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0-0-1 Old Testament First Principles

1. Seeking God

• Isaiah 1:2 - God created us and cared for us but we rebelled agianst him
• Jeremiah 29:11-14 - Will find God if you seek me with all your heart and soul
• Proverbs 4:7 - Wisdom is supreme but it will cost you all you have
• Psalms 10:4 - The arrogent say 'God won't hold me accountable'
• Psalms 42:1-2 - David thirst for God
• Psalms 62:1 - David waited patiently for God
• Psalms 63:1 - He longed, thristed, yearned for God
• Psalms 61:2 - He called out to God in despair

2. The Word

• Jeremiah 23:29 - God's word is like a fire and hammer
• Hosea 4:6 - People are destroyed from lack of knowledge
• Jeremiah 8:7 - Animals obey God but His people pay no attention
• Psalms 12:6 - LORD's words are absolutely reliable
• Proverbs 30:5-6 - Every word of God is flawless
• Deuteronomy 4:2 - Keep the commandments of the LORD your God; do not add or take away from it
• Psalms 119 - God's Word should be held in the highest reguard

3. Sin

• Ecclesiastes 7:20 - There is not a righteous man on earth
• Leviticus 18 - If a persons sins, he will be cut off
• Ecclesiastes 4:4 - Achievement will not get get us to heaven
• Genesis 4:7 - if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door
• Proverbs 6:16-19 - God hates sin
• Isaiah 59:1-3 - Sin separates us from God
• Psalms 26:1-2 - We need to turn from our ways and live blamelessly

4. Messianic Prophecy

• Isaiah 52:13-53:12 - His form was so marred he no longer looked human
• Genesis 22:1-18 - Abraham did not withheld his son, your only son
• Psalms 16:8-10 - He will you let your Holy One see decay
• Psalms 2:7  - Messiah will be God's Son
• Genesis 12:3 - All peoples on earth will be blessed through you
• Deuteronomy 18:15 - The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you
• Micah 5:2 - From Judah will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel
• Isaiah 7:14 - The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel
• Isaiah 9:1-2 - Future: people walking in darkness have seen a great light
• Isaiah 9:6 - a son has been given to us: Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace

5. The Cross

• Isaiah 53
• Psalms 22
• Zechariah 9:9 - King comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey
• Zechariah 11:12-13 - Thirty pieces of silver paid
• Zechariah 13:7- Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered
• Zechariah 12:10- They will look on me, the one they have pierced
• Deuteronomy 21:23 - Anyone who is hung on a pole is under God's curse

6. Repentance

• Ezekiel 18:30-32 - Repent and live; For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone
• Lamentation 2:14 - Visions of your prophets were false and worthless because they did not expose sin
• Psalms 139:23-24 - Search me, God, and know my heart
• Job 42:5-6 - My eyes have seen you, therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes
• 2 Samuel 11:1-12
• Psalms 34:18 - The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit

7. The Kingdom

• Daniel 2:31-45 - Dream's dream
• Isaiah 2:2 - All nations will stream to it
• Isaiah 4:2 - In that day the Branch of the LORD will be the pride and glory of the survivors in Israel
• Genesis 49:10 - He to whom it belongs shall come and the obedience of the nations shall be his
• Malachi 3:1 - I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me.
• Malachi 4:1-6 - I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the LORD comes

8. Commitment

• Deuteronomy 6:5 - Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength
• Leviticus 19:18  - Love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD
• Isaiah 6:1-8 - Here am I. Send me!
• Jeremiah 48:10 - A curse on anyone who is lax in doing the LORD's work

9. Evangelism

• Exodus 19:6 - You will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation
• Isaiah 49:6 - I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth
• Proverbs 11:30 - The one who is wise saves lives
• 2 Kings 7:3-9 - This is a day of good news; we wait until daylight, punishment will overtake us
• Esther 4:14 - For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place

10. Baptism

• Proverbs 30:12 - There is a generation who are pure in their own eyes and yet are not washed from their filthiness
• 2 Kings 5:1-15 - Dipped in the Jordan seven times and was healed
• Leviticus 14:1-7 - Seven times he shall sprinkle the one to be cleansed of the defiling disease
• Isaiah 1:18-20 - Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow

11. Decision

• Deuteronomy 30:11-20 - What I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach
• Joshua 24:14-15 - As for me and my household, we will serve the LORD
• Ezra 10
• Psalms 84
• Daniel 3