Transcript Document

[By Ron Halbrook]
• Introduction
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God created us in His image:
He has a special purpose for our lives!
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them.
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• Introduction
2. God revealed the purpose of our lives:
He created us to be His companions & friends
He gives us all blessings including marriage
He made a plan to forgive our sins
& receive us in heaven
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I. God Created Us to be His Companions & Friends
A. He Created Man in His Image for a Purpose
Created universe, & created light
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Created universe, & created light
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void;
and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good:
and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day,
and the darkness he called Night.
And the evening and the morning were
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I. God Created Us to be His Companions & Friends
A. He Created Man in His Image for a Purpose
Created the sky
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Created the sky
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament
in the midst of the waters,
and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament,
and divided the waters which were under the firmament
from the waters which were above the firmament:
and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven.
And the evening and the morning were
.
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I. God Created Us to be His Companions & Friends
A. He Created Man in His Image for a Purpose
Separated dry land from sea
& made plant life
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9 And God said, Let theSeparated
waters under
heaven
drythe
land
from sea
be gathered
together
unto one place,
& made
plant life
and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth;
and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas:
and God saw that it was good.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass,
the herb yielding seed,
and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind,
whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass,
and herb yielding seed after his kind,
and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself,
after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
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13 And the evening and the morning were
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I. God Created Us to be His Companions & Friends
A. He Created Man in His Image for a Purpose
Made sun, moon, planets, stars
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Made sun, moon, planets, stars
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament
of the heaven to divide the day from the night;
and let them be for signs, and for seasons,
and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament
of the heaven to give light upon the earth:
and it was so.
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Made sun, moon, planets, stars
16 And God made two great lights;
the greater light to rule the day,
and the lesser light to rule the night:
he made the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven
to give light upon the earth,
18 And to rule over the day and over the night,
and to divide the light from the darkness:
and God saw that it was good.
19 And the evening and the morning were
.
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I. God Created Us to be His Companions & Friends
A. He Created Man in His Image for a Purpose
Made fish & fowl
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Made fish & fowl
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly
the moving creature that hath life,
and fowl that may fly above the earth
in the open firmament of heaven.
21 And God created great whales,
and every living creature that moveth,
which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind,
and every winged fowl after his kind:
and God saw that it was good.
22 And God blessed them, saying,
Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas,
and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23 And the evening and the morning were
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I. God Created Us to be His Companions & Friends
A. He Created Man in His Image for a Purpose
Made land animals,
then man in His image!
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Made land animals,
then man in His image!
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth
the living creature after his kind,
cattle, and creeping thing,
and beast of the earth after his kind:
and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind,
and cattle after their kind,
and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind:
and God saw that it was good.
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Made land animals,
then man in His image!
26 And God said, Let us make man
,
after our likeness:
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle,
and over all the earth,
and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man
,
created he him;
male and female created he them.
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I. God Created Us to be His Companions & Friends
B. In the Image of God: Similar in Ways
Allowing Us to be His Companions
God is a spirit, man is a spirit
Both have intelligence
Both have moral capacity
Both have volition
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I. God Created Us to be His Companions & Friends
B. In the Image of God: Similar in Ways
Allowing Us to be His Companions
Solomon found
the purpose of his life in God
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Solomon found
the purpose of his life in God
1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David,
king in Jerusalem.
2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher,
vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
3 What profit hath a man of all his labour
which he taketh under the sun?
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:
Fear God, and keep his commandments:
for this is the whole duty of man.
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II. God Gives Us All Blessings Including Marriage
A. He Made Plants & Animals for Our Use
Plants & animals serve our needs
26 And 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle,
and over all the earth,
and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
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II. God Gives Us All Blessings Including Marriage
B. He Supplied All Man’s Needs in the Garden
Three kinds of trees
8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden;
and there he put the man whom he had formed.
9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow
every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and
also in the midst of the garden,
and
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II. God Gives Us All Blessings Including Marriage
B. He Supplied All Man’s Needs in the Garden
Created man to live,
warned sin brings death
16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying,
Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
thou shalt not eat of it:
for in the day that thou eatest thereof
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thou shalt surely die.
II. God Gives Us All Blessings Including Marriage
C. God Gave the Gift of Marriage
Joined Adam & Eve in marriage
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Joined Adam & Eve in marriage
18 And the LORD God said,
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19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed
every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air;
and brought them unto Adam
to see what he would call them:
and whatsoever Adam called every living creature,
that was the name thereof.
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle,
and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field;
but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
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Joined Adam & Eve in marriage
21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall
upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs,
and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man,
made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones,
and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man.
24 Therefore shall a man
his father and his mother,
and shall
unto his wife:
and they shall be
.
25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife,
and were not ashamed.
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II. God Gives Us All Blessings Including Marriage
C. God Gave the Gift of Marriage
1 man & 1 woman: marriage companions for life
Includes gift of sexual companionship
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is honourable in all,
and
undefiled:
but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
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II. God Gives Us All Blessings Including Marriage
C. God Gave the Gift of Marriage
Structured family to bless all
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Structured family to bless all
18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands,
as it is fit in the Lord.
19 Husbands, love your wives,
and be not bitter against them.
20 Children, obey your parents in all things:
for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger,
lest they be discouraged.
