In Jason Dohm's sermon 'The First Day Of Creation Week - Genesis 1:2-5,' he explores the initial state of the earth as formless and void, with darkness covering the deep, and the Spirit of God hovering over the waters. Dohm emphasizes that God's creation of light signifies the onset of life and order, illustrating God's transcendent power and His ability to command existence into being through His word. The sermon underscores the importance of recognizing God as the ultimate authority in defining what is good, as illustrated when God assesses the light as good. Dohm also discusses the importance of understanding creation as a literal series of 24-hour days and addresses the theological implications of evolutionary theory. The sermon concludes by encouraging believers to expand their understanding of God's infinite power and to find comfort in His transcendent nature, especially during life's trials.

Our sermon text, which is inversely proportional to our sermon length, is Genesis 1, 1 through 5. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, let there be light and there was light. And God saw the light that it was good and God divided the light from the darkness.

God called the light day and the darkness he called night. So the evening and the morning were the first day. Let's pray. Oh Father, understanding our origins help us to understand our trajectory. Your plan has a beginning and an end, and you are sovereign over all of it.

We ask that you would now speak clearly through Jason and give us the word that you have for us. We commit this time to you in Jesus who is Lord. Amen. Well if I understood him right, Gary just promised you a long sermon. So I'll do my best Not to disappoint.

The title of the sermon this morning is the first day of creation week. So Genesis 1 sets before us six days in which God created the things that we experience. Then he rested on the seventh day. This is the first day of that as our sermon text today. Last week we covered just ten words.

It was verse one, in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the title of the sermon was The Book About God. Thank God, quite literally, thank God that He's given us a book about Himself. We know plenty about ourselves. We know more than enough about ourselves.

What we need to know about is God. What we need less of is ourselves. What we need more of is God. So it's such a comfort to have the beginning words of the Bible bring us to the God who has made all things that exist including ourselves and He's revealing Himself to us and He's revealing truth to us through his word. And that should make us really happy because we get to know God as he really is.

This week in verses 2 through 5, that takes us through day one of creation week. And our focus should be, as we work day by day through creation week, our focus should be what we learn about God. Because again, this is God's self-revelation. You want to know who God is? He's revealed Himself to us in His Word.

And we're learning so much about God in this first chapter of the Bible. Let's pray. God, we come to this text and give you thanks that it's you who have created the heavens and the earth. You did it. And you haven't left yourself hidden and unknowable, but you have revealed yourself to us with great clarity.

Maybe not satisfying every question we would have, every curiosity, but you've told us so much. Enough about yourself that we should fall down in awe and worship you and be so glad that you're the God who is. I pray that would be the great result from looking at your word today. It would be just, our hearts would be so humbled and at the same time exhilarated before you in Jesus name, Amen. Well of course we're subdividing today.

We'll start with verse 2 by itself, and so hopefully your finger is still in Genesis 1. Please follow along as I read Genesis chapter one verse two. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep, And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. In verse 2 we have an unadorned earth and an earth without any adornments and a ready spirit. So if you're filling in blanks on the handouts, if that's how you're taking in notes, or two blanks, that's what fills them in.

Earth and spirit. An unadorned earth and a ready spirit. God says through Moses, the earth was without form and void and darkness was on the face of the deep. So in verse 1, God had created the heavens and the earth and now this is the state we find as creation week begins. So there are heavens, there is an earth, and this is the state in day one of creation.

Now what does it mean that the earth was without form and void? Let's get some help from some helpful commentators. The MacArthur Study Bible has this note. Formless and void. This means not finished in its shape and as yet uninhabited by creatures.

God would quickly, in six days, decorate his initial creation. I think that helps us understand what is created by formless and void, or without form and void. Here's the Expositors Bible commentary, which was particularly good this week. Expositors Bible commentary says, having described the land as uninhabitable, The remainder of the account pictures God's preparing of the land for his creatures, especially mankind. He makes it fit for habitation.

So I think that's a good way to think about it. This is the earth, but not yet inhabitable. And the rest of creation week, these things are going to progressively be created and filling the earth, making everything ready for day six when mankind is created. So this is before any of the fitting the earth for human habitation. The Expositors Bible commentary also has this comment, the land lies empty, dark, and barren, awaiting God's call to light and life.

