Genesis

FAITH TESTED AND CROWNED
Alexander Maclaren

I. Faith Tested and Crowned

GENESIS
Handfuls on Purpose
by James Smith, 1943

CREATION. Genesis 1.

"In the beginning God." Regeneration, like the work of creation, has its beginning in God (John 3:5). The new creation, like the old, begins with the "Word of God" and the moving of the Spirit. Compare the order here with the experience of a soul passing from death into life. Observe—

I. The State of Disorder (verse 2). The threefold condition of man's state by nature is here very forcibly suggested: