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Many people today think a Christian is someone who tries to live a good life, who accepts there is a God, or goes to church.
In reality, none of these by themselves makes a person a Christian.
Rather than rely on guesswork, we need to listen to God himself, who has spoken on the subject in the bible.
As the one true source of knowledge about God, the bible stands alone.
It is the very word of God himself and states its purpose like this: these things are written that you may believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name (John 20:31).
A Christian is one who has realized his sinfulness before a holy and righteous God and trusted in the Divine savior Jesus Christ alone to redeem him from his sinfulness.
But I do not want to start there this morning.
When you read a book, you do not open it up in the middle and then start reading.
If you do that you miss the whole plot and characters.
No, you start from the beginning and that is where I want to start this morning.
The Christian message does not begin with “accept Christ as your Savior”; it begins with “in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
The bible teaches that God is the sole source of the entire created order.
No other gods compete with him; no natural forces exist on their own; nothing receives its nature or existence from another source.
Thus his word, or creation ordinances give the world its order and structure.
God’s creative word is the source of the laws of physical nature and it is also the source of the laws of human nature.
This is why Psalm 119:91 says, “All things are your servants.”
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*Creation*
In the early chapters of the Bible, in the book of Genesis, we read that God created the heavens and the earth and all that is in them, in six 24-hour days, simply by speaking.
God spoke and commanded the heavens and the earth to come into existence (PS.
33:9).
Before this act of creation by God, nothing existed, not even time, save God himself.
Now that is a deep thought!
Imagine, if you can, absolute nothingness.
Imagine, if you can, the concept of no time.
You can’t do it can you.
Our entire lives we have been surrounded my matter.
Our entire lives consist of time.
But, before there was time, God was, because he is God, and he chose to create the heavens and the earth.
Now try this, command something to come into existence.
You can’t do that either can you!
So immediately in the bible we are confronted with this almighty, gigantically, enormously, colossally, powerful God who by the power of his voice, commands things that don’t exist, to exist.
This act alone should result in our endless praise of God as it seems to for the Psalmist David, who in dwelling upon this thought exclaims, “Psalm 104:1 - Praise the Lord, O my soul.
O Lord my God, you are very great; you are clothed with splendor and majesty.
Psalm 104:24 - How many are your works, O Lord!
In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.
Truly the heavens declare the glory of God and the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
One thing I enjoy doing at night time is to sit outside and just look up and try to count the stars.
It doesn’t take long though before I lose count though and I start to get tired because of how seemingly endless it all is.
God created all of those stars also, and you know what, it didn’t make him tired at all.
What a display of power!
Isaiah 40:26, 28 – “Lift your eyes and look to the heavens: who created all these?
He who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them each by name.
Because of his great strength and mighty power, not one of them is missing.
Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.”
Not only did God create everything; All that God created was perfect.
We read in Genesis 1:31, “God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.
This means that in the beginning, when God first created all of the heavens and the earth, there was no crime, no hate, no immorality, no sickness, disease, or famine, no sin, and no imperfection whatsoever.
Everything was perfect.
Everything was just as it was supposed to be.
What a glorious thought!
Why has he done all of this?
He certainly did not have to did he.
He was not obligated in any manner to do so.
Why has God done such a gloriously wonderful thing?
Scripture tells us the reason for that also, for his good pleasure.
Revelation 4:11 – “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory, honor, and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.”
It was on the last day, day six that God created man in his image.
I want you to catch that phrase, “in his image.”
Without getting into all the details, you need to know that is a beautiful, wondrous thought.
It implies creativity and worth.
With that one phrase, “in his image” we know that humanity is important in the mind of God.
It means God did not just create all of us helter-skelter or randomly but that he gave significant thought and care to us so our lives have great significance.
It means God did not just create us to do whatever, but to reflect him, to image him in all we do so that means our actions have significance.
In short, because we are made in his image our lives and our actions matter!
Never can we say, my life and what I do don’t matter.
Never can we say my life and what I do is trivial!
No, your life and what you do enormously significant because a great and powerful and awesome and loving God has created you in his image!
You are not some insignificant trinket to be thrown away.
No, you are made in God’s image!
Now, God did not just create man and forget about him, leaving him to grope and wander, but God gave man instructions.
He blessed them, 28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.
Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it.
They will be yours for food.
30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.”
And it was so.
God also gave very clear instructions to our first parents, Adam and Eve, not to do one particular thing.
We read, starting in Genesis 2:15 that, 15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.”
We see from this that not only was all that God created good and perfect, there was a perfect relationship between God and man and God had specific instructions and guidelines for man to follow.
The big point to gather from this is God is the creator and we are the creatures.
We are responsible to God.
He made us, he has a plan for our lives, and we must obey him.
We, as the creatures, are dependent upon him, the creator.
Everything and everyone belong to him and must obey him.
As the Apostle Paul said so brilliantly, Acts 17:24-28 - “24 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands.
25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.
26 From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.
27 God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’
As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
Now perhaps you are saying to yourself, this all sounds great, so what happened that the world has become so dark and bad?
Why is there so much imperfection in the world?
What went wrong?
What caused all of this?
*Fall*
To put it simply, we revolted against God’s dominion as Creator.
Remember, earlier I read God’s instructions for Adam and Eve in the garden.
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