I think that's exactly what we have here. Finally, John Calvin in his commentary on Genesis says this. Were we now to take away from the earth all that God added after the time here alluded to, then we should have this rude and unpolished earth. Rude not as in mean, but rude as in just the bare basics, the bare fundamentals. If you strip away everything added in days two through six, then that's what is being described here.

So in your mind's eye, strip away everything created in days two through six. The sky, the areas of dry land, grass and trees, and all kinds of plants, fish and birds, animals and insects and people, we strip all that away and then you have this earth without form and void. And darkness was on the face of the deep. On day three, God will separate the seas from the dry land. So we're not in day three yet, and the seas have not been separated from the dry land.

So in our text, all the land is under the depths of the water. And so darkness was on the face of the deep and underneath is the land and they'll be separated from each other in day three. And there was darkness. Light has yet to be created. So we're coming to that later in the sermon.

But as of yet, light has not been created. No Light is a problem for us, a big problem for us, but not for God. Listen to Psalm 139. This is a Psalm of David. And David in Psalm 139 talks about trying to hide from God.

Good luck. Psalm 139, 7-3-12. If I make my bed in hell, behold, you are there. If I take wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me and your right hand shall hold me." Now listen to this. If I say, surely the darkness shall fall on me, even the night shall be light about me.

Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness and the light are both alike to you. So darkness, big problem for me, not a problem for God. Darkness and light are exactly the same to God. I can't see without light.

If you put me in darkness, I can't see anything. But God's vision, however this works, God's vision is not dependent in any way on light. So we would see day one of creation, God creates light, and we say, what? God was in the dark from eternity past? Yes, but that's the wrong way to think about it.

Remember last week when we were talking about the Hebrew word Elohim, let's translate when we see it in our English Bibles, we see it as God. Elohim means the Divine, not man, the Creator, not the creature. It means that He is transcendent. He transcends. So we take everything that we know and experience, He goes beyond all of that.

He is beyond all of that. Not subject to any of the limitations we are subject to. So I'm a creature, I'm a created being, and I'm subject to all sorts of limitations, but God is beyond all of that. He transcends limitations. So God wasn't in the dark as we think of in the dark, because it's all the same to him.

His vision isn't hampered by light and darkness at all. He's so different than us. All our limitations are not limitations to him. Where was God when the earth was without form and void? Well, the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

Now what does that mean? The spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. There's another usage of this same Hebrew word that is rendered hovering here that I think helps us. So listen to Deuteronomy 32, 10-12. Now Deuteronomy 32 is the song of Moses, the people having been liberated and being brought into the promised land.

God gives Moses a song about himself and it recounts a lot of God's dealings with the nation of Israel. That's what we see at God's care for the nation of Israel in Deuteronomy 32, verses 10 through 12. Listen, He found him in a desert land. So God, the hymn here is the personification of Israel, turning him into a man as if Israel was a man. It's just talking about Israel that way.

God found Israel in a desert land and in the wasteland, a howling wilderness. He encircled him, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, spreading out its wings, taking them up, carrying them on its wings, so the Lord alone led him. And there was no foreign God with him." This is talking about God and his sovereign acting as a king to care for the nation of Israel in how he brought them out of the land of captivity and Egypt. And he describes it as an eagle hovering over its young.

So the actual literal translation of the Hebrew word being translated both in Genesis 1 and here in Deuteronomy 32 is brood. What a mother bird does over a nest of eggs, over a nest of young, eggs that have just hatched, a mother eagle will brood over her eggs or over her young. She broods, she hovers over them. Matthew Poole says this. It is a metaphor from birds hovering and fluttering over and sitting upon their eggs and young ones to cherish, warm, and quicken them.

So expectation is being built. Something amazing is about to happen. The spirit of God is hovering over the water like an eagle would breed over her eggs or over her young and the thought is of the Holy Spirit presiding over the bringing forth of new life. That's the vision here or the sense of it. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

Think of a lump of clay. I think this is how we should see verse 2 as a lump of clay. God has brought forth this lump of clay, and he's about to go to work on it and make something amazing of it. So verse 2 is really the setup. God has made the heavens and the earth.

