The Magnificence of Man

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The summit is even the crescendo of the creation of God is man and woman created in the image of God. When God formed the earth. He then fill the earth and made it a very special place for the ultimate of his creation. The man and the woman that he placed in the garden and all the men and the women since time began that have been fashioned by the handiwork of God himself. We have been made by him and this planet is an amazing planet and in the universe that God has created. He has placed us here for purpose December 24, 1968 mankind Apollo 8 circled the moon in a lunar orbit for the first time.

It was incredible. We could've never imagined that man in exploring outer space would 1 Day Cir. the moon and even ultimately, the next year walk on the moon but something incredible happened. As these astronauts on Apollo 8 look back at the earth, and they saw in from outer space, a perspective that no human being ever seen when they saw something unique happened and I got my going home and God bless all of you on the good or from outer space man giving God the glory for his creation a few years previous to 1968. Actually, the late 50s, a few Russian cosmonauts went up in a little tin can. They called a space craft and they came back and reported and stated very arrogantly we have searched the heavens and there is no God.

I often thought, if they just stepped out of that space School, they would've seen God face to face.

But these men who orbited the moon and look back and solve your glory to God, man has been given this incredible capacity to worship God even from outer space man is unique from all the animals we are not just a higher animal naked eight higher primates, but according to the book of Genesis, God created man unique and distinct from all the animals he made us everyone now we're being told something different today. Of course that that men and women are just like the animals are higher than the animals, but descended from the animals.

God created the man, not from the animals, but man, unique and distinct from the animals and in Genesis chapter 1 we read the account. Verse 26 says let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle and over all the earth, and overall creeping thing that creeps on the earth. So God created man in his own image in the image of God he created him male and female he created them. Then God blessed them, and God said, be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.

Look at verse 31 then God saw everything that he had made, and indeed it was say it very good, very good, so the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Think with me about the magnificence of man, magnificent in his physical being.

We are physical marvelous a miracle crafted created by the hand of God, not only in the original design has God created Adam and Eve, but now the process of birth as every child is a creation of God. Both the born and the unborn significant and sacred in the heart and mind of God, a physical masterpiece.

139 says that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. The Bible says thy hands have made me and fashioned me all God. Paul the apostle said, what do you not know that your body is the temple of the holy spirit Thomas Carlisle said he never touches the body of a man touches heaven some miracle Psalm 139, as I quoted earlier, fearfully and wonderfully made, says in verse 15 evening describing the process by which a child comes in the world.

My substance was not hidden from the even in the womb and the word substance in the Hebrew language is a is a word in the root word means embryo in the creation of an embryo. There is the miracle of life. When I was a young pastor of an Oklahoma with a very difficult delivery. One of the ladies in our church. Her life was at risk.

The baby was at risk and yet did. It was a safe delivery and the woman was fine and the baby was beautiful and after it was over I was sitting down having a cup of coffee with Dr. Van Howard in our church who delivered that baby and I said Doc I said that birth was a miracle. He looked at me and taught the young preacher lesson.

He said preacher every birth is a miracle. I said you got me. He was right.

Every birth is a miracle by the hand of God, a physical masterpiece you think about even a human cell and I don't have time today to talk about some of the physical properties of which we've been made, but just mentioned a cell trillions of cells in the human body. One drop of blood just a pinprick of blood contains 5 million living cell.

These cells that comprise that the system man and the function of the human body and in every cell has a functioning. Every cell is constantly creating and being re-created and when the cells all in place.

The genetic code is all in place. And yet, as a little child, a baby is born little child begins to grow up, who tells a boy when a boy becomes a man to stop growing hard girl when a girl moves from being just a little girl to a teenager to a young woman who tells us to stop growing creation of God's handiwork of God and yet while we stop growing. In one sense and another, since we never stop growing. The process of creation, building up and breaking down the cellular system and so forth is always happening you're being built up in torn down and rebuilt again, and yet it never shuts down until that time of death come. Some of the members of the human Marvel the physical body are amazing. The high you know the the amazing insects.

Some insects have 20 eyes and get an inset can't do what human I can do and that is to see a star billions of miles away, even trillions of miles away, and yet the human eye can see it. The lid is dry on the outside and yet went on the inside there's a duck to take away the water and and to allow the water to flow that I can blare the I can sparkle the I can drop with disappointment of the Aiken being with the joy of love. Maybe I God made the thing about the ear, outer ear in her ear a so-called eardrum that needs on the tympanic membrane at a rate capable of 73,000 vibrations per second and Windows vibrations touch the nerve endings are capable of setting all 1500 notes in the auditory nerve that goes in the main sink, laying the complexity and diversity in the design of the human body.

