Genesis 1

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  1. The Key Teachings of Watchman Nee · Ochorus Originals

    The Latent Power of the Soul cites GENESIS 1:26

    …of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth. GENESIS 1:26 Adam, he reasoned, possessed capacities far beyond anything we now know — faculties of…

  2. The Bondage of the Will · Martin Luther

    Exordium cites Gen. i. 1

    …the Scripture, I pray you, obscure or ambiguous: “God created the heavens and the earth” (Gen. i. 1). “The Word was made flesh.” (John i. 14,) and all those other words which the whole…

  3. The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith · R. A. Torrey

    The Christian Conception of God, or the God of the Bible as Distinguished from the God of Christian Science and the God of Modern Philosophy cites Gen. 1:1

    …and Christian Science. This conception is found in the opening words of the Bible, Gen. 1:1: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Here the God of the Bible is…

  4. The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith · R. A. Torrey

    The Christian Conception of God—The Infinite Perfection and Unity of God cites Gen. 1:1

    …words of that chapter read: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (Gen. 1:1), a description of the origin of things that has never been matched for simplicity…

  5. Real Questions – Book 1 · Ochorus Originals

    What About Dinosaurs and the Age of the Earth? cites Genesis 1:1

    …everything out of nothing. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). Creation is not an accident. It’s the work of a wise, personal God with a purpose.…

  6. Real Questions – Book 2 · Ochorus Originals

    Who Made God? cites Genesis 1:1

    …simply finds Him already there: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). Before anything else existed, God was. Moses wrote, “from everlasting to everlasting…

  7. Rooted – 30 Days with God for Youth – Book 1 · Ochorus Originals

    Day 2 — In the Beginning cites Genesis 1:1

    “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” — Genesis 1:1 (BSB) Have you ever built something amazing out of building bricks? Maybe a castle, a…

  8. Rooted – 30 Days with God for Youth – Book 2 · Ochorus Originals

    Day 1 — The Word Became Flesh cites Genesis 1:1

    …Do those first words sound familiar? They’re the same words that open the whole Bible in Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” John is telling us that before…

  9. The Key Teachings of Athanasius of Alexandria · Ochorus Originals

    Out of Nothing cites GENESIS 1:1

    …Out of nothing, because He is God. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. GENESIS 1:1 And then he says why. This is the heart of the chapter, and it is one of the most…

  10. The Big Story · Ochorus Originals

    The God Who Speaks cites Genesis 1:1

    …with an accident. Just this: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). Before anything else existed, God did. He didn’t need a universe. He wasn’t lonely or…

  11. Our Daily Walk · F. B. Meyer

    December cites Gen 1:1

    …12 IN THE BEGINNING GOD “In the beginning God created the Heaven and the earth.”— Gen 1:1. “In the beginning was the Word... all things were made by Him.”— Jn 1:1, 2, 3. GENESIS…

  12. Tell Me the Story – Book 1: In the Beginning · Ochorus Originals

    Introduction: The Best Story of All cites Genesis 1:1

    “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” — Genesis 1:1 Do you like stories? Stories about brave people, and long journeys, and big surprises?…

  13. Tell Me the Story – Book 1: In the Beginning · Ochorus Originals

    God Makes Everything cites Genesis 1:1–2

    …the stars would one day come to live on the earth He had made. Read it in your Bible: Genesis 1:1–2:3 Dear God, thank you for making the whole world, and for making me. Thank you that…

  14. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    The Creation cites Gen 1:1

    …WORK OF CREATION? A: It is God’s making all things from nothing by the word of his power. Gen 1:1. ‘In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.’ The creation is glorious to…

  15. Old Paths · J. C. Ryle

    Alive or Dead? cites Gen. 1. 1

    …over his father Jacob?—“He fell upon his face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.” (Gen. 1. 1.) But there was no reply to his affection. All about that aged countenance was unmoved…

  16. The Bondage of the Will · Martin Luther

    Discussion: Part the First cites Gen. i. 2

    …that this word declares for “Free-will” — “And the earth was without form and void:” (Gen. i. 2.) or this, “And God rested on the seventh day:” (Gen. ii. 2,) or any word of the same…

  17. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 1, Chapter 13 — The Unity of the Divine Essence in Three Persons Taught, in Scripture, from the Foundation of the World cites Gen. 1:2

    …essential power of God, where Moses relates that the shapeless mass was unborn by him (Gen. 1:2). It is obvious that the eternal Spirit always existed in God, seeing he cherished and…

  18. Real Questions – Book 2 · Ochorus Originals

    Who Is the Holy Spirit? cites Genesis 1:2

    …there at creation, when “the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters” (Genesis 1:2). When Ananias lied to the Holy Spirit, Peter said he had lied “to God” (Acts 5:4). The…

  19. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Original Sin cites Gen 1:2

    …the intellectual part. As in the creation ‘darkness was upon the face of the deep,’ Gen 1:2, so it is with the understanding; darkness is upon the face of this deep. As there is…

  20. Old Paths · J. C. Ryle

    The Holy Ghost cites Gen. i. 2

    …of creation began,—“without form and void, and darkness covering the face of the deep.” (Gen. i. 2.) The same power which said at the beginning, “Let there be light: and there was light,”…