We have this lump of clay now and the potter is getting ready to go to work on this clay and make something amazing out of it. Now verse 3. Follow along as I reread verse 3. Then God said, let there be light, and there was light. That's it, short verse.

God said, Let there be light, and there was light. In this verse we have the word of God's power. If you're taking notes by filling in the blank, power fills in the blank. The word of God's power. I'm drawing on a phrase from Hebrews 1 verses 2 and 3.

In Hebrews 1 verses 2 and 3, the author of Hebrews says that God made the worlds through Jesus. So that goes right to what we're talking about. God made the worlds through Jesus who upholds all things by the word of his power. God spoke everything into existence. When we make something, we take things that already exist, and shape, and fashion, and add to, and subtract from, and change what we're working on, but everything we're doing is with what already exists.

That's what we call creating when we do it. What we're studying in Genesis 1 isn't like that. God is bringing into existence by the word of his power. Where there's nothing, and then he says, let there be something, and it is. We were in John 1 last week, and John 1 confirms this.

Listen again to John 1, 1-3. So let me re-read where we were last week. John 1, 1-3. In the beginning, same words, says Genesis 1, in the beginning was the Word, Speaking of Jesus, Jesus is the Word. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. All things were made through Jesus Christ, the Word, and without Him nothing was made that was made. All things were made through Jesus Christ, the Word. And without Him, nothing was made that was made.

So in God's creation, He's not taking things that exist and making it. You wouldn't be able to say all things that were made, all things were made through him and nothing was made that wasn't made through him. You wouldn't be able to say that if he was taking existing things and then shaping them in some way. So, we're not talking about that. We're talking about calling things by His words, Jesus Christ being the Word of God, calling things into existence.

So in Genesis 1, God is speaking things that do not exist into existence. There was no such thing as light. And God simply said, let there be light. And there was light. So from eternity past, light wasn't a thing.

And then God said let there be light and there was light. A word about the Hebrew in translation. We see the English, let there be, light. That, that three words in English, let there be, is one single Hebrew word. And it is in the imperative form, meaning that it's a command.

So it's one Hebrew word, and it's a command. So it would be fair and accurate to say that here in Genesis 1-3, God said, Be light. Come into being, light. Exist, light. That would be a strange translation, so they haven't rendered it that way.

But it wouldn't be an unfair way to translate it. It wouldn't be an inaccurate way. God spoke and said, Exist, light, and light, which didn't even exist, obeyed and came into being. Scripture confirms this in many places. Let me run you through a few.

Let me run you through four. Just listen to this. It's wonderful. But all really saying the same. Psalm 33, 6 and 9.

Listen to Psalm 33 verses 6 and 9. By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. For he spoke and it was done. He commanded and it stood fast." Or Psalm 148 verses 4 and 5. Listen to Psalm 148 verses 4 and 5.

Listen to Psalm 148 verses 4 and 5. Praise him, you heavens of heavens, and you waters above the heavens. Let them praise the name of the Lord, for he commanded and they were created." So the psalmist in Psalm 148 is calling on the heavens to praise God. He was saying, he commanded and you were created. Or Hebrews 11 verse 3.

Listen to Hebrews 11 verse 3. By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God. So that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible. God didn't take pre-existing, already existing things and make the worlds. The worlds were framed by the word of God so that we understand by faith that they were not made of visible things.

God spoke and they came into existence. Finally, Revelation 4 verse 11. This might be the best one. Revelation 4 verse 11. Here's what we say of God in heaven.

You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power. For you created all things, and by your will they exist and were created. So why do things exist? Because God wanted them to. There's really no reason upstream from that.

That's the source of this river of understanding. You go all the way up to the very beginning of understanding this. Things exist because God wanted them to exist. And so he expressed it. He said, and they were created.

This is God revealing Himself to mankind and revealing the truth about our origins to mankind in the words of Scripture. This is how we came to be. God said, be heavens and earth and there were Heavens and Earth. He said, exist, light, and light existed. Light obeyed him.

Light that didn't exist obeyed God to exist. I don't know. These are deep waters. I'm okay with that. I think if we can bottom out and understand it, I think we're on the wrong track.

