The sermon, delivered by David Green, explores the events of the fifth day of creation as described in Genesis 1:20-23. On this day, God created marine life and birds, marking the first introduction of animal life on Earth. The speaker emphasizes the literal interpretation of the creation days as 24-hour periods, rejecting evolutionary theory in favor of biblical creationism. The term 'nephesh' is explained as the Hebrew word for 'soul' or 'life,' distinguishing animal life from plant life, which lacks this quality. The sermon discusses various creatures created on the fifth day, from birds to sea monsters like the Leviathan, emphasizing God's intentional design and purpose. The speaker also highlights the difference between God's creation and the idea of random chance, underscoring God's sovereignty and care for His creation.

This foundational book where we get started in the text, this book of beginnings. Thus far we've looked at the creation. We've seen how that in the beginning God created on day one heavens, the earth, water and light. Day two, the expanse. Day three, the dry land and vegetation.

Day four, the sun, moon and stars. Today we'll look at day five. Now as we've considered all of this, Does anybody have any questions about anything that we've considered so far? If this was school, I should have said, here's a test, fill in all the blanks. What day did God create what?

What do you think of that, Josiah? Think I should do that? There's no pop quiz yet. Genesis chapter 1 verses 20 through 23. Then God said, Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures.

Let birds fly above the earth, across the face of the expanse of the heavens. God created the great sea monsters, every living creature that moves, with which the water swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind, and God saw that it was good. Then God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds multiply in the earth. And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. In this passage, just like before, we have an eyewitness of everything that God did on the fifth day.

Just like before, these are literal 24-hour days. This is the first introduction of animal life in the history of the world. Notice, beloved, that this was not a blob of something that come up out of some primordial soup. Some primordial soup, and then all after millions and millions of years evolved into something. No, no.

We reject the idea of, due to you, evolution. The Bible does not teach that. The only eyewitness account we have of the history of this world rejects the idea. Rather, what we find here in God's Word is that the waters, Well, exactly what it says here in verse 20, the waters swarmed suddenly, abundantly, with living creatures and the birds appeared suddenly flying in the air. So now you know the answer to the question.

Which came first? The chicken or the egg? It was the chicken, and God's Word says so. It was the chicken. We live very near a large amount of water here.

We're blessed in this place. There are indeed lots of birds that fly around here. There are lots of living creatures in the water. If you're like me you enjoy watching the birds fly and you enjoy seeing the animals in the water. From the Pink birds, what are they called?

I forget There's flamingos, but there's another there's another pink bird that's around here Yeah, egrets maybe then there's white birds that that we didn't have Cranes maybe something like that. There's all sorts of different kinds of birds and ducks and eagles and osprey and pelicans. I love to watch the pelicans. My grandfather always said, every time we'd come to the coast, he always said, amazing bird is a pelican. Its beak can hold more than its belly can.

The birds are amazing to watch and even even some of the nasty birds that you see like the turkey vultures and some of those They're all made by God's design. You go out to the beach, you see the different kinds of creatures that are in the, in and around the water. There's more birds over there like the seagulls and sandpipers. Then in the water you see the different creatures that are there, the different kinds of fishes, the sand dollars, the crabs, the hermit crabs, the blue crabs. We've got the sharks and we've got all sorts of things around here.

You see the dolphins and oh how I love to watch the dolphins and all of these things. Well you get the idea. Well, you get the idea. But you know, even though the text here, it says that on day five, God made the birds... Let the birds fly above the earth.

It wasn't just the birds that God created on day five. There's all sorts of flying creatures. There are other kinds of flying creatures besides birds that are in God's wonderful creation. So on day five, he would have made the bats. I'm thankful for the bats, even though they do terrify me sometimes when they're in the house.

If you've ever had a bat get in the house, it is a terrifying experience. But I'm thankful for them because they do help control the bugs. But God made the bats on day five. There are extinct type creatures that God would have made on day five, like the pterodactyls. Yes, there were all sorts of animals in the waters and in the air.

