Transcript GOD, THE LORD JESUS, OUR CREATOR AND SAVIOR

GOD, THE LORD JESUS, OUR
CREATOR AND SAVIOR
In the beginning God
created….
Genesis 1:1a
THE TRUTH IS: JESUS IS OUR
CREATOR AND SAVIOR
“In the beginning God created the heaven
and the earth.”
Genesis 1:1
“For in six days the Lord made the heaven
and earth, the sea, and all that is in
them….”
Exodus 20:11a
Remember now thy Creator in the days of
thy youth, while the evil days come not nor
the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I
have no pleasure in them.” Eccl 12:1
“My help cometh from the Lord, which
made heaven and earth.” Psalm 121:2
“Happy is he that hath the God of
Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the
Lord his God: which made heaven and
earth, the sea, and all that therein is….”
Psalm 146:5,6a
“Of old hast thou laid the foundation of
the earth: and the heavens are the work
of thy hands.”
Psalm 102:25
“Thou, even Thou, art Lord
alone; Thou hast made heaven,
the heaven of heavens, with all
their host, the earth, and all
things that are therein, the
seas, and all that is therein, and
Thou preservest them all; and
the host of heaven worshippeth
Thee.
Nehemiah 9:6
JOB 12:7-9
“But ask now the beasts, and they
shall teach thee; and the fowls of
the air, and they shall tell thee: Or
speak to the earth, and it shall
teach thee; and the fishes of the
sea shall declare unto thee. Who
knoweth not in all these that the
hand of the Lord hath wrought this?
PSALM 90:1-2
Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling place
in all generations. Before the mountains
were brought forth, or ever Thou hadst
formed the earth and the world, even
from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art
God.
Psalm 100:3
Know ye that the Lord He is God: it is
He that hath made us, and not we
ourselves; we are His people, and the
sheep of His pasture.
“My help cometh from the Lord, which made
heaven and earth.”
Psalm 121:2
“Our help is in the name of the Lord, who
made heaven and earth.”
Psalm 124:8
“The Lord that made heaven and earth bless
thee out of Zion.”
Psalm 134:3
“Ah Lord God! Behold. Thou hast made the
heaven and the earth by Thy great power
and stretched out arm, and there is nothing
too hard for Thee.”
Jeremiah 32:17
ECCLESIASTES 3:11
“He hath made every thing
beautiful in its time; also he
hath set the world in their
heart, so that no man can find
out the work that God maketh
from the beginning to the end.”
“The Lord hath made all things for
himself….”
Proverbs 16:4a
“Thus saith God, the Lord, he that
created the heavens and stretched
them out; he that spread forth the
earth, and that which cometh out of it;
he that giveth breath unto the people
upon it, and spirit to them that walk
therein: I am the Lord: that is my
name: and my glory will I not give to
another,…”
Isaiah 42:5,8a
“I have made the earth, and created
man upon it: I, even my hands, have
stretched out the heavens,
and all their host have I commanded….
For thus saith the Lord that created the
heavens; God himself that formed the
earth and made it; he hath established
it, he created it not in vain (not a waste
place), he formed it to be inhabited: I
am the Lord; and there is none else.”
Isaiah 45:12,18
PSALM 19:1
The heavens declare the
glory of God, and the
firmament showeth his
handiwork.”
“He hath made the earth by his power, he
hath established the world by his
wisdom, and hath stretched out the
heavens by his discretion…. For he is the
former (maker) of all things.”
Jeremiah 10:12,16a
“All things were made by him; and without
him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and the life was the light of
men. And the light shineth in darkness, and
the darkness comprehended it not.”
John 1:3-5
“Through faith we understand that the
worlds were framed by the word of God, so
that things which are seen were not made of
things which do appear.”
Hebrews 11:3
“By the word of the Lord were the heavens
made; and all the host of them by the breath
of his mouth….For he spake and it was
done.”
Psalm 33:6,9a
“Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive
glory and honor and power: for thou
hast created all things, and for thy
pleasure they are and were created.”
Revelation 4:11
“Fear
God, and give glory to him; for
the hour of his judgment is come: and
worship him that made heaven, and
earth, and the sea, and the fountains of
waters.”
Revelation 14:7b
“For the invisible things of him from the
creation of the world are clearly seen,
being understood by the things
that are made, even his eternal power and
Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Because that, when they knew God, they
glorified him not as God, neither were
thankful; but became vain in their
imaginations, and their foolish heart was
darkened. Professing themselves to be
wise, they became fools.”
Romans 1:20-22
O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy
name in all the earth! Who hast set thy
glory above the heavens. When I
consider thy heavens, the work of thy
fingers, the moon and the stars, which
thou hast ordained; what is man, that
thou art mindful of him? and the son of
man that thou visitest him? O Lord, our
Lord, how excellent is thy name in all
the earth!
Psalm 8:1,3,4,9
ISAIAH 40:28
“Hast thou not known? Hast thou
not heard, that the everlasting God,
the LORD, the Creator of the ends
of the earth, fainteth not, neither is
weary? There is no searching of
his understanding.”
“THAT I MAY KNOW HIM,
AND THE POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION,
AND THE FELLOWSHIP OF HIS
SUFFERINGS, BEING MADE
CONFORMABLE UNTO HIS DEATH….”
Philippians 3:10
“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth
the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine
heart God hath raised him from the dead,
thou shalt be saved.”
