Amen all right over there in Genesis chapter number one and
Tonight we are starting up or resuming our decline doctrine sermon series and like I
announced in earlier in the service, this is a series that we have
that we've been going through and we take breaks from it and we we go back to it and
We are
Studying in this series what we are doing is a systematic
Teaching and
Learning of theology we are going through and breaking down
Specific doctrines, and we've been doing that by major doctrinal sections or major doctrinal headings
So if you remember the first time we covered this on a Sunday night
We spent the time learning about the doctrine of revelation
I preached six sermons on the doctrine of revelation and how God reveals himself
And we spent a lot of time talking about the Word of God
And then the last time we were in it we talked about the doctrine of the Godhead
I spent nine sermons going through and
teaching about the attributes of God and then we talked about God the Father and God the Son God the Holy Spirit and the
Trinity and we went through and learned those things tonight
We begin a new section called the doctrine of man or under the heading of the doctrine of man
And we're going to begin with the doctrine of creation next Sunday night
We're going to look at the doctrine of the fall
and I would encourage you to be here next Sunday night because we're going to look at the story of Adam and Eve and
The doctrine of the fall in a way that maybe you haven't seen it before this morning
We dealt with one of the most important major
Doctrines of Christianity and that is the resurrection tonight. We're dealing with another major doctrine of
Christianity and that is creation and the fact that we believe that God is the creator there in Genesis chapter 1
I'd like you to look down at verse number one
The Bible says this most well-known verse in the Bible probably in the beginning God
Created the heaven and the earth
When a look at this idea of creation tonight, but I I want to
Begin by giving giving you some statements in regards to creation and
First of all, let me say this that creation and when we say creation
What we mean by that is the belief that God is the creator that God created the heavens and the earth
Creation is a theological subject not a scientific subject
We have been duped into believing by our society that creation is a scientific subject
however
Nothing could be further from the truth. This is a theological subject
This is something we know and we believe because of the Word of God
science does not have any answers in regards to
Creation and you say well, I read a science book and they said they did this is what the Bible calls science falsely
so called
Because true science, in fact
I would encourage you if you don't believe me to just do some research on your own something as simple as as
Googling, you know, what is science or maybe specifically what is the scientific method when we talk about?
Scientists and we talk about research. What is it exactly that these people do?
What is the scientific method and you will find and this is not just coming from an independent fundamental?
You know old-fashioned preacher you will find that
Science declares itself as that which can be observed
measured
Addicted
Tested and repeated and by the way, let me say this as an independent fundamental Baptist as a Bible believing
Old-time preacher. I don't have a problem with any of that. In fact science is found in our Bible but science
which means knowledge the
the the idea of gaining law knowledge of
Learning things when we talk about the scientific method and we're talking about real science actual science
We're talking about things that can be observed
You can look at things upon this earth whether it's animals or whether it's chemicals
Whether it's in nature or whatever. It might be you can observe it. You can measure it
based on those observations
You can make
Hypotheses which are predictions you can say well this happened one time and when this
Chemical and this chemical mixed together this happened and we predict that if we mix them together again
It'll happen again. You observe things you measure things you predict things then you test your hypothesis
And if you can test it and repeat it over and over and over again you have science
Creation is not
Is not within the realm of science because creation is not something that anybody observed
Nobody saw
The creation even the scientists today the ones that want to tell you about the Big Bang and all these things
Nobody was there to see it creation was not observed
Creation cannot be predicted
Creation cannot be tested
Creation cannot be repeated
Creation was not a natural event. It was a
supernatural event
when God spoke the earth and the world into
existence so tonight
We're speaking of creation, and I give you that introduction to say this
I'm not preaching a sermon tonight to try to convince you on the subject of creation
Now I don't have a problem with those types of sermons
I believe there is a time and a place to stand up and preach those types of sermons
I've preached those types of sermons in fact
I did an entire series called evolution versus creation where we went through and logically broke down a lot of the
Reasoning and the thoughts in regards to that
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with somebody preaching a sermon trying to convince somebody to believe creation
What I'm saying is that's not what I'm preaching tonight tonight. I'm preaching to you on the doctrine of
Creation we're going to take a theological view at creation
And I'm going to highlight for you what it is exactly that you and I believe or should believe as bible-believing Christians
About creation from the word of God now before we get into the outline and I give you those
Those steps I'd like to do an overview of
Genesis chapter 1 and give you an overview of the creation week
And maybe you can jot these things down it'd be good for you to have them
It'd be good for you to teach them to your children and review them with your children
But let me just quickly give you an
overview of what we refer to as the creation week the Bible says that God created the heavens and the earth that God created
Everything in the universe in six days in Genesis chapter 1 outlines that for us
Notice there Genesis chapter 1 and verse 1 the Bible says in the beginning God
Created the heaven and the earth and the earth was without form and void meaning it was empty
When he created it it was empty
and he spends the next
Six days filling it and darkness was upon the face of the deep and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the
Waters and God said let there be light and there was light and God saw the light that it was good and God
Divided the light from the darkness and God called the light day and the darkness he called night and the evening and the morning
I want you to notice were the first day so we see that on the first day of creation God
Created the heaven and the earth and he also created light and he separated light from darkness and
He called the light day and he called the darkness night
Notice the second day verse 6 and God said let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters and let it divide
The waters from the waters and God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters
Which were above the firmament and it was so and God called the firmament heaven
and the evening and the morning were the second day so we see here on the second day that God created the
Firmament which verse 8 tells us is called heaven
It's what you and I refers to as the sky and God divided the waters from above the firmament
From the waters below the firmament these things took place on day 2
Then on day 3 we start in verse 9 and God said let the waters under the heaven be gathered together
