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all be for your husband and he shall rule over you and in verses 17 19 he tells adam because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which i commanded you you shall not eat of it cursed is the ground because of you in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you and you shall eat the plants of the field by the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground for out of it you were taken for you are dust and to dust you shall return this is the curse of sin under which we still live even to this day but it is in his words to the serpent where we find a most wonderful promise in verses 14 15 because you have done this cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field on your belly you shall go and dust you shall eat all the days of your life i will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring he shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel in genesis 3 16 god tells eve i will surely multiply your pain in childbearing in pain you shall bring forth children your desire shall be for your husband and he shall rule over you and in verses 17 19 he tells adam because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which i commanded you you shall not eat of it cursed is the ground because of you in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you and you shall eat the plants of the field by the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground for out of it you were taken for you are dust and to dust you shall return this is the curse of sin under which we still live even to this day but it is in his words to the serpent where we find a most wonderful promise in verses 14 15 because you have done this cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field on your belly you shall go and dust you shall eat all the days of your life i will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring he shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel in the words he shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel we find a prophesy of something which will happen and a promise we will come to understand in time that at the very moment when it seemed that the devil had won that he had defeated jesus it was in fact tantamount to a simple wound on the heel and in that moment what had in fact taken place was the crushing of the head of the serpent his utter and total defeat this promise is repeated time and again throughout the old testament in genesis 22 when abraham is called by god to sacrifice isaac and just as he is about to strike the death blow god intervenes and tells him to stay his hand and not to harm the boy most of us who were raised in church are quite familiar with this story but there is something that we often miss while on the way to make the sacrifice isaac says to abraham in verse 7 behold the fire and the wood but where is the lamb for a burnt offering to which abraham replies in verse 8 god will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering my son this seems to be a throwaway line something a father might say to pacify his son so as not to worry him but it ends up being a great prophecy that god will provide for himself a lamb this lamb of course will be his own son isaac as a sinner deserved death and was spared but the son of god who was utterly without sin and the only man who ever lived who did not deserve death would become the sacrifice the lamb that god would provide in his place so we see the connection to the promise that god makes to abraham in verses 16 18 by myself i have sworn declares the lord because you have done this and have not withheld your son your only son i will surely bless you and i will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore and your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed because you have obeyed my voice it is in christ that all the nations of the earth will be blessed as people are redeemed by christ from every tribe tongue and nation in deuteronomy 18 15 moses tells the people the lord your god will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you from your brothers it is to him you shall listen while it is true god raised up many prophets over the centuries and the people were supposed to listen to them this is a prophecy of the ultimate prophet the one that we would learn is also a priest and king perhaps the most famous prophesy comes to us from the prophet isaiah in chapter 7 and verse 14 therefore the lord himself will give you a sign behold the virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name immanuel certainly it is enough for god to promise something one time but we can see that he has promised the coming messiah over and over again and we have hardly even touched upon these promises here as we can see time and again the promise is not for a baby to be born and laid in a manger in bethlehem although that is prophesied as well the promise is for a redeemer who would bear the penalty due to us for our sin the christmas narrative is the means by which god brought about the fulfillment of his promise jesus was born in bethlehem he did grow into manhood living a perfectly sinless and righteous life which is credited to us while our sins were charged to his account and he paid the price in full we must not miss the fact that this was not a surprise to god he did not make attempts and fail the gospel was the plan all along and christmas is a piece in that plan so as we celebrate the birth of our lord this christmas let us not forget that he was born into this world for the purpose of fulfilling all righteousness and dying on the cross and bearing the wrath of god in our place posted by matt w at 6 47 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels bible needing jesus religion monday october 6 2014 the christian gospel the christian gospel by matt wiser what is the gospel this might seem like an odd question to some especially for a church newsletter surely everyone knows what the gospel is don t they it is after all the central message of the christian faith sadly there is a great deal of confusion surrounding even this most basic and critical christian tenant across much of the visible church today you will hear phrases such as live the gospel or be the gospel but as it turns out these phrases don t make any sense in fact when the gospel of jesus christ is correctly understood these phrases popular as they may be are meaningless collections of words the gospel is good news indeed that is what the word means it is a proclamation it is not something that can be lived and it is not something that we can be it is a message it is information it is a truth claim about something that has been done not something that we can do let me explain the gospel begins with our sinfulness why is the gospel a necessary message it is because of sin our own sinfulness must be understood in order for us to understand why the gospel is good news a proclamation of the gospel to someone who has no awareness of their own sin seems like irrelevant crazy talk think of it this way it s the middle of the night your house is on fire and you don t know it some helpful good