New Life in Christ David Valleskey and Forrest Bivens

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New Life in ChristDavid Valleskey and Forrest
Bivens

• Lesson 2
• God the Father Created and Cares for His World

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In the last lesson

• We learned that
• All people have a natural knowledge of God
• The weakness of this natural knowledge is that it
  doesnt tell us who the true God is or about the
  Savior from sin
• God has made Himself known through the Bible, the
  revealed knowledge of God
• We confess the God of the Bible as
• Father, Son, and Holy Spirit three persons
  in one Godhead.

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God the Father Created and Cares for His
WorldIntroduction

• Creed a statement of belief

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God the Father Created and Cares for His
WorldIntroduction

• Creed a statement of belief
• The Three Main Christian Creeds
• Apostles written as a brief summary of the
  Christian faith as believed and taught by the
  Apostles

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God the Father Created and Cares for His
WorldIntroduction

• Creed a statement of belief
• The Three Main Christian Creeds
• Apostles written as a brief summary of the
  Christian faith as believed and taught by the
  Apostles
• Nicene written to defend the Bibles teaching
  that Jesus is true God

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God the Father Created and Cares for His
WorldIntroduction

• Creed a statement of belief
• The Three Main Christian Creeds
• Apostles written as a brief summary of the
  Christian faith as believed and taught by the
  Apostles
• Nicene written to defend the Bibles teaching
  that Jesus is true God
• Athanasian - written to defend the Bibles
  teaching that the true God is Triune

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God Created All Things

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God Created All Things

• Genesis 1 1 In the beginning God created the
  heavens and the earth. 2 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. 3 And God said, "Let there
  be light," and there was light. 4 God saw
  that the light was good, and He separated the
  light from the darkness. 5 God called the
  light "day," and the darkness he called "night."
  And there was evening, and there was morningthe
  first day.
• 6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse
  between the waters to separate water from water.
  7 So God made the expanse and separated the
  water under the expanse from the water above it.
  And it was so. 8 God called the expanse
  "sky." And there was evening, and there was
  morning the second day.
• 9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be
  gathered to one place, and let dry ground
  appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry
  ground "land," and the gathered waters he called
  "seas." And God saw that it was good.
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God Created All Things

•  11 Then God said, "Let the land produce
  vegetation seed-bearing plants and trees on the
  land that bear fruit with seed in it, according
  to their various kinds." And it was so. 12
  The land produced vegetation plants bearing seed
  according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit
  with seed in it according to their kinds. And God
  saw that it was good. 13 And there was
  evening, and there was morning the third day.
  
• 14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the
  expanse of the sky to separate the day from the
  night, and let them serve as signs to mark
  seasons and days and years, 15 and let them
  be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light
  on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two
  great lights the greater light to govern the day
  and the lesser light to govern the night. He also
  made the stars. 17 God set them in the
  expanse of the sky to give light on the earth,
  18 to govern the day and the night, and to
  separate light from darkness. And God saw that it
  was good. 19 And there was evening, and there
  was morning the fourth day. 20 And God said,
  "Let the water teem with living creatures, and
  let birds fly above the earth across the expanse
  of the sky."

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God Created All Things

• 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea
  and every living and moving thing with which the
  water teems, according to their kinds, and every
  winged bird according to its kind. And God saw
  that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said,
  "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the
  water in the seas, and let the birds increase on
  the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there
  was morning the fifth day.
• 24 And God said, "Let the land produce living
  creatures according to their kinds livestock,
  creatures that move along the ground, and wild
  animals, each according to its kind." And it was
  so. 25 God made the wild animals according to
  their kinds, the livestock according to their
  kinds, and all the creatures that move along the
  ground according to their kinds. And God saw that
  it was good. 26 Then God said, "Let us make man
  in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule
  over the fish of the sea and the birds of the
  air, over the livestock, over all the earth, b
  and over all the creatures that move along the
  ground." 27 So God created man in his own image,
  in the image of God he created him male and
  female he created them.
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God Created All Things

• 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 groundeverything
  that has the breath of life in itI give every
  green plant for food." And it was so. 31 God
  saw all that he had made, and it was very good.
  And there was evening, and there was morning the
  sixth day.
• Genesis 2 1 Thus the heavens and the earth were
  completed in all their vast array. 2 By the
  seventh day God had finished the work he had been
  doing so on the seventh day he rested a from
  all his work. 3 And God blessed the seventh
  day and made it holy, because on it he rested
  from all the work of creating that he had done.

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God Created All Things
From nothing

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God Created All Things
From nothing

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By His almighty Word
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God Created All Things
From nothing

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By His almighty Word
In six days
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God Created All Things

• Genesis 31 God saw all that he had made, and it
  was very good. And there was evening, and there
  was morningthe sixth day.

