Our Creator God

I remember it clearly.

The year was 1984.

I was in ninth grade.

And part of the church that I had been going to for the last six or seven years that my family went to.

When you get to ninth grade, it was confirmation year.

And so that's what we did in Sunday school.

And in that spring, we went on a confirmation retreat.

And on Saturday afternoon, our assignment was to sit around the table and to write a statement of faith.

For the elders to approve so that we might become confirmed as members of the church.

Now, I will tell you that in my family, going to church was important.

But believing in Jesus was not particularly.

And so I remember looking at the youth pastor at that moment and saying,

Well, what are we supposed to write?

At that moment, for me, it was simply a test that I wanted to know the right answers to regurgitate.

And not actually a real statement of faith.

This is not an indictment on the process of churches that may have confirmation.

I think it can be done well.

It was not done well in my case and this church.

But at the same time, on the same retreat, that evening, I walked out of the retreat center

and looked up in the clear western Pennsylvania sky on a crisp spring night

and saw the amazing array of the stars in the sky.

And I wondered, could it be true?

Is there really a God out there after all?

Maybe you've had experiences like that.

I can think of other places that have evoked in me a similar response.

We're sitting by Lake Bierstadt, looking up at the snow-capped peaks of the Rocky Mountains

in Rocky Mountain National Park on a beautiful July day.

We're sitting on the beach in Kauai at sunset, watching the sun, the golden ball,

slowly lower itself into the ocean, surrounded by this beautiful array of purples and yellows

and oranges and reds.

I remember one time I was flying to China, looking down out of the airplane

on these incredibly craggy, snow-covered mountains

as the sun came up behind the plane and the orange glow captured

and reflected off the tops of the mountains.

Maybe that's happened to you too.

It's awe-inspiring, isn't it?

Sometimes it makes us feel very small and insignificant.

Sometimes it fills us with joy and wonder.

Sometimes it makes us afraid as we face a transcendence that we cannot understand or control.

But I think for all of us, it raises a question.

Is there something more out there?

Does God really exist?

And as we encounter these things, as we live in this amazing world that we live in,

it raises questions.

How did it come to be?

What is our place in it?

Where do we come from?

Why are we here?

And as you know, there are many competing answers to that question today in our world,

just as there was in the ancient world that the book of Genesis was written in.

But as we begin our series in Genesis this morning, in Genesis 1,

we're going to see that as the book opens,

in the midst of other voices at that time, just as today,

we see a story that reveals God and answers some of those questions.

Genesis 1 invites us in, in the midst of these competing stories,

to behold the God of the Bible and to see him at work in the creation of all things.

Now you might be thinking, why is this important?

Or why was it written when it was?

If you remember, and if you were here last week,

Pastor Greg preached a great sermon that just introduced us to the whole book.

And I'm not going to repeat what he said last week.

So, if you weren't here last week,

and you intend to stick around for a while and listen,

and even if you don't,

go to our website, trinity-baptist.org,

and go to the sermon archive,

and find Pastor Greg's sermon from last week

to answer all the questions you have about authorship and context

and the big picture of Genesis,

so that you'll get to see it.

We won't cover those things.

But as we come to this passage that attempts to answer some of these questions,

we recognize that the context in which it was written

was to the people of Israel as they were leaving Egypt and slavery

and heading to a promised land that they had not seen or tasted yet.

And you might imagine if you were an Israelite

wandering around in the wilderness of the Sinai Peninsula for 40 years,

you might be wondering,

where is this all going?

We're following a God who's not taking us anywhere.

Can we trust him?

Is he good?

Is he in control of this?

What's going on?

And it's in that context that we see this book written.

Written to tell us what happened at the very beginning.

Written to assure us that the God of the Bible is in control.

That he is sovereign.

That he is life-giving.

And that he is good.

And that brings us to Genesis 1.

So we're going to read this together.

You can turn in your Bibles.

This time, I know what page it's on.

It's on page 1.

So page 1 of your Bible is Genesis 1,

and we're going to read this together.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

The earth was without form and void,

and darkness was over the face of the deep,

and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

And God said,

Let there be light.

And there was light.

And God saw that the light was good.

And God separated the light from the darkness.

God called the light day,

and the darkness he called night.

And there was evening,

and there was morning,

the first day.

