Hello, friends, welcome
to 3ABN Sabbath School Panel
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as we continue with
lesson number eight,
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Creation: Genesis
as Foundation part 1.
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The question is
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what actually
happened in the very beginning?
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Well, this lesson reveals
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that in beautiful
illustrative content.
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If you'd like a
copy of the lesson,
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go to absg.Adventist.org,
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download the
lesson but better yet,
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go to your local
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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and join them for
an exciting excursion
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in the
revelations of God's Word.
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We begin with Sunday,
the lesson in the beginning.
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So get your
Bible and your friends
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and your family
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and get ready
for what God's Spirit
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has to say to you today.
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Hello, friends,
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welcome to a wonderful
Bible study lesson number eight
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about Creation:
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Genesis as the Foundation
and part 1, particularly.
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When we think about creation
in all of its components
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I think about 3ABN in
its very humble beginnings.
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Where is it today? God
is marvelous, is He not?
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Amen.
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And so, we're going
to think about creation.
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We were not there
but can you imagine
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what the world was like
when God got it started?
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Well, we're going to
peek behind the curtains
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of what Majesty
is really all about
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with our lesson today.
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But before we go any further,
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let's talk about who's
here to join us in the study.
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To my immediate
left is my preacher,
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Pastor Kenny Shelton,
good to have you here.
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It's good to be here.
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Always love to
study the Word of God.
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What I like about our panel,
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everyone brings
a different flavor.
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Pastor Ryan Day,
good to have you here.
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Oh, man, I'm
excited about this one.
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Yes. It'll be a good one.
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And Jill seems
to be representing
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the entire female
population on this lesson study.
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Good to have you here, Jill.
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Thank you, Pastor
John. Privileged to be here.
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Yes, and Pastor
Dinzey, the Latino brother.
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It's always good
to have you here.
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It's a pleasure to be here,
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looking forward to
the study of God's Word.
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Amen. That's right.
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And I tell you, before
we go any further though,
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let's have prayer.
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So, Jill, I'll ask you
to do that for us today.
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Holy Father, we come
before You in the name of Jesus,
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thanking You for Your Word,
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thanking You
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that You created
us in the beginning.
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And that You
want to recreate in us
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the image of Jesus.
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We ask right now
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for the anointing
of Your Holy Spirit
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as we study in Jesus' name.
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Amen. Amen.
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Amen.
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This is one of
the exciting lessons
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because I'd like
to turn to Genesis 1.
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What many people don't realize
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is all the major
doctrines of the Bible
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are born in the beginning.
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Amen. That's right.
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If you had no other
book in the Old Testament,
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but Genesis, you'll
have the story of creation
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how we got here.
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And then you must
come to the conclusion
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that really when you appreciate
and accept the creation story
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then nothing else in
the Old Testament is old.
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That's right.
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Because a lot of people
dismiss certain Bible teachings
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by saying, well,
that's the olden times,
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well, nothing could be
older than the very beginning.
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Let's look at the
most profound statement
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made.
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And I like the
fact that God inspired
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the writer Moses
to pen these words
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for our admonition.
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Genesis 1
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is where we're going to begin
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and then we'll
read the memory text.
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It says, "In the beginning,
God created," together,
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"the heavens and the earth."
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Now there are a
number of beginnings
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in the Bible,
Genesis 1, John 1, Hebrews 1.
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So let's go now
to the memory text
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which takes us to the
second in the beginning.
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John 1:1-4, our memory text.
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"In the beginning was the
Word and the Word was with God,
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and the Word was God.
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He was in the
beginning with God,
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all things were
made through Him.
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And without Him," how much?
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Nothing.
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"Nothing was made that was made.
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In Him was life
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and the life was
the light of men."
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John 1:1-4.
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Life unborrowed, underives.
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Jesus did not
become a part of creation.
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Jesus is in fact the Creator.
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That's vitally
important to understand
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because this is
contention today.
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It's amazing how
the devil could create
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so many distractions,
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how he create so
in the minds of those
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who you might think by this time
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she'd have a solid foundation.
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The devil creates
these distractions.
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And there are people
that are arguing today
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about the origin and the...
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where Jesus came from.
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And some people are saying,
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"Well, He was the
first thing created."
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And we say, "Well, how far?"
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And they say, "Way, way, way."
We say, "Million, 2 million?"
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"No way, way,
way, way back there."
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Where?
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Well, we're not saying
He's created, He was begotten.
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Well, what does that mean?
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And they find
themselves in this quagmire,
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like a, like a fly in a blender
trying to find a way out.
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Picture that for
a moment, Pastor.
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Fly in a blender
trying to find his way out.
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When you establish yourself
in the quagmire of confusion,
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you do a disservice to yourself.
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I prefer to believe
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that I am the
product of a divine plan.
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And Jesus has to be the Creator.
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Here's the reason why
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because unless
you are the Creator,
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you cannot be the Redeemer.
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That's right. Amen.
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That's right.
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You cannot redeem
something you didn't create,
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you will become your,
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you cannot become
your own Redeemer.
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Because if you were
created by somebody else,
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you could not
become the Redeemer.
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Now let's look at some
of the things established.
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I'll go through
and just point out
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some of the major teachings
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established in
the very beginning
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in the book of Genesis.
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First of all, it
goes without saying,
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the creation of the worlds.
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That's right. Yes.
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Genesis Chapter 1,
the creation of the world.
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We can go
through each of the days,
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but you'll see
it at the beginning
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of every one of these phrases.
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The Bible says God said,
God said, God said, God said,
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God said, God said, God said.
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And then it ends
with Genesis 2:1-3.
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And look at what, how creation,
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you find so many
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one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight,
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nine, ten, ten times God said.
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So, who said, together?
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God said.
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And then He continues,
He continues, Genesis 2:1-3,
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"Thus the heavens and the earth,
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and all the host
of them were finished.
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And on the seventh
day God ended His work
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which He had done,
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and He rested on
the seventh day, "
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from how much?
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" All His work
which He had done.
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And then God
blessed the seventh day,
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and sanctified it because in it,
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He rested from all His work,
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which God had created and made."
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This is the
history of the heavens
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and the earth,
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when they were
created in the day
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that the Lord God made the earth
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and the heavens."
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So we find the undeniable record
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that the world did not come here
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by some biological burp,
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by some
catastrophic atomic explosion,
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or it did not come out of chaos.
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We did not emerge out
of some quagmire of a swamp
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with legs that
metamorphosized into wings
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and metamorphosized into brains.
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It's so ridiculous.
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It's so, it's
so, it's like saying,
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if you put a car,
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if you put all the
pieces that can make a car
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into a gigantic atomic tank,
spin it as fast as you can,
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and then finally explode it.
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You get a Mercedes.
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I prefer to believe
that in the beginning,
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I was a part of a
defined plan. What about you?
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Schematically
God put us together,
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methodically we are
fearfully and wonderfully made.
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But let's go through
the list of the things
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that were created in them
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that come out of
the Book of Genesis.
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First of all,
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you find the
creation story, very clearly.
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And then John 1:1-3 establishes
the nature of the Godhead.
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In the beginning was the
Word and the Word was with God
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and the Word was God.
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You also find in
Genesis Chapter 1,
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the Father, the Son,
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the Holy Spirit is
that they're there.
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And by the way,
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this is another
controversy today,
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people saying
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that the Spirit
of God is a force
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or some kind of wind
that blows back and forth
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and has no definitive connection
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to the Godhead.
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But yes, in fact, they were
in the very beginning together
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and they are continued
force to this very day.
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And the reason
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why we should not deny
the place of the Holy Spirit.
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The Bible says,
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"Do not grieve the Holy
Spirit whereby you are sealed."
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If you are not,
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if you're just
a force or a wind,
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you cannot be grieved.
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Grieving someone is a
character of our personality.
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Right.
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Look at what else is expressed
in the Book of Genesis.
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You find after the creation,
the Sabbath is established,
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endearing and eternal.
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There is no other
purpose for the seventh day
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other than the
creation of something
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that is more tangible
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than that which is physical
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because as the physical
properties of the earth change,
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trees could burn up but
the Sabbath is still here.
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That's right.
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Animal species may pass away,
but the Sabbath is still here.
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That's right.
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We will go from people
that are changing in age
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and size and stature,
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but the Sabbath is unchangeable.
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That's in the Book of Genesis.
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You also find in
Genesis Chapter 3,
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the origin of evil.
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Yeah. We find
the origin of evil.
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That very clandestined approach
that the serpent took to Eve
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and Eve was deceived,
but make no doubt about it.
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Eve did not
open the door to sin.
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The Bible says in Romans 5:12,
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"Therefore by one man,
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sin entered the world and
death through sin and thus,
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death spread to all men."
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We also find in
Genesis Chapter 3,
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the first prophecy
about the coming Messiah.
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I will put enmity
between thee and the woman,
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between thy seed and her seed.
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Genesis 3:15,
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so that prophecy
was the first indication
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that there is an
answer to the problem
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or the difficulty of the
sin that entered the world.
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Thank God, in the
beginning was not only creation
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and the problem of sin,
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but in the beginning
the answer was also given
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to the issue of sin.
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We also find the
plan of salvation.
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Also, in Genesis Chapter 3,
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the seed, the plan of salvation
would come through the Messiah,
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the seed.
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When the
fullness of time had come,
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God sent forth His Son.
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That's the seed
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that Paul the
Apostle talks about.
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Then we find
the worldwide flood.
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The worldwide flood,
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how it grieved God
that He had even made man
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and He
extinguished the first world
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by wiping it out with
a deluge and only Noah
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and his family of
eight were on the ark.
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We also find the
covenant that God made,
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this is, this
always burns me up,
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you know, the
covenant that God made
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was in the rainbow.
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What was it in? Rainbow.
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The rainbow.
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It is sad how everything
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that God has
created as a blessing,
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the devil has
distorted as a curse.
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That's right.
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Now today when
you see a rainbow,
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you think of the
LGBTIAQ community.
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You very rarely think
of the promise of God.
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I still have the
website, one day I'll put it up.
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I have a website
called the rainbow of God,
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I want to restore in earth.
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The fact that God's rainbow
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was not created for
any perverted reason,
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but was created to
establish His eternal promise.
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But He'll never destroy
the world again by the flood.
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Then also we find
in Genesis Chapter 6,
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the dispersion of languages.
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How did out of one language
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the earth become
populated with many languages?
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There, the tower of
Babel, where confusion existed,
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where God
confounded the tongues of men
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to prevent them
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from thwarting
His plan of salvation.
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Anytime you are
participating in confusion,
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it is not in
harmony with the plan of God
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for the salvation of men.
