Genesis 1： God’s Six-Day Creation and the Purpose of Humanity
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In this episode, we cover Genesis 1:1-1. God created the earth, the heavens and the earth without form, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the void. 2. The creation of the world, the covenant of creation, the fall, and redemption, and 3. The sovereignty of God in all things.
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last week i introduced the book of genesis and what a wonderful opportunity it has been to study
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the first book of the bible now unlike my verse by verse exposition that i did for romans
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i mentioned this a little bit last week i'm going to be not working through genesis line by line
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i'm going to be working through it in in larger sections sometimes even entire chapters which i
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will do today. My hope is that it will get a lot more content through the church in less time.
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And my hope is also in 2026 to get the church into one of the gospels. So after we get through
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Genesis, moving into either Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John. Now our opening study last week, we looked
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at the fundamentals of Genesis and how it's the book of beginnings. That was kind of the main
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theme. It's the book of beginnings and how it records nearly half of human history. Remember
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that in the book of Genesis, which is just like this little sliver in your Bible, it represents
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almost half of all human history. And so it's a very important book. We saw that Moses was the
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primary author. We saw that he was not just the author of Genesis, but the author of the Pentateuch,
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which is the first five books of the Bible. And we saw that being confirmed in the Old Testament
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writings, the New Testament writings, including Christ himself affirming the Mosaic authorship.
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Now, Genesis is divided into 50 chapters. Chapters 1 through 11 are the antediluvian
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section. It's the pre-flood section. It's the history around those people that lived before
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the flood. And then chapters 12 through 50 trace the story of God's chosen people. And so
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essentially the first section explains why the world needs redemption. And the second section
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shows how God will bring that redemption through his chosen people. That's the basic framework
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of Genesis. I also pointed out there was five major themes that would run through Genesis,
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including creation, covenant, fall, redemption, and ultimately the sovereignty of God in all things.
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Now, we briefly discussed the four common views of creation.
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I mentioned that I held to the six-day creation, the literal 24-hour-a-day creation.
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We talked also about the covenant of works and the fall of man.
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We also talked about the proto-evangelium in Genesis 3.15,
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in which the entire Bible is the fulfillment of this first gospel
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Now, we also talked about, and I think I closed with this, is the sovereignty of God in all of life and how fluctuating circumstances might seem counterintuitive to our desires.
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It is actually those fluctuating circumstances, those ups and those downs, that is God's will to keep his people close to him.
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And I know it's difficult for us in many times, in many places,
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Why are these things such realities in our lives?
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And it's because God uses these methods, as we see throughout Genesis,
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And as you probably know, your own life reflects that ethic.
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In fact, when life is steady is generally when my spiritual life is most weak.
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But when life is up and down, I find myself on my knees more diligently, more passionately in those seasons.
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Now today, my goal is to cover all of chapter one.
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It's 29 verses, I believe. And it's a lot of content. And I'm going to try to blow through it while stopping at some key points to talk about and really bring some exposition out.
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And my main focus is really to defend a bit of this young earth view of creation, the 24-hour day view, which places the earth and humanity around 6,000 years old.
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And so you'll want to be going along with me because we are going to read the entire chapter together.
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In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
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And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
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Um, this refers to the beginning of created time, not to eternity past.
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If that's really kind of a oxymoron, there is no beginning of eternity.
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Uh, this is talking about in the beginning of created time.
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Scripture does not disclose those kind of pre created time conditions to us, but it clearly
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without beginning, without start. He is from everlasting to everlasting. It's something that
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we see throughout scripture, existing outside of both creation, matter, and time. Psalm 90 verse
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two says, before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world
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from everlasting to everlasting, you are God. Deuteronomy 33, 27 says, the God is eternal.
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Isaiah 46.10 says that God declares the end from the beginning and from ancient times to things
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not yet done. And so God is outside of time. God is eternal. Now notice that the very first subject
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of the entire Bible, the first subject is God. In the beginning, God. God is the focus. All the
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attention of the Bible should be drawing us toward God. In a man-centered church, in a man-centered
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society, in a man-centered culture, we have to see that the primal focus is God, not man.
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And it says that he created the heavens and the earth. Now, that word created is actually a unique
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word. It's Barah in the Hebrew, and that word is not made. It's create, which is different.
