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Three questions:

1) Where did I come from?2) Where am I going? 3) Why?

Three questions:

1) Where did I come from? Nothing2) Where am I going? Back to Nothing3) Why? No reason

We are here.Nothing Nothing

Secular Vision of History and Destiny

We are here.Nothing Nothing

Secular Vision of History and Destiny

We are here.Nothing Nothing

Secular Vision of History and Destiny

Three questions:

1) Where did I come from? Glory and Honor

2) Where am I going? Back to glory and Honor

3) Why? Jesus

We are here.

Glory and Honor

Glory and Honor

Biblical Vision of History and Destiny

We are here.Nothing Nothing

Glory and Honor

Glory and Honor

Two Visions of History and Destiny

Three questions:

1) Where did I come from?2) Where am I going? 3) Why?

For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking.

It has been testified somewhere, “What is man, that you are mindful of

him, or the son of man, that you care for him?

You made him for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor, putting everything in subjection under his feet.”

Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control.

- vv. 5-8a

We were made to:

We were made to:

1) Rule the Earth

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

- Genesis 1:28

We were made to:

1) Rule the Earth2) Create along with God

We were made to:

1) Rule the Earth2) Create along with God3) Produce and be rewarded for our work

At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him.

- v.. 8b

When people have no control over their environment, no ability to have dominion over nature, no chance to create, to invent, to own inspire, they are in poverty, both in body and soul.

We came from glory and honor, but we live in guilt and shame.

But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. 10 For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons

to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.

- vv. 9-10

For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying, “I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.”

And again, “I will put my trust in him.” And again, “Behold, I and the children God has given me.”

- vv. 11-13

“He died to make us what we ought to be… to recreate us until we become what we were originally created to be.”

- William Barclay

That the genius of Jesus is not only that he teaches me about God, but he teaches me about me.