Unto one place and let the dry land appear and it was so and God called the dry land earth and the gathering together the waters
called he sees and God saw that it was good and God said that the earth bring forth grass and herb yielding seed and
The fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind
whose seed is in itself upon the earth and it was so and the earth brought forth grass and herb yielding seed after his
kind and the tree yielding fruit whose seed was in itself and
After his kind and God saw that it was good and the evening and the morning were the third day
so notice that on the third day God gathered the waters together and he called that the sea and
When he gathered the waters together, he made the dry land to appear and he called that earth
He also made plant life to grow upon the earth notice day 4 there in verse 14 and God
God said let there be lights in the firmament
Remember the firmaments of the heaven or the sky in the firmament of heaven and to divide the day from the night
and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years and let them be for light in the firmament of
The heaven to give light upon the earth and it was so and God made two great lights the greater light to rule
The day and the lesser light to rule the night
he made the stars also and God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth and to rule over the
day and over the night and to divide the light from the darkness and God saw that it was good and the evening and the
Morning were the fourth day. So we see that on the fourth day God created the Sun the moon and the stars
Notice the fifth day verse 20 and God said let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creatures
That hath life and fowls that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven and God created great whales and every living
creature that moveth which
waters brought forth abundantly after their kind and every winged fowl after his kind and God saw that it was good and God
blessed them saying be fruitful multiply and fill the waters in the seas and let the fowls
Multiply in the earth and the evening and the morning were the fifth day
So on the fifth day, we see that God created the birds and God created the fish
God created the fowls of the air and God created the moving creature of the seas
Notice day six verse 24 and God said let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind
Cattle and creeping thing and beasts on the earth after his kind and it was so and God made the beasts of the earth
After his kind the cattle after their kind and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind and God saw that it was
Good and God said let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have
Dominion over the fish of the sea and or the fowl of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth
And over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth
So God created man in his own image in the image of God created he him male and female created
He them and the Bible says there in verse 31 notice skip down to verse 31 and God saw
Everything that he had made and behold it was very good and the evening and the morning
Were the six days so we see that on the sixth day God created the land animals
he created the insects and then of course he created the
Climax of his creation, which was mankind
I want you to notice that when God created mankind there is a distinction or a difference between
Mankind and animal life when he created animal life. He just created all the fowls of the air
He created all the fish of the sea. He created all the land animals
But when he created man, he said let us make man in our image
So there is a difference between a human and an animal
there is a difference between a person and a
beast and I wanted to just kind of give you an overview of the creation story because we're gonna
Break down that creation story here in a minute. But what I would like to do tonight is
Give you four theological statements
Regarding what we believe about creation or what you should believe as a Bible believing Christian about creation
I would encourage you to jot these down on the back of your course of the week
There's a place for you to take down some notes and let me just say this
There are some things and you may have noticed it as we walk through that chapter and divided into the six different days and highlighted
The things that God created there are some things in that passage that God emphasizes over and over and over again and
If you actually take the time to notice that God repeats himself about several things over and over
There's a reason why God repeats himself is because there's some theological
Significance to what he is repeating over and over he's repeating it because he wants us to hear it
Wants us to see it wants us to notice it and there are some things that we can learn from it
so let me give you four theological statements tonight in regards to the doctrine of the
creation a theology of creation
What is it that we as Bible believing Christians should believe in regards to creation?
If you're jotting taking down some notes, you can write this down number one
regarding creation
We believe that God created all things through his word
Once you notice what the Bible says there in verse number three, this is emphasized through the chapter Genesis chapter 1 and verse 3
The Bible says and
God said
Let there be light and there was light
notice verse 6 and
God
said
Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters. Let it divide the waters from the waters
notice verse 9 and
God said
Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together. Look at verse 11 and
God said let the earth bring forth grass notice verse 14 and
God said you see the pattern here. Do you think that maybe God wants us to notice something?
Why don't you notice that when God created the universe he did not take materials that already existed and rearrange them together
That's what humans do when they call it creation
When God created the universe he spoke and it was so
Notice verse 14 again and God said let there be light in the firmament of heaven
Look at verse 20 and God said let the waters bring forth abundantly
Notice verse 24 and God said let the earth bring forth the living creatures notice verse 26
And God said let us make man in our image
Throughout the Bible we see this emphasis throughout this chapter that God
Created all things through his word. Keep your finger there in Genesis chapter 1. That's our text for tonight
Go with me if you would to the book of Hebrews the New Testament book of Hebrews Hebrews chapter number 11
If you start at the end of the New Testament and you head backwards
You have the book of Revelation Jude third second and first John second and first Peter James
And then you have the book of Hebrews Hebrews chapter number 11
God did not take material that was already there and
Rearranged it
God created
everything
Through his word. He spoke and it was so he said and the light appeared
He said and the heaven and the earth appeared
This is a doctrine that's found throughout the Bible
It reminds me of the joke when there's a joke about scientists
You know scientists sometimes can tend to be a little arrogant and there's this joke about the scientists who said we we figured out how to
how to create life
And they went to God and said we we figured out how to create life. We don't need you anymore
God we we figured out how to do it. God said okay. Well go ahead and they said, okay
Well, let us show you how to do it and they stooped down and grabbed a pile of dirt
And he said uh-uh, you gotta get your own dirt
And and and the truth is this that they can they can take
Materials from wherever and say we clone this and we did that and we have accomplished this but there what they're doing is
They're just taking what's already here
What God already created?
