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Good evening.
•We are continuing our study of the Baptist Catechism.
•Specifically, we are using the edition found in the white
catechism booklets that we give away here at the
church.
•Tonight we are going to consider Question 14.
•And that question is: “How did God create man?”
What does it mean to be a human being?
•What is it that makes us different from other creatures?
•Why are we different from other creatures?
•I’m sure you’ve noticed that there are some radical
differences between you and a dog or cat or fish.
•Why is that the case?
•Why is it that you can think, reason, have a sense of
morality, have desires beyond food and drink, have an
eternal soul, have dominion over the world, and all the
other things that are unique about us?
•Simply put, it’s all because we have been made in the
Image of God.
•To be a human being is to be creature made in the
Image of God.
And that is what our catechism question
this evening will be dealing with.
•Question 13 talked about God’s work of creation.
And
now in Question 14 we move to God’s highest work of
creation: The creation of man.
•And the big thing that makes man so glorious, so high,
so majestic, so unique, is that we are the only creatures
made in God’s Image.
•So this question isn’t dealing so much with the
literal “how” of our physical creation.
Rather, it is dealing
with how God made man different from all other things.
I hope to highlight some basic truths to
you this evening.
•Most everything will be by way of reminder.
It’ll be
things that you probably already know or have already
thought about to some extent.
•But I hope that thinking on the creation of man will
cause you to consider how far we’ve fallen from that
original state.
•And, from there, that your thoughts may be directed to
how valuable and glorious our Lord Jesus Christ is.
May God use this sermon to bless us, and
remind us that we were made by Him and
for Him.
•May God use this sermon to remind us that we have
fallen from our original state of perfection.
•And may God use this sermon to remind us of our
glorious Redeemer, Jesus Christ.
•May God bless the preaching of His Word.
Now, with that said, I will pray.
•And then we will consider our question for the
evening.
(PRAY)
Our Heavenly Father,
We thank you for this Sabbath day.
And we
thank you for another opportunity to gather
together as your People to feast on your Word.
We ask now that you would bless the preacher
and use Him as your mouthpiece to declare your
truth.
And we ask that you bless the hearers.
Cause us
to hear you voice and heed and obey and believe
it.
Speak to us by your Spirit working alongside the
Word.
And change us.
Cause us to love you more.
Cause us to value Christ more.
Cause us to see
ourselves rightly.
Sanctify us by your truth.
Your Word is truth.
We ask these things in Jesus’ Name and for His
sake.
Amen.
Our Question this evening.
I ask that you
would read the answer with me.
Q.
How did God create man?
A. God created man, male and female, after His own
image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with
dominion over the creatures.
•(Let’s do that again.)
1.)
As always, let’s go through our answer
phrase-by-phrase.
•And the first thing I’d like to point out is that our
catechism, both in the question and answer, affirms that
God created man.
•This almost goes without saying.
God created all
things.
And so God created man.
God created mankind,
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