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II. God Gives Us All Blessings Including Marriage
C. God Gave the Gift of Marriage
Violations of God’s plan destroy His blessings
 Fornication: sex without marriage
 Polygamy: multiple marriage mates
 Adultery: married people having sex
outside their marriage
 Homosexuality: same sex partners
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II. God Gives Us All Blessings Including Marriage
C. God Gave the Gift of Marriage
Violations of God’s plan destroy His blessings
 Divorce: repudiating & leaving a mate
 Abortion on demand: kill baby in womb
to avoid loving & nurturing him/her
 Conceiving babies without marriage
 Verbal, physical, & sexual abuse in family 31
III. God Made a Plan to Forgive Our Sins
& Receive Us in Heaven
A. Satan Lies to Lead Men to Disobey God
Lied: presented sin as a blessing
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Lied: presented sin as a blessing
4 And the serpent said unto the woman,
Ye shall not surely die:
5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof,
then your eyes shall be opened,
and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6 And when the woman saw
that the tree was good for food,
and that it was pleasant to the eyes,
and a tree to be desired to make one wise,
she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat,
and gave also unto her husband with her;
and he did eat.
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III. God Made a Plan to Forgive Our Sins
& Receive Us in Heaven
A. Satan Lies to Lead Men to Disobey God
Fellowship with God destroyed
8 And they heard
God
walking in the garden in the cool of the day:
and Adam and his wife
from the presence of the LORD God
amongst the trees of the garden.
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III. God Made a Plan to Forgive Our Sins
& Receive Us in Heaven
A. Satan Lies to Lead Men to Disobey God
Sin destroys our fellowship with God
23 For all have sinned,
and come short of the glory of God;
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III. God Made a Plan to Forgive Our Sins
& Receive Us in Heaven
B. God Promised a Savior to Redeem Us
From Abram’s family in Canaan
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From Abram’s family in Canaan
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram,
Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and
from thy father's house,
unto
that I will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee
,
and I will bless thee, and make thy name great;
and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee,
and curse him that curseth thee:
and
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III. God Made a Plan to Forgive Our Sins
& Receive Us in Heaven
B. God Promised a Savior to Redeem Us
Die as a sacrifice for our sins
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Die as a sacrifice for our sins
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs,
and carried our sorrows:
yet we did esteem him stricken,
smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was
for our transgressions,
he was
for our iniquities:
the
of our peace was upon him;
and with his
we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned every one to his own way;
and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
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III. God Made a Plan to Forgive Our Sins
& Receive Us in Heaven
B. God Promised a Savior to Redeem Us
Jesus Christ, the Savior!
16 For God so loved the world,
that
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that whosoever believeth in him should not perish,
but have everlasting life.
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III. God Made a Plan to Forgive Our Sins
& Receive Us in Heaven
C. Jesus Christ Offers Salvation to All Men
Receive it by obedient faith
15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world,
and preach
to every creature.
16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved;
but he that believeth not shall be damned.
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III. God Made a Plan to Forgive Our Sins
& Receive Us in Heaven
C. Jesus Christ Offers Salvation to All Men
All things necessary
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All things necessary
18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying,
All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,
in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
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whatsoever I have commanded you:
and, lo, I am with you alway,
even unto the end of the world. Amen.
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III. God Made a Plan to Forgive Our Sins
& Receive Us in Heaven
C. Jesus Christ Offers Salvation to All Men
Add us to his church
41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized:
and the same day there were added unto them
about three thousand souls.
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47 …And the Lord added to the church daily
such as should be saved.
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III. God Made a Plan to Forgive Our Sins
& Receive Us in Heaven
C. Jesus Christ Offers Salvation to All Men
The saved worship in his church,
not churches formed on doctrines of men
16 Salute one another with an holy kiss.
The churches of Christ salute you.
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III. God Made a Plan to Forgive Our Sins
& Receive Us in Heaven
D. Christ Teaches Us a New Life as God’s Friends
Replace sin with fruit of the Spirit
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Replace sin with fruit of the Spirit
are manifest,
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which are these;
Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations,
wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings,
and such like:
of the which I tell you before,
as I have also told you in time past,
that they which do such things
shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But
is love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
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23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
III. God Made a Plan to Forgive Our Sins
& Receive Us in Heaven
E. In Heaven We Are God’s Friends Forever!
Blessed as His special people
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Blessed as His special people
1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth:
for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away;
and there was no more sea.
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem,
coming down from God out of heaven,
prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying,
Behold,
,
and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people,
and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes;
and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow,
nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain:
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for the former things are passed away.
III. God Made a Plan to Forgive Our Sins
& Receive Us in Heaven
E. In Heaven We Are God’s Friends Forever!
Tree of life: love God forever
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Tree of life: love God forever
1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life,
clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God
and of the Lamb.
2 In the midst of the street of it,
and on either side of the river,
was there
,
which bare twelve manner of fruits,
and yielded her fruit every month:
and the leaves of the tree were for the healing
of the nations.
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• Invitation
1.
God created us in His image:
He has a special purpose for our lives!
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them.
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• Invitation
2. God revealed the purpose of our lives:
He created us to be His companions & friends
He gives us all blessings including marriage
He made a plan to forgive our sins
& receive us in heaven
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• Invitation
3. We receive salvation by obedient faith in Christ
Believe + baptized = saved
16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved;
but he that believeth not shall be damned.
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