Creation's Implications

Turn in your Bibles to Genesis chapter 1 and we're going to be there in Genesis chapter 1 for this morning's sermon as we open our Bibles to Genesis. We are opening our Bibles to the very beginning my ass all the Genesis means it just means beginning. We're opening our Bibles here because I think sometimes we lose sight of the fact that what the Bible says in Genesis chapter 1 has some incredible implications for us as Christ followers today, right? This is not just ancient history. This is not just free history. This is reality. For you and I today and so we're going to be looking this morning as the screen shows when he looking at the implications of creation now just want to stop briefly and Define my terms something that I think we would all do well to develop the habit of defining our terms as we begin a conversation. So what is the definition of an implication? It is the conclusion that can be drawn from something. Although it is not explicitly stated. The text that we're going to be looking at this morning is is very short in the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth. That's it. That's all we're going to look at. And yet the implications of that simple sentence are exceedingly wide-reaching right? You've heard the definition. Maybe you haven't of a Preacher somebody who can take a sentence and turn it into a book that is essentially what I have before me this morning is to say what are the implications of this very simple sentence that we find at the beginning of our Bibles. What is it? What are the conclusions that we can draw from this though? They are not explicitly stated and this seems like such a good idea. When praying about what I should freeze, I put this down on my sermon calendar then when I actually sat down to start drawing out, what are the implications of this single sentence. I realized very quickly that we did not have that much time today. And so the implications that I bring out today are going to be a limited set there going to be fewer than we could draw they are going to be some of you will think in complete that's by Design so that you guys can actually eat at some point today my but I want to talk about implication write something that is a conclusion drawn from something even though it is not explicitly stated. I want you to imagine for me a situation that is not that unlikely at my house. Imagine with Mimi sitting down at the table with one of my kids. I have three kids. If you don't know then just picture generic child sitting down at the table with me and in front of my child. Are two Oreos and in front of me, there are two Oreos. Imagine with me that my child leaves the room. When they returned they have one Oreo and I have two what implications do you think my child would draw from this situation? What if they ask me dad? Did you take one of my Oreos and I say with black crumbs in my teeth? I can't say that I didn't now did I say that? I took the Oreo? No, but my children are of average intelligence at least and they will draw the including the conclusion that you have. Yes, I took one of your Oreos now. This would never happen at my house. Because if it was at my house, I would take both Oreos. My kids know better than to leave me with their food particularly when it's cookies, the implications of the situation in the implications of my statement while not explicitly saying yes, I took the oreor that indeed I did and so when we read in Genesis in the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth windurst and that is such a big statement that there must be far-reaching implications to it. The fact that there is something rather than nothing implies something right now to two different people different things some people try to convince you that the fact that there is something rather than nothing implies that everything came from nothing. That implication does not follow in my mind. I think that the implication of this statement here at the beginning the implications of fact that there is something rather than nothing is that if something is there something must have caused that thing to be there I would argue that the implications of this statement is that everything came not just from something. But from someone if you have not read it, I would encourage you to pick up a copy of Cs Lewis's Mere Christianity. I would encourage you to pick that up and to read it sometime this week because he drops the same conclusion. The