The Book of Genesis is an ancient book that gets down to some of the most foundational questions we have.

We get answers to the big Y questions and the-for questions that have plagued us for centuries.

Join us today as Tim Keller preaches from the passage of Genesis. What we're doing is we're looking at the early chapters of

Genesis and we've saw in these first two chapters that we're created for

and the first week we looked at the fact that we're created for worship and then the

second week we saw that we're created for stewardship and tonight we see that we're

created for relationship and I'm going to

read you the passage first of all the famous place where we're created in

Genesis 1 versus 26 to 27, and then the corresponding passage later on in the chapter 2,

verses 18 to 25.

Then God said, let us make man in our image in our likeness and let them rule over the

fish of the sea and the birds of the air over the livestock over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground.

So God made man in his own image.

In the image of God he created him, male and female he created them. The Lord God said it is not good for the man to be

alone. I will make a helper suitable for Him. Now the Lord God had formed out of the

ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air.

He brought them to the man to see what he would name them,

and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air, and all the beasts of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep and while he was sleeping he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh.

And then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man and brought her to the man.

And the man and brought her to the man. And the man said,

this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman

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