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January 7, 2024
Chris Seidman, Lead Minister, The Branch

John 5:39-40 (NIV)
“You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life.”

2 Timothy 3:15b-17 (NIV)
… the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Threads from Chapter 1 (Genesis 1-4, 6-9)

• God as Creator.

Genesis 1:1 (NIV)
In the beginning God created … .

• God creates by His Word.

• What God creates is good.

• God creates us for relationship.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NIV)
He has also set eternity in the human heart.

• Our relationship with Him involves “life in the real world.”

• God won’t ignore sin because of what it does to “life in the real world.”