1. SECTION 1.1 ESV 1

2. Our powerful God created the world and everything in it in six days. God created all things for His own purposes. God’s purpose for us is to have a relationship with Him. MAIN IDEA ESV 2

3. 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.” MEMORY VERSE ESV 3

4. Share what you wrote about or drew in Start Here. INTRODUCTION ESV 4

5. What reason did you have for making your creation? Who got to decide what you did with your creation? INTRODUCTION ESV 5

6. MAIN LESSON 1. Our powerful God created the world and everything in it in six days. ESV 6

7. MAIN LESSON Genesis 1:1-31 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 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. And God said, "Let there be light," and there ESV 7

8. MAIN LESSON ESV 8 Genesis 1:1-31, continued was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. And God said, "Let there be

9. MAIN LESSON ESV 9 Genesis 1:1-31, continued an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters." And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. And God

10. MAIN LESSON ESV 10 Genesis 1:1-31, continued called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day. And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so. God called the dry land Earth,

11. MAIN LESSON ESV 11 Genesis 1:1-31, continued and the waters that were gathered together He called Seas. And God saw that it was good. And God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth."

12. MAIN LESSON ESV 12 Genesis 1:1-31, continued And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was

13. MAIN LESSON ESV 13 Genesis 1:1-31, continued morning, the third day. And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the

14. MAIN LESSON ESV 14 Genesis 1:1-31, continued heavens to give light upon the earth." And it was so. And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars. And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on

15. MAIN LESSON ESV 15 Genesis 1:1-31, continued the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day. And God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms

16. MAIN LESSON ESV 16 Genesis 1:1-31, continued of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens." So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged

17. MAIN LESSON ESV 17 Genesis 1:1-31, continued bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day. And God said,

18. MAIN LESSON ESV 18 Genesis 1:1-31, continued "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock

19. MAIN LESSON ESV 19 Genesis 1:1-31, continued according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 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

20. MAIN LESSON ESV 20 Genesis 1:1-31, continued the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

21. MAIN LESSON ESV 21 Genesis 1:1-31, continued And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” And God said,

22. MAIN LESSON ESV 22 Genesis 1:1-31, continued "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on

23. MAIN LESSON ESV 23 Genesis 1:1-31, continued the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. And God saw every-thing that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

24. MAIN LESSON 2. God created us for a special purpose, and that purpose is to have a relationship with Him and to be like Him in many ways. He created us in His image. ESV 24

25. MAIN LESSON 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. ESV 25

26. MAIN LESSON 3. We have a relationship with Him when we trust Christ as Savior. ESV 26

27. MAIN LESSON John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” ESV 27

28. MAIN LESSON 4. Once we have a relationship with God, we get to know Him better by reading the Bible and praying. ESV 28

29. MAIN LESSON Philippians 4:6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. ESV 29

30. MAIN LESSON 2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness. ESV 30

31. FAITH IN ACTION 1.Why did God create us? 2.How do we begin our relationship with God? 3.What does it mean to be made in God’s image? How will that affect the way you think and act in your day-to-day life? 4.How do we get to know God after we have a relationship with Him? ESV 31

32. SUM IT UP ESV 32 Our powerful God created the world and everything in it in six days.

33. God created us for a special purpose, and that purpose is to have a relation-ship with Him and to be like Him in many ways. He created us in His image. SUM IT UP ESV 33

34. We have a relationship with Him by trusting Christ as our Savior. SUM IT UP ESV 34

35. Once we have a relationship with God, we get to know Him better by reading the Bible and praying. SUM IT UP ESV 35

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