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So in the first chapter of the book of Genesis,

we learned that God created the heavens and the earth

in six days and rested on the seventh. Each day he created something

new, light, sky, the waters, dry land and vegetation, the sun and the moon, and the stars to mark

the day, the month, and the year, fish and birds, reptiles, and land animals. Then God said, let us make man in our

image after our likeness. He created man in his own image. In the image of God, he created

him, male and female, he created them. This opening chapter of Genesis is so familiar to us that as James

Cougall has observed, we scarcely see the powerful assertion underlying it. Our world is

fundamentally God's world. Everything in it, including ourselves, was made by him. The book of

Genesis sets out a whole way of

perceiving this world, giving us a divinely revealed God's eye perspective and a

whole way of coming to know God and of discovering our own place in the good

world that he created. This morning I hope to provide three very brief introductions.

First, to Old Testament teaching on creation.

Second, to the personal sin of Adam narrated in Genesis 3.

And third, to some of the Old Testament background to the fall of humanity,

that wound in our nature that's described

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