fact that there is something implies that there is someone now, so I put that out there I encourage you to read this Lewis will revisit him and Mere Christianity a little bit later in this sermon, but before we go to make one statement of caveat, I wanted to make one statement that will frustrate some of you to no end. All right, so I want to get it out of the way so that you're not spending the whole sermon wondering when I'm going to get to the good stuff. Okay, then I talked about Creations implications. I am much less concerned. with when and how I am in fact going to argue that those are not the primary considerations some of you get the weekly email with the announcements and you saw the sermon title and you saw the sermon text and misato good. We're going to get to talk about how old the Earth is. No, we're not that is not what is in view here in Genesis chapter one that is not the point of Genesis chapter one. That's not the point of this message. I think it's a fine discussion. I think it's a great topic for consideration. It is not where we're going this morning. And so I will go so far as to say that your understanding of the house were the Winds of creation have much less to do with the Orthodoxy of your faith. Then just about any other fact. Any other Doctrine in your Bible reading I would go so far as to say if you're sitting here this morning and you are a young Earth creationist. I am glad that you're here. If you are sitting here this morning and you are an old Earth creationist, I am glad that you're here. If you are sitting here this morning and you are a Creationary evolutionist. I am going to say I am glad that you are here because the houses are not the important thing for us this morning. The important things are if this is true God created. What does that mean? What does that imply for our daily lives? I can be an intellectually satisfying discussion to talk about ages in house and wins and we're Force. However, what is much more crucial is it we receive the words and then live the words. God does not give us this Revelation just so that we can have something to argue about from now until the second coming. God gives us this Revelation to create in US Christ to conform his people to the image of his son. So I'm much less concerned about the interpretation of creation than I am with its implications for our lives. So that caveat being said, I would welcome anyone who wanted to talk about the other issue just not today just not here just not now. Our focus is different this morning. We're looking at Genesis 1:1 now at this point. It's been on the screen long enough at this point. I've said it enough you guys can probably say it say it with me. Let's read this together in the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth, you know, the remarkable thing is we know that the Bible was revealed to us and not in English, right? You guys understand that Jesus didn't have a copy of the King James with him, right? We're all clear on that and yet even English translations. Most of them are very consistent. With how they render this. This is not a linguistically complex statement in the beginning the beginning of what everything in the beginning of time space matter. Everything God is the one who did it. It's a simple statement and I want to draw out seven implications this morning from it. The first thing that I want us to understand from the statement, is it God exists separate from his creation. I want you to understand that God exists separate from his creation. Now, there are those who would disagree there are those who would say no creation is God's right? They would say that anytime we see a tree we're seeing God. Anytime we see a fish we're seeing God. I was saying know the implications of Genesis 1:1 are that there was a point in time at which there was nothing else. There was a point in time at which there was no time wrap your head around that one. But there was God. Nothing else just got and God of his own volition for his own purpose for his own reason under no necessity said let there be something other than me. God is separate from his creation. Why does that point matter? It matters because when you look at creation. If you look for very long, you're going to see some incredible things. You're going to see beautiful things. You're going to see Majestic things. You're going to see things that if you are it in all aesthetically tune. You're going to weep at the side of

