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Intro:
[SERMON BUMPER VIDEO] - Apollo 8 astronauts reading from
Noteworthy that humanity’s reaction to being in space was to search for the answer to the fundamental question of existence.
First time we see our beautiful planet we’re motivated to ask how all this got here.
The answer offered wasn’t science but scripture.
The “origin story” is as old as mankind.
The origin question the astronauts struggled with on a cosmic scale is the same question nearly every small child recognizes and asks of her parents: “Where did I come from?”
From mommy and daddy.
This answer will suffice for a short while but eventually we seek more fulfilling explanations.
In the 21st c. it is unfashionable and “simplistic” to say that everything exists because God made it.
But that is precisely the answer given over 5,000 years ago in the beginning of God’s revelation to mankind.
His words to His creation.
We call this collection the Bible.
It makes sense to begin in the beginning to study the Bible with the goal of being transformed.
[IMAGE] Memory verse.
Engaging the Text
In the beginning - We orient ourselves to the world by time and location, beginnings and endings.
Space.
God - The agent of creation.
Unlike the pagan origin stories, God exists before anything materializes.
the pagan stories have the material world first and gods created from the struggle between chaos and order.
Created - God is over and supersedes anything in the universe.
He is eternal, matter is temporary.
God has ultimate control over the creation.
Bringing order from chaos.
Heavens and the earth - a simple way to say “everything.”
God is the True Origin
acts 17.1
God Has a Plan
This means that everything we experience in this world is an extension of God.
Not the other way around.
Practical implications: the environment (world) we live in is a mirror designed to reflect the glory of God (but is not God.).
By acknowledging the God created everything, we also realize that he made it “good.”
God’s Made it Good
God, who is the definition of good, looks at His creation and repeatedly declares it “good.”
Light: 1.4; Water & dry land: 1.10; plants: 1.12; Sun, moon, stars: 1.18; Fish & birds: 1.21; Animals: 1.25; Man as epitome of creation, summation of his work, very good: 1.31
He made it good to say something about Himself.
He originally made it good for us to manage.
While “good” was cursed by the Fall, God still has a plan.
God Has a Plan
In two weeks, we will cover the Fall of creation from goodness.
Enough to say that everything went badly in .
This isn’t just for humanity but for all creation.
Conclusion:
Why are WE here?
To be Christ’s agents in the plan.
But we have to start at the beginning to know where to go and why.
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