And God said,

Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters,

and let it separate the waters from the waters.

And God made the expanse,

and separated the waters that were under the expanse,

from the waters that were above the expanse.

And it was so.

And God called the expanse heaven,

and there was evening,

and there was morning,

the second day.

And God said,

Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place,

and let the dry land appear.

And it was so.

And God called the dry land earth,

and the waters that were gathered together he called seas.

And God saw that it was good.

And God said,

Let the earth sprout vegetation,

plants yielding seed,

and fruit trees bearing fruit,

in which is their seed,

each according to its kind,

on the earth.

And it was so.

The earth brought forth vegetation,

plants yielding seeds according to their own kinds,

and trees bearing fruit,

in which is their seed,

each according to its kind.

And God saw that it was good.

And there was evening,

and there was morning,

the third day.

And God said,

Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens,

to separate the day from the night,

and let there be for signs,

and for seasons,

and for days,

and for years.

And let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens,

to give light upon the earth.

And it was so.

And God made the two great lights,

the greater light to rule the day,

and the lesser light to rule the night,

and the stars.

God set them in the expanse of the heavens,

to give light on the earth,

to rule over the day,

and over the night,

to separate the light from the darkness.

And God saw that it was good.

And there was evening,

and there was morning,

the fourth day.

And God said,

Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures,

and let birds fly above the earth,

across the expanse of the heavens.

And so God created the great sea creatures,

and every living creature that moves,

with which the waters swarm,

according to their kinds.

And every winged bird,

according to its kind.

And God saw that it was good.

God blessed them,

saying,

Be fruitful,

and multiply,

and fill the waters in the seas,

and let birds multiply on the earth.

And there was evening,

and there was morning,

the fifth day.

And God said,

Let the earth bring forth living creatures,

according to their kinds,

livestock,

and creeping things,

and beasts of the earth,

according to their kinds.

And it was so.

And God made the beasts of the earth,

according to their kinds,

and the livestock,

according to their kinds,

and everything that creeps on the ground,

according to its kind.

And God saw that it was good.

Then God said,

Let us make man in our image,

after our likeness,

and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,

and over the birds of the heavens,

and over the livestock,

and over all the earth,

and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

So God created man in his own image.

In the image of God,

he created him.

Male and female,

he created them.

And God blessed them,

And God said to them,

Be fruitful,

and multiply,

and fill the earth,

and subdue it,

and have dominion over the fish of the sea,

and over the birds of the heavens,

and over every living thing that moves on the earth.

And God said,

Behold,

I have given you every plant yielding seed

that is on the face of all the earth,

and every tree with seed in its fruit,

you shall have them for food.

And to every beast of the earth,

and to every bird of the heavens,

and to everything that creeps on the earth,

everything that has breath of life,

I have given every green plant for food.

And it was so.

And God saw everything that he had made,

and behold,

it was very good.

And there was evening,

and there was morning,

the sixth day.

Thus,

the heavens and the earth were finished,

and all the host of them.

And on the seventh day,

God finished his work that he had done,

and he rested on the seventh day

from all his work that he had done.

So God blessed the seventh day,

and made it holy,

because on it,

God rested from all his work

that he had done in creation.

Let's pray together.

Father,

Lord,

as we come to this majestic text this morning,

Lord,

our minds are filled with

the wonder of it.

Our minds are filled with the questions

that it raises in our hearts,

in our lives.

Lord,

I pray this morning

that you would help us

this morning

to make your word clear

that we might hear it.

Lord,

I pray for your help

that I might speak it clearly.

And Lord,

that we would sit in awe and wonder

what a wonderful creator you are.

Lord,

we pray this in Jesus' name.

Amen.

So before we dive in,

I simply want to say one other thing.

As we approach this text,

we may have to ask ourselves a question,

what kind of writing is this?

You might be asking a question,

is this history?

Should I read this like a New York Times article

about an eyewitness reporter

being able to tell you

the facts of what happened

by observation?

Some of you may be asking,

is this a science textbook?

Is this telling us about the processes

and the means by which life was created

and the way that the natural world works?

Some of you may be asking a question,

is this primarily theology?

Is this to tell us about the character

and nature of God

in systematic categories?

And some of you may be asking,

well,

there seemed to be an awful lot

of repetition and structure.

