’s concern
•Joshua 22: 16-18 - "Thus says the whole
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•Joshua 22: 19-20 - If, however, the land of
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Slide 16
East side tribes respond
• Joshua 22:21-25 - Then the sons of Reuben and the sons of
Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered and spoke to
the heads of the families of Israel. “The Mighty One, God,
the Lord, the Mighty One, God, the Lord! He knows, and may
Israel itself know. If it was in rebellion, or if in an unfaithful
act against the Lord do not save us this day! If we have built
us an altar to turn away from following the Lord, or if to offer
a burnt offering or grain offering on it, or if to offer sacrifices
of peace offerings on it, may the Lord Himself require it. But
truly we have done this out of concern, for a reason, saying,
‘In time to come your sons may say to our sons, “What have
you to do with the Lord, the God of Israel? For the Lord has
made the Jordan a border between us and you, you sons of
Reuben and sons of Gad; you have no portion in the Lord.”
So your sons may make our sons stop fearing the Lord.’
Slide 17
East side tribes respond
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shall say, “See the copy of the altar of the Lord which our
fathers made, not for burnt offering or for sacrifice; rather it
is a witness between us and you.”’ Far be it from us that we
should rebel against the Lord and turn away from following
the Lord this day, by building an altar for burnt offering, for
grain offering or for sacrifice, besides the altar of the Lord
our God which is before His tabernacle.”
Slide 18
West Israel is appeased
•Vs. 30-31 – So when Phinehas the priest and the
leaders of the congregation, even the heads of
the families of Israel who were with him, heard
the words which the sons of Reuben and the
sons of Gad and the sons of Manasseh spoke, it
pleased them. And Phinehas the son of Eleazar
the priest said to the sons of Reuben and to the
sons of Gad and to the sons of Manasseh,
“Today we know that the Lord is in our midst,
because you have not committed this unfaithful
act against the Lord; now you have delivered the
sons of Israel from the hand of the Lord.”
Slide 19
West Israel is appeased
•Vs. 32-34 – Then Phinehas the son of Eleazar the
priest and the leaders returned from the sons of
Reuben and from the sons of Gad, from the land
of Gilead to the land of Canaan, to the sons of
Israel, and brought back word to them. The
word pleased the sons of Israel, and the sons of
Israel blessed God; and they did not speak of
going up against them in war to destroy the land
in which the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad
were living. The sons of Reuben and the sons of
Gad called the altar Witness; “For,” they said, “it
is a witness between us that the Lord is God.”
Slide 20
A slippery slope?
•Could “Ed” the altar have been a
dangerous thing for Israel? If yes, why?
•Perhaps someone would have eventually
performed sacrifices on it (think
Jeroboam)
•Perhaps God would not approve of it,
since He did not authorize it, and He
would rain down judgement upon them
•Would it had been safer to err on the side
of caution and not build such an altar?
Slide 21
Better safe than sorry?
•“It’s better to be safe than sorry”. What is
meant by this statement?
•Typically means that something is being
considered that is not necessarily
unauthorized by God, but may be
questionable. Therefore we should not do it
(Consider when PowerPoint started to be
used in worship)
•Is this an incorrect way to operate?
•Is it appropriate to judge others as sinful
using this approach?
Slide 22
Judging one’s opinions
•Romans 14:1-4 - Now accept the one who is
weak in faith, but not for the purpose of
passing judgment on his opinions. One person
has faith that he may eat all things, but he who
is weak eats vegetables only. The one who eats
is not to regard with contempt the one who
does not eat, and the one who does not eat is
not to judge the one who eats, for God has
accepted him. Who are you to judge the
servant of another? To his own master he
stands or falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is
able to make him stand.
Slide 23
Judging one’s opinions
• Romans 14:5-10 - One person regards one day above
another, another regards every day alike. Each person
must be fully convinced in his own mind. He who
observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and he who
eats, does so for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and
he who eats not, for the Lord he does not eat, and gives
thanks to God. For not one of us lives for himself, and not
one dies for himself; for if we live, we live for the Lord, or
if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore whether we live
or die, we are the Lord’s. For to this end Christ died and
lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and
of the living. But you, why do you judge your brother? Or
you again, why do you regard your brother with
contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment seat
of God.
Slide 24
But it’s a stumbling block!
•Romans 14:13 - Therefore let us not judge
one another anymore, but rather
determine this—not to put an obstacle or
a stumbling block in a brother’s way.
•Was “Ed” the altar not a stumbling
block??
•“Y’all can’t do that! I have issues with
that altar, it makes me feel like I’m
sinning against the Lord! Tear it down!”
Slide 25
But it’s a stumbling block!
•Romans 14:19-23 - So then we pursue the things
which make for peace and the building up of one
another. Do not tear down the work of God for
the sake of food. All things indeed are clean, but
they are evil for the man who eats and gives
offense. It is good not to eat meat or to drink
wine, or to do anything by which your brother
stumbles. The faith which you have, have as your
own conviction before God. Happy is he who does
not condemn himself in what he approves. But he
who doubts is condemned if he eats, because his
eating is not from faith; and whatever is not from
faith is sin.
Slide 26
Romans 14 summary
•Two people:
•One thinks it is sinful to perform a certain action
•The other thinks it is not sinful to perform the same
action
•God says:
•You’re BOTH correct! What???
•To person A, performing that action is sinful because
he doubts that it is a righteous thing, and if he did it
he would not be doing it in faith
•To person B, performing the action is not sinful
because he does it in faith
•BUT, the two must not judge one another!
Slide 27
Joshua 22 – Tribes return beyond Jordan
•The people in Joshua 22 execute this perfectly!
•The east side guys built the altar in full
confidence that they were not violating God’s
law
•The west side guys had a conniption, calling the
east-side guys rebellious and unfaithful and
threatening war!
•But, after hearing one another out, they saw
there was no way to condemn “Ed” as a
violation of God’s law, EVEN THOUGH they had
concerns, so they praised God and continued
on in unity!
Slide 28
The lesson for us?
•James 1:19-20 - This you know, my
beloved brethren. But everyone must be
quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to
anger; for the anger of man does not
achieve the righteousness of God.
•Proverbs 18:13 - He who gives an answer
before he hears, It is folly and shame to
him
Slide 29
The lesson for us?
•We must be incredibly cautious when judging
another’s actions performed in service to the
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rebellious,
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and of unfaithfulness,
MAY NOT
BE SO!
on everything. Rather,
•Let we as God’s people
stop
judging
one
it means we have a
another over the things
that
may
not
be
as
common purpose and
clear, or even as important
(don’t
make
goal
mountains out of molehills)
•Instead, let us maintain peace, unity, and the
building up of one another
Slide 30
Coming up
•Judges
Slide 31