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Introduction
Philosophers sometimes ask a strange question.
I know there is a reason for it, but it does seem pointless.
Maybe you heard the question.
It goes like this.
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
Have you ever hard that?
Is it just me or is it ridiculous?
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it does it make a sound...who cares?
Right?
I suppose Philosophers do have a reason for asking.
It has to do with perception.
What they are wondering is, if something needs an observer to exist.
I suppose for big thinkers, this can entertain them for hours.
But for you and we know that if we see a tree in the forest on one day, and leave the forest the tree does not cease to exist, that is nonsense it is still there, but we are not there to enjoy the tree.
We are not there to marvel at the majestic beauty of the tree.
We can remember it in out mind, but it is not the same thing without us there.
Without us the beauty of the tree is never observed, adn never appreciated.
Transition
Believe it or not, and odd as it sounds that introduction, actually is relevant to what we are talking about today in God’s word.
We are in in our summer sermon series in Genesis titled “It All starts Here”.
And we are in Genesis chapter 1, and 2.
Last week we started the series by looking at the very beginnings of creation found in Genesis 1:1-5.
I would like to remind you of a couple of things from last week.
First of all Genesis is about God-It is about God revealing himself to man.
We talked about how God created the universe by speaking it into existence.
We talked about how all three persons of the Trinity were present at creation God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
Today, we are going to look at the rest of the days of creation.
Let me begin with prayer.
Last week, in Genesis one verse 2 creation was in a state of chaos.
The earth was formless and void, and God separated the light from dark.
Now, in day 2 God is continuing His work of separating things.
Let there be a vault to separate water from water.
Then, verse 9 God gathers the waters.
God is separating and gathering and this is good.
God is bringing form into the world of formlessness.
God is bringing order.
And that is good.
Order, form, reason, logic it is good.
The ground in verse 2 was void, now God forms vegetation.
And the land produced and God saw that it was good.
God word, God’s spoken word comes to pass, and it was so.
It happens.
When God speaks and it happens we call it God’s declarative will.
God wills it and it happens.
God speaks-Let there be light and there was light.
God’s sovereign declarative will is that will that comes to pass as God declares it so.
And that is repeated throughout this creation account.
So God made....And it was so.
This phrase is repeated throughout the creation account.
In Verse 7,
Again in verse 9
Again verse 11
God’s sovereign declarative will is displayed by God’s power.
It is God’s creative power.
It is when God declares and it was so.
And it is that same power that creates that raises Jesus from the dead.
And what we also see in the account of creation that God’s Sovereign Declarative will is that which comes to pass and is always good.
Verse 3, and God saw that it was good.
Verse 10, And God saw that it was good.
Verse 12 and verse 18, and it was good, verse 21 and verse 25 God saw that it was Good.
Whenever God’s will is followed, Whenever it is so, it is Good.
When God’s will is followed it is good.
(Declarative Will)
So already, in the order of creation is the idea of good.
That which corresponds to God’s will is good.
The opposite of that, that which does not correspond to God’s will, takes a little while to develop.
We won’t see that until chapter three.
God is giving his creation form and order in first 3 days.
Days 1-3 God forms.
The next days, 4 through 6 are filling.
In Days 4 through 6 God takes what He has sovereignly and orderly formed and he fills them, making them useful, productive, teaming with life.
Days 4-6 God fills.
In Day 4, God fills the sky with lights.
God puts lights in the sky to order the sacred times, the days and years.
This is interesting sacred times.
God placed the stars in the sky to order the seasons, and to bind them to His sacred times.
The Nation of Isreal would receive more detail on the sacred times later on in the Torah, but God is preparing for by including it in creation.
Sometimes, people may miss something special that God has for them when they move away from celebrating the sacred times.
I know there are valid reasons that modern churches have moved away from using the church calendar.
I understand that churches have made mistakes, people have bad associations with church, we want to be modern and we want to relate to the non-churched.
But here in the order of creation, God spoke about the sacred times.
God intended us to embrace the seasons.
Part of the reason for the stars in the sky. is to mark the sacred times.Think about that Carl Sagan, and Stephen Hawking.
The lights in the sky help us to take time to remember what God has done for us.
To Embrace the seasons, the physical seasons, as they point to the sacred times, and allow us to give glory to God.
Then, Day 5 God fills the water and sky.
And that was good.
Then God Blessed them.
He blessed them.
Be fruitful-increase-in number.
Fill the water.
Then Day 6. God fills the earth with animals.
There is a phrase that keeps repeating, as God has been making things.
It is that God has been making things according to their kinds.
In verse 11, God makes plants according to there kinds.
In verse 12 it is trees bearing fruit according to their kinds.
And in verse 21, it is creatures of the sea, according to their kinds, and birds according to their kinds, and the animals according to their kinds.
But now something different.
Then God said let us make mankind, in our image, our likeness.
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