A Loving God Created Our World (Sermon 1 Of 5) Series

Sermon Series: The Five Most Important Teachings Of Scripture

Message 1 of 5: “A Loving God Created Our World”

Genesis 1Greenmount and O’Leary Churches of Christ

August 20, 2023

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INTRODUCTION:

1) If I was to ask you what are the most important teachings of the Word of God what would you say?

A) Perhaps you would speak of God’s love, or of his grace; Maybe you would describe sin and forgiveness, or of the doctrine of Christ, or of baptism, or some other doctrine.

2) Certainly, all these doctrines are among the most important teachings of Scripture, and I will be looking at each of these in this series.

3) This morning, and for the four Sundays after today I want us to look at what I believe are the five most important teachings of the entire Word of God.

A) Certainly, in this study we will not be covering or dealing with every verse of Scripture, but at the same time I believe that nearly every passage of Scripture deals with one of these five teachings.

B) Today in this first message I want us to look at the fact that “A Loving God Created Our World.

I. ) GOD IS BEFORE ALL ELSE HAS COME TO EXIST.

1.) Look with me to Genesis 1:1

A.) Somebody please read for me the first four words of Genesis 1:1.

aa.) “In the beginning, God”

aaa.) If I was the one translating this passage of Scripture, I would have placed an exclamation mark after these first four words.

B.) The book of Genesis sets the foundation for all that comes after it in the Scriptures.

ba.) The basic understanding of both Scripture, and of life is that before there was anything, there was God.

II) GOD HAS CREATED ALL THINGS.

1) Let us look at the second half of Genesis 1:1

A) “God created the heavens and the earth.”

B) We are looking at a declaration that this world is not some kind of cosmic accident.

ba.) The declaration of God as creator declares that the commonly taught “Big Bang” is not correct.

2) The declaration of God as creator debunks the idea of evolution.

A) In 1859 Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution.

aa.) According to this theory our world has come into existence from nothing, and after a Big bang of nothingness exploding, has developed, nothing to be transformed into something, and what now is in life.

ab.) In theory life continues to evolve to a higher existence than what now is.

ac.) The problem with this is that even to the present day there is no proof or evidence of evolution.

aca.) What is even more astounding is that though there is zero proof of evolution it is being taught and proclaimed as authentic truth.

.01) If something seems like foolishness to happen over a hundred years of time, suddenly becomes the mind of a genius if we add a few more zeros to the equation.

acb.) In fact, there are many things that completely disprove this theory of Darwin.

.01) Our human bodies prove that evolution is false.

.011) Our human bodies are made up of ten separate systems that are completely independent of each other, and yet in order to function must do so with interdependence on each other.

.012) In our bodies the ten systems are: the skeletal system the muscular system, the circulatory system, the digestive system, the Urinary System, The Nervous System, the Reproductive System, the Lymphatic system, the Endocrine system, and the Respiratory system.

.013) Each of these systems of the body are completely independent of all others, but any one of these systems can only properly work when all ten systems work together.

.0131) Evolutionists are not able to say which one of these systems would have been first to evolve, or how it is possible to have any one of these systems without the other nine in the body.

.02) A second proof that evolution is false is the lack of transitional fossils.

.021) If this world is continually in a state of evolution there should be an endless quantity of fossils of life forms between what they are now, and what they once were.

.022) We have supposedly come from apes, but there are no fossils that are halfway between apes and human beings.

.0221) Further to this, if we have descended from apes and are a higher life form than they, why are there still apes on this earth?

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0222) All apes should have ceased to exist with the higher life form of humans on this earth.

.03) Another proof that evolution is false is the population of this world.