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Genesis 1:2 · BSB
1:2 Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
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…Now I know this gets taken out of context in secular settings as well, that your body is a temple. This goes all the way back to the theology ofGenesis chapter 1, 2, and 3, where God created humanity in his own image from the dust and breathed his life into them. So what it means to be human is your physical…
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…taken place by the power of God's own word. I love that. All it takes here is for God to speak. It parallels the powerful word of God's creation inGenesis chapter 1and his powerful word of redemption later on. With one word, our God commands the dead to come to life. We'll see that later in Ezekiel chapter 37…
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…believers and non-believers. Something that I believe God has instituted from the very beginning, when he separated light from the darkness inGenesis chapter 1, but just throughout the Bible. You know, the Israelites are different, separated from the Egyptians, separated from the Canaanites. And of course,…
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…In Ephesians 3:9-11, Paul actually says the church is a part of the eternal purpose of God, which he purposed in Christ Jesus. That means beforeGenesis chapter 1, or before anything was anything, God already had it in his mind, I'm going to build the church. But this also goes forward because in Daniel 2:44,…
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…grandchild at the kitchen table could bring the whole thing down. It cannot, and the first chapter of Genesis is about to show you why. Go back toGenesis chapter 1and slow down at the fifth day. God fills the water and the sky. The text says this, So God created the great creatures of the sea, and every…
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…these alone? That gap is where the other reading was born. It deserves a fair hearing, so let us give it one. The suggestion runs like this. ReadGenesis chapter 1and Genesis chapter 2 side by side, and they do not feel like the same scale of event. Chapter 1 is enormous. God makes humanity on the sixth day,…
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…His struggle is our victory. The garden is just a prelude to the cross. There was another garden in Scripture. You've got to go all the way back toGenesis chapter 1to find it. And in that garden there was a man named Adam, the first Adam. And he said, Father, not your will be done, but mine. And he doesn't…
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…home with you. And that's kind of the story of the Bible boiled down. The story of the Bible can be boiled down to three words: God with us. And inGenesis chapter 1and 2, God creates everything. And God is walking with Adam and Eve in the garden. God is with them. And then sin enters the world. And then his…
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…That means you're capable of being blessed by God. You're a blessable, image-bearing, covenant partner. That's what you're designed to be.Genesis chapter 1and 2 lay this out really clearly that you're a blessable, image-bearing, covenant partner. We're going to see that this morning as we're going…
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…weather and even the flowing of undersea springs and things like that. He controls it all. So in the New International Commentary on the book ofGenesis, chapters 1through 17, the author writes these words, God's remembrance of Noah spurs him into sending a wind over the earth that starts the process of drying…
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…the the body of believers, God's people, is actually lacking without your participation. You know what I always found really fascinating?Genesis chapter 1and 2. You read the creation of the whole world, and it is beautiful. I mean, go there this week. Read about what it looks like for God to speak,…
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…of chapter 8, you start to see not decreation but a recreation event. And that recreation event seems to track through all the different days ofGenesis chapter 1. So in Genesis chapter 1 on day 2, God put the waters in their place. And then in Genesis chapter 8 verse 2, God puts the waters back in their…
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…nobody else gets to claim that. Nobody else gets that. It's me alone. I'm alone am God, and therefore can be known and worshipped by all people.Genesis chapter 1reveals to us that Elohim, this Elohim, is the God of creation. This Elohim is the God of creation. This Elohim created all things. And there are…
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…you speak or where you were born or the color of your skin, every single one of us is made in the image of God. And if you keep reading throughGenesis chapter 1and 2, which tells us all about how God created the heavens and the earth and us as well, you'll notice that you'll find male and female, you'll…
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…wide worship of Jesus Christ, of God. [SPEAKER_01]: And uniquely, for mankind, because if we had read a few verses earlier, you would have seen inGenesis chapter 1, he actually tells the animals to be fruitful and multiply as well. [SPEAKER_01]: The idea is that the God's world is to be teaming with life.…
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…get in the water. And it's not because Jesus believes there's something in the water, it's because Jesus knows he's already in the water. And inGenesis chapter 1, we read all we ever need. I skipped a story. Genesis chapter 1, the very first verse of the Bible, here's what it says. In the beginning, the…
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…First is a little lesson on sin. And I'm sure you realise how serious it is for a Christian to sin. Actually, the entire Bible says is written fromGenesis chapter 1all the way to Revelations chapter 22, is basically a message on redemption. Why is redemption needed? Because of sin. Because of what sin has done…
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…sense of an overarching theme in the Bible. And we see at the beginning of this chapter, he saw a new heaven and a new earth that connects us withGenesis chapter 1, so that there is that overriding sense of the mission of God and of the purpose of God in the whole of the Bible. Tonight I want us to think for a…
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…Jesus Christ, you're stepping into the new covenant. And we know that God designed us as what? Blessable, image-bearing, covenant partners. That'sGenesis chapters 1through 9, really Genesis 1 and 2. We're blessable, image-bearing covenant partners. And the covenant partner that we are participating in, as long…
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…get in the water. And it's not because Jesus believes there's something in the water, it's because Jesus knows he's already in the water. And inGenesis chapter 1, we read all we ever need. I skipped a story. Genesis chapter 1, the very first verse of the Bible, here's what it says. In the beginning, the…
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