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GOD IS GOOD + Promise-Keeper - Coggle Diagram
GOD IS GOOD
+ Promise-Keeper
Origins & Worldview
Creation
God created goodness: "It was good"
Mankind: "very good" > God is good
the Fall
God gave us free will (Gen. 2:16-17)
God did what He did not have to do!
(promise of punishment, garments, removes them
from Eden)
Continuation of sin
Abrahamic Covenant
Abraham called to different country
God's promises to Abraham
Covenant: prepared by Abraham, God
takes full responsibility for the fulfillment
Sign: circumcision
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will wound his heel."
Pentateuch
Sinai/Mosaic Covenant
Passover: remembering that He kept His
promise + becomes part of something bigger
Law: rules that are
good
for the Israelites
Tabernacle: the opportunity to be in God's
presence + to make atonement for their sins
(which He did not have to do!)
Migration to Egypt, Israelites become slaves
Exodus: God remembers the covenant, brings His
people out of Egypt
Leviticus 20:7-8
"Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am the LORD your God. Keep my decrees and follow them. I am the LORD, who makes you holy."
Wildnerness wanderings
Deuteronomic Covenant
Tribal
Conquest of Canaan;
God gives them the land He promised them!
Joshua last leader, then prophets/judges: cycle of sin
The people want a king...
Joshua 1:7
"Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go."
David
Davidic Covenant
David is a man after God's own heart
Furthering of Abrahamic Covenant: now more specific
through everything, God has not forgotten His covenant!
Sign: the promise of God, David's throne
2 Samuel 7:16
"Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me; your throne will be established forever."
Kings, Early Prophets,
Late Prophets
Temple built
Kingdom split: God offers Jeroboam covenant
Cycle of sin
Exile
Israel: 722 BC (Assyria)
Judah: 586 BC (Babylon)
God gave them second, third, fourth, fifth chances
Promise of restoration - in the midst of their disobedience
2 Chronicles 7:14
if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
Ezekiel 36:26
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
Post-Exilic/Intertestamental
God keeps His promises!
Three returns: temple, people, walls
Temple: not filled with the Spirit of God
Messianic prophecies
Ezra 1:3
Any of his people among you may go up to Jerusalem in Judah and build the temple of the LORD, the God of Israel, the God who is in Jerusalem, and may their God be with them.
Jesus
Jesus' ministry
He did everything the Israelites could not do
He provided an example of a good/Godly life that is still relevant
Jesus' full ministry fulfilled 300+ prophecies
Matthew 28:5-6
The angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay."
Jesus' death & resurrection
Jesus' death on the cross reveals what the culmination of His goodness actually looked like; not to physically save His people, but to bring a full spiritual redemption through the ultimate humiliation and surrender of the Son of God.
He overcame death and all sin for us; just so He could be with us.
Again, He could have done
anything
else/given us what we deserve
Church
Ascencion + Pentecost: God left them with even more than what they already had received
God's authority being given to the believers + Holy Spirit working
Apostles could recognize His goodness: evangelism
(Gospel not only for Jews!!)
Acts 1:8
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
Paul
Further building of the Church - Jew & Gentile
Acts 1:8
For if, while we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!
John
New Jerusalem
Everything made new: the fullness of His goodness without limits
God's goodness in withholding the Final Judgment up until now
Hopeful for us because of His grace and mercy through our faith
Revelation 22:20
He who testifies to these things says, "Yes, I am coming soon."
Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.