We have a Creator God
We Have A Creator God
Genesis 1:1
January 14, 2018
Introduction:
Henry Morris stated in the New Defenders Study Bible-“This opening verse of the Bible is unique, the foundation of foundations, probably the first words ever written down, either revealed to Adam or written directly by God Himself. One who really believes Genesis 1:1 will have no difficulty believing the rest of Scripture.
God is eternal, existing before the Universe, and is omnipotent having created the universe. Therefore nothing is impossible with God, and He alone gives meaning to everything.”
No other piece of written literature is taught or spoken against as this first chapter of Genesis.
Verse one of chapter one tells us “what” God did; the following 55 verses in chapter one and two tells us “how” He did it.
I. God Declares His Existence- vs. 1
Note-notice that when the “beginning” began God was already there!!!
God simply declares that He exists and wastes no time in attempting to prove that He exists.
God is the supreme Creator. He is transcendent above all creation. This means as the supreme Creator, He is distinct from creation. God is not a part of creation; creation is not a part of God. God is supreme over and above, transcendent over creation. The supreme Creator.
בָּרָא (bārāʾ). vb. to create. Used only of God creating, never of humans making things.
This verb is used only of creative acts performed by God. It appears five times in the creation narrative of Gen 1–2: God created (bārāʾ) the heavens and the earth (Gen 1:1; 2:4), the creatures of the sea (Gen 1:21), humankind in his image (Gen 1:27), and creation as a whole (Gen 2:3).
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth: This tells us that God used no pre-existing material to create the earth. The ancient Hebrew word bara (created) is specific. It means to create out of nothing, showing that that God created the world out of nothing, not out of Himself. God is separate from His creation. Unlike Eastern and pantheistic perceptions of god, the Bible teaches the universe could perish yet He would remain.
Every man knows deep down in his inner being that there is a God. Religion is man’s attempt to define God. Christianity is God’s reaching out to man.
A. He is the God of Eternity past.
“In the beginning God.” This is the foundation truth of all real theology. God is the great Originator and Initiator. It is the ignoring of this which is the basic error in all human schemes. False systems of theology and philosophy begin with man, and seek to work up to God. But this is a turning of things upside down. We must, in all our thinking, begin with God, and work down to man.
B. He is the God of Earth’s present state.
“By Him all things consist.” By Him all things hold together and by Him all things have permanence. The creation would immediately return to nothingness if He withdrew His support. He is the philosophical “one within the many,” the principle of cohesion which holds the universe together, the divine glue which holds everything in its place, the person who gives meaning to all the discrete things of creation.
C. He will be God of Eternity Future.
I. God Declares His existence.
II. God Demonstrates His power- VS. 2-31
A. God demonstrated his power through His Word.
B. God demonstrated his power through his goodness.
III. God Defines Mans Limitations
A. God defines a person’s gender-vs. 27
B. God defines marriage-vs. 27-28; 2:24
MAR´RIAĠE, n. [Fr. mariage, from marier, to marry, from mari, a husband; L. mas, maris; Sp. maridage.]
The act of uniting a man and woman for life; wedlock; the legal union of a man and woman for life. Marriage is a contract both civil and religious, by which the parties engage to live together in mutual affection and fidelity, till death shall separate them. Marriage was instituted by God himself for the purpose of preventing the promiscuous intercourse of the sexes, for promoting domestic felicity, and for securing the maintenance and education of children.
Many want to believe that the monogamous, two-parent family was invented in the 1950’s by American television icons Ozzie and Harriet, but Adam and Eve are the original family. This is God’s ideal family. This isn’t polygamy. This isn’t concubinage. This isn’t the keeping of mistresses. This isn’t adultery. This isn’t homosexual co-habitation. This isn’t promiscuity. This isn’t living together outside the marriage bond. This isn’t serial marriage. This is God’s ideal for the family, and even when we don’t live up to it, it is still important to set it forth as God’s ideal.