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You also find the genealogies,
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the chronology of
the call of Abraham,
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Genesis 5 and
through Genesis 11,
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you find the
power of the spoken word
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in the beginning,
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and David the Psalmist
says, he spake and it was done.
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He commanded and it stood fast.
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But I want to just
wrap this up very quickly,
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go to Genesis 49
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because something
that we often overlook,
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and I know Jill is
going to cover marriage,
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so I'm gonna leave that
because that's in Genesis,
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and a number of other things.
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But in Genesis 49,
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you find
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the beautiful
establishment of the nation
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that God would raise up
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to be a light to
the entire world.
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And Genesis 49,
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every weakness
that exists in humanity
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is chronicled in the
Book of Genesis Chapter 49.
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Instability,
violence, high mindedness,
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business mindedness,
stubbornness, stumbling block,
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one that get bad's
break, appetite as a challenge,
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quick temporariness,
hard to get along,
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all the qualities
of the sons of Jacob,
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parallel all the
challenges of the human race.
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That's why there are 12
gates to the New Jerusalem.
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And I would suggest
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as I transition to Pastor Kenny,
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everything that we
overcome will identify the gate
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through which we walk
into the New Jerusalem.
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Thank you very much.
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I think that's
a good foundation,
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a wonderful
foundation on which to build
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and the rest of the panel
will continue to build on that.
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I have a Monday's lesson
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and I think it's
an exciting lesson.
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And certainly,
everyone can expand on it
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as we as we go forward,
but the days of creation.
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This is something
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that's being
discussed over and over
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and I can't quite imagine it
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because Pastor
John pointers back
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in the very beginning,
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God told us how
it is, how it was,
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how it is going to always be.
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And someone sent me
a book the other day.
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I know it's quite a large book,
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and you know, you
looked at real quickly
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and they're just simply saying
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there is no way you
can prove the weekly cycle,
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one, two, three,
four, five, six, seven days,
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there's no way.
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And one of the bottom lines
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I just thumbed
through quickly said,
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because there's
eight days in the week.
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So where are they got all that?
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I don't know,
because by that time,
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the waste can was close.
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You know what I mean?
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So I did the pitching thing
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because I don't
need anything else,
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you know, to distract my mind,
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I just need to go
to the Word of God.
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Because there's
all kind of people
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with all kind of
different thoughts.
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And in our lesson,
Monday's lesson, it says,
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and I'm going to read it
from the quarterly it says,
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in recent years,
there has been a trend
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to view the
creation week as what,
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non literal, notice
that, or as a metaphor,
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a parable, or even a myth.
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There's people in every
one of these categories here
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and I believe
that we're directed
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back to the Word of
God, days of creation.
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What does the Bible
teach on this subject?
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I think that's what's
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in every one of
our classes here.
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What does the Bible
say on this subject?
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You know, it's been challenged
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specially by those
who believe in evolution.
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They really challenged
us, they challenged hard,
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they let a lot of
people stray on it.
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And they say,
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they couldn't possibly be
just 24 hour period of time.
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Why?
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Because there's too
many things that were done.
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These days had to be long days.
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You know, so much
like God's not able to do
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what He wants to do.
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But I read the Bible
and just simply said,
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God spoke things into existence.
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That's right.
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You know, we as human beings,
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we have to build
and we have to build,
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it takes time, but not with God.
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They say,
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this is what accounted
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for the
development of the planet
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and God did these
things, that He did in creation,
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and it just took
a very long time.
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The question is asked,
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what are the days in creation
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in Genesis Chapter
1 to be understood?
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Is it the literal
days in Genesis 1,
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or is it figurative days?
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We have to look at that.
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And Genesis 1:3-5,
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I think we went through that
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and I'll do as quickly as I can,
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Genesis 1:3-5.
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I like to say
this, the Bible says.
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That's right.
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The Bible says,
okay, the Bible says,
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"And God said, 'Let
there be," what? "Light."
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and there was light.
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That's it, that's
final right there.
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God said. That's right.
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In 4, "And God saw all
the light and it was good.
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And God divided the
light from the darkness."
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And verse 5,
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"And God created the light,
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the light day and the darkness
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and he called the
night and the evening
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and the morning
where the," what?
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"Evening and the
morning were the first day.
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That kind of
settles it for me here.
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The Bible says, Genesis 1:5,
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the evening and the
morning were the first day.
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In Hebrew, it
literally means this,
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evening was,
morning was day one.
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That just, I mean, I
just want to close it up
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and say that's final.
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I don't think anything
really wrong with that.
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Why do I need to dig in
deeper and try to disprove God?
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That's right. That's right.
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Day one, that's
what it says. Praise God.
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So it indicates
that the duration
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of each of the seven
parts of the creation week,
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it's repeated,
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actually five times
here in this chapter,
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verses 8, verse
13, 19, 23, and 31.
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Don't miss these
points., very important.
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The Bible says,
"Evening proceeded the morning."
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That's right.
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Now, were the Hebrews
ever in doubt of this?
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The Hebrews were never in doubt
about the meaning as the day
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because the day
begins or began at sunset.
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That's what the
Bible says, isn't it?
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Notices this in Leviticus 23:32,
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familiar passage,
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I'm sure states this.
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It shows to be, notice this,
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this shall be unto
you a Sabbath of rest,
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ye shall afflict your souls.
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Notice this, from
even to evening show
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you celebrate, what?
00:18:33.34\00:18:34.68
Your Sabbath.
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Deuteronomy 16:6 says,
00:18:36.08\00:18:38.21
"Thou shall sacrifice
the Passover at," when?
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"At evening. At the
going down of the sun."
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Deuteronomy 16:6,
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"Some have taken evening
and morning as a long," what?
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"Indefinite period of
time." And how do they get this?
00:18:50.76\00:18:54.66
They quote a scripture in
the Bible in 2 Peter 3:18.
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2 Peter 3:8, 2
Peter 3:8, it says this,
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"One day is with
the Lord as," what?
00:19:03.74\00:19:06.98
"As 1000 years."
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You've heard that
over and over and over,
00:19:08.38\00:19:09.74
one day is with
the Lord is 1000 years.
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And how can a person
if you think about it,
00:19:12.51\00:19:14.48
how can a
person use this passage
00:19:14.52\00:19:17.35
to prove the length of a day?
00:19:17.39\00:19:19.65
It's something like,
was it Revelation 1:10,
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I was in the
spirit on the Lord's Day.
00:19:21.39\00:19:23.32
Somebody tried to
prove what day that is,
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you gotta do
line upon line there.
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So that,
00:19:26.49\00:19:27.83
so when all we need
to do simply is this,
00:19:27.86\00:19:29.66
even in this
passage is simply read on.
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It says, and
1000 years as, what?
00:19:32.47\00:19:34.97
As one day.
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I've copied
something down from that.
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In fact it says Peter's thoughts
00:19:39.41\00:19:40.91
comes from Psalms 90:4,
00:19:40.94\00:19:43.48
we won't read that, but
it's talking about that.
00:19:43.51\00:19:45.71
He borrowed that
from the Old Testament
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and he wrote into
the New Testament here.
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It simply means we
read this God is what?
00:19:50.42\00:19:53.56
He's ever liked,
He's eternal, is He not?
00:19:53.59\00:19:55.99
There's no past.
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There is no future with Him.
00:19:57.83\00:20:00.30
And then we look,
00:20:00.33\00:20:01.66
all things are
eternal present with Him.
00:20:01.70\00:20:04.73
That's kind of
confusing maybe to our mind.
00:20:04.77\00:20:06.80
There's no need of
trying to limit God
00:20:06.84\00:20:09.94
of what He can do
and what He cannot do.
00:20:09.97\00:20:11.91
So there's nothing He cannot do.
00:20:11.94\00:20:13.68
There's nothing,
He can do everything,
00:20:13.71\00:20:15.84
just exactly the
way He wants to do it.
00:20:15.88\00:20:18.01
Peter rebukes
here in this passage,
00:20:18.05\00:20:20.25
He's rebuking the
skepticism and the scoffers,
00:20:20.28\00:20:23.59
there were scoffers in the days,
00:20:23.62\00:20:24.95
and they're scoffers today
and they're scoffers right now.
00:20:24.99\00:20:27.86
Some who are watching
are saying that's not true,
00:20:27.89\00:20:30.39
a literal
24-hour period of time,
00:20:30.43\00:20:32.99
seven days in a week.
00:20:33.03\00:20:34.36
But the Bible is very clear.
00:20:34.40\00:20:36.63
Now notice this, it says
00:20:36.67\00:20:38.00
as these
scoffers were doubting God
00:20:38.03\00:20:40.94
about the promises
of the end of the world
00:20:40.97\00:20:43.04
to come even in these passages.
00:20:43.07\00:20:44.41
So they are scoffing
Well, He's made these promises,
00:20:44.44\00:20:46.78
but He's not going to
come, He can't do that.
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So Peter is not, in this passage
00:20:49.14\00:20:51.61
he's not trying to compute time.
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This is not,
00:20:53.92\00:20:55.25
you know, just
like we read something
00:20:55.28\00:20:56.62
that unclean,
00:20:56.65\00:20:57.99
you know, in the Old Testament,
00:20:58.02\00:20:59.35
you read something New
Testament seems to refer,
00:20:59.39\00:21:00.72
you know, we have
to look the context
00:21:00.76\00:21:02.09
that we've been
talking about here
00:21:02.12\00:21:03.46
in pages of God's Word.
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Okay.
00:21:04.86\00:21:06.19
Now let's look at
one day with God here
00:21:06.23\00:21:07.56
as we're studying here
about this text and context
00:21:07.60\00:21:09.53
which we've been
looking at quickly here.
00:21:09.56\00:21:11.43
We must consider
Peter's words are clear.
00:21:11.47\00:21:14.07
He's stressing what?
00:21:14.10\00:21:15.44
Timelessness of God.
00:21:15.47\00:21:17.27
In one day, God can do
the work of 1000 years.
00:21:17.31\00:21:21.41
That's nothing to him,
but thousand to me is like,
00:21:21.44\00:21:23.61
oh, wait, that's a
long period of time.
00:21:23.65\00:21:25.85
Man says that's a
long period of time,
00:21:25.88\00:21:27.35
with God it is not,
00:21:27.38\00:21:28.85
with God, it could be considered
00:21:28.88\00:21:30.79
as simply what?
00:21:30.82\00:21:32.25
One day.
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Let's not forget to examine
the fourth commandment too
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on this right, quick,
just a little bit here,
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which will leave us no
doubt that the evenings
00:21:38.33\00:21:40.60
and the mornings of creation
are found in Exodus 20:11.
