Genesis 1:15, 26–28 | The God of Creation

Preacher: Joel Fair
Scripture: Genesis 1:15, 26–28

Isaiah 63:9 (ESV)
9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

Galatians 3:13 (ESV)
13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—

A. W. Tozer
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

John 1:1–3 (ESV)
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Colossians 1:15–17 (ESV)
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

John M. Frame Salvation Belongs to the Lord
What does it mean to say that God made us in his image? First of all, we should not try to identify the image with something in us, maybe intellect, emotions, or will. The Bible doesn’t say that there is an image of God in man; rather, it says that man is the image of God. We ourselves—all that we are—are the image of God. Everything in us—intellect, emotions, will, even body—reflects God in some way. Think of standing in front of a mirror. The image reflects everything you present to the mirror, and everything in the image represents something in you. Of course, the mirror only reflects part of you, the front part and the outside, not the inside. But we image God far more profoundly: we reflect everything in God, and everything in us reflects God in some way.

2 Corinthians 5:20 (ESV)
20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

Romans 8:16–17 (ESV)
16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

Genesis 8:1 (ESV)
1 But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.

Sidney Greidanus From Chaos to Cosmos
How would God respond to this new rebellion? God had promised never again to send a flood that would destroy all flesh (Gen. 9:15). Yet, for the sake of his creation, God could not let humankind get away with their plan of relying on their ingenuity and unity for survival. The Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and they're confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city” (11:6–8). Wenham states that this is “the decisive divine intervention that reverses the tide of human history.