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Do you have value? Do you have
value in God's eyes? The answer to that question is
yes. Please stand with me if you would.
We want to open up God's word and read about the creation of
mankind from Genesis chapter one this morning. Our goal this
morning is to understand our place in God's creation so that
we can live a life of meaning and purpose. Before we read this,
we just want to say we believe that this account is true, that
it's straightforward and it's accurate and what it says is
what it means. We're going to start reading
in Genesis chapter one, verse 20. Let's go, verse 24, beginning
of the sixth day of God's creation. Then God said let the earth bring
forth living creatures after their kind cattle and creeping
things and beasts of the earth after their kind and it was so
God made the beasts of the earth after their kind and the cattle
after their kind and everything that creeps on the ground after
its kind and God saw that it was good Then God said Let us
make man in our image according to our likeness and let them
rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky
and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every
creeping thing that creeps on the earth. God created man in
his own image, in the image of God. He created them male and
female. He created them. God blessed
them. And God said to them, be fruitful
and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it. and rule over
the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over
every living thing that moves on the earth. Then God said,
Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on
the surface of the earth and every tree which has fruit yielding
seed. It shall be food for you and to every beast of the earth
and to every bird of the sky and to everything that moves
on the earth which has life. I have given every green plant
for food. And it was so. God saw all that
he had made and behold it was very good. And there was evening
and there was morning the sixth day. Thus the heavens and the
earth were completed and all their hosts by the seventh day
God completed his work which he had done and he rested on
the seventh day from all his work which he had done. Then
God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because in it he
rested from all his work which God had created and made. God
sees you as highly valuable. We're going to see here the beginning
of our examination of this text is that mankind is God's most
valuable creation. Mankind is God's most valuable
creation. We'll see five proofs of that
in the in the account. I think that's one of the things
we're to glean from this as we read this account is that mankind
is unique and special. The first proof of this is that
the creation of man is the climax of the entire creation account.
The creation of man is the climax of this entire creation account
that spans through Genesis chapter one. On the first three days,
God formed his universe. We went back and read. We would
see that on day one, God formed the heavens and he spoke light
into existence. On day two, he formed the sky,
separating the waters above from the waters below. On day three,
he formed the dry land and he covered that land with the plants,
with the vegetation. Days four through six then, God
filled what he had formed in the first three days. So day
four, he filled his expanse with heavenly bodies, with the sun
and the moon and the stars. Day five, God began to make the
living things so that on day five, both sky and oceans teem
with life. There's birds and fish and even
great sea monsters. Day six, it's the land that he
filled with life. We read that first. He made the
animals that move about on the ground, right? Verse 25, the
cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their
time. But mankind is not one of the land animals. Mankind
is an entirely different sort of being. Mankind is made last
of all. And then once mankind has been
made, God stops creating. The heavens and earth are completed.
Once man is put into place, everything is in God's creation as God had
meant it to be. It's done. At the end of days
one, three, four, five, and at the end of the creation of the
land animals in verse six, there is a repeated statement and God
saw that it was good and God saw that it was good as God's
going along and God saw that it was good. But after mankind
is created, a final verdict on God's creation can be issued.
Verse 31, God saw all that he had made and behold, it was very
good. Mankind is the capstone of God's
creation, his greatest work of art, which brings to completion
a whole universe of wonder and beauty. Mankind is God's most
valuable creation. The creation of mankind is the
climax of the whole account. Also, you can see as we read
this that mankind's creation takes up the most space in the
creation account. It takes up more room than the
description of anything else. You can tell what's important
to a person by what he talks about the most. The divine author
of Genesis almost rushes through the creation of everything else.
There's just a few verses, no more than six verses on any of
the days of creation. Then, when you come to day six,
all of the other land animals are created in three verses. But the creation of this one
last life form, the creation of mankind, gets five verses,
all of its own. And then if we were to keep reading
from where we stopped, starting in chapter two, verse five, the
Lord hits rewind. He's already told us how he made
everything. The first seven days have been have been given to
us. But now the Lord stops in chapter
two. He hits rewind and he zooms in on the creation of mankind. and tells us more details and
gives us more information about mankind. Spend the whole of chapter
two giving us details about man's creation. The whole point of
this creation account in Genesis chapter one is to give us the
setting for the story of mankind. Mankind is God's highest creation.
