First Year - Day 1

 •  2 min. read  •  grade level: 7
 
We start on a journey through Scripture. We shall take up the steps in a believer’s life  ...  (1) salvation; (2) separation from the world; (3) our life as a priest before God; (4) our life as a believer through this world and (5) God’s thoughts about and for us. These 5 steps are like Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. With each Old Testament book we shall then alternate with a New Testament book which gives us the Christian doctrine (teaching) of each of these 5 steps. And then on through the Bible alternating between Old and New Testaments. We learn Christian doctrine only from the New Testament; but we see that the Old Testament stories are pictures, illustrating so beautifully the truth of the New Testament. “The New is in the Old concealed  ...  the Old is in the New revealed.” Read First Corinthians 10-11 slowly. Not only did the things happen to those people of the centuries before the Lord Jesus came to earth, but the Old Testament was written as instruction and warning for us believers today. (Read Psa. 102:18.)
We begin with Genesis. This word means “the beginnings.” It tells us of the first creation — the natural world. Then we shall read Romans. When a person received the Lord Jesus as Savior, he is born again, he has a new beginning — into the new creation. Romans gives us the foundation truth of Christianity. The first creation was ruined by sin, the new creation can never be spoiled, for it was formed by the death and resurrection of Christ. The first creation is described by God as “very good” (Gen. 1:31). Sin ruined it. But the new creation which Christ has made by His death and resurrection, has made every believer in it perfect (Heb. 10:14). Sin closed the gate to earth’s paradise, but love opened the door to heaven (Rev. 4:1).