Address—C. Hendricks
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Turn to Genesis chapter one. First chapter in the Bible, Genesis chapter one. In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form and void.
And darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God said, let there be light, and there was light.
And God saw the light that it was good.
And God divided the light from the darkness.
And God called the light day.
And the darkness he called night.
In the evening, in the morning were the first day.
And God said, let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters.
And let it divide the waters from the waters.
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament, And it was so.
And God called the firmament heaven, and the evening and the morning were the second day.
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place.
And let the dry land appear. And it was so.
And God called the dry land earth, and the gathering together of the waters called He sees.
And God saw that it was good.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass.
The herb yielding seed and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind.
Whose seed is in itself upon the earth. And it was so.
And the earth brought forth grass and herb, yielding seed after his kind.
And the tree yielding fruit whose seed was in itself after his kind.
And it and God saw that it was good. And the evening in the morning were the third day.
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the night.
And let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years.
And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth.
And it was so.
And God made 2 great lights, the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night.
He made the stars also.
And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth.
And to rule over the day and over the night.
And to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
And the evening and the morning were the 4th day.
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind.
And every wing file after his kind. And God saw that it was good.
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let foul multiply in the earth. In the evening. In the morning were the 5th day.
And God said, let the earth bring forth a living creature after his kind, cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth after his kind, And it was so.
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, And God saw that it was good.
And 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
So God created man in his own image.
In the image of God created he him male and female.
Created he them.
And God bless them.
And God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it.
And have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that creepeth upon the earth.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth.
And every tree in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed to you, it shall be for me.
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat. And it was so.
And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.
And the evening and the morning were the 6th day.
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
And on the 7th day God ended his work which he had made, and he rested on the 7th day from all his work which he had made.
And God blessed the 7th day and sanctified it, because that in it He had rested from all his work, which God created.
And made.
Now I want to read a few verses from the 2nd chapter. Just a few verses.
Verse 7.
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And the Lord God formed man.
Of the dust of the ground.
And breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became.
A living soul.
And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden and there.
He put the man whom he had formed.
Verse 15.
And the Lord God took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
The Lord God commanded the man saying, Of Every tree of the garden on me is free to eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it.
For in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die.
And the Lord God said it is not good that the man should be alone.
I will make him in help meet for him, and out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field.
And every fall of the air, and brought them unto Adam, to see what he would call them.
And whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Adam gave names to all cattle, to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam.
There was not found in help meet for him.
And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept.
And he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof.
And the rid which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and he brought her unto the man.
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be 1 flesh.
They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Now Matthew 19.
Matthew 19.
Verse 3.
The Pharisees also came unto him, Jesus tempting him.
And saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning?
Made them male and female.
And said for this, 'cause now he's referring back the Lord Jesus. The truth is referring back to these first two chapters in Genesis.
He authenticates them.
By his word.
Have you not read? He says that he which made them in the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, shall cleave to his wife and the twain.
Shall be 1 flesh.
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. But therefore godeth joined together, let not man.
Put asunder.
And then a verse in First Corinthians 11.
1St Corinthians 11.
The reason I'm reading these New Testament verses.
Is to show that these two chapters which we've read in Genesis, which are the most attacked chapters in the whole Bible, by the higher critics and by those that have no respect for and no belief in the Word of God, the infallible, unerring Word of God.
That to throw those chapters out, which formed the very basis and foundation for New Testament truth, the words of the Lord himself verifying them and the apostle Paul here in the 11TH chapter of 1 Corinthians, I'm just going to he's talking about the relative order in creation.
And he says in verse 3, the head of every man is Christ.
The head of the woman is the man. The head of Christ is God.
That's the order. God, Christ, man, woman.
Verse 7 he says, for man indeed ought not to cover his head, for as much as he is the image and glory of God. Where did he get that? We got it from Genesis 1 and 2.
Verse 8.
For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man. Where did he get that?
You get that from the 2nd chapter where God builded a woman out of the rib of Adam.
