‘In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth’ (Gen. 1:1). In 2 Corinthians 5:17, the apostle Paul tells us, ‘If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.’ The work of God in the new creation of grace is beautifully symbolized in the creation of the world. As the creation of the world was the work of God alone, so the making of men and women as new creatures in Christ is the work of God alone. Let me show you three things in Genesis 1 about God’s creation. In these
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