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[00:00] All right so today we're gonna be in Genesis 1 again my dad last week did
[00:06] Genesis 1 versus 1 and 2 and this week we're gonna be in verses 3 through 13
[00:13] 3 through 13 much rather this than just two verses no thanks so I'm not gonna
[00:23] lie when I was reading this passage over my initial reaction was well I guess
[00:28] we're all going back to school because this bad boy is about to be a lecture
[00:33] because that's how it feels when we read it you'll see why but then I came across
[00:39] this quote by Charles Virgin and when he was speaking about Genesis he said we
[00:45] shall leave all discussion as to the creation of the world to those learned
[00:49] divine to have paid their special attention to that subject and to those
[00:53] geologists who know or at any rate think they know a very great deal about it it
[00:59] is very interesting subject but this is not the time for its consideration our
[01:03] business here is moral and spiritual rather than scientific so great quote
[01:07] but I hated it because I mean I actually had to do some work because for the
[01:13] majority Genesis it's a lot of you know research and see what people are saying
[01:16] and scholars and all that but he's right it is a moral and spiritual matter but
[01:23] today we are gonna do a little bit of both so just so you're aware of where
[01:27] we are going we're going to we're gonna break down the verses so there we're
[01:32] gonna be talking about the first three days of creation day one day two and
[01:35] day three we're gonna break down those verses what they mean maybe the debates
[01:41] around them a little bit but then at the end we're gonna talk about okay well
[01:46] what does the creation story need for us so the first half is gonna be hey what
[01:51] the heck does it mean to separate light and dark and then the end is gonna be
[01:55] hey what does this reveal about God and I will give you a warning though we will
[02:00] be spending most of our time in verses three through five because this sets up
[02:04] the rest of the creation narrative and I tell you this because I know how sermon
[02:09] math works in everyone's minds when someone or a preacher spends 30 minutes
[02:16] on the very first point you think oh whoa how long is point two and three and God
[02:22] forbid they say point four you might as well just pass away in your seat cuz
[02:27] we're gonna be here all day but I promise you that is not the case the
[02:31] first one's gonna take some time and then after that easy peasy all right so
[02:36] let's read our passage first Genesis actually this is kind of the hardest
[02:43] book to get to that first page now all right so Genesis 1 3 through 13 and I
[02:51] just realized all my notes are in the ESV but I'm not even using an ESV right
[02:56] now that's right they'll be close enough the God said let there be light and
[03:01] there was light God saw that the light was good and God separated the light in
[03:06] the darkness God called the light day and he called the darkness night evening
[03:11] came and then morning the first day then God said let there be an expanse between
[03:16] the water separating water from water so God made the expanse and separated the
[03:20] water on the expanse from the water above the expanse and it was so guy
[03:25] called the expanse sky evening came and then morning the second day then God
[03:30] said let the water under the sky be gathered into one place let the dry land
[03:34] appear and it was so God called the land the dry land earth and he called the
[03:39] gathering of the water seas and God saw that it was good and then God said let
[03:44] the earth produce vegetation seed-bearing plants and fruit trees on
[03:48] earth bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds and it was so
[03:51] the earth produced vegetation seed-bearing plants according to its
[03:55] kind and the trees bearing fruit with seed and according to its kind and God
[04:00] saw that it was good evening came and then morning the third day so as we see
[04:06] right up the gate the first day is this seven-fold pattern that recurs each of
[04:10] the six creation days with slight variation but basically the same pattern
[04:15] we see throughout that whole entire passage and really the rest of the
[04:19] creation story and when you are reading Scripture it's important to recognize
[04:23] such patterns because it is not by accident and is usually usually on
[04:28] purpose so you know you know repetition words structures of sentences those are
[04:32] it's not just like on accident Gordon when I'm says this in this commentary
[04:38] number one about this structure says number one you have an announcement God
[04:43] said then to a command let there be in this case let there be light three
[04:49] fulfillment it was so for the execution of that command light in this case five
[04:56] the approval of what has been made God saw that it was good number six and then
[05:01] there was often a subsequent word a furthering fashion of creation or often
[05:06] naming of the creation and then finally number seven having morning evening the
[05:10] day is numbered so a pretty much a structure of seven different it just
[05:14] runs through every day and this is obviously a stylized piece of literature
