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InVerse, 4th Quarter 2020: Education

Justin Kim

Israel Ramos

Jonathan Walter

Callie Williams

01 Acquaint Yourself with God

Sebastien Braxton

Sikhu Daco

02 Knowing God as Creator

03 Knowing God as Redeemer

04 Higher than the Highest

05 Unselfishness and True Development

06 Adventist Education

07 Education and Character

08 Education and Faith

09 Education and Sabbath

10 The School of the Sanctuary

11 The Schools of the Prophets

12 The School of Life

13 The Revolution of Jesus Christ

What happened in the first moments of humanity's creation?

Coming to you from Silver Spring, Maryland, welcome to Inverse, a Bible-based conversation on life principles, contemporary issues, and thought-provoking perspectives.

Now here's your host, Justin Kim, with Inverse.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, and this is how the Bible starts off with.

What are the implications for us today, and what does that have to do with young adults living in Earth's last chapter of history.

We are looking at this topic of education and how that impacts us and what that has to do with life.

And in the studio we have our friends from far and from near and from all colors of the rainbow and I'm so excited on this topic of education.

We want to establish that this topic of education is not about education.

It's not about going to school and getting your PhD and becoming all edumacated.

It's about redemption and looking at the biblical definition of what it means to be educated.

So Jonathan, thanks for being here and Siku, how's it going?

And Siku, if you can pray for us, we'd appreciate that.

Loving Father, we thank you for the opportunity that we have to come to your word.

We ask that you would teach us now, would give us the Holy Spirit as a gift to aid our understanding so that we may draw from this, not just what we ought to do, but power in order to do it as well.

And if you can read Jonathan for us, verse, where should we start?

Genesis 1, 24, Then God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind, cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind.

And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind.

Then God said, let us make man in our image, according to our likeness.

Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over the cattle, over all the earth, and of every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

In the image of God, he created him, male and female, he created them.

Then God blessed them and God said to them, be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it.

Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.

What are some elements that you see in creation that really feed into our, that will feed into our topic on education?

Well, I think 1 of the first things is that God is introduced in Scripture by what He does, which is the fact that He is a Creator.

And so, we see that as we're coming here to the end of the week, we're seeing something that God has been doing the previous 6 days, which is somehow using His Word and able to bring about living things.

He's able to shape the world, the atmosphere, the planet, and now we're coming here to the very creation of humanity.

And that God does something unique when He creates man.

Everything else He kind of created of its own kind of image and sense.

But when it comes to the creation of man, God looks at Himself.

And He says, oh, well, let us make man in our image.

And so this understanding of humanity, which is at the root of really true education and redemption, we have to know our Creator in order to truly know ourselves because we were designed to be a reflection of Him.

Yeah, we're seeing in this entire Chapter 1 and we all know the days of creation and what's, We may get mixed up with 1 day or 2 because sometimes we get so nervous and whatnot.

But all the living things make after themselves.

And at least in the New King James, it's the word according to.

So you have trees make more trees, grass makes more grass, according to its grass, according to its kind.

You got eucalyptus leaves making more eucalyptus leaves, trees I should say.

So living things make more, so you don't see the sky making more sky, or the earth making more earth, or the sun making more sun, because these are inanimate objects.

We have living things making more of this kind.

So verse 24, as someone read for us, you have living creatures, this is like the pattern, yeah, and this is kind of motif, making more things, making more things, making more, and in the apex of that in verse 26, and then God says, let us make man in our image, according to our likeness.

So, question is, what is according to our likeness?

And then later on, it's rephrased again in verse 27.

This is probably 1 of the most profound statements in creation account, but also in Scripture.

The Bible confronts us right from the beginning with the reality that we have been created in the image, in a reflection of who God is.

It says that we are similar in appearance, in the way we exist to God.

We are not God, and we're not gods, you know, lowercase.

But this is powerful because this speaks especially in these last days They were living in where we are told, you know, we are animals We have evolved speaks completely against it and says no you are an intentionally Intentionally created and desired and loved being and not just an animal you are in the image of God that means you you bear Resemblance to the creator you in a kind of sense though.

More gods not gods in the supernatural sense or gods in the poly poly Theistic sense and but he is making a little Ver and I don't I don't know what it is, but little versions of him?

So in that sense, he makes little versions of him because we are, you know, later on we're told we're ambassadors, we're representatives of Christ.

And so in that sense, we are a copy but not a copy.

We are creations and not the creator in that respect.

I want to say just in the context of education, just to put this contextually, you know, anytime that you're coming to, let's say you're writing a lesson plan for instance, or you're trying to teach something, there's the goal of where you're trying to bring someone to, right?

You're teaching them so that they can learn how to multiply or how to add.

And there's the ultimate goal that you have in mind.

And what this is bringing out is the ultimate goal for humanity is that likeness to God, right?

So, humanity in its fullest expression is like God.

It's not like, you know, this is where we're headed to.

And in reality, the world in a lot of senses doesn't, when we don't have this picture, we're kind of groping in darkness.

And so we try to recreate Einstein, or we're looking for something to aim to, to strive to, but the Bible presents God as what we're striving to, which in fact becomes this infinite pursuit of an ever-increasing growth in all spheres of our lives, because God is eternal, right?

So this presents a path of continual progress for any person who accepts this, that I am in the image of God.

So my life experience is always drawing closer to who God is and this is gonna be for eternity.

So I mean this is, we've read this so many times, Genesis 1.

They're like, all right, we're made in God's image And we shouldn't have that reaction, right?

We should kind of pause and be like, we were made in God's image.

This was the original destiny, the original blueprint, if you will, the original, this is why humanity was made.

And we look at humanity now, we are not where God intended.

And it could it be that this whole entire salvation process isn't just so that we can go to heaven and live forever and ever, but at least be restored to that which original purpose that God had intended.

It kind of goes back to our discipleship quarter, discipleship season, where disciples make more disciples.

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InVerse, 4th Quarter 2020: Education

02 Knowing God as Creator

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05 Unselfishness and True Development

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InVerse, 1st Quarter 2023: God First

06 Jacob: The Promising Giver

28m

InVerse, 4th Quarter 2020: Education

11 The Schools of the Prophets

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InVerse, 3rd Quarter 2020: Foundations of Discipleship

07-Process of Discipleship - Plant

27m

InVerse, 4th Quarter 2021: Deuteronomy

01 Covenants and Sermons

27m

InVerse, 4th Quarter 2021: Deuteronomy

02 Rebellion and Consequences

27m

InVerse 1st Quarter 2025: Renewing the Mind

01 Renewing the Broken Mind

29m

InVerse, 4th Quarter 2020: Education

06 Adventist Education

27m

InVerse, 2nd Quarter 2020: How to Know God’s Will for Your Life

02-Sources of God’s Will Part 1

27m

InVerse, 1st Quarter 2023: God First

09 The Phoenician Widow: The Trusting Giver

28m

InVerse, 4th Quarter 2021: Deuteronomy

07 Circumcise Your Heart

27m

InVerse 2nd Quarter 2024: The Great Controversy

05 The Defection of Humanity

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