Lesson 1 – The Purpose of Man (Outline)

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Lesson 1 – The Purpose of Man

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Psalm 8:3 When I see Your heavens, the works of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,

1 Thessalonians 5:23 And the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of heaven and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

  1. The mystery of the universe 1
    1. God being the mystery of the universe 2
    2. The Bible being the explanation of the mystery of the universe 3, 4
    3. Man being the center of the mystery of the universe 5
  2. The creation of man 6
    1. In God’s image and likeness 7
    2. As a vessel 8
    3. The parts of man 9
      1. Body
      2. Soul
      3. Spirit
  3. God’s heart desire 10
    1. God dispensing Himself into man 11
    2. Man expressing God 12

READING

Bible References:

  1. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. (Genesis 1:1)
  2. For the invisible things of Him, both His eternal power and divine characteristics, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, being perceived by the things made, so that they would be without excuse; (Romans 1:20)
  3. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1)
  4. And the Word became flesh and tabernacle among us (and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and reality. (John 1:14)
  5. The burden of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. Thus declares Jehovah, who stretches forth the heavens and lays the foundations of the earth and forms the spirit of man within him, (Zechariah 12:1)
  6. Jehovah God formed man with the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. (Genesis 2:7)
  7. And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of heaven and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. (Genesis 1:26)
  8. In order that He might make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He had before prepared unto glory, (Romans 9:23)
  9. And the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thessalonians 5:23)
  10. Making known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Himself, (Ephesians 1:9)
  11. And Jehovah God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there He put the man whom He had formed. And out of the ground Jehovah God caused to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, as well as the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (Genesis 2:8-9)
  12. As the living Father has sent me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me. (John 6:57)