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@ -6,54 +6,54 @@ When God created the world, everything was perfect. There was no sin. Adam and E
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Satan spoke through the snake in the garden in order to deceive Eve. Then she and Adam sinned against God. Because they sinned, everyone on earth gets sick and everyone dies.
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Satan spoke to Eve in the garden through the snake, because he wanted to deceive her. Then she and Adam sinned against God. Because they sinned, everyone on earth dies.
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Because Adam and Eve sinned, something even more terrible happened. They became enemies of God. As a result, every person since then has been born with a sinful nature and is also an enemy of God. The relationship between God and people was broken by sin. But God had a plan to restore that relationship.
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Because Adam and Eve sinned, something even worse happened. They became enemies of God. As a result, every person since then has sinned. Every person is an enemy of God from birth. There was no peace between people and God. But God wanted to make peace.
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God promised that one of Eve's descendants would crush Satan's head, and Satan would wound his heel. This meant that Satan would kill the Messiah, but God would raise him to life again, and then the Messiah will crush the power of Satan forever. Many years later, God revealed that Jesus is the Messiah.
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God promised that one of Eve's descendants would crush Satan's head. He also said that Satan would bite his heel. In other words, Satan would kill the Messiah, but God would raise him to life again. After that, the Messiah would take away Satan's power forever. Many years later, God showed that the Messiah is Jesus.
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When God destroyed the whole earth by the flood, he provided the boat to save the people who believed in him. In the same way, everyone deserves to be destroyed because of their sins, but God provided Jesus to save everyone who believes in him.
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God told Noah to build a boat to save his family from the flood he was going to send. This is how God saved the people who believed in him. In the same way, everyone deserves for God to kill them because they have sinned. But God sent Jesus to save everyone who believes in him.
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For hundreds of years, priests continually offered sacrifices to God for people to show the punishment that they deserved for their sins. But those sacrifices could not take away their sin. Jesus is the Great High Priest. Unlike other priests, he offered himself as the only sacrifice that could take away the sin of all the people in the world. Jesus was the perfect high priest because he took the punishment for every sin that anyone has ever committed.
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For hundreds of years, priests kept on offering sacrifices to God. This showed people that they committed sin, and that they deserved for God to punish them. But those sacrifices could not forgive their sins. Jesus is the Great High Priest. He did what the priests could not do. He gave himself to be the only sacrifice that could take away everyone's sin. He accepted that God should punish him for all of their sins. For this reason, Jesus was the perfect high priest.
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God told Abraham, "All the people groups of the earth will be blessed through you." Jesus was a descendant of Abraham. All the people groups are blessed through him, because everyone who believes in Jesus is saved from sin, and becomes a spiritual descendant of Abraham.
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God had told Abraham, "I will bless all the people groups on the earth because I am blessing you." Jesus was a descendant of this Abraham. God blesses all the people groups through him. God saves from sin everyone who believes in Jesus. God considers all these people to be descendants of Abraham.
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When God told Abraham to offer his son, Isaac, as a sacrifice, God provided a lamb for the sacrifice instead of his son, Isaac. We all deserve to die for our sins! But God provided Jesus, the Lamb of God, as a sacrifice to die in our place.
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God told Abraham to sacrifice his own son, Isaac, to him. But then God gave a lamb for the sacrifice instead of Isaac. We all deserve to die for our sins! But God gave Jesus to be a sacrifice to die in our place. That is why we call Jesus the Lamb of God.
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When God sent the last plague on Egypt, he told each Israelite family to kill a perfect lamb and spread its blood on the tops and sides of their door frames. When God saw the blood, he passed over their houses and did not kill their firstborn sons. This event is called the Passover.
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When God sent the last plague on Egypt, he told each Israelite family to kill a lamb. The lamb must not have any flaws. Then they had to spread its blood on the tops and sides of their door frames. When God saw the blood, he passed over their houses and did not kill their firstborn sons. When this happened, God called this the Passover.
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Jesus is our Passover Lamb. He was perfect and sinless and was killed at the time of the Passover celebration. When anyone believes in Jesus, the blood of Jesus pays for that person's sin, and God's punishment passes over that person.
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Jesus is like a Passover Lamb. He never sinned, so there was nothing wrong with him. He died at the time of the Passover festival. When anyone believes in Jesus, the blood of Jesus pays for that person's sin. It is as if God passed over that person, because he does not punish him.
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God made a covenant with the Israelites, who were his chosen people. But God has now made a New Covenant that is available to everyone. Because of this New Covenant, anyone from any people group can become part of God's people by believing in Jesus.
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God made a covenant with the Israelites, because they were they people he had chosen to belong to himself. But God has now made a New Covenant that is for everyone. If anyone in any people group accepts this New Covenant, he joins God's people. He does this because he believes in Jesus.
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Moses was a great prophet who proclaimed the word of God. But Jesus is the greatest prophet of all. He is God, so everything he did and said were the actions and words of God. That is why Jesus is called the Word of God.
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Moses was a prophet who proclaimed the word of God with great power. But Jesus is the greatest prophet of all. He is God, so everything he did and said were the actions and words of God. That is why the Scriptures call Jesus the Word of God.
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God promised King David that one of his descendants would rule as king over God’s people forever. Because Jesus is the Son of God and the Messiah, he is that special descendant of David who can rule forever.
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God promised King David that one of his descendants would rule as king over God’s people forever. Jesus is the Son of God and the Messiah, so he is the descendant of David who can rule forever.
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David was the king of Israel, but Jesus is the king of the entire universe! He will come again and rule his kingdom with justice and peace, forever.
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David was a king of Israel, but Jesus is the king of the entire universe! He will come again and rule his kingdom with justice and peace, forever.
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_A Bible story from: Genesis 1-3, 6, 14, 22; Exodus 12, 20; 2 Samuel 7; Hebrew 3:1-6, 4:14-5:10, 7:1-8:13, 9:11-10:18; Revelation 21_
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