Signs Of Life Begin To Appear! Series

Alpha and Omega, Part 3

Signs of life begin to appear!

Genesis 1:9-19

Introduction

- We’ve begun the year with “one purpose”: Knowing there is a God!

-- Just as a building requires a builder, a creation must have a Creator

- Continuing our series, “Alpha and Omega”; looking at the beginning to the end

-- Studying two critical questions: How did we get here? How does it end?

- Last week’s big ideas:

1. The heavens and the Earth initially consisted of water

-- God’s Spirit moved across the deep and He engaged the waters

-- This action began the formation of what we see and know

2. God physically separated and cut an expanse (space) between the waters

-- Simply put: Some water went up and some water stayed down

- APP: Don’t overcomplicate this …

-- This gives “fools” a chance to argue every little thing …

-- We don’t have to be God’s defense attorney, merely, ones who know Him!

-- When we know what we know, we are able to speak to it plainly

- It is through FAITH that we understand and believe what God has done

-- This same faith gives us hope in Jesus, a redeemer sent by God to save us

- Let’s look at our passage for today … Read Genesis 1:9-19 / Pray

Point 1 – God said, “Let dry ground appear”

- OK, let’s try to get some of the obvious items out of the way

-- Within one day (again: 24 hours) God has created the land & plants

-- We’ve been around long enough to know that growth like that is impossible

-- Matthew 19:23-26, “Then Jesus said to his disciples, “I tell you the truth, it is very hard for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. I’ll say it again—it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God! The disciples were astounded. “Then who in the world can be saved?” they asked. Jesus looked at them intently (expound: purposefully) and said, “Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But with God everything is possible.”

- The critical person may want to point out that we’ve used the same book to prove what we want to prove … so everything is very skewed in your favor, right?

- Wrong! RE: Scripture is where our faith is founded

-- And if our faith is founded here, then (IMP) Scripture testifies TO scripture

-- APP: A Christian MUST use scripture to validate scripture; it is our plumbline!

-- BIG: If we don’t trust scripture, can we really have faith in Jesus to redeem?

- This is why we mustn’t be afraid to use God’s word to speak truth on the subject

-- It doesn’t need an expert’s approval, or even an educator’s “thumbs up”

-- Faith requires us to know what we believe, because you have experienced Him!

- Reword: Just because an educated scientist says so, doesn’t make it fact

-- IMP: Remember who gave that scientist the brain in his head!

- (v9) God speaks, and it happens (action verb used is “let”)

-- Hebrew: qavah; to bind together, to collect (very word describes the action)

- God speaks this existence and it becomes permanent in its location

-- How do we know it’s permanent? The words used: “That is what happened”

-- Hebrew: hayah; to come to pass; to become (aka “It was so”)

-- Unimaginable … isn’t it? The very voice of God put land masses in place!

- Two weeks ago we saw a formless Earth (v1), and now dry land forms

-- As the land arose, the water was pushed to its gathering place (seas / oceans)

-- Consider this awe-inspiring movement and the response of creation

-- Ask: What keeps the water in place today? Ever see how a spill reacts …. ?

- TR: We have dry land, and we have seas in their place … so now what?

-- Don’t miss this: When God speaks …

Point 2 – The seeds in the ground obey God’s voice

- Why? They must! He is the Creator, and they respond to His voice

-- So, the discipleship question here is, “Will we respond also?” (later msg)

- Obvious point: Plants, trees, grass, etc. all appears because God said it (v11)

-- APP: This demonstrates God’s absolute sovereignty over all things

-- Once again, growth like this does not happen overnight – we can testify to that

-- But see: Even a small as a seed - that we might dismiss - responds to Him!

- However, this is where evolutionists strike at a believers faith (or lack of)

-- So, I really want to spend some time on v11-12 for our own good here