God & Chaos

Why are doing this Series?

Prayer

Fundamental to understanding the Bible

Car & Tires

Basic Characteristics of God

The Purpose of the world (cosmos)

The Purpose of Humanity

The relationship between all 3

I want to be formed by God

Not for God into my understanding

Abandon all your Pre-loaded thoughts

See the Story

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

Star Wars Ep 4

Show how different the times are:

How we received our Bible

Stone

King of Moab - around the time of Ahab

~600 years before Joshua

Isaiah Scroll - Dead Sea

What does this tell us?

Technology and how we retain information is different

Phone

How we process Info is slightly different in 1 way.

We don’t memorize - calculator

However,

How we remember what is important is the same.

The Damato Origin Story

Stories and songs are most remember-able

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

The Main character is GOD!

Someone will not want to READ unless lead to it by the Spirit of God.

Exodus Story

Gen 1-11 -

The world

How it started

How it was going

DESIGN PATTERN

Gen 12-50 -

How the Family got to Egypt

Exodus

How God intervened

PROOF = FREEDOM for Egypt

The following is WHY God engage the world

Genesis 1:2 “2 The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.”

The Earth

Everything you come in contact with was:

The following describes something we understand.

Formless & Empty

Without function

Why - not How.

PC upgrades! (why are we doing this?)

The Bible starts with something we understand

Darkness

Absorbs

Offers nothing

Has no energy

Deep waters

Boat in the Ocean

Swim?

Eat?

Alone / Isolated

Afraid

Hopeless

We understand

Darkness and Deep Waters well

One Side of the parallel

The other side…

Ruwach of God

Spirit

Wind

Breath

Hovering over the surface of the waters

Present but unengaged

Total Power

Not equal

No Fear

Function

energy

Substance

Usefulness

MAIN CHARACTER! - What does all this say about God?

Present

Power

Control

Order - Next week

Unequal

What does all this say?

The main character is God.

His characteristics are no match for what we all understand

Water…

Remember the Exodus Story

God parts the water of the Red Sea

Jesus Sleeps on the Boat

You many know:

Fear,

Loneliness

Hopelessness

But I know I God who is

Powerful

Unequaled

Never afraid of chaos.