2. BEGINNINGS
NIV Mark 10:2 Some Pharisees came and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

3. BEGINNINGS
NIV Mark 10:5-6 “It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied. “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’

4. BEGINNINGS
WHY, in answering his critics, does Jesus resort back to Genesis?

5. BEGINNINGS
WHY, in answering his critics, does Jesus resort back to Genesis?
WHEN answering His critics, Jesus dealt with them on the level of creation because it is the sphere in which they live

6. BEGINNINGS
NIV 1 Corinthians 2:14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

7. BEGINNINGS CREATION brings physical life
SALVATION brings spiritual life

8. BEGINNINGS
CREATION is critical because it presents truth on the level in which ALL people live

9. BEGINNINGS
CREATION is critical because it presents truth on the level in which ALL people live—PHYSICAL LIFE

10. BEGINNINGS
NIV Genesis 1:26-28 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. God mage of God he created them; blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

11. BEGINNINGS
People are made in the Image of God!

12. BEGINNINGS
People are made in the Image of God!
WHAT people?

13. BEGINNINGS People are made in the Image of God! WHAT people?
All People!

14. BEGINNINGS People are made in the Image of God! WHAT people?
All People!
All lives Matter!

15. BEGINNINGS People are made in the Image of God! WHAT people?
All People!
All lives Matter!
WHY?

16. BEGINNINGS People are made in the Image of God! WHAT people?
All People!
All lives Matter!
WHY?
Because ALL people are Image Bearers!

17. BEGINNINGS People are made in the Image of God! WHAT people?
All People!
All lives Matter!
WHY?
Because ALL people are Image Bearers!
PEOPLE reflect the Image of God!

18. BEGINNINGS
WHAT does it mean/involve to be made in the Image of God?

19. BEGINNINGS WHAT does it mean/involve to be made in the Image of God?
It involves WORSHIP!

20. BEGINNINGS WHAT does it mean/involve to be made in the Image of God?
It involves WORSHIP!
It involves the use of AUTHORITY!

21. BEGINNINGS WHAT does it mean/involve to be made in the Image of God?
It involves WORSHIP!
It involves the use of AUTHORITY!
It involves MISSION!

22. BEGINNINGS
WORSHIP—a right relationship to God!

23. BEGINNINGS WORSHIP—a right relationship to God! NIV Genesis 1:26
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness…

24. BEGINNINGS WORSHIP—a right relationship to God!
God is a relational God
God had a relationship with Adam/Eve
God wants a right relationship with you!!!

25. BEGINNINGS
AUTHORITY—a right relationship to the things!

26. BEGINNINGS AUTHORITY—a right relationship to the things!
NIV Genesis 1:26
…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.

27. BEGINNINGS AUTHORITY—a right relationship to the things!
Keep ‘things’ in proper perspective
Use your authority properly, don’t misuse it!

28. BEGINNINGS
MISSION—a right relationship to people!

29. BEGINNINGS MISSION—a right relationship to people! ESV Genesis 1:28
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

30. BEGINNINGS MISSION—a right relationship to people!
People matter to God
We treat people as God would treat them

31. BEGINNINGS
HOW is your worship?

32. BEGINNINGS
HOW is your worship?
HOW are you handling authority?

33. BEGINNINGS HOW is your worship? HOW are you handling authority?
HOW are you treating people?

34. BEGINNINGS
NAU Genesis 1:31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.