1. Foundations Week 2 – Creation: The World, Man, Angels & Demons

2. Creation
God created the entire universe out of nothing; it was originally very good; and he created it to glorify himself.

3. Genesis 1:1
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”

4. 1 Corinthians 8:6a
“…yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live.”

5. 1 Corinthians 8:6b
“…and there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, from whom all things came and through whom we live.”

6. John 1:3
“All things were made through Him, and without him was not anything made that was made.”

7. Genesis 1:2
”Now the earth was formless and void, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.”

8. “By the Spirit of the Lord, the heavens were made.”
Psalm 33:6
“By the Spirit of the Lord, the heavens were made.”

9. Creation is from the Father, through the Son, and by the Holy Spirit

10. Ex nihilo
”Out of nothing.”

11. John 1:3
“All things were made through Him, and without him was not anything made that was made.”

12. Hebrews 11:3
“By faith we understand that the world was prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.”

13. Romans 4:17
“As it is written: ‘I have made you a father of many nations.’ He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that are not.”

14. Sovereignty
God has absolute rule over creation as King and total control over all that happens.

15. Daniel 4:34
“His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation; all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,

16. Daniel 4:35
and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, ‘What have you done?’”

17. Revelation 4:11
“You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”

18. Genesis 2:7a
“The Lord God formed man of the dust from the ground…”

19. Genesis 2:7b
“…and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.”

20. Genesis 2:7c
“…and the man became a living being.”

21. Genesis 1:27
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”

22. Psalm 33:6, 9
“By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all their host by the breath of his mouth…For He spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood forth.”

23. Nehemiah 9:6
“You are the Lord, you alone; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host…and the host of heaven worships you.”

24. Numbers 22:31
“Then the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam and he saw the Angel of the Lord standing in the way.”

25. Psalm 91:11
“For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.”

26. 2 Peter 2:4
“God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of nether gloom to be kept until the judgment.”

27. Jude 6
”the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day.”

28. John 8:44
“He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”

29. 2 Corinthians 4:4
“the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.”