Gtcotr/ws010913
Key Scripture: Genesis 1
1 ¶ In the beginning God
created the heavens and the earth.
2 The earth was without form,
and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of
God was hovering over the face of the waters.
3 ¶ Then God said, "Let
there be light"; and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that
it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 God called the light Day,
and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first
day.
31 ¶ Then God saw everything
that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the
morning were the sixth day.
Commentary: Do not be deceived
and imagine that the best and the brightest the world has to offer are either
the best or the brightest. Look around … this is where the world’s best and
brightest have gotten us so far: Starvation, disease, war, famine, poverty,
drugs, violence, crime, divorce, prostitution, illiteracy, and world chaos not
to mention pollution, national debt, unemployment, overcrowded jails, teenage
pregnancies, abortion, or chemical warfare.
Just
because someone has a few letters after their name, lives in Hollywood or wins
some public popularity contest by a few votes and is thereby declared president
of the United States, we cannot imagine they hold the keys to all truth – or
any truth for that matter.
Archeologists,
anthropologists, paleontologists, biologists, analysts, scientists of all sorts
along with historians and philosophers in every age can only give a personal
best guess concerning creation based on their interpretations of things which
they did not witness. Some of them have done very well but many are way off
base. Unfortunately, it seems that the farther away from God a theory leads,
the more palatable it becomes to the world. This is often the dominant factor
considered in the equation we know as world consensus. The world is not driven
by truth but rather by lusts, sex, money, power and position.
To
learn how the world was made and what actually happened in the beginning, we
need to listen to someone who was there … that would be God – He holds the only
eye witness account. Where man’s imaginations, estimations or calculations
differ from God’s account, reckon man’s calculations wrong. You don’t have to
be any smarter than that … indeed you cannot be any smarter than that!
Neither
the big bang theory nor the theory of evolution can account for God having
created all things. The Bible says that in the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth. (Genesis 1:1) Hebrews 11 verse 3 confirms that God
created the things we now see from things which could not be seen. God does not
tell us the duration of time between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:3. It could have
been one instant, one moment, one thought or one billion years – we do not
know. However, scriptures clearly tell us that once God moved closer to the
problem and decided what He would do, in other words from verse 3 on, that God
worked six days furnishing the earth as a habitation for His creations and He
made it all, as it would appear to us, from nothing but His Wisdom and His
Word. Then on the seventh day He rested from His labor.
For
the Believer to believe anything else would be to not believe.
1.
The definition of a believer is one who accepts God’s
Word as truth realizing that: God does not tell us everything
2.
God can
make something out of nothing
3.
God does
not distance Himself from His problems
4.
God is a
God of priorities. He made provision first priority in each case.
5.
The
Genesis story of creation is the eye witness account of our Creator.
Exodus 31:17 … for in
six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He
rested and was refreshed.
