Genesis 1 NKJV
26 Then God said, “Let Us
make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over
the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all
the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
27 So God created man in His own
image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
28 Then God blessed them, and
God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have
dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every
living thing that moves on the earth.”
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Be Fruitful
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Multiply
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Fill the Earth
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Subdue
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Have Dominion
Even
in the perfect world God created for His children there were restrictions. Even
a perfect world must have order and expectancy. Because Adam and Eve disobeyed
God sin entered the Paradise God had created for mankind and separated them.
Sin Separates
·
Man
from God
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Man
from Each Other
·
Man
from the Blessings of God
God
so loved the world that He gave His Only Son saying whosoever will believe on
Jesus shall be saved from the corruption which is to come upon all the world.
In order to be saved from the separation caused by sin each person must be born
again.
The
Children of God are called to follow those same original instructions God gave
to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
In
today’s language, we can confidently say that the will of God for every Born-Again
child of God is to:
1.
Gather
2.
Grow
3.
Give
4.
Go
5.
Govern
Three
Points to Ponder
as we enter the month of August and begin to gear up for things God has planned
for His Church Family this fall.
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Faith makes things possible, Faith does not make things easy.
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Sometimes the Lord just wants us to be willing.
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God’s grace is always sufficient.
