The Purpose of Man

What I the most awesome thing about creation???

Over the last three months our children here at NW have been learning about the days of creation. They have learned about how God out of nothing created everything from the Heavens to the sea below.

They have learned about how God in his awesome power had a plan and purpose as to why and hen he created everything.

They have learned about how awesome our God is because each part of creation had a very specific job to do in order to help humanity survive. They learned about how important every day of creation was because without one coming before the other none of the things created would be able to survive or at least function correctly.

As I have read the creation account many times this quarter and throughout my life it is apparent that we serve an awesome God and creator.

Often times I feel as though we can lose sight of that truth while reading the creation account in Genesis 1-2.

In my teens and most of my college years all I ever heard about Genesis 1&2 was that its primary purpose was to refute the scientist who didn’t believe what I believed about creation.

Thankfully the more I have studied the Bible and specifically the book of Genesis what I have learned is that Refuting Science was not Moses’ purpose in writing Genesis. Moses’ primary goal in writing Genesis was to exalt the God of creation as Lord of all. This is what Gen 1 & 2 is about and quite frankly that is what the Bible is about, and it is what we should be about as Christian.

You see It saddens me that people think that the Bible has to have a scientific explanation for everything. Science is great and very useful for us. Science might be able to explain things like the flood or the destruction of Sodom and other major events, but it will never be able to explain a virgin birth or an empty tomb.

Science never dies for our sins, and when the Son of man returns in his unparalleled glory to be marveled at by all the nations and take his bride home, to what will science attribute that great day?

I say all that to say that I am thankful that as we have studied through the creation account this past quarter, I am thankful that the focus as been on how awesome of a God we serve.

Although this should be our focus there are many lessons that we can learn from the first two chapters of the Bible.

So, this morning in the time that I have left I want to simply share with you two things that stood out to me as I read and reread the creation account over the last three months. Both of these observations have to do with the purpose for God creating us.

The first observation that I want to share with you this morning is one that we spoke of several weeks ago before our local door knocking campaign. And its found in Genesis 1:26-28.

Genesis 1:26–28 ESV

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 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.”

Image of God.

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