Genesis Factor

Genesis Factor

Genesis chapter 1:1-31

Would you turn to Genesis Chapter One

We are going to look at the wonder working power of God!

We are going to look at the God that creates.

We are going to look at God’s Word so that we might know the God that loves us.

Prayer-

The world wants you to believe that God is a God that you cannot know because He is so far away, that God does not want to be found- that is a lie from the pit of Hell.

If God did not want to found He would not be found.

After all until he created (us) man, He was around but we did not know it.

When He breathed breath into Adam, it was mankind’s beginning not God’s. (Repeat)

Verse 1 chapter one “In the beginning God created…”

Three important things that God tells us in these words

God exists

God Himself is not created

God creates, He is the creator.

God does not explain Himself and tell us all of how He began- In the beginning as we know it God Was. He does not have to prove how He came to be, He explains in great detail how we came to be- because of Him!

The six days of creation recorded in the Bible answer a lot of questions that people have yet most don’t look to Him or recognize them.

God who always was! Eternal, Everlasting, Alpha and Omega- Beginning and End.

The Bible opens “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”

The word Genesis means beginning!

The earth was void and empty. Experts say that between verse one and verse two was many years, possibly millions of years. The canvas is a void earth and God begins to make it something because the Spirit of God begins to hover over the earth.

In eternity past, God took a void and unproductive earth that He had previously created and began to give it life. The Spirit of the living God began hovering over it and life began to be formed and life began to take on new meaning.

The first line of the Apostles Creed is “I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth.”

Today many Jews and many Christians believe that God created by what they call “intelligent design”. This world and all that is in it was designed by God not by chance, but by a God that was smarter than we are. That makes sense to me who has never created a world, a galaxy, or a universe.

The “Gap Theory’ wants us to believe that things happened by chance- that all these things just aligned with no help from a creator God!

That this void earth that God talks about in verse one of the first book of the Bible that He ordained and He anointed and He protected came to be by a big bang theory and all the pieces of the universe aligned and we enjoy them by a freak chance of atomic disturbance.

That is the craziest thing I have ever heard and I believe it takes more faith to believe that than believe that Almighty God created this world and He did not need our help.

He tells Job- “Where were you when I created the foundations of the earth”?

Proverbs 30:4- “Who has gone up to heaven and come down? Who has gathered up the winds in the hollow of his hands? Who has wrapped up the waters in his cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and the name of his son? Tell me if you know?”

God Almighty tells us in his book of beginnings how He did it. Not because He would have too, but because He choose too. Because He loves us!

Day one – Let there be light! He called the light day and the darkness he called night. Light and darkness did not have a name until God created and give it a name.

Day two- water covers the earth, God separates the water and calls the upper water Sky and the lower water seas.

Day three- God made the lower water that was separated from the sky, he made ground come up out and called it “land”. The remaining water, he called seas, and the dry ground he called land. And what God saw was good! God then said let the land produce vegetation. Plants, trees, and seed bearing fruit.

Day Four- Then God said let there be light that would separate the day from the night. Two great lights, the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. Then He made the stars. Everyone named and placed and remembered. Sun, moon and stars!