Day Three: Land, Seas, and Trees | Pastor Andrew Coleman | 10/4/2026

Indeed, we have just sung one of the

greatest truths of the Bible that we

love because he first loved us.

And not only that, but we are to fix our

eyes on Jesus, the author and the

perfector of our faith. If you don't

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new to us,

um I think it might be important for me

to take just a second and explain to you

what's about to happen.

Um

uh we we have some new folks in the life

of our church um and uh they they were

sharing with me. They said, "I've been

coming for a year and I I really have

learned to love the teaching of the

Bible, but I had no idea what happened

the very first Sunday I was here. In

fact, I went out to the car wondering

what just happened. Um what did I just

see? What what does it Was I in a

college classroom or was I in a church?

I'm not sure.

And um

it's because we do study the Bible.

Jesus said, "Come and learn of me." And

so what's about to happen is we're about

to study the Bible. We're about to study

it what we call expositorily, which

means that we're going to go through

section by section and sometimes it's

word by word or phrase by phrase, verse

by verse as we study. Right now, we are

studying

in Genesis. Now, um

not only do we study the Bible, but we

also at different times of the year we

study church history a little bit

because church history can be very

helpful. On Wednesday night in October,

I am going to be telling the story of

the Reformation. So, I'm going to be

teaching something called the

Reformation story, the events, the

people, and the doctrines of the

Reformation. Um some of you don't

realize that had the Reformation not

occurred, this service might be being

conducted in Latin.

But because

the Reformation occurred 500 years ago,

we are not singing in Latin, we are not

preaching in Latin when we come to

worship. So, some of you are a little

confused about what in the world does

Latin have to do with it. Come on

Wednesday night and we will be hearing

the exciting story of the reclamation of

the gospel into the life of the church.

But our current series is this. So, on

Sunday mornings we've been looking at

Genesis 1 through 11. We've entitled

this the God of everything. And as we've

studied this is message seven. But as

part of message seven, few messages ago

we looked at day one of creation. And

help me out. Let's say it together. Day

one was what?

Let there be light. We studied how God

is the center of creation. He's the

beginning of it is this. He's the first

subject of the Bible. He's the first

actor of the Bible. And listen to this,

the first words ever spoken in the

universe, that God spoke in the universe

was, let there be light. That was

Genesis 1:1. Then we came to day two,

Genesis 1:1

preparing for life. Day two,

in in fact verse two is kind of a

strange

verse. It it is this picture that there

was a primordial, just a

watery presence. The earth was covered

in water. There was darkness. God

created light. And then we see God

separating the waters from the water. We

see that he's creating a heavens that is

there. So, that was day two. He's

preparing the world for life. This

morning we come to day three, land,

seas, and trees. So, I want us to see

this this morning as we come to this.

So, notice there in day one, this is on

your review. Go to the review. Day one

day one, God created light and separated

light from darkness. You're going to

notice a theme here. He separated light

from darkness. In day two, God separated

the waters from the expanse. That means

that he made a space between the waters.

This is the heavens. And so there was

this emphasis of separation. We see it

now today in day three, God makes

another key separation.

And we're going to see this is part of

his process. This is part of his plan,

and we're going to gain some things from

this as we study. Now, let's go to the

box on the page there in Genesis 1:9-13.

Genesis 1:9–13

If you're watching online, you can see

the text will be on the screen in front

of you. And by the way, you can also if

you're bring coming to us online, you

can download our notes that everyone

here is everyone here is has a four-page

outline to help them

um study this morning. You can download

those notes and also follow along. Look

at verse nine with me.

And God said,

"Let the waters under the heavens, so

these are the lower waters, this would

be the seas, let the waters under the

heavens be gathered together in one

place, and let the dry land appear."

So, before this, there was not dry land.

Let the dry land appear. And then look

what it says at the end of verse nine.

Read it out loud.

Okay, that was half of you. Now, all of

you. Let's read it again. At the end of

verse nine, what does it say?

Excellent. This is amazing. God commands

it, it was so.