We were our creation. It's the climax of the creation
account takes up the most space in the account and also thirdly,
Only before creating man do the persons of the Trinity stop for
discussion. So read through the account.
Only before creating man do the persons of the Trinity stop for
discussion. Verse 26 is very unique in the
creation account. Look there at 126. Then God said,
let us make man in our image according to our likeness and
let them rule. And then God doesn't actually
do it until verse 27, God created man in his own image. The question
that always comes up here when you come to verse 26 is who is
God talking to? Let us make man. Who is God talking
to? Let us make man. Some have suggested
that God is speaking to the angels, but that can't be. The angels
haven't been mentioned in this account yet, and so why all of
a sudden would God start speaking to something that he hasn't mentioned
in the account? Also, look at what God says. Let us make man
in our image according to our likeness. If he's talking to
the angels, then that would be saying that the angels helped
make man. and that the mankind is made in the image of angels
somehow, and that's just foreign to scripture. In fact, verse
27 makes very clear whose image is man made in. Verse 27, God
created man in his own image. So when he says, let us make
man in our image, he's not speaking to the angels. Who is God talking
to when he says, let us make? Well, there are three persons
in the Trinity. There is the father, the son
and the Holy Spirit, and they speak to one another. We see
this throughout scripture. We see it in other places, right?
Did not Jesus, when he was alive, constantly speak to his father
in prayer? Didn't the father speak from
heaven to his son and about his son? Way back in Genesis chapter
1 verse 2, look there, we've already seen the Spirit of God
moving over the waters there in verse 2, the second half of
the verse, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface
of the waters. So we have this mystery in verse 26. In verse
26, first God says, plural, let us make man in our image. And
then verse 27, it says, singular, God created man in His image,
because there is one God. In three persons, we serve a
God who is three in one, and he has revealed himself to us
as this from the very first page of Scripture, we see the Trinity.
So just before man is created, God stops his work of creation
to this point, when God has said anything, it has been a command
and heaven and earth have moved to obey. Here's the first time
God stops and he's speaking in a conversation amongst the Trinity.
God stops and says, let us now do something unique. Let us now
do something wonderful. Let us make man in our own image. Mankind is God's most valuable
creation. We can see that also, fourthly,
by the fact that mankind is given authority over all of God's creation.
Mankind is given authority over all of God's creation here in
these verses now To hold the position of authority does not
necessarily mean that one has greater value than the person
that they're over Doesn't mean that we see in chapter 2 that
mankind that the man is given authority over the woman He is
supposed to lead her but that does not mean that the man has
greater value than the woman. I But here in chapter one, it
is implied. Mankind is more valuable than
any of the rest of the creatures that God has made. And his value
is reflected by the fact that God has given mankind strong
authority over everything else he makes. Look in Genesis chapter
one, verse 26. Then God said, let us make man
in our image according to our likeness and let them rule over
the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over
the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing
that creeps on the earth. Then, verse 28, God blessed them
and God said to them, be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth
and subdue it and rule over the fish of the sea and over the
birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the
earth. These verses give us God's perspective on one of the great
debates of our day. People are always arguing, how
should mankind relate to our environment? Should a Christian
side with the conservationists and environmentalists or are
we to side with industry? Right. What should be our stance,
according to the word of God, on fracking in North Dakota or
on protecting endangered species or the Dakota Access Pipeline
or carbon emissions and climate change? There's two principles
that we can see in these verses about our relationship with the
environment that help us think these things through. First one
is this clearly in verse twenty eight. Mankind has freedom to
use creation for his own benefit. Mankind is given freedom to use
creation for his own benefit. Look there at verse 28. There's
two verbs that God. Commands that God gives to man
about how he is to relate to creation, and both of them involve
strong authority over creation. The first verb you see there,
he is to subdue the earth, their first twenty eight. Be fruitful,
multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. That word subdue is
a strong word for authority. It means to overcome, to enslave,
to conquer and control an environment or people. You find it if you
follow this word subdued through the rest of the Old Testament,
you find it used of people conquering foreign lands and subduing them.
You find it of people taking slaves for themselves. They're
subduing them. It's a strong word of authority.