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"For in six days," what?
00:21:45.57\00:21:47.14
The Lord made
what? Heaven and earth.
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"The heaven and the earth,
00:21:48.84\00:21:50.17
the sea and all that is that is,
00:21:50.21\00:21:51.54
and He rested the seventh day."
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And He rested the seventh day.
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That's what the
Bible says. That's right.
00:21:55.44\00:21:56.98
Why do so many
even commentaries say
00:21:57.01\00:21:59.91
that each day is,
00:21:59.95\00:22:01.38
it has to be longer than
a 24-hour period of time.
00:22:01.42\00:22:05.62
Could it possibly be
that they're trying to make
00:22:05.65\00:22:08.26
the creation week
00:22:08.29\00:22:10.03
agree with their
evolutionary theory?
00:22:10.06\00:22:13.26
They have to,
they're looking for something
00:22:13.29\00:22:15.06
to grab a hold of
here and try to give some,
00:22:15.10\00:22:16.97
you know, some credence to here,
00:22:17.00\00:22:18.67
what was taught by
people to believe on the earth
00:22:18.70\00:22:21.10
in the early history.
00:22:21.14\00:22:22.47
Notice, we look at, we
say all they said, well,
00:22:22.50\00:22:24.67
this covers millions
and millions of years.
00:22:24.71\00:22:27.24
You hear it on the
news a lot of time this,
00:22:27.28\00:22:28.71
while this is
millions of years old.
00:22:28.74\00:22:31.38
Should we not
go back to creation
00:22:31.41\00:22:32.75
and see what God has
said in His Word here.
00:22:32.78\00:22:34.62
God speaks, since we
spoke and the Bible said it,
00:22:34.65\00:22:38.02
I love it, it was so He created,
00:22:38.05\00:22:40.79
it was so and you
mentioned it stood fast.
00:22:40.82\00:22:43.49
It stood fast. Isn't that right?
00:22:43.53\00:22:44.86
We have the heavens, right?
00:22:44.89\00:22:46.23
We have the rotation things
00:22:46.26\00:22:47.60
that are going
on in the heavens,
00:22:47.63\00:22:48.96
and yet man still will not abide
00:22:49.00\00:22:50.37
by what God has
said in His Word.
00:22:50.40\00:22:52.23
Now the quick
reason why many reject
00:22:52.27\00:22:53.90
the seven-day
cycle is simply this.
00:22:53.94\00:22:56.71
They work six and to rest one.
00:22:56.74\00:22:58.97
They tried to make it
a long period of time,
00:22:59.01\00:23:01.21
it's because they
simply, may I put it plainly
00:23:01.24\00:23:03.28
because you reject
the seventh day Sabbath,
00:23:03.31\00:23:04.91
that's why.
00:23:04.95\00:23:06.28
Which is a
weekly reoccurring day
00:23:06.31\00:23:07.78
of rest what the Bible says.
00:23:07.82\00:23:10.12
Scriptural
interpretation insists
00:23:10.15\00:23:13.05
on giving literal
meaning to creation week.
00:23:13.09\00:23:17.33
It insists on that,
seven days of creation.
00:23:17.36\00:23:19.96
Exodus 20:11, notice this,
00:23:20.00\00:23:22.43
not a period of indefinite time.
00:23:22.46\00:23:24.77
Notice this,
indicated by the expression,
00:23:24.80\00:23:27.34
we talked about in the Hebrew,
00:23:27.37\00:23:29.50
evening was,
once again and what?
00:23:29.54\00:23:31.71
Morning was day
one. That's right.
00:23:31.74\00:23:35.14
This is an
indispensable firm foundation
00:23:35.18\00:23:38.71
in which we can
build for the Christian
00:23:38.75\00:23:40.62
and certainly,
00:23:40.65\00:23:41.98
biblical theology here
from Genesis to Revelation.
00:23:42.02\00:23:46.22
I like to go back
00:23:46.25\00:23:47.59
and I think about as
3ABN talks about a lot
00:23:47.62\00:23:49.96
when they had quickly
in meetings in Russia.
00:23:49.99\00:23:52.89
There's an atheist,
right? The atheists were there.
00:23:52.93\00:23:55.16
He didn't know
anything about God.
00:23:55.20\00:23:56.63
They were passing out
Bibles. Well, they do.
00:23:56.67\00:23:58.43
They gave him a Bible,
00:23:58.47\00:23:59.80
he'd never read
the Bible before,
00:23:59.83\00:24:01.40
he's sitting on the hill.
00:24:01.44\00:24:02.77
He opens the Word of God
to the very, very beginning.
00:24:02.80\00:24:05.04
How thrilled he was,
00:24:05.07\00:24:06.41
I wish you was as thrilled
00:24:06.44\00:24:07.78
and I want to be as
thrilled as this man was.
00:24:07.81\00:24:09.14
He opened it back
this 'cause he was atheist,
00:24:09.18\00:24:10.88
he didn't believe in God.
00:24:10.91\00:24:12.25
He simply opened the
pages and he read it.
00:24:12.28\00:24:13.75
It said, in the beginning, what?
00:24:13.78\00:24:16.35
In the beginning God, he
said, from that moment on,
00:24:16.38\00:24:19.15
he accepted God as
his Lord and Savior.
00:24:19.19\00:24:21.02
That's all it took,
00:24:21.06\00:24:22.39
and that's all it
should take for you and for me.
00:24:22.42\00:24:23.76
Amen. That's
right. That's right.
00:24:23.79\00:24:25.13
Thank you, Pastor
Kenny, that was an amazing.
00:24:25.16\00:24:27.00
You know, we have
so much more to cover
00:24:27.03\00:24:28.43
when we think about
creation as the first part,
00:24:28.46\00:24:31.93
we're just dabbling in creation,
00:24:31.97\00:24:34.30
so don't go away.
00:24:34.34\00:24:35.87
Many of the
answers that you're seeking
00:24:35.90\00:24:37.91
will be answered
right after we come back.
00:24:37.94\00:24:39.47
Amen.
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Welcome back to our
Sabbath School Panel,
00:25:18.71\00:25:20.62
we're going to
continue in our understanding,
00:25:20.65\00:25:23.42
I'm going to throw it
now to Pastor Ryan Day.
00:25:23.45\00:25:25.95
Well, you're throwing it to me,
00:25:25.99\00:25:27.82
but I'm gonna
toss it back to you
00:25:27.86\00:25:29.19
because I feel inspired,
00:25:29.22\00:25:30.56
I'm gonna let you take
a few seconds of my time.
00:25:30.59\00:25:32.03
Well, while we were
at the break, Pastor,
00:25:32.06\00:25:34.03
you shared something
with us about the day,
00:25:34.06\00:25:37.27
that literal 24-hour day,
00:25:37.30\00:25:38.63
why don't you take
a few seconds to...
00:25:38.67\00:25:40.00
Very quickly,
the word first day,
00:25:40.04\00:25:42.24
second day, third
day, fourth day in Genesis
00:25:42.27\00:25:44.67
is the Hebrew word yom,
00:25:44.71\00:25:46.57
which means from
one sunset to the next.
00:25:46.61\00:25:50.25
As in the Day of Atonement
00:25:50.28\00:25:52.45
which the Day of
Atonement was not 1000 years
00:25:52.48\00:25:54.45
which is simply one day.
00:25:54.48\00:25:55.82
Right. Okay, Ryan, back to you.
00:25:55.85\00:25:57.19
Wow. That's a great point.
00:25:57.22\00:25:58.55
Praise the Lord.
00:25:58.59\00:25:59.92
In fact, we're gonna
be talking about a day.
00:25:59.95\00:26:01.42
And on my day, which is Tuesday,
00:26:01.46\00:26:04.99
the Sabbath and
Creation is Tuesday's title.
00:26:05.03\00:26:07.43
I just want to
say for the record,
00:26:07.46\00:26:08.80
you know, I do not
believe as a Christian,
00:26:08.83\00:26:10.70
as a Bible Christian,
00:26:10.73\00:26:12.07
I do not believe in
the evolutionary approach
00:26:12.10\00:26:14.34
to the origin
of man as the world
00:26:14.37\00:26:16.37
and the
scientific world receives it.
00:26:16.40\00:26:18.27
However, I want to
say this, understand me,
00:26:18.31\00:26:21.54
I do believe in
a Big Bang theory.
00:26:21.58\00:26:24.65
That looks plain. Yes.
00:26:24.68\00:26:27.22
I believe that God said
it and bang, it happened.
00:26:27.25\00:26:31.22
I just, I walked into it,
I walked into a store one day
00:26:31.25\00:26:34.59
and I saw this
shirt hanging up there
00:26:34.62\00:26:36.19
and it had like this little,
00:26:36.22\00:26:37.56
you know, Big
Bang theory emblem.
00:26:37.59\00:26:39.29
And it said, I
believe in Big Bang theory.
00:26:39.33\00:26:41.96
God said it
bang and it happened.
00:26:42.00\00:26:43.53
I just love that,
I had to share that.
00:26:43.57\00:26:45.03
It's powerful.
00:26:45.07\00:26:46.40
I'm sure there was a
big bang when God spoke,
00:26:46.43\00:26:48.47
you know, because God
has power when He speaks.
00:26:48.50\00:26:51.61
Tuesday's lesson actually,
the Sabbath and Creation.
00:26:51.64\00:26:55.01
I love the opening remarks
00:26:55.04\00:26:56.81
that this particular lesson had,
00:26:56.85\00:26:59.11
I want to just
read a few words of it.
00:26:59.15\00:27:00.48
It says, today the
seventh day Sabbath
00:27:00.52\00:27:02.78
is heavily under
attack in secular society
00:27:02.82\00:27:06.15
and in religious communities.
00:27:06.19\00:27:08.06
The fact can be seen
in the work schedules
00:27:08.09\00:27:10.36
of global corporations
00:27:10.39\00:27:11.83
and the attempted
change of the calendar
00:27:11.86\00:27:13.66
in many European
countries, designated Monday,
00:27:13.70\00:27:16.90
has designated Monday
00:27:16.93\00:27:18.43
as the first day of the week
and Sunday as the seventh day.
00:27:18.47\00:27:22.20
And by the
recent papal encyclical
00:27:22.24\00:27:25.04
on climate change
00:27:25.07\00:27:26.41
that calls the
seventh day Sabbath,
00:27:26.44\00:27:28.04
the Jewish Sabbath
00:27:28.08\00:27:29.94
and encourages the
world to observe a day of rest
00:27:29.98\00:27:32.21
to alleviate global warming.
