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Day and ight, arth an Sa Selected Scripture from Genesis 1

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Then God said, “Let there be

light”; and there was light. God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night.

So the evening and the morning were the first day.

God made the firmament and divided the waters under the firmament from

the waters above the firmament; and it was so. And God called the firmament

Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.

Then God said, “Let the waters be gathered together into one place, and let the

dry land appear”; and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering

of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good.

Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the

herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit”;

and it was so. So the evening and the morning were

the third day.

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Sun and Mn, Birds and BatThen God said, “Let there be lights in the heavens to divide the day from the

night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years.” Then God

made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to

rule the night. He made the stars also. So the evening and the morning were thefourth day.

Then God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds

fly above the earth.” So God created great sea creatures and every living thing

that moves, and every winged bird. And God saw that it was good. And God

blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas,

and let birds multiply on the earth.” So the evening and the morning were thefifth day.

Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature: cattle and

creeping thing and beast of the earth”; and it was so. And God

saw that it was good.

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F ROM B I LLY GR AH AM

Look again at that first sentence in the Bible: “In the beginningGod created the heavens and the earth.” Can you even imagine the

power it took to create the billions of stars we are still discovering

with telescopes? Can you even begin to understand the wisdom it

took to give order to the whole creation—from the smallest particle

to the swirling galaxies of outer space?

With God nothing is impossible. No task is too tough, no

problem is too difficult for the Creator of the universe.

Don’t ever underestimate God’s power.

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Adam and Ev Selected Scripture from Genesis 1–2

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to

Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,

over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and

over every creeping thing on the earth.” So God created man in

His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and

female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said tothem, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have

dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over

every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it

was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

And on the seventh day God ended His work, and He restedon the seventh day from all His work. Then God blessed the

seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all

His work.


Do you know why God made you? It is the greatest

discovery you will ever make: you were created to know

God and to be His friend forever.

We were not made for ourselves; we were made for

God. We are not here by accident; we are here because

God put us here—and He put us here so we could know

Him and love Him. God wants you to be His friend!

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Th irst Sin Selected Scripture from Genesis 2–3

God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. [He

said,] “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the

knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat.”

When Eve came to the garden, the serpent told her that they should not believe what God

said. So Eve disobeyed God by eating the fruit; then Adam did the same—and their lives

changed forever. Ashamed, they hid from God. But He went to talk to them.“Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?”

“The woman whom You gave to be with me, she

gave me of the tree, and I ate.”

God said to the woman,

“What is this you have done?”

“The serpent deceivedme, and I ate.”

God made them clothes

and sent them out of Eden.

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Adam and Eve weren’t robots. They were free to choose to love God but alsofree to choose not to love Him. If they had not been free, then their “love” for

God wouldn’t have been love at all, because we only truly love someone when

we freely choose to love them. From their first moment on earth, they chose

to love God.

But then something went terribly wrong. Adam and Eve rebelled against

God. They did what they wanted to do, not what God wanted them to do.

What happened in Eden happens to us every day. We all are guilty of sin

because we all choose our own way instead of God’s way. But when we admit

this to God and confess our sins, we take the first step toward choosing His

way—the best way.

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Noah and d’s Rainbw Prmi Selected Scripture from Genesis 6–9

All the people on earth had forgotten about God and had become evil. But one man still

followed God. His name was Noah. God told Noah to build an ark, and He gave Noah very

specific building plans. God told Noah about a great flood to come and a great promise.

So God said to Noah, “I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall go into

the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

“And of every living thing you shall bring two into the ark; they shall be male and

female. And you shall take for yourself food for you and for them.”

Noah did according to all that God commanded him.

Then the Lord said to Noah, “Come into the ark,

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you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before

Me. For after seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and

forty nights, and I will destroy all living things that I have made.”

It came to pass after seven days that the waters of

the flood were on the earth. All the fountains

of the great deep were broken up,

and the windows of heaven

were opened.

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Noah and Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and

Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons entered the

ark—they and every beast and every bird. They went

into the ark to Noah, two by two, male and female;

and the Lord shut him in.

The flood was

on the earth forty

days. The waters

increased andlifted up the

ark, and it rose

high above

the earth.

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Can you imagine what the people thought when Noah began

chopping down trees and building an enormous ark on dry land,

far from any ocean? Noah knew nothing about sailing the high

seas, and he certainly was at a loss as to how to build a boat, even

with God’s detailed instr uctions. But he believed God when He

said it would rain and the land would flood, and Noah faithfully

carried out God’s command.

Building a huge boat on dry land made no sense to Noah’s

human understanding. But when he obeyed God, Noah showed

that he trusted God, and God was pleased. Because of Noah’s

faith and obedience, God called Noah righteous and saved Noah,his family, and the animals.

Let us be as faithful as Noah was in the things God has called

us to do!

[God] destroyed all living things on the face of the

ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of

the air. Only Noah and those who were with him in the

ark remained alive. And the waters prevailed on the earth

one hundred and fifty days.

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Then God remembered Noah and made a wind to pass

over the earth, and the waters subsided. The fountains of the

deep and the windows of heaven were also stopped, and the

rain from heaven was restrained.

At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of

the ark. He sent out a dove to see if the waters had recededfrom the ground. But the dove found no resting place, and

she returned into the ark. He waited yet another seven days,

and again he sent the dove out. Then the dove came to him

in the evening, and a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her

mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had receded.

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Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons, saying:

“As for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you

and with your descendants after you: Never again shall

all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; neveragain shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.

“I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be the

sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.”

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Just imagine being aboard the ark in heavy rain for

forty days, riding the gigantic waves for months before

feeling the boat rest on dry land. Over the course of a

year or more, Noah’s family of eight experienced the

faithfulness of God’s protection, watched what God said

would happen really happen, and then saw the sign of

God’s promise—a rainbow—that meant the earth wouldnever again be destroyed by water.

Every time you see a rainbow, think about Noah’s

story and praise God for His power and goodness!

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