The Story Bible Study Series: God the Creator (Randy Frazee)
Randy Frazee teaches us that in the Bible there are two stories going on at the same time. There is the lower story which is how we see life from our perspective. Then there is the upper story which is how God sees things from his perspective. In God the Creator, the chronology from Genesis to Ruth, God is taking what seems like disconnected stories and he’s weaving them all together to tell his one grand story. The Bible, from the Old to the New Testament, is just one grand love story that shows the full extent to which God went to get us back.
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The Story: God the Creator - Session 1: The Beginning of Life as We Know It
God’s vision was to come down and to be with us in a beautiful garden. But the first two people reject God’s vision. Their decision introduces sin into the world and keeps humanity from experiencing community with God. The rest of the Bible is God’s story of how he made it possible for us to ente...
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God the Creator (The Story Bible Study Series) Session 2: God Builds a Nation
God’s first step in providing the way back into a relationship with him is to build a new nation. God establishes this nation on the most unqualified couple—Abraham and Sarah—who are old and childless. God chooses this pattern to show that he is behind the writing of this grand story of redemption.
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God the Creator (The Story Bible Study Series) Session 3: From Slave to Deputy Pharaoh
The nation of Israel is growing, but a devastating famine ahead threatens to wipe it out. So God intervenes by using the dysfunction of Joseph’s family to save the nation. God orchestrates the affairs of Joseph so that he becomes second-in-command of all Egypt, where he can prepare for the famine...
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God the Creator (The Story Bible Study Series) Session 4: Deliverance
God placed the Israelites in the land of Egypt to grow, prosper, and maintain their purity as a nation. He had warned his people that for a period of time the Egyptians would enslave and mistreat them, but he would ultimately deliver them. God used these events to reveal his upper-story plan to r...
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God the Creator (The Story Bible Study Series) Session 5: Wanderings
It’s time for the Israelites to move into the Promised Land. In preparation, God gives them commandments on how to love him and their neighbors. Once the Israelites take the land, the surrounding nations will be able to see that God’s redemption plan includes even them. But the Israelites are ove...
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God the Creator (The Story Bible Study Series) Session 6: The Battle Begins
From an upper story perspective, God had been patient with the people of Canaan, giving them more than 600 years to stop the escalation of evil among them. But God would now deal with their evil by calling on the Israelites under Joshua to conquer them. The fertile land of Canaan would now set th...
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God the Creator (The Story Bible Study Series) Session 7: A Few Good Men . . . and Women
Once in Canaan, the people repeatedly sin against God, resulting in him allowing them to fall captive to other nations. When the people repent, God raises up judges to free them. He continues to rescue them because he made an unconditional promise that the solution for all people to come back int...
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God the Creator (The Story Bible Study Series) Session 8: The Faith of a Foreign Woman
During the period of the judges, a couple and their two sons move from Bethlehem to Moab at a time of famine. When her husband and both of her sons die, Naomi decides to return to Bethlehem, and her daughter-in-law Ruth declares allegiance to her God. Once there, Ruth marries a relative named Boa...