Good morning,
Many shows we watch on TV are not friendly to origins of man. Some claim that it took billions of years for the world and mankind to come into being. They have all sorts of theories, but no real evidence.
I hold in my hand the testimony of the Creator. God tells us step by step how the world came into being. The process was simple. God spoke it, Jesus made it, and the Holy Spirit breathed life into it.
If we do not know the truth, we could easily be persuaded to believe the lie of evolution.
This week we will look at the Creation of our world. We will look at who God is and how He completed His creative work.
CREATION
GENESIS 1:1-31
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1:1
INTRO: In the beginning GOD…
WHO is God?
- Elohim=supreme, mighty EL=strong
2. Elohim is a plural word. The Godhead:
a. Father
b. Son
While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; Prov 8:26-30
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John 1:1-3 and 14
c. Holy Spirit V2 …the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters
3. Omnipotent=all powerful He creates Gen 1:1-31
4. Omnipresent Eternal He had no beginning
5. Omniscience He knows all
WHAT did God do? Created everything by using the action verbs:
Created, said, saw, called, made, set, divided, blessed
V1 created the heavens and the earth
V2 the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters
V3 let there be light (Jesus was the Light)
V4 divided the light from the darkness
V5 called the light Day and the darkness night (End of day one)
WHAT did God do? Created everything:
V6 -8 made a firmament and called it heaven (End of second day)
V9-13 called the dry land Earth and the water seas
God said let the Earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed,
and the fruit tree yielding its fruit after his kind
(End of third day)
V14-19 made the sun, moon, and stars (End of fourth day)
V20-23 made fowls of the air and sea creatures (End of fifth day)
V24-25 made land animals and insect life
V26-30 made man and woman and gave them direction
Let US… reference to the Godhead
Gives them dominion over the fish, fowl, cattle, over all the
earth, and over every creeping thing
Created man in his own image, in the image of God
Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth
Gave them food to eat
V31 Everything that GOD made was very good (End of sixth day)
WHERE did God do this?
Since no place existed, answer unknown
WHEN did God do this?
In the beginning.
REMEMBER there was no concept of time
WHY is this a foundation stone?
Without God there is nothing. This truly is the foundation of all
existance
God created all the elements to sustain man
God created all the elements to sustain man outside the Garden
of Eden
Tom Stearns, WASI Chaplain, 907 715-4001
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