September 10, 2023

Genesis 1:1 | The Story of God

43 minutes

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Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe

Scripture: Genesis 1:1

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT GOD?

THE STORY IS ABOUT GOD

YOU CAN KNOW GOD

GOD ALONE IS GOD

FOUR IMPLICATIONS OF BEING CAUGHT UP IN THE STORY OF GOD

The story of God lifts our story out of the mundane and inconsequential.

The story of God lifts our story out of fear and anxiety.

The story of God lifts our story out of self-importance.

The story of God lifts our story out of idolatry.

A. W. Tozer

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

Francis A. Schaeffer

Regardless of a man's system, he has to live in God's world.

Romans 1:19–20 (ESV)

For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

Job 11:7–9 (ESV)

Can you find out the deep things of God?

Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?

It is higher than heaven—what can you do?

Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

Its measure is longer than the earth

and broader than the sea.

Colossians 1:15,19-20

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. … For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

Genesis 1:27 (ESV)

So God created man in his own image,

in the image of God he created him;

male and female he created them.

A. W. Pink

“In the beginning, God.” There was no heaven, where His glory is now particularly manifested. There was no earth to engage His attention. There were no angels to sing His praises. There was no universe to be upheld by the word of His power. There was nothing, no one, but God; and that not for a day, a year, or an age, but “from everlasting.” During a past eternity God was alone—self-contained, self-sufficient, in need of nothing.

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