Overview of the Book of Genesis

This morning, instead of our doctrine of the week segment, we're going to begin something new, a brief summary of each book of the scripture.

So an overview of the week segment where we will go through Genesis through revelation, giving a brief overview of every book of the

Bible. So the overview of the week for this Sunday is the book of Genesis. Genesis means origin or the book of beginnings.

Since it starts in chapter one, verse one by saying in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis was written by Moses, of course, somewhere around 1450

BC. And of course, BC, you know, a BC means it means what?

Before Christ, none of this BCE before common era nonsense.

What does that mean? Anyways, the common era and funny how the common era is still based on the birth of Christ.

So, but I digress. The book of Genesis is so important because it lays the foundation.

The person cannot believe God in Genesis that he created in six days and rested on the seventh day.

If a person cannot believe God in Genesis, it's unlikely they're going to believe him anywhere else.

So the Bible says that God created all things in six days, rested on the seventh day, mankind was made in God's image.

Genesis also records the fall of man into sin in the garden of Eden.

It also records the first promise of the Messiah in Genesis 3, 16, records memorable accounts such as the story of Cain and Abel, Noah's Ark, the

Tower of Babel, and then begins the story of the children of Israel who descended from the patriarchs,

Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. This starts with the call of Abraham in Genesis chapter 12, where the

Lord says to Abram at the time, get out of your country from your family and from your father's house to a land that I will show you.

I will make you a great nation and I will bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing.

I will bless those who bless you and curse him who curses you and in you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

And of course, through Christ who descended from Abraham, this world has been truly blessed.