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Week 14: The Apostles Creed – 1st Article Creation

31 Jan 2020
Kathy Swan
Week 14: The Apostles Creed - 1st Article: Creation

Memory Work for this week. 

The First Article: Creation

I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth.

 What does this mean?

I believe that God has made me and all creatures; that He has given me my body and soul, eyes, ears, and all my members, my reason and all my senses, and still takes care of them. He also gives me clothing and shoes, food and drink, house and home, wife and children, land, animals, and all I have. He richly and daily provides me with all that I need to support this body and life. He defends me against all danger and guards and protects me from all evil. All this He does only out of fatherly, divine goodness and mercy, without any merit or worthiness in me. For all this it is my duty to thank and praise, serve and obey Him. This is most certainly true.

 

Genesis 1:31  And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Psalm 33:6-9  By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host. He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap; he puts the deeps in storehouses.

We learn from the 1st article of the creed that God has made all things.   We hear from Dr. Luther in What does this mean that God “still takes care of them”.  God is still actively involved in creation.  He creates life and sustains what He has created.  This week look around in His wonderful creation and take note of all the things He is sustaining to support you in your body and life! 

Reading for Day 1

Revelation 21 

What is God making new?

What does it mean that God is the Alpha and the Omega?

God records a list of people that will not see the new heaven and earth because of their sin.  Who are they and what is their sin.

____________ Describe what this sin looks like.

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Reading for Day 2

Psalm 139

 What does it mean that God searched me and knows me?

How do verses 13-16 relate to the 1st article of the Apostles Creed?

What does the writer of the Psalm ask God to do? 

 

Reading for Day 3 Questions from the Catechism

LSC Question 128. 

What are the 3 things the Bible tells us about Angels?

A.

B.

C.

What did the angels do in each of these accounts.

2 Kings 19:32-37

2 Kings 6: 15-19

Acts 12:5-11

What plan does God use for the reproduction of living things?

Genesis 1:21  and Genesis 1:24

When Genesis refers to animals and birds were created according to their “kind” it is very specific.  “Kind” can also refer to Species.  Animals in a species can reproduce.  Animals of different species cannot.   How does that information help us to see evolution does not and can not work?   

LSC Question 122.  What is the Christian’s proper response to theories of evolution regarding the beginning of the world? 

  1. What is the image of God?

 

  1. Do people still have the image of God. Why or Why not?

 

  1. Describe suffering.

 

Give two examples of people you know personally suffering.

1.

2.

Why do people suffer?  

  1. What does God do to take care of me? 

A.

        What does God provide for you?  (Specific things)

B.

         How does God defend you?

Reading for Day 4

Psalm 118

LSC Q. 142 143    What do we owe our heavenly Father?

From the Psalm 

What is steadfast love?

What is vs. 6 telling us?

How is that comforting?

Reading for Day 5

Psalm 116

Why does the writer of the Psalm love the Lord?  

How does the Lord hear him and us?

How has the Lord delivered my soul from Death?

Why is the death of His saints precious in the sight of the Lord? 

 

Reading for Day 6

Psalm 117

Please write out Psalm 117

How long do the promises of God last?

What does it mean that God is faithful?

God promises to sustain us always.  Suffering, doubt, and uncertainty all cause us to doubt God’s promises especially His promise to sustain us in body and soul.  Where do we find hope especially in challenging times? 

Isaiah 55:11

Hebrews 11:19-25  

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