WHERE IS
?
ORIGIN
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 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 was light.
ORIGIN
4 And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
- Genesis 1:1-5
GENESIS 1
ORIGIN
GENESIS 2 & 3
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.
-Genesis 3:1
So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. -Genesis 3:6
And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. -Genesis 3:8
“Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.” -Genesis 3:14-15
Therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. 24 He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.
-Genesis 3:23-24
WHAT
BUILDS IN US
IDENTITY
COMMUNITY
ENMITY
For at one time you were darkness, but now YOU ARE LIGHT in the Lord. Walk as CHILDREN OF LIGHT 9 (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), 10 and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 TAKE NO PART IN THE UNFRUITFUL WORKS OF DARKNESS, but instead expose them.
- Ephesians 5:8-11
Do you not know that your BODIES ARE MEMBERS OF CHRIST? . . . 17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes ONE SPIRIT WITH HIM. 18 FLEE FROM SEXUAL IMMORALITY. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that YOUR BODY IS A TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WITHIN YOU, whom you have from God? YOU ARE NOT YOUR OWN, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
- 1 Corinthians 6:15,17-20
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, WHO HAS BLESSED US IN CHRIST with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even AS HE CHOSE US IN HIM before the foundation of the world, THAT WE SHOULD BE HOLY AND BLAMELESS BEFORE HIM.
- Ephesians 1:3-4
But YOU ARE A CHOSEN RACE, A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR HIS OWN POSSESSION, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now YOU ARE GOD'S PEOPLE; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to ABSTAIN FROM THE PASSIONS OF THE FLESH, WHICH WAGE WAR AGAINST YOUR SOUL.
- 1 Peter 2:9-11
WHAT
BUILDS IN US
IDENTITY
COMMUNITY
ENMITY
IDENTITY
CHILD OF GOD
Yet to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God. -John 1:12
NEW CREATION
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! -2 Corinthians 5:17
HEIR WITH CHRIST
Now if we are children, then we are heirs–heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in His sufferings in order that we may also share in His glory. - Romans 8:17
COMMUNITY
CHILDREN OF GOD
Yet to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God. -John 1:12
NEW CREATIONS
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! -2 Corinthians 5:17
HEIRS WITH CHRIST
Now if we are children, then we are heirs–heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in His sufferings in order that we may also share in His glory. - Romans 8:17
ENMITY
HOSTILITY TOWARD SIN
For we know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin -Romans 6:6
BRINGING OTHERS TO SAFETY
We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. - 2 Corinthians 5:20
BATTLING OUR ENEMY
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. - Ephesians 6:11
IS THE
PLACE OF ORIGIN
WHO WE ARE
WHOSE WE ARE
WHAT WE FACE TOGETHER
THESE INSTINCTIVE
LONGINGS KEEP US PURSUING A MORE PERFECT
“I go to prepare a place for you.”
- Jesus in John 14:3
“No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.” - 1 Corinthians 2:9
He who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into His presence. 15 For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God. - 2 Corinthians 4:14-15