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Making something is bringing things together of already pre-existing matter and forming them
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into something. Okay, humanity makes, but we cannot create. I cannot intrinsically produce
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something from nothing. That is the difference here. And this word God created is talking
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that God created something from nothing. And that is the word that it is used throughout
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scripture, sometimes even translated as made in the Old Testament, but it actually means
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formed something from nothing. It also means when it speaks about the heavens and the earth,
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The cosmos is not just the heavens above us and the earth or the sky above us and the ground beneath us.
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It's anything that was created, anything that is made, any matter that exists.
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All things, speaking of Christ, were made through Him, and without Him, nothing was made that was made.
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And this touches kind of on this apologetic debate between creation and evolution.
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At its core lies this doctrine of created causality.
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And if you don't think it's important, you need to wake up.
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In fact, schools today, our public school system, will leave you teaching children something about God or that God does not exist.
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This wood pulpit, the ground that I'm standing on, everything that has been made of something, that matter is eternal.
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Option two is that something spontaneously, or I won't even say something, matter spontaneously generated into what it is, chaos into order, and it exists through that spontaneous explosion which we have heard is called the Big Bang.
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And option three is that God, something outside of time and matter, is the creator of all things, including time, space, and matter.
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And we get this idea that something cannot come from nothing.
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And so this really demands that the universe itself demands a first cause.
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Because God is the eternal uncaused cause of all things.
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of all things. That's how you would find it framed up in scholastic work. God is eternal.
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He is the uncaused cause of all things. It's mind-bending. But that's exactly how Scripture
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presents the Lord. It's one of the great mysteries. It's one of those things that we'll never
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understand until we're before the Lord in heaven. How does this work? You don't have an age.
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This doesn't comprehend to a human who is bound with a framework of time.
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If you took a line and you went from one spot to another,
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pointing out the beginning of time all the way to wherever time ended,
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And so again, it becomes difficult for us to understand that concept.
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It's like us trying to understand how high is up.
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All I know is that there are billions of galaxies.
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And so I'm not going to give you an answer to that.
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And I'm not going to give you an answer to how is an uncaused God the cause of creation.
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It's one of those things that we get to rest in the mystery of the scriptures.
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But it is something that is affirmed, not just in Genesis, but it's affirmed throughout the Pentateuch.
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It's affirmed in Job. It's affirmed in Psalms. It's affirmed in the prophets.
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It's affirmed by the apostles. It's affirmed by Christ himself.
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If you deny this reality, you deny not just Genesis, you deny the entire Bible.
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you would deny the gospel you deny the prophets you deny the apostles
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it's like the moment that Jesus is like saying these very difficult things and everybody starts
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to walk away and he says to Peter are you going to walk away and you get to go no where else am
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I going to go you have the words of life that's what you do when you see a mystery you go well
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What lie am I going to believe in place of this truth?
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It pleased God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,
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for the manifestation, for the glory of His eternal power, wisdom and goodness,
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in the beginning to create out of nothing, the world and all things therein, whether visible
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or invisible in the space of six days and all very good. Proverbs 8, 22 through 27, it takes this,
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you've probably seen the Proverbs, it personifies wisdom or virtue. And so in this particular
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section. It is a personification of wisdom. And I want you to pay attention to how it's
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used here. Proverbs 8, 22 to 27. It says, the Lord possessed me. So again, the me is
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the wisdom. The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his way before his works of old. I have
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been established from everlasting. Ooh, just think about right there. You just got paradox.
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You get to deal with the paradox and the tension of the scriptures.
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Eternal things must be created to finite beings.
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And so this is what you get when you see paradox.
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you go there are no words to explain this truth
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when there was no fountains abounding with water
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yet as yet he had not made the earth or the fields
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or the primal dust of the world in which we are all made.
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When he drew a circle on the face of the deep, end quote.
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So, by God's will, our knowledge of pre-creation realities is limited.
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It is very minimal, not exhaustive in the scriptures.
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That there's some sort of covenant between the Lord.
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between the Trinity on the redemption path of humanity.
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In verse 2, we see that God created raw material.
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It says that the earth was without form and void,
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He made something or created something, and now he's actually forming that into something else.
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Well, God does not go from nothing to finish, but prefers process.
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Gradualism, at least from our perspective of time.
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The same God who shaped the world by stages is now allowing the, he allowed the fall to occur in stages and is now redeeming humanity in stages.
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God could have saved everybody immediately right now.
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But he doesn't. He doesn't. God is the God of process. He's never rushed, never random, and always purposeful. God is a God of process. And this is important because your life is process.
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process. Why am I going through this season? Why am I going through this time to the suffering
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to this difficulty? Why is life up and down and why does it take so long? Because God is a God
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of process. He is not a God of immediacy. It's very pastoral. It's very practical. It's very helpful.
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Now here in the last part of verse 2, at the first part of verse 3, we see the beginning of triunity.
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We also see this in Colossians, that God is there in the full Godhead, Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
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But we know that also Scripture refers to God alone.
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We see God created, verse 2, says the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the water.
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So we have some sort of difference between the persons of the Godhead.
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And then you have in verse 3, then God said, let there be light and there was light.
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Now, Revelation 19, 13 says about Jesus, it says,
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He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is the Word of God.
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And so the portion of God which speaks can arguably be said is Jesus, the Son.
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We know in Hebrews chapter 1, God spoke in the past according to the prophets.
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But in these last days, he speaks according to his son.
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But the reality is that when God speaks, who was speaking?
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But the reality is here is that the first three sentences of the Bible,
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we already see glimpses of some sort of plurality in the Godhead.
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And this is important because the context of this helps us in verse 26, which we will get to shortly, that uses God made man in our image.
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Now, from verse 3 to verse 29, we are given this six-day creation account.
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And I want you to follow along with me as I read, as we go through this.
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I once had a man tell me, I remember this, he said, I can't believe in a God who could create the world in six days.
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And I was actually thinking when he said that, I wouldn't believe in a God who couldn't create the world in six days.
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The fact that God chose process over catastrophic immediacy.
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and so if we truly believe in the authority of scripture and what i would call the purpose
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of scripture that's a doctrine it's called the clarity of scripture it's that you can read the
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normative natural reading of the bible yes yes you need history you need context you need grammar
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you need pastoral insight you need these things but we must not turn this passage
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into something far more complicated than it actually is.
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God has spoken plainly, and I believe that we should receive it plainly.
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So the normative reading of this text leads you to believe that God created the world in six 24-hour days.
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And you can carry yom into a range of meanings, just like you can in English.
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right? You have a day that's a 24-hour day. You can say, you know, back in the day or back in my
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father's day. That's a different use of the word day. We have semantic range for words, and the
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same thing is true in Hebrew. Yet it most often refers to a 24-hour day. That's what we see
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in scripture. In my study, I actually came across a very helpful Christian apologist that gave some
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good explanation to the Hebrew here. He said that when the word yom means a normal day, there's a
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few things that correlate with that usage. Whenever the word yom appears together with
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either evening or day, the phrase is evening or day, morning and day, used with number and day,
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or as paired with night and day, it is always referring to a 24-hour day.
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Interesting. Okay, and I went back and I checked through this. I'm going to give you a few examples.
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and the people stood around Moses from morning till evening.
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Again, context confirms that we have an ordinary day
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that follows this rule that I'm talking about here.
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And sometimes the cloud remained from evening until morning.
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Again, you have more of these qualifications showing and confirming that Yom and this usage is a 24-hour day.
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I'm going to now give you a couple examples with a number.
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In the 600th year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the 17th day, on the 17th Yom of the month,
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on that yom all the fountains of the great deep burst forth again you have number mixed paired
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with day and it refers to a 24 hour day ezekiel 45 21 says on the 14th day of the month you shall
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celebrate the feast again you have number paired up with day uh now i'm gonna i'm gonna show you
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now a pairing of night and day it says in exodus 13 21 the lord went before them by day in a pillar
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of cloud, pillar of cloud to lead them along the way and by night and a pillar of fire
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Jonah 117 says, Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
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Again, we have to either take the consistent hermeneutical usage of the word day, or we
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have to make a very unique exception for the creation account.
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You know, for example, in the New Testament, it says all these things will pass before this generation or before this generation.
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The reality is, is that when that phrase is used, that word generation, it is always meant to mean the immediate generation.
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But what the dispensationalists do is they take this usage of Matthew 24 and they want to make generation mean something
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that it is never meant in any other usage in that particular context and the same thing happens here
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we take the word yom and we take the rules the hermeneutical principles and we want to apply it
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equally across the scriptures now in creation in the creation account we see all four not just one
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not just two not just three but we see all four indicators present in the creation account but
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especially in the first day verse one or sorry chapter one verse five says God called the light
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day and the darkness he called night so the evening and the morning were the first day
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that's using all of those qualifiers in one particular verse
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if we follow a consistent hermeneutic as one day
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include all these metrics yet have no hesitation about
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the nature of all these other days that only include one or two metrics
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That's an important apologetic question when it comes to defending this position.
