In the Beginning

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• QUESTIONS
• Can anyone really know the truth about Jesus?
• Does it even really matterif we do?

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• Genesis 11
• In the beginning God created the heavens and
  the earth.

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• What is the purpose?

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What is the purpose?

• The central purpose of the creation account is
  to reveal God in HIS creative splendor and
  power.

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• Genesis 126
• Let Us make man in Our image, in Our likeness,
  and let them rule

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• God is Triune Father, Son and Spirit.

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• And God said.

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• In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
  with God, and the Word was God. He was with God
  in the beginning. Through Him all things were
  made without Him nothing was made that has been
  made. In Him was life, and that life was the
  light of men. The light shines in the darkness,
  but the darkness has not understood it.
• John 11-5

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• The creation event was a revealing of the
  creative and sustaining power of the Son, Jesus.

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• In the past God spoke to our forefathers through
  the prophets at many times and in various ways,
  but in these last days He has spoken to us by His
  Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and
  through whom He made the universe. The Son is the
  radiance of God's glory and the exact
  representation of His being, sustaining all
  things by His powerful word.
• Hebrews 11-3a

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• Mankind is the steward of what God owns.

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• He is the image of the invisible God, the
  firstborn over all creation. For by Him all
  things were created things in heaven and on
  earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or
  powers or rulers or authorities all things were
  created by Him and for Him. He is before all
  things, and in Him all things hold together.

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• And He is the head of the body, the church He is
  the beginning and the firstborn from among the
  dead, so that in everything He might have the
  supremacy. For God was pleased to have all His
  fullness dwell in Him, and through Him to
  reconcile to Himself all things, whether things
  on earth or things in heaven, by making peace
  through His blood, shed on the cross.
  Col.115-20

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Who is Jesus?

• He is the image of the invisible God.

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Who is Jesus?

• He is the image of the invisible God.
• He is the firstborn over all creation.

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Who is Jesus?

• For by Him all things were created things in
  heaven and on earth, visible and invisible,
  whether thrones or powers or rulers or
  authorities all things were created by Him and
  for Him.

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Who is Jesus?

• He is before all things, and in Him all things
  hold together.

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Who is Jesus?

• And He is the Head of the body, the church He is
  the beginning and the firstborn from among the
  dead, so that in everything He might have the
  supremacy.

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Who is Jesus?

• For God was pleased to have all His fullness
  dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile to
  Himself all things, whether things on earth or
  things in heaven, by making peace through His
  blood, shed on the cross.

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• The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise, as
  some understand slowness. He is patient with you,
  not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to
  come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will
  come like a thief. The heavens will disappear
  with a roar the elements will be destroyed by
  fire, and the earth and everything in it will be
  laid bare. Since everything will be destroyed in
  this way, what kind of people ought you to be?

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• You ought to live holy and godly lives as you
  look forward to the day of God and speed its
  coming. That day will bring about the destruction
  of the heavens by fire, and the elements will
  melt in the heat. But in keeping with His promise
  we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new
  earth, the home of righteousness.
• 2 Peter 39-13

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• 2 Corinthians 517
• Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a
  new creation the old has gone, the new has
  come!