Slide 1: Genesis 1-2
Slide 2: Genesis 1:1-9 NIV
Slide 3: Before there was something, there was Someone.
Slide 4: God in Three Persons has always existed.
Slide 5: All things derive their existence from God and in God’s time.
Slide 6: All things then derive their value and life from God.
Slide 7: Genesis 1:26-28 NIV
Slide 8: God created man last with defined purposes.
Slide 9: God created man last with defined purposes.
Slide 10: God didn’t need our help and He provided absolutely everything.
Slide 11: God didn’t need our help and He provided absolutely everything.
Slide 12: God then enjoyed a perfect intimacy with His creation, especially man.
Slide 13: Genesis 2:8-9 NIV
Slide 14: God had one rule (not 10 or 613) but one and expected obedience.
Slide 15: How hard could that be?
Slide 16: Genesis is a window through which we see our world and our place in it.
Slide 17: Genesis was written (revealed) after the Fall, the Exile, the Flood and Egypt.
Slide 18: A man (Abraham), a tribe and a nation has risen based on personal revelations.
Slide 19: The nation lingered in slavery having only the words of their keepers and the memory of their experiences.
Slide 20: Why would God wait so long to reveal His own version of events?
Slide 21: God chose to first reveal Himself through the things He had done and how He interacted with His people.
Slide 22: We lost more than our intimacy in the Fall. We lost our ability to know God personally.
Slide 23: We lost more than our intimacy in the Fall. We lost our ability to know God personally.
Slide 24: Genesis is the first scripture that sets the principles of all scripture to follow:
Slide 25: Genesis is the first scripture that sets the principles of all scripture to follow:
Slide 26: One: Scripture is always a means to a greater end!
Slide 27: One: Scripture is always a means to a greater end!
Slide 28: Two: Scripture corrects, reveals and instructs.
Slide 29: As author, God is doing more than transmitting information.
Slide 30: God seeks our transformation into being more like Him.
Slide 31: Genesis is not so much about how the world was created by that it was created and by whom.
Slide 32: When we consider how amazing this creation is, we have to wonder how amazing is its creator.
Slide 33: All scripture then reveals something about God’s character and nature.
Slide 34: Scripture also reveals something about God’s desires since the creator has the right to determine the creation’s outcome.
Slide 35: Genesis 1:3-25 NIV
Slide 36: The Genesis account reveals some of the values held by God:
Slide 37: He values diversity balanced with order and design.
Slide 38: There is structure and purpose in each step He takes and He always moves in His time.
Slide 39: Diversity triumphs efficiency in the economy of God. No two things are ever alike.
Slide 40: Genesis 2:2 NIV
Slide 41: God seems to prefer a rhythm of work and rest to a grinding work schedule.
Slide 42: God could have created all things at one time if He desired and He certainly doesn’t need to rest.
Slide 43: God values proper rests as much as He values good work.
Slide 44: God made it perfectly clear that He held us in an esteemed value over His creation.
Slide 45: All human value derives from these innate revelations.
Slide 46: Central to that value is the equality of genders in the desire of God.
Slide 47: That same equality is seen in God’s love for community: the harmony of His creation.
Slide 48: God would create, watch the function of that day and call it ‘good’.
Slide 49: The harmony of creation/community is horizontal as well as vertical.
Slide 50: Genesis 1:29 NIV
Slide 51: From the beginning, God has work for man to accomplish.
Slide 52: He gives man rule over all creation just as God has rule over all men.
Slide 53: We have since Eden been stewards of this creation and environmentally responsible.
Slide 54: God expects us to keep a rhythm of rest and work.
Slide 55: God expects us to guard community and defend the rights of the disenfranchised.
Slide 56: God expects us to value the sanctity of life as His and the worth of every life the same.
Slide 57: By upholding these desires of God, you begin to become like Him and ‘know’ Him.
Slide 58: Visit a friend. Help a stranger. Take a nap. Grow something. Walk more.
Slide 59: Follow and know God on a daily basis. Partnership with Him so that His will is known on earth as it is in heaven.
Slide 60: Pray!
That we may know Him better!