GOD THE CREATOR
Genesis 1:1-13
AWE AND REVERENCE OF GOD
V:1. \” In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. \”
A. This verse is full of words that we have difficulty fully
defining.
1. Can we fully understand God?
a. The Hebrew word is Elohiym, the supreme God
b. Elohiym is a plural noun, but it the one true God.
c. The word open up the concept of one God in three persons
2. He has all power (Omnipotent). What does that mean. We have a definition for
power: force x displacement divide by time. This does not describe God.
3. We can say God knows everything (Omniscience). I have a limited mind, therefore
I cannot conceive what all knowledge is.
4. We can say God is everywhere all the time (Omnipresence). Every where includes
the entire universe, what has been discovered by man and what man has yet to be
discovered.
5. The Bible tells us that God is love and His grace and mercy endures forever.
B. \”The beginning\”. The beginning of what?.
1. The Bible tells that God has no beginning or ending. He is eternal.
2. Is it the beginning of time or the beginning of the creative process?
3. Why did God decide He needed a universe?
4. Since God is spirit, why did He need to dress His spirit in flesh?
C. The Word \”create\” is the Hebrew word \”bara\” which means to make fat, to do,
cut down or select.
1. What method did God use to create the heavens and the earth?
a. According to Psalms 8:3, creation is the work of God\’s fingers.
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
b. According to Psalms 33:6, heaven was made at the command of His Word
\”By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, their starry host by the breath of
his mouth. \”
c. God speaks and stuff happens according to His will.
d. The foundation of my faith in God starts here.
2. The word create implies that Elohiym did something NEW.
C. The word heaven is the Hebrew word \”shamayin\” which means the expanse or
sky around the earth.
It is a plural word which also means an arch.
a. There appears to be levels of heavens,
The Apostle Paul said he was called up the third heaven. 2 Cor 12:2
b. God dwells above the heavens.
Psalms 8:1
O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your
glory above the heavens.
Is heaven just a meeting place for God?
Proverbs 8:27-30
I was there when he set the heavens in place, when he marked out the horizon on the face of the deep,
28 when he established the clouds above and fixed securely the fountains of the deep,
29 when he gave the sea its boundary so the waters would not overstep his command, and when he marked out the foundations of the earth.
Somewhere between verse one and two is the creation of angels and the fall of
Lucifer the Arch Angel, later to be known as Satan.
The angels were created before God made the earth.
Job 38:4
\”Where were you when I laid the earth\’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand.
Job 38:7
while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?
Some theologians claim that shortly after the creation of angels Lucifer fell from
God\’s grace.
Ezekiel 28:14-15
14 Thou wast the anointed covering cherub, and I had set thee [so]: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou didst walk up and down in the midst of stones of fire.
15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways, from the day that thou wast created, till unrighteousness was found in thee.
Ezekiel 28:17
Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty; thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I have cast thee to the ground, I have laid thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
Isaiah 14:12-15
“How you have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the earth, You who have weakened the nations!
13 “But you said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God, And I will sit on the mount of assembly In the recesses of the north.
14 ‘I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’
15 “Nevertheless you will be thrust down to Sheol, To the recesses of the pit.
This may be the reason the earth was first formless and empty.
God allowed sin to enter into His creation
Darkness refers to sin and light to God\’s righteousness.
LIGHT THE VICTORY OVER SIN
V:2-3 \”Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep,
and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, \”Let there be light,\” and there was light.
A. This verse points to the Holy Trinity, God in three persons.
a. You have God the Father breathing.
b. We have the Word, God the Son
c. We have the God the Holy Spirit hovering over the waters.
B. God breathed and the earth, formless, empty and dark came into existence.
1. According to text, at creation the earth was an empty mass of something
covered with water.
2. The Spirit was there as if guarding the Father\’s creation.
C. God breathed and there was light.
1. God gives us a idea of the speed in which He works.
2. From experiments we know light travels 194188 miles per second.
3. It take eight minutes for the light to travel from the sun to the earth.
4. In an instant, what was created in darkness was illuminated.
5. Until we met Christ we were in spiritual darkness.
D. Jesus is the light of the world.
1. God introduced sin into His creation.
2. God created an Angel who would corrupt the world; Lucifer
Revelation 12:4
His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The
dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might
devour her child the moment it was born.
a. Can you see Mary the birth mother of Jesus and Herod the king in this verse?