Got gotten borrowed dirt from anybody God spoke and he created it
Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 3 says this through faith
Through faith we understand
That the worlds were framed notice these words by the Word of God
So that things which are seen are not made of things which do appear
Look, the Bible clearly tells us here that everything that you see was one day created by God when it had not yet appeared
God by his word through faith
We understand that the world were framed by the Word of God so that things which are seen are not made of things
Which do appear and look let me just explain this to you the belief in creation the belief in a creator
We must come to God by faith
The Bible says that without faith faith it is impossible to please him
For he that cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him
And we're told today we're told. Oh, you guys are just naive and you're you're you're not smart
You know you you have to trust in faith. We have signs
Well, let me tell you something in the areas where observation can be made in the areas where?
Hypothesis can be predicted in the area where tests can be made predictions can be made
Results can be repeated as Bible even Christians. We have no problem with that
But when somebody tells you well believe our scientific theory as to how you know the earth was formed
Or how we came about or how life was formed or how we evolved hey you have to accept that by faith as well
Nobody ever saw that
They they haven't repeated it
They can't predict it
They say it happened a long time ago. We can't show you any evidence. We can't re redo it now
But you just have to trust our science. You know you are having faith
It is a religion
At least we're honest about it
At least we tell people you have to come to God by faith
Through faith we understand that the world's were framed by the Word of God
So that the things which are seen were not made of things which do appear go to John chapter 1 if you would
Towards the beginning of the New Testament you have Matthew Mark Luke John
What do we believe about creation well regarding creation we believe that God created all things through his word
There's a double meaning there
Because we believe when we say we believe that God spoke all things through his word. We mean that God actually spoke
the world into
creation
but we also believe
When we say that God created all things through his word
that
God created all things through the second member of the Godhead the Lord Jesus Christ
If you were to ask you know who's the creator the answer is God, but if you want to
Theologically you know say well well who is?
The one that that that spoke out of the three the Father the Son the Holy Spirit
And you could make the argument that all three spoke and obviously all three were involved in it
But the Bible clearly teaches us that it is Jesus who actually created
the heavens and the earth
the universe and this is consistent because not only did God create through his word by
Speaking into existence, but he created through the Lord Jesus Christ, which is the word
The Bible says there are three that bear record in heaven the Father the word and the Holy Ghost and these three are one
Are you there in Genesis chapter 1 look at verse 1
Genesis chapter 1 in verse 1
The Bible says in the beginning
was the word in
The beginning was the word notice and the word was with God
This speaks to the truth of the Trinity and the word was God this speaks to the truth of the Trinity
The word was with God and the word was God the word was in the beginning look at verse 2
The same was in the beginning with God notice verse 3 all things were made by him made by who the word
All things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made
So when we say hey God created all things to do his word
Yes, things were spoken into existence by God, but they were spoken by the word the Lord Jesus Christ
All things were made by him the Bible says and without him was not anything made that was made go to the book of Colossians if
You would Colossians chapter number one you're there in John you have Acts Romans 1st 2nd Corinthians
Galatians Ephesians Philippians Colossians John Acts Romans 1st 2nd Corinthians Galatians Ephesians Philippians Colossians
Colossians chapter number one look at verse 14
Colossians chapter 1 in verse 14 the Bible says this Colossians 1 14 in whom
Notice that word whom there is referring to the Lord Jesus Christ
In whom we have redemption through his blood
Even the forgiveness of sins would you agree? That's Jesus
Who do we have redemption through his blood Jesus Christ who do we have forgiveness of sins through his blood through?
Through his blood Jesus Christ wait verse 15 who?
Who is that that's Jesus?
Who is the image of the invisible God the firstborn of every creature
Look at verse 16
For by him by who?
By the same one who is the image of the invisible God by the same one
Which in whom we have redemption through his blood?
This is about the Lord Jesus Christ
Verse 16 for by him were all things created
That are in heaven that are in earth
Visible and invisible whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers all things were created
By him don't miss this and for him
Look at verse 17 and
He is before all things
This is why Jesus could say before Abraham was I am
He is before all things and by him all things consist see the Bible says that Jesus is the creator of all things
That all things were made by him and for him and by him all things consist. He is the word
He is the creator. This is why we believe in the deity of Christ and today you have many who will attack the deity
of Christ
You've got the Jehovah's Witnesses who will say oh no no Jesus. What isn't isn't God. He's not deity
He was just a good man or a teacher. You've got Islam that'll say he was just a prophet
well the Bible says that he's the creator and
They'll look at they'll take little you know statements out of context like look at verse 15 Colossians 1 15
who is the image of the invisible God and
they'll take this statement out of his context the firstborn of every creature and
They'll say see he's the firstborn of every creature that means he's you know
creation of God
Or they'll take a verse like revelation 3 and verse 14 you have to turn there. I'll just read it for you
Revelation 3 14 says there's an anti-angel the church of the vellusiums right these things saith the Amen the faithful and true witness the
beginning of the creation of God
And they'll say see he was the first thing that God created
But look when it says that he's the firstborn of every creature when he says that he's the beginning of the creation of God
That does not mean that he was the first one that God created that would contradict the rest of Scripture
That would contradict John chapter 1 that we just read
They want us to think that a statement in verse 14 of Colossians 1 would contradict all of Colossians
1 14 15 16 17
When the Bible says that he's the beginning of the creation of God that doesn't mean that he was the first thing that God created
It means that when God began to create it began with the Lord Jesus Christ
He's the beginning of the creation of God. He is the beginning. He is the one who spoke the world into existence
He's the firstborn of every creature because in verse 17 we're told he is before all things
He was before everything
He is the great I am
He is the self-existing one
He said before Abraham was and before anyone was before Adam was Jesus could say I am
So what do we believe about creation? What are the theological statements that we believe number one regarding creation?