She was taken out of him.
She was not taken from the ground as Adam was and as the animals were, but she was a unique creation she was created from.
So when he saw her, he said, bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.
How did we get here? The only book in the universe, the only book in this whole world that tells us how it happened is Genesis 1 and 2 is the Bible.
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And it's all authenticated in the New Testament.
So if you touch Genesis.
And you nullify that in Satan, our enemy. He knows this. He knows it very well.
And so he attacks the very foundation.
And in the Psalms it says, if the foundation be destroyed, what shall the righteous do?
So he has attacked.
He's leveled his guns.
At Genesis 111 Chapters, especially the first 3 chapters.
And they tell us how we get here, how we got here.
One Corinthians 11 again, verse 9.
Neither was the man created for the woman.
But the woman for the man, that's the reason she used to have her head covered when she praised her prophecies. It has nothing to do with the condition of things at Corinth. It goes back to the beginning.
It goes back to the original creation, God's order in creation again.
Umm, 2 Corinthians 11.
2nd Corinthians 11.
Verse 3.
But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve. That's the third chapter. I didn't read that this afternoon, but it's referring back there.
Through his subtlety. So your mind should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
How did Paul know that the first woman's name was Eve?
From Genesis, the only way he could know.
Look at First Timothy 2.
I want to just quickly touch on these verses and then go to the exposition of Genesis 1.
In one Timothy 2 where he says, let the woman verse 11 be silent and learn in silence with all subjection, I suffer not a woman to teach in order to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. Why? What is the basis for this teaching for Adam was first formed.
Then Eve again. He names her.
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
Again, we have the authentication in the New Testament of these beginning chapters in our Bible. Now turn back to Genesis. Genesis 1 and 2. Genesis 1.
The only reference in Genesis 1 to the male and the female is in verse 27.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created him, male and female created he them, but he doesn't tell us.
In the 1St chapter how he did it?
He tells us that in the 2nd chapter. How he did it.
How he created the man and the woman.
And the New Testament teaching is based on this.
Now there are those that would teach that do teach.
That day one begins with verse one.
This is clearly, and I will demonstrate it from the scriptures, I hope prove it to everyone of us here this afternoon that that is wrong.
Day one begins with verse 3 wherein God says let there be light, and there was light.
Verses verse one is the original creation of the universe.
In the beginning One of the most profound and sublime verses in all of scripture. In the beginning, God, Elohim, God in Trinity.
The three persons of the Godhead involved in that creation of the universe God created.
The heavens, I think it should be in the plural and the earth. The earth is singled out from all the rest of the heavens. 19th Psalm says the heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth his handiwork.
I'll never forget when I was a young man in my 20s and I was in Jamaica, British W Indies, away from the city lights and everything, and I looked up and I saw the Milky Way.
You could not pick out individual stars. It was a band of light across the sky. Most awesome sight I've ever seen.
The heavens declare the glory of God.
I've never seen that in the farther northern part of this hemisphere, but I saw it down there closer to the equator.
The heavens declare the glory of God. That referred. The heavens is all the constellations, all the galaxies, all the stars.
And God created them. We don't know when that was.
We don't know how far back that was, but in the beginning.
In the beginning, there was a beginning.
There was a beginning. The only thing that is remotely correct in the evolutionary hypothesis is The Big Bang theory.
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The Big Bang is nonsense. You don't get an ordered cosmos out of an explosion, but it does say that there was a beginning.
That's the only correct part of it. It does say that this created universe had a beginning. That is, matter is not eternal.
Even the scientists admit that matter is not eternal. But there was a time, if I can use the word time to describe it, because it's really before time, when there was nothing but God.
The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, God in Trinity.
And that's all that existed.
We're told in the 38th chapter of Job that when the foundations of the earth were laid, the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy. So evidently from that I would conclude that before God created the material universe described here in Genesis 1, He created the angelic hosts.
And I don't believe it was.
Long before Satan fell and dragged the rebellious angels with him.
So verse one.
