013 - He Remembers We Are But Dust (Genesis Series)

Now, before I read the text, I wanna share this quote on the Trinity.

This is from the book Jesus and the Undoing of Adam by C. Baxter Kruger.

He writes this, quote, "When Christianity says God, it says relationship.

It says self-giving love expressing itself in boundless fellowship and joyous unity.

To the followers of Jesus, God is not lonely, he's not sad, he's not bored, or he is not in need.

When Christianity says God, it says Father, Son, and Spirit existing in a relationship of delight and self-giving love, a relationship that is so true, so rich, and so real and good that the only way we can speak of it is to say that God is three, yet utterly one.

For while the Father, Son, and Spirit remain eternally distinct, their love for one another is so pure and their fellowship is so deep that any descriptive word short of one betrays the sheer reality of their unity.

This Trinitarian relationship of God, this abounding fellowship of God, this unspeakable unity of love," listen to this, "this is the womb of the universe and humanity within it." End quote.

Friend, that's where you and I come from, the circle of eternal love between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Our main passage for today is Genesis 1:26-28.

Now, I'm also gonna read from chapter 2 verse 7 and verse 16 through 17.

It's the story of the creation of man.

Genesis 1:26 says this: "Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image according to our likeness.

Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.' So God created man in his own image.

In the image of God he created him.

Male and female, he created them.

Then God blessed them, and God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply.

Fill the earth.

Subdue it.

Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.'" Chapter 2 verse 7: "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being." Now chapter 2 verse 17: "And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, 'Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.'" Now we're gonna look at four different things that are going on in this passage, that has a lot of n- different things going on in this passage.

We're gonna look at four of them.

First, image and dominion.

Be fruitful and multiply.

God as the divine potter.

And the tree of knowledge.