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God Created All Things
From nothing

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By His almighty Word
In six days
So that everything was perfect
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God Created All Things

• EVOLUTION The hypothesis that all things came
  into being by chance, developing from lower to
  higher forms.

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God Created All Things

• EVOLUTION The hypothesis that all things came
  into being by chance, developing from lower to
  higher forms.
• atheistic evolution denies the existence of God
  and credits all to chance

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God Created All Things

• EVOLUTION The hypothesis that all things came
  into being by chance, developing from lower to
  higher forms.
• atheistic evolution denies the existence of God
  and credits all to chance
• theistic evolution says God got things started
  and then let evolution take over

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Creation and Evolution Compared
Creation Evolution
Time
Six days
Billions of years
Gods Word and decree
Only by chance or accident
Method
Man
A superior animal
A special creation
To survive, serve self
To serve and honor God
Mans purpose
Mans Respon- sibility
None but please self
To thank and obey God
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Creation and Evolution Compared

• Hebrews 113 says
• 3 By faith we understand that the universe was
  formed at God's command

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God Gave Mankind Special Blessings

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God Gave Mankind Special Blessings

• Genesis 127,28 27 So God created man in his own
  image, in the image of God he created him male
  and female he created 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."

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God Gave Mankind Special Blessings
The image of God (holiness)

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God Gave Mankind Special Blessings

• Ephesians 424 24 and to put on the new self,
  created to be like God in true righteousness and
  holiness.

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God Gave Mankind Special Blessings
The image of God (holiness)

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Authority over His creation
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God Gave Mankind Special Blessings

• Genesis 218-25  18 The LORD God said, "It is
  not good for the man to be alone. I will make a
  helper suitable for him. 19 Now the LORD God
  had formed out of the ground all the beasts of
  the field and all the birds of the air. He
  brought them to the man to see what he would name
  them and whatever the man called each living
  creature, that was its name. 20 So the man
  gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the
  air and all the beasts of the field. But for Adam
  no suitable helper was found. 21 So the LORD
  God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep and
  while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's
  ribs and closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then
  the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had
  taken out of the man, and he brought her to the
  man. 23 The man said, "This is now bone of my
  bones and flesh of my flesh she shall be called
  'woman,' for she was taken out of man. 24
  For this reason a man will leave his father and
  mother and be united to his wife, and they will
  become one flesh. 25 The man and his wife
  were both naked, and they felt no shame.

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God Gave Mankind Special Blessings
The image of God (holiness)

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Authority over His creation
Marriage, home, family
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God Gave Mankind Special Blessings

• Genesis 215-17 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."

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God Gave Mankind Special Blessings
The image of God (holiness)

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Authority over His creation
Marriage, home, family
Opportunity to serve and obey Him
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Gods Care for His World (Gods Providence)

• He supplies general needs for all His creatures

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Gods Care for His World (Gods Providence)

• Genesis 820-22 20 Then Noah built an altar to
  the LORD and, taking some of all the clean
  animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt
  offerings on it. 21 The LORD smelled the
  pleasing aroma and said in his heart "Never
  again will I curse the ground because of man,
  even though every inclination of his heart is
  evil from childhood. And never again will I
  destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
  22 "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and
  harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day
  and night will never cease."

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Gods Care for His World (Gods Providence)

• Matthew 545 that you may be sons of your Father
  in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil
  and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and
  the unrighteous.

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Gods Care for His World (Gods Providence)

• Psalm 14515,16 The eyes of all look to you,
  and you give them their food at the proper time.
  16 You open your hand and satisfy the desires
  of every living thing.

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Gods Care for His World (Gods Providence)

• John 61-15 1Some time after this, Jesus
  crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee
  (that is, the Sea of Tiberias), 2and a great
  crowd of people followed him because they saw the
  miraculous signs he had performed on the sick.
  3Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat
  down with his disciples. 4The Jewish Passover
  Feast was near. 5When Jesus looked up and
  saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to
  Philip, "Where shall we buy bread for these
  people to eat? 6He asked this only to test
  him, for he already had in mind what he was going
  to do. 7Philip answered him, "Eight months' wages
  would not buy enough bread for each one to have a
  bite! 8Another of his disciples, Andrew,
  Simon Peter's brother, spoke up, 9"Here is a
  boy with five small barley loaves and two small
  fish, but how far will they go among so many?"

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Gods Care for His World (Gods Providence)

•  10Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." There
  was plenty of grass in that place, and the men
  sat down, about five thousand of them. 11Jesus
  then took the loaves, gave thanks, and
  distributed to those who were seated as much as
  they wanted. He did the same with the fish.
  12When they had all had enough to eat, he said to
  his disciples, "Gather the pieces that are left
  over. Let nothing be wasted. 13So they
  gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the
  pieces of the five barley loaves left over by
  those who had eaten. 14After the people saw the
  miraculous sign that Jesus did, they began to
  say, "Surely this is the Prophet who is to come
  into the world. 15Jesus, knowing that they
  intended to come and make him king by force,
  withdrew again to a mountain by himself.