These are amazing, mind-stretching things because we have an amazing mind-stretching God. I don't think he made us with the capacity to understand all this. I think if he tried to explain it to us on the fifth time, we'd say, yeah, I still don't get it. Okay. Verse 4a, meaning just the beginning of verse 4.

Genesis 1, verse 4a. And God saw the light, that it was good. God looked on the light, and what he saw, and what he had just made was good. In this verse we have the assessment of God. God looks on his creation, he assesses it and he pronounces that it's good.

He renders a verdict on what he just created. It's good. This is also part of a pattern that we will see on other creation days. I think day two is the only day that we don't see this. All the other days of creation we see it.

God will look on what he created, he will see it, and he will see that it's good. And I think that there are a couple of relevant points to be made. First, Everything that God does is good. He does things and it's all good. In Mark 7, Jesus heals a man that was deaf and mute.

He couldn't hear and Jesus makes him hear. He couldn't speak and Jesus makes him able to speak. And the testimony of the people who witnessed this is, he has done all things well. He makes both the deaf to hear and the mute to speak. That testimony was more true than they even knew.

They were just thinking about this one instance. Jesus comes to a deaf mute and leaves him hearing and able to speak. They said, wow, he does all things well. But that is actually, there's more there than they knew. Everything that God does is good.

He did it, it's good. So you might have noticed There's a lot around us that isn't good. Did you pick up on that? But it wasn't that way in the beginning. It was good here.

It was good in days one through seven. Perfectly good. What God created was good. And the sin and rebellion of the creatures is responsible for all that is so corrupted and bad. So that's so basic.

I almost feel embarrassed to say it, it's so basic. But I think we could use a reminding now and then, just if God does it, it's good. There's no harm in reminding ourselves of that, and there's probably some help. Second, God is the only one and the perfect one to say what is good. I want and need God pronouncing what's good and what's not good.

Then I can trust it. Because I've learned through 50 plus years, 50 plus or some years of living, that sometimes things that I think are good in time prove out that I was so wrong about it. And sometimes the opposite is true. Things that I say, that's not good in time, experience, and time and experience show me, oh, no, that actually is good. That wasn't bad at all.

So God is the only one and the perfect one to say what is good. This is why it's important to note that because in Genesis 3, just a couple of chapters and a couple of months, in Genesis 3, the serpent is going to convince Eve that something is good that God says is evil. The serpent is going to come and say, It's not really evil to eat that fruit. That's good. You can see with your eyes.

It's good for food. It's able to make you wise. What's not to like? The serpent is going to convince Eve to contradict God about what is actually good, and that is going to ruin the entire race of mankind. So, I want to say, God is the perfect one to say what's good, and we should listen to Him, and the stakes are really high.

Listen to Isaiah 5 verse 20. This is an important verse actually. Isaiah 5 verse 20. Woe to those, or warning, warning to those, like destruction is coming to those who call evil good and good evil. We should start thinking of modern examples where the voice of the world is saying, this is good when the Bible has pronounced it to be evil, or this is evil when the Bible has pronounced it to be good.

That's happening more and more every day. So this verse has a lot to do with us. Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. We need a plumb line, a line that's always straight that we can rely on that will tell us what's good. Because Isaiah 5 is implying that we have something in us that will have us getting it all wrong if we're not careful.

And calling good things evil and calling evil things good, what's the antidote for that poison? This is the antidote for that poison. God opening his mouth and saying, this is good, this is evil. And then we say, yes Lord, you're right. And hold ourselves back from the destruction of calling evil good and good evil.

In God's revelation of himself and revelation of truth, the scriptures, God tells us what is good and what is evil. We must believe Him. There is no end to the sorrows that you can bring into your life by not believing Him. All of our sins that make headway in our life are the result of us seeing something that God says isn't good and we say, no it's good I have to have it anyway. You understand that's what's happening.

Before we move on, a quick question for you. Is light good? No. Is light good? Janet and I took a loop around the neighborhood yesterday, and at the end, it was like, let's pull out the lawn chairs and for ten minutes just sit out in the light, you know.

So that's what we did. Light, light is really good. Thank God for light. All right, final section. Second half of verse 4, so 4b and verse 5.

God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light day and the darkness he called night. So the evening and the morning were the first day. Here we have the division and naming of light and darkness day and night. If you're filling in blanks, division fills in the first blank, naming fills the second blank.

