2. The Bible Teaches Doctrine (part 2): God Loves Through Creation

3. Titus 2:1 But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine.

4. Genesis 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

5. Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. … 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

6. LOVED AS IMAGE-BEARERS

7. LOVED AS IMAGE-BEARERS Isaiah 43:7 everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”

8. LOVED AS IMAGE-BEARERS Romans 8:16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

9. LOVED AS IMAGE-BEARERS Ecclesiastes 3:11 [God] has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart,

10. LOVED AS IMAGE-BEARERS John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

11. LOVED AS IMAGE-BEARERS Genesis 1:2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

12. LOVED AS IMAGE-BEARERS 1 Corinthians 15:40 There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another. 42 So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.

13. LOVED AS IMAGE-BEARERS Ecclesiastes 7:29 See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.

14. LOVED AS IMAGE-BEARERS

15. LOVED AS GIFT-RECEIVERS

16. LOVED AS GIFT-RECEIVERS “According to the Scriptures, creation is a gift from a loving Creator God. From the bodies we inhabit, the air we breathe, the sun we bask in, the food we eat, the flowers we pick, the water we drink, the ground we walk upon, and the pets we love, to the pleasures we enjoy and destinations we visit on vacation, life is filled with good gifts for us to steward and enjoy.” Mark Driscoll

17. LOVED AS GIFT-RECEIVERS John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

18. LOVED AS GIFT-RECEIVERS Matthew 5:45b For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

19. LOVED AS GIFT-RECEIVERS Romans 1:20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made.

20. LOVED AS GIFT-RECEIVERS Romans 1:21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

21. LOVED AS GIFT-RECEIVERS Revelation 4:11 “Worthy are you, 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.”

22. LOVED AS GIFT-RECEIVERS Psalm 73:25 Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. 26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. 28 But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord G OD my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

23. LOVED AS GIFT-RECEIVERS 1 Corinthians 10:31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

24. LOVED AS GIFT-RECEIVERS Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.

25. LOVED AS GIFT-RECEIVERS Colossians 1:16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. 17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

26. LOVED AS GIFT-RECEIVERS 1 Corinthians 13:12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

27. LOVED AS GIFT-RECEIVERS

28. LOVED AS KINGDOM-DWELLERS

29. LOVED AS KINGDOM-DWELLERS Genesis 1:26 Then 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 birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

30. LOVED AS KINGDOM-DWELLERS Deuteronomy 7:6 “For you are a people holy to the L ORD your God. The L ORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

31. LOVED AS KINGDOM-DWELLERS 1 Timothy 2:3 This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.

32. LOVED AS KINGDOM-DWELLERS Philippians 2:9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

33. LOVED AS KINGDOM-DWELLERS Luke 2:20 Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed, 21 nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.”

34. LOVED AS KINGDOM-DWELLERS Luke 22:18 For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”

35. LOVED AS KINGDOM-DWELLERS 2 Corinthians 4:17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

36. LOVED AS KINGDOM-DWELLERS John 10:10b I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

37. LOVED AS KINGDOM-DWELLERS