Was the original creation everything perfect, the heavens and then?
The Earth is singled out.
The earth of all the heavens is the scene in which He is going to display His eternal counsels and purposes.
And plans.
It's the scene where the Son of God, the creator of the universe, came.
Where he suffered, where he died.
So the old timers that said the Earth is the center of the universe, we're not too far off.
Certainly morally, spiritually, it is the center.
Because it's where God has accomplished that wonderful work of redemption.
In the gift of his beloved son.
So the Earth.
Is singled out from all the heavens in verse one.
Verse one is the original creation of everything.
And then the second verse describes only the earth.
Not a word about the heavens. It says the earth was without form and void.
And darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Now, that's not the way the Earth was originally created.
God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.
He did not create a waste desolate.
Dark scene covered with water This planet Earth has been covered with water two times in its history that we know of, here in Genesis 1-2 and at the Flood. And we know that when the flood waters covered the Earth, that was a result of judgment.
And by inference, this is a result of judgment.
But I have much stronger evidence from the Bible that than just inference.
From the flood.
To say this was a result of judgment.
There are two Hebrew words that are used in this verse. The earth was without form. That's one word tohu. Mr. Darby renders it. The earth was waste.
And without form and void. And Mr. Darby renders that empty.
Tohu and bohu are the two Hebrew words.
It's about all I know about Hebrew.
So I don't think I know Hebrew.
But I know those words.
Those two words, and they're only found together three times in the Bible, three times here.
And in Isaiah and in Jeremiah. And I believe that.
The way to interpret scripture is by scripture.
Certainly not by pseudo science.
I don't trust science. If it's true science, I trust it. But there's so much that's called science that is not true science, falsely so-called, the apostle tells us to be on our guard against.
In the last century it was mentioned in the readings.
The truth was recovered to the church in a way that it had never been.
A wonderful recovery of truth. The enemy immediately countered with the Jehovah's witness.
The millennial Dawn Russellism.
Doctrine denying the deity of Christ, attacking his person, and then the Mormons.
The Joseph Smith and all the evil that has come out of that system.
But there's something else that he's used that even is even more devastating than those two false religions, and that is evolution.
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Charles Darwin came out with his Origin of Species, and it has a scientific flair to it. And who can challenge science? After all, if it's scientific, that's the God of the 20th century, isn't it? No.
Science, if it's scientific, if it can be proven.
The only thing is that they call that scientific. But evolution cannot be proven, can't be put in a laboratory and tested and repeated and repeated and repeated so that as to find out the results.
If you were in the biology lab, you could take a frog and you could dissect it, and you could learn certain things about the frog, and the next student could do the same, and the next one could do the same, and they could repeat their experiments. But there's no way to repeat history.
There's no way to repeat what happened back when no man existed.
Only God, and he's the only one that knows what he did and how he did it, and he's been pleased to tell us.
In these wonderful verses, you probably noticed as we read Genesis 1, the expression after its kind, after his kind, after his kind, after his kind, repeated over and over again. I said to one of my farmer brethren at home before I left on this trip. I said, What did you sow in your field this spring? And he said corn.
And I said, well, what are you going to harvest? You're going to have to wait till the fall to find out what comes up.
Of course, he said. Of course I know I'm going to get corn. I sowed corn, I'm going to get corn. If I sowed beans, I'm going to get beans after his kind, after his kind.
Wouldn't it be an utter confused mess if you sowed in the spring, something you didn't know what you were going to get until the fall?
Utter nonsense.
Everything comes up after its kind. You made 2 cats and what are you going to get? You're going to get kittens. You're not going to get dogs. You're not going to get cows.
Everyone knows this makes us laugh because it's so utterly ridiculous.
The theory that we evolved out of something altogether different than we were.
There are there are modifications within a species. That's not evolution.
That I'm talking about.
Talking about the changes that came by mere chance.
Think of the miracle that would happen to have two things evolve up out of non organic material and one is male and one is female and they come and they finally reach a state of completeness.
