The World in a Week

“The World in a Week”

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Isaac Newton had a miniature model of the solar system in his office. The sun was positioned in the center of the model with the various planets in orbit around it. One day a fellow scientist walked into his office and when he saw the model said, “My! What an exquisite thing this is! Who made it?

Isaac Newton replied, nobody! The scientist looked at Newton in amazement and said, “You must think I am a fool, of course somebody made it, and he is a genius” Isaac Newton got up, walked around the desk, and put his hand on the shoulder of his friend and said, this thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you and I know. I am not able to convince you that this mere toy is without a designer or maker; yet you profess to believe that the great original from which the design is taken has come into being without either designer or maker. Tell me by what sort of reasoning do you reach such a strange conclusion?

It is not reasonable to believe that the universe and the earth came into being without a designer and maker. When you look at a sunset, the stars, the ocean, or the mountains, you say like Isaac Newton’s friend, “My! What an exquisite thing this is! Who made it?

Is it logical to believe that an explosion in a printing press could produce a dictionary? NO! And it is not logical to believe that a big bang 5 billion years ago is what has produced the universe and earth.

In 1859, Charles Darwin wrote his book, the origin of the species, and in that book he proposed to tell us where we came from.

It is based on his idea of natural selection, and how man has evolved over billions of years, it is based on the wild imagination of Charles Darwin.

Evolution is a theory, presented as a fact, but it is not scientific, logical, or reasonable.

Richard Dawkins an evolutionary scientist believes Charles Darwin has answered the question “why is there mankind" he believes like Darwin that we evolved from a single cell organism, and evolved over billions of years into man. He refuses to believe in God and refuses to believe in the miraculous, yet what he believes is beyond miraculous!

Evolution is a bias against God, it is not based on fact, it is fiction, it is man attempted to erase God, and it is a lie from Satan!

Man is much more than the top of the food chain, more than a gene machine as Dawkins calls us, and more than just a higher form of animal life.

The evolutionist isn’t right about the origin of the species, and they are not right about the destiny of the species. The Bible, not Charles Darwin tells us where we come from and why we’re here and where we’re going when we leave here.

Right here in we find the origin of the species; we are told that God created everything in 6 days. I want us to see God as He creates; and I pray that we will sit in amazement as we see how creative, wise, caring, and powerful our creator is; and to think He loves me, and wants me to know Him! Praise His Holy Name!!

We see the steps of creation in these verses, step #1 we see how:

1. God Forms the Earth.

In the first three days of creation we see how God forms the earth.

V:1-2-“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void: and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

We are introduced to God, Elohim the God of power, the creator God, who exists in three person, father, son, and spirit. And all three are involved in creation.

· Day one.

Day one starts with the Holy Spirit of God hovering over the formless, void, dark earth in V:2.

The earth is disorderly and empty; it is not ready for habitation. But God is going to speak and work and when He is done it will be a beautiful home for man.

Someone said,” Just as the potter, when he wishes to fashion a beautiful vessel, takes a lump of clay, and places it upon his wheel in order to mold it according to his wish, so the Creator first prepared for Himself the raw material … with a view to giving it order and life”

V:2-“The earth was without form, void, darkness; and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters”

Have you ever seen a bird stationary in the air by fluttering its wings? That is the picture here; the Spirit of God is hovering like a bird over the darkness in preparation for day one. The Spirit of God is at work, and then in V:3-“And God said..

Not only was the Spirit of God involved in creation, but the word of God was involved in creation. And God said occurs 10 times in chapter one.

-“By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host”.

V:3-5-“And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

We know that the sun and moon where not created until day four, so for the first three days light shone from a source other than the sun, what was the source of that light. The Bible begins with light but no sun and ends the same way:

-“And night will be no more, and they will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever”

, says God wears light like a garment, and , says God is life and light.

God saw the light was good and separated the day from the night, and the evening and the morning was the first day.

Six times we find this phrase “The evening and the morning were the first day, second day, third day…

The geologists tell us that the earth is billions of years old, and that it evolved over those billions of years. And that there is no way the earth was formed in 6 days.

And there are Christians who say well maybe the days are not 24 hour days, because they are trying to make the bible coincide with geology.

But I believe that God created this world in 6- 24 hour days.

The bible says the “evening and the morning were the first day”

A day is marked by the time it takes for the earth to rotate on its axis one time, a 24 hour period. I believe God created this world in 6-24 hour days, I don’t have any problem believing that; God could have made it all in 6 seconds it he wanted to! He is God, Elohim; the mighty God of creation.