Verse 10. God called the dry land earth.

And the waters that were gathered

together, he called seas.

And God saw that it was good. Verse 11.

And God said said, "Let the earth sprout

vegetation, plants yielding seed, fruit

trees bearing fruit in which is their

seed, each according to its kind on the

earth." And what does it say there at

the end of verse 11?

And it was so. So, twice we see that in

day three.

Verse 12.

The earth brought forth vegetation,

plants yielding seed according to their

own kind, trees bearing fruit in which

is their seed, each according to its

kind.

And God saw that it was good. Verse 13.

And there was evening, and there was

morning,

the third day.

So, let's see some key things from this

text. First of all, notice what happens

on day three. This is on your outline

here. Notice this. The The first thing

that we notice is that God separates the

waters from the dry land. And secondly,

we see that God names them. And what

does he name them? Earth and sea.

And then we see that God declares them

good. Now, part of our noticing here

that God names things is this It's You

know, when you when you make something,

you get to name it.

And so, that's part of the authority

that we see here. And throughout this,

what we've studied so far, what we've

pointed out is that number one, God is

the center, not creation, not man. And

all of this narrative

that we see that in the very first

verse. What does it say? In the

beginning

God, right? In the beginning God created

the heavens and the earth. He created

everything. So, he has the authority to

create, he does it, we start to see a

little bit of how he does it. We could

fill the universe with volumes of of of

technical manuals of how he constructed

everything, how he created physical

matter to exist. We could we could go in

in in if he was God, he could have made

this entire book

about the physical universe and how he

did it.

But instead, what we see is that he just

gives us really two chapters out of

1,189

chapters of the Bible. He gives us two

chapters on how he did it.

So, that must tell us that the physical

creation and how he did it, while it's

important, it's not nearly as important

as your spiritual life because the rest

of the Bible is about your spiritual

life before him.

Really, the rest of the Bible is how you

relate to him. So, God separates the

waters from the dry land. He names it

because he it is good and that it is

right. The third thing he does is he

creates the various kinds of vegetation.

We're going to see why this is

important. On your outline, it says

procreative plants. We see that. They

have seeds in them.

They sprout growth and then they can

they can multiply. So, we see this.

That's going to come up more.

God declares them good as well.

So, when we looked at day one, we asked

ourselves, do you remember this? We

asked ourselves what creation would be

like without the key element that was

created by God on that day. And does

anybody remember on day one, what was

the key element of the universe that God

created?

It was light.

And so, we ask ourselves, what would

happen if he hadn't done that?

What if he created everything else, but

he hadn't created light?

Well, I

I I think that it it just wouldn't work,

right?

And it certainly would Would any of you

like to bang around life in the dark?

I mean, just no light? You say, "Well,

blind people do that." Yes, that's a

very few, and that's a very big

handicap. Some of them tremendous

blessings of their lives, their their

blindness brings about actually things

that many of us have never thought

about. God gives them the grace to do

that, but everyone would say, "Oh, how I

would hate to lose my sight. How light

is a help to us. How light is

wonderful." And we we see that the very

first thing that God creates in

everything is light.

And we'd hate to imagine our universe

without that.

Now again, we can ask this question.

Notice on your outline. Now we can ask

ourselves what our world would be like

without dry land or vegetation.

What would our world be like without dry

land or vegetation?

Well, we can kind of know what it would

be like. You say, "Really? How can we

kind of know?" Well, um think about this

with me. There are worlds like this.

Think of Jupiter's moon moon Europa.

Think of Jupiter's moon Europa. I I want

you to kind of notice Europa. Here's

Europa. And I I want you to see this.

Europa is a is a massive moon around the

massive planet of Jupiter.

And while it looks like a solid surface,

and it is solid, it's still water. It's

just frozen water. This is what's

amazing.

Um scientists tell us, and they do this

from from various probes that have gone

by and and conducted all kinds of tests

concerning the electrical conductiveness

of the moon. and what they said was

Europa is really covered with what is

thought to be salt water.

