Day 4 & 5
Notes
Transcript
Bob - blessing
Bob - blessing
God fills the space with Life and blesses it.
Recap
Recap
Last week
Boundaries
God’s Timing
God’s love of Variety and Constancy
Sustainability
God creates space and fills it
Read Genesis 1:14-23
God creates space and fills it
PICTURE
Day 4
Day 4
Sun, moon, and stars are not to be worshipped
Sun, moon, and stars are not to be worshipped
Historically people wanted to control them - or fears…
We do this - Sex, Money, & Power.
Control our security and fears
There is another way to view these… Gifts that point to God
Signs
Mark the seasons - Festivals with God.
Mark the consistency
Greater and Smaller - No names not that important.
To “govern”
Gen 1:28 Humans are to Fill the earth and govern it.
Consistency
Steadiness - operating in their given space
Oh Yeah stars
The Sun, Moon, & Stars show God’s consistency and supremacy.
Our understanding of Time and direction is from him
Horrible times that the only thing that is stable is the movement of time.
Good times - seems fast - it’s not
Day 5
Day 5
Living Creatures
Living Creatures
Fish and Birds - Big and Small
Fish and Birds - Big and Small
Fish - Big and Small
Fish - Big and Small
Salmon, catfish, Blue gill
Rotifer
Size of human red blood cell
Stack up millions of rotifers to = 1 gran of sand
Blue Whale
Ocean & Earth
up to 110 feet
190 tonnes - A large 1 story unfurnished house weights about 170 tones
The heart is the size of a small car and beats about 5 times per minute pumping 10 tons (20,000 pounds) of blood through its body.
Birds
Birds
Cranes, Turkey, Robins
Bee hummingbird
Native to cuba
about 2.2” long
1.6 grams (less than a dime)
Wings beat 80 times per second.
Ostrich
up to 9 feet tall and as much as 340 pounds
Can run up to 60 MPH
What does this say about God?
What does this say about God?
Creativity - Don’t think you can nail down who the creator is and how He thinks.
Whatever you are facing is not to complex for God!
Small and big
Best environment
Organized
God cares about them ALL
Blessed Them
Blessed Them
How we hear it
How we hear it
Religious word - before we eat, after we sneeze
Things are going well
Success / Accomplishment
Chapter 1 God Blesses - Animals, Humans, and the Sabbath.
Chapter 1 God Blesses - Animals, Humans, and the Sabbath.
How Bible uses blessed
How Bible uses blessed
Gift + Promise
The fullness of life and Empowerment
Dolphins playing
Not worried
Personalities
Roosters crowing
Dolphins don’t take jumping classes
Penguins don’t take swimming lessons
instinct
The way they fill the earth is given by God
Multiplication / Abundance
He is not a God of limited resource
Humans think in terms of limitation
Isaac - Jacob and Esau - not limited - Gob blessed his uncle Lot
Our understanding of Blessing has to start here
God gives a gift and a promise
The birds we get mad at for dirtying our clean car are simply filling the space they were given.
God’s blessing is not limited
Filling the whole world with loving, carrying people is possible!
Take away’s
Take away’s
God is in control so we don’t need to manipulate things to get what we want from a limited worldview
God is in control so we don’t need to manipulate things to get what we want from a limited worldview
AKA - Sun, Moon, Stars
Sex, Money, Power
all 6 of these shows God’s Consistence and Supremacy
God’s creativity is mind blowing and GOOD at every level.
God’s creativity is mind blowing and GOOD at every level.
Use your sex, money, and power in Godly ways and it will be good at every level
God cares for every level
God’s blessings are:
God’s blessings are:
Undeserved Gift
Promise of fullness and Empowerment
Unlimited Multiplication
God Fills His Space with Life
God Fills His Space with Life
Good
Good
Small to Large
Small to Large
What life He filling your life with right now
