Genesis 2

You see man desperately needs God

Genesis 2 Flourishing with God Purpose with God Eternity with God

Place of flourishing

Work = `abad

Place of purpose

The notion of this garden life – was the very notion that what and the way we do life really matters…we are meant to go somewhere with our lives

“The author is saying the Eden is made up of raw materials “The author is saying the Eden is made up of raw materials. It’s spilling over with pent-up potential. Everything you need to make a civilisation is all there – all you have to do is to cultivate it and to draw it out.” John-Mark Comer

“work is rearranging the raw materials of God’s creation in such a way that it helps the world in general and people in particular to thrive and flourish” Tim Keller

Is Christianity a crutch for people who haven’t got their lives together – you bet it is…

Place in eternity

See I will create a new heaven and a new earth, I will create Jerusalem to be a delight and its people a joy   …They will build houses and dwell in them, they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit, my chosen ones will long enjoy the work of their hands, they will not labour in vain, they will be blessed by the Lord

The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass. 19 The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone.  The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.

The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it.  25 On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. 26 The glory and honour of the nations will be brought into it. 27 Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

They will form the building materials from which the glorified world will be made. Miroslav Volf

“These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom.” NT Wright