And the outer layer of Europa is ice,

but it's really a planet of water, or

excuse me, a moon of the size of a

planet of water. It's a liquid

underneath the surface. So, um when you

come to look at it, that's frozen ice,

and then there's dust and dirt that has

accumulated on the surface, but if it

were to thaw out, it would look like

this. The entire surface of the whole

thing would look like this.

And there's other bodies that we've

discovered that we we think have not

just a gaseous surface, but even a

liquid surface. Now, when we come to the

word of God, and we come to see this,

this is where it starts out.

That the waters were covering the earth.

I want you to think about this for just

a moment, and you can kind of almost

imagine a video presentation of this

from the movie Interstellar. Some of you

saw the movie Interstellar.

We see that the spacecraft that is there

traveling from world to world looking

for and it's interesting, they're

looking for options for a dying earth.

They're looking for other places, kind

of like what Elon Musk and and Jeff

Bezos are going after to to get to a

plan B for planet Earth. It's very

interesting that humans are thinking

about that, but their spacecraft goes

and it comes to this world

that is simply covered in water.

The whole planet is covered in water,

and it's covered in this case in

knee-deep water. They go and they say,

"Well, this

this is obviously no place

where we could survive. There's not,

apparently, there's no life here, but

there is water."

And so, we've of seen imagery like that

and we can just imagine what it would be

like if God stopped in his creation

process and didn't bring along day

three. It would just be back

to water to water.

Look on your outline though, it's more

than the fictional Miller's planet in

Interstellar. It it also the picture

would be

what if there was no vegetation?

Well, we also know what that would look

like.

Um

not ready to turn over page yet. Sorry.

I want you to imagine both of these. I

want you to imagine a world covered with

water and I want you to imagine a world

that was devoid of anything living.

Devoid of any planet. We know what that

would look like. We've sent many probes

to Mars.

We've sent rovers and they wandered

around from all the way back in the 70s.

We got pictures of what it looks like.

In the 80s.

Some areas very rocky, other areas very

dusty. Something that looks a little bit

like ET sitting there just not alive.

It's a rover.

And they sent back fantastic pictures

um of a lifeless planet.

A planet with no vegetation.

Um

this next picture is actually a false

color picture because the sky actually

should be orange um because there is no

ozone in that in that very very thin

atmosphere of Mars. There's almost no

atmosphere of Mars.

Um very very little um that is there,

but this is an accurate picture. This is

a color accurate picture of Mars. It is

desolate and it is red. And we ask

ourselves, what kind of a world would

any of these be? Either just completely

covered with water or

no vegetation. And then the next two

questions are, would you want to live

there?

Could you live there? Now, Elon Musk is

saying,

"I want to go try it out." And I'm like,

"Go to it, buddy."

I'm not interested in You know, I've

been to some beautiful islands before.

And it's funny, if you meet people that

live on islands islands in the Caribbean

or you meet people that even live in

Hawaii. I've been to Hawaii one time.

Cheryl was working there, so Marcy and I

went and stayed with her for a little

bit. And do you know what they talk

about even on the Big Island, the Big

Island of Hawaii?

If you talk to people who live there for

a while, do you know what they sometimes

suffer from?

Rock fever.

Do you know what rock fever means?

They want to get out of there.

They're glad to be there. I mean, they

live in what a lot of people think is

paradise. But after you've been on that

rock for a while, they start getting

antsy and they want to they want to get

off the island. They they want to go to

America. They want to go to Europe. They

want they want to go somewhere. They

want to get on a real continent.

Now, if you feel that way in the

beautiful place of Hawaii, how much more

would you feel that way in this place?

I think after a while, you might start

thinking, "I got to get out of here."

And the only problem is it's 10 months

back to back to Earth or whatever it is.

So, all of this could cause us to think

this. I I I want you to compare that

picture

with this picture.

I want you to compare the beauty of the

oceans and the beauty of the land

and the beauty of God's

amazing creativity in the plant life and

in the fruit, and in the fields

that he gives us.

