The entirety of the Bible points to Jesus Christ and declares Him the Savior of the world.
🍃 Watch the six-part series by Mescalero Apache, Soapy Dollar, here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm4Y5qad3GcTF3swbs_1mvaD-E-ty_UdV

This series on the Bible for Native American, First Nation, and Indigenous people is taught by Mescalero Apache, Soapy Dollar. He talks about the origin of the Bible, it’s message, and answers the question, can we trust it? He also shares about the central character of the Bible, Jesus Christ. Soapy is both very familiar and passionate with what he calls, the Book of books, the Bible. He’s been teaching from it for over 50 years.

The purpose of this video, is to inform particularly and especially native people and native communities about this book called The Bible.

Key Points in Part 5:

– The central character of the Bible is this Messiah, this Redeemer, this Savior, this special human being that God says early in the book of Genesis, chapter 3, verse 15, I’m going to send the seed of a woman, a human being, a male of the species, not an angel, not an extraterrestrial, not an animal, but a human being, is going to atone for man’s sins. The whole idea is that God, through this Messiah, this Redeemer, this Savior, is going to accomplish “at-one-ment”.

– This man would be God in the flesh, Jesus Christ.

– In the Old Testament, the Messiah, this Redeemer, this Savior, is prefigured. He’s predicted. He’s prophesied. We’re told what He’s going to be like, where He’s going to be born, what is going to be His ancestry, His lineage. Some of the characteristics of His life, and many of the characteristics of His life and His ministry are foretold. Over 300 predictions about this special human being that God is going to send into the world to be the Redeemer, the Savior, the one who facilitates the reconciliation of God and man. So we’re told about Him in the Old Testament, in future tense, looking forward to Him and trusting in God’s mercy and grace revealed because God is going to send a Redeemer, a Savior.

– He paid the penalty of death. We’re told that the wages of sin is death. He took upon Himself our sin. He who knew no sin became sin for us. And He expressed, gave full expression, not only to the righteousness and the justice of God, the judgment of God fell upon Him instead of us, in our place, but also gave full expression to the love of God. And so we find the reconciliation of those two characteristics in God’s nature in the redemptive work of Jesus, the Messiah, fully expressing God’s love, fully satisfying God’s justice.

– And on the basis of His finished work, He was raised from the dead. God put His seal of approval on who Jesus was and what He accomplished by raising Him from the dead. And that in Christ, we who have put our faith and trust in Him, we can be too reconciled to that relationship with God and experience eternal life. That beautiful verse in the New Testament, now the New Testament looks back on Jesus on His life and gives us the full blown bright light of the gospel eternal relationship with God.

– That’s the message of the Bible.
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Here is the outline for following along in the series.

Soapy Dollar – A Native American Introduction to The Bible

Part 1 – Introduction and The Bible is Unique
It is Unique
– In it’s consistency
– In it’s circulation
– In it’s translation
– In it’s survival
– In it’s teaching
– In it’s message

Part 2 – The Bible is True and Accurate
Tests and Evidence
– The Bibliographical test
– The Internal test
– The External test
– Archeology

Part 3 – Is the Bible from God our Creator?
Why do we think this?
– It’s amazing consistency
– It has a “ring of truth”
– Fulfilled predictions and prophecies
– The life of Jesus
– Transformed lives

Part 4 – The Message of the Bible
The Central Message of the Bible
– God loves and cares for us
– We are sinful, selfish, guilty, and condemned
– God sends a Savior
– We must respond in faith

Part 5 – The Central Character – Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ is the central character of the Bible
– His person and redemptive work is foretold in the Old Testament
– His person and redemptive work is fulfilled in the New Testament

Part 6 – Final Thoughts and a Challenge
A Brief Summary and God has gone to great lengths to communicate with us
– Pick up the Bible and read it for yourself

Listen to Soapy’s personal story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHD0Av50Hss
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