Why was it "Very Good"?

Where did God come from?

When we started to look at the beginning, we realize that God exist outside of time, He is eternal. Yet I want to point you to the first ten words of Genesis once again as we start our final sermon on Genesis 1.

We find something that is hard for us to grasp, yet it will help us answer this question. In the beginning of Genesis 1:1 we find God creating three things. These things can not exist without each other.

Time, Matter, Space.

If there is no time, then when could matter and space exist?

If there is no matter, than what could exist?

If there is no space, that where could anything exist?

Yet God exits outside of Time, Matter, and Space.

Creating a trinity of elements, that are interdependent, coming into existence at His command. Each also with a trinitarian aspect.

Time: Past Present Future

Matter: Solid, Liquid Gas

Space: having height, width, and depth.

So tightly woven together that there become one. Forever linked and dependent on each other. Maybe the first picture of the trinity of God.

Descending Down

Our chapter starts with the largest and biggest thoughts that we can think. God, eternal, outside and creating time, matter and space.

Then creating light and separating it from darkness. Setting the rules for the attribute that will represent Himself. Speaking and Communicating to us, Bringing order out of chaos, (God of order) and on.

It ends with the provision of food for birds and beasts, speaking of the grass and herbs of the field.

Yet God gave two last thoughts about Himself at the end of this chapter.

Dominion:

Gen 1:26-27 “Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, 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.”

God rules over His creation and the works of His hands as well. He allows it freedom, but never does He not have the power to turn creation to His design when and where He wants.

God calming the Wind and Waves

Nebuchadnezzar is humbled in Danial 4

Proverbs 21:1 NKJV

The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, Like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes.

God creates man to rule over His creation and to visibly bear His image into this world.

Provision of God

God provided food for everything that dwells on the earth. You also notice that there is no death or meat eating from any of the animals.

God is a good God who provides for His own.

This might be why when God looks at what He created, He can say it is very good.

He had created a place to display His glory.

Psalm 19:1–4 NKJV

The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, And night unto night reveals knowledge. There is no speech nor language Where their voice is not heard. Their line has gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them He has set a tabernacle for the sun,

And He filled this place with everything needed.

Man to bear His image and rule over this creation.

To the food needed for man and animals to live, grow and prosper.

Very Good

It is into this completed picture that was made to reveal God Glory that He can now say Very Good. Only as God provides for our needs is God satisfied. He is a Provider.

Sin enters the World

How did sin change this? Did God lose His picture?

Yes He lost the perfect world that had born His image. Man was now defaced and the light of God was obscured.

Yet it allowed God to demonstrate that He would provide even for this.

We now find God as not just the provider of the sacrifice for Adam and Eve to cover their nakedness, but also promising to defeat satan through there line.

He becomes the provider and redeemer for the cursed earth and for fallen men.

Job 38:39–39:4 NKJV

“Can you hunt the prey for the lion, Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions, When they crouch in their dens, Or lurk in their lairs to lie in wait? Who provides food for the raven, When its young ones cry to God, And wander about for lack of food? “Do you know the time when the wild mountain goats bear young? Or can you mark when the deer gives birth? Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they bear young? They bow down, They bring forth their young, They deliver their offspring. Their young ones are healthy, They grow strong with grain; They depart and do not return to them.

Very Good Part 2

The very good was lost, yet it wasn’t lost completely.

God himself would now provide a sacrifice that would be complete. It would finally cleanse us from all our sin and stain.

1 John 1:7 NKJV

But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

This was also very good.

Isaiah 53:10–11 NKJV

Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities.

Matthew 3:17 NKJV

And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

Romans 8:32–37 NKJV

He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

In Christ we have able to be before God again. Pleasing, not in our works, but through the sacrifice of His Son. This is why it is so important for us to have repented and come to God through Jesus. Only through Him, can we again be pleasing to God.

As we come before the Lord tonight, we must remember that without God we have nothing and are nothing. We would only exist for His judgment. Yet with Christ, we become His Sons and Daughters. God has provided, not just a place with a home and provision, but also redeeming us from our sins, providing a sacrifice that sufficient for our need. We come as His children to remember that tonight.