Big Thought: As God created the cosmos with , He is now pursuing the restoration of that .
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1. God is a God of .
1 Corinthians 14:33, 40 (ESV) – For God is not a God of confusion but of peace… all things should be done decently and in order.
a. What is order?
Order implies a neat and logical organization of items, tasks, or people.
b. He created in an orderly .
Psalms 104:19 (ESV) – He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows its time for setting.
c. Living are orderly.
d. God is a God of order within His own .
e. God created for the purpose of order.
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2. The Word brings order out of .
2 Corinthians 5:16a (ESV) – From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh.
3. The Word is what sin has .
John 1:1-4, 14 (ESV) – In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it… And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen His glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
2 Corinthians 5:17a (ESV) – Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.
1 Peter 2:9 (ESV) – But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
Ephesians 2:1-7 (ESV) – And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ— by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Matthew 5:14-16 (ESV) – You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let you light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
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