The Sermon Genesis And Our Search For God by David McGee
Jun 10, 2012
Genesis And Our Search For God (32:46)
Referenced Scriptures: Genesis 1:1; John 1:1; Psalm 18; Psalm 33:4; Psalm 119:50; Psalm 119:89; Psalm 119:105; Revelation 1:8; Revelation 12:11; 2 Corinthians 5
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Genesis 1:1
1) In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
John 1:1
1) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Psalm 18
1) I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
2) Yahweh is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
3) I will call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies.
4) The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
5) The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came on me.
6) In my distress I called on Yahweh, And cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple, My cry before him came into his ears.
7) Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, Because he was angry.
8) There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, Fire out of his mouth devoured; Coals were kindled by it.
9) He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.
10) He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.
11) He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion around him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
12) At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.
13) Yahweh also thundered in the sky, The Most High uttered his voice, Hailstones and coals of fire.
14) He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, lightnings manifold, and routed them.
15) Then the channels of waters appeared, The foundations of the world were laid bare, At your rebuke, Yahweh, At the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
16) He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.
17) He delivered me from my strong enemy, From those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
18) They came on me in the day of my calamity, But Yahweh was my support.
19) He brought me forth also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
20) Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
21) For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, And have not wickedly departed from my God.
22) For all his ordinances were before me. I didn‘t put away his statutes from me.
23) I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
24) Therefore has Yahweh recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
25) With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.
26) With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
27) For you will save the afflicted people, But the haughty eyes you will bring down.
28) For you will light my lamp. Yahweh, my God, will light up my darkness.
29) For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.
30) As for God, his way is perfect. The word of Yahweh is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
31) For who is God, except Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God,
32) The God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?
33) He makes my feet like hinds‘ feet, And sets me on my high places.
34) He teaches my hands to war; So that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
35) You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.
36) You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.
37) I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again until they are consumed.
38) I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.
39) For you have girded me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
40) You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, That I might cut off those who hate me.
41) They cried, but there was none to save; Even to Yahweh, but he didn‘t answer them.
42) Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
43) You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
44) As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.
45) The foreigners shall fade away, And shall come trembling out of their close places.
46) Yahweh lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,
47) Even the God who executes vengeance for me, And subdues peoples under me.
48) He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
49) Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations, And will sing praises to your name.
50) He gives great deliverance to his king, And shows lovingkindness to his anointed, To David and to his seed, forevermore. Psalm 19 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
Psalm 33:4
4) For the word of Yahweh is right. All his work is done in faithfulness.
Psalm 119:50
50) This is my comfort in my affliction, For your word has revived me.
Psalm 119:89
89) Yahweh, your word is settled in heaven forever.
Psalm 119:105
105) Your word is a lamp to my feet, And a light for my path.
Revelation 1:8
8) "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End," says the Lord God, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."
Revelation 12:11
11) They overcame him because of the Lamb‘s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn‘t love their life, even to death.
2 Corinthians 5
1) For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
2) For most assuredly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven;
3) if so be that being clothed we will not be found naked.
4) For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
5) Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.
6) Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;
7) for we walk by faith, not by sight.
8) We are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
9) Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
10) For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
11) Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God; and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.
12) For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.
13) For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.
14) For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
15) He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
16) Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
17) Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, they have become new.
