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Lots of beginning are always going on in the movie world
You have a successful movie so now lets go back and discover what happened before.
Batman- Batman begins.
Lord of the Rings – the Hobbit.
Countless TV shows.
The list is endless.
There are countless remakes – An opportunity to tell the story again since it was good the first time.
Usually there is little in the way of creativity as they go back.
Mostly its an attempt to cash in on success.
Or rewrite something that was good to make it more relevant to the current people (usually just make a poor rendition of a good story)
All of these are attempts to return to the beginnings with little impact.
In our case it is much different.
The richness of the current story of Christ and His work in us becomes even richer as we see our beginnings.
Truly we are seeing a plan unfold that God has been orchestrating from the first.
For a few weeks this summer I would like for us to return to beginnings as well.
What a better place to do this than by studying our beginnings from the first chapters of Genesis.
Here we find out why/how things were made.
What is our purpose.
What happened.
What was the result.
Do we have any hope?
I trust we will find these reflections relevant and critical for our current world.
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(NKJV) Genesis 1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night.
So the evening and the morning were the first day.
Genesis 1:1-5 God Creates: It Begins
Reflections on our beginnings
I. God creates: It’s all about Him
A. He Created all that is Genesis 1:1
(ESV) Genesis 1 1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
1. Grammatically verse one is a title to the chapter and all that follows
2. In the beginning God is there already
3. God is the subject of the first sentence of the Bible.
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No accident.
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He is mentioned an a total of thirty-five times in chapter 1
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This chapter / indeed the whole Bible is about Him.
d.
Any other focus will be to misread it.
4. God is the supreme designer/maker/center point
a.
Bara – the word
b.
The emphasis of the word is not necessarily creating something out of nothing – does not always mean this
c.
There is no question that God did create out of nothing / something
1) The point here is that God is making something new – creation as we know it
d.
But the word in the Old Testament always describes the divine activity
1) of fashioning something new, fresh, and perfect.
2) it often stresses forming anew, reforming, renewing
B. The entire Godhead engaged Gen 1:1-2; Ps 104:30; Jn 1:1-3, 14; Col 1:15-17
God in all His fullness involved in creation.
Not three faces of a single being.
Not three separate beings.
Three persons/one substance/One being.
And all involved in our creation.
1. Father
(ESV) Genesis 1 1 In the beginning, God createdthe heavens and the earth.
a. Term itself is plural Elohim
1) Plural of Majesty 2) Allows for the fact that God is more / a trinity / three persons / yet one
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But the emphasis here and elsewhere is the Father - The initiator
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The Father the director designer planner of the events
2. Spirit
(ESV) Genesis 1 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
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The energizer / the source of life
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Hovering like an eagle around its nest / protecting / concerned / involved
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Not a distant God who creates matter and laws and then lets it develop itself
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A God who cares and nurtures / who is intimately involved in every outcome / offering transformation and life to the formless and dead
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Having initiated physical material, the work of energizing / transforming / creating life and habitat is now about to being
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It is as if the Spirit is anticipating the next directive
3. Son
(ESV) John 1 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
… 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
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With the Father / one with the Father / the means by which creation occurred / Actually does the creating / The sculptor / The workman
(ESV) Colossians 1 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
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Created everything and still holds them together
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All created for His glory
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The lines blur / the unity of the Trinity on display here / Jesus the face here of the Trinity / Absolutely one with the others
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