So, when we look at verse three, this is

really important. When we when we

consider our world and we consider God's

creativity,

and we consider his creative power, and

we consider, listen to this, his

creative process, what we're seeing is

he does all things well.

He doesn't provide us all the tremendous

details. He just simply lets us see what

it could be like. And in this modern day

and time, we are privileged to live in

an era where we have telescopes, and

where we have space probes, and where we

have a few other things where we can

actually go and see what it would be

like had he not done what he's done.

And so, we see the beauty of his plan,

and that brings us to number two. God

separates the waters from the land.

>> [snorts]

>> Look with me in verse nine.

And God said,

And God said, Let the waters under the

heavens be gathered into one place, and

let the dry land appear,

and it was so. God called the dry land

Earth, and the waters that he gathered

together, he called seas, and God saw

that it was good.

I want you to think with me for a moment

about the magnitude

of the oceans.

Um it's no secret, practically every

sermon these days I talk about it.

I love the ocean.

I love the fact that we live not far

from the ocean. We live close by to the

sea.

When I get very long periods of time

when I'm not by the ocean, I get a

little antsy. I I to get to the ocean.

How many of you kind of enjoy the ocean?

You You love to go there. You love to

see it. And it's funny when people who

have not lived near the ocean, people

who from Oklahoma, friends friends and

family, and others people who have been

raised in other places,

um and we take them down to the beach

and we just go walk along the boardwalk,

you know, there's a lot of times they'll

just stand there and they'll just look

out there at the beach and and they'll

make all kinds of comments. They'll say,

"Man, it's so big."

They'll say, "Look at that. It's so

far."

And they'll they'll say I One guy stood

there and he said, "Man, that's a lot of

water."

>> [laughter]

>> Yeah, it is the ocean.

Um

But if you were to take a deep dive,

literally,

and think about the weight of the water.

Gallon of water weighs 8 lb.

And there's there's weight. It builds

up. The crushing

pressure of just mere depth.

There's tremendous power in that. The

power of the tides.

The enormous force

of wind and waves. It's It's really

amazing. In fact, I want you to see

these basic facts.

About 71%

of the earth is covered About 71% of the

earth is covered by ocean.

So, that's a

a very vast majority of the surface of

the earth is covered by ocean. The seas

are huge.

But not only are they huge, but they're

also deep. The average depth of the

ocean is 2.3 miles deep, 12,000

ft deep.

How many of you have a swimming pool or

a swimming pool in your complex?

How deep is your swimming pool?

6 feet

5 feet Back in the old days, 70s

and 80s, 60s and 80s 60s and 70s they

were building swimming pools that were 8

and 10 feet deep. They were great.

I don't know how we got to these wimpy

6-ft deep pools. Those are no fun, but

but the average depth of the ocean is

12,000

feet deep.

I mean, look at how much water

fills the oceans.

352

quintillion

gallons and many of you have never even

heard of a quintillion.

That's a lot of zeros. That's a lot of

water.

And then multiply that times eight

and then you know how heavy it is.

The deepest point of the oceans is

Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench.

This is over by the Philippines. It's

36,000

feet deep or that's nearly 7 miles deep.

And at that depth, the pressure is

16,000

pounds per square inch. So, 1 square

inch has 16,000 pounds of pressure

pushing on it.

That's power. That's That's It's It's

hard to imagine

this. And what we see here is that if

all of the land

was even

if all if there were no mountains and

there was no valleys if all the land was

even, it was completely even, water

would cover all of the earth 1.7

miles deep. That's a lot of water.

But we we don't have it that way.

97%

of the earth's water is in the oceans.

Only 3% of the earth's water is in lakes

and rivers and streams

um that are around us. So, um the oceans

are huge and there's there's a reason

why God in his wisdom shows us that he

separates

and causes the land to come up to dry

ground. And I want us to see some things

here. Think about this as we as we look

at the magnitude of the oceans. Look at

Isaiah 40 and verse 12. Can you read

Isaiah 40 verse 12 with me? Let's read

Isaiah 40:12

it out loud.

