I. Creation
A. God’s Design & Desire
1. Order From Disorder Gen. 1:1-5
2. God’s Provision For Man Gen. 1:27-29
3. God & Man In Fellowship Gen. 2:8,9,15; 3:8
B. Man’s Disobedience
1. God’s One Law Gen. 2:16,17
2. Man’s Disobedience Gen. 3:1-7
C. Consequence Of Sin
1. Guilt, Shame, Conviction Re. Sin Gen. 3:8-10
2. Denial, Blame Shifting Re. Sin Gen. 3:11-13
3. Spiritual Warfare Between Satan & Man Gen. 3:14,15
4. Women- Gen. 3:16
a. Sorrow
b. Pain In Childbirth
c. Subject To Leadership Of Husband
5. Man Gen. 3:17-19
a. Cursed Earth- thorns, thistles
b. Cursed Workplace, Lifelong Toil
c. Man & Woman- Physical Death Began
6. Worldwide Sin Gen. 6:5-8
II. God’s Plan Of Redemption
A. Man’s Spiritual Condition After Eden Rom.5:12
B. Jesus Christ: God’s Solution Rom.5:17-19
C. Man’s Response
1. Negative- Wrong Response
a. Acts 3:13 Delivered up and denied Jesus
b. Acts 3:14 Denied Holy & Just One, preferred a murderer
c. Acts 3:15 Killed the Prince of Life
d. Acts 3:17 Acted and lived in ignorance of truth about Jesus
e. Acts 3:23 Whoever does not hear Him will be destroyed
2. Positive- Right Response
a. Acts 3:19 Repent- change your mind; more than sorrow; word of hope for future
Be converted- turn to God- work of God in surrendered heart
“…sins may be blotted out- to obliterate, erase, wipe out. Wipe ink off the document.
b. Acts 3:19 …that times of refreshing may come- a cooling, a refreshing. Relief.
from the presence of the Lord- the face, the countenance, the outward expression.
c. Acts 3:22 Him you shall hear
d. Acts 3:26 …sent Him to bless you-
“…turning away every one of you from your iniquities- to turn away, to remove anything from anyone.
III. God’s Restoration
A. Present Restoration
2 Cor. 5:17 17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
B. Future Restoration
Revelation 21:1-7
13The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let Him go.
14But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
15and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.
16And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
17“Yet now, brethren, I know that you did it in ignorance, as did also your rulers.
18But those things which God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled.
19Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
20and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before,
21whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.
Restoration- of a true theocracy; of the perfect state before the fall
Root word- Restore- to restore to its former state, to be in its former state.
22For Moses truly said to the fathers, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear in all things, whatever He says to you.
23And it shall be that every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.’
24Yes, and all the prophets, from Samuel and those who follow, as many as have spoken, have also foretold these days.
25You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’
26To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.”