In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. - PowerPoint Presentation

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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

~ Genesis 1:1

Implications of Creation

By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible. ~ Hebrews 11:3Slide3

Creation & Nature

Nature – the material universe

Creation ensures

The “goodness” of the material. Gen. 1:31; 1 Tim. 4:4Man’s exalted place in natureGen. 1:26-30A demonstration of God’s handiworkPsalm 19:1; Psa. 139:13,14Slide4

Creation & Nature

The Christian and the Environment

Gen 2:15 ~ Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.Slide5

Creation & Nature

The Christian and the Environment

Gen 3:17-18 ~ Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the herb of the field.Slide6

Creation & Nature

The Christian and the Environment

Rom 8:20-21 ~ For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; 21 because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.Slide7

Creation & Nature

The Christian and the Environment

Prov

12:10 ~ A righteous man regards the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.Slide8

Creation & Nature

The Christian and the Environment

Deut

22:6-7 ~ If a bird's nest happens to be before you along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, with the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young; 7 you shall surely let the mother go, and take the young for yourself, that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.Slide9

Creation & Nature

The Christian and the Environment

Deut

20:19 ~ When you besiege a city for a long time, while making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; if you can eat of them, do not cut them down to use in the siege, for the tree of the field is man's food.Slide10

Ps 147:9 ~ He gives to the beast its food, and to the young ravens that cry.

Matt 6:26 ~ Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

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Matt 6:28-30 ~ So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

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Ps 24:1 ~ The earth is the LORD's, and all its fullness, the world and those who dwell therein.

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Gen 1:26-27 ~ Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

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Creation & Man

Ps 100:3 ~ Know that the LORD, He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.Slide15

Creation & Man

Eccl 12:7~ Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

Eccl 12:13 ~ Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man's all.Slide16

Creation & Man

Rom 8:28 ~ And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

2 Cor 5:10 ~ For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.Slide17

Creation & Man

2 Peter 3:10 ~ But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Slide18

Creation & Worship

Ps 33:6-9 ~ By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth. He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap; He lays up the deep in storehouses. Slide19

Creation & Worship

Ps 33:6-9 ~ Let all the earth fear the LORD; Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him. For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.Slide20

Creation & Worship

Rev 4:11 ~ "You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, and by Your will they exist and were created."Slide21

Creation & Worship

Ps 50:10-11 ~ For every beast of the forest is Mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills. 11 I know all the birds of the mountains, and the wild beasts of the field are Mine.

Ps 89:11 ~ The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; The world and all its fullness, You have founded them.

1 Chron. 29:10-16Slide22

Creation & Ethics

What ought I to do?

Why ought I to do it?

A matter of Authority!Slide23

Creation & Ethics

Jer

11:7 ~ "Obey My voice."

John 14:15 ~ If you love Me, keep My commandments. James 4:12 ~ There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. Slide24

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

~ Genesis 1:1