18) But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;
19) namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
20) We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us. We beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
21) For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
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To read Genesis chapter one. When a reader from the message Bible and going to read the entire chapter, so hopefully we redress him understand what were going so. Genesis our search for God first. This marina from the message Bible, God created the heavens and the error. All you see, all you don't see Eric was the soup of nothingness of bottomless emptiness and inky blackness God spirit rooted like a bird over the waters of this, God spoke liked and light appeared. God saw the light was good and separated light from dark God named the light Day, and he named the dark Knight. It was evening, it was morning day one, God spoke sky in the middle of the water separated from the water God made Scott. He separated water under the sky from the water above the sky and there was a named sky, the heavens. It was evening, it was morning day to God spoke separate water beneath heaven gather into one place land appear and there was God named the land her. He named the pool water ocean. God saw that it was good. God spoke hurt Rina will all varieties of seed bearing plants every sort of fruit bearing tree, and there was earth producing green seed bearing plants, all varieties and fruit bearing trees of all sorts. God saw that it was good. It was evening. It was morning, a three God spoke like come out shining a heavenly skies separate today from nine make seasons and days and years life in I give life to our and there was God made two big lines larger to take charge of the day. The smaller to be in charge of night. He made the stars got place them in a heavenly sky to light up our and oversee day and night to separate light and dark. God saw that it was good. It was evening, it was morning day for God spoke sworn OSHA with fish and all sea life birds fly through the sky over God created huge whales all the swarms of life in the waters, and every kind and species of flying birds. God saw that it was good. God bless them prosper, reproduce, feel oceans. Birds reproduce on earth. It was evening, it was morning, day five, God spoke heard generated life every sort and kind, cattle, and reptile than wild animals all kinds and there was wild animals of every kind, cattle of all kinds every sort of reptile and bug got saw it was good. God spoke let us make human beings in our image, make them reflect our nature so that they can risk be responsive for the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, and the cattle. And yes, hurt itself and every animal that moves on the face of your God created human beings in speak, and he created them. He created them godlike reflecting God 's nature. He created them male and female. God bless them prosper, reproduce, fill our take charge be responsible for fish in the sea in the birds in the air for every living thing that moves on the face of the earth. Then God said I'm every sort of seed bearing plant on her and every kind of fruit bearing tree give them to you for food to all animals, and all birds. Everything that moves and breeze. I give whatever grows out of the ground for food and there was God looked over everything handmade. It was so good, so very good. It was evening. It was morning, day six, no as the search as we look at Genesis guesses such an intriguing book. I never thought is no explanations about God. There is no justifications on who God is it just begins with God. There's no reasoning for his existence. There is no trying to prove that he exists and that you know where to become from where did God come from God is God created he created the heavens of America and all that you see all that you don't see a lady of that other picture I was thinking of, and whatever we think of the vastness and in this is our solar system. Again, this is our solar system) that the right thing. But what of what happened this past week. Her last two weeks one one planet went in front of the wood plan when front of the moves on Venus did you see the pictures of their digital picture of Venus is outgoing and fun assigned there was this little round black box in the middle of this huge circumference and Venus. This whole planet fit in the house. It wasn't like a and eclipse of the sun. There were just a little box in front of the other son and daughter. I will read something here talks about talks about creation, it says the simple statement that God created the heavens and the Europe is one of the most challenging running the modern mind the massive galaxies we live in is spreading at an incredible speed of four hundred and ninety thousand miles an hour and that that little cosmos thing that you see is spinning at four hundred and ninety thousand miles an hour, but even this breakneck speed. Our galaxy still leaves two hundred million years to make one rotation overlapping the spin around the four hundred and ninety thousand miles an hour takes two hundred million years to make one trip. Some scientists say that the number of stars in creation is equal to all the brains of all the sands and all the beaches of the world. All of the stars you see up there. There is enough stars about the same number of all the grains of sand in all of the beaches of the world that so many stars are in this complex. CM spinning stars functions with remarkable order and efficiency to say that the universe just happened or he evolved requires more faith than to believe that God is behind these amazing statistics. God truly did create a wonderful universe, so whenever we are looking than Genesis. This book of creation, but the word Genesys is began means young than the connotation is start commands open so the book of Genesis is about an opening. Allow as you think God speaking things into existence and when the men jealous, as appears out there. There is a certain car manufacturer that has a Genesis and AI. I listen that name or your different. There's a grill. I noticed on the someplace that sells under there. The Genesis grill and you look at anything. While most people must really put a lot of stock are a lot of pride in that product to name in Genesis as if this is a