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Genesis 1:16 · BSB
1:16 God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well.
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…day may not even know what you are talking about when you use the word sin. So you have to, in some cases, back up a little bit and take them toGenesis chapter 1, chapter 2, and then to chapter 3 to establish more of the storyline. But here, this understanding that they were sinful, that they needed…
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…to mankind. God created mankind to be in a relationship with Him, walking under His instruction. After the record of God creating man and woman inGenesis chapter 1, we read in verses 28 through 30, God blessed them and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have…
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…chapter 2, and in particular we're going to look at verse 8, which is right there, the Lord God planted a garden in Eden. When we think back toGenesis chapter 1, 2 and 3 in the Garden of Eden, we are thinking about many of the big events that took place when God created the world and when He created…
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…to the Bible, it's necessary. It's true from the beginning. When everything was perfect, God designed us for friendship. Now let's read together inGenesis chapter 1and at verse 26. Then God said, Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule. Here is God saying, let us. Here is a hint of…
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…saves. He has come to save us. It's all true. It's all about Jesus. And not only these truths about Jesus are true, Jesus affirmed this whole book.Genesis chapter 1. God really did create the heavens and the earth with just words out of nothing. Genesis 1 is true. Genesis 2 is true. God really did create one…
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…our authors were reading because we didn't know who wrote it, and we don't even have precise dating. But I will tell you, for example, when we readGenesis chapter 1, most scholars will tell you that was the writers responding to the Babylonian creation story called the Enuma Elish. They were familiar enough…
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…were supposed to be related. So I'll tell you, interestingly enough, if you've ever read Genesis, if you haven't, this is really easy to do. ReadGenesis chapter 1and then read Genesis chapter 2. They're both about the creation of the world. They have an entirely different feel to them, and they tell the same…
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…is this wonderful counselor who is given to us, born to die, to rise again as God in our place. That's the Bible's big picture. We can take it fromGenesis chapter 1right through. That is the Bible's meta-narrative. It is that Jesus Christ was always God's rescue plan for us. That alone can explain why I am…
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…for his self-actualization. And the third bricklayer worked for God. Now, how does the Bible view the job that we do? We have already read fromGenesis chapter 1, especially verse 26 and 27. Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the…
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…is this. God wants to have children in his image and likeness. That's his purpose. That's his design. So we're going to go back to the beginning,Genesis chapter 1. If you've got your Bibles there and you can come with me, that's great. If not, skip ahead and go to Psalm 8. Psalm 8, you see that's two verses…
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…sense of the Bible, we need to understand the story of the Bible. Okay, so let's dive in at chapter 1, creation. Jefferson and Betty read for usGenesis chapter 1, right? Thank you, Betty, for affirming me there. And in chapter 1, we see that God creates mankind, male and female, man and woman, with a…
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…Now that you know God, or rather are known by God. Now, knowing God is described in the Bible as freedom because that's what we were made for. InGenesis chapter 1, we are made in the image of God so that we might know God. We might share in his love. We might enter into relationship with him. So to know God…
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…Before there was anything that we can see, it was God. After there is everything, there will be God. Moses is teaching here the same message ofGenesis chapter 1. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. So God is, he exists before he creates. So he creates a world that is marked by time.…
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…to shake their hand and say, hello, your majesty. That's how much value and worth it is a royal dignity that the Bible is declaring of humanity inGenesis chapter 1and verses 26 and 27. Nona Verna Harrison in her book, God's Many Splendored Image, says that this royalty involves dignity and splendor, a…
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…sentence, Paul speaks of what? Of the worldwide growth of the gospel, bearing fruit and increasing. Many commentators have heard an echo here ofGenesis chapter 1. Do you remember when God tells our first human parents there to be fruitful and multiply? That's sort of the mandate in creation. Go forth, be…
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…about work. And so let me give you a brief kind of catch-up on what we've been talking about the last couple weeks. Two weeks ago, we were inGenesis chapter 1. And we saw God's creation of work. God is the ultimate worker. And what He did in the creation of this world was good after good after good. This…
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…in a home, in our church, in our community, we need to reintegrate God back into all that we do. Last week I pointed you to two things fromGenesis chapter 1. That God, at work in his creation making, was sovereign, all-powerful. He would say, let it be, and then it was so, and then six times. Do you…
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…was morning the first day. And there was evening, and there was morning the second day. We've got a God of order. And what you need to know aboutGenesis chapter 1is that there's a correspondence. Day 1 corresponds with day 4. Day 2 corresponds with day 5. Day 3 corresponds with day 6. It's like this. Days 1,…
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…well, what is true about us? How have we been created? How has God made us? Well, turn with me back all the way to the beginning of the Bible,Genesis chapter 1. It's on page 3 of these Pew Bibles, but it's a little difficult to find, so just find the first book, Genesis 1. And let's read here just for a…
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…And we're going to look at some of the things that the Bible says to us about it. The sinfulness of sin. But sin is the beginning. The beginning isGenesis chapter 1. It's creation. And if all good servants have three points, I do have three points for you. My sermon can be divided up into the three basic points…
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