3. The Sovereignty of God over Humanity ‘When God created human beings, he made them in the likeness of God. He created them male and female, and blessed them. And when they were created, he called them “human beings”’ (Genesis 5.1-2)

4. ‘It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my own fate, I am the captain of my soul’ William Ernest Henly (1849-1903)

5. The Sovereignty of God over Humanity ‘When God created human beings, he made them in the likeness of God. He created them male and female, and blessed them. And when they were created, he called them “human beings”’ (Genesis 5.1-2)

6. The Patience of God with Humanity ‘My Spirit will not contend with (remain in) human beings for ever.’ (Genesis 6.3)

7. ‘There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.’ (Duc La Rochefoucauld)

9. The Grief of God over Humanity

12. The intensity of human wickedness

13. The Grief of God over Humanity The intensity of human wickedness The inwardness of human wickedness

14. The Grief of God over Humanity The intensity of human wickedness The inwardness of human wickedness The absoluteness of human wickedness

15. The Grief of God over Humanity The intensity of human wickedness The inwardness of human wickedness The absoluteness of human wickedness The habitualness of human wickedness