00:27:32.25\00:27:34.25
We are starting
to see more and more
00:27:34.28\00:27:36.02
as we get closer and closer
to the second coming of Jesus,
00:27:36.05\00:27:38.75
we're seeing an attack,
00:27:38.79\00:27:40.12
a direct attack
on God's holy day,
00:27:40.16\00:27:41.76
the Sabbath day.
00:27:41.79\00:27:43.12
So what I want to do,
00:27:43.16\00:27:44.49
I want to take a
little bit different approach
00:27:44.53\00:27:45.86
than what the lesson did.
00:27:45.89\00:27:47.23
We're still gonna
get all the text in,
00:27:47.26\00:27:48.60
but they started
with one particular text
00:27:48.63\00:27:49.96
and ended with another.
00:27:50.00\00:27:51.33
I'm going to flip flop those
00:27:51.37\00:27:52.70
instead of starting at
the beginning of the book,
00:27:52.73\00:27:54.07
let's go to the
book of Revelation.
00:27:54.10\00:27:55.44
I want to start
there. Revelation Chapter 14.
00:27:55.47\00:27:57.31
I want us to see this powerfully
00:27:57.34\00:27:58.81
because it is
powerful to consider
00:27:58.84\00:28:01.81
how while the devil is,
00:28:01.84\00:28:03.24
is doing all that he can
to attack God's holy day.
00:28:03.28\00:28:07.22
The Sabbath day just
as it was issued and given
00:28:07.25\00:28:10.39
in creation at the beginning
00:28:10.42\00:28:12.02
is still most
relevant to us still today.
00:28:12.05\00:28:15.32
And we see this in
latter day Bible prophecy
00:28:15.36\00:28:18.06
as found in the
Book of Revelation.
00:28:18.09\00:28:19.49
So Revelation Chapter 14,
00:28:19.53\00:28:20.86
we're going to be reading
the first angel's message,
00:28:20.90\00:28:23.00
which by the way goes to whom?
00:28:23.03\00:28:25.03
It goes to who?
The entire world.
00:28:25.07\00:28:26.40
It goes to the entire world.
00:28:26.43\00:28:27.77
So notice this
right here, verse 6 says,
00:28:27.80\00:28:29.34
"Then I saw another angel
fly in the midst of heaven,
00:28:29.37\00:28:31.44
having the everlasting gospel,
00:28:31.47\00:28:33.38
to preach to those
who dwell on the earth
00:28:33.41\00:28:35.04
to every nation,
tribe, tongue and people."
00:28:35.08\00:28:37.35
This is a global
message in the last days.
00:28:37.38\00:28:39.48
But notice verse 7,
00:28:39.51\00:28:40.85
"Saying with a loud
voice, here's the message,
00:28:40.88\00:28:42.85
fear God and give glory to Him
00:28:42.88\00:28:44.55
for the hour of
His judgment has come."
00:28:44.59\00:28:46.86
And then notice
this last portion here.
00:28:46.89\00:28:48.52
"And worship Him who
made heaven and earth,
00:28:48.56\00:28:51.33
the sea and the
springs of waters.
00:28:51.36\00:28:53.46
So God is sending
this global message
00:28:53.50\00:28:55.20
in the last days
and He's simply saying,
00:28:55.23\00:28:56.56
hey, I want the world,
00:28:56.60\00:28:57.97
I want My children to
return to worshiping me
00:28:58.00\00:29:00.27
and acknowledging me as
creator of the universe.
00:29:00.30\00:29:02.80
You cannot separate
the Sabbath from creation.
00:29:02.84\00:29:05.67
And that's where we're
headed in this direction.
00:29:05.71\00:29:07.48
Who is this creator that
we are talking about here?
00:29:07.51\00:29:10.28
Who is the creator
00:29:10.31\00:29:11.65
that we are to
return to worship?
00:29:11.68\00:29:13.01
I believe it's
already been mentioned
00:29:13.05\00:29:14.45
in this study so far, but
I just want to reemphasize.
00:29:14.48\00:29:17.05
Ephesians 3:9.
00:29:17.09\00:29:19.12
Again, that's
Ephesians 3:9, it says,
00:29:19.15\00:29:22.16
"And to make all see
00:29:22.19\00:29:23.53
what is the
fellowship of the mystery,
00:29:23.56\00:29:25.13
which from the
beginning of the ages
00:29:25.16\00:29:26.49
has been hidden in God,
00:29:26.53\00:29:28.83
who created all
things through Jesus Christ,
00:29:28.86\00:29:32.50
the entire Godhead,
00:29:32.53\00:29:33.87
I believe in faith
and as the Word of God
00:29:33.90\00:29:35.94
clearly communicates,
the entire Godhead,
00:29:35.97\00:29:37.94
I believe had its place
00:29:37.97\00:29:39.81
and its position and
its work in creation.
00:29:39.84\00:29:42.44
The Father gave Jesus Christ
00:29:42.48\00:29:44.45
the authority to speak
this world into existence
00:29:44.48\00:29:47.38
and the Holy
Spirit carried it out.
00:29:47.42\00:29:49.08
It's powerful to consider it,
00:29:49.12\00:29:50.65
but the age in which we consider
00:29:50.69\00:29:52.82
in Scripture to be the authority
00:29:52.85\00:29:54.99
who actually did
the creative work.
00:29:55.02\00:29:56.79
The Bible gives that to Jesus.
00:29:56.83\00:29:58.79
Where you see right
there in 3 John 1:3,
00:29:58.83\00:30:00.90
"All things
were made through Him
00:30:00.93\00:30:02.26
and without Him
00:30:02.30\00:30:03.63
nothing was made that was made,"
00:30:03.67\00:30:05.00
speaking of Jesus Christ.
00:30:05.03\00:30:06.37
So there's no doubt
00:30:06.40\00:30:07.74
that Jesus
Christ is the creator.
00:30:07.77\00:30:09.10
Now, when you consider
the creation event, okay,
00:30:09.14\00:30:11.37
this is powerful,
simple but profound.
00:30:11.41\00:30:13.98
When you consider
the creation event,
00:30:14.01\00:30:16.71
and you read on and
study about the Sabbath,
00:30:16.75\00:30:19.81
you cannot separate the
creator from the Sabbath.
00:30:19.85\00:30:23.08
And that's essentially, I
believe, what is happening
00:30:23.12\00:30:25.05
when people come
to the conclusion
00:30:25.09\00:30:26.69
that we no longer have
to observe the Sabbath,
00:30:26.72\00:30:28.42
we no longer have to rest as,
as the Bible tells us to rest.
00:30:28.46\00:30:31.63
We don't have to
keep a Sabbath day.
00:30:31.66\00:30:33.19
What has happened
is they have separated
00:30:33.23\00:30:35.03
the creator from the Sabbath.
00:30:35.06\00:30:37.13
They have separated
the Lord of the Sabbath
00:30:37.17\00:30:38.93
from the Sabbath,
00:30:38.97\00:30:40.30
and now they think that
they can just do anything
00:30:40.34\00:30:41.84
that they want to do.
00:30:41.87\00:30:43.20
And so, I'm just gonna
go to Genesis Chapter 2.
00:30:43.24\00:30:45.34
So we know that
Genesis Chapter 1
00:30:45.37\00:30:46.88
gives us the creation account,
00:30:46.91\00:30:48.74
all the days of
creation as Brother Kenny,
00:30:48.78\00:30:51.25
most beautifully brought out.
00:30:51.28\00:30:52.78
But when you get to
the first few verses
00:30:52.81\00:30:54.42
of Genesis Chapter 2,
00:30:54.45\00:30:55.78
I think pastor
read these earlier,
00:30:55.82\00:30:57.15
but I want to focus
00:30:57.19\00:30:58.52
in on what the
Bible actually says.
00:30:58.55\00:31:00.19
So Genesis 2
beginning with verse 1,
00:31:00.22\00:31:02.16
notice what it says,
00:31:02.19\00:31:03.53
"Thus the heavens and the earth
00:31:03.56\00:31:04.89
and all the hosts
of them were finished."
00:31:04.93\00:31:06.93
That means Jesus has
now finished His work.
00:31:06.96\00:31:09.43
And again, I
want to re-emphasize
00:31:09.46\00:31:10.80
that it's Jesus.
00:31:10.83\00:31:12.17
Who's the creator? Jesus.
00:31:12.20\00:31:13.54
Jesus is the creator.
00:31:13.57\00:31:14.90
So by the time we
get to verses 2 and 3,
00:31:14.94\00:31:16.27
where it says,
00:31:16.30\00:31:17.64
"And on the seventh
day God ended His work."
00:31:17.67\00:31:20.24
Who ended His work?
00:31:20.28\00:31:21.61
Jesus ended His work. Yes.
00:31:21.64\00:31:23.78
It says, "He ended His
work which He had done,
00:31:23.81\00:31:26.21
and He rested on the seventh day
00:31:26.25\00:31:28.38
from all His work
which He had done.
00:31:28.42\00:31:31.29
Then God blessed the seventh day
00:31:31.32\00:31:32.65
and sanctified it
00:31:32.69\00:31:34.02
because in it He had
rested from all His work
00:31:34.06\00:31:36.12
which God had created and made."
00:31:36.16\00:31:37.99
So there's three things
here and we emphasize this often
00:31:38.03\00:31:40.73
and I believe
it's vitally important.
00:31:40.76\00:31:42.60
There's three things we
see Jesus doing on this day
00:31:42.63\00:31:45.30
that He didn't do on
into the other created days.
00:31:45.33\00:31:46.97
That's right. Okay.
00:31:47.00\00:31:48.34
So we see that He rests,
okay, He rested on the Sabbath.
00:31:48.37\00:31:51.21
He blessed this day
00:31:51.24\00:31:52.97
which we know to
be the Sabbath day,
00:31:53.01\00:31:54.34
the seventh day.
00:31:54.38\00:31:55.71
And, of course,
He sanctified it.
00:31:55.74\00:31:57.08
That means He set it
apart from the other six.
00:31:57.11\00:31:59.78
Does it mean that God
did not do a special work
00:31:59.81\00:32:02.15
or to do something
special on those six days?
00:32:02.18\00:32:04.22
But He sets that
seventh day apart.
00:32:04.25\00:32:06.52
And He makes it
clear, I sanctified it,
00:32:06.55\00:32:08.36
I make this holy,
this day is a holy day.
00:32:08.39\00:32:11.69
Now when God
declares something holy...
00:32:11.73\00:32:14.50
That's right.
00:32:14.53\00:32:15.86
When God
declares something holy,
00:32:15.90\00:32:17.23
who can reverse that?
