God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – Created Us based on Genesis 1:1-2:4a

I. Evolution is popular theory.

II. Genesis 1 shows God as the Creator.

III. Problems with evolution.

IV. Amazing growth of corn plants.

V. God is the Trinity.

John 1:1-3 tells us, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.” Genesis 1:26-28 tells us, [Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”]

Our Gospel lesson lets us know that people are to be baptized in the name of the Triune God. Jesus tells us in Matthew 28:19-20, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Peter spoke about the Triune God on the Day of Pentecost as our second Bible reading tells us in Acts 2:32–33, “This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses. Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.”

VI. First rebellion led to the promised Savior, Jesus.

VII. Why read Genesis 1?