Let There Be Light - Creation Day 1 Series

Introduction

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve shared with you the impossibility of evolution. This is not a philosophical argument, but a theological fact. Evolutionists seek to dispose of God, especially the God of the Bible. Evolution, the gospel, and our salvation are impossibly compatible. When it comes to God’s intelligent design, every living thing has a DNA code programmed with the exact information to produce, preserve, and repair that living thing. It has no less than and no more than that necessary information.

When you think about the complexity of all of creation, it is absolutely staggering. Honest scientists will admit that life had to be designed by an almighty, intelligent God. Think about a 747 which is made up of six million components. As I said last week. What is the probability that a 747 would be fully assembled in a junkyard by a tornado? That’s what science is trying to explain with time+matter+chance with a universe infinitely more complex than a 747.

The more science looks at life, the more complex it becomes. The body, for example, is made up of trillions of cells. In just one of those cells, one out of trillions, the amount of information, the amount of genetic information in one of those cells has been estimated to fill at least one thousand books of five hundred pages. That’s to run one cell out of trillions in one human body. In one gram of DNA, enough to fill a teaspoon, we could store all the information currently on all the world’s computers. Where did, or rather from whom did all this information come?

In 1989 scientist Henry Morris wrote an excellent book called, The Long War Against God. “Evolution’s lie permeates and dominates modern thought in every field. That being the case, it follows inevitably that evolutionary thought is basically responsible for the lethally ominous political developments and the chaotic moral and social disintegrations that have been accelerating everywhere.” He goes on in his book to show how everything from genocide, to fornication, to abortion, to all matters of the destruction of human dignity, not seeing man as made in the image of God, to crime, to drugs, and everything else is all a part of the result of a materialistic, humanistic universe without God. And so, says Morris, “Evolution is nothing more than the pervasive modern version of the conflict of the ages, the long war against God.”

Now, creation is not just a topic of the introduction to Genesis. The identity of God as our creator and redeemer is permeated throughout the entire Bible. Nowhere in the Bible is God separated from His sovereignty over all creation as a creator. From the Old Testament straight through to the New Testament. You cannot know who God is without first understanding that He and He alone is the sovereign over all of creation and before I get into Day 1 of creation, I want you to look at a few verses with me.

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19 For what can be known about God is plain to them because God has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. (Romans 1:19–20?)

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. (John 1:1–3)

3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. (Hebrews 11:3)

16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. (Colossians 1:16)

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32 “For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of. (Deuteronomy 4:32)

1 Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord from the heavens; praise him in the heights! 2 Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his hosts! 3 Praise him, sun and moon, praise him, all you shining stars! 4 Praise him, you highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens! 5 Let them praise the name of the Lord! For he commanded and they were created. (Psalm 148:1–5)

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5 Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it: (Isaiah 42:5)