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We're yours, Lord.

Because you made us.

And we're yours.

Because you bought us back.

At the costly price of your blood.

Were yours?

Cuz you called us out of darkness and into Marvelous Light.

And all we can do is live for you.

Because anything else would leave us deeply unsatisfied, unfulfilled and wanting for purpose, which can only be found in living for your purposes.

Or would you teach us through your holy word now, would you help us to understand great things.

About who you are.

Goodbye, I will call to live for your purpose as your image bears in Jesus name.

I pray, amen.

Amen.

Please take your seats and one invite you to open up your Bibles to the Book of Genesis.

Very first book of the Bible is very beginning and we have started the series in Genesis, which I trust and pray will be wonderful and enlivening to your spirits in your souls.

As we begin to, dispel.

The myth that the Old Testament is a relic that we do not need.

There is as much foundational content.

Life-giving information very literally life-giving in the Book of Genesis as as almost any other book in the Bible there.

Many doctrines in the course of Genesis that are fulfilled or completed or that the rest of the Bible shed light upon.

And so it is a an unshakable foundation for us.

We need to know this book.

We need to know.

The purpose is that God has for our life, would begin, right here in the Book of Genesis.

So I love c.s. Lewis and love reading CS Lewis and he see if Luis had such an ingenious mind.

I mean, I pray or ass or beg whatever you might think for the Ingenuity and the creativity of this man's mind, right?

See if Lewis wrote The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and that the classics of Narnia.

And one of the things that was made about Lewis is at, is that he wrote these stories about Narnia, where the children would be living their life in their own world if you will, but then you open up, right?

You open up the doorway to a life of imagination that only leads through the Wardrobe.

And as you open the doors and step into the Wardrobe on the other side.

Is a life full of color in an entirely imaginative world.

That or through which Lewis teaches wonderfully, deep truth about the Lord.

And that's what it's like in a way to look at creation through the fresh lens of the word of God.

In the very beginning of the Bible Genesis.

Asking the Holy Spirit to give us ears to hear and eyes to see through faith, right?

Which is having confidence to live according to what?

We don't always see physically, although while we're talking about creation.

He speaking very much about things that we do see and Paul speaks about how creation is really just there to help us.

See God help us see the Divine Eternal attributes of God.

And so to Creation we see this and were able to to see it and sort of follow its magnificence to the designer of everything that we see and and know about and as he designed creation, he designed each and every one of us, so I'm 139 tells us that we were in it together.

In our mothers wombs.

Took out the garbage or Moses.

The Lord through Moses has been building up to this great climax of creation.

We see that When God says it's so because God is the almighty one, God is the uncreated creator who rightly rules over, all creation God speaks.

And it comes into being and then God looks at his creation and says, all this is good.

This is good.

But this is good.

That's what it means to be God.

When you say something.

It happens.

You don't check with anyone else.

You don't have to work hard for it to happen.

You don't have to use other people.

Other resources.

You speak it happens because your God.

And that is unlike obviously anyone else in all of creation because there's one Creator and everyone else, everything else is that would just create it, right?

God, created everything from nothing.

We see in the beginning and he saw that light was good and God saw that the dry land when she called Earth and the waters that he gathered together.

Seas were good in 1:10.

He saw that his cumulative creation, everything that he had made, which was building up together to create the heavens, and the Earth is good right after bringing forth, plants yielding, seed, according to their own times, and, and trees bearing seeds, according to their own.

Kind.

God says that it is good.

God building up to something here.

The uncreated Creator says that it's good.

When he he creates to like, give her seat already created light and Airy sticks too late, givers in the sky and says that it is good as he separates light from Darkness.

He creates the sea creatures.

And, and every leaving live.

Creature that moves in the water and on the ground and is flying in the air.

In verse 21.

He created lives docking creeping things mind you that includes boxelder bugs.

We'd like to try to find their home in here in the changing seasons.

So we want to sweep them up and put them back in their rightful home, but they're God's creatures.

And God said it was good when they were made to remind yourself of that when we see them, okay?

Let's transport them to their new or their proper home right around on the ground and beasts of the earth.

Everything according to its own kind and then we come to Genesis 1, 26 through 31 will read that together.

Then God said let us make man in our own 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 bless 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 or the birds of the heavens, over every living thing that moves on the earth.

And God said, behold.

I've given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of the Earth and every tree with seed and its fruit and you still have them for food and every beast of the earth and every bird of the heavens and to every everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life.

I have given every green green pepper plant for food, and it was so And God saw that he has got.

Everything that he had made and behold, it was.

Very good.

And there was evening and there was morning the sixth day.

Friends, God created mankind.

For his own Glory.

To reflect his image to rule over his creation and to reproduce, Godly Offspring.

God created mankind for his own Glory.

From before the foundations of the Earth.

The Lord had had planned this moment.

The moment when he would, he would produce his his greatest creation, his, his Masterpiece is his masterful work.

Only being made.

I'm sorry.

The only being made in God's image.

Just pause.