We believe that God created all things through his word
What we mean by that is that God used his word to speak the world into existence and
What we mean by that is that Jesus is the word and he is the creator
That spoke the world into existence
Let me give you a second statement go back to Genesis if you would
Genesis chapter 1
I'm gonna give you I'm giving you four theological statements about what we believe
Biblical Christianity what we believe about creation number one we believe that God created all things through his word number two
Regarding creation we believe in a literal
24-hour day
six-day creation week as
By believing Christians we believe in a six-day creation week of course we know on the seventh day God rested
But we leave it believe that it that was literal
That was a 24-hour today. You have so-called Christians will say oh, that's just an allegory
Now look I just preached a whole sermon about allegories a couple weeks ago, and I definitely believe in allegories
And I believe that there's things in the Bible that are symbolic
But look we take the Bible literally until the Bible shows us that something is symbolic and by the way some things could be
Literal and there could be symbolism in that literality
Some things were not literal at all like a parable that Jesus told that that was just a story to bring forth a truth
But you can't just take any random passage of scripture saying well
I believe this is a story. I believe this is symbolic. I don't think this is real
There's nothing in the passage that indicates that this is a parable
so we take the Bible literally and we believe in a literal 24-hour day six-day creation week and
Notice that this was the emphasis of the passage
Genesis chapter 1 look at verse 5
and God called the light day and
The darkness he called night
Notice these words and the evening and the morning were the first day
The evening and the morning are signifying two times of the day
They're signifying the time of the day when the Sun is out, which we would call daytime
the time of the day when the moon is out, which we would call nighttime and
Here God takes the time to tell us look on the first day
Here's what I created and then the day went on the evening and the morning were the first day look at verse 8 and
God called the firmament heaven and the evening and the morning were the second day
Look at verse 13 and the evening and the morning were the third day
Look at verse 19 and the evening and the morning were the fourth day
Look at verse 23 and the evening and the morning were the fifth day
Look at verse 31 and God saw that everything that he had made and behold
It was very good and the evening and the morning were the sixth day
God over and over and over emphasizes to us a
24 hour period where the Sun comes up stays up for 12 hours comes down stays down for 12 hours
Roughly and he says look these were actual days the evening and the morning
Or the first day the evening and the morning or the second day the evening and the morning the third day the fourth day the
Fifth day the sixth day. These are literal
24 hour days
It's a literal
seven day week six day creation week
seven day of rest
Go to Exodus if you would Exodus chapter number 20
Exodus chapter number 20
You're there in Genesis just flip over to the book of Exodus Exodus chapter 20 look at verse 11
Exodus
Exodus chapter 20 verse 11
Notice how the Bible emphasizes this Exodus 20 11 for in six days
the Lord made heaven and earth the sea and all that in them is and
rested the seventh day
Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and holiday and the Old Testament God told the children of Israel
He says I want you to work for six days
By the way, that's why I don't feel bad for you when you go soul winning on Saturday
God says you got to work six days
Now praise the Lord that you live in America where you work for five days and they give you Saturday off
But get to work and go soul winning
God got hey the the work week for God is six days
That's why we give the guys that work here. They get a day off
They don't get two days off. God said, you know six days the Lord made heaven and earth
And he says the seventh day he rested and God gave a six-day workweek and
Then he gave the seventh day to rest
Now we believe in a literal 24-hour six-day creation week
You say why is that important is important for a couple reasons. There are those who try to attack
The doctrine of creation. What does the literal 24-hour day six-day creation week? What is that?
Prove or should I say disproves? Well, first of all, it disproves the gap theory
the gap theory is a belief and
It's put forth by
dispensationalists
I'm gonna show that to you here in a minute. Let me just read to you
What what from an article or just a description here at the gap theory? What is got what is the gap theory gap?
Creationism
Also known as the gap theory is a teaching that does not believe in six literal 24-hour days of creation
but that there was a gap of
Time between the first and the second verses of Genesis chapter number one
the gap theory teaches that
When you look at Genesis chapter number one, and you see that
It's
Outlined in verse five we have the end of the first day in verse eight. We have the end of the second day in verse
13 we have the end of the
third day in verse
19 we have the end of the fourth day in verse 23. We have the end of the fifth day and
The end of the chapter we have the end of the sixth day
They look at this and say no. Well, this is not an actual literal week because there's actually a gap of
Thousands and maybe millions or billions of years
between
Verses one and two I want you to notice Genesis chapter one in Genesis chapter one in verse one in chapter one in verse two
in the beginning God created the heaven in the earth and
The earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of
the waters
Did you catch it?
You saw it, right?
Well, it must because you didn't go to Bible college. Let me read it to you a little slower
in the beginning God created the heaven in the earth and
The earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep and the Spirit of God moved
Upon the face of waters you got it now, right?
If you didn't get it, don't worry about it. It's not there
There's no gap
between
Verses one and verses two. Let me read to you from the Schofield notes found in the Schofield reference Bible
And by the way, this is why we don't believe in reading commentaries
Because commentaries are just the notes of men. You got to read the Word of God get your doctrine from the Word of God
Here's what Schofield said in his in his notes in the Schofield reference Bible
Nothing wrong with the scriptures in that Bible if it's a King James Bible, what's wrong?
There's something there's lots of things wrong with the notes that he wrote in those Bibles
Trying to help you understand those verses. Here's what Schofield said
He said in verse 2 when you see these words without form and void
He says Jeremiah 4 23 through 27
Isaiah 24 1
Isaiah 45 18
Clearly indicate that the earth had undergone a
Cataclysmic change as a result of divine judgment the face of the earth bears everywhere the marks of such a catastrophe
That there are not wanting
Imitations which connect it with the previous testing and fall of agents
Now, I mean that just makes perfect sense, right you read Genesis 1 in the beginning
God created the heaven and the earth and you're just like this reminds me of Jeremiah 4 23 to 27
I mean, is that really how you think God expected us to just understand and study the Bible?