Then also there's the word rule. Mankind is to rule over the fish
of the sea and such. That word rule means to dominate,
to lead, to control, subdue, manage or govern with considerable
or forceful authority, the Greek dictionary says. So, does this
mean that mankind has the authority to kill animals, to eat them,
and use their fur to clothe himself? Well, not at first, right? Here,
because there's no death in Genesis 1. They wouldn't have been killing
animals yet. But if you skip ahead to verse
9, mankind's diet is clearly told by God that it can expand
beyond plants to animals. Go ahead to Genesis chapter 9
with me. Look at verse 2. This is after the flood. Expands mankind's food choices. We don't just have to eat off
the vegetarian menu anymore. Look at chapter 9 verse 2 God
says to Noah the fear of you and the terror of you will be
on every beast and the of the earth and every bird of the sky
with Everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of
the sea into your hand. They are given Every moving thing
that is alive shall be food for you. I give all to you as I gave
the green plants. I So, mankind has been given
the authority to use creation for his own good. God invites
us to eat his cattle, his fish, and his birds. They're for you. God invites us then, by extension,
right, to use his oil, to use his natural gas, other resources
he's placed in the world for the good of ourselves and for
the good of mankind, clearly seen here in Genesis. There's
two principles, though, on mankind's relationship with the environment
we can see. First, freedom to use God's creation for our own
benefit. There's a second principle we
see here. Mankind has responsibility to care for God's creation. Mankind
does have a responsibility to care for God's creation. Turn
ahead with me to Genesis 2, verse 15, if you would. Here in Genesis
chapter 2, this is zoomed in, looking at the creation of mankind
again, and more details are given. Here some other words are used.
When God is telling Adam what he is supposed to do with this
creation, here he describes it in different words. Look in Genesis
chapter 2, verse 15. Then the Lord God took the man
and put him into the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep
it. That word for cultivate has to
do with working, working the ground. The word for keep here,
the mankind is supposed to keep the garden, is sometimes translated
take care of. It means to preserve, to protect,
to guard, to watch over. One Greek dictionary defines
this word keep as to cause a state or condition to remain. So God
has created a world of stunning beauty and variety. And part
of our job as mankind is to care for God's creation. The the word
keep there instructs us as people that we are to be conservationists.
We're to keep this beautiful world that he has made beautiful.
So God has literally made mankind kings over his earth. But like
any good king, we are to rule in a benevolent manner. We're
to rule over God's creation as a caretaker of that beautiful
world. So principles to take from this and apply as we think
about all these environmental issues. We are free to use God's
creation, but we're responsible to care for it. I think it's
a helpful framework for us. We think about environmental
issues, right? We're just going to take the Dakota pipeline.
Well, are we free to use that oil that's in the ground? Yes,
we're free to use it for the good of ourselves and mankind.
We're free to use it, but we should do it in a way where we're
caring for God's creation, right? Caring for the people around
us. Helpful principles. Okay. Mankind is God's most valuable
creation. We've seen it in all these ways. The question comes
up and it's answered in the text. Why? Why is man more valuable
than all the other things? What is it? What is it that that
makes it so that God views humans as above the rest of his creation? We are not the largest of his
creatures. We're not the strongest. We're
not the most beautiful things in God's creation. If you count
on the if you count the angels, we might not even be the most
intelligent things in God's creation. So why are we so important? Why? Why do we hold first place in
the attention of God on his creation? Here's the answer of scripture.
Only mankind is created in the image of his creator. Only mankind
is created in the image of his creator. It's emphasized in the
text. Verse twenty six. Let us make
man in our image, according to our likeness. Verse twenty seven.
God created man in his own image, in the image of God. He created
them. The word likeness there, we're going to make man according
to our likeness, just refers to something that is similar
to something else. God here at this point in creation
says, okay, now I want to make something that's like me. The word image refers to that
which is a pattern, a model, an example of something. This
word image shows up all the time in the Old Testament. Sometimes,
one time it's used to describe the painting of a soldier that's
on a wall and the painting is an image of the real soldier.
The word image in the Old Testament is often used to describe idols.
In the minds of the pagans, their idol represented their God. Of course, we knew that God is
nothing, but in their minds, this is an image of their God.
