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Dec 04, 2016

An Immediate Birth Promise

Passage: Genesis 3:15

Preacher: Pastor Tim W. Young

Series: God's Christmas Cards

Category: Genesis

Summary:

Main Text - Genesis 3:15; NT Reading - Revelation 12:1-17

Detail:

God’s Christmas Cards

“An Immediate Birth Promise”

Genesis 3:15

 

Genesis 3:15  I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

 

The glorious meaning of Christmas is that God will deliver us completely from Satan’s power through His Son

 

  1. First the Bad Good News – God Promises a Continual War Between His Children and Satan’s Children

 

  1. There will be a battle between your new nature and sin’s remnants within you.

 

               “enmity between you and the woman”  

                              Romans 7:15-24

                              Galatians 5:16-17   

                             

               The good news is…

 

  1. There will be a battle between you and the children of Satan in this world

 

               Enmity…between your offspring and her offspring;  

 

               This verse describes the whole history of  

                               John 8:44  

 

               This verse explains why Christians are persecuted wherever they are

                              John 15:18-19   

 

                Do you know this inner and outer struggle?   

 

 

  1. The Good Bad News – God Promises You a Final Victory Over Satan and Freedom from His Attacks at a Terrible Cost

 

     This verse contains the whole of Jesus’… purpose and work.   

 

               His Incarnation – He is the seed of the woman

               His Suffering and Death.   you shall bruise his heel   

               His victory over Satan by His Death  - he shall bruise your head

                               Colossians 2:14-15  

                              Hebrews 2:14-15  

 

               Why a “heel bruise”  

                               Acts 2:23-24  

                              Rom 4:25