You have to have a quick you have to have Schofield give you a reference
To a book towards the end of the Old Testament say, you know insert here
Because here's what the dispensationalists teach
They'll say well between verses 1 because he got rid of the heaven and the earth, but then in verse 2
We're told that the earth was without form and void and they'll say it was without form and void
Because between those two verses there was all these years that went by and there was all these other
civilizations and there was these angels and they got kicked out of heaven and they went down to earth and they made it with
Women and they did this and they did that and there's all these, you know Star Wars type of
You know
just
stories and
They make good videos. I mean you look at these dispensationalists on YouTube. They make entertaining videos
I mean literally I'm not joking you can look up dispensationalist and they're teaching about vampires
They're preaching about eight and teaching about aliens supposedly from the Bible
Aliens and vampires and every you know
geek
Science, you know thing you could think of and they'll say oh, it's right there in between verses 1 & 2
Well, here's the problem
Is that Genesis chapter 1 clearly teaches Exodus chapter 20 in verse 11 clearly teaches that this was an actual week
It does say and God called the light day and the darkness
He called night and the evening in the morning and the evening in the morning and the evening in the morning and the
Evening in the morning and the evening in the morning
You know just for thousands of years the evening the morning even
Was the first 10,000 years?
Says the evening the morning were the first day
For in six days God the Lord made heaven and earth to see and all that are in them so a literal 24-hour a day
Six day creation week disproves the gap theory. There's another theory that it disproves and it is
the day age theory
The day age theory. Let me read this for you day age creationism. It is a
Metaphoric interpretation of the creation accounts in Genesis it holds that the six days referred to is
The Genesis account of creation are not literal 24-hour days
But are much longer periods from thousands to billions of years
So the day age theory teaches that the six-day creation is just symbolic
Every day was not a literal day. It could have been thousands could have been
billions of years that it represents and
Here's here's their proof text second Peter 3 8 says but beloved you have to turn I'll just read this for you
But beloved be not ignorant of this one thing that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as one
day
Say well see look the Bible says there that one day is
With the Lord as a thousand here look if you look at second Peter 3 8 in its context
you'll find that what's being spoken about is the patience of God and
That to God a day is like a thousand years to God
It's no big deal for him to wait one day or for him to wait a thousand years
But this isn't saying that one day literally is a thousand years for God and it that sure doesn't say anything about the creation week
So if you want to try to make stuff up and just grab whatever verse you want and apply it into the passage
You can do that, but you're not a Bible believing Christian
Because the only way to walk away from Genesis chapter 1 is to believe that there was a six-day
literal 24-hour creation week
That these days are not symbolic look I agree that to God waiting a thousand years and waiting one day
No big deal. He's patient and for him. It's he's eternal. He lives in eternity
But that doesn't mean that the six-day creation week was each a thousand days or symbolic of a period of time
But even if you were to say well, I just kind of think that maybe it was well
You've got some problems with the day age theory
Because
What you'll notice
in the creation week, and I'm gonna
I'm gonna just point this out to you real quickly
There is a pattern in the creation week and in the fact the pattern maybe will help you remember
If you if you're trying to teach this to your children help you remember what was created
Because there's a pattern where God creates does three different things on day one day two and day three and then come comes back and
Fills he creates certain spaces day one day two day three
And then he comes back and fills those spaces in days four five and six by the way
This is why the Bible says that the earth was void and without form
He created a space that was empty then he came back later on in the week, and he filled it
Let me give you an example on day one
the first day God created the heaven and the earth and
He also created the light and he called the the the light day
And he separated the light from darkness and he called the darkness night that happened on day one
He creates the heaven and the earth
He creates the lights and then what did you do on on day four?
He creates a sun moon in the stars
That are connected to the light and we're going to talk about that later on the sermon on day two
He creates the firmament which is the sky
And he divided the waters above the firmament from the waters below the firmament on day five
He creates the birds and the fish
To be in the water that he separated from the firmament and to be in the sky that he separated from the water in
Day three he gathered the waters together and called it sea and he made the dry land appear on day six
He made the land animals
So we see that in the first day he deals with the lights and on the fourth day
He gives us the source of the lights the Sun Moon and stars on the second day
He gives us the firmament and divides the waters from the firmament on the fifth day
He gives us he fills the firmament the sky with birds and fowls and he and he fills the water with fish on
The third day he makes the land to appear and on the sixth day
He creates the land animals and of course he also creates human beings that dwell on the land
So there's a pattern there
Now here's what's interesting
in the pattern you also find
Some things that you and I might think if if you and I were
Telling the creation story and by the way, I believe this is one of the reasons why we can trust the Bible
Because if you and I were telling the creation story, we would not tell it the way that God tells it
Because we think we're smarter than God
We're really idiots
God is much smarter
But see if we were creating
Things we would put them in a different order. Here's what's interesting
On day three look down at verse number 11 Genesis chapter 1 verse 11 and God said let the earth notice these words bring forth grass
The herb yielding seed and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind whose seed it is in itself
upon the earth and it was so and the earth brought forth grass and herb yielding seed after his kind and the tree yielding
Fruit whose seed was in itself after his kind and God saw that it was good and the evening in the morning were the third
Day once you notice that on the third day
God gathered the waters called at sea
He made the dry land to appear upon the earth and he made plant life to grow on the third day on
The fourth day look at verse 14 and God said let there be lights and the firmament of heaven
To divide the day from the night and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years
Look at verse 16 and God made two great lights the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule
The night he made the stars also obviously referring to the Sun Moon and stars
He makes the the the the plant life appear on the third day. He makes the Sun appear on the fourth day
Now these are literal
24-hour days no problem
but if we're supposed to believe that these are these days are symbolic and
They actually represent long periods of times
You know thousands of years or billions of years or whatever
Then the day age theory has a problem
Because plants were created on day three of the creation week
And the Sun was created on day four of the creation week
and if these are actually times that are separated by a thousand years or
a million years or a thousand years if
Each day represents thousands or millions of years, how could plants survive without the Sun?
