The Necessity Of The Creation In The Gospel - Part 2 Series

We’re back again for week 2 of our series in the creation. If you weren’t here I want to encourage you to watch last week’s message on our website. We’re talking about beginnings and especially as we begin this new church called CrossWay Christian Fellowship, I felt it was important for us to examine the idea of creation as it relates to the gospel. Literally, how you understand creation will ultimately bring clarity or confusion to your understanding of the gospel.

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

There are only two options when it comes to creation. The two options are: there is a God who personally created everything, including you, or there is not. Those are the only two options. If there is not, then everything is an impossible, implausible, irrational result of chance. And the equation that I gave you last week is “nothing + nothing cannot equal something.

If God is not the creator, then He is not the sovereign. If creation did not take place according to how Genesis records it, then we are without hope because evolution deposes God from His throne. So why do we as Christian continue to take our interpretation of Genesis from secular scientists who wants nothing more than to get rid of the God of the Bible? These same people want to alleviate themselves from accountability, morality, and God’s final judgment. As I explained to you last week if God is not our creator, then He is not our Redeemer, and He will not have the authority to create new heavens and new earth as the New Testament tells us.

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Psalm 19:1The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.

Creation and evolution are incompatible. As we study the creation account you see how theistic evolution is impossible if we hold this creative account as the final authority. If this universe is the product of a Creator God with an infinite amount of intelligence and power, is it possible for us to know Him and if so, are we anything more than a well-developed monkey to Him or a product of primordial slime? Or is there something more and can we know Him? Well, there’s only one answer, if He created us and if He chose to tell us; that’s the only way we can ever know. Not only did he create us. Not only did he choose to reveal Himself and provide for us His revelation. But He Himself crossed through all time to enter His creation as the person of Jesus so that we can know the way

I cannot overemphasize the point that creation is the basis of everything else. It is not merely an issue of biology, but it affects our morality, our view of redemptions, salvation, sin, the family, marriage, our community relationships, the sanctity of life, and the dignity of men. If we are nothing more than animals with advanced brains, then how we related to each other and other animals is vastly different.

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Psalm 19:4–6 Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, 5 which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy. 6 Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them, and there is nothing hidden from its heat.

One of the things that science has discovered in modern times is that the sun is in orbit. We talk about the sun as the center of our solar system and everything orbiting around it. However, the sun itself has an orbit, and this orbit goes from one end of the infinite space to the other. The sun is moving and dragging our entire solar system with it. It is not fixed any more than the things that revolve around it are fixed. So the psalmist says you can look up and you can look at the universe and look at the creation and it gives you loud testimony to the glory of God, to the majesty of His intelligence, to the massive character of His power to create all of this.

Hebrews 1 also tells us that God made the world and it is a testimony to His infinite power, the wisdom of knowledge. Everything about this requires of you one thing: faith.

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Hebrews 1:10 And, “You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of your hands;

If you reject God as creator, then you reject God as all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-encompassing. The only way you are going to know Him is through faith. We are natural; God is supernatural. The natural cannot comprehend the supernatural; so on our own, we can’t find God. We’re locked in a time-space world unable to crawl out of it and into eternity to comprehend what is incomprehensible. No scientist, no matter how smart they claim they may be cannot even begin to comprehend the majesty of God or His creative power. The only things we know about God are those things that He has told us, and that’s why He gave us the Bible. Do you believe that?