Who has measured the waters in the

hollow of his hand?

The oceans of the world

God can hold in the hollow of his hand.

Look at Job 38.

Or who shut in the sea with doors when

it burst out from the womb? When I was

made clouds in it when I made clouds its

garment and thick darkness its swaddling

band and prescribed limits for it and

set bars and doors and thus said, "Thus

far you shall come and no further." This

is talking about stopping

the water, raising up the land. And here

shall your proud waves be stayed. That

means that they shall stay there.

In Psalm 104 verses 6 through 9, we see

Psalms 104:6–9

similar ideas. You [snorts] covered it

with the deep, that's the oceans, as

with a garment. The water stood above

the mountains. At your rebuke, they

fled. At the sound of your trumpet, they

took flight. The mountains rose, the

valleys sank down to the place where you

appointed for them. Look at verse 9. You

set a boundary that they shall that that

may they may not pass so that they might

not again cover the earth. Now, whether

that is speaking in this Psalm of

creation or whether that would be

speaking

of the time after the flood which we are

going to study, either is true. We see

God's power over the seas and his

purpose. Notice this, God sets the

boundaries of the sea for his good

design and purposes.

He has a purpose for this. He has a

purpose in his preparation for life.

Look at verse three or or excuse me,

number three on page three. In verses 9

and 10, we see that God causes the dry

land to appear. Now, very often when we

read these passages, we just go flying

through them. We don't really Yeah, he

made light and then he did this and then

he did that. We don't We don't think

very deeply. Maybe we don't think about

the magnitude of the oceans.

Maybe we don't think about him causing

there to be dry land and the fact that

he had a purpose in this. And this is

why it's good for us as a church to take

the time to work through to walk through

hear these opening words of scripture

that show us the mighty and the majesty

God the mighty hand of God and the

majesty of God that he has the ability

to do these things because when we start

to see that he is the God of creation

on the massive scale of the universe and

our world and the oceans and the land

and the mountains.

That brings in proper perspective his

ability to work

in our little lives.

So, it's very important that we see and

gain all that we can from the Genesis

account. Look at this with me. In verse

9 it says, "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.

Now, under under that you see that God

does not tell us how he accomplished

this.

But he does tell us that he did it.

This means no one else did it. This

means a process didn't do it that was

apart from him.

It is good for us to remember that when

you go to the mountains and you go to

the Cliffs of Dover in Southern England,

or you go to the Alps, or the Rockies,

or you go to the shoreline of Maine, or

you go to the Big Sur in California, or

wherever it is that you go and you see

the formations of the world and you see

the boundaries set by the oceans, you

can say, "My God's word tells me that my

God did this."

This beauty that I'm looking at is what

he did, and he did it for a reason.

It's a beauty

that translates to our lives. Notice

that Notice this. So, his method is not

as important as his sovereign command

and ability. He has a sovereign command

that he does and it happens. As we've

noticed here, notice that God names the

dry land Earth and he gathers the waters

and he names them

seas.

He names also, this is a good thing for

us to recognize,

um

one of the commentators that I was

looking at, um just really points this

out. Notice this. God names the great

realms. He

What do we mean by a realm?

If we If we talk about the realm of a

kingdom, that we we talk about that

entire kingdom, that domain.

And so, it's a big space. It's a big

place

that that's defined

by a certain idea. Here we see the realm

of the day. He calls it day. He says,

"The darkness." This is night, the realm

of the night.

And then there's the realm of the

heavens. This is the heavens both in the

sky that we have here on Earth, but it's

also the heavens that is in all of the

universe, the heavens.

He calls the dry land Earth. He names

that Earth. It's the realm of dry land.

It's a large area, even though it's only

30%

of the Earth's surface.

Still, you go and look across America,

it's big. Go look across South South

America, it's big. Go look across

Africa, it's massive. And then go look

all the way across Europe, 12 time

zones, it goes from one end to the

other, from Western Europe all the way

to the other end of Russia. It is

massive. It is a big place. It is the

realm of dry land.