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In other words, the testimony of Genesis 1 is not weaker than other passages.
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And so if yom clearly means an ordinary day when there's only one or two of these markers present,
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then how much more should it mean a day that's 24 hours if all of them are present?
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now you've likely heard the phrase it takes more faith to be an atheist to be a Christian
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right and I really believe that's true I actually believe after studying this that the same logic
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applies here it takes more faith to read Genesis 1 as long eras than as 24-hour days and we're
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going to see why as I work through this not to say that somebody that's a brother or sister in
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Christ that has another position is absolutely wrong. You know, I'm just saying is that I am
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confident, confident in the 24-hour view. And I'll say there is a difference between confident and
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certain. In fact, there are very few scriptures in the Bible and very few doctrines in the Bible
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that you must say, I am certain I'm going to die on that hill. But there are a lot of scriptures
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that you could say, I'm confident and this is my position. And that's the kind of position I have
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here. I'm confident. I'm going to defend it. I'll fight for it, but I'm not going to die on that
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hill. You know, if I found out, you know, it was actually ages, Dale. Okay, great, fine. But when
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it comes to say, you know, the doctrine of the Trinity, or when it comes to the doctrine of God,
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or when it comes to saved by grace through faith, or when it comes to the doctrine of the existence
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of hell. These are other things that you must say, oh yes, I am
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and the reason I say Genesis 1 holds the 24-hour reviews
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It's like you almost have to become an intellectual
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That's basically, and seminary degrees are very helpful.
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It's actually what the Catholic Church does often.
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The Catholic Church, you'll look at something and you'll go,
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And they go, no, it actually doesn't mean that.
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And when that happens over and over and over and over again,
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you quickly begin to say, I don't know if I could read my Bible.
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Every time I think that it says something, my priest says that it doesn't mean that.
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And what happens in Catholicism is that you don't read your Bible.
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In fact, the vast majority of Roman Catholics don't read their Bible.
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In comparison to Protestants, it's wildly different.
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Protestants read their Bible. Catholics do not.
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Catholics have been trained that they cannot read their Bible because everything they read has been explained away.
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Now, again, I'm not saying that this is equal weights and measures to this particular doctrine around creation.
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but it's something to consider. And so I want to look at the creation account in stages. So it's
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a seven part pattern that we're going to see here. It's number one, you're going to see
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announcement. God said the command, let there be fulfillment. And it was execution, light,
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whatever it may be the approval. God saw that it was good. The subsequent word moving on to the
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next, the chronology, God called and then he numbers the day. Okay. That's the pattern that
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we have the seven part pattern that goes through each of these days. And so let's move on to verse
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three. And I know it seems like we're only in verse three. Holy smokes. No, we're going to move
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through a lot of this very fast. Okay. Then God said, let there be light. And there was light
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and God saw the light that it was good. And God divided the light from the darkness. God
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called the light day and the darkness he called night. So the evening and the morning were the
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first day. Okay. First, I want to just point out God creates light before creating the sun and the
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moon. God creates light before creating the sun and the moon. You can even argue that God is light
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and we will talk about that here in a second. This shouldn't be difficult for us. The sun is
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not the ultimate source of light. It is simply a vessel that reflects light or that is made to
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offer light. Scripture says in 1 John 1.5, this is the message we have heard from him and proclaim
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to you that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. But even more interesting,
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If you go to Revelation, Revelation chapter 21, verse 23, and this is speaking of the restored world, the new heavens and the new earth.
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It says, and the city has no need of a sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.
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You go, oh yeah, there's no sun or moon and there's still light.
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Second, the verse shows that God's preference is for light.
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This morning, as I was leaving my house yesterday, I built a little partition fence.
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And as I was walking to my car, I walked over to look at this partition fence.
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And I think it's pretty common to do something like that because we are made in God's image.
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He evaluates his masterpiece of what he has created so far.
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And again, this marks the first of seven affirmations that what God creates is good.
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It's good, meaning that there is something that could be bad, but it is good.