[05:18] people people will often point out well Genesis is in a science textbook therefore
[05:25] it shouldn't be taken seriously as an origin story and of course it's not a
[05:29] science textbook there were no science textbooks in Genesis but but the
[05:36] language we can see is not meant to be technical and detailed but rather
[05:40] selective and observational and it's you know this literary prose but literary
[05:48] prose and refinement is not the opposite of true so just because it's not super
[05:52] detailed doesn't mean it's not true and this is this is to be read as a
[05:56] historical narrative even if it is stylized we are not in the realm of make
[06:02] believe because as you notice there's no oceans dragons elves
[06:08] dwarves the minds of Moria none of that is in here or as how from Megamind says
[06:15] there is no Easter boundary there is no tooth fairy and there is no such thing
[06:18] as the Queen of England none of this stuff is in here and God doesn't create
[06:23] a man in chapter two give him a stick and say you're a wizard Adam doesn't do
[06:27] any of that and if you were to read some of the other ancient near or the ancient
[06:32] Near Eastern myths and we'll talk about a lot of these parallels most likely come
[06:36] when we get to know up because a lot of the other creation myths have like a
[06:40] flood type story the other myths are they're much more I guess magical and I
[06:49] don't know how to describe it mythical as you would imagine so a lot of people
[06:54] know Greek mythology at least and the Near Eastern myths are similar you have
[06:58] a bunch of gods and goddesses vying for power killing one another sleeping with
[07:02] their creation and they're all sorts of just messed up and the Genesis story is
[07:09] not like that because for us while we have a patterned prose is it is a
[07:13] historical account given by the Holy Spirit to Moses of creation that's what
[07:18] we have here and we find often that in the Old Testament and in the New
[07:22] Testament a writer is hearkening back to the creation account Jesus himself
[07:27] assumes the historical accuracy of Adam and Eve and even quotes them in Genesis
[07:31] 2 saying did not the Creator say in Matthew 19 male and female he created
[07:36] them so even Jesus hearkens back to the Genesis account and it's historical
[07:41] accuracy and then in another case in the Old Testament we see in Psalms 33 David
[07:48] literally has a whole I think it's 33 it is uh it's really the whole it's about a
[07:52] God our Creator and all the creation that he he did in in Genesis and we're
[07:59] gonna and there's other ones in the New Testament and we're gonna talk about them
[08:01] in a little bit but there are callbacks to creation which shows that all
[08:06] throughout history it is seen as a historical text so one of the many points
[08:13] here in Genesis 1 is that creation comes from the voice of God creation comes by
[08:18] the voice of God ten times in this chapter it is recorded God said ten
[08:25] times God said starting in verse 3 on day 1 God said let there be this let
[08:30] there be that and it was so creation comes by the voice of God in creation is
[08:37] a trinitarian act it's a trinitarian act as unlike they know God the Father Son
[08:43] and the Holy Spirit we see in verse we saw him last week in verse 2 the spirit
[08:47] of God hovering over the water so you saw the spirit of God hovering over the
[08:50] waters and now we see the expression of the second person of the Trinity and
[08:54] Jesus you say where I don't see the name Jesus written anywhere but you have the
[08:59] Word and in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word
[09:04] was God all things were created by the means of God's Word his logos his speech
[09:09] and Jesus is the Word of God so if Jesus is the Word of God and it is the Word of
[09:16] God that created creation then Jesus was here at the beginning this is the third
[09:19] this is creation is a trinitarian act and we're gonna talk more about that
[09:24] trinitarian act when we get to what he made have an eve he says let us make man
[09:29] our own image but we'll get more to that when we get to that point I realized
[09:33] this is kind of hard because we're gonna like for example we're gonna talk about
[09:40] light and day well light and day is two weeks from now Adam and Eve kind of gets
[09:43] you know the black interest is there later on but we'll let everyone else
[09:47] deal with those all those hard questions so God said let there be light and there
[09:53] was light and God saw that the light was good and God separated the light from
[09:58] the darkness John Bunyan who wrote the pilgrims progress said this no doubt
[10:05] darkness and light here began their great quarrel for what communion hath
[10:10] light with darkness I love that so from the very beginning we see a conflict
[10:18] between light and darkness and if you are a Christian here this morning you
[10:22] have had a miracle rot in your life every bit as powerful as this miracle of
[10:28] creation right here so one of those instances of the New Testament harking
[10:32] back to the historicity of Genesis is Paul and second Corinthians 4 second
[10:37] Corinthians 4/6 he says this for God's who said let light shine out of the