00:32:17.27\00:32:18.80
Who has the authority to say,
yeah, it's not holy anymore,
00:32:18.83\00:32:21.77
I think this day is more holy.
00:32:21.80\00:32:23.81
My friends, you
know, that's that,
00:32:23.84\00:32:25.17
I said Jesus you
were talking about
00:32:25.21\00:32:26.74
in one of our previous lessons,
00:32:26.78\00:32:28.11
that's adding to the Word
00:32:28.14\00:32:29.58
and even taking
away from the Word,
00:32:29.61\00:32:31.48
and we have to be careful
because the Bible warns us
00:32:31.51\00:32:33.72
that people who do this,
00:32:33.75\00:32:35.15
who add and take
away from God's Holy Word
00:32:35.18\00:32:37.62
has a fearful
looking forward to judgment,
00:32:37.65\00:32:39.72
and we have to be
careful with that.
00:32:39.75\00:32:41.62
You know, just
right off the front,
00:32:41.66\00:32:42.99
I just want to make this clear.
00:32:43.02\00:32:46.09
Notice how there's no mentioning
00:32:46.13\00:32:47.56
of any Jew in this passage,
00:32:47.60\00:32:49.90
when God creates the Sabbath.
00:32:49.93\00:32:51.97
One of the primary
excuses that I have received
00:32:52.00\00:32:54.77
over my ministry
when talking to those
00:32:54.80\00:32:57.01
who combat or
trying to contend with me
00:32:57.04\00:32:59.07
on the issue of the Sabbath.
00:32:59.11\00:33:00.44
Well, that's a
Jewish thing, Ryan,
00:33:00.48\00:33:01.88
you know, that's for
the Jews, we're Gentiles,
00:33:01.91\00:33:03.75
we're New Testament Christians,
00:33:03.78\00:33:05.31
we don't have to
keep the Sabbath.
00:33:05.35\00:33:06.98
And truthfully,
00:33:07.02\00:33:09.02
when God instituted the Sabbath,
00:33:09.05\00:33:10.72
nowhere in there do
you find that He says,
00:33:10.75\00:33:12.25
I'm resting on this
day, I'm blessing this day
00:33:12.29\00:33:14.39
and I'm setting it
apart for a holy use
00:33:14.42\00:33:16.32
for this specific
group of people over here,
00:33:16.36\00:33:18.46
the Jewish people.
00:33:18.49\00:33:19.83
Adam was not a Jew. Okay.
00:33:19.86\00:33:21.33
And Adam kept the Sabbath.
00:33:21.36\00:33:22.70
He would have followed
in the example of Christ
00:33:22.73\00:33:24.43
to keep the Sabbath.
00:33:24.47\00:33:25.80
And even this, notice this,
the Bible says that Abraham
00:33:25.83\00:33:28.00
kept all the
commandments of God.
00:33:28.04\00:33:29.80
That's right.
That was before Moses.
00:33:29.84\00:33:31.37
Abraham was
technically not a Jew.
00:33:31.41\00:33:33.48
Okay, the Jewish
nation did not come along,
00:33:33.51\00:33:35.64
technically until
the time of Jacob.
00:33:35.68\00:33:37.51
And I know that can be
argued a little bit there,
00:33:37.55\00:33:39.98
but nonetheless, Abraham
00:33:40.02\00:33:41.35
at that
particular point in his life
00:33:41.38\00:33:42.78
was not considered a Jew, yet
00:33:42.82\00:33:44.39
the Jewish nation
would come from him.
00:33:44.42\00:33:46.22
Even Noah, who we know was,
00:33:46.25\00:33:48.26
was very much
obedient to God's commandments
00:33:48.29\00:33:50.36
and God's Word.
00:33:50.39\00:33:51.73
Noah would have
kept the Sabbath.
00:33:51.76\00:33:53.23
And so, we see the institution
of the Sabbath very clearly.
00:33:53.26\00:33:56.10
How about the
commandments of God?
00:33:56.13\00:33:57.70
How about the command
of God in which He gives us
00:33:57.73\00:34:00.04
and tells us to
remember the Sabbath day
00:34:00.07\00:34:02.04
right here in Exodus 20:8-11.
00:34:02.07\00:34:05.37
Want to reference that here?
00:34:05.41\00:34:06.74
Exodus 20:8-11,
00:34:06.78\00:34:09.44
"Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.
00:34:09.48\00:34:11.55
Six days you shall
labor and do all your work
00:34:11.58\00:34:13.65
but the seventh day
00:34:13.68\00:34:15.02
is the Sabbath of
the Lord your God.
00:34:15.05\00:34:16.52
In it you shall do no work,
00:34:16.55\00:34:18.59
nor your son, nor your daughter,
00:34:18.62\00:34:19.95
nor your male servant,
nor your female servant,
00:34:19.99\00:34:21.99
nor your cattle,
00:34:22.02\00:34:23.36
nor your stranger that
is within your gates for."
00:34:23.39\00:34:25.29
And why do we keep the Sabbath?
00:34:25.33\00:34:26.83
Here's the reasoning. Verse 11.
00:34:26.86\00:34:28.70
For in 6000 years.
00:34:28.73\00:34:32.27
That's not what it says,
00:34:32.30\00:34:33.64
"For in six days the Lord made
00:34:33.67\00:34:35.70
the heavens and
the earth, the sea
00:34:35.74\00:34:37.21
and all that in the midst
and rested the seventh day,
00:34:37.24\00:34:39.34
therefore the Lord
blessed the Sabbath day
00:34:39.37\00:34:41.38
and hallowed it."
00:34:41.41\00:34:42.84
I have to say here, if
you notice in verse 11,
00:34:42.88\00:34:44.71
notice those
last few words there.
00:34:44.75\00:34:46.61
It says, "For in six
days the Lord made the heavens
00:34:46.65\00:34:49.72
and the earth and the sea
and all that in the midst.
00:34:49.75\00:34:52.45
Where do we find
almost an exact repeat
00:34:52.49\00:34:54.66
of that sequence of words?
00:34:54.69\00:34:56.02
Revelation.
00:34:56.06\00:34:57.39
We just read at the beginning,
Revelation 14, remember?
00:34:57.43\00:34:59.63
Worship Who made the heavens
and the earth and the sea
00:34:59.66\00:35:01.63
and the fountains of waters.
00:35:01.66\00:35:03.00
That points us right
back to this commandment.
00:35:03.03\00:35:04.93
God is saying, "I gave
you the Sabbath as a sign,
00:35:04.97\00:35:07.44
as a blessing to remember Me
as the creator of the world."
00:35:07.47\00:35:11.37
And we know that
Jesus continued this
00:35:11.41\00:35:13.24
in Mark 2:27 when he said,
00:35:13.27\00:35:15.61
"The Sabbath was made for
man, not man for the Sabbath."
00:35:15.64\00:35:19.45
That word there is anthropos
in the Greek, it means mankind.
00:35:19.48\00:35:22.98
Jesus created the
Sabbath for all mankind.
00:35:23.02\00:35:25.69
So can you separate the Sabbath
00:35:25.72\00:35:27.19
from creation or
from the creator?
00:35:27.22\00:35:29.42
Not at all. Absolutely not.
00:35:29.46\00:35:30.93
Amen.
00:35:30.96\00:35:32.29
Thank you so much
00:35:32.33\00:35:33.66
for that incredible study, Ryan.
00:35:33.70\00:35:35.03
Praise the Lord.
Creation and the Sabbath.
00:35:35.06\00:35:37.10
What a gift the Sabbath is.
00:35:37.13\00:35:39.20
Creation is a gift
in itself because we,
00:35:39.23\00:35:41.97
none of us would
be here without that.
00:35:42.00\00:35:43.91
Thank you all so
much for that study.
00:35:43.94\00:35:45.44
As we look at
Wednesday's lesson,
00:35:45.47\00:35:47.64
we tackle Creation and Marriage.
00:35:47.68\00:35:51.28
Another gift, we see
from the beginning of time.
00:35:51.31\00:35:55.58
There's a statement here
00:35:55.62\00:35:56.95
kind of a tongue and cheek joke.
00:35:56.99\00:35:58.42
It says, a good marriage
would be between a blind wife
00:35:58.45\00:36:02.16
and a deaf husband.
00:36:02.19\00:36:04.49
Now, that might be the way
00:36:04.53\00:36:06.83
some marriages have
degenerated to, right?
00:36:06.86\00:36:10.57
Because Satan takes
everything that God created,
00:36:10.60\00:36:14.10
that God
sanctified, that God ordained.
00:36:14.14\00:36:17.17
And He tries to
either spin a counterfeit
00:36:17.21\00:36:19.57
or make you miserable and in it.
00:36:19.61\00:36:22.41
But God's ideal for
marriage is beautiful.
00:36:22.44\00:36:27.25
We're going to look today
at the origin of marriage,
00:36:27.28\00:36:30.82
the definition of marriage,
and the sanctity of marriage.
00:36:30.85\00:36:35.89
So three things.
00:36:35.92\00:36:37.26
Let's start with
the origin of marriage.
00:36:37.29\00:36:38.83
Turn with me to
Genesis 1, Genesis 1:26.
00:36:38.86\00:36:42.90
We're going to read a
couple verses in Genesis 1,
00:36:42.93\00:36:45.30
and then we'll go
to Genesis Chapter 2.
00:36:45.33\00:36:47.00
Now, several of
you referenced these,
00:36:47.04\00:36:49.04
so we won't have to
go over all of them.
00:36:49.07\00:36:51.04
Genesis 1:26.
00:36:51.07\00:36:53.17
Then God said, "Let
us make man in our image,
00:36:53.21\00:36:57.81
according to our likeness.
00:36:57.85\00:36:59.51
Let them have dominion
over the fish of the sea,
00:36:59.55\00:37:01.68
over the birds of the air,
00:37:01.72\00:37:03.05
and over the cattle
over the all the earth
00:37:03.08\00:37:04.82
and over every creeping
thing that creeps on the earth."
00:37:04.85\00:37:08.42
The entire Godhead was involved
in creating man and woman.
00:37:08.46\00:37:12.83
That's right.
00:37:12.86\00:37:14.20
Let us, did you
notice that plural?
00:37:14.23\00:37:15.70
Let us make man in our image.
00:37:15.73\00:37:19.93
Now as Pastor John brought
out and Pastor Ryan brought out
00:37:19.97\00:37:23.10
John 1:1-3,
00:37:23.14\00:37:25.71
we see that in the
beginning was the Word,
00:37:25.74\00:37:27.81
that's Jesus Christ,
00:37:27.84\00:37:29.24
and the Word was with
God and the Word was God.