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It says, then God said, let the firmament be in the midst of the waters and let it divide the waters from the water.
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So from the sea to the sky, thus God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament.
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So the evening and the morning were the second day.
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Then God said, let the waters under the heavens be gathered together in one place
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And God called the dry land earth and the gathering together of the waters he called seas.
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Then God said, let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed
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and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind.
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the herb that yields the seed according to its kind.
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we begin to see the importance and intention of natural order.
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This is important because it affects our life in our culture today.
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The various species of plants and animals, they testify to God's design for distinction, for definition, for boundaries.
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The implication, it's not directly stated here, is that what God has created as distinct, man should not confuse.
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1 Corinthians chapter 14 says that God is a God of order.
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He creates a world that actually produces and reproduces fruit according to its kind.
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God is also a God of complementarianism, not the doctrine, but in the sense that they complement one another in order for reproduction.
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And so God is not for chaos or perverted combinations.
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There is distinction and there is order and there is fruitfulness, all for the glory of God according to his intention and will for creation.
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So the tragic reality is that human cultures become so confused that we actually have to look to plant life and animal life to be reminded of what is order.
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Life is so confusing that we have to look to the created world to be reminded of some degree of unperverted order.
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Now, even the animal life and plant life has fallen.
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In fact, there is some degree of consistency that is found within the animal and plant kingdom
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we are now intermarrying and crossing those boundaries of males with males and women with
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women we are trying to change distinction we are trying to change make create more confusion
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there's a lot of that and and and there's again a lot of chaos in the created world world as well
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But the point is, there is some degree of order in the natural world that is worth observing.
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Now, Paul makes the same point in Romans 1, 20 through 27, showing that God's natural order reveals his will.
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And when we live in opposition to that created order, it's actually not good.
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You're like, even the heavens and the earth and the created order testify that how you're living is wicked.
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It's like, just look around and you'll be condemned.
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And we see that especially in the matter of rebellion against God's desire for sexuality, for male and female relationships.
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And so this is, again, some of the implications that we get here in Genesis.
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chapter or verse 14 follow along with me it says then god said let there be lights in the firmament
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of the heavens to divide the day from the night and let them be for signs and seasons and for days
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and for years and let them be for lights in the firmament the heavens to give light on the earth
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and it was so then god made two great lights the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light
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to rule the night. He made the stars also. God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give
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light on the earth and to rule over the day and over the night and to divide the light from the
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darkness. And God saw that it was good. So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
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Verse 20. Then God said, let the waters abound within the abundance of living creatures and let
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birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens. So God created great
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sea creatures and every living thing that moves with which the waters abounded according to their
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kind and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good and God blessed them
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So the evening and the morning was the fifth day.
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Now, many people assume that the dominion mandate,
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this idea of be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth,
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many assume that that was only given or first given to man.
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It's given to the birds and to the sea creatures.
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We also see that the first time, look to verse 22.
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For the very first time, we see God's blessing.
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Now, I want to take you on a journey just for a second here.
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If we trace God's blessings, plural, throughout Genesis and throughout the Scripture,
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But throughout Genesis, they are almost always connected to fertility.
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For example, God said to Abraham concerning Sarah, I will bless her.
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I will bless her, and she shall become nations.
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And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them,
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God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you.
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Now, how do we interpret God's blessing in children?
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Well, does it mean that God's cursing you if you don't have children?
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No, there are many great and godly women who were great and godly women
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There are also many women who have had miscarriages.
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And the blessing is that God gives children at all.
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It doesn't necessarily say how those children are given is actually the blessing.
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a child given to you through the womb or a child given to you through adoption
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is equally a blessing to you both still reign under god's providence
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all things work together for good who are called according to his purpose
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god who calls all things to work together according to his will ephesians 1 11
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I think that's where the Lord gets to the heart
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And again, I would argue either through the womb
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But the point is that children, fertility, multiplication, generations, reproduction, it's good.
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Then God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind,
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cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind.
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And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind,
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and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind.
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Then God said, let us make man in our image, according to our likeness.
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Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle.
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over all the earth of every creeping thing
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over the birds of the air, and over everything that lives and moves on the earth.
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Now, I could preach a series of sermons on this passage alone, but I want to just make a few
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remarks. The main discussions around scholars on this passage of scripture, they revolve around
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three points. Number one is the divine plurality. What does it mean by our image?
