SCRIPTURE: Genesis 1:1-2:4 (Page1);  1 Corinthians 15:35-58 (Page 1371)
SERMON: Living Souls								 9 December 2001

I.	TEXT: GENESIS 1:4-23

a.	FORMING & FILLING (1:2; see 4,6,9 & 11f,14,20,24) 

b.	PERSPECTIVE: FOR MAN & FROM MAN (1:4; 2:18; Mk.2:27; see Gen.1:14,17,20)

c.	THE FOURTH DAY (1:14-19)
1.	lights (14,16; see 3)
2.	action (14b; see 4b; also 14c,15,17)
3.	emphasis: inverted repetition, namelessness (14-18; see Dt.4:19; 17:3; 2Kng.17:16; 21:3; Job 31:26-28; Amos 5:26,8; see Ps.148:1-6; see Eph.1:11)

d.	THE FIFTH DAY (1:20-23; see 6-8)
1.	fills the waters below (1:20a,21a,22a)
2.	fills the waters above (1:20b,21b22b)
3.	blessing (1:22)

II.	TRUTH: LIVING SOULS

a.	SPECIAL CREATIONS (1:21; see 1:1,27)
1.	special formations (2:7,19 with 1:1,21,27)
2.	general formations (2:3 with 1:7,(11),16,25,26)

b.	SPECIAL WORD (1:22; see 1:28)

c.	LIVING SOULS (1:21,24,30; 2:7; 1Cor.15:45)
1.	the living being (1:20 vs.1:11f; see spirit)
a.	movement (1:21,24,(26),28,30)
b.	will; mind, heart (1:22,28)
c.	breath (Gen.6:17; 7:15,22; 1Kngs.17:17,21,22(Rev.11:11; Ezk.37:8f); Is42:5; Acts17:25; Rev.13:15)

2.	the being living (2:7; see Ezk.1:5; Rev.4:6; see soul)

3.	spirit and soul (Gen.2:7; Job 12:10; Ps.104:29,30; 1Cor.15:45; Ezk.1:21; 10:17; see 1Th.5:23)

III.	CONSEQUENCES: BREATHE!

a.	ABHOR THE FOOLISHNESS OF IDOLATRY (Gen2:7 versus Ps135:17; Jer10:14; 51:17; Habb2:19; Gen.1:14-18; see Dt.4:19; 17:3; 2Kng.17:16; 21:3; Job 31:26-28; Amos 5:26,8; see Ps.148:1-6; see Eph.1:11)

b.	GIVE THANKS FOR OUR COMMON NATURE WITH OTHER LIVING SOULS (Gen.1:20f; 2:7; see Eccl.3:19,21; see Ezk.1:5,10; Rev.4:7; see Ps.104, 148; see 1Tm.4:3-5)
1.	we rule creatures much like ourselves (Gen.1:26,28; 2:18f; see Dt.5:14; Ex.20:10)
2.	we benefit greatly from them for food, work, healing (Gen.9:2,3; Prov.14:4; see Heb.9:13)
3.	we are totally dependent on God for our living soul (Gen.1:20f; 2:7; Ps.104:27-30,10-23; Mt.6:11)

c.	GIVE THANKS THAT WE ARE A SPECIAL CREATION EVEN AMONG LIVING SOULS (Gen.1:1,21,27; 2:20f; see Mt.6:25f,28f)

d.	SEEK THE BREATH OF LIFE THAT ANIMATES DEAD SINNERS! (1Cor.15:45; Lam.4:20(Gen.2:7); Jn.3:5-8; 6:63; 20:22; Rom.8:2; 2Cor.3:6; see Ezk.37:5f)

e.	BREATHE DEEPLY! (Jn.6:63,68; 2Pt.1:20,21; 2Tm.3:14,15&16,17; Phil.4:6, see Mt.12:43; Jn.20:22; 2Tm.1:14)