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Gods Care for His World (Gods Providence)

• He supplies general needs for all His creatures
• By __________ (supernatural acts) when He wishes.

miracles
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Gods Care for His World (Gods Providence)

• 2 Thessalonians 310-12 10For even when we
  were with you, we gave you this rule "If a man
  will not work, he shall not eat." 11We hear
  that some among you are idle. They are not busy
  they are busybodies. 12Such people we command
  and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down
  and earn the bread they eat.

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Gods Care for His World (Gods Providence)

• He supplies general needs for all His creatures
• By __________ (supernatural acts) when He wishes.
• Normally by __________ means, using things He
  created.

miracles
natural
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Gods Care for His World (Gods Providence)

• He supplies general needs for all His creatures
• By __________ (supernatural acts) when He wishes.
• Normally by __________ means, using things He
  created.
• He gives special care to His children (believers)

miracles
natural
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Gods Care for His World (Gods Providence)

• Hebrews 114 14Are not all angels ministering
  spirits sent to serve those who will inherit
  salvation?

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Gods Care for His World (Gods Providence)

• Psalm 9111 11 For he will command his angels
  concerning you to guard you in all your ways

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Gods Care for His World (Gods Providence)

• He supplies general needs for all His creatures
• By __________ (supernatural acts) when He wishes.
• Normally by __________ means, using things He
  created.
• He gives special care to His children (believers)
• He uses His good __________ (messengers) for
  this.

miracles
natural
angels
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Gods Care for His World (Gods Providence)

• Genesis 5020 20 You intended to harm me, but
  God intended it for good to accomplish what is
  now being done, the saving of many lives.

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Gods Care for His World (Gods Providence)

• Romans 828 28And we know that in all things
  God works for the good of those who love him, who
  have been called according to his purpose.

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Gods Care for His World (Gods Providence)

• He supplies general needs for all His creatures
• By __________ (supernatural acts) when He wishes.
• Normally by __________ means, using things He
  created.
• He gives special care to His children (believers)
• He uses His good __________ (messengers) for
  this.
• He causes ________ things to serve our eternal
  ________.

miracles
natural
angels
all
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Gods Care for His World (Gods Providence)

• He supplies general needs for all His creatures
• By __________ (supernatural acts) when He wishes.
• Normally by __________ means, using things He
  created.
• He gives special care to His children (believers)
• He uses His good __________ (messengers) for
  this.
• He causes ________ things to serve our eternal
  ________.

miracles
natural
angels
all
good
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How Will We Respond to God for All This?

• We will
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• _______________
• _______________

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How Will We Respond to God for All This?

• Psalm 100 1 Shout for joy to the LORD, all the
  earth. 2 Worship the LORD with gladness come
  before him with joyful songs. 3 Know that the
  LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are
  his we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
  4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his
  courts with praise give thanks to him and praise
  his name. 5 For the LORD is good and his love
  endures forever his faithfulness continues
  through all generations.

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How Will We Respond to God for All This?

• We will
• Acknowledge that He does all this out of ______
  (His undeserved love)

grace
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How Will We Respond to God for All This?

• 1 Corinthians 1031  31So whether you eat or
  drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory
  of God.

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How Will We Respond to God for All This?

• We will
• Acknowledge that He does all this out of
  ______(His undeserved love)
• Gladly ________________ Him in all things and

grace
praise and thank
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How Will We Respond to God for All This?

• Matthew 625-34  "Therefore I tell you, do not
  worry about your life, what you will eat or
  drink or about your body, what you will wear. Is
  not life more important than food, and the body
  more important than clothes? 26Look at the
  birds of the air they do not sow or reap or
  store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father
  feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than
  they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a
  single hour to his life? 28"And why do you
  worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the
  field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet
  I tell you that not even Solomon in all his
  splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If
  that is how God clothes the grass of the field,
  which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into
  the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you
  of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying,
  'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or
  'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run
  after all these things, and your heavenly Father
  knows that you need them. 33BUT SEEK FIRST
  HIS KINGDOM AND HIS RIGHTEOUS
• NESS and all these things will be given
  to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry
  about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about
  itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

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How Will We Respond to God for All This?

• Psalm 1212   My help comes from the LORD, the
  Maker of heaven and earth.

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How Will We Respond to God for All This?

• We will
• Acknowledge that He does all this out of
  ______(His undeserved love)
• Gladly ________________ Him in all things and
• ______ Him as our Provider and Protector

grace
praise and thank
Trust