creation from which all other things have come I don't think that the grill is that old or the cars at all, but it's a relatively new name but the name Janice is a refreshing and optimistic word that speaks to watch the beginning today, this is a Genesis moment in our life, because time it's time to begin beside him again where were at this time to begin our new life. It's time to bring an object like today's the first day of the rest of your life that the Genesis phrase. It's a beginning. If the no beginning with them live in here for many years, but today is a new day. Today is the beginning again. So the Genesis moment or things like the Bible says, behold, all things become the pathogenesis phrase is a time and there is an opening of a new dam and and so each day the sun rises and money nowadays of the sudden rise each day that the sun rises. We begin a new day in at the Genesis moment coming to church at the Genesis moment. Why is it a Genesis love because God is challenging us under God is challenging us again with his word, and with his spirit opening up to what new ideas, new ways of approaching life new ways of looking our life and our spiritual life. So we have a Genesis moment. Then we look at Jesus Christ, the living Word, he being alive in us create, create God being alive in you and I and the creation and create in us a new heart creates enough. Create in us Lord, a right spirit and God is continuing to create this all the living Word alive in us create God is creating a new is creating your dreams so that you can follow found them is creating a sense of accomplishment, so that we can go unfulfilled. Look at the Genesis chapter one. Again, you have your Bible( I will look at is a behavior Bible open look at verse three verse six burst nine verse( verse fourteen, verse twenty first twenty four verse twenty six verse twenty nine. What does it say God 's love, God said, and so there is this understanding that God is forming. God is creating an end, we find an non- verse twenty seven so God created man. Everything else got spoken into existence. How many times do we think of the context that God has his hand upon God, you know Leonardo da Vinci 's great painting of God and man in the finger man in the finger of God coming together. There is always this understanding of God touching man of God being involved in Christ learning your heart you think verse twenty seven says that God created man in his image, so we are special. Now some of you really special in potential there. Forget them. David talked about it in and sprinkled Missouri. He had some friends in and regulations, exuberant and bumbling novices in school, high school and is a high school within the prior six okay so this guy is a friend of David's and rituals you bubbly and excited and bump outs around no and this guy comes up the rate of the Damon. He says Damon is your daughter, your sister. She special she met in a little in a London outrage over why the alley special act had away and he knows now that's just normally her though. You see, God has a special we are special. The Bible calls us peculiar that we are set apart, so, God has a way of looking at this is for less from the dust of the earth and breathed into us the breath of life. And we became a living soul. That's what makes us different than the animals and that you know we are not descendents of any act is based on where you are wondering, I know there are some people who resemble the characteristics of animals, but we are not never see those pictures where there is people have dogs and the dogs would like them or they look like the dogs in about six are not descendents. For many of the animals. God formed us from the desk of the European breeds into us the breath of life. And we became a living soul. The hand of God is on our life in creation, and is still on our life our formation, while you remember your mother as well. God knew you informed report all the stopping you that you need so you can become that person God wants you to become. We know this, that the touch of God is upon our life touch of God upon our life, if not from the kingdom of God Hill, who knows whether you become the kingdom of God for such a time as this is a plan if the purpose and God has a Wham touching our lives in a very special way. Christ is come this word enters are. Life and we are changed, created the word of God creates continues to create in us to create. We are created in the image of God. What what happens whenever we are to forgive as Christ has forgiven us. We are to love his daughters loved us that we have a hold on eternal life, that renew a right spirit within me. Great inquiry created me a clean heart, O God, these are the creation in Genesis moments on which God is alive in us John one one, says in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the Word was God through him all things were made, and without him nothing was made some changes. John is telling us saying this about Jesus that he was very creation, and without him nothing was made and throw him all things were made, and without him was nothing was made that has been made, and in him was life, and that life is the light of men. So we have this life in Christ. That is our life. Jesus the creator, no notice, and Janet Jesus cannot be in Genesis person because Jesus doesn't have a beginning. It doesn't happen and I like the one version before the beginning began, there was God. Before the beginning began was God. That's why there's no explanation as to where God came from or how he got here he always was, always will be. I would like the explanation that in Genesis we have time beginning and creation, we have the beginning of time that the book and then at the end of the book of Revelation and we have the new heavens and the new earth, and then we have eternity. So, in eternity past, we have God in the creation of time and then we have the end of time and eternity future and God always is. God doesn't remember the past, he doesn't see into the future. It's all knowledge to God. It's all knowledge. He sees all things knows all things in the past is not history. The futures, futures, not seeing in the future. It is all knowledge to God. So Jesus is the creator and in our search for God. We start the word defined bistros that come into our life and give us hope to give us peace to give us live in the present created me a clean heart. Renew a