It's good for us to remember, but here's

what God does in these great realms. He

names them, but we're going to see later

and he he shares his dominion

with Adam.

He allows Adam to start naming things.

Now, that's kind of amazing.

If I created the whole animal kingdom,

I'm not sure I'd let you name it.

I mean, if I came up with aardvarks and

anteaters and I came up with zebras and

everything in between

and all of this beauty, I'm not sure I'd

let other people put names on it. But,

you know what? That's what God does, in

his generosity.

It's kind of like when Pastor Ben is

working on something with Noah

and Pastor Ben kind of lets Noah take

over part of the project, lets Noah

decide which way the line is going to go

and what curve is going to be there for

this and how it's going to look. When

Pastor Ben just kind of lets him do it,

then then Noah is sharing under the

authority of Pastor Ben, his his dad,

working on something and Noah starts

doing his part with it and so there's

this beautiful generosity.

And that's what we see God

do with little old measly man.

God is generous.

So, we see his generosity. He shares his

dominion

with Adam. So, from the start we're

starting to see some some big things

about God.

That he has the authority to do it all

by himself, he has the authority to name

it, he deserves to be able to name it.

But, then we see a little picture of

what's about to come

when we see Adam and we see Adam given

the responsibilities.

God's generosity. All of this

talks about God's generosity. Look at

number four, God covers the land with

vegetation.

This is part of what we see in the the

generosity of it. Look at verse 11 and

12 are very interesting.

Uh and we're going to see this

progression. They they they almost

repeat word for word everything, but

there's there's one minor difference.

Let's look at it and see here. 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 seed

according to their own kinds trees

bearing fruit in which is their seed

each according to its own kind and God

saw that it was good. So day three moves

from

forming

to filling.

Remember we [snorts] said that we we we

said that we're going to see that God is

forming the earth and then he starts

filling the earth.

And the first part that he does the

filling with is the vegetation.

So day three sees life come into

creation. Um you see this is the first

when we're talking about vegetation,

when we're talking about when we're

talking about plants, we're talking

about things that are alive, things that

have life. We go from physical science

to biology.

The study of life.

Notice the emphasis on progressing

production in both of these verses. We

see there's going to be sprouting

vegetation, there's going to be plants

yielding seed and there's going to be

fruit trees bearing fruit in which is

their seed.

You say yeah, of course that's just

that's just horticulture. It's not No

friends, listen, it's much more than

that. The reason this is included in

Genesis for us is to see the nature of

God's intent for life to go and to grow

and to progress and to not stop.

It's God's intention that we would fill

and multiply, that the plants would fill

and multiply on the earth. This is God's

design for life. This is God's beauty in

his plan

for life.

This is going to this is going to

translate into many spiritual things in

our lives.

So, in Genesis, we're seeing the

physical world developing, but that

physical world is going to show us a

whole spiritual world.

And that's why it mentions seeds

yielding fruit.

There's a bunch of spiritual principles

that are going to come out of this

for us to see that God designed our

whole existence to be around.

It's a progressing

production of this. Notice this life has

continuation

and reproduction built into it.

And notice that this life has variety in

various kinds

that come from the start.

And I think it's very interesting that

it also seems to be an immediate

refutation in a incipient way of

Darwinism from the start.

That this wasn't a progressive evolution

of these things. This is day three and

God does it.

This is day three in the plants have the

seeds in them to reproduce.

There's there's there's no talk about an

extended time here. This is God's start.

He He creates the trees with the seeds

to continue.

Notice with me number five.

Day three again reveals God's absolute

authority.

And that is one of the key themes

throughout this entire narrative.

That it's not a bunch of gods fighting

with each other, as we've said before.

God is inspiring Moses to write it down,

so God's people know, "No, it wasn't a

bunch of gods fighting in the heavenly

somewhere to create the world. Your sun

and your moon and your stars and your

land and your fruit and your fields and

your wheat didn't come as a result of a

bunch of gods either fighting with one

another or gods giving birth to each

other, and that's how So, all the

mythologies of those things are false

[snorts] gods."

