SCRIPTURE: 1 Corinthians 14:26-40 (Page 1369); Genesis 1:1-2:3 (Page 1)
SERMON: Orderliness										5 August 2001

INTRODUCTION: FILE PILE BILE

  I. ORDER AND DISORDER

A. ORDER
1. put in place: ordain, ordinary (Tt.1:5; 1Cor.11:34)

2. put in relationship: orderly, ordinal, orders, ordinances (1Cor.14:27f,31; see 33,40; 12:28,27; see Heb.9:1,7; 10:9; 1Tm.2:13,14; 1Chr.11:21; 12:9; 24:7f; 25:9f; 1Cor.12:28; Tt.3:10; see Acts 24:23; Eph.2:15)

B. DISORDER
1. put out of place: extraordinary (Is.10:15; Mt.24:29; Mk.13:14; Heb.12:13)

2. put out of relationship: disordered (Gen3:5; 2Th2:4; see Acts 19:32,40; 1Cor.14:26f; 2Th.3:6,7,11; 1Th.5:14)

II. SPACE AND TIME

A. CREATION 
1. In the beginning... (Gen.1:1; 3,6,9,etc.)

2. first, second... (Gen.1:5,6,13,etc.)

3. put in place: separation (Gen.1:4,6,9,14,18; see Ps.8:3)

4. days, (months), years, seasons & weeks (Gen.1:14 & 2:3; see Ps.104:19)

5. bass, birds, beasts (Gen.1:20f)

6. generation after generation... (Gen.1:11,12; 24,25; see 26,27; see 11,12; note metamorphosis: egg, larva, pupa, adult)

7. firstborn (Gen.1:28; see Deut.21:17; Gen.49:3,4; see Col.1:15; Heb.1:6; 12:23; see Gen.2:18f; 1Tm.2:13)

B. PROVIDENCE
1. ordered times (Gen.2:3(Ex.20:8f; Dt.5:12f); Ex.13:10; see Lev.23)

2. ordered places (Dt.12:5f; 1Kngs.11;13,32,36; Zech.3:2; see Heb.8:5; 9:2&3-5)

3. ordered procedures (Ex.20:1f; 1Cor.11:17f; 16:1f; see Lev.4,16; Heb.9:6&7)

C. REDEMPTION: FULLNESS OF TIME
1. In the beginning... (Jn.1:1f,5,9f,14f)

2. the promise to Abraham (Gen.18:14; 21:2; Gal.4:4; 3:6f)

3. Omnipotent reversals (Ps.75:2,7,10)

4. preliminary discipline & deliverance (Lam.1:5&Ps.102:13; Dan.7:12; 8;19; 11:27,29,35; Habb.2:3; see Ex.13:10)

5. saving discipline & deliverance (Mk.1:15; Gal.4:4; Jn.7:6,8; 12:23; 17:1)

6. final discipline & deliverance (Mk.13:33; 2Th.2:6)

III. GOD & MAN

A. THE IMAGE OF GOD (Gen.1:26f,28f; see Eph.4:23f; 1Cor.14:33&40)

B. THE SON OF GOD (Gal.4:4; Jn.6:38; Jn.7:6,8; Mt.26:18/ and Lk.13:33; Gal.3:13(Dt.21:23))

C. THE SONS OF GOD 
1. personal circumstances: thoughts, feelings, decisions, words, deeds (Rom.12:2f; Eph.4:23f; 2Tm.3:14f; Lk.8:35)

2. physical circumstances: bass, birds & beasts (Gen.1:20f; see Lk.12:17)

3. temporal circumstances: appointed times (Jn.7:6,8; 12:23; 17:1; see Mt.6:34)

D. OUR PRESENT STRUGGLE AND FUTURE HOPE (Rom.8:18-25; Gen.3:17f; Eccl.12:1f; see 2Th.3:6,7,11; see Prov.14:4; see Gen.3:24; Heb.9:11f; 10:19f; 12:22; Rev.22:1f,14)