2. INTRODUCTION THE WORD “GENESIS” “BEGINNING!” BEGINNING OF: Creation, life, man, woman, marriage, family, sin, suffering, death, culture, industry, government, Israel etc.

3. WHY STUDY GENESIS?

4. GENESIS IS ONE OF THE MOST INFORMATIVE BOOKS IN THE BIBLE GENESIS HAS THREE MAJOR LOCATIONS: THE FERTLE CRESEANT, ISRAEL AND EGYPT GENESIS HAS SEVEN MAJOR CHARCTERS: GOD, ADAM, NOAH, ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB AND JOSEPH GENESIS HAS FOUR GREAT EVENTS: CREATION, FALL OF MAN, FLOOD, NATIONS THEME: CHOOSING A NATION THROUGH WHICH TO SEND A REDEEMER

5. GENESIS UNDER ATTACK! 1.IT ESTABLISHES THE EXISTENCE OF GOD 2.THE EXISTENCE OF GOD ESTABLISHES GOD AS THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE 3.THE CREATION ACTS OF GOD ESTABLISH GOD AS THE AUTHORITY OVER HIS WORLD 4.THE AUTHORITY OF GOD ESTABLISHES MAN’S ACCOUNTABILITY TO GOD! GENESIS IS THE MOST ATTACKED BOOK OF THE BIBLE BECAUSE:

6. WHO’S RIGHT ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE: THE BIBLE OR SCIENCE? THERE IS NO CONFLICT BETWEEN GOD’S WORLD AND GOD’S WORD! TRUE SCIENCE, GUIDED BY THE LAWS OF THE UNIVERSE, WILL ALWAYS LINE UP PERFECTLY WITH GOD’S WORD, BECAUSE THE LAWS OF THE UNIVERSE AND GOD’S WORD BOTH HAVE THE SAME AUTHOR!

7. JUST SUPPOSE… SUPPOSE THERE IS NO BOOK OF SUPPOSE THERE IS NO CREATION ACCOUNT… SUPPOSE THERE IS NO GOD… MAN IS LEFT TO EXPLAIN EVERYTHING WITHOUT GOD! THE PROBLEM: LIFE DOESN’T MAKE SENSE WITHOUT GOD!

8. THE FIRST VERSE IN THE BIBLE:

9. I. “IN THE BEGINNING, GOD…” “IN THE BEGINNING, GOD CREATED” MEANS: GOD EXISTED BEFORE THE BEGINNING! GOD IS ETERNAL GOD NEVER HAD A BEGINNING YESTERDAY: HE WAS TODAY: HE IS TOMORROW: HE ALWAYS WILL BE

10. MEET YOUR MAKER! MR. JOHN DOE, LET ME INTRODUCE YOU TO THE GOD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH: ELOHIM! - (Gen. 1) THE TRIUNE GOD FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT

12. BEFORE GENESIS:

14. GOD ESTABLISHED BELIEVERS IN CHRIST! “…He chose us in Him (Christ) before the foundation of the world.” Ephesians 1:4

15. On a balcony of space stepped a pure and holy God In awesome solitude He stood alone Not one faint star to give Him light; just endless darkness, it was blackest night But somehow in the darkness He could see

16. He saw mountains high and lofty, He saw valleys lush and green He saw babbling brooks, and wildflowers grow, He even heard a robin sing Then He felt a strange compassion, as close to love as pain could be Standing out there in His tomorrow, He saw me!

17. He saw me, in His likeness, He saw me, just like Him Pure, clean and holy, spotless, white within! Then He saw me bound in heavy chains, and longed to set me free But He knew if I became like Him, then He must become like me.

18. III. “IN THE BEGINNING, GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH!” “The world was made by Him and without Him was not anything made that was made….” Jn. 1:2 “For by Him, all things were created both in the heavens and on earth…all things have been created by Him.” Co. 1:16 “God…has spoken to us by His Son…by Whom he made the world….” Heb. 1:2

19. SIGNIFICANCE FOR US TODAY: 1. GOD IS…!

20. SIGNIFICANCE FOR US TODAY: 2.GOD IS AND THEREFORE, GOD CREATED! “THE HEAVENS ARE DECLARING THE GLORY (the existence) OF GOD AND THEIR EXPANSE DECLARES THE WORK OF HIS HANDS.” Psalm 19:1

21. SIGNIFICANCE FOR US TODAY: 3. SINCE GOD IS, AND SINCE GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH – THEN NOTHING THAT I FACE IN MY LIFE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GOD! “…for nothing will be impossible with God.” -Luke 1:37

22. SIGNIFICANCE FOR US TODAY: 4. SINCE GOD IS, AND SINCE GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, HE IS STILL INVOLVED IN HIS CREATION TODAY, AND THEREFORE, I DON’T HAVE TO WORRY! (THEO-CENTRIC!) “He has made known to us the mystery of His will…suitable to the fullness of time…summing up all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things upon earth…” Eph. 1:9,10

23. SIGNIFICANCE FOR US TODAY: 5. SINCE GOD IS, AND SINCE GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, LIFE ONLY MAKES SENSE WHEN YOU INCLUDE GOD!