Genesis 2 7 9 Formed man Planted garden

Genesis 2: 7 -9 Formed man Planted garden – in the middle… Genesis 2: 15 -18 Man in garden Command Genesis 3 Did God really say… You will surely not die You will be like God

Genesis 5 Adam – 930 years Seth – 912 Enosh – 905 Methusaleh – 969 Lamech - 777 Genesis 9 Noah - 950

Genesis 11 Shem – 500 Eber – 430 Peleg - 209 Genesis 25 Abraham - 175 Genesis 15: 16 4 generations Exodus 12: 40 430 years

The length of our days is seventy years — or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away. Psalm 90: 10

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned… Romans 5: 12

Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. Psalm 51: 5

The creation waits… For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice… …creation in bondage to decay… …the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth… Romans 8: 19 -22

RECONCILED

RECONCILED Jacob & Esau Two sinners Weaker tries to appease stronger Enemies reconciled by mutual agreement Genesis 32, 33

RECONCILED Abraham & his body – good as dead Righteousness God credited it to Abraham God will credit it to us HOW? Romans 4: 18 -25

RECONCILED We were powerless – good as dead We were sinners We were enemies RECONCILED HOW? “through” Romans 5: 1 -11

RECONCILED by Him all things were created …reconcile to Himself all things Once you were enemies, but now… RECONCILED HOW? “through” Colossians 1: 15 -23

RECONCILED In Christ – a new creation …reconciled us (and the world) to Himself We are messengers of reconciliation RECONCILED HOW? “through” II Corinthians 5: 10 -21

RECONCILED Not counting men’s sins against them Made Him who had NO sin to BE sin for us We become the righteousness of God Holy HOW? Without blemish Free from accusation II Corinthians 5: 10 -21

Isaiah 29: 15 -16 Isaiah 45: 9