A.
Find Out:
1.
What was the state of the earth when God first made it? v.2
2.
What was the first thing He "added"? v.3-5
3.
Then what did He insert? v.6,8
4.
What was His next stage of change? v.9,10
5.
What did He then put on it? v.11
6.
How would this keep on reproducing? v.11,12
B.
Think :
1.
How is the coming into being of our world shown to be the purposeful
act
of God?
2.
God could have spoken and a completed world came into being instantly.
Why do you think He didn't?
3.
How many times does "And God saw that it was good" come
up? What
do you think that says?
C.
Comment :
In these opening verses of the Bible we are confronted
with the awesome power of God. Whatever else, the Bible doesn't allow
room for evolution by chance. Behind the coming into being of the world
is the purposeful, creative hand of God. The picture we are given is
of God taking a solid mass surrounded by water in space, shedding light
on it, then putting an atmosphere around it and then bringing up land
masses in the water to form what we know as the earth. On the land masses
He brings vegetation that is to be self sowing.
No explanation is given as to the "how"
of all these things. God can just speak and the thing happens. There
may have been scientific activity that orders it all but that is not
the main point. The main point is that GOD orders it all. Again the
fact that there is no mention of the source of the light first of all,
is of no consequence. GOD can make light without source. He is God Almighty!
D.
Application?
1.
Is the God YOU worship, God ALMIGHTY who is sovereign over all
things?
2.
Is the God YOU know, a creative God who works stage by stage at
bringing things into being?
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