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The magnificence of man the book of Ephesians is relentless in its message of reconciliation unity and the new life you have in Christ. In fact, it's the perfect book to read. This time of year because each of these themes comes alive in the Christmas story. We'd love to help you dive into this uplifting book of the Bible by sending the beautifully designed Ephesians ENC Scripture Journal the Ephesians ESP Scripture Journal is our thanks for your gift today so call now to request a copy: 800-795-4627 1-800-795-4627.

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And don't forget to visit Jack Graham.org where you can shop our E store. Give a gift online or sign up for Dr. Graham's free daily email devotional our website again is Jack Graham.Margie now it's back to today's message. The magnificence of man not only the larval magnificence of our physical being and our physical capacity, but the larval of a person's mental capacity God has given us a mind with which to grow and develop. No animals can betray but only human beings can be taught never tried to teach astronomy to an elephant or theology to a doll. You can train a dog or an animal. But you can only teach a person who has the ability to reason and to ration those thoughts, but the fact is that we have this capacity, there's the power of creativity were made in the image of God, and God the Creator has given us this ability and this desire to create to design things to develop thing to growth it to expand our minds to explore the universe God gave man a love for music. So therefore the ability not only to love music, but to write God gave us a capacity to enjoy adventure in the right stories that allow for our there's a desire the human heart for significance and therefore this desire to create the build to grow to do something with our lives.

God put that in our hearts. The power of creativity.

There is also the power of rationality that animals don't have the power to reason, only men and women have the power to reason to have them the ability to analyze, to discriminate, to think in the contemplate though the think deep thoughts about your dog doesn't sit around the yard of the house all day contemplating great philosophical thought your dog basically is thinking a couple of thoughts food and sleep like I decided that you know we cannot know, we are dog where there there are master you. We go to work all day to earn money so that they go around the house and sleep all day that'll do anything to get out of the lot. Mow the lawn take care of things like fertilize the lawn but they don't sit around all day thinking about theology or philosophy are the next great thing that they intend to accomplish with their lives. See, God gave human beings that capacity the power of rationality. The average person. We are told only uses about 10% of their brain. Imagine if we could do something with 10% of our brain. As we seen in the human personality and intellect that I imagine as we learn more and more we can grow.

We can develop we can reason there's a power rationality. There's a there's a power of creativity and and then one of the things ways that God has made us different than the animals is the power of speech. The ability to speak the animals can communicate in a certain way, but God gave us the ability to speak to form words speak rationally and intelligently beautiful. We can communicate our hopes, our fears, our sorrows, our joys, our desires are aspiration man is a physical masterpiece man is a mental masterpiece. Most of all, we are because were created in the image of God, and God breathed into us the breath of life. We became a living soul. We are spiritual spiritual masterpiece. The magnificence of our spiritual life in God's image. What is that mean made in the image of God means that we have a God consciousness.

It means that we have a capacity to know God and to relate to God. It means that couple things it means when God created us like this, it means that we have the craving for deity the craving to know God.

He breathed into us. This desire animals don't have the last time you know you dog ask you if you could go to go to church with worship, no animals, no prey animals don't relate to God.

They have no sense of their maker. But God put in the human personality.

This great craving for deity. This great desire to know him.

Augustine said, our hearts were made for the oh God, and they are restless until they find their rest in the we are made for God and that aching void that some of you are sensing right now in your life because you don't know God is that that quest to know him and to love him. God made the man and the woman and place them in the garden. They walked in harmony and fellowship with him. Ultimately, as we see in our study of Genesis that relationship was broken because of sin and yet that was relationship can now be restored through Jesus Christ we can be redeemed by his blood, Christ died on the cross for our sins.

And he rose again on the third day, and we can now enter into a relationship with God.

We can know God as we saying about earlier because he made us to know him. If you don't know him, you are missing the purpose of your life. God also made us not only with the with the craving for deity, buddy. He made us with the with with the capability of dominion. That's why the Scripture says God told him to multiply and to be fruitful and multiply upon the earth and and to subdue the animal kingdom, and all that was it.

Man was given this powerful dominion in being his dominion and authority on the things of the earth was forfeited and the curse came upon creation, but in Christ that dominion is restored. Man is to explore and to enjoy the creation and to take care as stewards of the creation of God we have a craving for deity.

