Promises Kept: The Whole Story of the Bible
Overview
One Saturday, less than a decade after the end of Jesus of Nazareth’s life, a man named Paul stood up in a Jewish synagogue with a mind-blowing message.
“We tell you the good news,” he said. “What God promised our fathers, he has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus” (Acts 13 v 33–34). In many ways, in these two sentences Paul was summing up the story of the whole of the Bible.
God is a promise-making God. Throughout history, He has made huge, extravagant, wonderful promises to humanity. Crucially, God is also a promise-keeping God. What He says, He does. And at a particular point in history, He fulfilled all of His promises in the life, death, resurrection and rule of one human—Jesus, a carpenter from a small Jewish town. The good news is that God’s promises are promises kept.
This Good Book Guide will take you on a rapid tour of the whole story of the Bible. Over nine sessions, you’ll travel from the beginning of the past, through our present, to the future. Each session you’ll discover one of God’s wonderful promises, and see how He kept it in Jesus.
It’s a whirlwind tour. It’s a breathtaking tour. And it’s a tour we’re part of …
- Introduction
- Why study Promises Kept?
- 1. A very good world - Genesis 1
- 2. Broken by rebellion - Genesis 3
- 3. Covenant promises - Genesis 12
- 4. Delivered from judgment - Exodus 12
- 5. Everlasting King - Judges 2, 2 Samuel 7
- 6. Future beyond judgment - Amos 8 – 9
- 7. God in His world - Luke 9, 24
- 8. Hear the message! - Acts 1 – 2
- 9. In a perfect world - Revelation 21 – 22
- Title: Promises Kept: The Whole Story of the Bible
- Author: Carl Laferton
- Series: Good Book Guides Series
- Publisher: The Good Book Company
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Pages: 111
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Christian education of adults
- ISBNs: 9781908317933, 1908317930
- Resource ID: LLS:GBGPRMSKEPT
- Resource Type: text.monograph.study-guide
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:10:54Z
Carl Laferton is EVP Publishing at The Good Book Company. He graduated from the University of Oxford and worked as a journalist and pastor before joining TGBC in 2010. He is married to Lizzie and they have two children, Benjamin and Abigail.