  21. Holiness · J. C. Ryle

    Thirst Relieved cites Gen. i. 3

    …convinces of sin. Light was the first thing called into being in the material creation. (Gen. i. 3.) Light about our own state is the first work in the new creation. Thirsting soul, I say…

  22. Knots Untied · J. C. Ryle

    Confession cites Gen. i. 3

    …first thing called into being. When God created the world, He said, “Let there be light” (Gen. i. 3.) Light is the first thing that the Holy Ghost creates in a man’s heart, when He awakens…

  23. Thoughts for the Quiet Hour · Dwight L. Moody

    March cites Gen. i. 4

    …28 God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. Gen. i. 4. No sooner is there a good thing in the world than a division is necessary. Light and…

  24. Evening by Evening · Charles H. Spurgeon

    January cites Genesis 1:4

    …manifest himself to us as he doth not unto the world. January 5 “And God saw the light.” (Genesis 1:4) This morning we noticed the goodness of the light, and the Lord's dividing it from the…

  25. Morning by Morning · Charles H. Spurgeon

    January cites Genesis 1:4

    …“And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.” (Genesis 1:4) Light might well be good since it sprang from that fiat of goodness, “Let there be…

  26. Evening by Evening · Charles H. Spurgeon

    July cites Genesis 1:4

    …graciously he once waited for us. July 9 “And God divided the light from the darkness.” (Genesis 1:4) A believer has two principles at work within him. In his natural estate he was subject…

  27. Our Daily Walk · F. B. Meyer

    March cites Gen 1:5

    …AMEN. March 26 THE MORNING COMETH “And the evening and the morning were the first day.”— Gen 1:5. SIX TIMES these words are repeated, and the one lesson that rings out is that God counts…

  28. Morning by Morning · Charles H. Spurgeon

    June cites Genesis 1:5

    June 1 “The evening and the morning were the first day.” (Genesis 1:5) Was it so even in the beginning? Did light and darkness divide the realm of time in the…

  29. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    The New Creation cites Gen. 1:9

    …under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear,” (Gen. 1:9, ) the dry land spread over the face of the water, and covered it on every side. And so…

  30. The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith · R. A. Torrey

    The Personality of the Holy Spirit cites Gen. 1:26

    …it is not in the Old. But it is in the Old, in the very first chapter of the Bible. In Gen. 1:26 we read, "And God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness." Here the…

  31. A Short and Easy Method of Prayer · Jeanne Guyon

    Prayer as Noble Action cites Gen. i. 26

    …was made” (John i. 3). God, in creating us, created us in His image, after His likeness (Gen. i. 26). He gave to us the Spirit of the Word by the breath of life (Gen. ii. 7), which He…

  32. The Key Teachings of G. K. Chesterton · Ochorus Originals

    The Man in the Cave cites Genesis 1:26–31

    …create, laugh, grieve, ask questions. Thank God for His image in you. 2. Read Psalm 8 and Genesis 1:26–31 slowly, and consider what it means to be made in God’s image. 3. Consider someone you…

  33. With Christ in the School of Prayer · Andrew Murray

    Prayer in Harmony with the Destiny of Man cites Gen. i. 26

    …xxi. 20. ‘And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.’—Gen. i. 26. ‘WHOSE is this image?’ It was by this question that Jesus foiled His enemies, when they…

  34. The Master’s Indwelling · Andrew Murray

    The Kingdom First cites Genesis 1:26

    …nature. What was man created for? To live in the likeness of God, and as His image Ref in Genesis 1:26. Now, if we have been created in the image and likeness of God, we can find our happiness…

  35. The Key Teachings of Athanasius of Alexandria · Ochorus Originals

    The Portrait Renewed on the Same Wood cites GENESIS 1:26

    …written into our nature. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. GENESIS 1:26 But the image was spoiled. Men turned their eyes away from God and downwards, towards…

  36. The Key Teachings of Watchman Nee · Ochorus Originals

    The Ministry of Prayer cites Genesis 1:26

    …on the doctrine of authority in the earth. God gave dominion over this world to man (Genesis 1:26; Psalm 115:16). Man fell, and that dominion passed in practice to the usurper. In…

  37. The Key Teachings of Watchman Nee · Ochorus Originals

    The Overcomers and the Reward cites Genesis 1:26

    …not with the fall but with the purpose that preceded it. God’s intention, declared in Genesis 1:26, was a race bearing His image and exercising His dominion. Sin interrupted it; redemption…

  38. Our Daily Walk · F. B. Meyer

    October cites Gen 1:26

    …of the Divine Nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust (Gen 1:26; 2Pe1:4). PRAYER The world is dear unto Thee, O Heavenly Father; Thou didst send Thine…

  39. Real Questions – Book 3 · Ochorus Originals

    Why Did God Make Me? cites Genesis 1:26

    …reflect Him God made humans “in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule” over the earth (Genesis 1:26), and placed the first man in a garden “to cultivate and keep it” (Genesis 2:15). You…

  40. Freedom of the Will · Jonathan Edwards

    Section V. Concerning the Notion of Liberty, and of Moral Agency cites Gen. 1:26

    …herein does very much consist that image of God wherein he made man, (which we read of, Gen. 1:26, 27, and chap. 9:6.) by which God distinguished man from the beasts, viz. in those…

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