God, Creator of the World

Introduction

I hope you had fun creating different things today.

1. You all learned sign language and created dance.

2. You all played soprano recorders and bucket drums and created music.

3. You used your hands to make and create works of art.

4. You sang in choir a few moments ago and you created song.

I hope that you all learn to grow in your creativity, because the things that you create can bring joy and happiness to someone else’s life. How many of you like to:

Read - Someone wrote that book.

Watch TV - Someone created that cartoon or worked hard to become and actor.

Listen to Music: - Someone had to play the instruments and sing the songs.

Eat - Someone has to fix good food for you to eat.

When we created, we are sharing our joy with other people.

While we are all creators, the greatest Creator is God.

Body

Amos 4:13 // For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth - the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!

This passage tells us two things:

God created everything, and He controls everything he created.

You can know Him.

This week, no matter now many cool things you learn, I don’t want you to forget these two things. God created everything, and you can know Him.

Genesis 1

God created everything FOR you to know Him.

Day One: God created light and darkness, and God separated the day from the night.

Cool Fact:

1. Light moves at 186,282.4 miles per second.

2. This means that if you could run as fast as the speed of light, you could run around the entire earth 7.5 times every second.

Day Two: God created the sea and the sky.

Cool Facts:

1. Have any of you ever been to the Smokey Mountains? The longest mountain chain in the world is actually under the ocean.

2. There is an entire sheet of ice the size of the whole United States.

Day Three: God created the dry land.

Continents move at the same pace that your fingernails grow.

We have deserts, swamps, frozen tundra, mountains, valleys, plains, plateaus, canyons, etc.

Day Four: God created the sun and the moon and the stars.

Over 1,000,000 earths could fit inside of the sun.

Inside of the sun isn’t somewhere we would want to go, because it can reach 15 million degrees.

Half of the earth is asleep right now, because the sun the earth spins, and the earth moves.

Day Five: God created the fish and the birds.

Fish actually have tastebuds all over their bodies.

There are 30,000 species of fish.

Most hummingbirds weigh less than 1 nickel!

However, ostriches weigh around 320 pounds, and can grow to 9 feet tall!

Day Six: God created the animals of the land, and he also created humans.

A grizzly bear’s bite is strong enough to crush a bowling ball!

Giant anteaters have tongues that are two feet long.

A snail can sleep for three years at a time.

There are 1,000,000 ants for every person in the world.

A bat can eat over 1,000 insects per hour.

There was a penguin, named the colossal penguin, that was taller than Lebron James.

Conclusion

Why am I telling you all of these things?

Because God created everything for a purpose. He created the world with variety, difference, and skill.

He did all of this so that you would worship Him.

Revelation 4:11 // Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things and by you will they existed.

One of the ways that we can worship God is to continue to created. We create, not so that people will worship us or think better of us. We worship by creating. When other people see the things that we have done, it calls attention to the ultimate creator, God!