PRAYER WELCOME SING: Angels from the realms of glory (vs 1) Angels from the realms of glory wing your flight o'er all the Ye, who sang creation's story now proclaim Messiah's Come and worship, come and worship, worship Christ the newborn King. 1. CREATION OF THE WORLD Our natural starting point is God’s marvelous, miraculous work of creation, for which He deserves all glory. After creating After creating all things in six days, God finished with the crowning glory, the creation of man, the first Adam. We read from Genesis 1:26-31: Then God said, Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let “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.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over “Be the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” And God said, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the “See, face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so. Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day. 2. ADAM AND EVE Imagine the sorrow God felt watching the temptation of the serpent, and the falling into sin of Adam and Eve. He could have prevented it but He chose to give Adam and Eve free will He wanted willing obedience from them. And when – they failed they deserved death. Our comfort is that even this act of disobedience was not unforeseen by God, and He
PRAYER WELCOME SING: Angels from the realms of glory (vs 1) Angels from the realms of glory wing your flight o'er all the Ye, who sang creation's story now proclaim Messiah's Come and worship, come and worship, worship Christ the newborn King. 1. CREATION OF THE WORLD Our natural starting point is God’s marvelous, miraculous work of creation, for which He deserves all glory. After creating After creating all things in six days, God finished with the crowning glory, the creation of man, the first Adam. We read from Genesis 1:26-31: 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.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so. Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day. 2. ADAM AND EVE Imagine the sorrow God felt watching the temptation of the serpent, and the falling into sin of Adam and Eve. He could have prevented it but He chose to give Adam and Eve free will – He wanted willing obedience from them. And when they failed they deserved death. Our comfort is that even this act of disobedience was not unforeseen by God, and He
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