It you make these days some long period of time, you have some real problems, for example on the third day you have plant life created, and then on day four you have the sun created. If these days are not literal 24 hours days, but millions of years, how does plant life exist without the sun? If these are geological ages, you would have hundreds of thousands of years of plant life and no sunlight, and that is impossible. Then you have animal life on day 5 and 6 and everybody knows that animal life and plant life are interdependent. The animals take in oxygen and give out carbon dioxide, and the plants take in carbon dioxide and give out oxygen.

Many plants cannot exist without the pollination of little insects, and so they could not have been created hundreds and thousands of years apart.

God created it all in 6 days; -“And in six days the Lord made heaven and the earth, the sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day. Wherefore, the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it." Moses believed that God did it in six literal days because he's referring to the Sabbath which is a literal day, a literal 24-hour period.

-“Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.

It would take a miracle to create this world in 6 days, Ok, is there a problem? Not for God, He is a miracle working God!

Day one-light, and the separation of day, and night.

· Day two.

V:6-8-Read.

God created a separation between the waters above and the waters below, this was a horizontal separation. God separated the waters below, that would become the oceans, lakes, rivers, from the

waters above that would be the clouds over the earth.

It is the blue we see. God called it V:8- “Sky or heaven”

· Day three.

V:9-13-Read.

The earth is warmed by His light; there is an atmosphere with clouds in the sky and a sparkling sea. Now on day three God speaks two times; first He gathers the waters into their place and makes dry land appear. The dry land he called earth and the waters He called seas-plural.

The he spoke again on day three, V:11-12, God said let there be grass, vegetation, and trees yielding fruit.

God puts color and beauty and food on the earth; food for the birds and animals and man that He will create on day 5 and 6.

There is a phase that begins to be used in these verses that is used 10 times in the rest of chapter one, “After his kind”

The fruit trees would yield fruit after his kind, the fish and the birds would reproduce after his kind, and the animals will reproduce after their kind.

The things that God made reproduce after their kind; Dogs reproduce dogs, cats reproduce cats, apples reproduce apples, pears reproduce pears. Men reproduce men, there's a law written in to nature that things reproduce after their kind.

There is not one single fossil record of any species crossing over into another, not one! It's just a law of nature that those things don't happen. Of course, that would have to happen if evolution were true. One thing of one kind would have to become another kind, which would have to become another... a worm would have to become a fish and a fish would have to become an amphibian. And an amphibian would have to become a reptile, and a reptile would have to become a bird, and bird would have to become a mammal, and a mammal would have to become a man. They would have to move from kind to kind to kind, but there is no evidence that has ever happened, because everything reproduces after its kind. But what about the ape like men in the Smithsonian, and the British museum, and on the discovery channel? When you read the history behind the bones that they have put together to create a half ape/half man you quickly discover that they took great liberties to build their so-called ape-man:

· Piltdown man- was supposed to be the remains of a ape-man, early human.

He was made using the jaw bone of an ape, and the skull of a man, it was believed for 40 years.

The Piltdown man was believed to be an ape-man until the truth came out that it was a hoax, created to push the lie of evolution.

· Nebraska man- was heralded as the first primate of North American.

The entire Nebraska man, an ape looking man was built from a tooth. They took a tooth and drew an entire ape looking man.

Don’t be fooled by the so-called missing links that have been put in the museum around the world, there are no missing links! There is no evidence which would show man developing step by step from lower forms of life. There is nothing to show that man is in any way connected with monkeys.

God said, monkeys will reproduce monkeys, and men will reproduce men.

The second law of thermodynamics says that things left to themselves tend toward disorder and chaos, not toward order and complexity.

The evolutionist believes that man is on his way up; but the bible tells us that man was created perfect and fell into sin and is on his way down.

God said the things He created would produce after their kind and they always have! Step #1:God forms the Earth.

Step #2:

2. God Fills the Earth.

V:14-26.

· Day four.

V:14-19-Read.

God created the sun, moon and stars; they are not to be worshipped, God who made them is to be worshipped.

It is amazing to me that God only used 5 words to describe the creation of the constellations.

V:16-“he made the stars also”

No big deal for God, he thought it and willed it, and it was! What a perspective of what God values; the bible uses 5 words to tell us about the creation of the millions and millions of stars. But the bible gives 50 chapters to tell us about the tabernacle and the way of redemption through the shed blood of a substitute.

