I. GOD, the CREATOR!
- Genesis 1:1 = In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
- Genesis 1:27 = So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
- Genesis 3:21 = The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
- Genesis 5:1 -2 = This is the written account of Adam’s family line. When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God. He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them “Mankind” when they were created.
II. CREATIVES IN THE BIBLE!
- Genesis 4:21 = His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play the harp and flute.
- Genesis 4:22 =Zillah also had a son, Tubal- Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of bronze and iron.
- Exodus 35:10-12,25-26, 35 = All who are gifted artisans among you shall come and make all that the Lord has commanded; the tabernacle, its tent, its covering, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets: the ark and its poles, with the mercy seat, and the veil of the covering. . . . All the women who were gifted artisans spun yarn with their hands, and brought what they had spun of blue, purple, and scarlet, and fine linen. . . He has filled them with skill to do all manner of work of the engraver and the designer and the tapestry maker, in blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine linen, and of the weaver -- those who do every work and those who design artistic works.
- Proverbs 31: 13, 19, 22, 24, 31 = She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands. . . In her hand she holds the distaff and grasps the spindle with her fingers. . . She makes coverings for her bed; she is clothed in fine linen and purple. . . She makes linen garments and sells them, and supplies the merchants with sashes. . . Honor her for all that her hands have done, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.
III. ME, A CREATIVE TOO!
- Psalm 139:13 = For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
- Ephesians 2:10 = For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
- Colossians 3:10 = and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
- James 1:18 = He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first fruits of all he created.
(more to come!)