Romans 10:9
1 CORINTHIANS 15:3-8
“For I delivered unto you first of all that
which I also received, that Christ died
for our sins according to the
scriptures; and that he was buried, and
that he rose again the third day
according to the scriptures; and that he
was seen of Cephas, then of the
twelve…. v.6 he was seen,…v.7 he was
seen,…v.8 he was seen”
IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED
THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH.
These ten words of Genesis 1:1 are some
of the most important words in the Bible!
WHY?
Rooted in these ten words are the major
doctrines of the Bible:
– There is only one God;
– There is only one Creator;
– There is only one creation;
– There is only one true, eyewitness
historical record of creation (the Bible);
– Creation started “very good” (no sin, no
death, then Adam sinned, result=death);
– Only the Creator would have the right and
power to redeem His fallen creation;
– Since there is only one Creator/God, the
only way to God is the way He decrees;
– One way to the one God means one
Redeemer for the one race of Adam.
OUR UNIVERSE IS AN EFFECT.
An effect requires a cause.
An effect that includes time, space, matter,
and phenomena requires intelligence.
An effect that includes information demands
intelligence and power. (no intelligence=no
information)
Our universe includes time, space, matter,
phenomena and information, therefore our
universe must have an intelligent Cause.
“In the beginning God created
the heaven and the earth.” Gen.
1:1
“God” = intelligence and
power
“Created” = phenomena,
action
“In the beginning God created.”
“God” (Elohim) is plural.
“Created” is singular (Heb: He created)
Did God make a grammatical mistake?
Same as saying “They was.”
God is a plurality and a singularity.
The God of the Bible is three in one.
Father, Son and Holy Spirit = One God
In the beginning God created the
heaven and the earth.
Universe includes: time, space, matter
“In the beginning…” = Time
“...God created the heavens…” = Space
“...And the earth.” = Matter
Time = Past, Present, Future
Space = Width, Depth, Height
Matter = Solid, Liquid, Gas +plasma?
Our universe is an effect.
An effect requires a cause.
The Cause of our universe must have infinite
intelligence.
Intelligence generates an effect as an
exercise of the will.
There is one universe which is the effect of
an Infinite Intelligence Who has a will and
emotions (He was pleased with His results).
The Cause is named the Lord Jesus Christ.
THE UNCAUSED CAUSE IS THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST
“In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word was
God. The same was in the beginning with
God. All things were made by Him; and
without Him was not any thing made that
was made.
John 1:1-3
COLOSSIANS 1:16, 17
“For by Him were all things created, that
are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible
and invisible, whether they be thrones, or
dominions, or principalities, or powers: all
things were created by Him, and for Him.
And He is before all things, and by Him all
things consist.”
His name is The Lord Jesus Christ!
HEBREWS 1:1-3
God, Who at sundry times and in divers
manners spake in time past unto the fathers
by the prophets, hath in these last days
spoken unto us by His Son, whom He hath
appointed heir of all things, by whom also He
made the worlds; Who being the brightness
of His glory, and the express image of His
person, and upholding all things by the word
of His power, when He had by Himself
purged our sins, sat down on the right hand
of the Majesty on high.
THE FIRST TEN WORDS IN THE BIBLE:
Tell us our Creator made planet earth and put
everything else in the universe around it
Tell us the foundation of our origin, purpose
and destiny.
Tell us the proper way to understand ethics,
history, philosophy, biology, geology, etc.
Tell us the origin and purpose of male,
female, marriage, family, government, etc.
Tell us the origin of sin, cultures, languages,
Israel, Gentile nations, dinosaurs, etc.
THE FIRST TEN WORDS IN THE BIBLE:
There is ONE GOD: the Creator of heaven
and earth.
There is ONE REVELATION: God’s Word,
the Bible.
There is ONE PROGRAM: God’s kingdom.
There is ONE PURPOSE: God’s glory.
There is ONE BOOK you can trust: God’s
recorded Word—the Bible!
There is ONE SAVIOR: JESUS CHRIST
“If the God of Genesis 1 is
unreliable, so is the one in Psalms,
the Gospel of John, and
Revelation. He is the same One in
Romans and Philippians, too.
Either you utterly trust the God you
meet in Genesis 1, or you have
nothing else. He is the same. He
does not change.”
John Barnett, Tulsa Bible Church
In the beginning God created the
heaven and the earth.
These ten words are the foundation stones,
the building blocks for the rest of the Bible.
All doctrine flows from Genesis 1
If Genesis 1 is not true and accurate history,
then we can not be certain that anything
else in the Bible is trustworthy; such as: the
judgments, salvation, rewards, prophecy,etc
FALSE PHILOSOPHIES ARE PROVEN TO
BE FALSE BY THE 1ST TEN WORDS IN
THE BIBLE
ATHEISM is an error because in the
beginning, GOD.
POLYTHEISM is an error because it is
GOD, not gods.
PANTHEISM is an error because GOD
exists prior to and independent of matter.
MATERIALISM is an error because GOD
makes the matter and is not composed of
it.
THE BIBLE:
Not one word has ever been proven wrong.
Not one fact has ever needed updating.
Not one scientific fact ever needs correction
Not one old hypothesis or theory needs
adjustment because it has no theories or
educated guesses.
It is truth that you can stake your life and your
eternity upon.
It is changeless and enduring truth that will
last forever!