“In the beginning…” part 1Gen 1-3 & Selected

Pastor Dave Martin, Cross Creek Community Church, Aug 24, 2014

Why series on HIS story, OUR story?

• To learn about God and His plan for mankind

Why series on HIS story, OUR story?

• To learn about God and His plan for mankind

• To help us understand today’s “world shaking events”

Why series on HIS story, OUR story?

• To learn about God and His plan for mankind

• To help us understand today’s “world shaking events”

• To personally challenged us to be saved and to grow in our faith

Why series on HIS story, OUR story?

• To learn about God and His plan for mankind

• To help us understand today’s “world shaking events”

• To personally challenged us to be saved and to grow in our faith

• To survey the entire Bible: Origin of all things to the ending of all things

Why series on HIS story, OUR story?

• To learn about God and His plan for mankind

• To help us understand today’s “world shaking events”

• To personally challenged us to be saved and to grow in our faith

• To survey the entire Bible: Origin of all things to the ending of all things

• To realize God works through the centuries using individuals and His “chosen people”

I. God Created Everything!

Genesis 1:1-2 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

I. God Created Everything!

Isaiah 45:18 For this is what the Lord says-- he who created the heavens, he is God; he who

fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be

inhabited-- he says: "I am the Lord, and there is no other. (Isa 42:5, 45:12)

Day 1, vs 1-5

Matter, light, energy, water, atoms energized & force fields activated

Day 2, vs 6-8

Atmosphere, water, canopy, tremendous lifting action, various gasses

Day 3, vs 9-13

Land, oceans, seas occupy one bed, 100K species of plant life (according to its own kind)

Day 4, vs 14-19

Sun, moon, stars… star VY Canis Majoris can hold 7million billion earths

Day 5, vs 20-23Fish/birds, whales weight of 300,000lbs and humming birds weighing 1oz

Day 6, vs 24-31Insects and land animals… Also the “crown’ of God’s creation:

Man

Day 7, vs 2:1-3God ceased from His creative work

II. Only man was created in God’s “Image”

Genesis 1:26-27 26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them

rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and

over all the creatures that move along the ground." 27 So God created man in his own

image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

II. Only man was created in God’s “Image”

Genesis 2:7 7 the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his

nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Created in God’s Image…

• Unlike angels & animals, man made in natural & moral likeness to God

Created in God’s Image…

• Unlike angels & animals, man made in natural & moral likeness to God

• Man uniquely has an inner spiritual nature to know and worship God

Created in God’s Image…

• Unlike angels & animals, man made in natural & moral likeness to God

• Man uniquely has an inner spiritual nature to know and worship God

• Man created perfect, sinless with capacity to think and to choose (will)

Genesis 1:31a 31 “God saw all that he had made, and it was very good….”

III. God’s Command and Adam’s Choice

Genesis 2:15-17 15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."

• Satan’s rebellion & expulsion from heaven, Isa 14:12-15, Eze 28:11-17

• Satan’s rebellion & expulsion from heaven, Isa 14:12-15, Eze 28:11-17

• Eve tempted and deceived, as Adam willfully disobeys & sins, 3:1-6

• Satan’s rebellion & expulsion from heaven, Isa 14:12-15, Eze 28:11-17

• Eve tempted and deceived, as Adam willfully disobeys & sins, 3:1-6

• All nature fell… All mankind lost their relationship with God, 3:7-19

Genesis 3:7 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and

they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together

and made coverings for themselves.

Romans 5:12 12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through

one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all

men, because all sinned—

IV. God’s provision and promise of the future Redeemer

• The necessity of a blood sacrifice

[Innocent dying for the guilty]

Hebrews 9:22b “… without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.”

• The necessity of a blood sacrifice

[Innocent dying for the guilty]

Genesis 3:21 21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.

• Satan will bruise Christ’s heal… But the woman’s “seed” (Christ) will crush Satan’s head

Genesis 3:15 15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And

you shall bruise His heel." nkjv

“Her Seed”

Luke 1:34-35 34 "How will this be," Mary asked the angel, "since I am a virgin?" 35 The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.

4000 years later, God sent His Son into the world

Galatians 4:4-5 4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.

“HIS story, OUR story”

Next Week:

The Ancient World