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Creation & Blessing: An Expositional Study of the Book of Genesis

Wednesday, July 27, 2011Handout #4

Purpose of the BookTo reveal how the sin of man is met by the intervention and redemption of God.

III. God culminated creation with the blessing of holiness (2:1-3)

Summary MessageWith the world in its infancy God created the first man with the ________ to serve Him and the _____________ to keep His commandments.

Summary MessageGod placed the man in a _______environment with every provision and ___________him with a ____________partner in the service of God.

I. Humans are created with the capacity to serve

God. (Genesis 2:5-7)

Before God created man there was no ____and no ______ to till the earth.

A. The Setting for the Creation of Human life

(Genesis 2:5-6)God _________His world for the creation of human life with a mist to water the earth

B. The Creation of Human life (Genesis 2:7a)1. God ________ man from the _______of the earth. Man will be forever bound to the dust from which he was made.

B. The Creation of Human life

(Genesis 2:7b)

2. God _________ into man the breath of life

B. The Creation of Human life

(Genesis 2:7c)

3. Man became a ________ soul.

B. The Creation of Human life (Genesis 2:7)

1. God _________ man from the dust of the earth. Man will be forever bound to the dust from which he was made.

II. Humans are given the ___________and the

_____________ to keep God’s Commandments.

(Genesis 2:8-17)

A. God makes abundant provisions for humans

(Genesis 2:8-14)1. God __________ the

Garden of Eden and placed man in it (Genesis 2:8)

A. God makes abundant provisions for humans

(Genesis 2:8-14)2. God _________

trees in the garden(Genesis 2:9)

The Key LessonGod, in His _________ and in His ________, creates things in His world and then _______us from ___________ them.

A. God makes abundant provisions for humans

(Genesis 2:8-14)3. God __________ a

river that flowed out of the garden(Genesis 2:10-14)

B. God commands service and obedience

(Genesis 2:15-17)1. God intended for man to have a _________ life of ______ and _________. (Genesis 2:15a)

B. God commands service and obedience

(Genesis 2:15-17)2. God intended for man to ________ and _______ Him(Genesis 2:15b)

B. God commands service and obedience

(Genesis 2:15-17)3. With abundant _________ and spiritual _________ to serve Him, God expected man to live _________ in His service. (Genesis 2:16-17)

III. God provides man with a _________ to help

in serving Him and keeping His

commandments (Genesis 2:18-25)

A. God observed the man’s incompleteness

(Genesis 2:18-20)1. God makes the striking __________ that man is not yet as He ________for him to be. (Genesis 2:18a)

A. God observed the man’s incompleteness

(Genesis 2:18-20)2. God makes the equally striking ________ that He would ________ what He had left undone. (Genesis 2:18b)

A. God observed the man’s incompleteness

(Genesis 2:18-20)3. God does a _________ unrelated act by having the man give ______ to the all the animals. (Genesis 2:18b)

The Key LessonGod wanted the man to be ________ of his _____________.

B. God deals with the man’s incompleteness

(Genesis 2:21-25)1. God __________ the woman from one of the ______of the man and _________ her to the man . (Genesis 2:21-22)

B. God deals with the man’s incompleteness

(Genesis 2:21-25)

2. The man _________ to God’s presentation of the woman (Genesis 2:23)

B. God deals with the man’s incompleteness

(Genesis 2:21-25)

3. God lays the ___________ for the relationship of marriage (Genesis 2:24-25)

The Key LessonsGod’s divine plan for marriage calls for a ______to _______the strong bonds of his family in preparation for a ____________ of his relationships.

The Key LessonsGod’s divine plan for marriage calls for one____and one ________ to be joined in a _________, ____ _________ relationship.

The Key LessonsGod’s divine plan for marriage calls for one____and one _______ to live their live together with complete _______, free of the fear of ___________.

The Main PointGod created man and woman with the _________ _________to: 1) serve him in the ________of community, and 2) ______ the bounty of His creation