How Is Humanity to Relate to Our Creator? | Genesis 2:4-17

Series: Chaos to Covenant

Title: “How is Humanity to Relate to Our Creator?

Scripture: Genesis 2:4-17 NIV

Matthew 4:4; 19:4-5

Bottom line: Humanity relates to our Creator by finding wisdom and life on his terms instead of ours. Humble surrender.

INTRODUCTION

CONTEXT

SERMON OUTLINE

CONCLUSION

NOTES

QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER

OUTLINES

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

MAIN REFERENCES USED

INTRODUCTION

Perhaps the older of the two versions of creation. Certainly the more personal one. We don't just see God as the massive deity who spoke all creation into existence. We see him here as a personally involved, master craftsman. One who gets his hands dirty and blows the paint dry with his own breath.

The Lord God placed Adam in the garden in Eden with two unique trees.

One gives life abundant and eternal and is given to enjoy and partake.

One gives profoundly moral wisdom but is forbidden.

Let's look at Genesis and ask ourselves 2 questions as we do:

God, what are you saying to me today?

God, what do you want me to do about what you're saying to me today?

CONTEXT

Perhaps the older of the two versions of creation. Certainly the more personal one. We don't just see God as the massive deity who spoke all creation into existence. We see him here as a personally involved, master craftsman. One who gets his hands dirty and blows the paint dry with his own breath.

The Lord God placed Adam in the garden in Eden with two unique trees.

One gives life abundant and eternal and is given to enjoy and partake.

One gives profoundly moral wisdom but is forbidden.

SERMON

Who is God?

What has he done?

Who am I?

What do I get to do?

How?

Sovereign Creator

God has created me in his image on purpose for a purpose.

Someone God personally crafted in his image & breathed life into for his glory & creation's good.

Work & tend his garden right where he placed me for the privilege & blessing that it is.

Work for/serve my Lord God as a priestly-servant in this world from a rhythm & posture of rest where he has sovereignly put/placed me.

YHWH or Lord as in personal, relatable God whose authority & rule I am under.

God placed/put me where I am at rest.

A priestly-servant & protector in the Lord God's world.

I do his priestly-servant work in the garden of this world on his behalf & as his image bearer.

I do his priestly-servant work where I live, work, learn & play on his behalf & as his image bearer. I do it by representing people to God & God to people.

Abundant Provider

Placed me at rest in the middle of abundant resources where I live, work, learn & play.

A priestly-servant & protector fully resourced for the Lord God's work where I live, work, learn & play.

Leverage the Lord God's infinite resources to love God & love people by multiplying image bearers for his glory & our good.

Being a bright, salty image-bearer who's out to nurture the garden of this world like a priestly-servant would: with unconditional love.

Sovereign Wisdom

Given us sovereign wisdom in the form of his word. Also, the freedom to rebel against him.

His beloved; A rebellious former servant with a badly corrupted image of God who's forsaken his priestly-servant role in this world by believing a lie that God cannot be trusted.

Repent & believe that God wants me back & has made a way for me to become his shining & salty image-bearer again.

Repent of my sins against my sovereign creator & believe that he's fully trustworthy as seen in his love shown t