Creation Series, Part 6
Genesis 1:24-25
Introduction
- We are right in the middle of a series discussing the Creation of everything we see
- 1) We have a Creator, He is God, and He has given us a clear account of His story
- 2) What we find ourselves in is a situation that separates all of us: Do we believe?
-- If you do not believe this account, you fall into one of these two categories:
- Theistic Evolutionist: Believes that God is real, yet He used evolution to evolve all things in this world to include the creation of mankind
- Naturalistic Evolutionist (which most non-believers are): Believes that everything evolved by accident, and that there is no God nor Creator
-- Evolution uses the formula: “Nobody times Nothing equals Everything!”
-- This is absolutely the wrong angle for us and is at the heart of our beliefs
- Before we can even see the Redeemer, who is Jesus, we must see the Creator
-- We must see the Glory of a Creator who specifically put each thing into place
- APP: If we cannot see the work of the Creator; can we see the work of a Messiah?
- As a believer, we have to be willing to refute the commentaries of today
- Scientists, teachers, and pundits from all walks of life wish to denounce Creation
- It is critical that we are able to demonstrate a clear logic in our thinking
-- But, not only clear logic … but a Biblically based explanation to the Creation account
- IMP: There is NOTHING in scripture that supports something evolved from anything
- What we have seen to date is that God has created:
1. The Earth
2. The skies above (including the atmosphere)
3. The land and the seas
4. The vegetation that we see around us
5. The lights in the sky (to include the sun and the stars)
6. (This morning) the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky
- Stand and read Genesis 1:24-25
- Pray
Point 1 – Why must we know what Creation is about?
- Rev John Macarthur wrote, “My friend Ron handed me a little article out of the Los Angeles Times from Friday, June 25...just a couple of weeks ago. It says, "A Delta II rocket carried a NASA telescope off Cape Canaveral Thursday on a three-year, 204 million dollar mission to try to discover the origin of the universe." Now that's 204 of your million dollars, and mine, to try to find out what's in the first chapter of Genesis. Amazing.”
- It is amazing to consider how much we spend to examine what is written right here
- This evening we are going to just take a sneak peak at Day 6 of creation
- It is important that we set up the foundation for the crowning of God’s creation
-- So that we will understand the magnificence of His final creation; mankind
- This morning we examined the creation of the fish and the birds
-- Things that were commanded to reproduce; according to its own kind
-- When they reproduced, God spoke a blessing upon them (Gen 1:23)
-- This is God’s stamp of approval that not only were they good: but to make more
- Rev 22:18-19 is something I want each of us to consider this evening and for the remainder of this series: “For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book. And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.”
- When God speaks and gives direction as to how things are/were; that settles it!
- We must be VERY cautious about putting our own stamp on these things
-- God did not ask our opinion; He does not ask for our “ok”; He asks for worship
- APP: Thus, we must be purposely expository (“A well-written exposition remains focused on its topic and lists events in chronological order”, - Wikipedia)
-- There is no opinion in what is being said; it simply represents the facts … period
- The Creation account is just that; it is expository and it is where we find ourselves
-- Just like the examination we are doing in Galatians on Wednesday nights
-- There is more than meets the eye (more than words on paper); there is God’s intention
- TRANS: When we see what God is says in verses 24 and 25, the meaning is clear!
Point 2 – Creating what lives on land
- (v24) “And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.”
- First God says it: He commands these things to be in place and to reproduce
- Then God does it: He creates these things purposely by His specific design
- (v25) “And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.”
- By the way, they didn't evolve. They were created instantaneously; spoken to life
- The Bible gives three simple categories: cattle, creeping things, beasts of the earth.
1. Cattle (“behemah” - quadrupeds): Hebrew scholars agree, is a word that speaks of animals which can be tamed & domesticated for man's use (dogs, horses, cats, donkey).
2. Creeping things (“remes”): Insects, rodents, as well as snakes and amphibians, etc. Things that are low to the ground, small, etc. (also can be those non-domesticated)
3. Beasts of the Earth (“beir” – a brute beast): elephants, lions, bears, etc. (Things that are untamed and still were created for a specific purpose, according to God’s plan
- These creatures were formed from the ground; and from the ground they came forth
- The Earth brings these things from itself, hence the decomposition into …. Dust!
-- The things that God used to create these (from the Earth) is what He used for us
- God says “let the Earth bring forth” (Hebrew: “yalad” – to bear; beget)
- “It was so”; means those items are permanent and those are things are non-changing
- What’s very important to grasp here is the order of things that have been created
-- We’ve seen the Earth, the atmosphere, the land and seas, the plants and vegetation
-- Then we have the creatures in the sea, the animals on the land …
-- And now, we get to the crown of God’s creation – the vision of what WE are to Him
Conclusion
- What more could God do to this Earth to create it after saying “It is good”?
- He brings us life because He desires to fellowship with you and I; completely
- Will you respond to His calling to fellowship with Him?
- Pray
