GOD: generous ?

PROVIDER UNIVERSE – LIFE - ECOSYTSEMS GENESIS 1-2, PSALM 8 & 1 TIMOTHY 6:17

UNIVERSE – LIFE – ECOSYSTEMS: GEN. 1:1 & 27-31 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. … So God created mankind in his own image … male and female he created them.28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful .. increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish … and the birds … and over every living creature ...” 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 in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I 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.

UNIVERSE – LIFE – ECOSYSTEMS: 1 TIM. 6:17 Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.

UNIVERSE – LIFE - ECOSYTSEMS We can see 5,000 stars with the naked eye Our galaxy has 100 million stars There are 100 million galaxies like ours

UNIVERSE – LIFE - ECOSYTSEMS 270,000 flower species 25,000 varieties of orchids alone 200,000 edible plants

UNIVERSE – LIFE - ECOSYTSEMS 750,000 species of insects

UNIVERSE – LIFE - ECOSYTSEMS 10,000 bird species

UNIVERSE – LIFE – ECOSYSTEMS: PSALM 8 1 Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens. 2 Through the praise of children and infants  you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. 3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, 4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? 5 You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them[f] with glory and honor. 6 You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet: 7 all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, 8 the birds in the sky,     and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. 9 Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

GENESIS 2:18-25; 3:8-10 & EPHESIANS 2:14-16 C O M M U N I T Y PROVIDER GENESIS 2:18-25; 3:8-10 & EPHESIANS 2:14-16

COMMUNITY: GENESIS 2:18-25 18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” …21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; … took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out … 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 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

COMMUNITY: GENESIS 3:8-10 8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” 10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”

COMMUNITY: EPHESIANS 2:14-16 14 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, 15 by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, 16 and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.

DAILY PROVISION PROVIDER ACTS 17:28 & MATTHEW 6:25-34

DAILY PROVISION: ACTS 17:28 For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’

DAILY PROVISION: MATT.6:25-34 30 If 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—you of little faith? ... 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow ….

PROTECTOR RULE GIVER EXODUS 20-23 The law of limited retribution guarantees fairness for all and protects all RULE GIVER PROTECTOR EXODUS 20-23

PRESERVER MERCIFUL JUDGE GENESIS 5:9; 18:16-33; JONAH 4 NOAH SODOM NINEVEH GENESIS 5:9; 18:16-33; JONAH 4

SAVIOUR SUBSTITUTED HIMSELF FOR US 1 JN. 3:16; JN. 1:1-14; PHIL. 2:5-11; 2 COR. 8:9

RESIDENT ALWAYS IN AND WITH US EPH. 1:3 & 12-14; 1 COR. 12:13, 2 COR. 4:6-7

EPHESIANS 4:11-16; 1 COR.12-14; ROMANS 12 GIFTS CHURCH PEOPLE EQUIPPER EPHESIANS 4:11-16; 1 COR.12-14; ROMANS 12

PROVIDES FOR FAILURE FORGIVER ROM. 8:31-39; 1 JOHN 2:2

UNENDING GENEROSITY ETERNALLY EPHESIANS 2:6-7 & 1 PETER 1:3-9

UNENDING GENEROSITY: EPHESIANS 2:6-7 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

UNENDING GENEROSITY ETERNALLY EPHESIANS 2:6-7 & 1 PETER 1:3-9

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