00:37:29.28\00:37:32.51
That means Jesus is divine.
00:37:32.55\00:37:35.08
And He pre-existed,
we see that in verse 2.
00:37:35.12\00:37:39.22
He was in the
beginning with God,
00:37:39.25\00:37:41.46
and all things
were made through Him.
00:37:41.49\00:37:43.63
Jesus as creator,
00:37:43.66\00:37:45.13
we see Jesus intimately involved
00:37:45.16\00:37:47.73
in the creation process.
00:37:47.76\00:37:50.60
We jumped down, the Holy
Spirit was also involved.
00:37:50.63\00:37:53.17
We see that if you
go back to Genesis 1.
00:37:53.20\00:37:55.80
Genesis 1:2 says,
00:37:55.84\00:37:58.57
"The earth was
without form and void,
00:37:58.61\00:38:00.21
darkness was on
the face of the deep
00:38:00.24\00:38:01.74
and the spirit of God
00:38:01.78\00:38:03.98
was hovering over
the face of the waters.
00:38:04.01\00:38:07.25
The entire Godhead was
involved in the creation of man.
00:38:07.28\00:38:11.19
That's right. We're
created in His image.
00:38:11.22\00:38:13.05
And then immediately,
we're told to have dominion,
00:38:13.09\00:38:15.82
Adam was told,
00:38:15.86\00:38:17.19
let us make man in our
image after our likeness,
00:38:17.23\00:38:20.00
according to our likeness,
00:38:20.03\00:38:21.36
and then the next phrase
is let them have dominion.
00:38:21.40\00:38:27.44
Then we look at
verse 27, Genesis 1:27,
00:38:27.47\00:38:30.37
"God created man
in his own image,
00:38:30.41\00:38:32.07
in the image of God,
00:38:32.11\00:38:33.44
He created him, male and female,
00:38:33.48\00:38:36.71
He created them."
00:38:36.75\00:38:38.71
Now we discussed
this in a previous lesson
00:38:38.75\00:38:40.72
how the Hebrew
didn't always have,
00:38:40.75\00:38:43.49
doesn't have the punctuation,
00:38:43.52\00:38:45.12
but yet the Hebrew
uses emphasis and repetition
00:38:45.15\00:38:48.39
to bring about that emphasis.
00:38:48.42\00:38:50.53
And we see that here
three times that word,
00:38:50.56\00:38:54.33
that word bara, to create,
to shape is used in this text.
00:38:54.36\00:38:59.67
God created man in
His image He created man,
00:38:59.70\00:39:03.44
male and
female, He created them.
00:39:03.47\00:39:07.18
That's right. Verse 28.
00:39:07.21\00:39:08.81
"Then God blessed
them and God said to them,
00:39:08.84\00:39:10.48
'Be fruitful and multiply,
fill the earth and subdue it,
00:39:10.51\00:39:13.88
have dominion over
the fish of the sea,
00:39:13.92\00:39:15.52
over the birds of the air,
00:39:15.55\00:39:16.89
over every living thing
that moves on the earth.'"
00:39:16.92\00:39:19.35
We see procreation
is part of His plan.
00:39:19.39\00:39:24.63
Turn over to Genesis 2.
00:39:24.66\00:39:26.26
Genesis 2:18.
00:39:26.29\00:39:28.90
This is where we get a
little more explanation
00:39:28.93\00:39:31.53
you could say
00:39:31.57\00:39:32.90
as to what took
place in Genesis 1.
00:39:32.93\00:39:34.74
"And the Lord God said,
00:39:34.77\00:39:36.10
it is not good that
man should be alone.
00:39:36.14\00:39:39.37
I will make him a
helper comparable to him."
00:39:39.41\00:39:43.88
God designed marriage
00:39:43.91\00:39:46.28
to meet the human
need for companionship.
00:39:46.31\00:39:48.88
Adam was lonely.
00:39:48.92\00:39:51.19
Remember, he
named all the animals
00:39:51.22\00:39:52.95
and he saw them in pairs.
00:39:52.99\00:39:55.36
And every other day of creation,
00:39:55.39\00:39:56.89
God said it was good.
00:39:56.93\00:39:58.26
It was good. It was very good.
00:39:58.29\00:40:00.40
Here, God says, it is not
good that man should be alone.
00:40:00.43\00:40:05.73
God created us to
be in companionship,
00:40:05.77\00:40:09.34
to be in community.
00:40:09.37\00:40:11.37
Companionship is
important to God.
00:40:11.41\00:40:13.31
He wants us to be in
companionship with Him
00:40:13.34\00:40:15.58
and fellowship with
Him, but with each other,
00:40:15.61\00:40:18.31
within the bounds of
that marriage relationship.
00:40:18.35\00:40:22.58
Let's look at
verses 21 through 24.
00:40:22.62\00:40:25.69
"And the Lord God caused a
deep sleep to fall in Adam,
00:40:25.72\00:40:29.79
and he slept.
00:40:29.82\00:40:31.23
And God took one of his ribs
00:40:31.26\00:40:32.59
and closed up the
flesh in its place.
00:40:32.63\00:40:35.33
Then the rib which the
Lord God had taken from man
00:40:35.36\00:40:37.87
He made into a woman
00:40:37.90\00:40:40.17
and He brought her to
the man and Adam said,
00:40:40.20\00:40:42.17
this is now bone of my
bones, and flesh of my flesh,
00:40:42.20\00:40:45.97
she shall be called woman,
00:40:46.01\00:40:48.08
because she was
taken out of man.
00:40:48.11\00:40:50.58
Therefore, a man shall
leave his father and mother
00:40:50.61\00:40:52.61
and be joined to his wife
00:40:52.65\00:40:53.98
and they shall
become one flesh."
00:40:54.02\00:40:56.95
Adam was made from the dust.
00:40:56.99\00:41:00.29
And God made Eve
from a rib in Adam's side.
00:41:00.32\00:41:05.26
We know that woman was
not taken from Adam's head
00:41:05.29\00:41:08.10
to rule over him
00:41:08.13\00:41:09.96
nor was she taken from his feet
00:41:10.00\00:41:11.67
to be trampled or stomped upon.
00:41:11.70\00:41:14.44
But she was taken from his side
so that he would protect her
00:41:14.47\00:41:18.64
and keep her close to his heart.
00:41:18.67\00:41:22.24
The word it says,
00:41:22.28\00:41:24.18
the rib that the Lord
God had taken from man
00:41:24.21\00:41:26.45
He made into a woman,
00:41:26.48\00:41:28.15
it literally
means in Hebrew built.
00:41:28.18\00:41:30.45
I like that.
00:41:30.49\00:41:31.82
So God built woman
00:41:31.85\00:41:34.39
to be the exact
compliment what the man needed
00:41:34.42\00:41:37.99
as a help meet.
00:41:38.03\00:41:39.36
Now, if we read it in
English, Pastor Johnny, it says,
00:41:39.39\00:41:42.46
Adam says, this is
now a bone of my bones.
00:41:42.50\00:41:45.27
But in the Hebrew, it
literally means, all right,
00:41:45.30\00:41:48.60
here now, this one
at last, now at last.
00:41:48.64\00:41:52.81
He's excited.
00:41:52.84\00:41:54.18
God made me a help meet. Amen.
00:41:54.21\00:41:57.45
What do we learn
from these verses
00:41:57.48\00:41:58.91
about the origin of marriage,
00:41:58.95\00:42:01.08
the entire Godhead is
involved in creating man.
00:42:01.12\00:42:04.35
God created us, He
made us male and female,
00:42:04.39\00:42:07.59
procreation as part of His plan,
00:42:07.62\00:42:09.72
male and female
represents His image,
00:42:09.76\00:42:12.39
not just the man,
not just the woman,
00:42:12.43\00:42:15.00
together that
represents His image.
00:42:15.03\00:42:18.80
God did not create
us to live in isolation.
00:42:18.83\00:42:21.07
He created us to live together.
00:42:21.10\00:42:23.24
God designed marriage
00:42:23.27\00:42:24.61
to meet our need
for companionship.
00:42:24.64\00:42:26.74
God designed marriage
to be a physical union,
00:42:26.78\00:42:29.34
an emotional
union, a spiritual union.
00:42:29.38\00:42:33.01
Bottom line, God
designed marriage.
00:42:33.05\00:42:35.82
Let's look at the
definition of marriage.
00:42:35.85\00:42:38.05
I would say marriage
is a God ordained union,
00:42:38.09\00:42:41.96
a lifelong commitment
between one man and one woman.
00:42:41.99\00:42:47.10
God created them,
00:42:47.13\00:42:48.46
we already read
that in the beginning,
00:42:48.50\00:42:49.83
male and female.
00:42:49.86\00:42:51.53
And He put them
together in marriage.
00:42:51.57\00:42:53.94
Marriage is not man with man.
00:42:53.97\00:42:56.07
Marriage is not woman with woman
00:42:56.10\00:42:59.14
or any other configuration
00:42:59.17\00:43:01.04
that we want to
bring to the table.
00:43:01.08\00:43:03.78
Governments may
legislate, culture may sway,
00:43:03.81\00:43:07.08
customs may dictate,
00:43:07.12\00:43:08.85
but it does not
change God's plan.
00:43:08.88\00:43:11.79
It does not
change God's creation
00:43:11.82\00:43:14.49
of one man and one woman.
00:43:14.52\00:43:17.09
Marriage goes even
deeper than commitment,
00:43:17.13\00:43:20.90
marriage is a covenant.
00:43:20.93\00:43:22.46
That's right.
00:43:22.50\00:43:23.83
Malachi 2:14, this is that verse
00:43:23.87\00:43:25.67
where it talks
about God hates divorce.
00:43:25.70\00:43:27.80
Malachi 2:14, it says,
"Yet you say for what reason.
00:43:27.84\00:43:31.77
The Lord has been witnessed
00:43:31.81\00:43:33.14
between you and
the wife of your youth,
00:43:33.17\00:43:35.68
with whom you have
dealt treacherously,
00:43:35.71\00:43:37.78
yet she is your companion
and your wife by covenant."
00:43:37.81\00:43:42.98
A covenant is an
exchange of persons.
00:43:43.02\00:43:45.95
A contract might be
an exchange of promises.
00:43:45.99\00:43:49.52
Covenants are established,
00:43:49.56\00:43:50.89
we know in biblical
times by making an oath,
00:43:50.93\00:43:53.83
an oath that
creates a relationship
00:43:53.86\00:43:56.16
between the two
making the covenant.
00:43:56.20\00:43:58.23
God made a covenant
with Old Testament Israel.
