SERMON 151  	JESUS MESSIAH CERTIFIED GENESIS

        The first five books of the Bible are called the law, which in the Hebrew language is HaTorah.  For the law was given through Moses. 
    Let us consider the testimony of  Rabbi Yeshua of Nazareth concerning the law.  Yeshua  said to people in Jerusalem:
    “Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? . . .
    John 7:19.
Yes, Yeshua,  Jesus,  certified that  the law had been given through Moses.
    When Jesus was asked  by the Phariesees about divorce: 
    Matthew 19:4:  And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that 
    He who made them at the beginning ‘ made them male and female,’
    “and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother  and be
    joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?   Matt. 19:4,5.
Rabbi Jesus quoted Genesis 1:27 and Genesis 2:24.  He certified Genesis chapters one and two to be the word of God.   Do you believe Him?  You should.  If you believe that Jesus is  a prophet of God then you need to believe that the book of Genesis is the word of God.  
    Next, let us  notice that Jesus certified the historical account of the world -wide flood recorded in Genesis chapters six through eight.   Jesus said in:
    Matthew 24:37-39:  “But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the 
    Son of man be.  “For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking,
    marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,
    “and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the 
    coming  of the Son of Man be.  Matthew 24:37-39.
Yes, Jesus  used the history of the flood as recorded in Genesis 6-8 as an example of what it will be like when He comes back to  judge the world.   Jesus Messiah put His  approval on the book of Genesis as historical reality.  He certified the book of  Genesis to be the word of God.  If you believe that Jesus is Messiah, then you will believe that Genesis is the word of God and  is historically accurate.
    The history of the destruction by God of the city of Sodom is recorded in Genesis, chapter 19.  Jesus Messiah said in:
    Luke 17:28-30:  “Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot:  They ate, they drank,
    they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;                                                         2
    “but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven 
    and destroyed them all.
     “Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.  Luke 17:28-30.                  Yes, Jesus used the historical event recorded in Genesis chapter 19 as accurate history.  Jesus certified that the book of Genesis is the word of God.
    So then, we have studied three times when Jesus used the book of Genesis as the historically accurate word of God, scripture.  You need to accept the book of Genesis.
    In Luke chapter 16, Jesus told about  a certain rich man who had died and wanted Abraham to send someone to warn his brothers.  Jesus told what Abraham said:
    Luke 16:29-31:  “Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets;
    let them hear them.’  “And he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if one goes to them
    from the dead, they will repent.’  “But he said to him ‘If they do not hear Moses and 
    the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.’” 
Jesus told what Abraham said to the certain rich man.  The scriptures are called what Moses and the prophets had written.  The law  was given through Moses, which includes the book of Genesis.  That the law was given through Moses is stated in John 1:17.  In Galatians 4:21,22, the book of Genesis is called the law.  Yes, Genesis is part of the law  that God gave through Moses.  In the New Covenant,  the book of Genesis is quoted or referred to or alluded to more than 200 times. ( The Genesis Record, by Henry M. Morris, Baker Book House, p. 22.)   The next book in the Bible, the book of Exodus begins with  “and” which shows that the two books go together.  Exodus is a continuation of Genesis historically.  Genesis is the word of God.  
    All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for
    reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,  2 Timothy 3:16.
    Jesus Messiah said in:
    John 5:45-47:  “Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father;  there is one who  
    accuses you -- Moses, in whom you trust.
    “For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me.
    “But if you do not believe his writings, how will believe My words?”  John 5:45-47.
Do you believe the writings of Moses?  Jesus Messiah said that Moses wrote about Him.  Where did Moses write about Jesus?  Deuteronomy 18:15-19 is one section where Moses foretold the coming of the Prophet Jesus the Messiah.  Deuteronomy is the fifth book in the Bible.       3    Moses wrote it.  Jesus Messiah said that Moses wrote it.
Do you believe Jesus?  You should. 
    The Apostle Peter  stated that Moses wrote Deuteronomy.  Listen to what Peter said:
    Acts 3:22,23:  “For Moses truly said to the fathers, ‘The LORD your God will raise up 
    for you  a Prophet like me from your brethren.  Him you shall hear in all things, 
    whatever He says to you. ‘And it shall come to pass that every soul who will not hear
    that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.’  Acts 3:22,23.
Yes, Moses prophesied about Messiah Jesus in Deuteronomy 18:15-19.
    Jesus Messiah  appeared to His apostles after His resurrection.  Listen to:
    Luke 24:44:  Then He said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you while  
    I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of
    Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me.”  Luke 24:44.
Yes, the Law of Moses, and the Prophets and the Psalms foretold the coming of Messiah Jesus.  He fulfilled what was  prophesied about Him in the Law of Moses and in the Prophets and in the Psalms.  Will you believe in Jesus the Messiah? 
    The prophet of God Isaiah prophesied in Jerusalem about 700 years  B.C.:   
    Isaiah 53:5,6:  But He was wounded for your transgressions,
    He was bruised for our iniquities;
    The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
    And by His stripes we are healed.
    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 53:5,6.
Yes, Messiah Jesus died for our sins according to the scriptures.  He was buried.  Messiah Jesus rose again the third day according to the scriptures.  This is good news for you.  You can have the forgiveness of your sins in Messiah Jesus.  You can have eternal life in the heavenly New Jerusalem.  We read in:
    Galatians 3:26,27:  For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
    For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.  Gal. 3:26,27.
Through your own faith in Messiah Jesus, you need to be baptized, buried in water, into Christ.  We read in:                                                                                                                             4
    Colossians 2:12:  buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised  with
    Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.  Col. 2:12.
Yes, buried with Christ in baptism through your faith in Christ.  Then you will have your sins forgiven and be raised up to a new life to serve Him faithfully as a Christian.
    . . . “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the 
    remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.  Acts 2:38.
    ‘And now why are you waiting?  Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins,
    calling on the name of the Lord.’  Acts 22:16.
Yes, get a Christian to baptize you, to immerse you under the water into Christ  for the  forgiveness of your sins.  Amen!