What happened before they reached the state of completeness? They never tell us.
And then they can mate and reproduce the race. What's the probability of that happening by mere chance? It's so low that it's impossible.
And if they were only honest, these men, they would own it.
But in our school systems and over our television broadcasting networks, they're promoting it over and over again. National Geographic, many of you have it. I wouldn't have it in the house because I used to take it. But it just teaches evolution over and over again. Beautiful pictures. The photography is magnificent. But the lie is only enhanced by that.
Lie of the Devil.
I remember when I was a young Christian, I was afraid to look into evolution because it was presented to me as it's presented to all the students here, as an established scientific fact.
It's nothing but a blatant lie of the devil.
And those who really know, they know it's a lie.
You wonder if the teachers in our school system know it's a lie or are they deceived?
They're either deceived or they know it's a lie in promoting what is known as to be a lie.
Well, that was Satan's crowning victory. Because if he can get you, the student, to distrust the Genesis record of creation.
And to look upon it as a fairy tale.
And that's what they've done. That's the way they present it. And if you can't believe Genesis 1, then you can't believe the Lord Jesus.
Because he referred back to Genesis 1 and 2, the male and female, on how they got here. You can't believe the Apostle Paul either.
And you can't believe Peter. And so on.
You've destroyed faith in the Bible.
It's like a child, they build a block house and someone takes the lower block. The very first one pulls it out and the whole thing collapses.
This book is the truth.
How we got here?
And don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise.
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In the beginning.
God.
Created the heavens and the earth.
It had to have a beginning and it had to be created by.
An infinite God.
Who could speak?
Who could command?
And it happened.
The 33rd Psalm. Let's just look at that very quickly.
I must discipline myself not to.
Spend too long on some of these side points, but they're so important. Verse 6, Psalm 33 by the word of the Lord.
Where the heavens made.
And all the host of them by the breath of his mouth, Hebrews 11 Says.
By faith, we understand that the world's were framed by the word of God.
So that the things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
The things that we see, this platform, this gym, the chairs.
The persons, the people, everything that we see. You didn't come out of something that is seen or that appears.
God created the world.
Sometimes it's said it's not quite right out of nothing.
There was never nothing.
There was always God.
And so it says, by the word of the Lord, where the heavens made.
Verse 9 for he spake.
And it was done.
He commanded.
And it stood fast.
He said let there be and there was.
Such is our God, the infinite God.
Who brought the universe into existence in a moment. He doesn't need millions of years to do it, by the way. He just does it in a moment.
Time. He's a timeless being.
Dwells in eternity.
Now the second verse and the earth.
Was without form and void, waste and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. The whole world was covered with water.
Enveloped in darkness.
And it was a chaotic.
Situation waste and empty without form and void.
And the Spirit of God, it's interesting. Of the three persons in the Trinity, the Spirit of God is the first one singled out in the first part of our Bible. The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Now let's turn to quickly Isaiah 34.
Isaiah 34 We want to see how these two Hebrew words waste and empty or without form and void, tohu and bohu, how they are used in scripture.
I'll start with verse 8. This chapter tells about the destruction that comes upon the land of Idumea. That's the end of verse 6. A great slaughter in the land of Idumea. That's that's Edom.
Verse 8 For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and the.
The year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion, and the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone.
And the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
It shall not be quenched night nor day. The smoke thereof shall go up forever from generation to generation. It shall lie waste. None shall pass through it forever and ever. Now this is the verse where those two Hebrew words are used together. They're not translated the same way in our King James. That's unfortunate if you have the new translation. He Darby translates it waste and empty, as it is in the Gingenes. But I'll point it out when we come to the words. But the cormorant, verse 11. And the bitterness shall possess.
The owl also, and the Raven shall dwell in it. You see, this is a desolate scene resulting from the judgment of God upon this land, and he shall stretch out upon it. Here it is the line of confusion. That's Tohu. That's waste.
And the stones of emptiness, that's Bohu, Empty or vain.
