Week 6 Women Word Jen Wilkin of the

Week 6 Women Word Jen Wilkin of the

Week 6 Study with Purpose Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the Earth? It is he who sits above the circle of the earth. Isa. 40: 21 -22 a

Week 6 The Bible purposes to tell us this Big Story in a thousand smaller stories, from its first page to its last

Week 6 Big story is told from different angles through the individual stories of the book’s characters

Week 6 The Bible’s Landscape Genesis 1 Genesis 3 15 Genesis 3: ghout u o r h t d e r is explo n io t p m e d e of r stament e T ld The theme O e h rest of t the

Week 6 The Bible’s Landscape ment a t s e T w e N Revelation

Week 6 Knowing how a particular book of the Bible relates to the Big Story is important. Our task is to search for these themes as we study.

HOW THE METANARRATIVE SHAPES OUR UNDERSTANDING Week 6 • Re-Creation – God returns the earth to it primordial state, and then reorders it just as He did in Genesis 1 • Redemption – willingly shut into an ark by God, passes through the waters of destruction, and is called forth to new life. • The Fall – Noah proves that he’s not perfect by getting drunk and lying shamefully naked in his tent. In relation to the metanarrative, the story Noah comes into focus as a story about God: God creates, God orders, God preserves life, God provides a deliverer, God alone can save.

HOW THE METANARRATIVE SHAPES OUR UNDERSTANDING Week 6 • The story of the Good Samaritan is a parable that echoes themes of fall, redemption, and restoration. • Man rejected by the Jews (the Samaritan) preserving the life of a man who would die without intervention. The Samaritan is under no obligation to help but does so a great personal expense. In relation to the metanarrative, the parable of the Good Samaritan is a story about God: God sends the Son to be rejected by His own, to save us from a certain death, to restore all things.

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Week 6 The Law is recorded so that we will understand our need for Redemption through Christ. How to obey God by illustrating His character and calling us to be conformed to His image, thereby beginning the process of Restoration of the image of God that was lost at the fall.

Week 6 The poetry of the Bible ranges from laments to blessings to hymns of praise to prophecies. Psalm 23 points to redemption and restoration Job 30 -40 – God’s well-known response to the questioning of Job points to creation and fall.

Week 6 Learn that God does exactly what He says He’ll do. Prophecy points to the metanarrative, saying, Redemption has been accomplished, and restoration is a certainty.

Week 6 Has a way of showing us the gaps in our sanctification and prompting us to respond in obedience. Points to our need for redemption and the ongoing work of restoration in the life of the believer.

Week 6 Identifying the metanarrative as we study does not happen effortlessly – it’s a study skill that requires time and practice to acquire. As you begin to study purposefully – allow yourself a learning curve as your eyes adjust to this new vantage point.