right spirit created on the Genesis moment of creation in us that will last forever. So, in our search for God. We searched the word Psalm eighteen says. As for God 's way is perfect, the word of the Lord is try some thirty three burst for the word of the Lord is I found one nineteen verse fifty. This is my comfort in my affliction for thy word hath quickened me worth ninety eighty nine and Psalm one nineteen for ever, O Lord, my word is settled in heaven, verse one oh five by word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. One, verse one fortieth Psalm one nineteen by word is your verse one sixty thy word is true from the beginning. Then, in John chapter five verse twenty four verily, verily I say to you, please let here at my word and believes on him that sent me, hath everlasting life. These are the Genesis moment. Somehow the word is coming to live in, and is alive. The word of God is quick, in part, sharper than any two edged sword. One version says the word is alive and active, so the word of God is something that penetrates our life. It is something that in the most difficult situations. The word becomes our anchor. The word becomes our direction post our our our map to life, and it's all in the Scriptures is a Genesis moment of creation, creating a new heart a new way. In us by the word what Jesus taught and what he did, are tied inseparably to who he is and then we are tied inseparably to who Jesus the Word in life are tied together in Christ. We are connected to Christ that we are forever changed. Revelation one eight I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the ending, which is in, which was in, which is to come, the Almighty, we find hope we find encouragement, we find this encouragement for life now and in the future the whole concept of life, eternal life is in Christ, and that we have this in Genesis creation of hope. The hope in the Scripture. Remember, it's not like you. I hope the sun shines they out of the rain today in our sure hope that my husband gets me this for our anniversary. I'm sure a lot of our business line anniversary. That's wishful thinking the whole that is in Scripture speaks of a definite event that we have not arrived that just like in the Old Testament there was the prophecy of a Messiah coming that he would be born of a virgin, he would be born in Bethlehem that those were the whole of the Old Testament, the Messiah would come and when the appointed time arrived. Jesus came, there was a whole that portrayed that in the Old Testament there was a hole that in the New Testament speaks up, twice coming back, that whenever we die to be absent from the body to be present with the Lord. That's a creation of life in 's family was on for eternity. So no matter what we face when God who loves and cares for us and for his children. Revelation twelve eleven and they came to him by the blood in the end they overcame the evil one by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. You see it as a Genesis moment when we speak the truth of God 's word and the creative power that is in our words. Now not saying that the Sabine and say about that. We want to speak what we want to receive we want to be good in our life and the lives of our children. We want to speak about the good things we want and what is God doing in chapter one of Genesis three six nine eleven fourteen twenty twenty four. God spoke lots sad God created you whatever we confess our sins, and Nathan and Emily. We talked about when we are saying if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. The Bible says that if we confess our sins, God forgives. We are speaking about forgiveness when we speak about hatred by which, why would we speak about no negatively about ourselves are about someone else. We speak forgiveness, because that's what Jesus does what we do and we are creating something we are creating. Can we can we condemn people to hell because we people would want to send them there go to work, you are so we're creating, altering resending the water. We pray for them. Pray for them and say a prayer for the what happens in us. It creates a new perspective. A different perspective inside of us were creating with our words were creating with our words at the Genesis moment every time we speak we're bringing something something into existence. If you pray someone and thank them for what they've done what happens in that moment you create hope in them, Ukraine life and then you create an affection inside of them giving people compliments. It's a way of building them up. The Bible says to build each other up and are most almost crushed only thing we're building ourselves up why we want to say what I think Ivan webmail met yesterday overnight, very much not never vote of confidence in yourself on where they are best to do well in our tests we study we pray. Ask God for help and guidance of the Gulf of the obstacles and difficulties. Genesis means beginning or origin. The book unfolds the record of the beginning of the world beginning of human history of family of civilization and of salvation, Genesis, the story of God 's purpose. A plan for his creation. Ate land for his creation. God has a plan for us that God became flesh and dwelt among us. I love her. John says and we beheld him, this God who created all things came in was with us and we held him and him, behold, means there was a recognition that the combination of two things. There is a recognition that this is God with us, the Messiah, Jesus, and that we help him. Johnny built at the Last Supper, he lays his head upon the chest of Jesus friend with friend 's beloved friend Genesis begins in God we see in creating the world and the majestic display of power and purpose sampling is in all of that Majesty and all of that glory, we see were man finds a way to fall, we find even in our life away to be negative and to be discouraged, but a Genesis moment is over creative creative aspect of who we are and what God wants to do the message Bible in second Corinthians chapter five, says, now we look inside and what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start is created new. The old wife is gone. Birds old things passed away, behold, all things become new look at it. All this comes from the God who settled the relationship between us and him, and then calls us to sell our relationship with each other to Genesis moment created with clean