As we have it. But here you can see how you can see the force of that Hebrew word. It's translated about form. In one instance it's translated waste that described the earth and then empty, vain.
Without avoid King James.
Now that's the result that state into which this land of Edom will be reduced in a future day.
Is the result of the judgment of God falling upon it?
All right, now let's look at let's look at the other passage in Jeremiah 4.
Jeremiah 4, where we have these two Hebrew words used again and again. It's a result of judgment, this time upon Jerusalem.
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The land of the Jews. What we looked at in Isaiah 34 was upon.
Edom.
I'll start just to save time. I'll start with verse 20 of Jeremiah 4. Destruction upon destruction is cried for. The whole land is spoiled. Suddenly are my tents spoiled and my curtains in a moment referring to the the the temple.
How long shall I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet? Here's this invading army that is coming against Jerusalem to to raise it, to level it, to destroy it. And the reason is for my people is foolish. They have not known me. They are Satish children and they have none. Understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. Now we have those two Hebrew words.
In verse 23, it sounds just like Genesis 1/2.
I beheld the earth, and lo, it was without form. Tohu and Void Bohu.
And the heavens and they had no light. Darkness was on the face of the deep. Now this isn't describing Genesis 1-2. It's describing Jerusalem as a result of the judgment of the armies that God sends against it to punish them for their sins.
I beheld the mountains, and though they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly, I beheld and lo, there was number man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. Obviously I beheld, and lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness. Obviously this is not the earth as it was in Genesis 1-2, but it's a similar.
Desolate condition that's described, and the reason these two passages are cited is because that the only two passages other than Genesis 1/2 That uses those two Hebrew words together.
So that shows very clearly, does it not, that the condition described in Genesis 1/2 as a result of judgment?
That's not the way God created this earth. He didn't create a formless.
Mass in darkness covered with water.
No, he did not.
Created it perfect.
The Cosmos.
An ordered universe and ordered Earth.
And that's the way it was created. There's one more passage which uses one of those two Hebrew words, and it's Isaiah 45.
Isaiah 45 and verse 18.
For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, God Himself that formed the earth and made it. He hath established it. He created it not in vain. How the King James translators translate that word to in vain here or as waste. He did not create it without form.
He formed it to be inhabited.
I am the Lord, and there is none else.
So where the 2 words are used together, it's a result of judgment. And here it tells us he didn't create it in the condition described in that second verse of Genesis 1. Now turn to 2nd Corinthians 4.
Here's a proof from the New Testament.
That the Earth was not created that way.
2nd Corinthians, chapter 4.
And verse 6.
For God.
Who commanded the light to shine out of darkness? That's Genesis 1/3 when God said let there be light and there was light. So God commanded the light to shine out of darkness. The physical world was in darkness, was underwater.
It was formless.
It was waste and empty, and God commanded the light to shine out of darkness.
Had shined in our hearts.
To give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. When did he shine into your heart? When did he say, let there be light to your soul?
Was your soul in darkness? It certainly was. Everyone of us was in darkness. Everyone of us was in a ruined state, such as the earth was in verse 2.
Was man created that way? No, he was not.
Man was created perfect.
Man was created sinless, and he was placed in the garden of delights.
There was number fault in man. God pronounced upon that earthly creation. It was very good.
The first man was very good. That was his crowning achievement.
When he created man.
But he fell.
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He fell into sin. That's described in the 3rd chapter of Genesis, the serpent game. Yeah, hath God said, and so on.
And Eve saw that fruit, and she took of it and handed it to her husband Adam, and the the earthly family fell.
And we've inherited that fallen condition, darkness.
Just as the Earth was not created in darkness, neither was man.
It's a result of judgment.
The judgment that fell on the earth, the judgment that fell on man. My firm belief is that this planted earth was Satan's home before he fell.
And as a result of his fall?
The condition described in Genesis 1-2 resulted.
Remember in the book of Job God asked Satan where have you been? And he said from walking up and down to and fro in the earth.
He's very interested in this planet.
Very interested in the earth.