We have the capability of dominion.

We also have this capacity for dignity. That's right, a capacity for dignity because we can know God. We have a relationship with God now animals cannot know God. In this sense animals can even send animals in this bay but animals cannot sin, but neither can animals choose to worship and love and serve God.

God gave all of us an incredible capacity to choose life or death to choose dignity as God created us to choose the private and many have chosen rather than the dignity and the significance of life is God's intended many of chosen depravity. A man without God a man a woman minus God is worse than an animal to live life and bring God's there and live in God's body and not glorify God is mastering key is to live the me life of an animal were not machines were not animals. God gave us a choice.

We have the choice of dignity.

We can receive Christ that have a relationship with God, and finally man has a comprehension of distant with a comprehension of destiny and animals don't know that the going to die animals. God but I don't know the but we know inherently instinctively that it is appointed on the man once to die, then the judgment.

That's what the Scripture says that there is a destiny beyond our day's Ecclesiastes 3 says he is set eternity in our hearts. When God breathed into you the breath of life, you became a living soul and you can know more ceased to exist than God himself ceases to exist. You were made to live forever. There's a destiny beyond today and when you die you don't die like an animal nor can you die and pull the grade close over your head and hi from God know we know that ultimately every person will stand and give an account.

That's why the Bible says prepare prepare to meet your God prepare to meet your maker because we all will we have a date with destiny date.

The and how you live is how you gonna die if you live without God and live for your own pleasure and fulfill your own plan and purposes when you die, you die face eternity without destiny. Apart from him in the Bible calls that hell, but if you will trust in him and live for his pleasure in his purpose and when the apostle Paul say to live is Christ to die is gain. What is it for you to live why did God make you why are you living can you say to live is Jesus Christ. He is the priority of my life. He is the pleasure of my life. The purpose of my life to live is Christ, then you can say die because it only keeps getting better better better when you walk with God made you for himself. He knows your name calling. Follow this your listening to PowerPoint with Jack Graham and the message. The magnificence of man. Every believer in Christ needs a strong grasp of Ephesians, which is why we want to send you using Scripture to this powerful book of the Bible with journaling pages next to the biblical text. You can read through the book, taking notes recording insights and jotting down your prayers and now is a great time to dive and because Ephesians is the perfect book to read a Christmas with themes of reconciliation unity and new life in Christ will rediscover the new life. That's yours in Christ, the Ephesians ESP Scripture journal is our special things get help proclaim God's word to PowerPoint so request your copy when you call today: 800-7954 67 that's 1-800-795-4627. You can also text the word PowerPoint to 313-1316 PowerPoint to streamline 3131. And don't forget to visit Jack Graham.org where you can shop our E store. Give a gift online or sign up for Dr. Graham's free daily email devotional our website again is Jack Graham.Margie Pastor what is your PowerPoint today. As I mentioned earlier, it's amazing and awesome to think about the making of a man God is that a miracle not only in creation, but in the birth of every human being. Each person is a magnificent and mysterious unit of living complexities that God stitched together in the womb of his or her mother. We also see the handiwork of God and the maturing of man. What makes our bodies grow and develop the way they do is all part of God's magnificent creation.

The miracle happens right before our eyes and our changing bodies, science explains that the body is constantly changing. Breaking down and then being built up again. Just think about that that is the marvel of God's handiwork, and of course we can't forget God's brilliance in constructing the mental capacity of human beings we are capable of learning so many things. Things that animals could never learn.

You can see the power of God's creativity when you consider the capabilities of the mind.

I don't think words can't adequately explain the beauty and marvel of this creation. Finally I mentioned in today's message that God created in man a spiritual marvel. That's why in Genesis 1 were told that God created us in his image. It means we have a likeness to God, a similarity to him are that we are in his shadow. I was just thinking that in our fast-paced life. We don't usually take the time to think of these great wonders. The wonders of God.

Remember that each of us have cravings for deity. The capability of the many in the capacity for dignity and the comprehension of destiny and the only question that remains is, why are you living what is your purpose God has made you, to fulfill his plan and need for you to worship him with your mind, your body your soul forever and that is today. Remember when you give a gift PowerPoint will send you an ES journal is our thanks. Call one 800-795-4627 1-800-795-4627 also text the word PowerPoint to 313131 PowerPoint 313 join us again next time.

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