Highlights for bulletin 9/5/26

Jer 10:11-16; Amo 5:8; Job 9:9; 38:12-13,31-33, Psa 100; 99:9; Isa 14:12-14The mighty power that works through all nature and sustains all things is not, as some men of science represent, merely an all-pervading principle, an actuating energy. God is a spirit; yet He is a personal being, for man was made in His image. … things of nature are an expression of God’s character; by them we may understand His love, His power, and His glory; but we are not to regard nature as God. The artistic skill of human beings produces very beautiful workmanship, things that delight the eye and these things give us something of the idea of the designer; but the thing made is not the man. It is not the work, but the workman, that is counted worthy of honor. So, while nature is an expression of God’s thought, it is not nature but the God of nature that is to be exalted. … In the creation of man was manifest the agency of a personal God. When God had made man in His image, the human form was perfect in all its arrangements, but it was without life. Then a personal, self-existing God breathed into that form the breath of life, and man became a living, breathing, intelligent being. All parts of the human organism were put in action. … God designed that man, the crowning work of His creation, should express His thought and reveal His glory. ….{8T 263.2}

“The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, 

These shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.” 

“The portion of Jacob is not like these; 

For He is the former of all things.” 

“He hath made the earth by His power, 

He hath established the world by His wisdom, 

And by His understanding hath He stretched out the heavens.”

Jeremiah 10:11, 16, 12, A.R.V. {8T 263.3}

“Seek Him that maketh the Pleiades and Orion,

And turneth the shadow of death into the morning,

And maketh the day dark with night;

That calleth for the waters of the sea,

And poureth them out upon the face of the earth

(Jehovah is His name).”

Amos 5:8, A.R.V. {8T 263.4}

In the creation of man was manifest the agency of a personal God. When God had made man in His image, the human form was perfect in all its arrangements, but it was without life. Then a personal, self-existing God breathed into that form the breath of life, and man became a living, breathing, intelligent being. All parts of the human organism were put in action. The heart, the arteries, the veins, the tongue, the hands, the feet, the senses, the perceptions of the mind—all began their work, and all were placed under law. Man became a living soul. Through Jesus Christ a personal God created man and endowed him with intelligence and power. {8T 264.1}

Our substance was not hid from Him when we were made in secret. His eyes saw our substance, yet being imperfect; and in His book all our members were written, when as yet there were none of them. {8T 264.2}

Above all lower orders of being, God designed that man, the crowning work of His creation, should express His thought and reveal His glory. But man is not to exalt himself as God. {8T 264.3}

“Make a joyful noise unto Jehovah…. 

Serve Jehovah with gladness: 

Come before His presence with singing. {8T 264.4}

“Know ye that Jehovah, He is God: 

It is He that hath made us, and we are His; 

We are His people, and the sheep of His pasture. {8T 264.5}

“Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, 

And into His courts with praise: 

Give thanks unto Him, and bless His name.” {8T 264.6}

“Exalt ye Jehovah our God, 

And worship at His holy hill; 

For Jehovah our God is holy.”

Psalm 100:1-4; 99:9, A.R.V. {8T 264.7}