You're also going to see some incredibly horrific things. When you look at creation. There is nothing more violent than the universe we live in the mere Act of Creation is a violent Act Right. How how why do we have a moon? For our planet. Do you know where the moon came from the best scientific theories? We have say that it came from a collision of another large body. This violent Act of Destruction is what created this thing that we look at that goes in phases in the week and Marvel at on a clear night. We see Brokenness in creation. We see animals survive by what? That's right. The animal that survives is the one that can kill or claw its way to the top of the Heat. We see earthquakes we see tornadoes. Do you know why it matters that God is separate from his creation. Because God is not his creation God's creation is distinct from God. It tells us things about God will talk about that in the second, but it is not God this last week. I wrote a poem now. Some of you are surprised by that some of you are not surprised by that. Most of you would not be surprised to know that wasn't a very good poem But I wrote a poem and you cannot read it and come to the conclusion that I the poem's author do not exist. The mere fact that it is their good bad indifferent says somebody made this thing. It's the same way with creation the mere fact that there's a creation good bad or indifferent indicates that there is somebody who made it. You can read my phone and you can learn something about me one is this guy shouldn't write poetry but you can learn other things about me, but you won't confuse it with me. You would not read the poem and assume that you now know everything about me. I know you would know enough to know that I exist, you know a little bit about me. You wouldn't know everything same thing with creation and that's the importance of this distinction between what is made and the one who makes It can serve a revealing function it can point to existence but it cannot be in total that thing. This is the second point then the second implication that I want to dry out from Genesis 1:1 not only does God exist separate from his creation, but create God's creation reveals some but not all of the truth about him. Some but not all of the truth about him Romans chapter 1 you don't have to turn there. I'll have it up on the screen Romans chapter 1 verses 19 through 24 what can be known about God is plain to them because God has shown it to them for his invisible attributes namely his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly perceived ever since the creation of the world in the things that have been made Paul who's writing this passage in Romans is righting the wrongs the same nobody is without excuse. Everybody can look at creation and understand this had to come from someone. But what do they understand that someone they understand that he's powerful right? You cannot look at the vast expanse of our universe. You cannot look down into the Grand Canyon, you know, you cannot go hike just in kolob without understanding. Wow, whoever did this must be powerful. You cannot look at that and not understand he must be of an entirely different order than I am you and I don't look at the Grand Canyon and I think you know what my backyard needs it needs one of these I'm going to go home and make one. We look at creation. We recognize whoever made this is of an entirely different order of being than I am. This is not something I can aspire to like when I grow up. I want to be God that just isn't going to happen. He's different to his divine nature in his eternal power. Those are clearly seen in creation. But we don't know everything about God right in the things that are made we understand this God is he has other than us and he is greater than us. We don't understand his love. We don't understand Grace. We don't understand so many things that are essential to who God is just by looking at creation that matters. That matters God is distinct from his creation and that creation reveals some of who he is but not all of who he is. We need to keep this in mind. What's the next implication? The next implication of the fact that God created is that God desires a relationship with his creation. There was a popular theology back in around the founding of our country called deism and the idea was this the people were looking at the world and they were saying there must be somebody who started this off. But they picture just being a somebody who just kind of started the world up and then let it run and walked away and had nothing more to do with it. That is not the picture that we get from the word of God the picture that we get from the word of God is that God created the heavens and the Earth ant Did he desires a relationship with him now? We're not going to read all of Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 this revelation of creation. But when we do when you do this week sometime, you'll see what is God do he creates and then he relates makes and then he meets with what he has made and he says here I am not just seen in creation. But now speaking to you giving you rules giving you life giving you an ongoing relationship with me God desires relationship with his creation. What is it? What are the clearest aspects of this to me is in just those things I mentioned earlier the beauty the Majesty the Grandeur of creation. there is no reason literally no reason why we have to have colors There's no reason why the universe had to be so ordered that visible light for our human eye breaks down into this pallet of colors that can be mixed and matched in all sorts of pleasing a raise why those colors have to be represented in the Red Rocks of Southern Utah why they have to be seen in the diversity of the rainbow why they have to be seen in the flowers around if there's a reason for that. other than God saying I made this. For you why I let me just talk to my wife or second husband. I need you to listen to this. Why what would you prefer? Your husband hands you a card on Valentine's Day and says here Valentine's Day. So I got you a card. Or your husband says Hey pack your bags. I've taken care of the babysitter. I've got the house being watched after I've made reservations for us at this restaurant that we love you and we're going to go out to this nice hotel afterwards and just enjoy our Valentine's Day. Why is which do you prefer?

