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Self and Created Order 2of 2

Self and Created Order 2of 2. Four Basic Relationships 9 of 10. Introduction.

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Self and Created Order 2of 2

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  1. Self and Created Order 2of 2 Four Basic Relationships 9 of 10

  2. Introduction • “God’s creation was for definite purposes. Humans were intended to know, love, and obey God. They were to live in harmony with others…And they were certainly placed upon earth to exercise dominion over the rest of creation. But these relationships and this function presuppose something else. We are most fully human when we are active in these relationships and perform this function, for we are the fulfilling our telos, God’s purpose for us.”—Millard Erickson

  3. Purpose of This Study: • To understand ourselves. • To understand how we are to function. • To deepen our Christian walk and witness. • To help others most effectively come to Christ. • To help struggling Christians become stronger through identity of self.

  4. Take-Home Truth • Relation with creation is key to human meaning.

  5. Relation with creation is key to human meaning. • Creation’s care is a concern of God. • Creation’s redemption is tied to ours. • Creation visualizes the Gospel to us.

  6. Creation’s care is a concern of God. • Genesis 2.15, “The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.”

  7. Deuteronomy 20.19-20, “When you besiege a city for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them. You may eat from them, but you shall not cut them down. Are the trees in the field human, that they should be besieged by you? Only the trees that you know are not for food you may destroy and cut down, that you may build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.”

  8. Laws concerning resting the land. • Psalm 8

  9. Application • Creation’s care is a concern of God: • God has stated straight-forth and in implication that He is deeply concerned about His creation and how we relate to it. We ought to, therefore, consider our relation with creation as a divine command.

  10. Creation’s redemption is tied to ours. • Romans 8.18-23, “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free form its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God…”

  11. “…For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the bangs of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.”

  12. II Peter 3.12-13, “waiting for and hastening the coming day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! But according to His promise we are awaiting the new heavens and the new earth in which righteousness dwells.”

  13. Revelation 20-21

  14. Application • Creation’s redemption is tied to ours: • Creation is cursed because of us, but creation will also be redeemed as we are. This is both a witnessing tool, and testament to God’s greatness.

  15. Creation visualizes the Gospel to us. • Romans 1.19-20, “For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For His invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.”

  16. Consider the seasons • The fact that life on this planet is sustainable.

  17. Application • Creation visualizes the Gospel to us: • Now armed with Special Revelation, we can look at General revelation and see the overwhelming evidence of the Gospel in creation, literature, and plethora of other fields subject to natural revelation. We can use these to show others the Gospel and explain the Gospel.

  18. Conclusion • “It is not only possible for us to be rational and moral and to have functioning relationships, but we need to function rationally and morally and properly in the framework of the four basic relationships. Failure in any of these areas means loss…It is only when we allow special divine revelation to inform us about human design and its implications that we can develop an adequate understanding of human need and how to effectively minister to those needs.”—F. Leroy Forlines

  19. “Our relationship with the material universe is more than a means of survival. It is for our pleasure and enjoyment…It is an opportunity to put our creative minds to work…When done for the glory of God, all that we do is a divine service.”—F. Leroy Forlines

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