[10:43] darkness as shown in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory
[10:46] of God in the face of Jesus Christ in other words if you're a
[10:51] Christian that's what God did in your life when he said let there be light he
[10:55] said let he also let there be light in your heart at some point God spoke into
[10:59] your life and when there was no when there was no faith he gave you faith
[11:03] when there was darkness darkness he gave you light when there was death he gave
[11:07] you life he said into your heart let there be light and there was light and
[11:11] it was good so now notice in verse 4 God separates the light from the darkness
[11:18] this is a key theme in the chapter of this you know this separation five times
[11:24] in this first chapter we read of the separation of God's creative creative
[11:30] activity and here he's separating day from night and you can call these acts
[11:36] of separation of ordered design is essentially what it is you can try to
[11:40] picture this like big ball of metamorphic madness just as big gook of
[11:47] something and God is pulling it apart and separating it and making it useful
[11:52] and wonderful in different areas he is separating this mass of chaos into
[11:58] purposeful order he is separating the mass of chaos into purposeful order so
[12:05] I don't know I found it interesting how he in the beginning he's separating
[12:08] these things and it is good you think of our sin a lot of times it is do our do
[12:12] our sin that the separation then becomes bad you know we're separated from God
[12:16] a lot of times get separated from our spouses or in beginning I said it is
[12:20] true actually I don't even separated they weren't before sin and then sin they
[12:25] were separated so in in the sense the very beginning in the garden separation
[12:30] is good and God uses it for order if our sin has made separation bad so God
[12:35] creates light separates it from darkness clears that is good and as you will see
[12:40] through all throughout the creation story that he always ends with calling
[12:44] good and you know the climax of his creation he says is very good in verse
[12:50] how in verse five he then calls the light day now we have to say something
[12:56] about this because the word day has no small amount of controversy I'm not gonna
[13:03] spend a ton of time on it I'm not gonna go to all the science you can read all
[13:07] the books you want they're all gonna disagree at some point because there's a
[13:12] long-standing controversy that probably goes back 150 years at least maybe a
[13:16] little bit more and what what does it mean by day let he called the the light
[13:23] day is it a 24-hour day is it a thousand years is that a day well the Hebrew word
[13:31] is young W Y O M and it normally it normally means a regular 24-hour day and
[13:38] I think there's are good reasons to take yum here referring to as a 24 normal hour
[13:45] day 24-hour day a few quick reasons on why I think it's a 24-hour day and not a
[13:50] you know ages or thousands of years per so in case you aren't familiar there's a
[13:55] comment there's an official name for it gap theory maybe I forget they pretty
[14:01] much say every day is like a thousand years like he separated light and
[14:04] darkness okay that was a thousand years and then he separated the waters okay
[14:07] that another thousand years and that came up and we'll get to this in my fourth
[14:12] reason why I think that's not the case but that came up relatively in recent
[14:18] history compared to all history so but the first reason why I think it's a 24-
[14:21] hour day is first the mentioning of morning and evening certainly we are put
[14:28] into the realm of cycles of darkness and light this suggests very strongly that
[14:34] we were talking about a normal day a day that has darkness a day that has light
[14:40] morning and evening and this fits into the matter-of-fact pattern of Genesis
[14:45] there's light there's day morning evening dark secondly whenever you have
[14:50] the Old Testament we're having the Old Testament numbered days it always refers
[14:55] to a regular day so anytime you only use in the Old Testament it is used as a
[14:59] regular 24-hour day too so when you say well that's the first day and that's the
[15:04] second day that is now a metamorphical day like a thousand years but rather a
[15:08] reference to a normal day in other words and no place in the Old Testament does
[15:14] a day equivalent a long time a period only in Genesis chapter 1 do sometimes
[15:19] do people make that deduction that it's longer than a 24-hour day now they might
[15:25] have better reasons for why that is I didn't read too much into the gap theory
[15:28] of why they think that but Yom is typically always almost always used in
[15:35] 24-hour day so why in the rest of the Old Testament it's used that way so why in
[15:39] just one we don't take it that way or some people don't take it that way I'm
[15:42] not sure third reason why I think it's a 24-hour day the seven days of the week
[15:46] are a pattern of our seven days of the week we don't have seven ages we have
[15:51] literal seven days of the week and there's this pattern ingrained in the
[15:55] Bible of having one day of rest of having a day on day seven of rest and
