God Created from Nothing The Power of God’s Word! Creator Builder Maker “It is He Who has made us…” ~ Psalm 100:3 Eternal God Created from Nothing The Power of God’s Word!

Why? He wanted to! For the sake of the creature To manifest His glory

FOR THE SAKE OF THE CREATURE 1 John 4:10 ~ In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. John 3:16 ~ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, Gen 1:4 ~ And God saw the light, that it was good Gen 1:31 ~ Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good.

FOR THE SAKE OF THE CREATURE 1 Tim 6:17 ~ … nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy. Acts 14:17 ~ Nevertheless He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good, gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."

TO MANIFEST HIS GLORY Rev 4:11 ~ "You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, and by Your will they exist and were created." Rom 11:36 ~ For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen. Ezek 38:23 ~Thus I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself, and I will be known in the eyes of many nations. Then they shall know that I am the Lord."' Ezek 39:21 ~ "I will set My glory among the nations; all the nations shall see My judgment which I have executed, and My hand which I have laid on them.

TO MANIFEST HIS GLORY Isa 43:7 ~ Everyone who is called by My name, whom I have created for My glory; I have formed him, yes, I have made him. Eph 1:12 ~ …that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory. Ps 19:1 ~ The heavens declare the glory of God Heb 2:10 ~ For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

TO ENJOY HIS POWER & GOODNESS Gen 1:11 ~ And God saw that it was good. Ps 104:31 ~ May the glory of the Lord endure forever; May the Lord rejoice in His works. Job 38:26-27 ~ To cause it to rain on a land where there is no one, a wilderness in which there is no man; To satisfy the desolate waste, and cause to spring forth the growth of tender grass?

TO ENJOY HIS POWER & GOODNESS Matt 5:45 ~ …for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. Isa 45:18 ~ For thus says the Lord, Who created the heavens, Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited: "I am the Lord, and there is no other.

BE IMPRESSED! CREATOR RELATES TO … PRAISE & WORSHIP Ps 148 ~ Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord from the heavens; Praise Him in the heights! 2 Praise Him, all His angels; Praise Him, all His hosts! 3 Praise Him, sun and moon; Praise Him, all you stars of light! 4 Praise Him, you heavens of heavens, And you waters above the heavens! 5 Let them praise the name of the Lord, For He commanded and they were created. 6 He also established them forever and ever; He made a decree which shall not pass away.

BE IMPRESSED! CREATOR RELATES TO … PRAISE & WORSHIP Ps 148 ~ 7 Praise the Lord from the earth, You great sea creatures and all the depths; 8 Fire and hail, snow and clouds; Stormy wind, fulfilling His word; 9 Mountains and all hills; Fruitful trees and all cedars; 10 Beasts and all cattle; Creeping things and flying fowl; 11 Kings of the earth and all peoples; Princes and all judges of the earth; 12 Both young men and maidens; Old men and children. 13 Let them praise the name of the Lord, For His name alone is exalted; His glory is above the earth and heaven. 14 And He has exalted the horn of His people, The praise of all His saints — Of the children of Israel, A people near to Him. Praise the Lord!

BE IMPRESSED! CREATOR RELATES TO … PRAISE & WORSHIP Ps 95:6 ~ Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.

SPECIFICS OF HIS CREATION Jer 27:5 ~ 'I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are on the ground, by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and have given it to whom it seemed proper to Me. Job 26:7 ~He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing. Job 26:10 ~ He drew a circular horizon on the face of the waters, At the boundary of light and darkness. SPECIFICS OF HIS CREATION

SPECIFICS OF HIS CREATION Job 28:26-28 ~ When He made a law for the rain, and a path for the thunderbolt, then He saw wisdom and declared it; He prepared it, indeed, He searched it out. And to man He said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.'" SPECIFICS OF HIS CREATION

SPECIFICS OF HIS CREATION Ps 8:3-4 ~ When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained, 4 What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him? Ps 74:16,17 ~ The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have prepared the light and the sun. You have set all the borders of the earth; You have made summer and winter. Ps 95:5 ~ The sea is His, for He made it; And His hands formed the dry land.

SPECIFICS OF HIS CREATION Amos 5:8 ~ He made the Pleiades and Orion; He turns the shadow of death into morning and makes the day dark as night; He calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the face of the earth; The Lord is His name.

Amos 9:6 ~ He who builds His layers in the sky, and has founded His strata in the earth; Who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the face of the earth — The Lord is His name.

HIS WISDOM, GLORY, POWER Ps 104:24 ~ O Lord, how manifold are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all. The earth is full of Your possessions — Prov 3:19 ~ The Lord by wisdom founded the earth; By understanding He established the heavens; Jer 10:12 ~ He has made the earth by His power, He has established the world by His wisdom, And has stretched out the heavens at His discretion.

HIS WISDOM, GLORY, POWER Isa 40:26 ~ Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these things, Who brings out their host by number; He calls them all by name, by the greatness of His might and the strength of His power; Not one is missing.

SELF KNOWLEDGE AND WORTH Gen 1:27 ~ So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Gen 5:1 ~ … In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God. Ps 139:13-14 ~ For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.

HOW WE TREAT ONE ANOTHER Mal 2:10 ~ Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously with one another? Prov 14:31 ~ He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker. Prov 17:5 ~ He who mocks the poor reproaches his Maker; James 3:9 ~ With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God.

DIRECTIONS IN LIVING Eccl 12:1 ~ Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth… Eccl 12:6 ~ Remember your Creator before the silver cord is loosed,… Deut 32:18 ~ Of the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful, and have forgotten the God who fathered you. Isa 45:9 ~ Woe to him who strives with his Maker! Isa 64:8 ~ But now, O Lord, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our potter; And all we are the work of Your hand.

RELATIONSHIP … BECAUSE HE IS OUR CREATOR Sheep of His pasture: Ps.100:3 Our Redeemer: Isaiah 44:24 Our Help: Psa. 121:2 Keeps Truth: Psa. 146:6 “In His Time”: Eccl. 3:11 Sons: Isaiah 45:11 Nothing too Hard: Jer. 32:17 Times of Trial: Acts 4:24 Marriage: Matt. 19:4 Man / Woman: 1 Timothy 2:13 New Creation: 2 Cor. 5:17 Judgment: Rev. 14:7

Isa 66:1-2 ~ Thus says the Lord: "Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. Where is the house that you will build Me? And where is the place of My rest? For all those things My hand has made, and all those things exist," says the Lord. "But on this one will I look: On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at My word.