hearts Genesis moment a Genesis lonely when God puts the world square with himself through the Messiah and giving the world a fresh start by offering forgiveness. Forgiveness is our Genesis moment and whenever we have a right relationship with others. That's another Genesis moments of beginning. You know there's a story and I close with this. This is young boy in an and search for God and he wanted to meet God, so he knew what was a long trip to where God lives, so he packed his suitcase with a bag of potato chips at six pack of root beer, he started on his journey. It just so happens I have a suitcase with me and when I say I'm advantageous both their and wealthy have sixpack of root beer will tell you passes for me so why you wanted to be God install it just and always start out on this journey to meet him, and what had gone about three blocks, he met an old man, this old man was sitting in the park, just staring at some pigeons. The boy sat down next to him and opened his suitcase and was about to take a drink from his root beer when he noticed that the old man were selling him to positively fifth and gratefully the old man gratefully accepted potato chips and smiled at him for giving him a potato chip. This smile was so printed with the boy wanted to see it again fully operative around here and again. The man smiled with him. The boy was delighted. They sat there all afternoon eating and smiling, but they never said a word as twilight approached the boy realized how tired he was then he got up to leave, but before he had gone more than a few steps, he turned around and he ran back to the old man and then log gave him his biggest smile ever in return. So when the boy opened the door of his home. His mother was surprised by the look of joy on his this little boy 's face. She asked him what did you do today that make you so happy, he replied. I had lunch with God before his mother could respond, he added, you know what he's got the most beautiful smile I've ever seen. Meanwhile, the old man also rating with July return to his home, his son was stunned by the look of peace on his father space and at that. What did you go today. The major so happy the man replied. I put TI potato chips in the park with God. However, before his son responded me added in all, he's much younger than I expected. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch of the smile of a kind word of a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest area, all of which have the potential to turn your life around. People come into our lives for reason for season four four lifetime embrace them embrace them all equally and lunch with God and bring a bag of chips at Genesis moments at times, create and what God wants to do in. We read his work. His work challenges us and as we go about allowing the word to touch us. We take a bag of chips we take again a root beer. We sit down in the park and talk with God, who just happens to be an older man, a young boy, but we need God, and those Genesis moments chose to how I zoom to the beginning of church. I figured you need them during church. So we have a bag of potato chips were everyone and not to share your chips with someone and recognize that it's a Genesis moment at the Genesis moment at the time to create a relationship and see the hand of God on our lives and end it will emit saying, then so be it. Lord bless youTo read Genesis chapter one. When a reader from the message Bible and going to read the entire chapter, so hopefully we redress him understand what were going so. Genesis our search for God first. This marina from the message Bible, God created the heavens and the error. All you see, all you don't see Eric was the soup of nothingness of bottomless emptiness and inky blackness God spirit rooted like a bird over the waters of this, God spoke liked and light appeared. God saw the light was good and separated light from dark God named the light Day, and he named the dark Knight. It was evening, it was morning day one, God spoke sky in the middle of the water separated from the water God made Scott. He separated water under the sky from the water above the sky and there was a named sky, the heavens. It was evening, it was morning day to God spoke separate water beneath heaven gather into one place land appear and there was God named the land her. He named the pool water ocean. God saw that it was good. God spoke hurt Rina will all varieties of seed bearing plants every sort of fruit bearing tree, and there was earth producing green seed bearing plants, all varieties and fruit bearing trees of all sorts. God saw that it was good. It was evening. It was morning, a three God spoke like come out shining a heavenly skies separate today from nine make seasons and days and years life in I give life to our and there was God made two big lines larger to take charge of the day. The smaller to be in charge of night. He made the stars got place them in a heavenly sky to light up our and oversee day and night to separate light and dark. God saw that it was good. It was evening, it was morning day for God spoke sworn OSHA with fish and all sea life birds fly through the sky over God created huge whales all the swarms of life in the waters, and every kind and species of flying birds. God saw that it was good. God bless them prosper, reproduce, feel oceans. Birds reproduce on earth. It was evening, it was morning, day five, God spoke heard generated life every sort and kind, cattle, and reptile than wild animals all kinds and there was wild animals of every kind, cattle of all kinds every sort of reptile and bug got saw it was good. God spoke let us make human beings in our image, make them reflect our nature so that they can risk be responsive for the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, and the cattle. And yes, hurt itself and every animal that moves on the face of your God created human beings in speak, and he created them. He created them godlike reflecting God 's nature. He created them male and female. God bless them prosper, reproduce, fill our take charge be responsible for fish in the sea in the birds in the air for every living thing that moves on the face of the earth. Then God said I'm every sort of seed bearing plant on her and every kind of fruit bearing tree give them to you for food to all animals, and all birds. Everything that moves and breeze. I give whatever grows out of