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Choir Listening and Interest Party
Sunday, August 28th @ 11:45a
We will forming a choir to preform this Christmas season.  All ages and skill levels of singers are encouraged to join us after second service on Sunday August 28th to talk details and listen to the music selections.

Small Group Facilitators Meeting 
Sunday, August 28th @ 11:45a 
 Past, present, and aspiring small group facilitators!  Please join us after second service on August 28th. We would like to share our vision for this Fall as we seek to launch a church wide campaign and small group promotion for the 2022/2023 school year.  We will introduce you to the program and curriculum we have chosen for our coordinated teaching and small group series.  We would like to keep it brief but would also like to allow time for questions and answers as well as share our vision for what we have planned for small groups this year.
 
First Place for Health Fall Workshop
Saturday, September 10th @ 9:00a – 3:00p
The Women’s ministry “First Place for Health” will be hosting it’s Fall workshop at the Bridge.  Saturday September 10th 9:00am – 3:00pm.  Cost $49 The Bible tells us in Mark 12:30-31 that True Wellness comes from loving God the way He created you, body, soul, mind and spirit. It is not an extreme diet or exercise plan. It is the power of Christ to ignite transformative change in your life, which includes your physical health.
 
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Message Notes

The Blueprint: The Message of the Bible

Pastor Bill West
August 28, 2022

God's Goal: His Glory Fills the Earth
But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.
Numbers 14:21 

Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.  
Matthew 28:19–20

Old Testament: 
39 Books:  
1. Law   
2. History   
3. Poetry   
4. Prophets

Introduction: Genesis 1-11

Key Events:  
Creation: 
  • Fall of Adam and Eve
  • Cain and Abel
  • Noah and the Flood
  • Tower of Babel: People are scattered; languages

Major Result: Man is LOST on his own;.

Scene One: God Builds a Nation Gen. 12-1 Kings 10
God Makes a Promise.
The Lord had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you. “I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you. 
Genesis 12:1–3

God Multiplies the People.
And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, “Jacob! Jacob!” “Here I am,” he replied. “I am God, the God of your father,” he said. “Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.”
Genesis 46:2–3

“Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become much too numerous for us."  
Exodus 1:9 

The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Exodus 3:7–8


God Provides a Culture
And God spoke all these words: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me.  
Exodus 20:1–3

See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse—the blessing if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today; the curse if you disobey the commands of the Lord your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.
Deuteronomy 11:26–28

Culture:  How to live and worship as God's people.
But Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.” Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against this people, for they are stronger than we."
Numbers 13:30–31

Note: Rebellion and unbelief hinder God's work.



God Gives the Land
“My servant Moses is dead. Now proceed to cross the Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the Israelites. Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, as I promised to Moses.” 
Joshua 1:2–3

Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua and had known all the work that the Lord did for Israel.
Joshua 24:31

In those days there was no king in Israel; all the people did what was right in their own eyes. (
Judges 21:25

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God Provides a King.
But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to govern us.” Samuel prayed to the Lord, and the Lord said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.”
1 Samuel 8:6–7

So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the Lord in Gilgal. There they sacrificed offerings of well-being before the Lord, and there Saul and all the Israelites rejoiced greatly.
1 Samuel 11:15

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
1 Samuel 16:7

David reigned over all Israel, doing what was just and right for all his people.
2 Samuel 8:15

I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will never have been anyone like you, nor will there ever be. Moreover, I will give you what you have not asked for—both wealth and honor—so that in your lifetime you will have no equal among kings. And if you walk in obedience to me and keep my decrees and commands as David your father did, I will give you a long life.  
1 Kings 3:12–14

Act One: Scene One Ends:  They are a Great Nation; but the story is NOT over!
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Small Groups Talk About It

Watch the latest Message Summary:

  1. Read Luke 22:44-48:  What does Jesus teach about the OT Scriptures? Why is that significant?

  2. Read Numbers 14:21 and Matthew 28:19-20: What is God's goal for the earth?

  3. Bill said the major focus of the OT is "Salvation Promised".  
    Read and discuss Genesis 12:1-3:  What promises does God give to Abraham?  What major promise are here that relates to us? How is God’s entire plan found in these words?

  4. Scene One: God Builds a Nation: Genesis 12-1 King 10: (Remember this): What is the major focus of the rest of Genesis?  Why do they end up in Exodus? (Genesis 42:6 and Exodus 1:9)

  5. Read Ecodus 3:7-8:  Why is God getting them out of Egypt? Why is there so much focus on laws and rules in Exodus through Deuteronomy?

  6. Read Josh. 1:2-3:  Why is the land so important?  Judges21:25: What is missing?

  7. Read 1 Samuel 8:6-7; 11:5: Why did the nation want a king? Why do we want to be like other people?   How would you rate Saul, David, and Solomon as kings.  

  8. We now have a great nation-that was promised to Abraham. When will the Messiah come? What is God doing? How is He unfolding his plan of salvation?

    Pray together for us to become a people who know and live out God's word


Previous Messages Can Be Found Here