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 could spend a tremendous amount of time in it. There was one professor of Old Testament at our seminary a few years ago who was very often assigned the course where he was to teach from Genesis to Joshua. As I recall the students told me he never got beyond Genesis 12. The entire term was spent in…

The First Things (Creation) (2): In the Beginning

If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn again with me to Genesis, chapter 1, and we’ll look again at the first couple of verses. We said as we started our study that Genesis means origins or beginnings and it lays the groundwork not only for the book of Exodus but for the rest of scripture. The principles, the foundation that is set forth there is basic to everything else in scripture. The book, of course, begins with God’s creation of the world, but its early chapters record in addition to the creation of the world, three low points in primeval history. It records the fall, the flood and the incident at the tower of Babel. In each instance, God responds to those low points in both judgment and grace. So from the very beginning of God’s dealings with us recorded…

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…

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