3. Jesus is the victory over sin
a. The child in Revelation 12:4 is Jesus the light of the world.
b. Light is invasive.
c. Light is complete.
d. Light is filling.
e. Light is unending.
f. Light is victorious.
GOD COMMENDS HIMSELF
V:4 -5. \”God saw that the light was good, and he 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.\”
A. This is what God has done with His Church.
1. He called the Church out of the world
2. He set His light in the body of Christ.
B. God introduces the concept of time.
1. We could say that darkness is the absent of light.
2. We know by observation from space that the earth is round.
a. God molded the earth into a ball
3. God set the earth on an axis to rotate continuously.
4. He set earth at the proper distance from light to make a
complete rotation every 24 hours exposing one side to light
and the other to total darkness.
C. Evening and morning, and day and night are indications of the
earths rotation.
1. If you want an idea of the unlimited power of God, consider that He
created the earth which weights 1.3 x 1025 pounds
with his fingers. ( 6 sextillion tons)
2. In the first day of creation, from nothing, God created the heaven and the earth
in darkness and set it in light.
GOD CREATED A LOWER AND UPPER REGION
V:6-8 And God said, \”Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water.\”
7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so.
8 God called the expanse \”sky.\” And there was evening, and there was morning — the second day. \”
A. In day two, God created an atmosphere for the earth.
1. He separated the earth from the heavens.
2. He separated the waters of the sky from the waters of the earth.
B. God introduces the concept of space.
1. Space could be considered the distance between two boundaries.
What is the distance between the earth and the heavens?
2. Paul said He was called up to the third heaven.
3. Perhaps the first heaven is the sky we can see.
a. Perhaps the second heaven is the domain of the angels.
c. Perhaps the third heaven is the third heaven is God\’s throne
d. God does not tells us about the heavens, so the human mind can
only speculate.
4. We have no concept of space or distance as God\’s knows it.
a. God has made something so big we cannot measure it.
so vast, we cannot get to it and so complicated we cannot
understand it.
b. The distance around the earth is 25,000 miles.
c. The distance between the earth and the moon is 239,000 miles.
d. The distance between the earth and the sun is 93 million miles.
e. God has given us the ability to clearly see the moon and the sun
while standing on earth.
Don\’t miss your shout, WOW!!!
A SPACE SUITABLE FOR MANS HABITATION
V:9-10. \” And God said, \”Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.\” And it was so.
10 God called the dry ground \”land,\” and the gathered waters he called \”seas.\” And God saw that it was good. \”
A. God created a space suitable for man to live.
Psalms 115:16
\”The highest heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth he has given to man.\”
1. God spoke and there was dry land, rivers and seas.
2. Now you can see that the objective of God\’s creation is man.
3. Don\’t miss your shout. WOW!!
B. Why did God create the universe for man?
1. Psalms 8:4-6
\”What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?
You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory
and honor.
You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his
feet.\”
2. Billy Graham said God created man to know Him, to love Him
and to have fellowship with Him.
3. 1 John 4:10
\”This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an
atoning sacrifice for our sins. \”
GOD MADE EVERYTHING YOU NEED
V:11-13. Then God said, \”Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.\” And it was so.
12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
13 And there was evening, and there was morning — the third day
A. On the third day God created everything that man would need to survive.
1. Originally man was a vegetarian.
2. It was only after the flood that man was given the desire to eat meat.
3. Genesis 9:3-4
Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green
plants, I now give you everything.
But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.
B. God created man for all the good He created.
2 Corinthians 9:8
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times,
having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.
In Summary
1. There is one supreme God who exist in three persons.
a. God the Father, God The Son and God the Holy Spirit
b. God has all power
2. The God we serve is the creator of all things
3. The God we serve made the heavens for Himself.
4. The God we serve made the earth for man
5. The God we serve gave us victory over sin
6. The God we serve provides everything we need.
Rev M Mitchell
Asst Pastor Of Greater Macedonia Baptist Church
5510 West Sam Houston Parkway
Houston, Texas 77041