Over in the book of Isaiah chapter 45, Isaiah chapter 45 verse 18, Verse 18. Verse 45 and verse 18. It says, for thus says Yahweh, who created the heavens, He is the God who formed the earth and made it. He established it, did not create it a formless place, but formed it to be inhabited. I am Yahweh and there is none else.

Genesis is a book of firsts as I mentioned before and in this text in Genesis as we've gone through day one, day two, day three, day four, day five, we get to day five and we learn that indeed He made this world to be inhabited. Praise God for that. In fact, in verse 20 of our text there, he says, let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures. Living creatures appeared on the earth for the first time. That comes from a Hebrew word, nephesh.

It's the word that can mean the soul of a man or the life of an animal. Now remember, previously he spoke of animal or plant life, but plant life doesn't have that kind of a life or soul. This is reserved only for man and animals. I believe I can demonstrate the truthfulness of this. Next time you're in the woods or in the swamp and you're walking through the woods or through the swamp, you get tired, you have a choice.

You see a dead deer or a dead tree. Which do you choose to sit on? Well, you would choose to sit on a dead tree. Why? Why is that?

Well, because when an animal dies, there's something different about it than when a tree is dead. You see, there's something different about that. When he speaks of living creatures, it's not the same as what he was talking about when he spoke of the plant life. These fellas, they get out there and they start hugging the trees and saying all these poor trees, you know, they've got a life, they've got... Well I understand they want to preserve the trees and all that, but there's, they're not the same.

Not the same. And indeed, as we go along, we'll see that there's a difference even though some people maybe have forgotten about this, there's a difference between animal life and human life. But we'll get into that a little later. Back into our text there in Genesis chapter 1 And verse 21, God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves with which the water swarmed after their kind and every winged bird after its kind and God saw that it was good. First time I read anything from the Legacy Standard Bible I was very excited.

I started in Genesis and began reading here. I was very excited at this verse. As you may notice and you may remember and recall, Genesis 1-21 in your King James Bibles uses the word whales where sea monsters is. And there's a reason for that. Now as I go through this series, I'll admit I'm using a lot of my notes from when I went through this book, Genesis, in 2009.

Now in 2009 I used the King James for this series. The reason I'm using my old notes is because I did a lot of work on that series. I did a lot of work on it. And so I'm just using a lot of those notes. And so I can do that because they're my notes, and also, contrary to popular belief, there's no radical difference between the King James and the legacy standard, so they fit very well.

Interestingly enough, in 2009, in those notes when I preached on this in Mansfield, I actually brought this up. The Hebrew here, the word whales, comes from a Hebrew word that literally means sea monsters. I brought that up in 2009. It's translated as whales in the King James. In the Hebrew, God used the word tineen, and he meant all of the great sea monsters, including the whales, the great sharks like the megalodon, and including the marine dinosaurs that we know and find in the fossil records all around the world and maybe even exists today perhaps maybe like Loch Ness if that really is still out there you know that's what that's what he's talking about the The oceans are huge and who knows what else may be down there in the unexplored oceans.

As I was working today, As a matter of fact, I was listening to a sermon that was preached in 1985 by Brother Paul Tiber. I was listening to it because he was preaching on Day 5 of creation. So I thought, well, I want to hear what he had to say about it. Brother Paul Tiber pastored up in northern Ohio, Clariden, New Testament Baptist Church. As he read this text, Genesis 1 and verse 21, He didn't even read the word whales.

He read it as sea monsters. I'm not sure if he was using a different translation or if he was simply going off the Hebrew, But either way, I bring this up because this is nothing new. Baptist men have understood that the Hebrew word here meant more than Wales. And indeed, the strict King James onlyism that says that if you don't read it exactly the way the King James says it, you're not a good Baptist, that is not right. Now, why did the King James translators, why did they put whales here?

Were they wrong? Were they trying to deceive? Not at all. Keep in mind that by 1611 in those days they were not any great, well the word dinosaur wasn't even invented yet. There were not any explorations going on as far as that goes.