This sounds like poetry to me.

Giving us a metaphorical sense

of God and creation,

but maybe that glosses over the details.

Well,

friends,

this has been a great discussion

and I could spend the rest of my morning

talking about this,

but I'm not going to.

I am going to rather say this.

This,

above all things,

is a narrative account

that has structure

and progression,

but does not always answer

the questions

that our modern world asks

in the ways that we would ask it.

It is truth.

But it is truth

within the framework

of God's revelation

in a narrative story.

Remember what I said earlier

about how this was written

so that the Israelites

would understand

where the world came from

that they were living in

and who the God was

that they were following in him.

Because, of course,

above all,

this passage is about God.

God who is mentioned

more than 30 times.

God who is the sole actor

in the entire chapter.

God who announced

what he would do,

commanded that it be done.

He who separated

and organized

the creation.

He who gave it names.

And he who saw it

and evaluated it

and called it good.

It is about God

in his work of creation.

And this is what we're going

to think about this morning

for the next few minutes.

We see three things

about God in this.

That God is a sovereign creator.

That he is a life-giving creator.

And that he is a good creator.

So let's look at each of these

in turn.

First,

God is a sovereign creator.

Look with me back

at verses 1 and 2.

In the beginning,

God,

you now know

the most important thing

about the Bible.

Before all things were,

God was.

God preexisted

all things.

and all the things

that we see

and all the things

that we know.

The heavens and the earth,

which is meant

to be descriptive

of everything,

inclusive

of the entire

created

world,

universe.

God was before

all those things.

And as God began

to engage

in this process

of creation,

he engaged in,

as verse 2 says,

a world

that was without form

and void.

I want you to think

about what that means.

There was no structure.

There was no order.

There was no way

to wrap your hand,

wrap your arms around it

and understand it

because it was without form.

And it was a void.

That is,

it was empty.

And in those things,

God

stepped in

to create something

out of a shapeless void.

And he created,

as we see,

as it goes on,

all things.

The things in the heavens

and the things on earth.

The things that the peoples

around the nation of Israel

would have worshipped.

The sun,

the moon,

the stars.

The lesser gods

that they worshipped

who said,

I'm the God of the harvest

who can bring forth plants.

I'm the God of fertility

who can help you

be fruitful and multiply.

This account says,

all of these come

from this pre-existent God.

And this pre-existent God

is not merely

one who sits back

and is distant from the God.

But we see in verse 2

as it keeps going,

that the Spirit of God

was hovering over the face

of the waters.

This is an image

that we see later

in Deuteronomy

about God's care

for his creation.

It's an image

that evokes

a picture

of a mother eagle

hovering over her nest

with her fledglings,

urging them

to arise

and to fly.

And this is what God

is doing

with his creation.

And we see

that God

has the power

to create.

The beginning

of verse 3,

and God said.

And this is one

of the most

remarkable things

about this God

revealed in this Bible

is that this God

can do whatever

he wants

simply

with the power

of his own

word.

Every day

he speaks

and God said

and it was so.

And God said

and it was so.

And God said

and it was so.

And as we read

in John 1 earlier,

all things

were made

through him

and without him

was not anything

made

that was made.

And I know

you're asking

what about

the process?

Did it take

a millennia?

Six 24 hour

literal days?

Was it

ex nihilo

instantaneous?

Did God

use means?

It's an interesting

question.

How does

this match

with the

scientific discoveries

and theories

that we live in

today?

Sorry,

I'm going to

punt on this one

too.

It's a great

question.

It's an important

question.

But

it's why

rather than

spending all

of our time

in a sermon

dealing the

details,

Pastor Greg

and Danielle

Speller,

who's a

physicist,

will be doing

a two-week

Sunday school

class at the

end of September

after Tom's

class on New

Testament

reliability.

If you're

interested in

those questions,

plan to go.

That's where

many of those

questions will be

addressed as they

address broadly

the question of

how science and

faith integrate

together.

But just to

give a little bit

of perspective on

that question,

you know,

when John

Calvin,

the great

reformer,

wrote about

creation,

this is

secondhand,

but I

believe it's

true,

that he

actually asked

the question

not why

did it take

God so

short in

this account.

We wrestle

with could

God have

actually done

this briefly

because we

think we

live in a

world that

takes long

processes.