00:43:58.27\00:44:01.20
Now, they weren't
so faithful to Him
00:44:01.24\00:44:02.64
and they walked and
followed other gods.
00:44:02.67\00:44:05.31
But God made a covenant
and a promise of faithfulness
00:44:05.34\00:44:08.58
to His bride, the
children of Israel.
00:44:08.61\00:44:11.71
God makes a covenant
with us as His people.
00:44:11.75\00:44:14.58
Covenant marriage,
00:44:14.62\00:44:15.95
covenant marriage is built
00:44:15.98\00:44:17.32
on the promise of
faithfulness to one,
00:44:17.35\00:44:20.12
each commit to be
faithful to the other.
00:44:20.16\00:44:22.66
A covenant marriage is
built on agape love, agape love,
00:44:22.69\00:44:28.20
others centered love,
self-sacrificing love.
00:44:28.23\00:44:32.23
It's not built on the
recipient but on the giver.
00:44:32.27\00:44:35.10
A covenant marriage
most importantly is built
00:44:35.14\00:44:37.97
on the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:44:38.01\00:44:40.24
Christ is the
foundation of each person's life
00:44:40.28\00:44:43.55
and by extension,
their marriage in their home.
00:44:43.58\00:44:46.78
Let's look at marriage,
the sanctity of marriage.
00:44:46.82\00:44:50.39
Marriage is sacred,
it's holy, it is set apart.
00:44:50.42\00:44:54.39
Ryan established
that in the beginning,
00:44:54.42\00:44:56.86
God created the Sabbath.
00:44:56.89\00:44:58.46
Yes.
00:44:58.49\00:44:59.83
God created marriage.
00:44:59.86\00:45:01.90
God has set certain things apart
00:45:01.93\00:45:03.50
that are to be holy and sacred.
00:45:03.53\00:45:05.90
We have the
sanctity of human life,
00:45:05.93\00:45:07.87
the sanctity of marriage,
the sanctity of the Sabbath,
00:45:07.90\00:45:11.24
the seventh day Sabbath
00:45:11.27\00:45:12.94
and the sanctity
of the law of God.
00:45:12.97\00:45:15.74
So we see that God
created us in the beginning,
00:45:15.78\00:45:18.71
male and female
00:45:18.75\00:45:20.08
because He wanted
to put us together
00:45:20.12\00:45:22.68
in that marriage relationship
00:45:22.72\00:45:24.52
that would
reflect the image of God.
00:45:24.55\00:45:27.86
Amen. Amen.
00:45:27.89\00:45:29.22
Praise the Lord. Excellent.
00:45:29.26\00:45:30.59
Praise the
Lord. Praise the Lord.
00:45:30.63\00:45:31.96
Marvelous.
00:45:31.99\00:45:33.33
Well, we move on
00:45:33.36\00:45:34.83
to Thursday's
part of the lesson.
00:45:34.86\00:45:37.43
And now we are going to
be talking about creation,
00:45:37.47\00:45:42.34
the Fall and the Cross.
00:45:42.37\00:45:46.07
We saw the beautiful explanation
00:45:46.11\00:45:48.94
about God ordaining
00:45:48.98\00:45:52.51
weddings and
marriage through Adam and Eve.
00:45:52.55\00:45:56.08
But we're going to
back up a little bit
00:45:56.12\00:45:57.79
and go to Genesis 1:31,
00:45:57.82\00:46:01.36
because my part also involves
creation in a literal sense.
00:46:01.39\00:46:06.46
And then the fall and the cross.
00:46:06.49\00:46:08.63
In Genesis 1:31, the
Bible makes this statement,
00:46:08.66\00:46:13.54
"Then God saw
everything that He had made.
00:46:13.57\00:46:16.91
And indeed, it was very good.
00:46:16.94\00:46:20.08
So the evening and the
morning were the sixth day."
00:46:20.11\00:46:23.91
We have here,
00:46:23.95\00:46:25.28
a declaration that God examined
everything that He had made,
00:46:25.31\00:46:30.45
and it was
perfect, including people.
00:46:30.49\00:46:33.19
That's right. Yes.
00:46:33.22\00:46:34.56
Amen.
00:46:34.59\00:46:35.92
We may not think
so now but back then,
00:46:35.96\00:46:38.19
we originated,
00:46:38.23\00:46:40.26
created in the image of God
00:46:40.30\00:46:42.16
and it is a marvelous
creation that He made.
00:46:42.20\00:46:44.97
Now, moving to Genesis 2:15-17.
00:46:45.00\00:46:50.54
The Bible declares,
00:46:50.57\00:46:51.91
"Then the Lord God took the man
00:46:51.94\00:46:53.34
and put him in
the Garden of Eden
00:46:53.38\00:46:54.71
to tend and to keep it."
00:46:54.74\00:46:56.81
Verse 16, "And the Lord
God commanded the man saying,
00:46:56.85\00:46:59.81
'Of every tree of the
garden you may freely eat,
00:46:59.85\00:47:03.18
but of the tree
00:47:03.22\00:47:04.89
of the knowledge
of good and evil,
00:47:04.92\00:47:06.49
you shall not eat of it,
00:47:06.52\00:47:08.06
you shall not
eat for in that day
00:47:08.09\00:47:09.89
you shall eat of it,
you shall surely die.'"
00:47:09.92\00:47:12.99
And so here at this point,
00:47:13.03\00:47:14.93
I want to make a statement
00:47:14.96\00:47:16.30
concerning God's wonderful
gift of freedom of choice.
00:47:16.33\00:47:20.77
You can select to eat
of every tree of the garden
00:47:20.80\00:47:24.57
except the tree of
knowledge of good and evil.
00:47:24.61\00:47:28.91
So we were given the
great gift of freedom of choice.
00:47:28.94\00:47:34.62
Unfortunately,
00:47:34.65\00:47:36.58
the sum of the
whole thing is that
00:47:36.62\00:47:37.95
Adam and Eve
did not choose well.
00:47:37.99\00:47:41.02
We now go to the part
00:47:41.06\00:47:42.56
where the fall is introduced
00:47:42.59\00:47:44.83
and that brings us
to Genesis Chapter 3.
00:47:44.86\00:47:48.46
In Genesis Chapter 3
beginning in verse 1.
00:47:48.50\00:47:52.67
"The Bible declares,
00:47:52.70\00:47:54.04
now the serpent was more cunning
00:47:54.07\00:47:56.34
than any beast of the field
which the Lord God had made.
00:47:56.37\00:48:00.48
And he said to the woman,
00:48:00.51\00:48:01.94
'Has God indeed said,
00:48:01.98\00:48:03.81
you shall not eat of
every tree of the garden.'"
00:48:03.85\00:48:08.45
So here,
00:48:08.48\00:48:11.55
we have to
declare that by this time
00:48:11.59\00:48:15.52
we have Lucifer
who became the devil,
00:48:15.56\00:48:19.49
notice I say, he
became the devil on his own,
00:48:19.53\00:48:21.86
just like Adam and
Eve had freedom of choice,
00:48:21.90\00:48:24.20
the angels of heaven
have freedom of choice,
00:48:24.23\00:48:26.87
and he chose to sin.
00:48:26.90\00:48:28.84
And this is, you can read
00:48:28.87\00:48:30.61
Ezekiel Chapter 28 and Isaiah 14
00:48:30.64\00:48:33.44
to get a background
on the fall of Lucifer
00:48:33.48\00:48:37.21
and a third part of the angels
00:48:37.25\00:48:39.01
according to
Revelation Chapter 12.
00:48:39.05\00:48:41.68
But now he comes here
in the form of a serpent,
00:48:41.72\00:48:45.85
disguising himself
00:48:45.89\00:48:48.06
so that he can
deceive Adam and Eve.
00:48:48.09\00:48:52.29
Talking to Eve, he
says, as we just read,
00:48:52.33\00:48:54.90
"Has God indeed said,
00:48:54.93\00:48:56.26
you shall not eat of
every tree of the garden."
00:48:56.30\00:48:58.83
Eve loves God.
00:48:58.87\00:49:00.94
Comes to His defense.
00:49:00.97\00:49:02.37
"And the woman
said to the serpent,
00:49:02.40\00:49:04.04
'We may eat the fruit
of the trees of the garden
00:49:04.07\00:49:08.04
but of the fruit of the tree
00:49:08.08\00:49:10.21
which is in the
midst of the garden,
00:49:10.25\00:49:12.08
God had said, you
shall not eat of it,
00:49:12.11\00:49:16.02
nor shall you
touch it, lest you die.'"
00:49:16.05\00:49:20.46
Now here comes a
challenge by the devil.
00:49:20.49\00:49:22.52
Then the serpent
said to the woman,
00:49:22.56\00:49:24.83
"You will not surely die."
00:49:24.86\00:49:28.10
So a complete
opposite of what God had said
00:49:28.13\00:49:32.33
to Adam and Eve.
00:49:32.37\00:49:33.94
Now, remember that Eve
had never heard a lie before.
00:49:33.97\00:49:40.64
Everything she had
heard fact, fact, fact, fact.
00:49:40.68\00:49:44.58
Now here comes
the devil with a lie.
00:49:44.61\00:49:45.98
Right.
00:49:46.01\00:49:47.35
And she doesn't know
how to analyze it as a lie.
00:49:47.38\00:49:49.88
She has heard fact, fact, fact.
00:49:49.92\00:49:52.19
Now here comes a lie.
00:49:52.22\00:49:54.42
She has a conflict in her mind.
00:49:54.46\00:49:58.29
God has said this
00:49:58.33\00:50:00.53
and this serpent is saying that.
00:50:00.56\00:50:03.93
Eve was perfect.
00:50:03.97\00:50:07.30
God created her that
way. Very intelligent.
00:50:07.34\00:50:11.11
Notice what happens,
the serpent continue,
00:50:11.14\00:50:13.88
"For God knows that
in the day you eat of it,
00:50:13.91\00:50:16.75
your eyes will be opened.
00:50:16.78\00:50:18.78
And you will be like
God knowing good and evil."
00:50:18.81\00:50:24.15
Painted evil as something
good, something to be desired.
00:50:24.19\00:50:29.22
You eat of this tree,
you're going to be like God.
00:50:29.26\00:50:32.79
Now when you consider the idea
of like God, Eve thought, wow,
00:50:32.83\00:50:36.26
like God, I can be like God.
00:50:36.30\00:50:38.97
That was enticing to her.
00:50:39.00\00:50:41.90
I have to say
that Eve was deceived,
00:50:41.94\00:50:44.34
she believed a lie.
