The Spirit of Creation

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The Spirit of Creation

• He creates the Earth

Genesis 12 Now the earth was formless and empty,
darkness was over the surface of the deep, and
the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
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The Spirit of Creation

• He creates the world

Psa 10424, 29-30, How many are your works, O
LORD! In wisdom you made them all the earth is
full of your creatures. When you hide your face,
they are terrified when you take away their
breath, they die and return to the dust. When you
send your Spirit, they are created.
Job 334, The Spirit of God has made me the
breath of the Almighty gives me life.
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The Spirit of Creation

• Conclusion All living things, animals and
  humans, have a continuing relationship with the
  Holy Spirit.

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The Spirit of Creation

• He recreates the Christian

2 Cor 36, He has made us competent as ministers
of a new covenant--not of the letter but of the
Spirit for the letter kills, but the Spirit
gives life.
John 35-6, No one can enter the kingdom of God
unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh
gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth
to spirit.
Rom 811, And if the Spirit of him who raised
Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who
raised Christ from the dead will also give life
to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who
lives in you.
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The Spirit of Creation

• He recreates Society

Isa 443, For I will pour water on the thirsty
land, and streams on the dry ground I will pour
out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing
on your descendants. But see Isaiah 3215-20!
Micah 38, But as for me, I am filled with
power,with the Spirit of the LORD, and with
justice and might, to declare to Jacob his
transgression, to Israel his sin.
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The Spirit of Creation

• He recreates when Messiah Comes

Isa 421, 4, Here is my servant, whom I uphold,
my chosen one in whom I delight I will put my
Spirit on him and he will bring justice to the
nations. he will not falter or be discouraged
till he establishes justice on earth.
See Mt 1218-20
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The Spirit of Creation

• This recreation includes this earth

Rom 819-21, The creation waits in eager
expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.
For the creation was subjected to frustration,
not by its own choice, but by the will of the one
who subjected it, in hope that the creation
itself will be liberated from its bondage to
decay and brought into the glorious freedom of
the children of God.
Rom 822-23, We know that the whole creation has
been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right
up to the present time. Not only so, but we
ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the
Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our
adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
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The Spirit of Creation

• Implications

Racism
Homeless
Women's Issues
Ecology
Abortion