One Book, One Story, One Plot

  • Pastor Duane Cross
  • Feb 7, 2010
  • Series: The Greatest Story Ever Told

THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD

“Prologue: One Book, One  Story, One Plot”

 Pastor Duane Cross  |  02.07.2010

           

God is the author.

We are the characters.

Jesus is the theme.

Act I: Abraham and Isaac        Genesis 22:1-14 (NLT)

 

“Look up into the heavens and count the  stars if you can.  Your descendants will be like that - too many to count!”                                    

                                                                                     Genesis 15:5

“I will guarantee to make you a mighty nation.”                                    

                                                                                                       Genesis 17:2

“All the families of the earth will be blessed by you.”                        Genesis 12:3                                                                                                                                        

 

1)  Obedience

“Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love...”                                    

                                                                                                       Genesis 22:2

2)  Faith

“Abraham believed the Lord and he credited to him as righteousness."          

Genesis 15:6

3)  Grace

“Abraham, do not lay a hand on the boy."                                         Genesis 22:12                                                  

Act II:  Jesus on the Cross

“He also bypassed the sacrifices consisting of goat and calf blood, instead using his own blood as the price to set us free once and for all.  If that animal blood and other rituals of purification  were effective in cleaning up certain matters of our religion and behavior, think how much more the blood of Christ cleans up our whole lives, inside and out.  Through the Spirit, Christ offered  himself as an unblemished sacrifice, freeing us from all those dead-end efforts to  make ourselves respectable, so that we can live all out for God.”                  Hebrews 9:14-15 (Message)

Act III: The Lamb of God

Revelation 5:6, 9-14 (NIV)

“...the Lamb slain from the creation of the world.”                                            

Revelation 13:8 (NIV)

“Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it...And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened.  Another book was opened, which is the book of life...”                   

 Revelation 20:11-12 (NIV)

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