Calvin's

question was

why did it

take a whole

day or a

whole week

for God to

create?

Can't he

just speak

and it

happens all

of it at

once?

God didn't

have to say

and God

said and God

said and God

said.

He could have

just said it

once and God

said let it

be and there

it was.

Everything all

at once.

So just as a

bit of historical

perspective, the

questions that we

ask of these

texts are often

brought to us by

the context in

which we live and

this is why history

is important for us

to read.

Having said

that, the

Bible speaks to

many scientific

questions but we

must see that what

the Bible speaks to

is more than just

science.

It answers greater

questions as it may

answer some of the

science questions

along the way.

And what we see is

that God is bringing

order to his

creation and he is

ruling over it.

This God who is not

a part of creation

but who is engaged

with his creation,

who sits above it,

not as a part of it

but who rules over it,

he has taken from

emptiness and

formlessness and

darkness and he has

filled it in

creation.

Before we go on and

think about that

process a little more,

let's think briefly

about applying,

if these things are

true, if God is a

sovereign ruler,

what does it mean?

The first thing it

means is that we

must cling to and

understand this truth.

There is nothing that

is outside of God's

sovereign rule in the

world.

world.

There is no random

chance over time in a

closed system that God

is not ruling over.

There are no stars

aligning in the heavens

to determine the fate of

our lives that God is

not ruling over.

The processes that

mother nature produces

in the wonders that we

see in planet earth and

David Attenborough's

video series.

None of those exist

except that God rules

over them.

In the ancient Near

East, they would be

struck by the fact that

there is no titanic

struggle between good

and evil.

There is no yin and

yang striving for

control of the world.

world.

But all that we see, God

is ruling over it.

For those of you who

are sci-fi fans, there

is no force.

There are no

mitochondrians.

There is nothing that

God does not rule over,

whether mythical or

real.

So we must see that if

God is the one who

rules over all things,

it also means that he

rules over all things in

our lives.

He rules over the

hurricanes that swirl in

the Caribbean.

And he rules over the

details of our medical

conditions.

He rules over the

chaos that we hear

reported week in and week

out in the news.

He rules over our

lives from the global

to the minutia.

He is sovereign.

And he calls us to

trust him in that.

And thirdly, he calls

us as his sovereign to

cultivate a humility

before him.

For because he is the

creator and not simply a

part of the creation,

because he is distinct

and over us and the

source of it, then we

are in fact answerable to

him.

We are not our own

little gods.

We are not the captains

of our own ship who are

able to determine our

destinies on our own.

The myth of the

independent human who can

do anything is humbled

by this account.

Instead, as the apostle Paul

preached in Athens, it is

in God that we live and

move and have our being.

We are dependent and we

are accountable to him.

So we see that God is a

sovereign ruler who in

power created all things.

But we see more than that.

He is not just reigning

over us, but he is

filling his creation

with life.

He is a life-giving

creator.

From formless and void

to form and filled,

this is God's work.

If you have a bulletin,

you can pull this out.

This is a time to look at

the little chart that is

in your bulletin to give

you a sense of the

framework of how this

passage in its, yes,

somewhat poetic form of

repetition.

And God said, and it was

so, let there be, and he

separated, and he saw

that it was good, and

there was morning, and

there was evening.

There is this literary

structure that helps us

see this.

And then we see that

there are in three days,

the first three days, the

form is brought together.

Light and darkness.

Sky and sea.

Don't get all confused by

the waters above and the

waters below and

expanse and firmament and

these words that you've

never heard before.

It's very easy.

Skies, seas.

That's what day two is

about.

Day three, dry land is

separated.

And in each of these, we

see these pairings.

Light and darkness.

Sky and sea.

Earth and water.

Separated.

Given boundaries.

Given places.

Given purposes.

There are no rogue elements

in this created world.

And it would have been

very comforting to the

Israelites at the time, as

many people around them

believed that these natural

forces were out of control

and were fearsome and

overwhelmed them.

after God creates this form,

takes what is formless and

gives it form.

He then fills it.

The void is no longer

void, but he begins to fill

it with life.

He creates trees that will

propagate themselves because

they have seeds in them.

fruit trees and plants.

The end of day three.

And then in day four, he

fills them with living

beings.

This is actually the word in

Hebrew.