the ground for food and there was God looked over everything handmade. It was so good, so very good. It was evening. It was morning, day six, no as the search as we look at Genesis guesses such an intriguing book. I never thought is no explanations about God. There is no justifications on who God is it just begins with God. There's no reasoning for his existence. There is no trying to prove that he exists and that you know where to become from where did God come from God is God created he created the heavens of America and all that you see all that you don't see a lady of that other picture I was thinking of, and whatever we think of the vastness and in this is our solar system. Again, this is our solar system) that the right thing. But what of what happened this past week. Her last two weeks one one planet went in front of the wood plan when front of the moves on Venus did you see the pictures of their digital picture of Venus is outgoing and fun assigned there was this little round black box in the middle of this huge circumference and Venus. This whole planet fit in the house. It wasn't like a and eclipse of the sun. There were just a little box in front of the other son and daughter. I will read something here talks about talks about creation, it says the simple statement that God created the heavens and the Europe is one of the most challenging running the modern mind the massive galaxies we live in is spreading at an incredible speed of four hundred and ninety thousand miles an hour and that that little cosmos thing that you see is spinning at four hundred and ninety thousand miles an hour, but even this breakneck speed. Our galaxy still leaves two hundred million years to make one rotation overlapping the spin around the four hundred and ninety thousand miles an hour takes two hundred million years to make one trip. Some scientists say that the number of stars in creation is equal to all the brains of all the sands and all the beaches of the world. All of the stars you see up there. There is enough stars about the same number of all the grains of sand in all of the beaches of the world that so many stars are in this complex. CM spinning stars functions with remarkable order and efficiency to say that the universe just happened or he evolved requires more faith than to believe that God is behind these amazing statistics. God truly did create a wonderful universe, so whenever we are looking than Genesis. This book of creation, but the word Genesys is began means young than the connotation is start commands open so the book of Genesis is about an opening. Allow as you think God speaking things into existence and when the men jealous, as appears out there. There is a certain car manufacturer that has a Genesis and AI. I listen that name or your different. There's a grill. I noticed on the someplace that sells under there. The Genesis grill and you look at anything. While most people must really put a lot of stock are a lot of pride in that product to name in Genesis as if this is a creation from which all other things have come I don't think that the grill is that old or the cars at all, but it's a relatively new name but the name Janice is a refreshing and optimistic word that speaks to watch the beginning today, this is a Genesis moment in our life, because time it's time to begin beside him again where were at this time to begin our new life. It's time to bring an object like today's the first day of the rest of your life that the Genesis phrase. It's a beginning. If the no beginning with them live in here for many years, but today is a new day. Today is the beginning again. So the Genesis moment or things like the Bible says, behold, all things become the pathogenesis phrase is a time and there is an opening of a new dam and and so each day the sun rises and money nowadays of the sudden rise each day that the sun rises. We begin a new day in at the Genesis moment coming to church at the Genesis moment. Why is it a Genesis love because God is challenging us under God is challenging us again with his word, and with his spirit opening up to what new ideas, new ways of approaching life new ways of looking our life and our spiritual life. So we have a Genesis moment. Then we look at Jesus Christ, the living Word, he being alive in us create, create God being alive in you and I and the creation and create in us a new heart creates enough. Create in us Lord, a right spirit and God is continuing to create this all the living Word alive in us create God is creating a new is creating your dreams so that you can follow found them is creating a sense of accomplishment, so that we can go unfulfilled. Look at the Genesis chapter one. Again, you have your Bible( I will look at is a behavior Bible open look at verse three verse six burst nine verse( verse fourteen, verse twenty first twenty four verse twenty six verse twenty nine. What does it say God 's love, God said, and so there is this understanding that God is forming. God is creating an end, we find an non- verse twenty seven so God created man. Everything else got spoken into existence. How many times do we think of the context that God has his hand upon God, you know Leonardo da Vinci 's great painting of God and man in the finger man in the finger of God coming together. There is always this understanding of God touching man of God being involved in Christ learning your heart you think verse twenty seven says that God created man in his image, so we are special. Now some of you really special in potential there. Forget them. David talked about it in and sprinkled Missouri. He had some friends in and regulations, exuberant and bumbling novices in school, high school and is a high school within the prior six okay so this guy is a friend of David's and rituals you bubbly and excited and bump outs around no and this guy comes up the rate of the Damon. He says Damon is your daughter, your sister. She special she met in a little in a London outrage over why the alley special act had away and he knows now that's just normally her though. You see, God has a special we are special. The Bible calls us peculiar that we are set apart, so, God has a way of looking at this is for less from the dust of the earth and breathed into us the breath of life. And we became a living soul. That's what makes us different than the animals and that you know we are not descendents of any act is based