[16:01] worship and it was the same with creation so these literal 24-hour days
[16:05] that we inhabit in our week are a pattern of regular 24-hour days so these
[16:12] first three I feel like are just more like just logical sense it just makes
[16:14] sense it fits in with our daily lives we've seen it throughout our daily lives
[16:18] that matches with creation but the fourth reason is more of a personal
[16:20] preference and that's more of a the earliest church fathers father followed
[16:25] the 24-hour day they thought it was a 24-hour day and I'm in I'm in the camp
[16:31] of you know it wasn't like the 18th century 17th century where it was you
[16:36] know that thousand-year gap happened and I'm under the thought of I mean to
[16:42] think I know better than some of the early church fathers in the second third
[16:46] fourth fifth century I don't know I think it'd be pretty arrogant to think you know
[16:50] more than them there's a quote by someone who says like yes we have the
[16:54] Holy Spirit and I don't know who says this quote but they said when you come
[16:58] to Scripture to think you're the first person to have the Holy Spirit reveal
[17:01] something to you you check yourself before you wreck yourself essentially
[17:06] what they were saying so the fourth reason for me is the strongest reason I
[17:11] mean I think the first three it just makes sense but the fourth reason is you
[17:15] know for most of church history has been seen as 24-hour day so why in 1817
[17:19] century has this become a debate so so that being said I think it's a normal
[17:25] day and you could debate that I don't think it's a central gospel issue I
[17:29] think you'll have to reconcile some things with that if you don't think it's
[17:31] 24-hour day but regardless have your opinion and - 24-hour day and I will
[17:39] totally wreck you with fascinating no just kidding I'm just kidding so moving on to
[17:44] day two and as I said before these will be these will be quick but verse six God
[17:50] said let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate
[17:54] the waters from the waters and God made the expanse and separated the waters
[17:59] that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse and
[18:03] it was so and God called the expanse heaven and there was evening and there
[18:06] was morning the second day so you might have noticed there's no appreciation
[18:10] formula here on the second day doesn't like God says it was good not because it
[18:15] wasn't good but perhaps because the waters aren't fully separated until the
[18:22] next day so the waters aren't fully separated till the next day so perhaps
[18:26] it's a two-day execution for the waters to be separated so then he because it's
[18:30] good on the third day that's a thought because it can't be that it's not good
[18:35] because he doesn't do things that aren't good so that's the next logical reason
[18:40] now this word in verse six expanse I don't know also is a need of discussion
[18:47] because what the heck does that mean and I'm not gonna lie this one is a little
[18:52] bit tougher for me to understand the day you know I get it and I should go back
[18:56] to say with the day the light and day it's day on day for creation is when the
[19:02] Sun and moon are created how is their day Chris is gonna be talking about that
[19:07] short little synopsis some people say you know it's like in revelation just the
[19:13] glory of God with the life that's what's shown upon the earth another thought is
[19:17] no the moon and Sun were created on this second day they were Nate but it wasn't
[19:23] till the fourth day where they were separated so you know there's two
[19:27] thoughts but we'll let Chris dive into that in two weeks so but what does this
[19:31] expanse what the heck does this mean the whole day - is kind of confusing and I'm
[19:40] I think Kevin Deon breaks this down really well so anything I basically say
[19:44] on day two just Kevin Deon you don't like it just email him so what is this
[19:51] expanse the sky or firmament as anyone ever heard of firmament before okay okay
[19:58] I thought so I was like this sounds this sounds like some of my dad grew up with
[20:02] to explain Genesis on like the felt board or something so some people take
[20:16] this to be almost a technical sort of canopy or a glass dome that covered the
[20:22] earth separating the water so you have the earth you have like the sky and you
[20:26] have they did just this canopy or this dome holding a big thing of water that's
[20:33] kind of how people have seen it but Kevin Deon says we should take more of an
[20:39] ordinary observational sense the idea that the firmament is a ceiling a vault
[20:43] a dome seems overly mechanical overly precise and I kind of agree with him on
[20:49] this and I think verse 20 gives us an indication of how we're supposed to
[20:54] understand the expanse God said let the water swarm with swarms of living
[20:58] creatures and let the birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the
[21:03] heavens so where do we see birds flying and some glass doll was the last time I
[21:10] checked maybe in that Jim Carrey movie that he's in a little bulb and that's
[21:14] probably the only time ever seen birds in a doll but rather we see birds in the
[21:18] sky so I think that the expanse which God calls heaven which can also be
