Lesson 13 for December 27, 2014

How did people before Jesus understand the Gospel?

ADAM

DAVID

ISAIAH

And I will put

enmity between
you and the
woman, and
between your seed
and her Seed; he
shall bruise your
head, and you shall
bruise His heel.
(Genesis 3:15)
Salvation would
come through the
suffering of a
descendant of Eve.
He would put end
to sin.

If You, Lord,
should mark
iniquities, O Lord,
who could stand?
But there is
forgiveness with
You, that You may
be feared.
(Psalm 130:3-4)
There is no
salvation without
forgiveness of sins.
God forgives our
sins for free.

All we like sheep

have gone astray;
we have turned,
every one, to his
own way; and the
Lord has laid on
Him the iniquity of
us all.
(Isaiah 53:6)
The Messiah would
gain our salvation
through suffering
and death. He
would forgive our
sins that way.

JEREMIAH
But this is the
covenant that I will
make with the house
of Israel after those
days, says the Lord: I
will put My law in
their minds, and write
it on their hearts; and
I will be their God,
and they shall be My
people.
(Jeremiah 31:33)

God would make a

new covenant. He
would sanctify us
and write His Law in
our minds.

THE PRODIGAL SON (Luke 15:11-32)

God is a loving Father. He is willing to
forgive His children.
We must humble ourselves, admitting
our sins and accept His forgiveness.

THE PHARISEE AND THE TAX COLLECTOR (Luke 18:9-17)

God ignores those who believe they are just, but justifies the
repentant sinners. He makes them free from their guilt.

THE BLOOD OF CHRIST (Matthew 26:28)

Jesus suffered the death we deserved. He was the
true Paschal Lamb.
Salvation is for free because Jesus already paid for it.

TAKING AWAY THE VEIL

(2 Corinthians 3:2-6, 14-16)

Jesus took the veil away for Paul in his

way to Damascus. Then he could
understand the Scriptures.
When we read the Bible, the Holy Spirit
takes our veils away so we can
understand the Gospel of life.
POWER OF GOD (Romans 1:16-17)
The Gospel is power of God to
salvation.
We use that power by faith.
THE BLOOD OF JESUS (Romans 3:24-26)

Redemption: God bought us back and

paid for our sins.
Justification: He made us free from guilt
and purified us by grace.
Forgiveness: God accepted us again. He
forgets our past sins.

A disobedient
people
Not according to the covenant that I
made with their fathers in the day when I
took them by the hand to lead them out of
the land of Egypt; because they did not
continue in My covenant, and I disregarded
them, says the Lord. (Hebrews 8:9)
For this is the covenant that I will make
with the house of Israel after those
days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in
their mind and write them on their
hearts; and I will be their God, and they
shall be My people. (Hebrews 8:10)

An obedient
people

For it is not possible that the

blood of bulls and goats could take
away sins. (Hebrews 10:4)

Imperfect
sacrifices

A perfect
sacrifice

By that will we have been sanctified through

the offering of the body of Jesus Christ
once for all. (Hebrews 10:10)

Revelation 10:7

Revelation 14:6

THE CULMINATION
OF THE GOSPEL

THE LAST CALL

But in the days of

the sounding of the
seventh angel, when
he is about to sound,
the mystery of God
would be finished, as
He declared to His
servants the
prophets.

Then I saw another

angel flying in the
midst of heaven,
having the everlasting
gospel to preach to
those who dwell on
the earthto every
nation, tribe, tongue,
and people.

(Revelation 10:7)

(Revelation 14:6)

Revelation 14:12; 12:17

THE
COMMANDMENTS
AND THE FAITH
Here is the
patience of the
saints; here are
those who keep the
commandments of
God and the faith
of Jesus.
(Revelation 14:12)

The sacrifice of Christ as an

atonement for sin is the great truth
around which all other truths cluster.
In order to be rightly understood and
appreciated, every truth in the word
of God, from Genesis to Revelation,
must be studied in the light that
streams from the cross of Calvary. I
present before you the great, grand
monument of mercy and regeneration,
salvation and redemption,the Son of
God uplifted on the cross. This is to be
the foundation of every discourse
given by our ministers.
E.G.W. (Gospel Workers, section 8, pg. 315)