Tell your husband we don't get this automatically. Okay, we need you to tell us this from time to time. Which one is better? The one that says I put some effort into this but it's it's a joke. So so my wife and I are anniversary is coming up. This week will have been married 15 years this week.

It was at first it was an accident. Now. It's kind of becoming on purpose thing. I have a stack of anniversary cards in a drawer at our house that have never been filled out. I buy them intend to write something in them and give them to my wife and then they just fit in the drawer for her to find whenever she periodically cleans out that drawer. My wife does not like being put on on the stage here this year I said, okay, what car do you want me to get for you two, so I can put it in the drawer since you know what they all are and I've never actually giving you an anniversary card. Which one would you like? Right which speaks more which has more value? The perfunctory hey, it's Valentine's Day the perfunctory here's your anniversary card or the here's the effort that I expended into showing you just how much I love you and how much I desire relationship with you. God didn't have to make a beautiful world there didn't have to be these Majestic sites around us and yet there are inviting us to recognize God made this world for us to see it and to know him to see it into Marvel at the love that he would give to us. This is an implication of the world that is made God desires relationship with us now for the second time from his creation creation reveals some but not all of the truths about us and God desires to have a relationship with us. We see that all implied again does not explicitly stated in Genesis 1:1 what is implied by the creation reality that we see around us, but it doesn't just have this verse doesn't just have implications for our understanding of God. This verse has implications for our understanding of Humanity for you, and I this this has something to say to us where we're at and say this implies this the first thing that Genesis 1:1 which says again in the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth, it implies first and foremost that whatever else we are. Whatever we possess in this world. We are stewards and not owners in the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth. God created it. God made. It god-shaped it. God formed it. God put all of the creative effort into it and then we show up. Not before so our relationship to God and to the world around us is one of receiving a stewardship rather than in claiming ownership of something David picks this up the Psalms pick this up in Psalm 24 verses 1 and 2. We read this the Earth is the Lord's. Not just in case we missed it. The Earth is the Lord's the Earth doesn't belong to us. The Earth doesn't belong to our children. The Earth is the Lord's and everything in it including. Including that piece of land at the bank owns that they let you live in. That house that you're constantly doing projects on. You are Stewart. It's God's the Earth is the Lord's and everything in it the world and all who live in that. Not only are your things God's things you are God's. You don't even own you. God Made You God has the right of creation over you God is the one for he what is his claim based in his claim to ownership of all thing in the implication that we are stewards not owners is it he founded it on the Seas and established it on the Water God made everything? Therefore everything is his anything that comes into our brief momentary possession. We do not hold as those who have Sovereign rights over its we are merely stewards. The steward is the one who takes care of another's property. An owner can do whatever the heck they want with their property. A steward has to do whatever the owner says to do with it. When we look at this world. What we ought to be seeing is not is not raw materials for us to exploit. But a gift from God meant to meant to bless us and those around us we have this thing of stewardship in this is this is something to drive me nuts. It drives me nuts that in this country. We have an atheistic environmentalist movement saying we ought to take care of the creation that's been given to us that we have to take care of this world that we find ourselves in that they don't see it as given to them. They don't see this creation. They would say we take care of the world. There's no difference between the right of a bug in the right of me. Right and they're the ones leading the charge and the church is saying no. No we can do whatever we want with his world. We have dominion over it. Dominion does not mean trash in the place. Dominion mean stewardship. I am convinced that Christians ought to be at the Forefront of the environmental movement ought to be the one saying let's take care of what God has given us. Let's make good use of it. Let's not elevated over Humanity. But at the same time, let's not just trash it because we can This implication of stewardship has meaning for us then and how we relate to the creation. It has meaning and how we relate to one another right? I am raising three wonderful kids. One of them is sitting in this room. So I have to be careful what I say right now.

I do not own my kids. My purpose is a parent does not simply to get them to do what I want them to do. My purpose as a parent is not simply to make them modify their behavior to meet your expectations of them. My expectations of them. My responsibility of the parent is to teach them and train them and safe be what God made you to be. With all of your uniqueness in all of this glorious differences that God has made let me train you up to be what God intends for you to be. Not what I intend you to be not what anybody else intends you to be what God meant you to be it has implications for our relationship with Creation with our kids with our jobs. And this is where I get to the second implication for us V implication overall if you're keeping track at home. We are created. To be stewards not owners, and we are created to create. We are created to create. I want to if I could Hammer any point home. This is the one that I would hammer home right now because you live if you're here in America, and I don't assume that everybody watching this will be but if you're here in America you live in a culture seeking to convince you that the reason you were created. The reason you live is to consume. Entertainment goods and services, you are nothing more than an economic widget. You are nothing more than essentially a pain of the capitalistic system.

That is one of the deadliest lies that has ever been foisted off on Humanity that we ought to be passive recipients rather than active participants in the Act of Creation. This is what God has done. Its he has given us the Dignity of creation. He has given us the image of himself as Creator now you and I don't create in the same way that God creates how many of you can speak light and the light shows up. How many of you can speak Earth and in earth is made I'm waiting for a hand but nobody's raising one. That's not how we create Fiat buy out of nothing. We use the things that God has given us so and we make stuff and this is an incredible thing sometimes and I don't know where this kind of went off the rails, but in in Christiana, we've you'd like the people who passed her the people who are missionaries like those are the real Christians and they actually have some sort of purpose in the world in the rest of us. We just try to get along we try to survive make enough money to live another day, right? No, The implication of our stewardship the implication of our Creation in the image of God, is that why we do not own the things that we have we are tasked with improving the things that we have. The creation that we've received is one that we are meant to do something with not this merely consume. But to create here's what I would challenge you in a culture that tells you you are a consumer. We can manipulate you with advertising. We can Define you down to the nth degree. Based on what you click on what you like what you watch we know you resist that church hear me resist that if watching a TV show causes you to passively consume rather than actively engage someone else's creative work. Turn the TV off. If jumping on social media causes you to be a pawn in somebody else's algorithmically tuned experience turn your computer off.

Go build something. Go paint a picture. Even if you're terrible at painting go write a poem maybe if you're terrible at writing go make something God Made You to make things and to bless the world around you with your work. Try this on for size take a picture and don't post it on social media.