[21:23] translated as sky it's the same word is a way of saying that there were waters
[21:28] that have been separated so now that there's these waters on the earth and
[21:32] lakes and rivers and oceans there are these waters up in the heavens what are
[21:38] those well the rain that comes down from the clouds and separating those those
[21:42] rain coming from the clouds and water on earth is the expanse the heavens the
[21:47] sky or the birds fly so that makes sense so the expand essentially is water in
[21:53] the clouds you have the rain and you have the water on the earth and then the
[21:57] expanse in between is the sky that's how Kevin young explains it I think it makes
[22:02] sense in the observational sense of things because the other factor is when
[22:06] you go into the firmament in this canopy and then it gets released on the flood
[22:10] and that's how there was so much flooding which no I can I guess I can
[22:12] see that but I like this Kevin young we talked about this observational view so
[22:19] day three and God said that the waters under the heavens be gathered together
[22:24] in one place and let the dry land appear and it was so and God called the dry land
[22:31] earth and the waters that were gathered together he called the seas and God saw
[22:34] that it was good and God said let the earth sprout vegetation plants yielding
[22:39] seed and fruit trees bearing fruit in which there's is their seed and a court
[22:43] each according to its kind on earth and it was so and the earth brought forth
[22:47] vegetation plants yielding seed according to their own kinds and trees
[22:50] bearing fruit and which is their seed each according to its kind and God saw
[22:55] that it was good and there was evening and morning the third day so God has
[23:00] given to created living things and here he's dealing with plants the ability to
[23:07] reproduce to their own kind and we're gonna see that with animals I'm gonna
[23:09] see that with humans and again that might not sound very interesting to you
[23:13] but in light of the other creation stories of the the near ancient east
[23:17] this is very different because there is no magic God just created and the plants
[23:22] they just were and these plants and these trees or later on animals and
[23:28] humans they weren't something or some sort of deity to be worshiped which is
[23:32] extremely popular in the religions at the time I mean we'll get to it oh no no
[23:36] we won't get to it that's Exodus Egypt you look at Egypt they worship the Sun
[23:41] but around the same time period they worship the Sun the moon cows which I
[23:47] recently went to the oak in Raleigh I could kind of see it but here the
[23:55] creative things are living things and they are given creative power by the
[24:00] Creator so they've been given creative power to the Creator but their power is
[24:05] to bring glory back to God is to multiply and reproduce and this type of
[24:11] creation is meant to be worshiped or is not meant to be worshiped but to point
[24:15] back to the mighty Creator who is worthy of the worship so that brings us and
[24:20] brings us into the explanation of you know of our Genesis 101 there's a few as
[24:30] you can see there's a few issues or not issues but you know discussion points or
[24:34] what does it mean because the writing is as I already saw the prose is weird and
[24:40] yeah it could be difficult but as difficult as it is and as much as you
[24:46] know most people don't like sitting through a class there are themes there
[24:50] are themes throughout the creation that we can learn about God and the first
[24:55] theme is that through creation we know that God speaks through creation we know
[25:01] that God speaks as I already said ten times in this chapter we have it
[25:06] recorded God said and and it starts with verse 3 on day one God said he spoke
[25:14] creation into being and it is by his spoken word that our hearts have been
[25:19] transformed in the beginning God said let there be light and it was good and
[25:24] then on Calvary on a tree beaten and bruised he spoke again and said it is
[25:30] finished and just as he separated the light from the darkness so in that
[25:35] moment that he separate our sin as far as East is from the West he is a God who
[25:40] speaks and who has and whose word has the power not only to create but to save
[25:47] will you listen will you listen to the wonderful words of our Savior his words
[25:53] are life-giving literally he brought life into this world but he also brings
[25:59] life to our hearts his yoke is easy his burn is light will you have the ears to
[26:05] hear what he is saying so our first in part so our first thing that we saw is
[26:09] through creation we know that God speaks our second theme is through creation we
[26:14] know that God sees we know that God sees after God speaks and creates it's
[26:21] always followed up by appreciation let there be light and he saw that it was
[26:26] good let the waters gather and he saw that it was good let the earth sprout
[26:30] forward and he saw that it was good Christian you who are downtrodden you
[26:38] who are discouraged you who are weak you who are in the throes of melancholy
[26:43] depression anger sadness you who are feeling weighed down by the way of the
