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El Shaddai and the Everlasting Covenant (Genesis 17:1-14) Pastor Sam Choi

Pastor Sam Choi preaches on Genesis 3:1-7.

Genesis 1:26-31 Pas. Ross Tenneson God Creates His Image Intro Family, it's so good to be back with you. For those of you who don't know me, I'm pastor Ross, one of the pastors here. I got the incredible privilege of having a sabbatical this summer, which means that my wife and me got a chance to rest from ministry. Thank you church, we are so grateful for that opportunity and look forward to sharing more with you about it another time and getting to know the newer people the Lord has led here. So happy to be in Genesis: building materials of the rest of Bible. These first chapters are thick! In this text alone: human origin, human dignity, human purpose, our relationship to nature, our relationship to work, and God's good design in gender. Does that sound like a lot to anyone? We decided to do two passes through this text: this week image of God, next male and female. Revelation Let's get back into our story. God has progressively been creating a good world day after day with the power of his word. He's made the sky and filled it with stars, he made the sea and filled it with sea creatures, and he's made the dry land and filled it with animals. At each stage, Moses writes, “and God saw that it was good.” Good for what? What purpose do all these things serve that God has made? That's what we get to hear this morning. After God spends five days making wonders out of nothing, on the sixth day he makes the most wonderful yet: Gen 1:26a Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Mysterious verse that has puzzled for thousands. Can't understand fully, but learn what we can. Let's start with a few observations: Verse doesn't say “and God said…and it was thus.” Rather, God has a discussion, “let us…” Couple possibilities: one is God is discussing with himself, and “us” is a hint of plurality in God (one God; three persons). Point not mysterious details; God's doing special thing.[1] Wonderful thing God does is create his image, another mystery. What is this image? Next phrase “after our likeness” describes image. It's an “image that is like us.”[2] So far, God as made things, “according to their kinds.” Not here; in his image. The word “image” means “statue” or “replica.”[3] God made something like statue to represent himself To complete, God made something that was like himself. Creation incomplete w/o God. From this image, we learn more about what God's purpose in the world is: If a king filled his kingdom with statues of self, goal would be to honor and glorify.[4] Purpose of humans: Pointers to God bring glory to God; Reps who bring God to world. In this way, humans are like a bridge between heaven and earth, pointing to God and representing God to world.[5] Image could be spiritual and intellectual capabilities;[6] focuses more on effect of image, our special role or purpose in creation. Now, let's look at the rest of this verse to see how humans fulfill this special purpose: Gen 1:26 b And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” “Dominion” means “to rule” or even “to tread down.”[7] God's representatives, humans, share God's job with him. Humans get to be co-rulers. As a result of being God's image (his representative), we get to share God's job. God made three realms with creatures, humans rule those realms and creatures. Humans bring glory to God by extending his rule over all the earth. God created an Earth and wants to extend his rule throughout that Earth through his images. What do we see so far? In beginning, God created Earth, sky, and sea, and “it was good,” that is, a good place for his people to rule. God creates people in his good place to bring himself glory. We should be in awe: God shares everything with his images, even his own rule over all. Are you in awe of what God created you to be? Are you in awe of the God who did this? We don't presently experience life like this, there's a shift; but this was God's first intention for humans when he created them, and this is a story God wants us to know. As we move into verse 27, we hear a lot of repetition. The Bible is meditation literature, which means it turns an idea over and over again. Let's keep meditating together: Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Is there any words in this verse that stick out? Create (3x). So far, 2x, now God created, God created, God created. Humans are crown of creation. While everything else God created humans for is wonderful, none is so great as humans (shouldn't be mysterious greatest commandment is love God and love people).[8] First introduction of “male and female.” Will focus in sermon next week b/c cultural moment. Few comments: lest there be confusion, both men and women in image of God.[9] In verse, 26, “man” functions as generic word for, “mankind.” God designed both male and female to work in harmony to display his creative ingenious and glory. Doesn't become the case when you marry (Marriage is uniting two images into one). Keep meditating in verse 28… Gen 1:28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” “Blessed” means “filled with strength” or “full”.[10] God did not create humans lacking, but full. God commissions his humans. They can't complete it w/o multiplying. (rule and cover glory).[11] God's original design: multiplying humans who cover the ground with his glory and rule.[12] Have you ever though the Christian life or following Jesus was boring? Do you see what God's heart and design is from the start? He beings by sending us on a world-wide adventure. Outside the garden, there's a wilderness to tame and bring in submission to him for his glory, and he sends his people. Whenever you follow the God of the Bible, you are answering the call to adventure.[13] Even today we have a commission to go with Jesus to the ends of the Earth to bring people of all nations under his good dominion and rule. Gen 1:29 And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. God does what he always does, he provides for what he commands. Humans have a mission to tame the world and bring it to submission and God helps them. Picture: Walking through an apple orchard. Is anyone excited to go to the apple orchard this fall? Red, juicy, delicious. Food is falling off the tree.