God’s Timeline – Part 7
Creation
Day 6
Pastor Bruce A. Shields
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SERMON INTRODUCTION
We began a couple weeks ago looking at the
major peaks of events throughout scripture.
SCRIPTURE READING
Genesis 1:24-31
“And God said, “Let the land produce
living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that
move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And
it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock
according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground
according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind
in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea
and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and
over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
27 So God created mankind in his own
image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them,
“Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over
the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature
that moves on the ground.”
29 Then God said, “I give you every
seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit
with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the
earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the
ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant
for food.” And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it
was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
INTRODUCTION
Up to this point we have seen;
Day 1 – God creates the heavens
and the earth and separates light from dark and creates all of the Universal
Natural Laws, such as thermodynamics, time, gravity, etc.
Day 2 – God separates water from
the sky, prepares the layer above for the coming flood, creates a vault or
void, probably of CO2 for the vegetation He will create on Day 3
Day 3 – God separates the dry
land from the water so man and land creatures will have somewhere to live, and
then causes the vegetation and trees upon that land, first “life” giving them
seeds and fruit, a way to “reproduce”
Day 4 – God lights all the suns
in the universe, sets the earths sun and moon in the perfect orbits to control
the earths temp and tides to cycle the air and allow for the conditions needed
to support life of man and animals.
Day 5 – Now that the CO2 has been
converted into oxygen by the trees and vegetation created on Day 3, the first
“creatures” can be created! Birds fill the air, and creatures fill the seas
Day 6 – Now God will create
creatures on land and mankind
I.
ACCORDING
TO THEIR KIND
a. Let the land produce living creatures according
to their kind
i.
Livestock, according
to their kind
ii.
Creatures that move
along the ground (insects), according to their kind
iii.
Wild animals,
according to their kind
iv.
“each according to its
kind”
ILLUSTRATION: The various birds and their mating
rituals
There are currently between 9,000-10,000 types of
birds
Genetically speaking, there are approximately 363
different species they all come from
Variations that have developed through “survival of
the fittest”, or “natural selection”
These birds have their own mating rituals which can
be fascinating
And yet, they only produce more birds, through
because of natural selection and survival of the fittest we do witness
variations among them. Maybe even more are to come?
But as God says, according to their kind…
None of these 10,000 types of birds will ever give
birth to a mouse, or a monkey.
b. This removes the idea of evolution
i.
New species that are
NOTHING like their parents are a scientific impossibility
ii.
Would you buy an apple
tree if you wanted grapes?
iii.
Would you breed dogs
if you wanted a cat?
iv.
It IS that ridiculous
c. Anomalies mutations and other strangeness’s
i.
Remember, we live in a
sin-filled fallen world
ii.
It is now filled with death
and disease
iii.
Mutations, and other
strange things happen because of this
iv.
There are many
examples of things going bad with offspring of creatures, odd deformities in
man and beast, however, they will (if allowed to by the Universal Natural Laws
set in place by God) reproduce offspring “of their own kind”
II.
IN THE
LIKENESS OF GOD
a. The God (singular) said
i.
“Let US
(plural/Trinity) make “mankind” in our likeness
ii.
Father – Genesis 1:1
iii.
Son – John 1:1
iv.
Holy Spirit – Genesis 1:2
b. Likeness / Image
i.
Verse 26b “…So that they may RULE over the fish, birds,
livestock and wild animals, and insects”
c. So, God created them Male and Female
i.
Is this what God means
by His image?
ii.
No. This was a biological division created for
the sole purpose of procreation.
iii.
Verse 26b tells us that the “likeness” or image of God was
that we, like Him, would “rule” over creation.
iv.
Verse 28 “God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and
increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea
and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the
ground.”
III.
THE WORLD
FILLED WITH VEGETARIANS
a. Then God Said
i.
Verse 29 “Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant
on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it.
They will be yours for food.”
b.
Then God
said
i.
Verse 30 “And to all the beasts of the earth and all the
birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything
that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it
was so.”
c.
God saw
all He had made
i.
God saw all that he
had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was
morning—the sixth day.
IV.
The Day
of Rest
a. Genesis 2 and the Seventh Day
i.
We see the first three
verses of Chapter 2 finishing all of creation with the seventh day
ii.
When they added the
Chapters and Verse numbers to the bible in the 13th century, I
believe they should have left these two verses in Chapter 1 of Genesis.
iii.
Obviously the seventh
day is part of the creation week.
iv.
I believe they moved
it to try and tie Chapter 2 into 1 because the next verses about Adam and Eve
and the garden took place during Creation week, Somewhere after the 4th
day, but before the 7th
v.
I personally believe
it took place on the Sixth Day, after God created Adam and the Garden, but
before He created “mankind”
b. The Heavens and Earth were completed in their
vast array
i.
This note lets us know
that all of creation is finished, God had created everything that ever will be
created.
ii.
This also lets us in
on the fact that what they are about to talk about in Chapter 2 takes place
during this creation week.
c. By the Seventh Day
i.
God finished the work
He had been doing
ii.
So, on the seventh day
He rested from all His work
iii.
Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he rested from all of the work of
creating that he had done
CONCLUSION –
So, we see that by the 6th
day during the creation week, which is literal days of 24 hours, God has
completed creating everything He is going to create.
But where’s Adam and Eve?
What about the Garden of Eden and the tree of life, or the tree of knowledge of
good and evil?
They too have been
created because the week of creation is finished, and God is going to rest on
day 7
So, next week we will
look at Genesis chapter 2 where we will take a small step back into the week of
creation to talk about Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden
Next week we will look into Adam and Eve
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