on where you are wondering, I know there are some people who resemble the characteristics of animals, but we are not never see those pictures where there is people have dogs and the dogs would like them or they look like the dogs in about six are not descendents. For many of the animals. God formed us from the desk of the European breeds into us the breath of life. And we became a living soul. The hand of God is on our life in creation, and is still on our life our formation, while you remember your mother as well. God knew you informed report all the stopping you that you need so you can become that person God wants you to become. We know this, that the touch of God is upon our life touch of God upon our life, if not from the kingdom of God Hill, who knows whether you become the kingdom of God for such a time as this is a plan if the purpose and God has a Wham touching our lives in a very special way. Christ is come this word enters are. Life and we are changed, created the word of God creates continues to create in us to create. We are created in the image of God. What what happens whenever we are to forgive as Christ has forgiven us. We are to love his daughters loved us that we have a hold on eternal life, that renew a right spirit within me. Great inquiry created me a clean heart, O God, these are the creation in Genesis moments on which God is alive in us John one one, says in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the Word was God through him all things were made, and without him nothing was made some changes. John is telling us saying this about Jesus that he was very creation, and without him nothing was made and throw him all things were made, and without him was nothing was made that has been made, and in him was life, and that life is the light of men. So we have this life in Christ. That is our life. Jesus the creator, no notice, and Janet Jesus cannot be in Genesis person because Jesus doesn't have a beginning. It doesn't happen and I like the one version before the beginning began, there was God. Before the beginning began was God. That's why there's no explanation as to where God came from or how he got here he always was, always will be. I would like the explanation that in Genesis we have time beginning and creation, we have the beginning of time that the book and then at the end of the book of Revelation and we have the new heavens and the new earth, and then we have eternity. So, in eternity past, we have God in the creation of time and then we have the end of time and eternity future and God always is. God doesn't remember the past, he doesn't see into the future. It's all knowledge to God. It's all knowledge. He sees all things knows all things in the past is not history. The futures, futures, not seeing in the future. It is all knowledge to God. So Jesus is the creator and in our search for God. We start the word defined bistros that come into our life and give us hope to give us peace to give us live in the present created me a clean heart. Renew a right spirit created on the Genesis moment of creation in us that will last forever. So, in our search for God. We searched the word Psalm eighteen says. As for God 's way is perfect, the word of the Lord is try some thirty three burst for the word of the Lord is I found one nineteen verse fifty. This is my comfort in my affliction for thy word hath quickened me worth ninety eighty nine and Psalm one nineteen for ever, O Lord, my word is settled in heaven, verse one oh five by word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. One, verse one fortieth Psalm one nineteen by word is your verse one sixty thy word is true from the beginning. Then, in John chapter five verse twenty four verily, verily I say to you, please let here at my word and believes on him that sent me, hath everlasting life. These are the Genesis moment. Somehow the word is coming to live in, and is alive. The word of God is quick, in part, sharper than any two edged sword. One version says the word is alive and active, so the word of God is something that penetrates our life. It is something that in the most difficult situations. The word becomes our anchor. The word becomes our direction post our our our map to life, and it's all in the Scriptures is a Genesis moment of creation, creating a new heart a new way. In us by the word what Jesus taught and what he did, are tied inseparably to who he is and then we are tied inseparably to who Jesus the Word in life are tied together in Christ. We are connected to Christ that we are forever changed. Revelation one eight I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the ending, which is in, which was in, which is to come, the Almighty, we find hope we find encouragement, we find this encouragement for life now and in the future the whole concept of life, eternal life is in Christ, and that we have this in Genesis creation of hope. The hope in the Scripture. Remember, it's not like you. I hope the sun shines they out of the rain today in our sure hope that my husband gets me this for our anniversary. I'm sure a lot of our business line anniversary. That's wishful thinking the whole that is in Scripture speaks of a definite event that we have not arrived that just like in the Old Testament there was the prophecy of a Messiah coming that he would be born of a virgin, he would be born in Bethlehem that those were the whole of the Old Testament, the Messiah would come and when the appointed time arrived. Jesus came, there was a whole that portrayed that in the Old Testament there was a hole that in the New Testament speaks up, twice coming back, that whenever we die to be absent from the body to be present with the Lord. That's a creation of life in 's family was on for eternity. So no matter what we face when God who loves and cares for us and for his children. Revelation twelve eleven and they came to him by the blood in the end they overcame the evil one by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. You see it as a Genesis moment when we speak the truth of God 's word and the creative power that is in our words. Now not saying that the Sabine and say about that. We want to speak what we want to receive we want to be good in our life and the lives of our children. We want to speak about the good things we want and what is God doing in chapter one of Genesis three six nine eleven fourteen twenty twenty