And when they came across that word, tineen, they said, what is this? And so they said, oh, well, sea monster. They put the biggest ocean animal that they could think of in there. They were translating it. They were trying to translate it into an understandable language and so they said whales.

That's pretty big animal. Whales fit, sea monsters fit, sea dragons fit, all of these things. Very accurate. But just understand that's the difference there. But it doesn't just mean whales, it doesn't just mean megalodon, it doesn't mean just great white shark.

God created all of those things you see. So I'm appreciative of the the way it's translated here. In fact over in Psalm 74, Psalm 74, you notice how this word is translated and used in other portions of Scripture. Psalm 74 verses 12 through 14. Yet God is my king from of old, who works deeds of salvation in the midst of the earth, you divided the sea by your strength, you broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters, you crushed the heads of Leviathan, you gave him as food for the creatures of the desert.

The sea monsters refers to sharks, whales, even dinosaurs that lived in the oceans and seas. Leviathan is one of those sea monsters. Many times Leviathan is mentioned, like in this passage, to describe a mighty creature that is much too powerful for man, but one that is no match for God. Over in Psalm 104, Psalm 104, We think of the greatness of God and His creation. Psalm 104 verses 24 through 26.

How numerous are your works, O Yahweh! In wisdom you have made them all. The earth is full of your possessions. This is the sea, great and broad. There the creeping things are without number, creatures both small and great.

There the ships move along in Leviathan, which you have formed to play in it." This great creature that God made, He says, you made the scene and put this great creature in there to play in it. Over in Isaiah chapter 27, in verse 1, Verse 27 in verse 1. Isaiah 27 and verse 1, in that day Yahweh will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent with his fierce and great and mighty sword, even Leviathan the twisted serpent, and he will kill the dragon who lives in the sea. God is great and he has made these great sea monsters and as great as they are and even to cause fear in men, God. Yahweh will destroy them, he says.

In the book of Job, we have the greatest description of this sea monster. In Job chapter 41, This has always been a fascination of mine and actually these are some fresh notes that I didn't have in 2009 but this may be because I got to go to the Creation Museum and the Ark encounter earlier this summer, or last summer I mean, but all these things are kind of fresh on my mind. And as I read on day five, things that God created and thought about that I considered this and how great God is and the wonderful magnificent and awesome things that he created including Leviathan and how he's described here in in in Job 41 as I read this consider what what the text consider what the text says. Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down its tongue with a cord? Can you put a rope in its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook?

Will it make many supplications to you, or will he speak to you soft words? Will it cut a covenant with you? Will you take it for a slave forever? Will you play with it as with a bird? Will you bind it for your young women?

Will the traders bargain over it? Will they divide it among the merchants? Can you fill its skin with harpoons? Can it, or its head with fishing spears? Place your hand on it.

Remember the battle. You will not do that again. Behold, his expectation is a lie. Will he be laid low even at the sight of it? No one is so fierce that he dares to arouse it.

Who then is he that can stand before me? Who has given to me that I should repay him whatever is under the whole heaven is mine? I will not keep silence concerning its limbs or its mighty strength or its graceful frame. Who can strip off its outer armor? Who can come with its doubled bridle?

Who can open the doors of its face? Around its teeth there is dreadful terror. Its strong scales are its pride, shut up as with a tight seal. One is so near to another that no air can come between them. They cling one to another.

They're interlocked and cannot be separated. It sneezes, flash forth white, and its eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. Out of its mouth go burning torches, sparks of fire leap forth. Out of its nostrils smoke goes forth as from a boiling pot and burning reeds. Its breath kindles coals and a flame goes forth from its mouth.

In its neck lodges strength and dismay leaps before it. The folds of its flesh cling together, hardened upon it and is not shaken. Its heart is as hard as a stone, even as hard as a lower millstone, when it raises itself up, the mighty fear, because of the crashing, they are bewildered. The sword that reaches it cannot avail, nor the spear, the dart toward the javelin. It regards iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood.

