Creation
God's Story - My Story • Sermon • Submitted
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Favorite movie?
What was the last really good story you read or saw as a movie?
Improv Acting?
Go by the script - Everyone living by their own Script - but the consequences are real. Alec Baldwin on the set of RUST
We are all living within a story, a drama, a cosmic story that we are given freedom within.
God has written a character and you are that character. As a director he gives you freedom to be the character that you choose to be.
And yet he has a desire that you would develop you character as he develops you and changes you for the watching world to see.
We can choose to live within the Script and character that he intends us to be for our good or we can go outside of that Script and those boundaries.
You are part of something bigger than you can see. Something of cosmic, eternal importance is unfolding around you, in you and through you. In order to better understand what it is and how you are to live in it. We are going to look at the different acts that make up this grand story that God has you in as a key player.
God is not a God who yells action and then walks away. He is intricately involved as a director/narrator/propmaster/financer and in all of the scenes. AAAND he is also the main character.
Act 1: Creation
Act 1: Creation
God is the Creator - Ownership & Authority
1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
9 The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.
1 The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,
16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
Man was Made in His Image - Worth & Reflection
26 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.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 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.”
1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.
6 “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.
3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, 4 what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? 5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. 6 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet,
Everything Was Good - Quality & Goal
31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
4 For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,
Man was made for perfect Fellowship - Intention & Desire
8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
3 Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Why Does it Matter? It Answers Life’s biggest questions
Who Am I?
Creation says you were created by God to bear his image and to live in this world as his representative.
Why Do I Exist?
Creation says you were created to live sinlessly in perfect relationship with both God and man.
What am I here for?
Creation says you were made by God in the image of God; you have great significance and great worth.
This is the Script that God has for you and I as his Creation.
SGQs 10/27/21
What’s the best movie or story you have seen or read lately?
Favorite actor/actress?
Favorite Character from a movie/book/tv show?
Are you a spotlight seeker or a Spotlight avoid-er?
Statistically it is said that most people fear public speaking over their own death. In other words, they would rather be in the casket then delivering the funeral message.
Why do we find it so hard to leave the Script writing and directing to God?
How has God shown himself as creator/director/actor in your life?
What are things that make you doubt your worth or value as God’s creation?
How does the truth that we were created good and in God’s image help us?
What are some practical ways that we can live out the Script God has given us?
Or put another way - How can we bear his image and live as his representative?
What would perfect fellowship/relationship look like with a friend?
What would it look like with God?