The word image refers to something that is like something else and
represents it. So to be made in God's image,
I think I've got blanks on your sheet here, to be made in God's
image means that God made us to be like him and to represent
him. God made you and I to be like
him and to represent him. It's amazing. Here's the end
of God's creation. God stops, says to the Son and
the Spirit, OK, at this point, everything that we have made
has been good. But but now let us make a creature who will be
like us, a creature enough like us that he can be our representative
over creation. Being created in God's image,
being made like him, sets us apart from all the rest of the
creation. We are different from the animals. We are above the
animals. There is a dignity and a significance
to a human being that is not shared by anything else in all
creation. We are of greater value because
we alone bear this likeness to God, the creator, in a way that
is just not true of anything else. How how is the image of
God seen in mankind? Well, I mean, you could just
all of the things that where mankind is like God, but unlike
the animals, these things are part of God's image. We are more
like God than the rest of creation in so many ways. We are moral
beings, moral beings in ways that the animals are not. We
are eternal beings. There is a spiritual aspect to
you and I. We will go on forever. When an
animal dies, that's it. We have mental capacities that
are like God's. Go beyond any animal. And we
are relational beings. We were made, like God, to have
relationship. To be able to have relationship
with God and relationships with each other in ways that far exceed
anything that's seen in the animal world. Only mankind has been
made in the image of God. Just this week I read an article
on the website of PETA people for the ethical treatment of
animals This article that I read was was entitled why animal rights. I want to quote you from this
article As I read it think why why do I disagree with this?
Hopefully you do disagree with this. Okay, I'm quoting the article
here. I Supporters of animal rights
believe that animals have an inherent worth of value completely
separate from their usefulness to humans. We believe that every
creature with a will to live has a right to live free from
pain and suffering. Animal rights is not just a philosophy.
It is a social movement. that challenges society's traditional
view that all non-human animals exist solely for human use. As
PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk has said, when it comes to pain,
love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig, is a dog, is
a boy. When it comes, I'll repeat that,
when it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a
rat is a pig, is a dog, is a boy. She continues, each one values
his or her life and fights the knife. Why do we disagree with this?
We do believe, as it was said at the beginning of the article,
that there is inherent worth in rats and pigs and dogs. Sure,
they're God's creations, beautiful as God has made them. And we
are, though we're free to use them, we're entrusted to care
for them. But rats and pigs and dogs are animals. A boy is of infinitely more value
than any rat, pig, or dog because a boy is not an animal. Every boy and girl has been made
in the image of God. He is valuable because He and
she, we are like God. We are so like God that we represent
God. If I kill a dog, the dog doesn't
represent God. If I kill a human, this person
represents God. They're made in God's image.
It's a whole different thing. It is this belief that teaches us
that people of every race deserve equal dignity and rights. It
is this belief in mankind made in the image of God that compels
us to protect and to honor all people, regardless of whether
they are elderly, whether they are seriously ill, whether they
are mentally retarded, whether they are children yet unborn,
whether they are sinners or whether they are righteous. Every person,
every person has value. and demands respect, because
every person bears within their nature the image of God. They are, we each are, like the
Creator, and in a real way, we represent Him. It is the honor
that God is due that moves us to honor everyone who bears His
image. Are you valuable? The answer
to that question is yes. You read this account. God has
made you like him. You have infinite worth because
you bear his image now in mankind. God's image has been marred by
the fact that we are sinners right our character is not Like
God's perfect character anymore But the image of God even in
the sinner is not lost In fact, it's because we are made in the
image of God that is such a travesty when we do sin because we're
supposed to be representing God we're supposed to be like him
but instead We lust and we hate and we want and we take and we
kill. It profanes Him for His image
to be so filthy. It offends Him that His image-bearers
would act so. But God has a solution even for
that. His solution is Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ came to forgive
and to cleanse. Only in Jesus Christ can we be
made new, to be restored fully to representing God, to being
in His image, as we were created to be in the beginning. If we're understanding our place
in God's creation, we have to understand every person is so
valuable. You are so valuable to God because
you are made in His image. Second thing we see in this account
is just God's good, Kindness his provision for these people
that he made God wants to bless you not to make you miserable
We see that from the very beginning God's intention for his image
bearers is to bless them and to provide for them Satan's message
to Eve right in Genesis chapter 3 not long after this was his
message to Eve was that God was withholding good things from
her that somehow God was out to steal her happiness and That's
still Satan's message today. He has told that to you. God is out to steal your happiness.