The arrow cannot make it flee. Sling stones are turned into stubble for it, clubs are regarded as stubble, it laughs at the rattling of the javelin, its underparts are like sharp pot shards, It spreads out like a threshing sledge on the mire. It makes the depths boil like a pot. It makes the sea like a jar of ointment. Behold, it makes awake to shine.

One would think the deep to be gray-haired. There is nothing upon the dust like it, one made without terror. It looks on everything that is high. It is king over all the sons of pride." This Leviathan was quite the creature. He cannot be captured with a fishhook, according to verse 1.

Verse 7 says, weapons are ineffective against him. No human can tame him, according to verse 8. Verses 13 through 17 told us that his body was impenetrable. His teeth were very sharp, according to verse 14. His back was made of a row of shields that were so closely joined together that nothing can penetrate his skin.

Verses 15 through 17, he was a fire-breathing creature according to verses 18 through 21. Perhaps Leviathan was one of the creatures that, from whence the nations got the legends of the dragons. He was exceptionally strong, verse 22. When he raised up, the mighty were afraid. Not a single weapon could harm him.

When he moved along the banks of the river, he left his mark, verse 30. No creature on earth was like him. Verse 33. And he was not a mythical creature but real. He was king over all of them according to verse 34.

Did God create the whales, like the King James put it? Absolutely, he did. But he made the sea monsters, including Leviathan also, and all sorts of sea creatures, some that are extinct. And I'm glad that as far as we know, Leviathan is not in existence anymore. I'm thankful for that.

That's pretty terrible to me. But I'm also glad to know that God created him. Because as terrible as these animals are, and even in our world, there's some terrible creatures out there. Even in our oceans, the great white shark, the man of war. There's some terrible eels and stingrays and all sorts of things.

I'm glad to know that they're not here by random chance processes. I'm glad to know God created them. And that my life and your life are in God's hands. These were all set, made. Made.

Genesis 1. Verse 21, God created the great sea monsters, every living creature that moves, with which the water swarmed after their kind and every winged bird after his kind, and God saw that it was good. So first of all, we want to notice that they were designed to reproduce after their kind. That they were designed to to reproduce after their kind. I'm thankful to know that the dolphin is gonna have baby dolphins.

Sharks gonna have baby sharks. Hermit crabs are going to have baby hermit crabs. I'm thankful that's the way the universe works. That's the way it always works. There are variations within the kind.

You know there are different kinds of hermit crabs. There are different kinds of sharks. There are variations within them, but there's never been a hermit crab that had a baby shark. There's never been a shark that had a goldfish as a baby. It doesn't happen.

It doesn't happen. Whales have whales. Goldfish have goldfish, so on and so forth. And God saw that it was good. Now, wait a minute preacher, you just told us about fire breathing Leviathan.

That's correct. That's correct. We know that there are sharks and there are some pretty terrifying things in the ocean. We know that we've seen some ugly things in the bird world and all of that. How can God call that good?

Well, they were good. When He pronounced them good, There was no death. There was no destruction. Leviathan was as nice as your favorite dog. You know that?

And if you would have met a dragon in the Garden of Eden, you could have walked right up to them and petted them and had a good old time. You could have ridden on the back of Tyrannosaurus rex and had a good old time. But wait a minute, we ain't there yet. We haven't looked at the creation of T-Rex. But we will, we will.

We will. Verse 22, And then God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters and the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth. Not only was it all good, but God had a command and blessing for the animals different than anything he had done. God loves and provides for his creation. And we know God loves man.

He sent his only begotten son into the world to die for the sins of his people. We know that. But let us not forget that God also has a love and care for all of his creation. And we see that exhibited here as he tells them to be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters and the seas and the birds multiply on the earth. Verse 23, and there was evening and there was morning a fifth day.

And so just like the other days there was evening and there was morning a fifth day. It was a literal day just like the other days. And so somebody asks you, says, well, where did the birds come from? Where did the fish come from? You can tell them Right there on day five.

And we know because there is a book. We know because God was there. And This is the only accurate eyewitness account we have of the University.