Take a picture for the sheer Joy of marveling at the beauty of what God has made and the he's allowed you to have to capture and enjoy later.

resist being turned into the product start creating and it is not just creating music. It's not just creating Arts right do your work well. Do your work. Well the other day this is this was this was the best thing ever. I I had a proud dad moment. There's a lot of construction that's taking place here in Enoch and on our drive from our house up to the church there always building something in the end yesterday Ben and I were driving along and there's this house and I'm going to watch them, you know, they but they were they were preparing the lot and then they were pouring the foundation and then when we drove by the other day that the crew was out there framing it up and there was nothing and as we drove by there setting the First wall of this new house up. I told them I said Ben isn't that great. Look at look at the skills and talents. They have like you don't want your dad doing that but aren't you glad that there are people who can do that and do it well and can make things like that and and that turned into as a lot of things to do with me turned into a little mini sermon a Little Smoke Box that I got up on and start talking about how God has given us. The ability to create sin to make things and how that is joining with him and what he's done in creation and I had this sermon in mind obviously I've been working on this all week. And so this was in mine isn't talking to Ben. the best part was as we're driving home. We go by and they've gotten not just one while I think I like all the walls up and in a very short amount of time and we got the windows down. We're just rolling and then starts clapping. It's his damn. Look at how quick they did. Look how good they did that. Isn't that awesome? That's it. That's it celebrating the creative work that these guys did guys who they're probably not thinking about their work is worship, right then, you know is 85° the sun is just beating down there not thinking about I want to glorify my Creator as I stand this wall up in this new house and yet that's what they're doing and my son could look at it and recognize look at what good work. They're doing look at how that glorifies their creator Church. It doesn't matter. If you're a house framer. It doesn't matter. If you pour concrete. It doesn't matter if you work in an office answering phones. It doesn't matter what you do. You drive a truck drive a truck to the glory of God. You build houses build a house to the glory of God Martin Luther Protestant reformer, right Martin Luther said, what makes the Christian Shoemaker is not that he puts little crosses on his shoes. What makes a Christian Shoemaker that he makes good shoes because his work is infused with meaning he's not creating just to fill his belly. He's creating to provide for his family. Yes provide for the needs of others around him and to glorify his creator when we take on this identity as creators rather than consumers we glorify the God who said let there be everything In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth and he invites us to join him in that creative work in a different way. But in the same vein, however As any of you've ever frame to house when it's 85° out in the sun's beating down. Even as we do that, even if we do the work that God has given us to do. We alternate Lee recognize that this is not finally satisfied. even as we create and even as we Marvel at the beauty of creation and even as we experienced all of this that God has done for us we look at the world and we say

I guess that is that all I thought of you young people, you know understand this you don't understand is you're still thinking like man. I got my future out in front of me the world's great. The world's brightest World beautiful it is And yes, your future is an amazing thing to be excited about it. But eventually you're going to be like some of the rest of us. Is that all there is Because one of the implications of Creation in the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth one that implication when we come face-to-face with this dissatisfaction is that we were not made just for this creation. We were made for much more. It doesn't matter. How amazing the Vista is as you stand up on observation Point down in Zion National Park. Eventually, you got to walk back down to your car and join the line of 500,000 other people driving through the park. Right? No matter how joyful a moment is produced. When you experience something for the first time something wonderful something magnificent eventually that Joy fades. CS Lewis said it really well. I told you we'd get back to Mere Christianity. If I find in myself a desire, which no experience in this world can satisfy the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If I find in myself some desire that has nothing that can satisfy it the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. This quote is life-changing. Because so many of us spend our days chasing that next emotional High chasing that next experience you have this whole movement of foot today of people who do nothing but skip from one experience to the next never stopping to say what in the world am I chasing and why is it never satisfying? The reason is because yes, we were made with this world. Yes. We are made in this world. Yes. We are given this purpose of making this world better when we leave than it was when we came that is our purpose, but that is not There are desires inside of us that nothing can fill in this creation implying that we were made for something far greater. We were made to move Beyond this physical limited exist as we were made to move into the presence of God himself. We were made to exist with God We were made to know God who transcends this reality there for our desires transcend this reality. And that is the problem of creation. The problem of creation is it we ask it to do what it cannot do Philip me satisfied me. It can't it doesn't matter how much money you have how many frequent flyer miles you a mass? You're never going to find ultimately what's you're looking for if you're just looking here why because God is separate from his creation. Why? Because we need a relationship with him this creation reveals some of who got his but not enough. Why is it because we don't own it. We're just we're just taking care of God stuff. Why because what we create breaks, what could we create doesn't last why because we are ultimately made for more than this and this is the final implication that I want to draw. The final implication of creation. Is it Creations not enough? That we need something more and the something more We Need Is Christ the something more we need is Jesus of Nazareth. The something more we need is a humble Jewish Craftsman. Who lived two thousand years ago? Walked around telling people of God revealing God to them through sign then through teaching and then who died.