And so right after the earthly parents were placed in the Garden of Delights, he comes Slytherin along. Well, I shouldn't say that I don't think he came Slytherin along. I think he came walking along.
Because he wasn't confined to eat the dust until after he had caused the.
The earthly parents to sin dust shalt thou eat. All the days of my life was the curse placed upon the serpent.
But he tempted them, and they fell. Evidently quite a beautiful creature, as he came from God. And then he fell because he wanted to be like God.
And he attempted our earthly parents with the same temptation. Ye shall be as God.
Knowing good and evil, just eat that fruit. You'll be like God. That's what he wanted to be. And when he saw that, God placed this whole earthly scene under Adam.
He was intensely jealous and says I must destroy that.
And he has done his job well.
But the destruction of.
The first parents has resulted in his fall as well.
Let's go back to Genesis 1 now.
Verse 2 is not the original creation of the earth.
But the result of.
Judgment The earth was.
Without form and void. One more thing I want to point out. Turn to Genesis Chapter 9.
Genesis Chapter 9.
Excuse me 19. Excuse me.
Genesis 19.
Verse 26.
And he and his wife, that is Lot's wife, looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. That Hebrew word translated became is exactly the same Hebrew word that is translated was in Genesis 1/2. The earth was without form and void could have been translated, became without form and void.
And that's exactly what happened. The earth became that way. It was not created that way. Now God is going to reform the earth for man.
Recreate it if I will can use that word for man and that starts in verse 3.
God said, let there be light.
And there was light.
Some have said God created light on the first day. No he didn't. He doesn't say that. It says he said let there be light.
Nowhere does it say light was created in Scripture. It says he forms the light creates darkness in Isaiah 45.
But he does not create light. He is light.
And he said let there be light came from him. I envision in this first day.
That this planet that was surrounded with darkness now is bathed in light.
God said, let there be light, there was light.
And God saw the light that it was good.
And now the second thing he does in that first day, God divided the light from the darkness. So how he did that, I could tell you how I think he did it, but that's not important.
God divided the light from the darkness, so part of the time it was in light, part of the time it was in day.
Today we would interpret it from our knowledge. Today set the world spinning, but.
This doesn't say this, it just says God divided the light from the darkness, and God called the light day, and the darkness he called night. The evening and the morning were the first day.
And God said, let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. The earth is still completely covered with water, but it's there's light now, and now he makes the atmosphere.
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God said, let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament.
From the waters which were above the firmament. And it was so.
The firmament or the expanse and God called the firmament heaven. Now that's a secondary use of the word heaven in verse one. God created the heaven and the earth that was the whole universe, but here now it's that part that's just between the two waters, the one below and the ones above.
He called the firmament heaven in the evening, in the morning with the second day.
Still no dry land, still covered with water, but now Earth has an atmosphere.
And God said let the waters under the heaven be gathered together into one place.
And let the dry land appear. And it was so.
And God called the dry land earth. Now that's the second use of the word, a secondary use of the word earth.
The 1St 2 verses speaks of God created the heavens and the earth and then it describes the earth that this whole planet was waste and empty. But here now he calls the dry land earth and the gathering together of the waters he calls seas. God saw that it was good.
And then he says, on this third day, let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit. And here we have that formula that's repeated so often after his kind.
I want to make this very strong statement. You cannot believe the Bible.
And believe evolution. The 2 are mutually exclusive the one of the other.
You cannot believe that everything comes after its kind, reproduces after its kind, after its kind.
That itself totally refutes evolution. You don't have to understand everything about this chapter, but if you believe that one thing that God has repeated repeatedly in this chapter after its kind, that eliminates the nonsense, the lie of evolution.
If evolution were true, this scene would be nothing but utter chaos.
It has to be after its kind.
The fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself. Who put that there?
Evolution by chance. That happened. God put it there.
And it was so.
And the earth brought forth grass and herb, yielding seed after his kind.
And the tree yielding fruit whose seed was in itself after his kind. Apple trees always produce apples, and ever produce oranges or pears, or grapefruit, or anything else. They always produce apples, and so on.