And so, God gives Genesis to Moses, God

gives the beginning story to Moses, so

that God's people, under Moses'

leadership, can know clearly that it is

the God who is the creator of all

things. It's God who is the or

originator of all things, and we are his

people.

Now, verse 11 is really interesting. I

told you that they almost They're almost

exact, they mimic each other, and here's

the point. We hear God's command in

verse 11, and we see creation's response

in verse 12.

So, God commands it, and then creation

exists. God creation responds. Remember

we said last week, it's very interesting

that God speaks, he makes commands, all

of creation, all of physical matter obey

him, and God creates man, and what does

man do?

Disobeys him.

>> [snorts]

>> Really from the start.

Look at Psalm 33 verses 8 through 9.

Psalms 33:8–9

"Let all the earth fear the Lord. Let

all the inhabitants of the world stand

in awe of him." That's the point. That's

the point of Genesis.

"For he spoke, and what?"

"And it came to be.

He commanded and what?

And it stood firm.

This is This is a beautiful

beautiful

synopsis of what we see in Genesis 1. We

would do well to follow creation's

example.

Number six, day three.

Day three is revealing the wisdom and

provision of God.

And this is so good. It it it shows us

God's plan. Look, God is preparing the

world for creatures he will make.

You see, before the birds, there are

trees. We see that in day three. Before

the cattle, there is grass. We see that

in day three. Before Adam, there is

food. Before Eve, there is fruit.

God is providing.

God in his wisdom and his process. Uh

it would be a bad idea to create Adam

first and have him with say give him

swimming lessons out there. Then okay,

watch out Adam, get out of the way. The

land is coming up out of the water.

Okay, stand over there on that rock.

Okay. Just I know you're hungry. You're

just going to have to wait until I

create food.

That's not what he does with Adam.

It's not what he does with the birds.

It's not what he does with the trees.

It's It's all in order.

He does it well.

Over and over again, it says it is good.

Look at Psalm 104 verse 14.

Psalms 104:14

You cause the grass to grow for the

livestock and the plants for for man to

cultivate that he may bring forth food

from the earth.

So, we see the goodness of God. We see

the provision of God. We see that God

provides. Now, Jesus keys on this.

Jesus looks at creation and there's a

spiritual

lesson and reason and a profound message

to us.

From the Sermon on the Mount, when Jesus

says it this way, he refers to God's

wise provision for his people. Look at

verse 25.

Therefore, I tell you, Jesus is

speaking. Therefore, I tell you, do not

be anxious about your life,

what you will eat or what you will

drink, nor about your body, or what you

will you will put on. Is not life more

than food and the body more than

clothing?

Look at what?

The birds of the air. They neither sow,

nor do they reap, nor gather into barns,

yet your heavenly Father feeds them. You

Are you not of more worth or are you not

more valuable than they? Verse 27. And

which of you by being anxious can add a

single hour to his lifespan? And why are

you anxious about clothing?

Consider the lilies of the field, how

they grow. They neither toil nor spin,

so they're they're not they're not

making clothing.

Yet I tell you that even Solomon in all

of his glory was not arrayed like one of

these. Verse 30. But if God so clothes

the grass of the field, which today is

alive and tomorrow is thrown into the

oven, so it was used for fuel to burn,

will he not much more clothe you,

O you of little faith? Therefore, do not

be anxious. Third time anxiety is

brought up. Verse 25, verse 27, and now

in verse 31. Very appropriate for us in

2026, when anxiety is one of the biggest

issues in our lives.

Verse 31, "Therefore, do not be anxious,

saying, 'What shall we eat? What shall

we drink? What shall we wear?'"

Verse 32, "For the Gentiles are those

who don't seek God.

For the Gentiles seek all these things,

and your heavenly Father knows that you

need them all."

Now, this is the God of creation who

knows what you need. And this is the

Lord who spoke the world. He This is the

word say it is Jesus, word in the flesh,

the one who was present at at creation.

