Interlocked

God had directed Abraham’s family into Egypt where for 400 years, they grew into a nation. Although they were saved from famine and were kept culturally intact by forced segregation, the Egyptians enslaved them. So Yahweh, acting on His covenant with Abraham, sent Moses to lead the people out. God made this happen through a series of ten judgment plagues that became part of the Exodus event. Throu...

How did Abraham become justified? Or how did Yahweh declared Abraham righteous? What does justification even mean? This is an important question as the Bible tells us that Abraham is the model of how a person can be declared righteous before God through faith and then have a relationship with Him. And after God declared Abraham righteous, how was Abraham’s daily walk with God? How was his daily fa...

In order to preserve His history and truth, God changed the way He interacted with mankind. Instead of sharing about Himself directly with everyone, He disrupted world history to work with Abraham and his family. God planned to use Abraham and his descendants to record Scripture and then return as missionaries to the pagan world. So God called Abraham out of his pagan culture and made a covenant w...

Part two of Faith in Action I — Biblical Truth Helps Us Interpret the World. This episode concludes the the first Faith in Action exercise. The class uses the content of Genesis 1–11 as a biblical framework to analyse and discuss contemporary issues. The aim is not to share one’s opinions, but to examine Scripture to see what it has to say about issues we face. Access the notes at: https://interlo...

Lesson 7 concludes at 1 hour 19 mins. This is followed by Lesson 8: Faith in Action I - Biblical Truth Helps Us Interpret the World. This is the first Faith in Action exercise. Genesis 1-11 already puts in place a number of truths to begin building the foundation of the interlocked biblical framework. The class uses the framework to examine and analyse common questions and challenges from non-bibl...

We conclude Lesson 6 (at the 25:00 min mark), then move on to Lesson 7. After leaving the ark, Noah and his family found themselves in a new, re-shaped world, with a new climate, new physical geography and new lifespans. Noah was the righteous man whom God saved from the great Flood and now he and his family had a chance to start over. God gave Noah the same instructions as Adam and Eve. Noah and...

After the global flood subsided, Yahweh made a covenant, a contract, with mankind and nature. He promised never to send another global flood and He promised to maintain the stability of the earth. Those were the conditions He put on Himself and there were no obligations for man or nature. God signed the covenant using the rainbow, the symbol of His majesty, authority and glory. Yahweh then reinsta...

In this lesson, we examine the global Flood. It was a historical, worldwide judgment on everyone on earth. Only eight people, Noah and his family, trusted in what God said and they built and entered the ark. God saved them because they had faith in Him, and not because they were special or sinless. God sealed them in the ark and kept them safe. After the flood waters subsided, they were the only p...

We conclude Lesson 3 (at the 23:00 minute mark), then move on to Lesson 4 where we examine what happens to the church when the pagan worldview became all-pervasive. Looking at history, we observe three responses of churchgoers to the pagan worldview. First, there is “surrender the truth”; second there is “accommodate and reinterpret Scripture”; and third there is “counterattack the falsehoods”. We...

This lesson examines the consequences of mankind’s rebellion against God in the garden of Eden. We will see that the first humans’ rebellious decision had massive consequences. There is now death and sin damage. We will explore what death is according to the Scriptures. And we will explore the sin damage on mankind: physically, spiritually, mentally and socially. There is also damage to creation a...

We had begun by learning about creation and the three divine institutions that God created for mankind to succeed as the under-lord of the earth. We also learnt that there was a Creator-creature distinction between God and man and nature; that God is a personal, sovereign God who relates personally to His creation and that He is the ultimate authority on right and wrong. Now, in this lesson, we wi...

We look at the creation account in Genesis and at the three divine institutions that God put in place to help mankind succeed at the role that He had assigned the man and woman: that of under-lords, with the authority and responsibility to take care of the earth under God’s direction. Access the notes at: https://interlocked.online/s/01-Origin-of-the-Divine-Institutions.pdf

The Overview provides the background for the benefits of a chronological study of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. It explains how important it is to understand God’s Word holistically in a way that builds the life of the believer. The lesson then provides a summary of God’s big narrative from Genesis to Revelation to set the stage for Lesson 1. Access the notes at: https://interlocked.online...