Part 1/4 in my "In the Beginning" series that I preached back in 2012.

1. In the beginning…

2. ‫ית‬ ִׁ‫אש‬ ֵ‫ר‬ ְּ‫,ב‬ ‫א‬ ָּ‫ר‬ ָּ‫ב‬‫ים‬ ִׁ‫ֹלה‬ֱ‫א‬ , ‫ת‬ ֵ‫א‬‫ִׁם‬‫י‬ ַ‫מ‬ ָּ‫ש‬ ַ‫ה‬ , ‫ת‬ ֵ‫ְּא‬‫ו‬‫ץ‬ ֶ‫ר‬ ָּ‫א‬ ָּ‫ה‬
“In the beginning, God created the heavens
and the earth.”
Genesis 1:1
Geneseos
In the beginning…

3. In the beginning…
1. Everything has a created order.

16. Days of Creation
Day Form Fill Day
1 Light (1:3-5) Lights (1:14-19) 4
2 Firmament (1:6-8)
Sky
Seas
Inhabitants (1:20-23)
Birds
Fish
5
3 Dry land (1:9-10)
Vegetation (1:11-13)
Animals (1:24-25)
Human beings (1:26-31)
6
In the beginning…

17. In the beginning…
1. Everything has a created order.
2. God created humanity with the desire to
cultivate our horizontal relationships.

18. What are our horizontal relationships?
1. Nature Genesis 1:26,28
“fill the earth and subdue it"
In the beginning…

19. What are our horizontal relationships?
1. Nature Genesis 1:26,28
“fill the earth and subdue it"
In the beginning…
•Responsibility, stewardship
2. Humanity Genesis 1:27
A. Male + Female= Man
B. Tselem= Image
-Physically, intellectually, socially
C. Demut= Likeness
-Internal qualities
-Morality, the capacity to chose, the capability to love and be
loved

20. In the beginning…
1. Everything has a created order.
2. God created humanity with the desire to
cultivate our horizontal relationships.
3. God's final creation was meant to cultivate
our vertical relationship with him.

21. In the beginning…
In what day did God finish his creative work?
2 And on the seventh day God finished his work
which he had made; and he rested on the seventh
day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it;
because that in it he rested from all his work which
God had created and made.
Genesis 2:2-3

22. In the beginning…
"And I saw a new heaven and a new
earth: for the first heaven and the first
earth are passed away; and the sea is no
more."
-Revelation 21:1

23. In the beginning…
Génesis 1-2
• Earth
• Garden
• Tree of the Knowledge of
Good and Evil
• Communion with God
• Perfection
Revelation 21-22
• New Earth
• Jardín
• Tree of Life
• Communion
with God
• Perection
Sin

24. In the beginning…
1. Everything has a created order.
2. God created humanity with the desire to
cultivate our horizontal relationships.
3. God's final creation was meant to cultivate
our vertical relationship with him.
4. God's goal in redemption is the restoration
of shalom.

25. In the beginning…
“Create in me a clean heart, O God, and
renew a right spirit within me."
-Psalms 51:10

26. In the beginning…
“Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new
creature; the old things passed away;
behold, new things have come."
-2 Corinthians 5:17