Creation Series, Part 1a
Genesis 1:1-5
Introduction
- Today, we begin our series on creation; we’ll examine the foundations of our world
- For the most part, every Sunday will be a 2 part message; concluding at night
- Psalm 14:1, “Only fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and their actions are evil; not one of them does good!”
- As a building requires a builder, a creation must have a creator
- Even the energy in the universe requires a source … it requires a creator
- There is an irrational logic proving that something popped up from nothing
- We have a Creator, and this study will give us all opportunity to delve into this
- Thousands of years ago Job pondered these words …
-- Job 26:8-14, “He binds up the water in His thick clouds, Yet the clouds are not broken under it. He covers the face of His throne, And spreads His cloud over it. 1He drew a circular horizon on the face of the waters, At the boundary of light and darkness. The pillars of heaven tremble, And are astonished at His rebuke. He stirs up the sea with His power, And by His understanding He breaks up the storm. By His Spirit He adorned the heavens; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent. Indeed these are the mere edges of His ways, And how small a whisper we hear of Him! But the thunder of His power who can understand?”
- When we ponder the marvels of creation, what more would we need to hear?
- Our sun is our closest star, but it is an average size star compared to others
- Arcturus is visible with the naked eye in the sky, and is 20xs larger than the sun
- The universe holds over a billion, trillion stars – more than we can ever comprehend
-- Now, consider the words of Psalm 147:4, “He calls the stars by name”
- The universe is so large, that it is almost incomprehensible at how large it is
- Traveling at the speed of light, it would take 28 billion years or more to see it all
- God asked Job a tremendous question regarding even the smallest of creation
-- Job 38:22, “Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail …”
- What are the treasures of the snow? Ice crystals!
- Consider the beauty of what God has created by combining hydrogen and oxygen molecules. The marvel of these crystals is independent, no two are alike, just as we are to Him individual and separate; EACH of us matters to Him as individuals!
- Now, expand what it takes to have created ice crystals to what is in DNA (us)
-- A pinhead of DNA would fill a stack of books 500 times from here to the moon!
- When we consider the entire creation, one verse becomes very obvious and clear:
-- Psalm 33:8 says, “Let all the earth fear the Lord.”
- Now, with this information in our heads – let’s look at our passage for today
- Stand and read Genesis 1:1-5
- Pray
Point 1 – Believe it or Not!
- The basis of the faith … if you cannot trust the creation, what can you believe?
- Believers put their trust in Christ as the redeemer; it is the foundation of faith
- Consider for a moment then …. Who other than a Creator could redeem you?
-- APP: How can we be redeemed if the actual owner doesn’t do the redeeming?
- Consider a child who falls down outside, doesn’t a parent come running?
-- Does the child not begin to expect the parent to come redeem/save them?
-- We have a Creator who does the very same, it belongs to Him b/c He made it
- HUGE: If we cannot trust what Genesis says, we are lost in our destiny b/c if there is no Creator there is also no redeemer; which affects all of history through Revelation 22
- (v1) In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth (very straight forward)
-- Either God did it, or He didn’t – there is no middle ground on this issue
-- Depending on where you fall in with this choice, it sets the tone for the rest of it:
1. Either God created everything that we see and experience … or,
2. Things evolved by random chance and your faith cannot be in a redeemer
- The scientist Herbert Spencer said, “… everything that exists … exists in one of these five categories ... time, force, action, space and matter. Nothing exists outside of those categories.”
- This was a very astute discovery and didn't come until the nineteenth century
- Now, re-look at Genesis 1:1 and notice how it is written …
Time – In the Beginning
Force – God
Action – Created
Space – the Heavens
Matter – the Earth
- Anything that can be said of everything that exists is right here in Genesis 1:1
- APP: What we find ourselves in then is a situation what defines/separates all of us
-- If you do not believe this account, you fall into one of these two categories:
1. Theistic Evolutionist: Believes that God is real, yet He used evolution to evolve all things in this world to include the creation of mankind
2. Naturalistic Evolutionist (which most non-believers are): Believes that everything evolved by accident, and that there is no God nor Creator
-- Claims to have the solution: “Nobody times Nothing equals Everything!”
-- This is absolutely the wrong angle for us and is at the heart of our beliefs
- According to evolution, man is better than the animals, but we are the same family
-- Ingrid Newkirk (founder of PETA) said, “A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They are all mammals …” – APP: from this, we get the nonsense idea that we’re all be related
- Consider for a moment the marvelous aspect of creating from nothing:
-- Inorganic matter cannot organize itself to become organic!
-- Organic matter cannot continue to evolve to reach the level of human intelligence
-- Genetic information cannot magically appear and be formed into us by accident
- We have a Creator that cared so much for us, that He created everything we see
- “Evolution” violates the entire 1st chapter of the Word of the Lord and is dangerous ground for any part of the creation to be standing on; b/c it violates God’s 1st direction!
-- What is the first direction? Exodus 20:3, “You shall have no other gods before me.”
-- When we start trying to explain how we got here without recognizing God, we are assuming that we are god-like and know just as much (or more than) God – dangerous!
- This morning, you either believe that God created it all or He didn’t. (Period)
- We must, as believers, be prepared to defend this – to include right here, and right now
- The big question we come to then is this, “How did God do all these things?”
-- Psa 33:6-9. “By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.”
-- Bottom Line: God said it, and it was done!
- Genesis 1:1 gives us a complete and total insight into knowledge of who the Creator is
- It shows us what our Creator is possible of, and ought to change our direction in life
Conclusion
- You have a choice to make this morning … Either He is the Creator, or He’s a liar
- There is no middle ground on this issue and it is where we must answer for ourselves
- Before we can even see the Redeemer who is Christ, we must see the workmanship
- We must see the Glory of a Creator who specifically put each thing into place
- This is where it all starts, and likewise where it all ends as well (Revelation 22)
- Either God is who He said He is … or He isn’t. What is your answer?
- Pray