The division and naming of light and darkness day and night. God made distinct times of light, and he named that day, and he made distinct times of darkness, and he named that night. If there's more to dividing the light from the darkness than that, I don't understand it, so I can't help. I sort of suspect that there might be, but I have nothing to give you. At least that's being communicated.

Times of darkness are being separated out and called night, and times of light are being made distinct and called day. God is giving creation a sequential rhythm that alternates between a distinct time of light called day, followed by a distinct time of darkness called night. And that rhythm and sequence will continue until Jesus returns. So we don't even wonder about it, we just take it for granted. It's always true.

Night follows day, follows night, follows day, follows night, follows day. And that's going to reliably happen until Jesus returns. In Genesis 1, 3 through 5, we're seeing that sequence play out for the very first day, for the very first time. So the evening and the morning were the first day. Now here's something that seems strange to us.

The lights in the heavens, the sun, moon, and stars aren't created until day four of creation week. So scientists have an impulse to say, gotcha. Like Moses didn't notice that. We have in day one, the evening and the morning the first day. How can that be days before the creation of the sun, moon, and stars?

It actually isn't a problem. In the ultimate sense, God is the source of light. The sun isn't the ultimate source of light. The moon isn't the ultimate source of light. The stars, even the trillions and trillions of trillions of them, are not the ultimate source of light.

God is the ultimate source of light. Listen to this description of heaven in Revelation 21, verse 23. Revelation 21, verse 23, describing heaven. The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light.

How does that work? We don't know. But it does work. The glory of God will be the light in heaven. There will be no need.

There won't be a sun and a moon because there's no need for it. We need it. We won't need it in heaven. God will just do it himself. The Lamb is the light of heaven.

You know, it doesn't bother me at all that I can't really explain these things. That God has declared them is fine with me. It's good and right to figure he knows a lot more than we know. He knows how to do all this and has the power to do it. One final thing, very important, Is this a day as we know it?

What's a day as we know it? 24 hours. Followed by 24 hours. Followed by 24 hours. The day as we know it.

I think Alan Ross in his commentary, Creation and Blessing, summarizes it well. Here's what he says. The word, he's talking about the Hebrew word that we're translating, the word normally means a 24-hour day. In this chapter it must carry its normal meaning. Support for this view includes the following.

One, elsewhere whenever yom, this is the transliteration of the Hebrew word. Elsewhere, whenever yom, this Hebrew word, is used with a number. So this is the first day, second day, Third day, fourth day, used with a number. Elsewhere, whenever yom is used with a number, it means a 24 hour period. And you go to all the other places in the Old Testament, and there are a bunch of them, when This Hebrew word is used with a number and in every other instance it's cruzable, it means a 24 hour day.

Two. The Decalogue, this is the Ten Commandments, Deca, ten. The decalogue bases the teaching of the Sabbath day on the six days of creation and the seventh day of rest. So we have the Ten Commandments And in the Ten Commandments you have an interpretation of Creation Week and it actually sets a pattern for us that we're supposed to use and it assumes 24-hour days. So we have Bible commentary on Genesis 1 in the Ten Commandments.

Three. From the fourth day on, there are days, years, signs, and seasons suggesting that the normal system is entirely operative. Good point. We're gonna get to day four and on and it's going to talk about Not just a day, but years, seasons, meaning years and seasons is talking about what we're experiencing, explaining what we're experiencing. And so A day is just part of this whole system, and all the rest of it is clearly meant to mean the things that you are experiencing.

Alan Ross ends it this way. It seems inescapable that Genesis presents the creation in six days. So you have to ask yourself, what did the author mean for us to understand? So Moses is the author of Genesis. Moses is the author of Deuteronomy that gives you the Ten Commandments.

It's actually in Exodus, Moses wrote that too, and Deuteronomy. And What did he mean for us to understand it? It's clear what the author meant for us, how the author meant for us to understand it. Crystal clear. It is to have this distinct meaning from other places in scripture that you can compare it with.