It is a lie. God's desire is to bless you.
He has provided for your happiness and he's been doing this for
his image bearers from the very beginning. It was to see here
three ways in which God has provided for man's happiness. First thing
is this. He created diversity. God created diversity. If God
would have wanted to, he could have made a world with no color.
dim lighting, a gray sky, gray water, gray plants, nothing to
eat but malt meal. Plain malt meal. But instead,
there is beauty and color and diversity everywhere. There's
a blazing sun, a bright blue sky, green plants with beautiful
flowers, a variety of delicious food, animals large and small
in the sky and on the ground and in the trees and in the water.
And on top of all that diversity, as Adam looks around, God makes
diversity even amongst his image bearers. There's diversity even
amongst us, his people. See that in verse 27. God created
man in his own image. In the image of God, he created
him. Now here's the diversity. Male and female, he created them. Notice, both man and woman are
created in the image of God. We are equal in value and worth. But we are different. We are
different physically and we're different in many other ways.
We should note quickly, who is it that assigns the roles of
male and female? It's God. God assigns them. He,
male and female, he created them. God does this. And why does he
do it? It's part of his perfect world
of glorious diversity. If God has made you male, the
path to joy for you is to embrace that. You're a male, and to live
in that. If God has made you a female,
the path to joy, the path to God's blessing is to see, God
has made me a woman, and this is my identity that I will live
in. If God has called you to marriage, embrace the diversity
of that. One man with one woman, this
is diverse, this will provide you with difference for all your
life, and it's fun, right? It should be fun. God wants to
bless you. He does not want to make you
miserable. And he's provided for our happiness. He's done
so in all of this diversity that he has created. He created diversity. Also, he blessed mankind, let
her be with the ability to have children. God blessed mankind
with the ability to have children. Look at verse 28 of Genesis one.
God blessed them and God said to them, be fruitful and multiply
and fill the earth and subdue it. God pronounced a similar
thing on the birds and the fish back in verse twenty two. Interestingly
look back there verse twenty two after he made the birds and
the fish. God blessed them saying be fruitful
and multiply and fill the waters in the seas and let the birds
multiply on the earth. There is no reproduction of life without
the blessing of God. Anytime that life comes into
existence it is a result of God's blessing. When an animal reproduces,
however, they just simply reproduce a physical being that will one
day cease to exist. With mankind, this is all the
more amazing. Because when a man and a woman
have a child, through them, God brings into an existence an eternal
being who will never cease to exist. And he's given us this
ability as men and women to be able to reproduce creatures in
his image. It's an amazing thing. How many
of you have children when you're when your first child was born?
Do you remember? Do you remember in the hospital
or wherever you were when your first child was born? You're
holding your child for the first time. Did you not think at that
moment, this is the greatest miracle I have ever seen? What
a thing that I have this child. There's this person that will
live forever that's now in my arms. Do you remember that? Boy,
I remember that. Hopefully, also, you thought,
oh, God, thank you. And oh, God, help me. Right? All those things coming out as
you weep and hold your baby. It's an amazing thing. If you
have children, every single one of them is a blessing to you
from God. Eve was right when she had the first ever baby in
chapter 4 verse 1. She said I Have gotten a man
child with the help of the Lord Psalm 127 3 says behold children
are a gift of the Lord the fruit of the womb is a reward God wants
to bless you not make you miserable. He's provided providing for man's
happiness You can just see this all the way through this account
in Genesis 1. He created diversity He blessed mankind with the ability
to have children Eternal children in God's image. Thirdly, God
planned ahead to provide for us, planned ahead to provide
for us. The creation account is a beautiful
description of God's provision for mankind. There is a thought
out process here. God did not create man and then
think, oh, the universe is dark. Adam can't see anything. I forgot
to do the light. I better make him a light. God
didn't create Adam and then be like, oh, land. He's swimming.