Photosynthesis is a process by which plants use the Sun in order to survive
So you have people?
who want to believe in theistic evolution, which was not going to talk about in a minute and
They'll say well in order to make theistic evolution work that things just evolved and God just used
Evolution in order to make that work. We can't have this six-day week of creation
We got to make this thing last billions of years
So let's say that every day actually just represents a period of time
It could be a thousand years a million years a billion years
Well, the problem with that is that the order in which God created would not allow
Would not allow for evolution would not allow for plant lives to grow plants need a son
So God creates the plans on day three
He creates the Sun on day four
Human beings look at it and say well that doesn't make any sense
I want to done it that way, but God says no, I'm doing it that way to prove to you that I did it
That these days do not represent thousands of years
That it is a 24-hour
Day within a six-day creation week
Look at verse 21
Said number one regarding creation. We believe that God created all things through his word
And we know that that is the Lord Jesus Christ. I said number two regarding the creation week
We or creation we believe in a literal 24-hour day six-day creation week. Here's
Statement number three regarding creation. We believe that all things bring forth after their own kind
Notice that this is again is something that is emphasized throughout the chapter. Look at verse 21
And God created great whales
and every living creature that moveth
which the waters brought forth abundantly notice these words after their kind and
every winged fowl
Notice these words after his kind and God saw that it was good
Look at verse 24 and God said let the earth bring forth the living creatures notice the words after his kind
Cattle and creeping thing and beasts on the earth notice the words
After his kind and it was so look at verse 25 and God made the beasts of the earth notice the words again
after his kind you think God's trying to make a point here and
cattle notice the words after their kind and
Everything that creepeth upon the earth notice the words after his kind and God saw that it was good
Look the Bible tells us in the very first chapter of the Bible in the creation account that
Everything brings forth after its own kind
Now is there variation within the kinds absolutely?
Do things change within kinds absolutely that's actually scientific
You can actually observe that
You can actually predict that
You can actually test that
You can take one ugly little dog and made it with another ugly little dog and create an even uglier little dog
Now why you would want that I don't know
But if they've got it down to a science
You're gonna have it have bulging eyes. You can teach it to say yo quiero Taco Bell. I mean you can
You can do all sorts of things
Are there variations yes, but let me tell you something a dog will never give birth to anything more than a dog a
Cat will never produce anything more than a cat a fish will never produce
Anything more than a fish a human will never produce anything more than a human are there variations when then that absolutely
But the Bible teaches that everything brings forth after its kind and by the way, that's all we've ever observed
That's all we've ever seen that's all that's ever been predicted. That's all that's ever been tested. Why because evolution is a lie
The belief that everything's rings forth after its own kind refutes secular evolution
Because evolution teaches that everything came from I don't know a chicken or a fish or a rock
Look everything brings forth after its own kind
This is what we believe and by the way if you want to ask science about it science agrees with us
Not science Fosse so-called not the fairy tales are teaching at the university
I'm talking about actual science where you can observe something you can test something you can predict something
It's true everything brings forth after its own kind
Look dinosaurs never gave birth to chickens I
Mean do you know that that's what they're teaching in school, but the t-rex
You know produced a chicken
The t-rex turned into a chicken. That's why I had little little hands
Kind of looks like a chicken. I
Mean talk about good night. How's that evolution?
I'd much rather be a t-rex than a chicken
The Bible teaches that everything brings forth after its own kind
This refutes secular evolution, but let me say this this also refutes theistic evolution
You say what's theistic evolution theistic evolution let me read it
the definition for you
Theistic evolution or
Evolutionary creationism or
God guided evolution our views that regard religious teachings about God as compatible with the modern understanding about evolution
Theistic evolution accepts the scientific consensus of the age of the earth the big bang and evolution
supporters of theistic evolution
harmonized
evolutionary thought with a belief in God
Basically theistic evolution is this
Where Christians will say well, I believe that God used evolution
to bring forth life I
Believe that God used evolution
To create the things that we see on earth today the problem with that is two things number one
That's not what the Bible says
The Bible says it took six literal days and the Bible says that everything brings forth after its own kind
The other problem is this that God does not equivocate with himself
You
Say what does that mean it means that God does not produce things that are equal to him in
fact the that's one of reasons why we don't believe that Jesus was created by God why because
He the Bible says that he was equal to God
Wherefore the Jews sought the more to kill him because he not only had broken the Sabbath
But said also that God was his father making himself equal with God
The Bible says let this wine be in you which was also Christ Jesus
That he being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God
See God does not create things that equivocate with him
One of the things that makes God God is the fact that he creates life. He's the source of life
In him was light the Bible says and he is the light and he is the life of the world
So you say well when God created a process that created life the only one that can create life is God
God would not use something that could be equal to him or replace him is
The logical argument the scriptural argument is much simpler. That's not what the Bible says
The Bible says that God created
Everything through his word the Bible says that he created it in a 24-hour day six-day week
The Bible says that everything brings forth after its own kind
So therefore as Bible believe in Christians if you actually believe the Bible you cannot believe in evolution
You cannot believe in theistic evolution by the way if you were honest you couldn't believe in evolution either because nobody's ever seen it
Nothing's ever no one's ever observed it
Say oh, well you look at this monkey
And you know they it lost a tail and it evolved because it helped it in this environment, okay, but it's still a monkey
Monkeys bring forth after their own kind. I don't have a problem with that
Some of them have little tails big tails some of them are ugly. You know they're all ugly. I don't know
Nothing will ever bring forth a different kind
Canine felines it will always bring forth after its own kind go back go to Genesis chapter 2
Let me give the fourth statement I said number one regarding creation. We believe that God created all things through his word
What that means is that God uses word to speak the world into existence and what that also means is that Jesus who?