After his kind.
And God saw that it was good.
In the evening and the morning were the third day.
Now we come to a very interesting day, the 4th day.
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the night.
Who did that for the first three days?
God did.
God did.
It says in verse.
For and God divided the light from the darkness.
God said let the light and then he divides the light from the darkness. He did that. By the way, these are 24 hour days you say? How do you know that? Well, from the 4th day we know that.
Because now in the 4th day, he assigns the function that he had been performing to the sun, the moon and the stars.
He said. I'm going to let you do those things. You're going to divide the day from the night.
And more than that. Now notice in verse 1 he says in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. There's a difference between the word created and the word made on the 4th day. The word created doesn't occur, it's only made. This platform was made, this podium was made. This microphone was made out of previously existing material. But man cannot create.
When there's nothing he cannot bring forth into being something. Only God can do that.
In the strict sense of the word. But man can make things, and God too.
And we'll see later, as we come to man, the creation of man, that both words are used. He was made and he was created, and we'll see why.
God said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night.
And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years. That is, He assigned specific function to these heavenly bodies.
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And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth. And it was so.
The mistake that we often make with our puny minds and thinking is that the way we see the universe and the way it exists today.
It's always been that way.
That's not true.
That is not true.
There's been big changes right here on planet Earth.
Big changes and big changes in the universe too.
No problem for God.
All he has to do is speak.
Remember in Joshua's day he used a man and he said, son, stand still.
Son stood still.
For almost 24 hours.
While Israel defeated their enemies.
Our knowledge of the how the universe works, what happened?
I'm not even going to try to say.
Hezekiah's day, he said, let the sundial go back 10°.
And it happened.
How did that happen?
You read the prophets, it says in a future day the sun is going to be blackened.
Oh, you can apply that spiritually.
But some of that is literal.
And we're talking about.
Some very.
Profound things here, let them be for lights. Verse 15 in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth, and it was so, And God made, he made 2 great lights, the sun, the moon, to perform a function which prior to this time He had been performing. Now he assigns that function to these heavenly bodies.
Think that's a problem for God?
That's because you're limiting God by your own thinking.
God knows how he did it, and He knows what he did.
God made 2 great lights, the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night.
And the stars also.
With respect to Earth.
You see, Earth is really the center of all his dealings, and he set them in place.
In fact, he says that verse 17 God set them.
In the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth.
And to rule over the day and over the night and to divide the light from the darkness. Well, that's what God did in verse 4. That's the first day God divided the light from the darkness. Now he assigns that function to the sun and the moon and the stars.
And God saw that it was good.
In the evening. In the morning were the 4th day.
And God said, let the waters bring forth abundantly.
After their kind.
And every living wing foul after his kind.
And God saw that it was good.
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters and the seas, and let foul multiply in the earth. And the evening in the morning where the 5th day.
So you have the sea creatures and the air creatures.
Created on that fifth day.
Now we come to the 6th day.
And God said, let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind.
We read in the 2nd chapter that out of the dust of the ground he made the animals.
He made them of previously existing material, whereas the sea creatures were created.
They didn't use the dust of the world to bring them into existence.
God said.
Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth after his kind, And it was so, and God made the beast of the earth after his kind.
And cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind. And God saw that it was good.
Now we come to the second part of the 6th day.
His crowning achievement, man.
Man, what a creature he was, how beautiful. He must have been the first man right from the hand of God.
Fully equipped with a language and knowledge such that he could name all the animals.
Very short time.
Immense mental, physical capacity.
The same can be said of the woman. Beautiful.
Before they fell.
And God said, now God has a conference, the persons of the Godhead speak together.
God said let us make man in our image.
After our likeness.
Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
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And when Satan saw that God set that man to have that authority and that power, he was.
Intensely jealous.
Now we have the word created used.
It says in verse 26, Let us make man, because he made man out of the dust of the ground.
But now it says so God created man verse 27 in his own image.
