You Are Somebody Important - Genesis 1:20-31 Series

As we look at the book of Genesis, we start Genesis, we see that we have three different statements that are coming out of creation. I just want to remind you because we’ve looked at these over the last three weeks. The first statement that we have when we see creation is “worship me.” Now whenever we see the statements, we know only this general statement and in order to get specifics we have to go to God’s word. So creation should drive us to the Bible so that we can understand what God really is saying. So when you hear that “worship me” it’s not just about worshiping a tree or the sun or even life itself. It’s worshiping God. We learn about that as we go to God’s word.

In the second statement that’s being broadcast is this broadcast statement that God makes that says I can hold it all together and I want to hold you together. So “hold it together” becomes this message that you hear. But it’s not something we do ourselves. The Bible tells us that Jesus holds it all together. So we can come to Him and ask Him to hold not just the molecules in our body, but even all the things that are inside of us. He’s the one who holds things together. He wants to hold relationships together. You know we can separate and cause damage in relationship. God wants to bring them together. He wants to hold them together. And really the only thing that’s going to hold them together is Jesus Christ. So we give ourselves to Him and totally submit ourselves to Him then those relationships can be empowered and can be so strong.

The third message that we’re going to hear is that “you are somebody important.” You are somebody important. We're going to get that from this idea that we are created in the image of God. You are different than the animals. This is a message you’re not going to hear in school, kids, most of the time. You’re not going to hear this message out in the world. The world is going to have this message that says you’re just like all the other parts of creation and God’s going to say no, you are different, you are somebody special.

In order to understand what that looks like, we’re going to go into Genesis 1 and we’re going to pick up the days. Now we started with the first day when God said – Let there be light. And then the second day He created the atmosphere. The third day He separated the seas from the land. On the fourth day He created the sun, moon, and stars. And now we’re going into the day five. So let’s look at day five and see what God does on day five.

In Genesis 1:20 it says this: And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.” So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

God on day five created the birds and the fish. The birds that fly in the air. It’s just really amazing that God would do that so we can see birds that are flying around. We can know that there are all these things in the ocean.

You know one of my scariest moments (this is true confession time here) was when I was scuba diving in Hawaii in the dark. So what you do if you’re going to go night diving then you get all your gear and you go out about a quarter mile off shore swimming and then you drop down thirty to forty feet. You’re asking why would you do this in the dark? The reason you do this in the dark is because all of the life down below in the ocean is sleeping and all of the shellfish come out of the rocks where they’re hiding, they’re just right down there on the sand for you to reach down and grab. But our main purpose was to get lobster. Because you can reach down, you have to use your hands with gloves on. You can’t use any kind of tools. You can just grab them because they’re just sleeping right there on the sand. You can grab them, stick them in your net bag and get some more and then you take them up on shore and the hot water is just boiling there ready for you and the melted butter. And that is really fresh lobster, I just want you to know. Really good stuff.