BIG THOUGHT: God created love with the ultimate goal of .
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I. The oneness in .
a. To share the oneness found in the .
Genesis 1:1 (ESV) – In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:2b (ESV) – And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
John 1:1-4 (ESV) – In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.
John 17:22 (ESV) – The glory that You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one.
b. To share that oneness in .
Genesis 2:23-25 (ESV) – Then the mad said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
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II. The of oneness.
a. Oneness with was destroyed.
Genesis 5:1-3 (ESV) – This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, He made him in the likeness of God. Male and female He created them, and He blessed them and named them Man when they were created. When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
b. Oneness in the was destroyed.
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III. The of oneness.
a. Oneness in .
1. oneness.
2. in oneness.
3. oneness.
4. Oneness in .
5. oneness.
b. Oneness in .
1. The issue of and .
a. Shadow: .
b. Substance: and the church.
c. Shadow: .
d. Substance: with God.
is the avenue of communion.
Ephesians 5:25-27 (ESV) – Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her, that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that He might present the church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkly or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
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