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Creation
Lotanna Uchendu / General
Advent / Creation / Genesis 1–2
Introduction
Intro To Sermon series
Good morning; today marks the first day of the advent season.
The advent season coincides with the Christmas season and is a season of anticipation.
Many people during this season anticipate time with family and friends.
Many anticipate giving and receiving gifts.
Many anticipate this season to end quickly because of the stress they may feel during this season.
The season of advent is uniquely special for us as Christians.
This season allows us to focus on the most significant and anticipated historical event.
This season will enable us to focus on the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ and the significance of that event in history for the world.
Typically, sermons during this season focus on the historical events surrounding the birth of Christ.
This season we decided to take a bird's eye view.
To examine the larger narrative of Scripture and explore the themes leading to the birth of Christ.
This advent season, we will look at the Bible's narrative by focusing on four themes of the gospel story.
We will examine the themes of Creation, The Fall, Redemption, and Consummation.
Every week we will have a message on each of those themes.
We pray that this series will equip and encourage your faith and guide you in your time in the Word by showing you that all of Scripture, Old and New Testament, is to point you to the Lord Jesus Christ.
The true reason we celebrate this season.
Amen; let's begin.
Intro to Creation Theme
I have the honor and privilege of kicking off this advent sermon series by preaching on the theme of creation.
There is so much we can uncover about the reality of creation.
We can spend several months on this topic and barely scratch the surface.
Today, I would like to do a brief survey of this theme and look at 4 points relating to creation.
Four truths we can draw from God's Word:
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We will consider the Person of Creation.
2.
Then, the Process of Creation.
3. Next, The Pinnacle of Creation.
4. Finally, we will end with the Purpose of Creation.
I don't have much time, so let's jump right into the message.
To understand the topic of creation, we must start at the beginning.
Grab your bibles and turn with me to the book of Genesis.
Today, we will primarily look at Genesis chapters 1 and 2.
Intro to Genesis
First, I want to give you a brief intro to the book of Genesis.
Genesis is the first book of the Old Testament.
It is part of the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible, also known as the Law of Moses.
The word Genesis means origins.
It gives us the only trustworthy account of the origin of life, sin, marriage, family, people groups, and every significant institution in life.
Traditionally the author of this book is ascribed to Moses.
The setting of this book covers the period from eternity past to the formation of Israel entering Egypt.
Genesis is pivotal to grasping the Nature of God, history, and human nature.
This wonderful book begins with a person.
Person of Creation
Let us now turn our attention to the first point in my message today, the Person of Creation.
We see that in the first few Words of the Bible.
Look at Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."
The creation begins with God.
God is the person of creation.
There are two things I want us to consider as they relate to God, the person of creation.
The first is that God is Eternal.
God is Eternal
Before there were mountains, rivers, plants, and animals, there was God.
Before the sun, moon, stars, planets, and cosmos, there was God.
Before anything visible and invisible existed, there was God.
God is before all things, but what or who was before God?
My wife and I take our kids through catechisms.
These are questions that teach the Christian faith.
Parents, if you seek a tool to disciple your kids take them through catechisms.
One of the first questions that we asked is, who made God?
You ask my kids that question, and they will sing to you nobody made God.
The answer to what or who was before God is nobody.
God is eternal.
All of creation, seen and unseen, has a point of origin.
All of us have a date or moment when we came into existence.
God is the only one who has no beginning.
He has always existed.
He never came into being.
The Bible never really makes an effort to explain the origin of God; it just assumes that He has always been there.
In the beginning, God.
Implied in the first four words of the Bible is the eternality of God.
Everything after God is created; the sun, moon, stars, earth, and planets are all created.
God is.
It is hard for us to grasp that truth fully because we think of everything as having a beginning.
You go to the store, look at a product, and know the product was made.
You look at your birth certificate and see your birth date, and you know you had a beginning.
We think of everything and everyone as having a beginning.
God isn't like us.
We read in Psalm 90:2, “Before the mountains were born, before you gave birth to the earth and the world, from eternity to eternity, you are God.”
He is the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End all at once.
He is eternal, but not only is He eternal, but He is also Triune.
That is the second thing I want us to see about God, The Person of creation.
God is Triune
Parallel to what we read in Genesis 1:1 is what John writes in John 1:1.
John writes, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
What John writes here in John 1:1 is similar to what we just read in Genesis 1:1.
We read again in Genesis 1:1, "in the beginning God." John writes, in the beginning, was the Word.
Notice that God and the Word are there in the beginning.
John goes on to write that the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Verse John 1:2 "He was in the beginning with God."
What can we correctly deduce from these two similar passages?
That God exists in distinct persons.
Christians call this the doctrine of the Trinity or the Triune nature of God.
The Doctrine of the Trinity is the essential Christian teaching that There is One God who exists eternally in three distinct and separate Persons.
Many skeptics and those ignorant of the Sacred Text say that the Bible does not mention the word Trinity; therefore, the Doctrine of the Trinity or the Triune nature of God is a lie.
Many, even so-called Christians, will say that the Bible does not teach that God is Triune to their condemnation.
But we read in the Bible; the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
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