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Why in the World A re Y ou? Genesis 1:26-28

Why in the World A re Y ou? Genesis 1:26-28. Image Bearers A Life for God A Love for God. Why in the World A re Y ou? Genesis 1:26-28. Application 1 – Image Bearers What are you doing as an image bearer to reveal the character and nature of the God whom you serve?

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Why in the World A re Y ou? Genesis 1:26-28

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  1. Why in the World Are You?Genesis 1:26-28 Image Bearers A Life for God A Love for God

  2. Why in the World Are You?Genesis 1:26-28 Application 1 – Image Bearers What are you doing as an image bearer to reveal the character and nature of the God whom you serve? Are you loving and serving others in a way that would portray the nature and character of God?

  3. Why in the World Are You?Genesis 1:26-28 Application 2 – A Life for God The question we must always ask, no matter what the situation, is: How is this going to glorify God?

  4. Why in the World Are You?Genesis 1:26-28 A Love for God • You are made to love God and other people, not yourself! • The cross is God demonstrating the kind of God that He is – the God who saves! • God’s grace has opened our hearts to truly say, “Let God do what God will” – Rom. 9:1-3

  5. Romans 9:1-3 (NASB) 1 I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit, 2that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart. 3For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,

  6. Why in the World Are You?Genesis 1:26-28 A Love for God • You are made to love God and other people, not yourself! • The cross is God demonstrating the kind of God that He is – the God who saves! • God’s grace has opened our hearts to truly say, “Let God do what God will” – Rom. 9:1-3 • Our love is the consequence of God’s sovereign activity. • Example: Adam and Eve – Mark 12:28-31

  7. Mark 12:28-31 (NASB) 28 One of the scribes came and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, “What commandment is the foremost of all?” 29Jesus answered, “The foremost is, ‘Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is one Lord; 30and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ 31The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

  8. Why in the World Are You?Genesis 1:26-28 A Love for God • Genesis 3 tells us we are lovers of ourselves • Our hearts are bent toward self-love • We do not need to learn to love ourselves; it comes quite naturally! • If we love God and truly desire to glorify Him, we will be consumed with loving others! – 1 Corinthians 10:31-33

  9. 1 Corinthians 10:31-33 (NASB) 31 Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 32Give no offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God; 33just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit but the profit of the many, so that they may be saved.

  10. Why in the World Are You?Genesis 1:26-28 A Love for God • Genesis 3 tells us we are lovers of ourselves • Our hearts are bent toward self-love • We do not need to learn to love ourselves; it comes quite naturally! • If we love God and truly desire to glorify Him, we will be consumed with loving others! – 1 Corinthians 10:31-33 • Bottom line is, who or what is my life about?

  11. Why in the World Are You?Genesis 1:26-28 A Love for God • Genesis 3 tells us we are lovers of ourselves • Loving God and loving others sets us free to live the life for which we were created. • If I truly love others, then my sense of fulfillment and comfort is not relevant. • I will not be enslaved to others’ opinions, ideas, or philosophies. • I will be free to love others in a way that best points them to God.

  12. Why in the World Are You?Genesis 1:26-28 A Love for God • “If I love myself, then my relationship with other people will be all about how I can get them to love me more” – which is not Biblical thinking.

  13. Why in the World Are You?Genesis 1:26-28 Application 3 How is your love? Are you so passionate in your love for God that it produces love for others that points them back to God? That is love that glorifies God and is “Why in the World Are You!”

  14. How in the World Are You? Part 1Genesis 3:1-18 The Author of Relationships Violated Relationships and Pride

  15. How in the World Are You? Part 1Genesis 3:1-18 The Author of Relationships • The foundation of all relationships – trust; Genesis 1:26; Psalm 8:4-6

  16. Psalm 8:4-6 (NASB) 4 What is man that You take thought of him, And the son of man that You care for him? 5Yet You have made him a little lower than God, And You crown him with glory and majesty! 6You make him to rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet,

  17. How in the World Are You? Part 1Genesis 3:1-18 The Author of Relationships • The foundation of all relationships – trust; Genesis 1:26; Psalm 8:4-6 • The very first command – Genesis 2:16-17 • God entrusts man with the stewardship of creation • God frees man to eat of any tree allowing us to enjoy what He entrusted to us • Trust is also the reason for the second part of the command – “must not eat”

  18. How in the World Are You? Part 1Genesis 3:1-18 The Author of Relationships • The very first command – Genesis 2:16-17 • Lasting freedom can only be had and maintained through trust • For trust to be real it has to be tested!

  19. How in the World Are You? Part 1Genesis 3:1-18 The Author of Relationships • Where are you? – But why? • Not concerned with Adam’s physical location but the location of his heart • The real questions were: • Where are you in our relationship? • Where is your heart? • Where is the trust that I had given to you? • Gen. 3:10 gives us three results of breaking trust: • Fear – “I was afraid” • Insecurity – “because I was naked” • Cover-up – “so I hid”

  20. How in the World Are You? Part 1Genesis 3:1-18 The Author of Relationships • Our broken relationship with God will result in our tiring daily management of our fears, insecurities, guilt, and lies of cover-up! • Two more questions from God: • “Who told you that you were naked?” Which is really, “Who are you listening to?” • “Have you eaten from the tree that I have commanded you not to eat from?” This was a question about a willingness to tell the truth.

  21. How in the World Are You? Part 1Genesis 3:1-18 The Author of Relationships • Results of a broken (trust) relationship • Adam falls for the delusion that God does not have his best interests in mind and that God is holding back something from Adam. • Therefore, Adam shifts the blame! • Eve will not face the truth of her own evil desires and passions that trusted the words of someone other than God. • Eve hid behind the lie rather than face the truth – James 1:13-14.

  22. James 1:13-14 (NASB) 13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone. 14But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust.

  23. How in the World Are You? Part 1Genesis 3:1-18 The Author of Relationships • God’s remedy for the broken relationship • God delays judgment and gives pain • Pain was God’s way of pointing to the future! • Pain is often God’s signal we are off course! • Pain can be emotional or physical • Pain promotes protection, learning, and understanding • God used pain to point to the promise!

  24. How in the World Are You? Part 1Genesis 3:1-18 The Author of Relationships “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” C. S. Lewis The Problem of Pain, p. 91

  25. How in the World Are You? Part 1Genesis 3:1-18 To be completed next week Sunday, September 28, 2014

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