hearted passerby sees that your house is on fire and runs up and starts pounding on your front door you get out of bed and answer the door and immediately the person begins raving frantically that they are there to rescue you and that you must get out of the house right away are you not going to think that this person is a lunatic will you not be more likely to slam and lock the door and call the police rather than follow them but what if instead the first words they say are your house is on fire and then they tell you to leave it now you know the problem and you can see why a rescue was necessary in the first place it is true of all of us that we are sinners the bible says this in romans 3 10 18 as it is written none is righteous no not one no one understands no one seeks for god all have turned aside together they have become worthless no one does good not even one their throat is an open grave they use their tongues to deceive the venom of asps is under their lips their mouth is full of curses and bitterness their feet are swift to shed blood in their paths are ruin and misery and the way of peace they have not known there is no fear of god before their eyes and isaiah 53 6a says all we like sheep have gone astray we have turned every one to his own way and lest we be tempted to think that this is only true for some other people but not for us let us look at ephesians 2 1 3 and you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked following the course of this world following the prince of the power of the air the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh carrying out the desires of the body and the mind and were by nature children of wrath like the rest of mankind and what does sinfulness and unrighteousness earn for us the wrath of god but don t take my word for it romans 1 18 says for the wrath of god is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth moreover romans 2 5 tells us but because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when god s righteous judgment will be revealed if we were to end there the news is devastating in fact it is meant to be this is far more serious than a knock on the door to tell you that the house is on fire this is the truth of god that demolishes all of our perceived self righteousness we have been informed of the sinful condition of all of mankind there is not a single one of us that escapes this condemnation but praise be to god the story doesn t end there enter the gospel to put it as concisely as i know how the gospel is this jesus christ god the son entered humanity took on flesh lived a perfectly sinless life fulfilling all righteousness all the demands of the law and died upon a roman cross bearing our sins and enduring the just wrath of god against those sins so that for those who are in him there is no punishment left to be poured out upon us romans 8 1 there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in christ jesus 2 corinthians 5 21 for our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin so that in him we might become the righteousness of god so on account of christ and his completed work when god looks at me he does not see the wretched sinner that i truly am instead my guilt my shame the wicked and evil thoughts whatever they be were placed upon christ and he was punished for them all and treated as if he and not i were guilty of each and every one of them i deserve eternal damnation for these sins but christ upon the cross bore the weight of that eternal hell in my behalf now i am treated by god as if i had lived christ s own perfectly sinless life having fulfilled all righteousness every demand of the law all who reach out to him with the empty hand of faith will find him to be a perfect savior having seen our condemned state in ephesians 2 1 3 quoted above we see the wonderful truth of the gospel beginning in verse 4 and following but god being rich in mercy because of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead in our trespasses made us alive together with christ by grace you have been saved and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in christ jesus so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in christ jesus for by grace you have been saved through faith and this is not your own doing it is the gift of god not a result of works so that no one may boast for we are his workmanship created in christ jesus for good works which god prepared beforehand that we should walk in them and finally isaiah 53 4 6 surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows yet we esteemed him stricken smitten by god and afflicted but he was pierced for our transgressions he was crushed for our iniquities upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace and with his wounds we are healed all we like sheep have gone astray we have turned every one to his own way and the lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all posted by matt w at 7 45 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels bible needing jesus wednesday september 10 2014 the pastor s wife the pastor s wife by matt wiser did you know that pastor s wife is not a church office that s right the pastor s wife is simply the wife of the pastor the bible nowhere defines any duties or roles which must be carried out or filled by the wife of the pastor in fact while qualifications for elders a word which is biblically synonymous with pastor are clearly laid out in 1 timothy 3 1 7 the saying is trustworthy if anyone aspires to the office of overseer another word for elder or pastor he desires a noble task therefore an overseer must be above reproach the husband of one wife sober minded self controlled respectable hospitable able to teach not a drunkard not violent but gentle not quarrelsome not a lover of money he must manage his own household well with all dignity keeping his children submissive for if someone does not know how to manage his own household how will he care for god s church he must not be a recent convert or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil moreover he must be well thought of by outsiders so that he may not fall into disgrace into a snare of the devil you will notice that his wife is only mentioned once in that he must be the husband of one wife and then by inference when it says that he must manage his own household well even though it then speaks of his children it would be reasonable to say that his wife s godly character is also in view the very next section describes the qualifications for the office of deacon a biblical office of one who serves the church under the authority of the elders 1 timothy 3 8 13 deacons likewise must be dignified not double tongued not addicted to much wine not greedy for dishonest gain they must hold the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience and let them also be tested first then let them serve as deacons if they prove themselves blameless their wives likewise must be dignified not slanderers but sober minded faithful in all things let deacons each be the husband of one wife managing their children and their own households well for those who serve well as deacons gain a good standing for themselves and also great ...