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Creation and Redepemtion |
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| What as revealed concerning God in the first verse of the Bible? |
| "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Genesis 1:1 |
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| Through whom did God work in creating all things? |
| "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made." John 1:1-3 |
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| Through whom is redemption wrought? |
| "But God commendeth his love towards us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him." Romans 5:8,9 |
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| What Scripture plainly states that it is creative power which transforms the believer? |
| "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." Ephesians 2:10 |
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| What prayer of David shows that he regarded redemption as a creative work? |
"Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me."
Psalm 51:10 |
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| Who keeps the heavnely bodies in their places? |
| "to whom then will ye liken to me, or shall i be equal? saith the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, that he is strong in power; not one faileth." Isaiah 40:25,26 |
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| What can the same Holy One do for the believer? |
"Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen." Jude 24, 25.
"That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation int he knowledge of him: the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand int he heavenly places." Ephesians 1:17-20 |
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| Who is declared to be the source of power to the weak? |
| "Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; andto them that have no might he increaseth strength." Isaiah 40:28,29 |
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| Of what great work is the Sabbath both a memorial and a sign? |
| "Remembe the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, thy maidservnat, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested on the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it." Exodus 20:8-11. "it is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed." Exodus 31:17 |
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| Insasmuch as creation and redemption are both wrought by the same creative power, of what bedise the orginal creation was the Sabbath given to be a sign? |
| "Moreover also I gave them my sabbath, to be a sign betwen me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them." Ezekiel 20:12 |
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| Return to Sin; It's Origin, Results, and Remedy |
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