Jesus is saying, "You don't need to be

anxious about the things in your life. I

created the world for you. I did it the

right way. It was good. It is

Even in your fallenness, I still know

how to take care of you."

So, when you study Genesis 1, and you

study the days of creation, you can have

great encouragement that God is applying

the power of his creation to the power

of caring for the needs of your life.

What a beautiful thing that God would

bring up the birds of the fear field,

the lilies of the birds of the air, the

lilies of the field and say,

"Are you not worth much more

than them?"

You see, so day three also shows us

this. Both in verse 10 and in verse 13,

it repeats this statement that God saw

that it was good.

Twice we see that God's work is good in

day three.

We not only see his great power, but we

see his great goodness. Not only can he

move the magnitude of the oceans aside,

let the dry land appear, he has the

power to do all of this mass I mean, we

need a few feet of extra beach at

Hollywood, Florida, and we have to get

trucks and whole systems and we're

mining it and we're bringing it and

they'll work month after month. They

have to It'll cost millions and millions

and millions of dollars to move a little

bit of sand and God can cause one storm

to go by and move it all again.

I mean, when we were in St. Augustine, a

hurricane went by and I went down there

to check the beach after the hurricane

and the beach was gone.

I'm serious.

I mean, it was 150 ft of beach was gone.

I mean, for miles.

We see his power.

But we also see in the creation plan his

great goodness and his provision.

You see, he's he is revealing this

standard of things

being as they ought to be. That's why it

says, "It is good." Look at Psalm 104

and verse 24. I'd like to ask you to

read that out loud with me.

Let's read.

O Lord, how manifold are your works. In

wisdom you have made them all.

In wisdom have you made them all. Amen?

Let's stand together for prayer.

Father, we thank you this morning that

you are the God of creation.

That we were not created by a set of

warring gods or myths.

We were not created by

an accidental explosion.

We are not created by anything other

than a loving God of intelligence

and holiness and grace.

Father, we thank you that you created

the waters of the earth and then

separated them and gave dry land so that

we would have a place to live.

Father, I thank you that we don't live

in a place that looks like Mars

without vegetation, without food.

>> [music]

>> Lord, I thank you that you gave the

plants and the trees of the earth.

Trees after their own kind and the seeds

that allow them to continue to propagate

and grow.

>> [music]

>> Father, I thank you that you've given us

all of this to show us your heart of

provision.

>> [music]

>> And Lord, I thank you especially for

that Matthew passage that relates all of

that down to our daily lives.

Lord, that the God of creation is the

God who says, "I will take care of you

[music]

if you will listen to me."

Now Lord, those who don't seek you

continually search for all of those

things in their own strength,

known as the Gentiles or those who don't

know God.

Lord, I pray that we would not be like

that.

I pray that we would be a people [music]

who recognize that there's a reason you

did what you did.

And in your love and in your grace, that

you would not only provide our food,

but far more importantly, you would

provide our savior

who would wash away our sins

and make us ready for heaven.

And heaven not only someday after we

die, but

you would give us eternal life now,

forgiveness of sin, freedom

from sin. Father, we thank you for being

so loving

and gracious and wise

>> [music]

>> a God.

Lord, I pray for those who bear heavy

burdens this morning

and have really been nervous about some

things. Staying up at night, can't

sleep.

Racing thoughts.

Burdened hearts. Shoulders heavy with

a load of care. Father, I pray

that you would give light to their life

to their mind and heart to trust in you.

>> [music]

>> I pray that those who do not know the

grace of Christ would run to him

and see that he died for their sins

so that they don't have to be anxious.

[music]

Lord, I pray that you would come and

relieve us of burdens that we bear

as we trust in you. In Jesus' [music]

name.

Amen.

We're going to sing O God, the uncreated

one. He was from the beginning. He's the

author of our salvation. He wrote the

laws of time and space and he fashioned

the worlds to what? [music]

His design. Let's sing it with all our

heart this morning.