[14] Toilsome work comes after the fall, not before. Ground rules over us now. God reminds us that is not how it was at first, and that is not how it will be at last when Jesus makes things new. Gen 1:30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. There's a unity, harmony and peace between humans and animals that we don't have today.[15] In the story after the fall, we will eat each other. For now, we share the same food. “And it was so.” 7x this phrase (or one similar) repeats. God has a perfect rule over his good world. Gen 1:31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. God takes a look. What does he see? “It was very good.” Except now with the addition of humans, it's no longer “good,” but “very good.” 7th time this phrase appears. If you are struggling to trust God b/c world is messed up, look here. This story has some other important implications for our lives I want to mention today: God doesn't create junk. Even after the fall (something I mentioned before where sin and death enter the world and screw up what God has made), Genesis is clear that humans continue to exist in image of God. 3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. It doesn't matter what you've done or what's been done to you, the image you bear is of the great king who made all there is. You have dignity, worth, and value that no one or nothing can take from you. If we are still in God's image after the fall, Bringing praise and honor to God is still the great purpose for which we exist. You exist for the greatest purpose there ever was or ever will be. Yeah, but what does that look like now that I don't live in the garden of Eden and things are so different? As we walk through the story, week by week, we will get a better sense of what these realities look like. For now, ask yourself: is God ruling over every part of you? Your words, how you work, how you parent, how you spend your time? How you use sex, money, and power? Are you imaging God in your family life, work life, private life, church life, and ever other manner you live? The greatest contradiction in the world is being made in the image of God, to rule all things with him, and being in rebellion against him. Sin and sin alone threatens the great purpose for which God made you. While we are still images of God, sin has distorted and vandalized that image. We're true images, but distorted. After the fall, there would actually be no hope for the restoration of God's image us were it not for one man. Jesus of Nazareth alone in all the story of the Bible was the only one who lived truly and fully as God's image. He wasn't just an image of God, he was God who became human. And since sin never mastered him, he's the first human who lived a fully human life. Through his life, death, and resurrection, he forgives the sins of all who follow him, and begins to restore the image in them that sin has distorted. If you don't know this Jesus yet, and want to (or just know about him), please come up front after. Church, as followers of Jesus, we have an incredible purpose together, we are gradually having the image of God restored in us and helping the same thing happen to others. Another way to say that is we are gradually becoming fully human together, that is, becoming what God designed us to be at the start. As we turn from the dehumanizing practices our flesh tends toward: pornography, drug addiction, over-consuming media or social media, gossip, or bitterness, we get to collectively start living more fully human lives of imaging God and serving people. We get to help each other become fully human as Jesus restores the image of God in us. [1] Stephen G. Dempster and D. A. Carson, Dominion and Dynasty: A Theology of the Hebrew Bible (Leicester, England : Downers Grove, Ill: IVP Academic, 2003), 57. [2] Anthony A. Hoekema, Created in God's Image, Reprint edition (Carlisle, U.K., Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1994), p. 13. [3] Ludwig Koehler et al., The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994–2000), 1028. [4] Pastor Sam Choi pointed this out. [5] I originally heart this idea from Tim Mackey on the Bible Project podcast. [6] Gordon J. Wenham, Genesis 1–15, vol. 1, Word Biblical Commentary (Dallas: Word, Incorporated, 1987), 30. [7] Ludwig Koehler et al., The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994–2000), 1190. [8] Stephen G. Dempster and D. A. Carson, Dominion and Dynasty: A Theology of the Hebrew Bible (Leicester, England : Downers Grove, Ill: IVP Academic, 2003), 57. [9] Biblical Studies Press, The NET Bible First Edition; Bible. English. NET Bible.; The NET Bible (Biblical Studies Press, 2005). [10] Ludwig Koehler et al., The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994–2000), 159. [11] Stephen G. Dempster and D. A. Carson, Dominion and Dynasty: A Theology of the Hebrew Bible (Leicester, England : Downers Grove, Ill: IVP Academic, 2003), 61. [12] Ibid, 62. [13] I originally heard this term from Jordan Peterson. [14] Originally heard this phrasing from Tim Mackey at the Bible project. [15] Stephen G. Dempster and D. A. Carson, Dominion and Dynasty: A Theology of the Hebrew Bible (Leicester, England : Downers Grove, Ill: IVP Academic, 2003).

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Pastor Sam Choi preached on Luke 22:47-62

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Pastor Sam Choi preaches from Isaiah 9:1-7.

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Pastor Sam Choi preaches from Luke 16:1-13.

Pastor Sam Choi preaches on Luke 6:46-49. What does it look like to build your spiritual house on the rock that is Christ?

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We had a powerful time together as Pastor Sam Choi of Worship As 1 shared at our February Gathering. He preached on Jesus restoring Peter from John 21. Jesus knew where to find Peter and how to walk with him through his pain, regrets, and failures. Listen and be encouraged!

A honest and encouraging conversation with one of our heroes and beloved friend, Pastor Sam Choi of Worship as 1. In this podcast we talk about all that God has been doing this past year, how to keep moving forward, and overcoming setbacks. http://worshipas1.com For more information about WA1's Dessert Banquet on 7/30, you can email Pastor Sam directly at samuelychoi@gmail.com.

Interview with Pastor Sam Choi from Worship As 1. Conversation about Hosanna Youth Revival, unity, & revival. http://worshipas1.com http://pursuitnyc.org