four. God spoke lots sad God created you whatever we confess our sins, and Nathan and Emily. We talked about when we are saying if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. The Bible says that if we confess our sins, God forgives. We are speaking about forgiveness when we speak about hatred by which, why would we speak about no negatively about ourselves are about someone else. We speak forgiveness, because that's what Jesus does what we do and we are creating something we are creating. Can we can we condemn people to hell because we people would want to send them there go to work, you are so we're creating, altering resending the water. We pray for them. Pray for them and say a prayer for the what happens in us. It creates a new perspective. A different perspective inside of us were creating with our words were creating with our words at the Genesis moment every time we speak we're bringing something something into existence. If you pray someone and thank them for what they've done what happens in that moment you create hope in them, Ukraine life and then you create an affection inside of them giving people compliments. It's a way of building them up. The Bible says to build each other up and are most almost crushed only thing we're building ourselves up why we want to say what I think Ivan webmail met yesterday overnight, very much not never vote of confidence in yourself on where they are best to do well in our tests we study we pray. Ask God for help and guidance of the Gulf of the obstacles and difficulties. Genesis means beginning or origin. The book unfolds the record of the beginning of the world beginning of human history of family of civilization and of salvation, Genesis, the story of God 's purpose. A plan for his creation. Ate land for his creation. God has a plan for us that God became flesh and dwelt among us. I love her. John says and we beheld him, this God who created all things came in was with us and we held him and him, behold, means there was a recognition that the combination of two things. There is a recognition that this is God with us, the Messiah, Jesus, and that we help him. Johnny built at the Last Supper, he lays his head upon the chest of Jesus friend with friend 's beloved friend Genesis begins in God we see in creating the world and the majestic display of power and purpose sampling is in all of that Majesty and all of that glory, we see were man finds a way to fall, we find even in our life away to be negative and to be discouraged, but a Genesis moment is over creative creative aspect of who we are and what God wants to do the message Bible in second Corinthians chapter five, says, now we look inside and what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start is created new. The old wife is gone. Birds old things passed away, behold, all things become new look at it. All this comes from the God who settled the relationship between us and him, and then calls us to sell our relationship with each other to Genesis moment created with clean hearts Genesis moment a Genesis lonely when God puts the world square with himself through the Messiah and giving the world a fresh start by offering forgiveness. Forgiveness is our Genesis moment and whenever we have a right relationship with others. That's another Genesis moments of beginning. You know there's a story and I close with this. This is young boy in an and search for God and he wanted to meet God, so he knew what was a long trip to where God lives, so he packed his suitcase with a bag of potato chips at six pack of root beer, he started on his journey. It just so happens I have a suitcase with me and when I say I'm advantageous both their and wealthy have sixpack of root beer will tell you passes for me so why you wanted to be God install it just and always start out on this journey to meet him, and what had gone about three blocks, he met an old man, this old man was sitting in the park, just staring at some pigeons. The boy sat down next to him and opened his suitcase and was about to take a drink from his root beer when he noticed that the old man were selling him to positively fifth and gratefully the old man gratefully accepted potato chips and smiled at him for giving him a potato chip. This smile was so printed with the boy wanted to see it again fully operative around here and again. The man smiled with him. The boy was delighted. They sat there all afternoon eating and smiling, but they never said a word as twilight approached the boy realized how tired he was then he got up to leave, but before he had gone more than a few steps, he turned around and he ran back to the old man and then log gave him his biggest smile ever in return. So when the boy opened the door of his home. His mother was surprised by the look of joy on his this little boy 's face. She asked him what did you do today that make you so happy, he replied. I had lunch with God before his mother could respond, he added, you know what he's got the most beautiful smile I've ever seen. Meanwhile, the old man also rating with July return to his home, his son was stunned by the look of peace on his father space and at that. What did you go today. The major so happy the man replied. I put TI potato chips in the park with God. However, before his son responded me added in all, he's much younger than I expected. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch of the smile of a kind word of a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest area, all of which have the potential to turn your life around. People come into our lives for reason for season four four lifetime embrace them embrace them all equally and lunch with God and bring a bag of chips at Genesis moments at times, create and what God wants to do in. We read his work. His work challenges us and as we go about allowing the word to touch us. We take a bag of chips we take again a root beer. We sit down in the park and talk with God, who just happens to be an older man, a young boy, but we need God, and those Genesis moments chose to how I zoom to the beginning of church. I figured you need them during church. So we have a bag of potato chips were everyone and not to share your chips with someone and recognize that it's a Genesis moment at the Genesis moment at the time to create a relationship and see the hand of God on our lives and end it will emit saying, then so be it. Lord bless you