175 and Counting: What’s at Stake in the Beginning

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175 and Counting: What’s at Stake in the…

The Lord's Day Morning March 4, 2012 “175 and Counting: What's at Stake in the Beginning?” Genesis 1:1 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis chapter 1. We’re going to give our attention today to one particular verse and the truths that we learn from it. Genesis 1:1. It provides such an important foundation for the whole of the Christian faith. And one of the reasons we're going to do that today is to understand what is at stake in what Christians believe about the beginning, what is at stake in what the Bible asserts about creation. And there is indeed much at stake. You may have been following the writings of the new atheists. Do you know who I'm talking about? The four most prominent new…

I Believe in GodMaker of Heaven and Earth (Continued)

Genesis 1:1I Believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth (contd) O come let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord, our maker, for He is our God and we are the people of His pasture and the flock under His care. Let us worship Him. Our Lord and God, Father, Son, holy Spirit, triune God, one God, eternal God, our God through Jesus Christ our Lord, we come into your presence this day on the terms that You have proposed and through the way which You alone make possible, that blood-sprinkled way. And as we have trusted in Jesus Christ alone for our salvation, as we have rested on Your promises, as we have responded to Your word of revelation and covenant and blessing, we have been brought out of darkness into Your marvelous light. We have been changed from…

The First Things (Creation) (1): In the Beginning God

If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn to the first chapter of the Bible, Genesis, chapter 1. Genesis means origin or beginning. And this book, the book of Genesis, lays the groundwork, not only for the book of Exodus which logically and necessarily follows from it, but also for the rest of Scripture. Matthew Henry, a long time ago, said “Genesis is a name borrowed from the Greek. It signifies the original or generations.” Fitly is this book so called, for it is a history of originals. The creation of the world. The entrance of sin and death into the world. The invention of the arts. The rise of nations and especially the planting of the church and the state of it in early days. “It is also,” Henry said, “a history of generations. The genealogies…

The First Things (Creation) (2): In the Beginning

If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn again with me to Genesis, chapter 1, and we’ll look again at the first couple of verses. We said as we started our study that Genesis means origins or beginnings and it lays the groundwork not only for the book of Exodus but for the rest of scripture. The principles, the foundation that is set forth there is basic to everything else in scripture. The book, of course, begins with God’s creation of the world, but its early chapters…

I Believe in GodMaker of Heaven and Earth

Genesis 1:1I Believe in God the Father…Creator of Heaven and Earth Turn with me in your Bibles to Genesis 1. Today we are continuing our study of The Apostles’ Creed. As we work through the Creed, topically studying the subjects of this great statement of Christian affirmation, it has been our intention all along to root these assertions in the word of Scripture, so that our confidence in speaking them comes not simply from being in accord with the rest of the tradition of the church, but…

The First Things (Creation) (3): The Days of Creation

If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to the very first chapter again, Genesis, chapter 1. One of the elders said to me, given the fact that we took two weeks to cover verses 1 and 2, that we were all going to be dead before I finished the book of Genesis. So we're going to see how far we can get tonight in Genesis 1, and we’ll pick up in verse 3. What I'd like to do, Lord willing, is give you an overview of the creation days. There really is so much here that we…

The First Things (Creation) (4): The Sixth Day

If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn again to Genesis, chapter 1. We’ll begin tonight in verse 24 as we zero in on the sixth day. We've already said that Genesis lays the groundwork, the foundation not only for the book of Exodus, not only the rest of the Old Testament, but for all of the Scriptures. We've said that for the first two verses of Genesis, we're brought face to face with the ultimate reality. That is, not the universe, but God, who is in a sense bigger…

The First Things (Creation) (5): The Creation…

If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis chapter 1 and verse 26. Last week we focused on the fact that man is created in the image of God. What we tried to do was briefly define what that means. We use that phrase a lot. We talk about being in the image of God and yet sometimes we have a little fuzzy conception of what it means to be in the image of God. So we tried to put some content to that language that we use a lot. And we said basically five things. We said…

Thinking and Living Biblically in a Gender-nuteral…

Thinking and Living Biblically in a Gender-neutral SocietyBiblical Manhood and Womanhood seriesFirst Presbyterian ChurchJackson, MSDr. J. Ligon Duncan Genesis 1:26-27 Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: The Big Picture As you turn in your Bibles to Genesis 1, let me give you a brief overview of what we will attempt to do in this study of what the Bible says about manhood and womanhood. What are our roles considered as men and women, distinctly and differently, in this world? Especially, what are our…

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