But didn't say that. That's what we need. The implications of creation of that. It's not enough for us but it points us to Christ because in Jesus these three implications about God and these three implications about us find a point of Harmony. They find a point of fulfillment. God exist separate from his creation. Jesus enters creation to reconcile it to its creator. God is separate and yet Jesus invades creation. And invites us to consider reality Beyond this opens up a way that we can experience that God's creation to restore that understanding to fully reveal God to us. Before Jesus came we just had a couple good ideas about what God might be based on what we've seen based on what he'd spoken to a couple of crazy Jewish Prophets. When Jesus shows up now we see that's who God is. We understand fully. Who it is that made this world. We understand fully what it is that he desires from us and we are given. The ability to have the relationship that was intended God desires relationship with his creation. Jesus enters creation to restore that relationship. Again, Lewis and Mere Christianity. He says I can't tell you how this works. I can't tell you why it works, but I can tell you that by Jesus coming God In the Flesh we have this Avenue open back up where we can go to God again. That is enough. I don't care if you can parse the Theology of it. I don't care if you can parse the Theology of it and think that I'm completely wrong on it if you understand this Jesus Christ was God In the Flesh. He came to give his life to reconcile us with God and came to rise from the dead to give us hope for our future with God you understand how God's desire for relationship is fulfilled in Christ coming to restore that relationship. The fact that we are stewards and not owners. Find its fulfillment in Christ in creation and replaces our vision of what this life means and what we're supposed to get out of it. When Jesus comes gives us a new vision of what it means to be human. How many of you guys are fans of the band Skillet? my people

right this very thing about this reality and for some of you they sing about it in a way that you would not enjoy. Write the Christian. I don't even know what they are rock experimental electronic kind of gone through a different couple different phases. This are pointing to this reality. There is something that God is doing in us through Christ that changes the way we are human the takes the mess that is a man or a woman and invest them with purpose because we are created to create and we see so often that that runs up against the mess of this world and our Creations break and we failed to do what God has made us to do and yet Jesus enters creation and rejuvenate every aspect of our being any invest everything we think say do with purpose. He gives us the reason why do you go to work? Not just to Live Another Day? Why do you enjoy your weekends camping? Not just because life is about you. Invest even our Recreation with purpose to glorify him. He invest our work with purpose to tell others of him. He gives our life a purpose and meaning Beyond amassing fortunes or finding experiences. He gives us himself and he says share this with everyone you meet God gives us purpose. We are created to create Jesus gives us a purpose We Were Made for More Than This World and Jesus. Reminds us of that fact. Jesus came to Earth lived amongst us with tempted in every way as we are yet without sin. Was hungry was thirsty as a writer said Jesus had to have dirty diapers changed. He knows what the Human Experience is and he shows us that this is not all there is. He says behold if I leave I go and prepare a place for you a new thing and that's not just this disembodied Spirit existence in heaven. The new thing that God is doing is to one day bring his reality. An overlay it and recreate our reality to unite Heaven and Earth is the vision and Jesus is the one who's pointing us to that thing. This is where I'm going. This is where you're going to Do you guys see in the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth? And that points us to Christ as the answer that points is to Christ as the Fulfillment. So whatever else you think life is about whatever else it is that you're giving your days to. You will always be frustrated. Until you give your life your purpose your day your week your month your years your death. To Christ that's my call to you from Genesis 1:1 in the beginning. God created the heavens and the Earth that includes you in the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth and he invites you to Christ to find fulfillment of all of the incredible potential and all the incredible. Hope that's found in that reality you guys play with me.