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I Believe in GodMaker of Heaven and Earth (Continued)

Genesis 1:1I Believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth (contd) O come let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord, our maker, for He is our God and we are the people of His pasture and the flock under His care. Let us worship Him. Our Lord and God, Father, Son, holy Spirit, triune God, one God, eternal God, our God through Jesus Christ our Lord, we come into your presence this day on the terms that You have proposed and through the way which You alone make possible, that blood-sprinkled way. And as we have trusted in Jesus Christ alone for our salvation, as we have rested on Your promises, as we have responded to Your word of revelation and covenant and blessing, we have been brought out of darkness into Your marvelous light. We have been changed from…

The First Things (Creation) (1): In the Beginning God

If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn to the first chapter of the Bible, Genesis, chapter 1. Genesis means origin or beginning. And this book, the book of Genesis, lays the groundwork, not only for the book of Exodus which logically and necessarily follows from it, but also for the rest of Scripture. Matthew Henry, a long time ago, said “Genesis is a name borrowed from the Greek. It signifies the original or generations.” Fitly is this book so called, for it is a history of originals. The creation of the world. The entrance of sin and death into the world. The invention of the arts. The rise of nations and especially the planting of the church and the state of it in early days. “It is also,” Henry said, “a history of generations. The genealogies…

I Believe in GodMaker of Heaven and Earth

Genesis 1:1I Believe in God the Father…Creator of Heaven and Earth Turn with me in your Bibles to Genesis 1. Today we are continuing our study of The Apostles’ Creed. As we work through the Creed, topically studying the subjects of this great statement of Christian affirmation, it has been our intention all along to root these assertions in the word of Scripture, so that our confidence in speaking them comes not simply from being in accord with the rest of the tradition of the church, but clearly from God's authoritative word, the holy Scripture. Now, as we have looked through the Creed so far, we have studied at least three things. One, we've looked at the Christian view of, and the importance of, belief. What it means to believe, especially in a culture that likes opinions,…

The First Things (Creation) (3): The Days of Creation

If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to the very first chapter again, Genesis, chapter 1. One of the elders said to me, given the fact that we took two weeks to cover verses 1 and 2, that we were all going to be dead before I finished the book of Genesis. So we're going to see how far we can get tonight in Genesis 1, and we’ll pick up in verse 3. What I'd like to do, Lord willing, is give you an overview of the creation days. There really is so much here that we…

The First Things (Creation) (4): The Sixth Day

If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn again to Genesis, chapter 1. We’ll begin tonight in verse 24 as we zero in on the sixth day. We've already said that Genesis lays the groundwork, the foundation not only for the book of Exodus, not only the rest of the Old Testament, but for all of the Scriptures. We've said that for the first two verses of Genesis, we're brought face to face with the ultimate reality. That is, not the universe, but God, who is in a sense bigger…

The First Things (Creation) (5): The Creation…

If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis chapter 1 and verse 26. Last week we focused on the fact that man is created in the image of God. What we tried to do was briefly define what that means. We use that phrase a lot. We talk about being in the image of God and yet sometimes we have a little fuzzy conception of what it means to be in the image of God. So we tried to put some content to that language that we use a lot. And we said basically five things. We said…

The First Things (Creation) (6): The Creation Sabbath

If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis, chapter 2. These are perhaps words you thought you’d probably never hear. Genesis, chapter 2. Let me review for you just a little of what we've done as we've looked at Genesis, chapter 1 together. We've already said that Genesis lays the foundation, not simply for the Exodus, but for the whole of the Old Testament. Indeed, for the whole of the scriptures. Isn't it interesting. We’re going to see at least…

The First Things (Creation) (7): The Covenant of Works

If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis, chapter 2, and we’ll begin in verse 4 this evening. We have reviewed Genesis 1 saying that the first two verses of that book bring us face to face with the ultimate reality, the one true God. And then the remainder of Genesis 1 tells us the sovereignty of God in creation as He creates day by day the whole of the heavens and the earth. And for the last couple of weeks we have been looking at the matter of creation…

The First Things (Creation) (8):The Ordinance of…

If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis, chapter 2. We have, for the last few weeks, been looking at the creation ordinances as they are recorded in chapters 1 and 2. We have outlined those ordinances in four parts. We've said that there are many legitimate ways to number the creation ordinances. Sometimes you hear three names. John Murray finds seven in his great book, Principles of Conduct. We've numbered them for the sake of convenience here, one through…

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