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Old Testament Vistas

Day 6 of

Creation

Animals – Gen 1:24-25And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

Human Beings – Gen 1:26-28

Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

Conclusion – Gen 1:29-31Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so. God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

Theme of Day 6

Seen best in Psalm 8

People are the apex of creation

• Literary crescendo builds to climax

• Literary pattern changesDays 1-5 & Animals

Day 6 Humankind

Let there be Let us makeAccording to kinds

In our image, likeness

Fill the earth Rule the earth

We are not a mistake• Not a Darwinian accident• Not opposing thumbs & abstract

thought• Intentionally created

• Crowning point of God's creation• In God's image & likeness• More like God than anything else

"Us"

There's more to God than meets

the eye!

Trinity (Tri-unity)• God the Father• God the Son• God the Spirit

Image of God

How can visible man resemble the invisible

God?

"Likeness"• Similar, but not the same• Many facets to the image of

God• We alone have the image

Applications

So I'm made in the image

of God, what's the big deal?

1. Human Dignity• World's idea of dignity is

distorted• No dignity apart from God

2. Spiritual Growth• Image marred by sin, but not

lost• Our spiritual transformation• 2 Cor 3:18 TNIV And we all, who

with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

Metamorphosis• Jesus' transfiguration (Mat

17:2)• Our transformation (Rom 12:

2)• God transforming us (2 Cor

3:18)• The end result (1 Jn 3:2)

The Great Stone Face• Ernest• Mr. Gathergold• Gen.

Battleblast• Old Stony Phiz• Great Stone

Face

Someday, we'll be like him!

1Jn 3:2 NLT Dear friends, we are already God's children, but He has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He really is.

Give God that

which bears his

image