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Objectives:
To Know—God created light/darkness, sky/sea, land/vegetation, and then filled it with sun/moon/stars, birds/fish, and people, after which he declared it very good and rested on the seventh day.
To Realize— Everything was created by God to reflect His divine nature and harmoniously work under His authority.
To Respond by—bowing to God’s authority over His Creation.
Setting up the Story:
A few months ago I was talking with a woman who is about 10 years younger than I am and we got on the topic of how she had put her faith in Jesus.
She grew up on the West Coast and had no religious upbringing at all.
And she had all sorts of ideas about the falseness of the Bible and why she couldn’t trust it.
Her senior year of high school she was supposed to be an exchange student to Australia and through a last minute change of plans she was sent to a Christian school in Japan.
The family she was staying with lived 3 hours ONE way from the school, so she had 6 hours on the train every day to get to the school.
NO ONE spoke English so she was immersed in Japanese.
The school only had ONE book in English—a King James Bible, and that seemed old and difficult to understand.
BUT…since it was in English and since she had six hours on a train every day—she started reading it.
And she got so mad when she started—the Bible was filled with inaccuracies.
So she decided she was going to find all the contradictions and inaccuracies to prove to herself how unreliable the Bible was.
She started making a list.
And the reason I bring this story up, because if someone wanted to write a lot of questions down very quickly, all they would have to do is go to …the section of the Bible we are studying.
There is SO MUCH that we are not given an explanation for!
There are SO MANY questions either we have or people have raised.
And in high school, I was interested in all these questions and read both sides of the issues.
If you need to go through that process, then there’s nothing wrong with writing out all your questions—and I’ve given you this piece of paper to do that.
But today we aren’t going to try to understand the information we aren’t given, but gain an understanding of what we ARE given.
Where does the Bible history start?
In the beginning… in fact, that’s what the Greek word Genesis means: the birth of something or the beginning of something.
So what are some of the very first things we learn about GOD?
He is eternal.
He is self-existent.
Outline:
Day One: Light/Dark
A. God said
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Read Gen 1:1-5
God says—what?
“let there be light.”
What is the result?
God says—what?
“let there be light.”
What is the result?
LIGHT!
God calls it into existence and it exists.
B. LIGHT!
God says—what?
“let there be light.”
What is the result?
LIGHT!
God calls it into existence and it exists.
(Turn off the lights in the room.)
Watch—what happens when we say, “LIGHT!”? Nothing!
Things don’t happen because we SAY for them to happen.
But when God gives His WORD for something to happen—the light obeys His voice.
Day/Night
C. It was so.
D. It was good.
So what do we see about GOD?
Well, God is light—but now His Creation is separate from Himself, but REFLECTS something about Him.
Everything He makes is going to show something about His character.
This is not pantheistic—that God is a part of all nature.
Nature is distinct from God, but reflects Him.
Day Two: Sky/Waters
A. God said
Write DAY 2 on the board.
“Then God said…” What?
Describe expanse…sky going between waters above and below.
(Not sure what this looks like; except later during the Flood the “waters above” break open.”)
WHO said for this to happen?
GOD.
Imagine just sky and water.
(little containers with water)
Listen.
Is there any wind or just stillness?
How many have been on a boat where you can’t see any land—just sky and water?
What words would you use to describe that?
VAST.
GREAT.
Power.
B. SKY!/waters
C. It was so.
D. It was good.
Day Three: Land/Vegetation
Write DAY 3 on the board.
A. God said
B. Land!/Sprout Vegetation!
“Then God said…” What is next?
We actually have 2 times God says something.
First—land.
He is molding and giving shape to the waters below the expanse.
That’s why they are called seas—because now they have shape as defined by the land.
We are going to add land into our worlds.
Take playdoh and put some land into it!
C. It was so.
D. It was good.
Blue Ridge Parkway, Rocky Mountains, Cascades!
First—land.
He is molding and giving shape to the waters below the expanse.
That’s why they are called seas—because now they have shape as defined by the land.
We are going to add land into our worlds.
Take playdoh and put some land into it!
Blue Ridge Parkway, Rocky Mountains, Cascades!
What words would you use to describe standing on a mountain?
GRANDEUR, MAGNIFICENCE!
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