Is the word is the one who?
created everything I
Said number two we believe in a literal 24-hour day 6-day creation week this disproves the gap theory this disproves the day age theory
There was no gap in the creation week and each day of the creation week is not symbolic for a longer period of time
It's a 6-day 24-hour a day week
I said number three we believe that all things bring forth after their own kind
This refutes evolution
Secularly and
It refutes evolution
Theistically
Here's the fourth statement
regarding creation we believe
That God created a mature creation
When God created he created a universe that was mature
Now here's what's interesting. I had this sermon planned out. You know this sermons been planned out for for weeks
On
This day on Easter we'd begin a new Sunday night series or we get a new series on next Sunday and all that I
Was just told this week
that
Michael Johnson and for those of you visiting I apologize, but I'm gonna deal with this with our church family
Michael Johnson is a guy that's been attacking our church and our friends Church and fellowship churches for a long time
And I'm gonna take every opportunity just call this guy out as a heretic
Every time he opens his mouth. He just reveals that he has no understanding of Scripture. I
Was just I just found out this afternoon that Michael Johnson literally put out a video
Yesterday I think in the last 24 hours attacking pastor Anderson for this belief
this belief that I'm gonna explain right now that God created a mature earth and
Let me prove it to you. I'll give you some thoughts in regards to that
First of all let me just show you that when God created
He created in maturity
The easiest example the best example is just the example of man
notice Genesis chapter 2 and verse 7 and
the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and
Breathe into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul
look at verse 18 and the Lord God said it is not good that man should be alone and
I will make him a mother
Is that what it says?
Because I created a baby
Is that what it says I?
Mean when God created man did he create a baby?
When men and women are born are they not born as babies absolutely
But when God created Adam did he create a baby the answers no he did not create a mother for Adam
notice verse 21
Look verse 18 again, and the Lord God said it is not good that a man should be alone
I will make him and help me for him. You say what is that referring to that's referring to a wife
We verse 21 and the Lord God calls the deep sleep to fall upon Adam
and he slept and he took one of his ribs you think God took a rib out of a baby and
closed upon the flesh and said thereof and the rib which the Lord God had made had taken from man made he a
Woman and brought her unto the man and Adam said this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh
I mean, that's that's exactly how babies speak, right?
Goo-goo ga-ga this is now born of my bones and flesh of my flesh
She shall be called woman ga-ga
Because she was taken out of man
Now look at verse 24
Therefore shall a man leave his father his mother and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh
What is that referring to marriage?
They got married
This is a verse. It's quoted at wedding ceremonies all the time
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh and they were
Both naked the man and his wife and were not ashamed. Look the man and his wife. Was it a baby?
Did God create a baby? The answer is no. What did God create a mature man?
When God created Adam he created a man
and you would if you if we would have taken Adam and
Took him to someone that didn't know was Adam and took him to some goofball named Michael Johnson
And said how old do you think this guy is
You know if we would have taken him to a doctor or a scientist
They would have said well based on his growth and based on his maturity and they would have done some tests
And they would have looked in his eyes and looked in his ears and looked down his throat
They would have taken a look and taken measurements and weighed him and they said well
You know we perceive that this is a 30 year old man
And they would have been wrong
Because he's only one day old when God created him
But he was mature
He's already getting married
The man and his wife see when God created man
He created a mature man when God created the universe he created a mature
universe
You think when God created the heavens and the earth he's like left for let the land bring forth seed herb yielding seed
And there's all these little sprouts just all over the earth. Just these tiny little seedlings everywhere
It's like well. We're you know we're not well one have to wait 300 years for that tree to grow
I'm gonna have to wait 40 years for that apple tree to grow
When God created the earth he created mature trees
Mature landscape you think when God said he created the great whale and the fit and it's all these just baby little fishes
I
Mean I would have been a sight to see you know he put all the land animals all the baby hippo baby giraffe
Look when God created he created a mature creation
God created a
Mature creation and by the way he created a mature universe
Let me prove it to you
Notice not only do we see the create the maturity of man and his creation, but we see the maturity of the universe itself
Notice this on
day one of the creation week
Genesis 1 1 in the beginning God created the heaven in the earth and
the earth was without form and void and
Darkness was upon the face of the deep and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters
And God said let there be light and there was light and
God saw the light that it was good and God divided the light from the darkness and God called the light day and the darkness
He called night and the evening in the morning were the first day
Why don't you notice that in day one God creates light on?
Day four verse 14 and God said let there be light in the firmament of heaven
To divide the day from the night look at verse 16 and God made two great lights the greater light to rule the day
The lesser light to rule the night he made the stars also
Here's what's interesting on day one God creates the light on day four God creates the light source
out of order
Not in order he created the light produced by the light source before he created the light source
He said well, what does that prove? Well? Here's what science tells us here's what scientists tell tell us
They tell us that light travels I
Mean it takes light for us to see light
It has to travel to us for us to be able to see it. This is referred to as a light year a
Light year is the distance that light travels in one year
so the when you take this the speed of light and
How far light can go at the speed of light over a period of a year? That's a light year
You know what the nearest star
to planet Earth
We're told is four point three seven light years away
That means that in order for us to see the light from the nearest star
The light from the nearest star that light must travel over a period of four point three seven light years away
Meaning it has to travel the distance that it would take for it to travel at the speed of light
over a period of four point three seven years
That's the nearest star. You know the furthest star for this galaxy that we can see from planet Earth is
13.4 billion light years away
It takes thirteen point four billion
Years for that light to travel at the speed of light
For it to appear and for us to see it
This is one of the arguments of the secular world
They say well if we're going to see the light
from a star that is
13.4 billion light years away
Then it obviously took thirteen point four billion years for that light to arrive here for us to see it
So therefore you know the universe must at least be thirteen point four billion years
What do you have to say about that creationist and?