It's a word for it that's

used later in the Old

Testament for souls.

Now we know that it's

broader than that.

It doesn't only mean that.

But what it does mean is

that these living beings have

a unique characteristic,

distinct from plants.

I'll just say that.

Distinct from plants in some

way, whereby there's this

life that God is now

filling it with.

Now, day four goes back to

the heavens, doesn't it?

And he fills.

He fills it with light.

With the actual things that

give off light.

He'd already created light and

now he fills it with sun and

moon and stars.

The things that we know give

light.

Then day five, the living

creatures.

Each according to their kind.

Not random.

Not haphazard.

But orderly.

God creates.

He fills the skies with the

flying things.

He fills the seas with the

swimming things.

I love the way that this

translation, let the water

swarm with swarms of things.

There's this idea that life is

teeming.

Have you ever walked into an

aviary?

You're walking outside.

You have normal life sounds

around you.

You walk into an aviary and

there usually, if you've ever

been to one, there's usually

two doors, right?

So that the birds don't fly

out.

So you walk through the first

one, you close the back door

and then you walk through the

second one to get the, and

then you walk in and suddenly

you're in a room and all you

hear is chirp, chirp, chirp,

chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp,

chirp, chirp, chirp.

It's almost, it's almost

overwhelming the amount of

noise that you hear when you

walk into that.

And you see these little flits

of life as the birds move

around.

And the more you look, the more

you see that the room is filled

with birds.

Some more active, some less

active.

just a taste of what it must have

looked like.

Just a taste of what God was

doing as he was, as he was

filling the world with teeming

with this life that was ever

expanding and ever growing.

Because just like the plants,

these were set, were told to be

fruitful and multiply and fill the

earth.

God's creation of life was not

terminal but abundant and

expansive and expounding.

And the pinnacle of it all, of

course, the end of day six, he

creates human beings.

Man, male and female.

In God's image.

Distinct from and yet still

created beings who have a role

to rule over all of this life

that he has filled the world with.

And their rule, which has been

sorely abused, we'll get to that

in the next couple of weeks, I

believe.

But the rule that has been

sorely abused, the rule was that

they might cultivate it and care for

it so that it might have more life.

That human beings would come and

bring greater order so that life

would flourish more.

This was God's intention in creating.

And this is the life-giving God that

we see in Genesis 1.

Do you believe this is true?

That life really does come from God?

More importantly, that God is able to

bring life.

We can get so distracted by means and

timelines and forget again what John 1

says.

That in him was life.

And that life was the light of men.

Scientists keep working to create life.

They're getting closer.

I did a little bit of research this

week.

I'm not a scientist.

I'm not really equipped to do this.

They're getting closer.

But it was interesting to see how the

articles even now describe they created

something like or getting closer to.

And you know, even if human beings do

begin to create life, wouldn't that be

fitting that we who are in the image of

God would be able to follow in his

footsteps and take the creation that he

has made and learn how to be life

producers?

There are all sorts of ethical questions.

I'm not talking about that.

I'm just talking about the fact that God

created this world to abound in life.

And it comes from him.

He is the life-giving creator.

He is the source of life.

Without him, there would not be any life.

What are the applications of this for us?

Well, we could be here all day.

But the one that I want to focus on this

morning for a minute is just that because

because of this, we have hope.

We have hope that the darkness that

covered the earth is not the final end.

But it is out of darkness that God created

light.

And in the darkness, God brings life.

Means that there is hope for those who are

facing death.

Many of you are young.

Not all of you.

But many of you are young.

Haven't thought much about that yet.

Some of you are young and have already

thought about it far too much.

But when you are facing death, to know

the God who is the author of life, who is

the life-giving creator, gives us great hope.

The fact that God created form and filled it

with life gives us hope when we feel like our

life is chaos without form and void.

When we feel like that's true externally,

whether that's true internally in our hearts.

God is a life-giving creator and it is his

delight to not only create the world,

but to continue to cultivate

and to expand that life

in this world

for his glory.

Think of the words that the apostle Paul

write in Ephesians 2.

But you who were dead

in your sins and trespasses,

God made you alive

in Christ and raised you up

with him.

This is our hope.

That God is a life-giving God.

Not only is he the sovereign ruler,

not only is he a life-giving creator,

but he is a good creator.

