October 29, 2005 pm The Master Creator Psalm 139:13-16
By Ronald E.
George Jr. at the Fayetteville Baptist Church
My 4-year-old daughter shared with me what she had recently "learned" in Sunday school. "You know what, Mom?" she said excitedly. "God created man; then he took the 'brain' from man and made woman!" -- Laurie Conger, Ukiah, CA. "Heart to Heart," Today's Christian Woman.
One day, my son Jonathan came home from preschool with a picture of Adam and Eve he had colored. He began to tell me the story of creation, and it seemed as though he had his facts down pretty well. "Adam and Eve disobeyed God because they ate the fruit God told them not to eat," he explained. Impressed by how much he knew, I pointed to the picture and asked, "What's this place called?" Jonathan replied earnestly, "The Garden of Eating." -- Laura Groves, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Today's Christian Woman, "Heart to Heart."
Purpose of this message is
to show that God is our creator who should be recognized as our savior.
Have you recognized Him in your life?
Will you let Him recreate you in the image of His Son?
Scripture Text: Psalm 139:13 (NIV) For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, 16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
Hebrews 11:3 By
faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that
what is seen was not made out of what was visible. [1]
Romans 1:19 since
what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to
them. 20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his
eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from
what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
2. God has created us. What was the image of God in humankind before the fall? To see the image God created in the beginning we have Jesus as our supreme example of the original Adam.
Genesis 1:26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Some of you remember a standard old movie plot, where an actress or dancer would receive a dozen roses after her performance. The card is signed, "Secret Admirer." The tension of the plot lay in discovering who the secret admirer was.
Finally, he reveals himself, they go out for dinner, fall in love, get married and, in the good old days, live happily ever after.
From the beginning, we have been hungry to know, "Who is this 'Secret Admirer,' this God who made me?" There was a heart cry from man, and God revealed who he is and what he is like by sending his son.
Jesus said, "No one knows the Son except the Father. No one knows the Father except the Son. No one knows the Son except the Father reveals him to him." So how do we know God? We know God because of Jesus. -- Jim Henry, "If Jesus had Never Been Born," Preaching Today, Tape No. 159.
3. God has
created us for his pleasure.
Rev. 4:11 “You
are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you
created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.”[2]
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful, you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: He makes saints out of sinners. -- Soren Kierkegaard, Leadership, Vol. 8, no. 4.
4. He
recreates us in the image of His Son.
Col. 1:15
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16
For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and
invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were
created by him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things
hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the
beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might
have the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in
him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on
earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
5. God gave existence, meaning, and purpose to the nothing that He called His creation. Without God we have little or no meaning. Certainly we would have to say that without God we have no hope. God has a purpose and a meaning for you.
Jer. 29:11 For I know the plans I have for
you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you,
plans to give you hope and a future.
Invitation: Would
you recognize Him as your creator? Would you allow Him to recreate you. After you have been recreated, would you allow Him to lead
you to be who He would want to make you. Would
you accept His plan for your life? Would
you follow Him? Would you become
baptized? Would you allow Him to be
your Lord and your God?