1. Before I come up… Please Insert Video The Story of God in Six Acts

2. Goals for this Sermon The Concept: Bible is ONE Story The Creator: Who He is and why He Created The Created: Why do you and I exist?

3. The Concept: Bible is ONE Story GOD

4. The Concept: Bible is ONE Story Know Me, Love Me, Be with Me GOD GOD + me

5. The Bible is ONE Story in 66 Books

6. The Creator: Who He is and why He Created God Spirit of God In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. Genesis 1:1-2 cp. 1 Corinthians 8:6; Colossians 1:15-17

7. The Creator: Who He is and why He Created Attributes that define God alone (Shared only by the Godhead/Trinity)  Self-Existent  Sovereign  Omniscient (all-knowing)  Omnipresent (ever-present)  Omnipotent (all-powerful)

8. The Creator: Who He is and why He Created Attributes that define God (Shared with His creation)  Self-Awareness  Tri-unity: Body/Soul/Spirit  Love/Hate/Joy/Sorrow  Values: Justice/Mercy/Truth  Reason & Creativity  Volition (will, choice, decide)

9. The Created: Why do you and I exist? Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Gen 1:26-27

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11. How did God “Create”?

12. The Created: Why do you and I exist? Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Gen 1:26-27

13. The Created: Why do you and I exist?

14. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.. Gen 1:26-27

15. The Created: Why do you and I exist? For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. Colossians 1:16-18

16. The Created: Why do you and I exist? For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. Colossians 1:16-18