God’s Timeline – Part 4
Creation
Day 3
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. Obviously, we are looking through
this in order, so naturally we are beginning with creation.
SCRIPTURE READING
Genesis 1:9-13
“And God said, “Let the water under the
sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 God
called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God
saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, “Let the land produce
vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed
in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. 12 The land produced
vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing
fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.”
I.
PREPERATION
FOR CREATION
a. God first creates the “heavens” and the earth
i.
“heavens”, plural
1. First heaven –Sky
2. Second heaven – Space
3. Third heaven – God’s abode (between creation and
where GOD truly resides)
ii.
Earth is created at
the same time, God’s pallet for life
b. God then creates light, and separates it from
dark (universal natural law)
i.
This is more than just
a visual effect
ii.
This verse reveals
more
1.
God says, let there be
light (it is something)
a.
Light is not just a
visual thing that we see with our eyes.
b.
This verse speaks of
one of the first Universal Natural Laws put into creation by God
c.
Visible light is a
small spectrum of “electromagnetic radiation” that can be detected by the human
eye…however, there is far more to this radiation that is NOT detected.
i.
Radio waves
ii.
Microwaves
iii.
Infrared
iv.
Ultraviolet
v.
X-ray
vi.
Gamma rays
vii. Perhaps even more undiscovered!
2. Light is a thing…photons, which does have mass and is affected by other universal natural laws, such as gravity.
3.
Light travels at about
186, 000 miles per second (in a vacuum)
iii.
Scripture says God
“separated” the light from the darkness
iv.
Darkness is now
scientifically speaking, the absence of light…archaic man could not know this.
c. There was evening and morning, the first day (4th
dimension/time created)
i.
And here we read in
scripture the statement that there was the “first” day, showing that the
universal natural law of “time” had been implemented by God! (the 4th
dimension)
ii.
It is at this point I
believe most of the “unseen” laws which hold this creation bubble (universe)
together were spoken into place.
iii.
There will be more during
the creation week, but all that currently exist will be spoken within this
week.
II.
DAY ONE
AND DAY TWO
a. Vault (expanse/support) created – our sky
i.
This is the point
where God begins preparing the earth for life
ii.
Life of “all kinds”
iii.
This vault, which
literally translates into expanse or support, separates water above (layer
around the earth of water) from the layer below (earth is currently void of
life or land and filled with water)
b. The vault (atmosphere) supported the “water
above the vault”
i.
This “sky” or
atmosphere (vault literally translated into support) holds the layer of water
above and around the earth
ii.
God prepared the earth
for judgment of sin, when He floods the entire earth
iii.
There will be enough
water in the layer around the earth to flood the entire earth, and it would
take 40 days for it all to fall
iv.
What makes it fall? I
believe this is when the earth is hit by a giant meteor, which knocks the earth
off its magnetic and true north axis, causing seasons as well as making the
earth “wobble” through space
v.
The meteor breaking
through the layer of water above the earth caused it to splash into the earths
gravitational pull just into the edge of the atmosphere which allowed the gravity
to pull the layer of water down to earth of the 40 day period.
1.
The change from the
perfect greenhouse climate would cause plants to stop growing so big, oxygen
levels to drop and prevent dinosaurs from living because the climate would no
longer be the environment they need to live.
2.
Even if they were
among the animals God brought to the ark, they would eventually die because of
the new climate and seasons
c. The vault was more than likely filled with CO2
i.
For photosynthesis
(universal natural law) plants need light (day 1), and water (day 1), and CO2
(the vault – Day 2)
ii.
Now day 3 God will
allow dry land to appear to provide the nitrogen and other nutrients needed for
photosynthesis to take place
iii.
This will in turn
convert CO2 and water into sugar and oxygen!
iv.
There is a scientific
order to creation in Genesis that was IMPOSSIBLE for archaic man to know or
understand at the time this was written!
v.
Yet, here it is, the
perfect order of things
III.
DAY THREE
a. Gather the waters and allow dry land to appear
i.
God gathers the waters
and allows land to appear so He can create the first “living” thing on earth
ii.
On the third day, LIFE
on earth is created by God
b. Create vegetation on the land with fruit and
seeds
i.
Now that there are all
the scientific ingredients to sustain life, God creates the first living
things, vegetation
ii.
This vegetation was
given another universal natural law, it would be self-sustaining through fruit
and seeds
1. By the way, a lot of vegetation NEEDS insects to
reproduce
a. Mainly BEES
2. So, to those who do not think the creation week is
literal days, you are wrong.
3.
If these days were
millions of years (or more) ALL of the vegetation God just created would have
died without the aid of insects
iii.
Remember, the NEED for
insects for vegetation to reproduce IS part of God’s plan!
1.
Because of this, NO
ONE can say that the creation week is not literal days.
c. According to their kind – Day 3
i.
Another universal
natural law that God creates
ii.
This law prevents us
from thinking there is “evolution”, a theory that was created to debunk the
Word of God and give an explanation to “how” live came to be.
1.
Some may say, “Look at
all the various creatures and how they have all evolved!”
2.
Currently there are 450
dog breeds.
3.
All of these dogs
“evolved” from the wolf through selective breeding.
4.
In ancient times they
write about 9 breeds
iii.
Here is the problem
with these statements.
1.
First of all, “breeds
through selective breeding” is not evolution, which implies nature changes and
creates. Breeding is the purposeful involvement and manipulation of a species
through selective breeding for desirable traits, not evolution.
2.
Secondly, All breeds
can be traced back to the wolf. OK, the wolf was a canine, thousands of years,
and 450 breeds later, dogs are STILL canines!
3.
Evolution wants us to
believe all animals evolved into “different species” from space sludge hitting
the earth and creating a “primordial soup”, and a blob climbed out and started
all of life.
iv.
Scripture however
tells us in Genesis, God created vegetation, made it seed-bearing plants, and
fruit bearing trees with seeds in the fruit, and it was (vs 12) “according to
their kinds”
1.
A pear tree, though
through natural selection, genetically modified, breeding or microevolution, will
always produce a pear.
a.
i.e. GMO may add or
delete from the DNA, however it is still man-manipulated and not evolution.
b.
Microevolution (natural
selection) may produce many different types of a creature because certain
pre-existing attributes do better in certain environments than others, the
creatures will always be of their kind.
2.
A canine will never
produce a feline
v.
Jesus reminds us of
this in Matthew 7:16 “By their fruit you will recognize them. Are grapes
gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?”
1.
Nope…Thornbushes will
never produce grapes, and thistles will never give you figs.
2.
If someone saw you planting
thistles in your yard and asked what you were doing, and you said “I want to
grow my own figs.”
a.
They would think you
were insane.
b.
Yet, science tries to
get us to accept their “theory” that this is not only possible, but what
LITERALLY happened!
CONCLUSION –
So, contrary to some
belief, the creation week in Genesis is not only believable and trustworthy, up
to the third day we can see how it is actually scientifically accurate with
knowledge no archaic man could know at the time of its writing.
Then how was it written?
How could this be possible?
2 Timothy 3:16 “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking,
correcting and training in righteousness,”
1 Corinthians 2:12-16 “What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit
who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13
This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words
taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. 14
The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the
Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them
because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the
Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to
merely human judgments, 16 for,
“Who has known the mind
of the Lord
so as to instruct him?”
But we have the mind of
Christ.”
Next week we will begin our series with the Fourth Day
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