In the image of God created he him, male and female created he them. That's the only reference to the distinction of male and female in the 1St chapter. We get the details of Eve's creation beautifully in the 2nd chapter. The most beautiful type of Christ in the church that we have in all of scripture.
And God bless them.
And God said unto them, Be fruitful.
And multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed to you, it shall be for meat.
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat.
And it was so.
And God saw everything that he had made.
And behold, it was.
Very good.
Not a flaw, not an imperfection.
It was very good.
In the evening. In the morning were the 6th day.
Now you don't get an evening in the morning for the 7th day. I think it speaks of eternity.
The heavens and the earth were finished, and all the hosts of them.
And on the 7th day, God ended his work which he had made. He rested.
And he rested on the 7th day from all his work which he had made.
And God blessed the 7th day.
And sanctified it because that in it.
He had rested from all his work.
Which God created.
And made both words are used. Those two words created and made, they mean different things.
Only God can create. Only God can create. Man can make.
And he also makes.
The God, he created man. Why does it say created? Well, we read that seventh verse of chapter 2. The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground. That's why he it's used. Made is used.
Because he was made out of existing material and he breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, the spirit of life, and man became a living soul, a never dying soul. The animals have souls.
Every time you read the creature, when it speaks of the animal, bring forth a living creature that's a living soul.
Animals have souls. They are souls.
But they don't have a spirit, and when they're when they die, when their body dies, the soul dies.
When man's body dies, his soul does not die.
It's a living soul.
Sustained of God.
They will not die.
The only part of man that dies is his body.
But he has a spirit.
And a soul, a soul gives him, you say his body gives him world consciousness, his soul gives him self consciousness, and his spirit gives him God consciousness.
The trees have life, the plants have life, but they don't have souls.
The animals have life and they have souls. You can speak to your dog and your cat. You can. You can train them. You can talk to them. Some people talk to their plants. That's worthless. It's useless. They don't have souls.
Just life.
Man has a spirit.
He is the crown of God's creation.
He knows.
There's a God.
An atheist is a contradiction of terms. How can a man who has been created with a spirit who is conscious that there is a God above him, with whom he has to do and to whom he has to answer? How can he?
Say there's no God. He's a fool.
And that's what the word called Sam.
The fool has said in his heart.
There is no God.
The solemn thing.
About this creation of man is when his body dies.
He does not die.
He's going to spend eternity either with the Lord in heaven or.
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In the dungeons of the Damned in Hell.
Where are you going to spend eternity?
You know this God of creation.
Ecclesiastes says remember now thy Creator.
And that's interesting. It's like the word Elohim. In the beginning, God Elohim created the heavens and the earth. That's the word in plural. The Father, the Son, and the Spirit. Remember now thy Creator. That's the word in plural.
In the days of value, your Creator is who's your Creator. It's the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, all three persons.
Involved in the creation of man.
Do you remember him?
You acknowledge him.
Do you realize you have to do with him?
He came down the person of the sun.
To die for you and for me. To give his life, that you might know this great God that we've been considering here.
And how he did it. And he's the only one that knows how he did it.
Man has his theories, his nonsense, and it's really ridiculous some of the things he's come up with.
You don't have to be a scientist to see it's ridiculous.
All you have to be is in your sound mind.
To see the ridiculousness of it.
It's Satan's lie.
And he has succeeded in that lie.
Telling it as Adolf Hitler said, tell a lie over and over and over again and it will soon be believed.
And that's the way they operate.
So when you go to school.
Test everything they tell you by this book.
This book is the standard of truth.
That they speak not according to this word is because there's no light in them.
Children of Darkness.
We were once darkness.
Now we're light in the Lord. God has said to your soul and mind, let there be light. He said that to planet earth. He said that to us.
And there's light.
I wonder to be brought out of the darkness in which we were as a result of the fall.
The earth was brought out of a darkness in which it once was as a result of a fall.
And then God reformed it for man.
Good to know the God that made us.
And that has redeemed us.