1436 - Introduction to a new series-"The Great Story of God: Creation, Redemption"

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Welcome to On the Way with Tony Crisp. Each weekday, Dr. Crisp will be discussing biblical passages, people, places, and prophecies. Tune in daily to start your day right and deepen your understanding of how to better walk the way and enjoy the journey. Here's your host, Dr. Tony Crisp.

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Welcome to On the Way. This is Tony Crisp, and this is Podcast 1436. Today we're starting a new journey together, and I don't know how long it will take us to get through the material that I've prepared. But I'm going to start and we're going to let the Lord finish it when it's time. But I want to ask you to join me over the coming months as we study brand new the story of the crimson river. There is a river that runs from Genesis to Revelation that I call the Crimson River. It's the story of creation, of God as the creator and sustainer of all of life, and of man's fall, his sin before God, his rebellion against God and God's wonderful plan of redemption that he enacts and does wonderful, amazing events and calendaring and shadows and types and figures to show us who he is, how much he has done for us. So we're going to study the person and work of God, and in the process of doing that, we will gain theological truths that will last us the rest of our days, certainly the rest of mine and yours. This is a study in theology of God, God Almighty, God all sufficient, God Hashem, whose name is YHVH that we don't even know how to pronounce. We just in the West pronounce it Yahweh or Yahweh. But the Jews just say Hashem, the name, that's all that matters. But we're going to study God Almighty, God the Father, God the Son, the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, and God the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, the Paracletos, one called along to help, one called along beside us to help us, to comfort us, to encourage us, to confirm us, to convict us. We're going to deal with the Holy Spirit of God. And I pray that through this we will positively gain a sense of balance, of worth, of value, of identity. And as we go through this, I want to encourage you to bring others along with you. The reason I'm doing this is for moms and dads and grandfathers and grandmothers, for those who are extended family that you can influence. I'm doing this for pastors and church leaders and teachers because many times our seminaries and our Bible colleges no longer teach the pastor. They teach CEOs, they teach people how to organize, and all of those things are great. But what we need is the truth of God and how to practically apply that in our lives. And so as we go along the way, there's going to be practical truths for every Bible teacher, every pastor, every leader. And I'm not the one who knows everything, but I do know this much. For fifty years I have intentionally, intensely, and from structure studied the Word of God. I've got light years to go. I have not arrived. No one has. I am not perfected, but one day I will be, and that's based upon the wonderful words and promises of God. But we're going to look at the great story of redemption, how God has had mercy and kindness and grace throughout all of man's history. We're going to study about the flood and the judgment of God upon the early civilization and early beginnings of mankind. And we will look from Genesis chapter three all the way through Revelation the last chapter. And we will see the great hand of God's sovereignty, of God's redemptive work. We're going to see it in signs and symbols. We're going to see it in events, and God moving in ways that man would never imagine. Why? Because God's ways are not our ways. As high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are God's ways above our ways, his thoughts above our thoughts. But when we get through with this study, if you will just stay with me, I promise you you will learn some things that will help you to be a better and greater follower of Jesus. You will learn ways to walk with God in a humble and kind way, in a gentle way. The fruit of the Spirit will become known to you, and if you will apply the truths that you will learn in the coming months, only eternity will tell what God will do. Because you see, the great plan of redemption is not for us to sit on it, not just for our knowledge, just for our good, but it is for the glory of God that we would share the message of salvation that is found in God's Son, God's only begotten Son, God's one of a kind Son. And so as we go through this, I pray that God will bless your heart. So prepare yourself. If you would, I would encourage you today to go out and get a brand new notebook. Not something expensive, just something that is brand new that you could just ride across it. The story of the Crimson River, the story of redemption. And as we are going through this, I'm making new notes because I'm going to publish brand new again the story of the Crimson River, which is about 250 pages of notes, my personal notes that I use in teaching this throughout the country and around the world. And I want to encourage you to pray that God would open up doors for me to go into areas, to churches, maybe on a Friday night, and do a Shabbat meal at that church for an entire area to teach them about the Moadim, not to make people Jews, but help them to understand Leviticus 23 and the great Moadim, that is the appointed days on God's calendar that He has still appointed unto this day because they are the story of redemption acted out. And so we would do a Shabbat on Friday evening. And then for about maybe from eight o'clock in the morning till three in the afternoon, I would teach the story of the Crimson River, and people could come from everywhere. I want to do this free of charge. And anything that people give would go right to the ministry. Come back into True Life Concepts. And I would love to be able to do that. And people can buy these books that I will have printed, the story of the Crimson River and these notes. They'll be able to buy them for just what it costs to put them together and do what needs to be done to have them printed so that they will have a copy of this to take home with them so that they can teach this in the days ahead. This is not about Tony Crisp. This is about getting the story of redemption out. A story that is not known. Many of my great friends and pastors, they preach great expository messages, but many times they are preaching a verse, a paragraph, maybe even a chapter, but they're not preaching the book of God. And they don't know the story, and their people don't know the story. It's like dots that are not connected. And I want to help pastors, teachers, parents to learn the great story of God so they can teach it, much as the Jews have done for the last thirty, five hundred years, and they have done it well. It's kept them together. They have observed the great Moedim of Shabbat, of unleavened bread, Passover, of first fruits, of Yom Terua, the day of the blowing of the trumpet, and then Yom Kippur and Tabernacles. They have observed feasts that Jesus did, Moedim that Jesus did, that are not recorded in necessarily an ordinance for people to do, like Hanukkah, and what is the purpose of that in the intertestamental period? And the feast of Esther, that is remembering the casting of lots. It is purim. So we will learn about all of those. Now today, what I want to do is tell you where I'm going over the next couple of days. I'm going to be in Revelation chapter four and chapter five tomorrow. And I'm going to tie that with Genesis 1 and 2. And I want to help you from the beginning to understand how God presents Himself. He presents Himself as the creator, first of all, as the God of creation, the God of eternity, who spoke everything into being as we know it. And he did that out of nothing. Exahilo, the Latin says. And so we're going to learn about God as creator. And then we're going to learn about him at the same time as the Redeemer. And we have that pattern all the way through scripture. So I just wanted to introduce this series to you. This is on the podcast. You will be able to get the transcripts of this. If you go to the Spotify website or you do it off of my website, TonyCrisp.org. There is a transcript available to you if you ever need to print those off. And if you cannot find those, then all you have to do is email me and I will get them to you. That will simply be DRCRISP, Dr. Crisp, at TonyCrisp.org. And I'll help you to get those transcripts if you need them of all of these podcasts. And so I pray that God will use this in the days ahead to draw us all into a more intimate fellowship. And if there has never been formed a relationship, that there would be an experience in your life and those that you know that would come to know God in a personal way through His Son, Jesus the Messiah, Jesus the Christ, Jesus the Anointed One. For On the Way, this is Tony Crisp.

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