The Whole Enchilada transcript (The Bible in 15 minutes)

Title: The Whole Enchilada
Text: The Bible :)
Theme: The overview story of the Bible
Series: Stand Alone
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Date: 11/30/2014




  1. Sermon Opener
    1. There are 66 books that comprise the Bible.
    2. It’s broken up into two sections called “testaments.”
    3. The Old Testament is 39 books broken up into 3 categories.
      1. Historical books
      2. Poetical books
      3. Prophetical books
    4. The New Testament is 27 books broken up into 3 categories.
      1. Historical books
      2. Letters written by Paul(written to churches & people)
      3. Letter written by others
    5. a
  2. Creation (Genesis 1)
    1. The bible starts of in the book of Genesis (which means origin).
    2. Read Genesis 2:4-9
      1. This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.  Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.  Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.  Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.  The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
    3. God mad people and He loved them with everything that He was.
    4. People sinned against God.  We call that the “fall.”
    5. The rest of the Bible becomes the story of God redeeming mankind from this fall.
  3. Patriarchs
    1. God makes covenants with people.  Covenants are agreements that have terms - kind of like our modern day marriage covenant.
    2. God made a covenant with Abraham (Genesis 15:5), and told him that he will become the father of God’s chosen people.  He told Abraham that his descendants will be as numerous as the stars in the sky.  (Human beings can see 2,500 stars in the night sky.  There are septillion upon septillions of stars.  There are 7 billion or so people alive right now.
    3. Abraham had children.  Abraham’s children had children.  Abraham’s children’s children had children.  Now they took up everywhere.  They were free.
    4. They broke the covenant with God and wound up as slaves in Egypt for 400 years.
  4. Exodus
    1. (Exodus 3-19)Moses led them out of Egypt by parting the red sea, calling down some plagues, and other miracles.
    2. (Exodus 20)He took a few million people through the wilderness and into the promised land.  Once there, God gave the people 10 commandments by which to live their lives, find peace, and be in a good relationship with the God who loves them with everything that He has.
  5. Conquest
    1. (Joshua 6)They didn’t take the promised land, God gave them the promised land.
  6. Judges
    1. (Judges 13)God was their God, ruler, king, and leader.  But they couldn’t see them with their eyes so they didn’t trust him or think about him too much anymore.
    2. They noticed that the nations around them had people who led them, not God.  So they wanted to be ruled by people.
    3. First God sent them some crazy people who would fight for them - the Bible calls them judges.
    4. Then God finally gave them a King who was a man.
  7. Kingdom
    1. (1 Samuel 8)His name was Saul.  He was tall, gorgeous, and terrible.
    2. Then God gave them David.  David was short, ruddy, and awesome, and terrible.
    3. For hundreds of years the people of God would go through a cycle.
      1. They would be in a great relationship with God.
      2. They would start to think that everything is alright - complacency.
      3. They would go away from God because they didn’t need Him anymore.
      4. They would be in pain because God left them.
      5. They would beg God to come back.
      6. Over and over and over
    4. (Genesis 12:2)God chose these people, not because they were the only one’s he loved, but because he wanted to use these people to bless the entire world.  It never happened because they never trusted God long enough, they….always….backslid, sinned.
  8. Exile
    1. (Psalm 130:8)Because of this sinning, God gave them many opportunities to make things right with Him.  Time after time He stepped in and saved them from themselves through prophets, mighty men, angels, and supernaturally.
    2. He gave them many reasons to believe in Him and return to Him.  Time and time they returned to Him…only to fall back again.
    3. (1 kings 6)So God had a temple in which He dwelled.  He had a priests and a High priest who would make sacrifices and offerings to Him for the forgiveness of the sins of the people.
    4. Life went on this way for a while.  Then they are scattered…all over the mideast.
  9. Return
    1. (Nehemiah 1)God then works in the heart of a foreigner to rebuild the great city and temple of God.  They had been working on this temple for 70 years and got nowhere.  This man organized the people to rebuild it in just over a month.
    2. (Malachi 1-4)They returned to God and now their relationship with God turns into an organized religion.
    3. (Matt 12:11)Instead of doing all the things that God had asked them to do, they begin to argue amongst themselves on very important subjects like “if my donkey falls in a hole on a sabbath can I help him up?”
  10. Silence
    1. That’s the end of the OT - the story of God and His people.
  11. Gospels
    1. (Matt 1)A young woman who is engaged to a simple carpenter tells him that she has become pregnant by God.  Somehow, this man believes her and Jesus was born.
    2. Jesus - this is where everything changes.
    3. Jesus is God incarnate.  In the beginning God walked in the Garden with Adam & Eve.  Then He led people as a spirit, fire, or smoke.
    4. Now He is physically walking with people again.
    5. (Matt 5)Jesus calls some fisherman to walk with him and he spends just three years teaching about the Kingdom of Heaven and how God is going to save all people.
    6. His life and teaching completely change the world.  In just a few short years it spreads, within a a few centuries it’s all over the world, and now the Bible is, by far, the most far reaching document in the history of our planet, and it’s main character is Jesus - who is fully God and fully man.
      1. Jesus loves people.
      2. (Matt 27)Jesus is crucified and dies.  He is the final sacrifice for the sins of the people.  He is God’s son and God’s way to save the people that He loves with everything that He has.
      3. Jesus is buried.
      4. (Matt 28)3 days later Jesus rises from the dead and walks amongst people once again.
      5. (Acts 1) After a time He is taken up into Heaven.
    7. (Acts 2)Christians, the disciples, apostles, and believers, become the people of God.
  12. Church
    1. The people of God are assembled into churches.
      1. They share the message of Jesus and the saving that He brings.
      2. (Acts 4)They show the mercy of Jesus to the poor, the left behinds, the not-good-enoughs, the orphans, the widows, and those who can’t take care of themselves.
      3. (Acts 11)They disciple, train, teach, and love the people who come to believe in Jesus and accept His death as their own - so that they accept Him as their Savior and Lord (or King).  God is once again the King of His people.  Jesus is the final sacrifice and becomes the last High Priest.
    2. The church is the collection of Believers around the world, loved By God as a man loves his bride, and is the hope for the entire world.
    3. There are hundreds of millions of people who believe in and follow Jesus in our world today.  That’s a lot of stars in the sky.
  13. Missions
    1. The church grows.  The churches grows to every corner in the world.  This is where we are now.
  14. Conclusion
    1. But, this isn’t the end of the story.
    2. God will judge all people.  He will send some to Heaven and some to Hell.  Once they are in one of those places they can never leave - it’s for all of eternity.
    3. Those that are sent off to Hell are not the “bad people.”  It’s those who have not chosen to believe in God and reject the message that Jesus loves them and has died for them.  Those that go to Heaven aren’t the “good ones.”  It’s those people who have Jesus as their Savior.
    4. This is the end of the Bible.
    5. Revelation 21:1-10, 22-27
      1. Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.  I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.  And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.  ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”  He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”  He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life.  Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children.  But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”  One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”  And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.  I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.  The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.  The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it.  On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there.  The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it.  Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
      2. That’s our inheritance.  That’s what is waiting on the other side.  It’s right there in the last book.  
Tim Boyd @realtimboyd
Lead Pastor - Westside Christian Church, Bradenton, FL

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