Missions in the Old Testament Week 1
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Introduction
Introduction
Different Types of theology…we will be doing biblical theology this study
What is missions?
“Mission points to a central action: the act of being sent with a commission to carry out the will of a superior”
So from a Christian perspective, missions is being sent by God to share the Gospel with people we come in contact with.
Missions has often been referred to as just going on a trip somehwere. Missions is actually your life.
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Missions is seen throughout the OT as well.
God sent prophets to his people and other nations. It wasn’t called missions, but it was the same idea.
The OT was written in Hebrew. Around the time of the early church they translated a greek version of the OT (what the NT was written in) so that they could have a concise book.
The greek word αποστελω was used over 3/4 of the time when referencing OT prophets being sent by God.
That is significant because it is synonymous with how we are sent today as well.
Meaning the prophets in many ways were OT missionaries.
Furthermore, they were delivering the Word of God and we are as well.
So missions is at the heart of God throughout the Bible.
The thesis of the book:
“It is my hope that the formative theology of Genesis 12:3 may once again be seen for what it is and has always been in the discussion of mission: a divine program to glorify the Lord by bringing salvation to all planet earth.”
Main Point: God persistently turns our brokenness into a restorative situation.
The Fall
The Fall
The Lord God said to the serpent, “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.”
The severity of the fall: we spat in the face of our good creator.
What we deserved: immediate judgement and wrath for all of eternity.
What was promised: A messiah that would destroy their tempter and God would conquer.
Because they yielded to the temptation of the tempter in the garden of Eden, a curse fell not only on this couple but also on the ground, its products, the created order, and all humanity. But the curse did not have the last word: God graciously blessed them with his word of promise as well.
The Flood
The Flood
if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones,
Noah’s Social Context:
Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence.
Noah’s obedience:
It was foretold that Noah would be great:
When Lamech had lived 182 years, he fathered a son and called his name Noah, saying, “Out of the ground that the Lord has cursed, this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the painful toil of our hands.”
Noah was an early missionary: imagine at what social cost! He would have been ridiculed.
Noah’s downfall: But despite all of the good things he still had his failures. So now we begin to see this theme develop early in the Bible that
The Failure of the Tower of Babel
The Failure of the Tower of Babel
Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.” So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.
What the mission of God was:
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Take the image of God all over the world!
How they were failing.
God making his purposes come to fruition.
This was the beginning of the great commission. The people were refusing to accomplish the missio dei and so God was making them accomplish it.
Conclusion
Conclusion
Thoughts:
The great commission is the whole Bible—not just the NT
God pursues broken people—so should we.
You are never more inline with the will of God than when you are walking with Him and telling others about Him.