What we have to say about that is you know it's interesting because when you look at the creation week
God created the light before he created the source
God measured it God spread it God put it there
He put the light for Adam to look up and look and see a star
That was thirteen point four billion years away light years away
Before he even put the star there
Then he put the star there
You say what do you call that we call that a mature universe?
Say why God you know that that doesn't make any sense God God should have created all the lights and
The stars and you know Adam should have just been sitting in darkness for four point three seven years
Till the light of the first star appeared, but see just like God created a mature Adam
Just like God created a mature elephant
Just like God created a 30 year old man that was one day old
But you would have looked at him and said this man's been alive for 30 years this man went through the the the the the the
Maturity stage he's gone through the baby stage and the toddler stage and and and and the development stage of a teenager
He's gone through
Maturity and he's gone through puberty, and he's matured into a grown man look at him
He's a 30 year old man. What is it God has an honor. He's only he's only one day old
But he's getting married today
And scientists would look at the stars and say this star is 13 billion years old and God is saying that's actually just one day
Just one day. Well, how do we see the light? Well, I created the light
See it's interesting because the creation week is actually out of order
But see it's out of order not because God is dumb because God is intelligent
He's pointing out to us
Inconsistencies
Scientifically
Because creation is not scientific. It's supernatural
And then you've got jokes
like Michael Johnson
Who say well, you know, you're you're saying that God is a deceiver. You're saying that God is deceiving
You're saying that God is like see the problem Michael Johnson on this issue is the same problem that Michael Johnson has on every
Issue, which is the word of God is not with him
Every time the man opens his mouth and tries to prove us wrong or something. We're like, did you notice this verse?
Did you check that verse? Did you look at this verse?
Maybe you should start reading the Bible. Maybe you ought to shut up
And there you you guys are saying that God is deceptive
God is deceptive when he created a mature universe
God is deceptive when he created a mature Adam because Adam was only a day old but he looks like a 30 year old
Man, the earth was on, you know, the stars were only a day old but the light comes from four point three seven
light-years away and thirteen point eight billion light-years away
God is deceptive and he tries to act like we're preaching something wrong for saying that God is deceptive
Maybe you haven't read but in 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2 in verse 11, Michael Johnson
I'm sure you haven't read this but the Bible actually says this and for this cause God shall send them strong delusion
That they should believe a lie
That they all might be damned who believe not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness
You know what delusion means? It means believing in something that is clearly false regardless of the evidence to the contrary
The Bible says that God will send a strong delusion
That they should believe a lie
So number one God is not being deceptive by creating a mature earth because God doesn't owe you an explanation
But number two if you want to say that God's being deceptive you ever heard of the reprobate doctrine
You ever heard of the great falling way?
You ever heard of the time that God says that he will bring a strong delusion that they should believe a lie
And let me tell you something evolution is a lie
It's being used
By this world to damn people to hell to make people doubt a creator and doubt the creator God
Well teaching people that there's a mature earth and a mature universe
That's you know that that's gonna we have to prove that that light got here
You know what all the stars are 6,000 years away
Because I believe the Bible whether the earth's about 6,000 7,000 years old if you look at the lineages in Scripture
But you can't you can't just take away what God said God said he created the light and then he created the source
God said he created a man
News mature the earth was mature the stars were mature the animals were mature the plant life was mature
This is what the Bible says
Well, we're trying to trick people. No you know what they need
Faith to believe that garbage, and we need faith to believe this
to believe the Word of God and
If they want to be deceived let them be deceived
If they want to believe a lie look there's no proof of evolution. There's no proof of the Big Bang
There's no proof of any of that. Why do they believe that because they don't want to believe the truth. That's why
So we learn
We learn
This theological statements of creation. What do we believe?
That's why I believe in Christians
We believe that God created all things through his word
He spoke the world into existence God Jesus the Word of God is the creator
We believe in a literal 24-hour day six-day creation week. This disproves the gap theory
This disproves the day-age theory we believe that all things break forth after their own kind this refused secular evolution and theistic evolution
And we believe that God created a mature creation
So when science says
Well this light took this many years to travel we say well God created that light in maturity
Just like he created Adam in maturity
And it doesn't conflict with Scripture at all
See the truth is this
That God is the creator
But that cannot be proven scientifically
Because it has nothing to do with science
Science must be observed
Science must be predicted
Science must be tested and science must be repeated and none of those categories fall into creation
creationist theology
We believe it because the Word of God says it
We believe it
Because when we look around
We look up at the stars the heavens declare the glory of God
You believe it because God wrote it in our consciousness
We believe it because it is the Word of God. Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer. Heavenly Father
Thank you Lord for your word. Thank you for the Bible. Thank you for these this chapter
Where you teach us about
the doctrine of creation
And Lord I realize that there is a time and a place
To preach sermons and make videos
Showing the falseness of evolution and
The foolishness of evolution
But help us as by believing Christians to remember that creationism is a theology
Not a science
And help us to believe it
Because it is the Word of God
The matchless name of Christ we pray
Amen