[26:48] world hopefully this is a comfort to you that the Heavenly Father sees you
[26:55] and has compassion on you just as Hagar who we're gonna talk about him a few
[27:01] months was cast away into the desert the Lord looked upon her and saw her with
[27:07] compassion and blesses her and she declares she says you are a God who
[27:12] sees you are a God who sees or the prodigal son who was yet a great way off
[27:19] the father saw him and even so our father our Heavenly Father sees us and
[27:24] just as it was enough for the prodigal son to be seen by the father so it is
[27:29] enough for us even the great King David cried out in his distress and said I am
[27:34] poor and needy but the Lord takes thought of me I am poor and needy but the Lord
[27:41] takes thought of me what an incredible truth that the king of kings thinks of
[27:46] us and sees us all of our ways are known to him all of our ways which might scare
[27:52] you but he does not shudder he does not turn away but welcomes us within a brace
[27:57] as one who is longed to see their child Oh believer the Lord sees the work of
[28:05] grace that is in you whether it is in its infant stages or whether it's been
[28:09] matured over many years he does not turn his eye away from the light of which he
[28:14] is kindled so number one through creation we know that God speaks through
[28:20] creation we know that God sees and through creation we see the goodness of
[28:25] God through creation we see the goodness of God this creation this physical
[28:30] matter is a good thing creation is a good thing whether it's in the mountains
[28:35] the lakes the streams the ocean the grass the trees the garden the children
[28:40] the food we are meant to delight take delight in the beauty of his creations
[28:46] and we'll talk more about this in chapter 2 when we get to Adam and Eve about what
[28:53] it means to be a part of creation and joy and creation and cultivate creation
[28:57] but GK Chesterton has a famous book or I guess it was a series of essays I don't
[29:02] really know but it's called Orthodoxy and he has this really famous paragraph
[29:10] talking about how perhaps maybe we are the ones who have grown old and it's the
[29:16] children who have the wonder to delight in monotony you know your kid who will
[29:22] just throw the ball over and over and over or a little car on the ground just
[29:27] back and forth back and forth back and forth and say again do it again do it
[29:31] again they don't grow tired of the monotony even even yesterday I was at
[29:35] my parents house with Ridley and she kept saying chase daddy chase daddy and
[29:39] it was like I don't like this I had to stop but she wouldn't just kept doing it
[29:44] kept doing it kept doing it she does not tire of the monotony and Chesterton says
[29:49] maybe God and his creation is like that maybe maybe we are the ones that have
[29:54] grown old and every night the moon rises and God says do it again every morning
[29:59] the Sun rises and God says do it again he never gets tired of doing it he loves
[30:06] beholding the beauty and some of us our eyes have grown dim to the wonder to the
[30:13] enchantment to the enchantment to the beauty to the goodness of all that God
[30:18] has given us I know I could be that way you know I go to work hit traffic on the
[30:23] way home my truck's air might not be running like this oop a piece of crap but
[30:30] then I get home and I see my daughter's face and she says daddy and she comes
[30:35] and gives me a hug I realize how blessed I am and how in just the smallest things
[30:40] of her smile that God is good so my prayer is that we will delight in his
[30:45] creation and see that he is good and yes we see his goodness in the sunrise on
[30:52] the beach or the sunset in the mountains or when we see his goodness when we
[30:56] stare into an empty starry night and see just a vast amount of stars but do we
[31:01] see his goodness in the mundane or in the small things he is the God of every
[31:07] grace and all good things flow through him whether it's the dew in the morning
[31:12] the singing of the birds or as I already said the smile on a loved one's face all
[31:18] of this all things in creation point to the goodness of God and he is meant to
[31:23] be loved and cherished forever so cherish him cherish his creation and
[31:29] worship him because of it let's try generally father who is this king of
[31:40] glory that would think upon us every time I read this creation story I just
[31:45] think of the words of David who understood that a God who speaks the
[31:50] earth into existence cares and sees us you are a wonderful father
[31:59] Lord thank you for your creation story I'm thankful it's not just some random
[32:09] myth of just fables and stories but it is true historical and that we even
[32:17] throughout creation we see your character Lord I pray that as we go
[32:23] throughout our week where we would be in all of you and all that you have done
[32:26] and Lord the light that you've shown the beginning of creation is also in us
[32:33] Lord you know that Ridley loves that that song this little light of mine but
[32:37] it is so true you have put that light inside us and I pray that we would let
[32:42] us shine Lord we love you we praise you I'm gonna give you all the glory I pray
[32:49] else in your name amen