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what is the trinity the trinitarian doctrines revolving there number two is being made in or
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according to the likeness or the image of god what is the extent of the inness or the extent
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of the according to how deep does that go and number three is what does it mean to be made in
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God's image. What does that mean? Now, the Jews say that the plurality meant that God and the
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angels, or it meant God and the angels, that maybe like the heavenly court, let us make man in our
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image. The problem with that is that the rest of scripture never testifies that man is made in
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some sort of angelic image. And so this is very difficult to adhere to. I believe Jesus actually
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reveals the affirmation of the triune nature. And I believe we can see this best in the fact that
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God himself, or Jesus himself, uses Trinitarian language. We see in the Great Commission, what
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does he say go therefore and make disciples of all nations baptizing them in who in the plurality
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in the father and in the son and in the holy spirit so again i think that we have the confirmation
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from christ that the hour is the triune nature of god as for the degree of our likeness in god
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The degree in which we are made in the image, I believe it means that we carry his imprint.
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In other words, humanity is not some sort of evolutionary accident.
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We are intentionally created beings made with dignity, made with purpose, made with value,
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Now, we are like God in that we are rulers and have dominion over the created world.
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We see that and we'll talk more about that as we get through Genesis.
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But this also fights against this individualism.
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You are God's representative, made in His image, according to His will, according to His design, according to His precepts, according to His order.
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It's a very interesting structure of a sentence.
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He made one humanity, one humanity, and then divided it into two sexes, okay?
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So that together they might mirror more harmoniously and fully, I would argue, the image of God when together.
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Now, can you arguably say that the fullness of the image of God is in man
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and the fullness of the image of God is in woman?
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I think you can also argue that together you see a more harmonious
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and maybe more brilliant expression of the fullness of the image of God
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The more masculine traits are emphasized in man
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and the more feminine traits are emphasized in woman.
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And so I believe there is a great deal of theology
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So their union, if you're married here, your union is not just vocational.
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It's also, sorry, it's not just relational, it's vocational.
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And it's also the intention of why we should have people marry young.
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Because we know that fertility changes with age.
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young couples that will try to for children for 20
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years without having children. But the reality is a
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general principle. It is a good thing to marry young. And not everybody gets to
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marry young. And it is a blessing to marry young. And so
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encourage those things which uphold more effectively
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it was very good. So the evening and in the morning were the sixth day. All right, I'm getting
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ready to close here. Genesis does not forbid the eating of meat. And it does give dominion over
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man, dominion over the animals. But I would argue it was probably so that prior to the fall,
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humanity and the animal world ate a vegetarian diet.
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kind of the greatness of all that He was saying. He doesn't just say that it was good like He did every
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Essentially that it was perfect. It was perfect.
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In fact, had Adam and Eve not sinned, it would have continued on
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Like a host setting the table before the guest arrives,
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God furnished every part of creation step by step.
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Because in a culture that constantly devalues humanity
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and overvalues the environment and the animal world,
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we have to return to the biblical understanding that man is God's crown of creation.
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and now it does mean that we ought to steward it according to God's will
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and not enough time just resting in what Genesis 1 says.
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In fact, Exodus 20, verse 11 is probably the strongest argument
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This is the basis of the fourth commandment, Exodus 20, 11.
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For in six days the Lord made the heaven and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day.
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Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
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So again, we have now an Exodus account speaking of it in 24-hour day framework.
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Now, what makes this very important is that the six-day creationism undergirds our very seven-day week system that we have today.
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To stretch the creation days into long ages means that you have to remove the existing seven-day framework that we have now.
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Now, in the same way that Jesus' birth sets time, the reason it's 2025 is because it's approximately 2025, 2025 years after the birth of Christ.
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It's a very great cultural apologetic that testifies to the nature of Christianity.
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You go to India, and there's a seven-day week there.
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You go to Islamic countries, and there's a seven-day week there.
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The seven-day week is another cultural testimony
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and it is the basis you have six days to do your work and you have one day to rest model it after
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god who had six days of work and one day of rest so it's a very strange thing to say oh
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they're ages to turn something that is very literal into a symbolic meaning and so again i
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argue without going into all the scholastic weeds that i think a very natural and normative reading
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understanding of our origins that we might understand our future that we might understand
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our need lord help us to have greater understanding as we work through this book and that we get
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deeper into some of the more vital elements for our time in genesis we ask all these things in