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It’s always a good day when we publicly read God’s and preach the truth.

We are blessed beyond measure.

Let’s pray together before we do both of those things.

Pray

God goes by many names in the Bible.

Jehovah, El Shaddai, Adonai, Elohim are a few.

The name God declares for Himself to His servant Moses is “Yahweh.”

The word Yahweh not only is God’s name, but it stands for who God is.

The word Yahweh is mimics the sound of inhaling and exhaling breath.

Breathe in, “yah-” and breathe out, “weh.”

The name chosen by God to represent Himself makes total sense.

It speaks to His ever-present nature, referred to as His omnipresence.

It speaks to the necessity of God, as he is the one who created and sustains all things.

He is the breath of life.

And it is by God, and by His power, love, and perfect plan that He created man and woman and instills in us the breath of life.

When God calls Himself Yahweh, He communicates His involvement with Creation.

He is necessary.

Have you tried living without air in your lungs?

It won’t work for very long.

Have you ever accomplished any task, made any thought, without the presence of breathable air in your lungs?

By His own name, God communicates to those who listen that it is because of Him that we have life and that we are sustained.

The age old questions of “where did I come from?” and “Why am I here?”

and “where am I going?”

Are answered by the breath of life God put into your lungs.

You’ve come from Him.

You are here because He found joy and purpose in you.

God has prepared a place for you to live and worship Him.

The Bible is not a book of tales.

It is not a book allowing alternative interpretations.

As we who are indwelled by the Holy Spirit open the pages of the Bible, we are reading God’s own account of human history.

Not only our history, but it reveals our purpose and our outcome.

You want to know God’s will for your life?

Spend time reading His Word, digesting its truth and God will reveal to you things you didn’t know existed.

It’s not by a secret knowledge that we attain later on.

All of these amazing details are in a language that you can read and listen to.

The Bible is not a book of potentiality.

It is not a concept of what could happen.

It’s genuine.

It’s real.

The words of the Bible have been proven true again and again, and as more research goes into the accounts of the Bible others are beginning to see what faithful Christians have known all along.

The Bible is a reliable source of history.

God used ordinary men, led by the Holy Spirit, to supernaturally document and preserve the texts of the Bible.

As we read its words we pay mind to the grammar of the original authors.

Theirs was the language God used to reveal and document great and wondrous things.

The book of Genesis is the very first book in the Bible.

It’s quite the important book.

Right out of the gate a lot of our presumptions about God’s Word can be challenged by skeptics whose hearts haven’t been radically transformed by the work of Jesus on the cross.

Immediately we find a narrative of God’s creation of the universe, and specifically His creation of the earth and everything on it.

Let’s read Genesis 1:1-26 to start,

1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep.

And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

4 And God saw that the light was good.

And God separated the light from the darkness.

5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.

And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

6 And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”

7 And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse.

And it was so.

8 And God called the expanse Heaven.

And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

9 And God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.”

And it was so. 10 God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas.

And God saw that it was good.

11 And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.”

And it was so.

12 The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind.

And God saw that it was good.

13 And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night.

And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.”

And it was so.

16 And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars.

17 And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18 to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness.

And God saw that it was good.

19 And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.

20 And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.”

21 So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind.

And God saw that it was good.

22 And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

23 And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

24 And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.”

And it was so. 25 And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind.

And God saw that it was good.

26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.

And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Genesis chapters one and two document the very first days of creation.

According to the passage we just read, God invented things such as: the universe and everything in it; He created light; He created the sun and the moon; He created the atmosphere; He created the sky, heaven and water; He created land, seas, plants, night and day, sun and moon; sea creatures, winged creatures, creepy crawly creatures and beasts of the earth.

All of them were made in kind, to take after their own kind.

God made man and woman.

There are implications of what God has made.

Before God created the universe, there was nothing.

The universe, the earth, was without form.

It was void.

Nothing existed except for God, who refers to Himself as a plurality.

He speaks to Himself as He says, “Let us make man in our own image” in 1:26.

When God created the universe He created time, language, and the laws of nature included in physics.

He created math, numbers, angels and the invisible attributes that humans cannot fathom or even be curious as to exist.

He created those far off galaxies and planets that we have yet to see and discover.

And even that isn’t a limit to what God created.