He's not made for swimming. I should have made land first,
right? God didn't make man and say,
oh, there's nothing for him to eat. He's getting hungry. I need
food for him. That's not the way that this operates. There
is a plan, an ordered structure from the very beginning so that
once God makes his image bearers, he puts them down in a world
that is complete and ready for them. Everything that they will
need, he has provided and he sets them in this place. Does
Adam have food? Yes, look at verse 29 right after
God makes Adam He says behold I have given you every plant
yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth and
every tree which has fruit yielding seed it shall be food for you
Do you know God still does this today? for his children He plans
ahead so that when you get somewhere, when you get to a situation,
everything that you need for that situation is already there.
He will do this for you, just like He did for Adam. Hold your
finger here in Genesis and turn over to Matthew 6. Matthew 6. This is Jesus giving
instruction to us. If you are a child of God, you
can count on God planning ahead and providing for you that when
you get to a situation everything you need will be there. Matthew
chapter six look at verse eight. Jesus says so do not be like
them for your father knows what you need before you ask him. Now skip ahead to verse twenty
five. Matthew six twenty five. For this reason, I say to you,
do not be worried about your life as to what you will eat
or what you will drink, nor for your body as to what you will
put on. Is not life more than food in the body, more than clothing?
Look at the birds of the air that they do not sow nor reap
nor gather into barns. And yet your heavenly father
feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? And who
of you, by being worried, can add a single hour to his life?
And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies
of the field grow. They do not toil, nor do they
spin. Yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory
clothed himself like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass
of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown
into the furnace, will he not much more clothe you? You of
little faith. Do not worry then, saying, what
will we eat? Or what will we drink? Or what will we wear for
clothing? For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things. For your
heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek
first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be
added to you. Our God is so gracious. He's
such a wonderful provider. This is how He relates to His
image-bearers. This is how He relates to His
children. He takes care of us. He thinks ahead to what his children
will need so that when the time arrives, it's there for us. Think
of all the promises that God has made in scripture that relate
to this. God promised that when the time comes that you will
need to speak, he will give you the words that you need to say.
God has promised that when temptation arrives, he will enable you to
endure it. God promises that when sorrow
comes, that he will be your comfort. Even here in the garden, as we
are in Genesis, even here in the garden when God is making
Adam and Eve and He's making them perfect, already God is planning
ahead for the great need that they will have. God knows what's
coming in a couple of chapters right after Genesis 1. God knows
that Adam and Eve are going to rebel against Him, that they
will disregard all of His wonderful provision and they will sin against
Him. Already in the garden, God is
planning to send for them a savior. First Peter 1 19 speaks of Christ.
As a lamb, unblemished and spotless, when was it that God planned
to send Jesus? Listen to what first Peter 1 19 says. Christ,
the lamb, unblemished and spotless, was foreknown before the foundation
of the world. See, God's already planning ahead
to provide for them. but has appeared in these last
times for the sake of you who are believers in God. What's
your place in God's creation? As we look at Genesis 1, what's
your place in God's creation? Well, first, God sees you as
highly valuable. He has made you like Him. It's an amazing privilege. Also, we see God is an amazing
provider. He wants to bless you. God isn't
out to make you miserable. God is out to bless you. The only thing that can get in
between you and God and all of His goodness is your sin. The
only one who can take away that sin is the Lamb of God, Jesus
Christ. The only way to be made right
with God is to trust in Jesus Christ and to give your life
to Him. Why would you not? Why would
you not trust in a God like this? Do you want to have meaning and
value in your life? Do you want joy? Then come to
your creator through Jesus Christ and then watch how he will provide
for you. Let's pray. Oh, God, you are
so abundantly generous and overflowing with grace and goodness to us.
You have been like this since the very beginning, when mankind
was first made, when you made our forefathers, Adam and Eve,
and you put them in the garden, you had cared for them, you had
blessed for them, you had even planned to provide for them when
they would rebel against you. And we stand here before you
today as those who believe in Jesus Christ having been made
by you having been redeemed by you and still having this promise
of your blessing on us forever. We are just so thankful to you. We give you praise. Lord I pray
for anybody that's here today that doesn't know you that hasn't
given their life to you and let Christ cleanse them but they
might do so today so they might know this know you and all your
in your abundant goodness as well. We pay these things in
Jesus name. Amen.
Your Place in God's Creation
Series Genesis - Hulinsky
| Sermon ID | 21517203579 |
| Duration | 38:26 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday Service |
| Bible Text | Genesis 1:26-31 |
| Language | English |
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