5 words about the creation of the stars, and 50 chapters about redemption; the salvation of man is more important to God than anything else, and it should be to us as well.

God is more interested in people than he is in planets; he cares more about souls than he does about stars!

· Day five.

V:20-23.

God is going to begin to fill the seas and the earth with animal life.

V:20-“The seas literally swarmed with living things, there were whales, sharks, crocodiles; swordfish, schools of tuna and dolphin and thousands of lesser colorful fish.

And above in the sky birds filled the air, eagles, ravens, sea gulls, geese, ducks, woodpeckers, finches, cardinals. The skies and seas are filled with astonishing variety, all from the mind of God.

“And God saw that it was good.”

As a result he blessed his new creatures and commanded them to increase and grow, giving them with the ability to reproduce after their kind.

We are told that there are 30 thousand kinds of fish, and 9 thousand kinds of birds, and our great God created them all. Everything didn’t evolve from a single cell, God made every creature with great variety.

· Day six.

V:24-25-Read.

These two verses tell us that God created every kind of animal there is! All creatures great and small, the Lord made them all.

Scientists tell us that there are more than 800 thousand different kinds of insects, 6 thousand kinds of reptiles, and 5 thousand kinds of mammals. And the mind of God created them all!

So when we see a sun rise, or a sun set, remember the heavens declare the glory of God!

Whether you look through a telescope and see the galaxy or a microscope and see the complexity of the human cell, God is the one who created it all!

V:26-“And 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

God made all this for man, God loves man, God wants you to see him in creation and worship him!

Creation is meant to point us to the creator, creation is preaching a message to man.

-“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows his handiwork, day unto day utters speech, and night unto night shows knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

The creation is preaching to us every day, it is saying loud and clear, there is a creator God.

tells us how God created this world, but there is in the creation story a beautiful illustration of how God makes a new creation out of a sinner.

The bible calls a person who gets saved a new creation, -“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

When you look at the creation of the earth and the new creation you see a parallel between them.

I believe Paul used the world “creation” because he wanted us to see the parallel between salvation and the creative work of God in .

· The earth was without form, void and dark.

The description of planet earth in V:1, as dark, empty, and lifeless is a picture of the condition of every man, woman, and young person without Jesus, the giver of spiritual life.

The bible tells us we are in spiritual darkness, says, "Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart."

We are born in darkness, and we are spiritual dead in sin, empty on the inside.

· Creation involves the Holy Spirit.

V:2-“and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Apart from the work of the Holy Spirit no sinner would ever get saved! What could that creation do apart from the Spirit of God? What can a poor lost sinner do apart from the Spirit of God? Nothing!

It is the Holy Spirit who convicts us of sin,

, , “when he, the Spirit of truth is come, he will convince the world of sin and righteousness and of judgment. Thank God for the moving of the Spirit, the conviction of the Holy Spirit that showed us our sin, and revealed the savior to us!

It is the Holy Spirit that convicts us, and it is the Holy Spirit that comes to live in us giving us spiritual life, and it is the Holy Spirit that witnesses to us and assures us that we are the children of God. There's the moving of the Spirit, to bring about a new creation.

· Creation involves the word of God.

V:3-“and God said…

9 times in the creation story we find the phrase “God said” God accomplishes His will through His word. ,-“By the word of the Lord were the heavens made…for He spoke and it was so”

The Spirit of God uses the Word of God to convict sinners, and to impart faith, and to give life to those who trust Jesus. God uses the word to transform our lives when we read it and obey it.

It takes the Word of God for you to be saved.

I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation. We’re born again, not by corruptible seed but by incorruptible, by the Word of God.

· Creation involves light.

V:3-“and God said, let there be light…

The apostle Paul saw light as necessary for a new creation to take place.

-“For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

The New Testament tells us that Jesus is the light; and if Jesus has not entered your heart you are still in the darkness of sin.

Maybe this morning, right now the light is shining in your heart and you see that you are lost, in darkness. Come to the light, come to Jesus and be made a new creation, with light and life! After life comes fruitfulness and life that will bring glory to God!

The first creation is a picture of how God makes a new creation out of us; we are in darkness and God sends His Spirit to move upon our hearts, the Word of God speaks to our dead hearts, light comes, life comes, and fruitfulness comes.

It can happen to you, if happened to me as a teenage boy, I prayed, Lord Jesus, come into my heart and saved me. And He did, I am a new creation in Christ Jesus! God, who created this world, can make a new creation out of you, if you will trust Jesus this morning!!