He does all things well.

This point is very simple.

We don't need to spend a lot of time expounding on it,

but simply to say

that God looked at his creation

and as he did it,

as he created the form

and as he filled it with life,

he saw it and it was good.

And he saw it and it was good.

And he saw it and it was good.

And he saw it and it was good.

And he saw it and it was good.

And he saw it and it was good.

And when he was finished,

he saw it and it was

and it was very good.

and friends I think we live with a serious case of forgetfulness about how good that was

and of course we would because we don't live in a world that doesn't express that goodness

one commentator Tremper Longman who wrote a great book on how to read the book of Genesis

if you ever want that it's a short accessible introduction to the book says this this

is important because the early Israelites the original readers of this creation account

would not have experienced the world as entirely good and the same is true today the creation

account informs and ensure assures us that the world as created by God was good

and friends though we experience the world is not always good today yet we still do don't we

we still taste the goodness of it we taste it in those moments where we interact with creation and we are

awed and overwhelmed by its beauty and its majesty and its splendor

we taste it when and I know many of you are scientists in this room when you look through

the microscope and you see the amazing thing that God created and the incredible intricacy

and delicacy of how God made that work

you see it in the creativity of human beings who in God's image make art and music and literature

who act and perform and sing who do these things in reflection of this original goodness

goodness and though it is not as good as it was we can still taste it and remember that it is true

and friends we see his goodness in the final day don't we after having said it was very good

God then rested he rested from all his work

now we need to see that in the greater picture of this and when God gave the law in Sinai book of

Exodus the creation story was because God rested from his works in the seventh day we too are to

observe a Sabbath and to rest from our works recognize that this is again a counter story

against some of the ancient near eastern stories where human beings in the form of creation as the

gods were taking control of the world were seeking to do so so that they could enslave human beings

and make them work for them all the time that is not a life-giving God and it is not good but here we see God's goodness in his life-giving gift of this seventh day where he rested from his work rest so that we can enjoy God's creation and its goodness rest so that we can enjoy God himself

God did not rest because he was tired or because he was bored or because he was bored or because he was out of ideas

God rested so that he might enjoy the works that he created

and to model for us and to set a pattern for us to live that we too might find rest in him

and that rest that he invites us into

the rest of enjoying his creation is something that

then as the Bible plays itself out will be a beautiful rest

with God forever

in his presence and in his good creation

when he redeems and recreates the world for himself

we know this is true we see it see it and we've read it in John

already but let me remind you again

it's going to memorize just quote it but I might mess it up so I'll just read it so we don't mess it

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 was not anything made that was made

in him was life

and the life was the light of men

and the light shines in the darkness

and the darkness

has not overcome it

friends this is the good news

is that God who created the world

that we might see and enjoy his goodness

has come as the redeemer of the world

so that he might restore it to its goodness

to a greater glory

in fact

in heaven

through this one Jesus

the light who has come

to banish the darkness of sin and death

and the one who will

in eternity

be our light

and be our life

the sovereign ruler

bridges the gap

between him and us

by entering in

to his creation

in the incarnation

of Jesus Christ

he comes so that he might be

a life

giving savior

to all who believe in him

that we might be rescued

from the death

of our sin

and our rebellion

against God

and he comes so that

as we are raised

to new life with him

we may know his goodness

now

and for all eternity

this is the gospel

this is the good news

of Jesus Christ

this is the end of the story

that Genesis 1 begins

let's pray

Lord I pray

this morning

that you would

capture us

with the awe

of

what a creator

God you are

and that this world

that you have made

Lord

is

Lord

an expression

of your creative

sovereignty

and your creative

life giving power

and your creative

goodness

Lord I pray

that we might

have assurance

and confidence

in you today

in whatever we are facing

in whatever we are walking through

that this is the God

who rules and reigns

over all things

and over our lives

for your glory

and for our good

we pray

in Jesus name

Amen

well friends

it would be fitting

for us

as we

as we close

to observe

communion

the Lord's Supper

we come to this table

in order to remember

what it is

that God did

to redeem us

how it is

that he has come

ultimately

to be our life giving

savior

we celebrate

by drinking

by eating

a cracker

at that

tolerated

by eating

a cracker

O

to be

SD

can

expose

a cracker

and

over

to be

have