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 than the universe if we can think in special terms metaphorically for a minute. But the remainder of the chapter from verse 3 to the very end displays God's sovereignty in creation in the unfolding stories of the six days. And we've over viewed the content and the lessons of those days.…