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Tonight we embark on a new study that I am super excited about.
And this study takes us all the way back… to page one in the Bible.
Tonight… we begin our study of the book of Genesis.
I enjoy studying this book as it reveals to us the origin… of everything.
Origin stories tell us how things came to be.
We now these kind of stories well.
Think of fiction for a moment...
How was it that Superman made the earth his home?
How did Spider Man get his amazing abilities?
Before Rocky was a champ… he was kind of a chump.
Before Luke was a Jedi… he was a farm hand for his uncle on Tatooine
Origin stories help to fill in the blanks regarding the character and his or her situation.
They add depth to the current narrative that is being told.
Most importantly… origin stories answer two very important questions:
They tell of HOW something came to be.
They tell of WHY something is the way that it is.
Origin stories serve to provide the proper foundation to the current situation.
So let’s consider the book of Genesis for a moment.
Genesis provides a necessary foundation for the rest of the Pentateuch as well as for the entire Bible.
It does this by providing the only trustworthy record about the beginnings of:
The universe.
Humankind.
Marriage.
Sin.
Cities.
Languages.
Nations.
Israel.
God’s plan to restore His personal relationship with people.
Through Genesis, God gives His covenant people a basic understanding of Himself, creation, the human race, the fall into sin, death, judgement, covenant and the promise of salvation to those who put their faith in Him.
If you want to know how… look to Genesis.
If you want to know why… look to Genesis.
Genesis also provides the prophetic history of God’s plan to bring people back into relationship with Him.
It tells of the original sin.
It speaks of our inability to “cover” that sin.
It foreshadows the work of God that will cover all sin.
Genesis foreshadows what God would later do through His Son.
Jesus would come as our redeemer.
He would come as God’s ultimate answer for our sin problem.
Jesus would come through woman’s offspring - Genesis 3:15.
Jesus would come through the family lines of Seth, - Genesis 4:25-26.
Through the family lines of Shem - Genesis 9:26-27.
Through the family lines of Abraham - Genesis 12:3.
God did NOT create this world for sin.
Yet God provided His SON as an answer for our sin.
It is important for us to understand this origin story!
It is important for us to know how things came to be… so we can understand what God offers to us today… as we hope and trust in the blessings He has in store for us tomorrow!
Tonight we are going to look at one verse… possibly the most well-known verse in all of Scripture.
It is known by believers and nonbelievers alike.
It serves as the introduction to not only the Bible but to all that we have ever known in this world.
That verse is Genesis 1:1
What kind of information can we pull from a verse that is 10 words long?
Quite a bit, actually.
AND… I would suggest that if our world took these 10 words to heart… our world would look and sound completely different from how id does.
In the Beginning.
These three words take us all the way back to when there was nothing.
no earth, no sky, no land, no sea, no air, no outer space, no time, no solar system, no universe.
NONE of that existed prior to this verse.
I hear a common phrase used when folks begin to reminisce about the past… a phrase that simply says, “Back in the day...”
The idea here is to transport the listeners mind back to a different day… a specific day… that is pertinent to the information they are about to disclose.
They are contextualizing the conversation.
And… it highlights the differences between the way it is now to how it was then.
The verse was penned in this way on purpose in order that our minds might understand something very important: ALL things had a REAL beginning.
In the beginning… BEFORE ANYTHING EXISTED… before time was observable… that is where Genesis takes us.
Other ancient religions refer to things being created from something else that was already existing.
But the Bible reveals God as the One who created everything out of nothing.
Genesis is the account of how things were from the very start.
Before Genesis, there was only God.
We don’t have to guess at what was before there was a heavens and earth… before there was time and space.
It was God in His eternal existence.
Now… why is it important for us to understand that all things have a real beginning?
It tells us that all things were created:
On purpose.
With purpose.
It tells us that every single verse and passage of Scripture that follows is going to somehow coincide with the how and why from the beginning.
When we remove the intentional beginning from all things… all things lose their original purpose and lose sight of their design.
Consider this.
My iPhone’s beginning came from a person’s desire to have a computerized mobile device that would help people to communicate via the telephone and give people access to the internet.
It was designed on purpose, with purpose.
If I take this iPhone and use it for something it was not designed to do… like drive a nail in a 2x4 or pan fry some eggs… it would not fair well.
This device has a clear beginning to serve a specific need in our world.
Here’s the deal: Everything we have ever known has a beginning… and it can ALL be traced back to this one point in history… to these three words that serve as the introduction to the Bible… in the beginning.
So verse one provides for us a time stamp.... we know the starting point.
Next, it introduces the main character.
God Created.
These two words might just be the most contested words in all of Scripture.
And church, that is not by accident.
The enemy is desperately attacking this truth today.
before all of this… there was God.
And none of this would exist if not for God.
For God created all things.
Nothing has EVER been made outside of God.
God is the one and only true and eternal, self-existent God (having forever existed in himself) who reveals himself in the first verse of the Bible as the Creator of EVERYTHING.
The remaining books and verses of the Bible will further explain God’s character, His nature, His love, His attributes, etc.
But verse one identifies Him… as Creator.
And this truth can be seen all throughout His creation.
God in Creation.
Consider this.
When an automaker creates a car or a truck or concept vehicle and presents it to the world… you can bet that the identity of the company who designed, developed, and created that car will be found somewhere on its frame.
Why?
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