As we progress, we'll prove without a shadow of a doubt that Jesus believed and taught a literal Genesis. So as we progress, we'll be talking about the tremendous theological problems with evolutionary theory, which requires billions of years of death before the arrival of mankind and sin. But for now, let me just make a distinction between soft science and hard science. So there are just tremendous theological problems with billions of years of death before mankind and sin. Huge theological problem, Almost insurmountable gospel killing theological problems with billions of years of death before mankind comes onto the scene.

We'll talk about that later. But for now, a distinction between soft science and hard science. What do I mean when I use those terms? Hard science is observational science where you can go into a laboratory and you can create parameters, create circumstances, and do it over and over and over and over and over again and get the same result every single time and prove things. Okay, beyond any doubt.

Because if we do it a million times, we get that same result a million times. Okay, that is fundamentally different. That's what I'm calling a hard science, and it's fundamentally different than theorizing about things that cannot ever be reproduced. It doesn't mean that all theories about things that can't be reproduced are wrong. I'm just saying you have to acknowledge what we're talking about here.

So don't give me science says because not all science is created equal. There's hard science where I can reproduce the same result a million times in a row, and then there's something that can never be proved to be. So Ken Ham likes to say, how do you know? Were you there? Knowing that no scientists who theorize it were actually there, or their parents or grandparents or anyone who was writing and taking notes and taking measurements and observing none of that.

And Ken Ham always ends that by saying, I know someone who was. He knows God. God was there. God has spoken. This is helpful.

Okay, applications I'll give you two. One, this is helping us to know God as transcendent, as beyond the limitations. We're creatures, we've got all sorts of limitations, God has none of them. And it is sweeping away small views of God. Amen.

May they never rise from the dead. Let's kill our small views of God and pray that they would never rise from the dead and be left with an expanded view of this glorious, almighty, all-knowing, present everywhere, every moment God. We know our limitations. He's not subject to any of them. He is other.

He transcends the limitations which limit us. Light and darkness are the same to him. So, in your next prayer time, just pray about that. It would be something like, God, I don't have any frame of reference for that. I don't actually even know what that means to have light and darkness be the same to you, but you're like that.

Just worship Him as this great God whose vision doesn't rely in any way on whether it's light or dark. He commands worlds into existence simply by the word of his power. He has such power that he can say, Worlds be! And worlds that don't exist obey him and come into existence. Just pray about that.

He is infinite and as such infinitely worthy of our worship. This is really the whole point of Genesis 1, is that God would have the worship he deserves. So we fight with small views of God, so much smaller than he actually is, Genesis 1 comes to help expand our universe of the knowledge of God so that this God who is infinitely worthy of worship would get more worship. And our worship would be more right. Number two, I'm going to quote Jeremiah 32, verse 17.

When I was a charismatic, we used to sing this as a song. So I've had it on loop in my head. I might teach it to you sometime. We'll say we're charismatics. Jeremiah 32 verse 17.

Jeremiah is in the middle of tremendous hardship. God has put him in the vice and is turning it and the pressure is ratcheting up on Jeremiah. Here's what he says. Ah, Lord God, behold you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.

Jeremiah is in the vice, the pressure, more pressure, more pressure, more pressure, and Jeremiah just looks to God, looks at God and says, you made the heavens and the earth by your great power and your outstretched arm, there's nothing too hard for you, There's no way out of these things for me, but nothing's too hard for you." And he's made happy in God in the middle of all the pressure, and he's sustained by God in the middle of all the pressure because Jeremiah looks back to creation week and says, if God can do all that, these things are nothing. My pressures are nothing. Genesis 1, God, by giving us Genesis 1, wants us to give us creation week so that we'll in our heart of hearts know that if there's a God who can do all that and if He's for me then Things are fine. Things are fine. Things are going to be fine.

Between here and heaven, wow, we might go through the wringer, but things are fine. It is well with my soul. Alright. God, I'm so enjoying the study of little pieces of this and I am finding my views of you expanding. Thank you God for bringing me and us to Genesis so we can have our small views of you put to death.

I do pray that they would never rise from the dead, but that you would loom before us as an almighty God and that This thought of all that you can do in a week's time or in a moment's time would give us such confidence and such joy in being yours. Joy even in the greatest pressures of life, even in the greatest sorrows of life, that we would have a sustaining joy knowing that you are God. I pray in Jesus' name, Amen.