00:50:44.37\00:50:47.84
But she evaluated the
statement because in verse 6,
00:50:47.88\00:50:52.55
verse 6, it says,
"So when the woman saw,
00:50:52.58\00:50:55.68
she analyzed that the
tree was good for food,
00:50:55.72\00:50:59.02
that it was pleasant to the eyes
00:50:59.05\00:51:01.02
and a treat
desirable to make one wise."
00:51:01.06\00:51:03.63
You see, there's
the make one wise,
00:51:03.66\00:51:05.99
she took of its fruit and ate,
freedom of choice and sinned.
00:51:06.03\00:51:12.63
Now some people say, well,
00:51:12.67\00:51:14.10
Adam was right there
00:51:14.14\00:51:16.00
just listening to
everything apparently said,
00:51:16.04\00:51:17.64
but Adam was there and
listened to everything,
00:51:17.67\00:51:19.77
didn't say a word.
00:51:19.81\00:51:21.14
But we know, I'm
saying this because I...
00:51:21.18\00:51:23.91
There's a whole book I
saw, reading a book once.
00:51:23.95\00:51:26.61
They were talking about that
Adam was standing right there
00:51:26.65\00:51:30.02
and said nothing
00:51:30.05\00:51:31.39
nor was he
addressed by the serpent,
00:51:31.42\00:51:32.75
this is a mistake.
00:51:32.79\00:51:34.12
Eve ate and then
went and found Adam
00:51:34.16\00:51:36.39
and then offered
to him the fruits.
00:51:36.42\00:51:39.89
When she sinned,
00:51:39.93\00:51:41.26
she became an
accomplice of the devil.
00:51:41.30\00:51:43.77
And she offered to Adam,
00:51:43.80\00:51:45.73
she also gave to her
husband with her and he ate.
00:51:45.77\00:51:49.50
Verse 7, "Then the eyes
of both of them were open
00:51:49.54\00:51:51.67
and they knew
that they were naked,
00:51:51.71\00:51:53.48
and they sewed
fig leaves together
00:51:53.51\00:51:55.08
and made themselves covered."
00:51:55.11\00:51:57.71
So I have to say once
again, Eve was deceived.
00:51:57.75\00:52:01.92
Her mistake, her error
was that she distrusted.
00:52:01.95\00:52:06.39
Yeah.
00:52:06.42\00:52:07.76
Did not trust Him but
God said, believe they lie.
00:52:07.79\00:52:13.29
After God has said,
do not eat of the tree,
00:52:13.33\00:52:15.83
if you eat of the tree,
consequences, you will die.
00:52:15.86\00:52:20.00
Putting that aside,
00:52:20.04\00:52:21.50
not trusting in
what God had said,
00:52:21.54\00:52:23.17
not believe in God,
00:52:23.20\00:52:24.54
believed the serpent
instead and committed sin.
00:52:24.57\00:52:28.64
And because of this,
sin entered into the world.
00:52:28.68\00:52:32.31
And moving
quickly to Romans 5:12
00:52:32.35\00:52:35.48
because I think
time is running quickly.
00:52:35.52\00:52:38.75
Romans 5:12, if
someone gets there quickly,
00:52:38.79\00:52:42.62
perhaps you can help
us in the reading of it.
00:52:42.66\00:52:44.63
Romans 5:12.
00:52:44.66\00:52:46.66
Romans 5:12 says,
00:52:46.70\00:52:48.76
"Therefore just as
through one man sin
00:52:48.80\00:52:51.33
entered the world
and death through sin,
00:52:51.37\00:52:54.07
and thus death spread to
all men because all sinned."
00:52:54.10\00:52:58.07
Thank you.
00:52:58.11\00:52:59.44
So we see that through one man
00:52:59.47\00:53:01.18
that being Adam sin
entered into the world,
00:53:01.21\00:53:03.21
and what entered?
00:53:03.24\00:53:04.58
Death.
00:53:04.61\00:53:05.95
Death entered through sin.
00:53:05.98\00:53:07.62
Just as God had said it would.
00:53:07.65\00:53:11.15
We are thankful for Romans 6:23.
00:53:11.19\00:53:14.69
We are thankful
for Jesus Christ.
00:53:14.72\00:53:16.73
In Romans 6:23, it says,
"For the wages of sin is death,
00:53:16.76\00:53:21.06
but the gift of God
00:53:21.10\00:53:23.03
is eternal life in
Christ Jesus, our Lord."
00:53:23.06\00:53:27.57
Amen.
00:53:27.60\00:53:28.94
A marvelous thing,
God in His incredible,
00:53:28.97\00:53:32.07
amazing indescribable love
offered grace to Adam and Eve.
00:53:32.11\00:53:37.11
And I have to say
that very quickly here,
00:53:37.15\00:53:41.95
they did not
100% joined the devil
00:53:41.98\00:53:47.69
because God instructed them.
00:53:47.72\00:53:50.46
God showed them the sacrificial,
00:53:50.49\00:53:52.99
to offer sacrifices.
00:53:53.03\00:53:54.36
They continue, they showed
their children to sacrifice.
00:53:54.40\00:53:58.10
We have the
story of Cain and Abel,
00:53:58.13\00:53:59.97
they knew what they were to do.
00:54:00.00\00:54:01.50
So they continued in the ways
of the Lord after they sinned.
00:54:01.54\00:54:04.87
Praise the Lord for that.
00:54:04.91\00:54:06.44
And they passed on the knowledge
00:54:06.47\00:54:08.08
of offering sacrifices.
00:54:08.11\00:54:10.08
So, praise the Lord for that.
00:54:10.11\00:54:11.78
And because they believed
in God's offer of salvation
00:54:11.81\00:54:15.42
through Jesus Christ,
00:54:15.45\00:54:17.15
through the Son of God
00:54:17.19\00:54:18.52
as was mentioned earlier
that God offer, God said,
00:54:18.55\00:54:23.73
I will put enmity
between thee and the woman,
00:54:23.76\00:54:26.16
between thy seed and her seed,
that seed being Jesus Christ.
00:54:26.19\00:54:29.36
He will bruise your head
and you will bruise his heel.
00:54:29.40\00:54:33.87
That's found in
Genesis Chapter 3
00:54:33.90\00:54:35.34
as you continue reading.
00:54:35.37\00:54:37.11
I have to conclude
00:54:37.14\00:54:38.47
because time is
gone with Romans 5:8,
00:54:38.51\00:54:43.41
because this is an
offer for you and me as well.
00:54:43.45\00:54:45.38
Amen.
00:54:45.41\00:54:46.75
Adam and Eve sinned, they
had to make their decision
00:54:46.78\00:54:48.42
for salvation or death.
00:54:48.45\00:54:51.42
You also, you and I
have an opportunity.
00:54:51.45\00:54:54.02
And says in Romans
5:8, "But God demonstrates,
00:54:54.06\00:54:57.69
" I like the King James says,
00:54:57.73\00:54:59.06
"Commended His own
love toward us in that
00:54:59.09\00:55:02.40
while we were still
sinners, Christ died for us."
00:55:02.43\00:55:07.37
So the narrative
of the Bible shows us
00:55:07.40\00:55:10.51
that there's a
connection between creation,
00:55:10.54\00:55:13.71
the fall and the cross
00:55:13.74\00:55:16.24
and everyone
because of Jesus Christ
00:55:16.28\00:55:18.85
has hope to have eternal
life through Jesus Christ.
00:55:18.88\00:55:22.72
And I sincerely
hope that you, my friend,
00:55:22.75\00:55:25.25
that are
listening to me right now
00:55:25.29\00:55:27.02
will choose
salvation through Jesus Christ.
00:55:27.06\00:55:30.19
Amen. Amen.
00:55:30.23\00:55:31.56
Thank you, panelists. Yeah.
00:55:31.59\00:55:32.93
What a wonderful lesson
00:55:32.96\00:55:34.73
to really walk
through the beginning Genesis,
00:55:34.76\00:55:37.00
the first part,
00:55:37.03\00:55:38.37
and we're gonna
continue but, Pastor Kenny,
00:55:38.40\00:55:39.73
what some closing
thoughts you have.
00:55:39.77\00:55:41.10
Well, you know, I was thinking
00:55:41.14\00:55:42.47
about some of the greatest minds
00:55:42.50\00:55:43.84
in the world,
00:55:43.87\00:55:45.21
some time we're
influenced by that,
00:55:45.24\00:55:46.57
found a quote, 8 Testimonies
258, 80, 258 talks about, says
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"The greatest minds,
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if not guided by the Word of God
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becomes bewitched
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in their attempts to investigate
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the relations of
science and revelation."
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We need the Spirit
of God. Absolutely.
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Praise the Lord.
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You know, I made a note
here just, just to bring it out,
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I didn't get to it.
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But it just seems
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as we're
considering this creation,
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how important it is,
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you know, it
seems like more and more
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the world is
launching themselves into,
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you know, that drinking
more and more wine of Babylon.
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We're drunk on
the false teachings
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and concepts of Babylon.
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And I think, you know,
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we need to be in
prayer for each other,
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we need to be in prayer
for our brothers and sisters
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and for the
church because, you know,
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God wants to point us
back to His creative work,
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His creation as what
He'd done at creation.
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And I praise God
for these lessons,
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it's stirring my heart.
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Absolutely. Amen.
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Absolutely.
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I just want to make
appeal to you at home.
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If you are in a
marriage and you're struggling,
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turn your life first of all
over to the Lord Jesus Christ,
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accept His gift of salvation,
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make Him central in your home
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and in your marriage
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and He will
revolutionize your home.
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Amen.
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I'd like to conclude by
saying that I am grateful
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because the door of mercy,
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God's mercy is still available
to each and every one of us.
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And I encourage
you to seek the Lord
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while He may be
found, go to Him and say,
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"Lord, I accept Your
free gift of salvation.
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Please don't exclude me,
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include me in
your eternal kingdom."
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Amen. That's right.
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Thank you.
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Thank you so much, Pastor Kenny,
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Pastor Ryan,
Jill, Pastor Dinzey.
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And, you know, we
just did Creation,
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Genesis as the
foundation part 1.
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We're going to have Genesis
as the foundation part 2.
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You could never really exhaust
the beauty of the beginning.
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But here's a closing thought
I'd like to bring with you,
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you know, we heard
as spoken of Jesus,
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the Father said,
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unto which of the
angels did he say,
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your throne oh God is forever
but to the sun, he says that.
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And the Bible
says in Psalm 90:2,
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"Before the
mountains were brought forth,
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whoever you form
the earth and the world,
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even from
everlasting to everlasting,
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you are God."
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Get to know that eternal God and
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your life will be
a tremendous blessing
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until we see you again.
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Amen. Amen.
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