Sermons onGenesis 1

Asking for a Friend

• 22:10Genesis 1

  These are questions that creation indicts Job on. Genesis 1 and 2, indict a guilty man. There's no way Job could know all these things. And I believe that this lies at the heart of the matter. If you ask me, Pastor, why did Job suffer? Why am I suffering? Even if Job received an answer, it wouldn't take his pain away.

Asking for a Friend

• 3:38Genesis 1

  And yet, because of Christ, he draws near to us. So if you have your Bibles, I hope you do. We're going to look at every Scripture from Genesis to John today. So let's start in Genesis 1, 26. We're going to look at the image of God upon us. We're going to look at the identity of God by his name. We're going to look at the incarnation of God through Jesus Christ. And then we are going to finish on the…

• 3:57Genesis 1

  And then we are going to finish on the invitation of God through Christ to all who believe. So we see in Genesis 1, I think we begin here. We're going to begin, just biblical theology is beginning where the Bible begins. And we see in the very beginning, in Genesis, that God, in chapter 1, verse 26, God said, Let us make man in our image according to our likeness.

Jeremiah

• 12:35Genesis 1

  …those five covenants just real briefly because I want to show you how Jesus actually fulfills those other five covenants. So let's start with Adam, not Abraham, Adam. Adam's the first one we want to start with. So in Genesis 1 through 3, we don't see the word covenant anywhere. But there is that partnership that God makes with Adam.

Asking for a Friend

• 6:46Genesis 1

  to deliver a message on how you can know the hidden will of God, I simply say, I can't do that because it's untraceable and it's unknowable. Sermon over. But there's another portion of the will of God. The permissible will of God is the revealed will of God. So for instance, in Genesis 1-3, we know that God said, let there be light. And because we woke up this morning to the sun,

Matthew

• 9:38Genesis 1

  in the beginning genesis 1 chapter 1 and so Matthew reminds you that there was a beginning and Matthew says there's going to be a new beginning and we need a new beginning because if you turn again into Malachi the end of the Old Testament ends with a warning that if you disobey God there is a curse and Malachi doesn't make

Kings and Kingdoms

• 12:22Genesis 1

  If you go back with me all the way to Genesis 1 and 2, as we read, we see that God speaks the earth into existence. He sparks life. He establishes order. And then he forms a relationship with mankind, Adam and Eve. But then we get to Genesis 3 and we see that because of sin, man can no longer dwell in harmony with God and brokenness enters the world.

You Asked for it

• 12:27Genesis 1

  It is worthy of our intellectual pursuits. And that is not a scientific desire alone. Because we see in the word of God that the material world has value, do we not? Look at Genesis 1. It's amazing that when we start where the Bible starts, that human flourishing begins. Right here, Genesis 1.1, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

• 12:43Genesis 1:1

  Right here, Genesis 1.1, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Verse 3 and 4. God said, let there be light. And when God says it, it happens. There was light. God saw that the light was what? Good. So when science says that we should give our lives or give our intellectual pursuits to study the material world, because the material world has value, we should say, absolutely it does.

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You Asked for it

• 14:30Genesis 1:1

  We just think, well, if things went to the way they used to be, then our lives would be right again. And you just think, well, if I could have things the way they used to be. So how far do you need to go back to the way they used to be? Because as I read the Bible, you need to go back to Genesis 1:1. Pre-fall. Because there's no glory day after Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden that was good, holy, and right.

Dear Church

• 7:28Genesis 1

  So in the beginning, in Genesis 1, chapter 26, it starts this way. God said, let us make man in our image according to our likeness. So with one word, and I love how God creates. He creates by what scholars call divine fiat. God didn't go into the factory and create us. He spoke things into existence. That's the power of the word of our Lord. And with one word, he created you and he created me.

The Name

• 13:51Genesis 1

  …from the Hebrew Bible. So we are going to look at what is John doing. We are going to look at the so what, why it matters for us. And we are going to look at the now what, how we live this out. So if you go back to Genesis 1-2, and if you don't want to turn there, we have it on the screen. The word shows up.

• 14:16Genesis 1

  The word shows up. Remember in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was void and formless and waters covered the deep and the spirit hovered over the surface of the waters. It's a pretty bleak picture. And in verse 3 of Genesis 1, something happens. And you might be able to tell by the sermon today what's going to happen. Then God said,

The Name

• 11:26Genesis 1:1

  Genesis 1.1 says, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Matthew says, in the very beginning, this is the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, and the son of Abraham. In Scripture, what we call toledot formulas in Hebrew, it's the, these are the generations of dot, dot, dot. They almost always began with the first person chronologically.

Suitcase

• 7:53Genesis 1

  The Bible says that there is a will of God that scholars call his active will. Or the decretive will of God. It is what God decrees. And what God decrees will happen. Let me give you, for instance, in Genesis chapter 1, in verse 3. The Bible says everything was void. Everything was dark. There was nothing. And God spoke in Genesis 1, verse 3. Let there be light.

• 8:04Genesis 1

  The Bible says that there is a will of God that scholars call his active will. Or the decretive will of God. It is what God decrees. And what God decrees will happen. Let me give you, for instance, in Genesis chapter 1, in verse 3. The Bible says everything was void. Everything was dark. There was nothing. And God spoke in Genesis 1, verse 3. Let there be light.

Because He Lives

• 16:41Genesis 1

  Many of us, we believe in the resurrection, but we might dismiss the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ. But it is vital for our faith, and it makes a difference in our lives. So let's unpack this. In Genesis 1, 31. You can turn there. It's the very first book of your Bible, but it will be on the screen. God did this and said this. God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. So let's pause there.

Facts

• 20:15Genesis 1

  It says, "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." It wasn't just enough to be created, okay? God created us. But sin, something came along. And we're in Genesis 1, Genesis 2. What happens in Genesis 3? Sin comes along and then separates us from God. When Adam and Eve sinned in the garden, you and I inherited that sin. And because we inherited, we're sinners. Every one of us.…

Advent

• 22:03Genesis 1:1

  Haste, haste to bring Him all, the babe. Haste, haste to bring Him all, the babe. Haste, haste to bring Him all, the babe. Good story has a beginning. And the story, the narrative of the Lord is no different. The first we see in Scripture in Genesis 1:1 begins this way. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty.