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00:01 Hello, friends, welcome to 3ABN Sabbath School Panel
00:03 as we continue with lesson number eight, 00:05 Creation: Genesis as Foundation part 1. 00:09 The question is 00:10 what actually happened in the very beginning? 00:13 Well, this lesson reveals 00:14 that in beautiful illustrative content. 00:17 If you'd like a copy of the lesson, 00:19 go to absg.Adventist.org, 00:22 download the lesson but better yet, 00:24 go to your local Seventh-day Adventist Church 00:26 and join them for an exciting excursion 00:29 in the revelations of God's Word. 00:32 We begin with Sunday, the lesson in the beginning. 00:36 So get your Bible and your friends 00:38 and your family 00:39 and get ready for what God's Spirit 00:41 has to say to you today. 01:17 Hello, friends, 01:18 welcome to a wonderful Bible study lesson number eight 01:22 about Creation: 01:24 Genesis as the Foundation and part 1, particularly. 01:29 When we think about creation in all of its components 01:33 I think about 3ABN in its very humble beginnings. 01:37 Where is it today? God is marvelous, is He not? 01:40 Amen. 01:41 And so, we're going to think about creation. 01:43 We were not there but can you imagine 01:45 what the world was like when God got it started? 01:48 Well, we're going to peek behind the curtains 01:51 of what Majesty is really all about 01:53 with our lesson today. 01:54 But before we go any further, 01:56 let's talk about who's here to join us in the study. 01:59 To my immediate left is my preacher, 02:02 Pastor Kenny Shelton, good to have you here. 02:03 It's good to be here. 02:05 Always love to study the Word of God. 02:06 What I like about our panel, 02:07 everyone brings a different flavor. 02:09 Pastor Ryan Day, good to have you here. 02:11 Oh, man, I'm excited about this one. 02:13 Yes. It'll be a good one. 02:14 And Jill seems to be representing 02:16 the entire female population on this lesson study. 02:20 Good to have you here, Jill. 02:22 Thank you, Pastor John. Privileged to be here. 02:23 Yes, and Pastor Dinzey, the Latino brother. 02:27 It's always good to have you here. 02:28 It's a pleasure to be here, 02:30 looking forward to the study of God's Word. 02:31 Amen. That's right. 02:33 And I tell you, before we go any further though, 02:34 let's have prayer. 02:35 So, Jill, I'll ask you to do that for us today. 02:38 Holy Father, we come before You in the name of Jesus, 02:40 thanking You for Your Word, 02:42 thanking You 02:43 that You created us in the beginning. 02:45 And that You want to recreate in us 02:47 the image of Jesus. 02:49 We ask right now 02:50 for the anointing of Your Holy Spirit 02:52 as we study in Jesus' name. 02:54 Amen. Amen. 02:55 Amen. 02:56 This is one of the exciting lessons 02:58 because I'd like to turn to Genesis 1. 03:01 What many people don't realize 03:03 is all the major doctrines of the Bible 03:08 are born in the beginning. 03:11 Amen. That's right. 03:12 If you had no other book in the Old Testament, 03:14 but Genesis, you'll have the story of creation 03:18 how we got here. 03:19 And then you must come to the conclusion 03:21 that really when you appreciate and accept the creation story 03:25 then nothing else in the Old Testament is old. 03:28 That's right. 03:30 Because a lot of people dismiss certain Bible teachings 03:32 by saying, well, that's the olden times, 03:34 well, nothing could be older than the very beginning. 03:38 Let's look at the most profound statement 03:39 made. 03:41 And I like the fact that God inspired 03:42 the writer Moses to pen these words 03:45 for our admonition. 03:47 Genesis 1 03:49 is where we're going to begin 03:50 and then we'll read the memory text. 03:52 It says, "In the beginning, God created," together, 03:57 "the heavens and the earth." 04:00 Now there are a number of beginnings 04:02 in the Bible, Genesis 1, John 1, Hebrews 1. 04:06 So let's go now to the memory text 04:08 which takes us to the second in the beginning. 04:11 John 1:1-4, our memory text. 04:15 "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, 04:19 and the Word was God. 04:22 He was in the beginning with God, 04:25 all things were made through Him. 04:27 And without Him," how much? 04:29 Nothing. 04:30 "Nothing was made that was made. 04:33 In Him was life 04:34 and the life was the light of men." 04:36 John 1:1-4. 04:38 Life unborrowed, underives. 04:42 Jesus did not become a part of creation. 04:46 Jesus is in fact the Creator. 04:50 That's vitally important to understand 04:51 because this is contention today. 04:53 It's amazing how the devil could create 04:55 so many distractions, 04:57 how he create so in the minds of those 04:59 who you might think by this time 05:00 she'd have a solid foundation. 05:02 The devil creates these distractions. 05:04 And there are people that are arguing today 05:06 about the origin and the... 05:09 where Jesus came from. 05:11 And some people are saying, 05:12 "Well, He was the first thing created." 05:15 And we say, "Well, how far?" 05:17 And they say, "Way, way, way." We say, "Million, 2 million?" 05:21 "No way, way, way, way back there." 05:24 Where? 05:25 Well, we're not saying He's created, He was begotten. 05:27 Well, what does that mean? 05:29 And they find themselves in this quagmire, 05:31 like a, like a fly in a blender trying to find a way out. 05:35 Picture that for a moment, Pastor. 05:38 Fly in a blender trying to find his way out. 05:40 When you establish yourself in the quagmire of confusion, 05:45 you do a disservice to yourself. 05:48 I prefer to believe 05:49 that I am the product of a divine plan. 05:52 And Jesus has to be the Creator. 05:56 Here's the reason why 05:57 because unless you are the Creator, 05:59 you cannot be the Redeemer. 06:00 That's right. Amen. 06:02 That's right. 06:03 You cannot redeem something you didn't create, 06:05 you will become your, 06:07 you cannot become your own Redeemer. 06:09 Because if you were created by somebody else, 06:11 you could not become the Redeemer. 06:13 Now let's look at some of the things established. 06:16 I'll go through and just point out 06:17 some of the major teachings 06:19 established in the very beginning 06:22 in the book of Genesis. 06:23 First of all, it goes without saying, 06:27 the creation of the worlds. 06:28 That's right. Yes. 06:30 Genesis Chapter 1, the creation of the world. 06:32 We can go through each of the days, 06:34 but you'll see it at the beginning 06:36 of every one of these phrases. 06:38 The Bible says God said, God said, God said, God said, 06:42 God said, God said, God said. 06:45 And then it ends with Genesis 2:1-3. 06:48 And look at what, how creation, 06:50 you find so many 06:51 one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, 06:54 nine, ten, ten times God said. 06:57 So, who said, together? 07:00 God said. 07:01 And then He continues, He continues, Genesis 2:1-3, 07:07 "Thus the heavens and the earth, 07:09 and all the host of them were finished. 07:13 And on the seventh day God ended His work 07:16 which He had done, 07:17 and He rested on the seventh day, " 07:19 from how much? 07:20 " All His work which He had done. 07:23 And then God blessed the seventh day, 07:26 and sanctified it because in it, 07:28 He rested from all His work, 07:31 which God had created and made." 07:33 This is the history of the heavens 07:35 and the earth, 07:36 when they were created in the day 07:38 that the Lord God made the earth 07:39 and the heavens." 07:40 So we find the undeniable record 07:42 that the world did not come here 07:44 by some biological burp, 07:46 by some catastrophic atomic explosion, 07:49 or it did not come out of chaos. 07:51 We did not emerge out of some quagmire of a swamp 07:55 with legs that metamorphosized into wings 07:59 and metamorphosized into brains. 08:01 It's so ridiculous. 08:03 It's so, it's so, it's like saying, 08:05 if you put a car, 08:07 if you put all the pieces that can make a car 08:10 into a gigantic atomic tank, spin it as fast as you can, 08:15 and then finally explode it. 08:17 You get a Mercedes. 08:23 I prefer to believe that in the beginning, 08:25 I was a part of a defined plan. What about you? 08:28 Schematically God put us together, 08:29 methodically we are fearfully and wonderfully made. 08:33 But let's go through the list of the things 08:34 that were created in them 08:35 that come out of the Book of Genesis. 08:37 First of all, 08:38 you find the creation story, very clearly. 08:41 And then John 1:1-3 establishes the nature of the Godhead. 08:46 In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God 08:49 and the Word was God. 08:50 You also find in Genesis Chapter 1, 08:52 the Father, the Son, 08:53 the Holy Spirit is that they're there. 08:55 And by the way, 08:56 this is another controversy today, 08:57 people saying 08:59 that the Spirit of God is a force 09:00 or some kind of wind that blows back and forth 09:04 and has no definitive connection 09:06 to the Godhead. 09:07 But yes, in fact, they were in the very beginning together 09:11 and they are continued force to this very day. 09:14 And the reason 09:15 why we should not deny the place of the Holy Spirit. 09:18 The Bible says, 09:20 "Do not grieve the Holy Spirit whereby you are sealed." 09:23 If you are not, 09:25 if you're just a force or a wind, 09:26 you cannot be grieved. 09:28 Grieving someone is a character of our personality. 09:31 Right. 09:33 Look at what else is expressed in the Book of Genesis. 09:36 You find after the creation, the Sabbath is established, 09:39 endearing and eternal. 09:41 There is no other purpose for the seventh day 09:45 other than the creation of something 09:47 that is more tangible 09:49 than that which is physical 09:51 because as the physical properties of the earth change, 09:53 trees could burn up but the Sabbath is still here. 09:55 That's right. 09:56 Animal species may pass away, but the Sabbath is still here. 09:59 That's right. 10:00 We will go from people that are changing in age 10:02 and size and stature, 10:04 but the Sabbath is unchangeable. 10:06 That's in the Book of Genesis. 10:07 You also find in Genesis Chapter 3, 10:09 the origin of evil. 10:11 Yeah. We find the origin of evil. 10:13 That very clandestined approach that the serpent took to Eve 10:17 and Eve was deceived, but make no doubt about it. 10:21 Eve did not open the door to sin. 10:23 The Bible says in Romans 5:12, 10:25 "Therefore by one man, 10:27 sin entered the world and death through sin and thus, 10:31 death spread to all men." 10:34 We also find in Genesis Chapter 3, 10:36 the first prophecy about the coming Messiah. 10:40 I will put enmity between thee and the woman, 10:42 between thy seed and her seed. 10:44 Genesis 3:15, 10:46 so that prophecy was the first indication 10:49 that there is an answer to the problem 10:54 or the difficulty of the sin that entered the world. 10:58 Thank God, in the beginning was not only creation 11:02 and the problem of sin, 11:03 but in the beginning the answer was also given 11:06 to the issue of sin. 11:08 We also find the plan of salvation. 11:10 Also, in Genesis Chapter 3, 11:12 the seed, the plan of salvation would come through the Messiah, 11:15 the seed. 11:17 When the fullness of time had come, 11:18 God sent forth His Son. 11:20 That's the seed 11:21 that Paul the Apostle talks about. 11:23 Then we find the worldwide flood. 11:26 The worldwide flood, 11:28 how it grieved God that He had even made man 11:31 and He extinguished the first world 11:34 by wiping it out with a deluge and only Noah 11:37 and his family of eight were on the ark. 11:40 We also find the covenant that God made, 11:43 this is, this always burns me up, 11:45 you know, the covenant that God made 11:46 was in the rainbow. 11:47 What was it in? Rainbow. 11:49 The rainbow. 11:50 It is sad how everything 11:52 that God has created as a blessing, 11:53 the devil has distorted as a curse. 11:54 That's right. 11:56 Now today when you see a rainbow, 11:57 you think of the LGBTIAQ community. 12:00 You very rarely think of the promise of God. 12:04 I still have the website, one day I'll put it up. 12:06 I have a website called the rainbow of God, 12:10 I want to restore in earth. 12:12 The fact that God's rainbow 12:14 was not created for any perverted reason, 12:18 but was created to establish His eternal promise. 12:21 But He'll never destroy the world again by the flood. 12:24 Then also we find in Genesis Chapter 6, 12:26 the dispersion of languages. 12:28 How did out of one language 12:30 the earth become populated with many languages? 12:34 There, the tower of Babel, where confusion existed, 12:39 where God confounded the tongues of men 12:41 to prevent them 12:43 from thwarting His plan of salvation. 12:45 Anytime you are participating in confusion, 12:48 it is not in harmony with the plan of God 12:50 for the salvation of men. 12:52 You also find the genealogies, 12:54 the chronology of the call of Abraham, 12:57 Genesis 5 and through Genesis 11, 13:00 you find the power of the spoken word 13:02 in the beginning, 13:03 and David the Psalmist says, he spake and it was done. 13:07 He commanded and it stood fast. 13:10 But I want to just wrap this up very quickly, 13:12 go to Genesis 49 13:14 because something that we often overlook, 13:16 and I know Jill is going to cover marriage, 13:17 so I'm gonna leave that because that's in Genesis, 13:20 and a number of other things. 13:21 But in Genesis 49, 13:23 you find 13:24 the beautiful establishment of the nation 13:27 that God would raise up 13:29 to be a light to the entire world. 13:31 And Genesis 49, 13:34 every weakness that exists in humanity 13:39 is chronicled in the Book of Genesis Chapter 49. 13:43 Instability, violence, high mindedness, 13:48 business mindedness, stubbornness, stumbling block, 13:52 one that get bad's break, appetite as a challenge, 13:55 quick temporariness, hard to get along, 13:57 all the qualities of the sons of Jacob, 14:01 parallel all the challenges of the human race. 14:05 That's why there are 12 gates to the New Jerusalem. 14:08 And I would suggest 14:10 as I transition to Pastor Kenny, 14:12 everything that we overcome will identify the gate 14:16 through which we walk into the New Jerusalem. 14:19 Thank you very much. 14:21 I think that's a good foundation, 14:22 a wonderful foundation on which to build 14:24 and the rest of the panel will continue to build on that. 14:27 I have a Monday's lesson 14:29 and I think it's an exciting lesson. 14:30 And certainly, everyone can expand on it 14:32 as we as we go forward, but the days of creation. 14:35 This is something 14:37 that's being discussed over and over 14:39 and I can't quite imagine it 14:40 because Pastor John pointers back 14:42 in the very beginning, 14:43 God told us how it is, how it was, 14:45 how it is going to always be. 14:47 And someone sent me a book the other day. 14:50 I know it's quite a large book, 14:52 and you know, you looked at real quickly 14:53 and they're just simply saying 14:55 there is no way you can prove the weekly cycle, 14:59 one, two, three, four, five, six, seven days, 15:01 there's no way. 15:02 And one of the bottom lines 15:03 I just thumbed through quickly said, 15:05 because there's eight days in the week. 15:08 So where are they got all that? 15:09 I don't know, because by that time, 15:11 the waste can was close. 15:13 You know what I mean? 15:14 So I did the pitching thing 15:15 because I don't need anything else, 15:17 you know, to distract my mind, 15:18 I just need to go to the Word of God. 15:20 Because there's all kind of people 15:21 with all kind of different thoughts. 15:23 And in our lesson, Monday's lesson, it says, 15:25 and I'm going to read it from the quarterly it says, 15:27 in recent years, there has been a trend 15:29 to view the creation week as what, 15:31 non literal, notice that, or as a metaphor, 15:35 a parable, or even a myth. 15:39 There's people in every one of these categories here 15:41 and I believe that we're directed 15:43 back to the Word of God, days of creation. 15:45 What does the Bible teach on this subject? 15:47 I think that's what's 15:49 in every one of our classes here. 15:51 What does the Bible say on this subject? 15:53 You know, it's been challenged 15:55 specially by those who believe in evolution. 15:57 They really challenged us, they challenged hard, 15:59 they let a lot of people stray on it. 16:01 And they say, 16:03 they couldn't possibly be just 24 hour period of time. 16:05 Why? 16:07 Because there's too many things that were done. 16:08 These days had to be long days. 16:10 You know, so much like God's not able to do 16:12 what He wants to do. 16:13 But I read the Bible and just simply said, 16:15 God spoke things into existence. 16:16 That's right. 16:18 You know, we as human beings, 16:19 we have to build and we have to build, 16:21 it takes time, but not with God. 16:22 They say, 16:23 this is what accounted 16:25 for the development of the planet 16:27 and God did these things, that He did in creation, 16:30 and it just took a very long time. 16:32 The question is asked, 16:33 what are the days in creation 16:35 in Genesis Chapter 1 to be understood? 16:38 Is it the literal days in Genesis 1, 16:41 or is it figurative days? 16:43 We have to look at that. 16:44 And Genesis 1:3-5, 16:45 I think we went through that 16:47 and I'll do as quickly as I can, 16:48 Genesis 1:3-5. 16:50 I like to say this, the Bible says. 16:51 That's right. 16:52 The Bible says, okay, the Bible says, 16:56 "And God said, 'Let there be," what? "Light." 16:59 and there was light. 17:00 That's it, that's final right there. 17:01 God said. That's right. 17:03 In 4, "And God saw all the light and it was good. 17:05 And God divided the light from the darkness." 17:07 And verse 5, 17:09 "And God created the light, 17:10 the light day and the darkness 17:12 and he called the night and the evening 17:14 and the morning where the," what? 17:16 "Evening and the morning were the first day. 17:18 That kind of settles it for me here. 17:19 The Bible says, Genesis 1:5, 17:21 the evening and the morning were the first day. 17:24 In Hebrew, it literally means this, 17:26 evening was, morning was day one. 17:33 That just, I mean, I just want to close it up 17:35 and say that's final. 17:37 I don't think anything really wrong with that. 17:38 Why do I need to dig in deeper and try to disprove God? 17:41 That's right. That's right. 17:43 Day one, that's what it says. Praise God. 17:44 So it indicates that the duration 17:46 of each of the seven parts of the creation week, 17:50 it's repeated, 17:51 actually five times here in this chapter, 17:54 verses 8, verse 13, 19, 23, and 31. 17:58 Don't miss these points., very important. 18:00 The Bible says, "Evening proceeded the morning." 18:04 That's right. 18:06 Now, were the Hebrews ever in doubt of this? 18:08 The Hebrews were never in doubt about the meaning as the day 18:11 because the day begins or began at sunset. 18:15 That's what the Bible says, isn't it? 18:17 Notices this in Leviticus 23:32, 18:19 familiar passage, 18:21 I'm sure states this. 18:22 It shows to be, notice this, 18:24 this shall be unto you a Sabbath of rest, 18:28 ye shall afflict your souls. 18:31 Notice this, from even to evening show 18:33 you celebrate, what? 18:34 Your Sabbath. 18:36 Deuteronomy 16:6 says, 18:38 "Thou shall sacrifice the Passover at," when? 18:41 "At evening. At the going down of the sun." 18:44 Deuteronomy 16:6, 18:46 "Some have taken evening and morning as a long," what? 18:50 "Indefinite period of time." And how do they get this? 18:54 They quote a scripture in the Bible in 2 Peter 3:18. 18:59 2 Peter 3:8, 2 Peter 3:8, it says this, 19:03 "One day is with the Lord as," what? 19:07 "As 1000 years." 19:08 You've heard that over and over and over, 19:09 one day is with the Lord is 1000 years. 19:12 And how can a person if you think about it, 19:14 how can a person use this passage 19:17 to prove the length of a day? 19:19 It's something like, was it Revelation 1:10, 19:21 I was in the spirit on the Lord's Day. 19:23 Somebody tried to prove what day that is, 19:25 you gotta do line upon line there. 19:26 So that, 19:27 so when all we need to do simply is this, 19:29 even in this passage is simply read on. 19:32 It says, and 1000 years as, what? 19:35 As one day. 19:37 I've copied something down from that. 19:39 In fact it says Peter's thoughts 19:40 comes from Psalms 90:4, 19:43 we won't read that, but it's talking about that. 19:45 He borrowed that from the Old Testament 19:47 and he wrote into the New Testament here. 19:50 It simply means we read this God is what? 19:53 He's ever liked, He's eternal, is He not? 19:56 There's no past. 19:57 There is no future with Him. 20:00 And then we look, 20:01 all things are eternal present with Him. 20:04 That's kind of confusing maybe to our mind. 20:06 There's no need of trying to limit God 20:09 of what He can do and what He cannot do. 20:11 So there's nothing He cannot do. 20:13 There's nothing, He can do everything, 20:15 just exactly the way He wants to do it. 20:18 Peter rebukes here in this passage, 20:20 He's rebuking the skepticism and the scoffers, 20:23 there were scoffers in the days, 20:24 and they're scoffers today and they're scoffers right now. 20:27 Some who are watching are saying that's not true, 20:30 a literal 24-hour period of time, 20:33 seven days in a week. 20:34 But the Bible is very clear. 20:36 Now notice this, it says 20:38 as these scoffers were doubting God 20:40 about the promises of the end of the world 20:43 to come even in these passages. 20:44 So they are scoffing Well, He's made these promises, 20:46 but He's not going to come, He can't do that. 20:49 So Peter is not, in this passage 20:51 he's not trying to compute time. 20:53 This is not, 20:55 you know, just like we read something 20:56 that unclean, 20:58 you know, in the Old Testament, 20:59 you read something New Testament seems to refer, 21:00 you know, we have to look the context 21:02 that we've been talking about here 21:03 in pages of God's Word. 21:04 Okay. 21:06 Now let's look at one day with God here 21:07 as we're studying here about this text and context 21:09 which we've been looking at quickly here. 21:11 We must consider Peter's words are clear. 21:14 He's stressing what? 21:15 Timelessness of God. 21:17 In one day, God can do the work of 1000 years. 21:21 That's nothing to him, but thousand to me is like, 21:23 oh, wait, that's a long period of time. 21:25 Man says that's a long period of time, 21:27 with God it is not, 21:28 with God, it could be considered 21:30 as simply what? 21:32 One day. 21:33 Let's not forget to examine the fourth commandment too 21:36 on this right, quick, just a little bit here, 21:38 which will leave us no doubt that the evenings 21:40 and the mornings of creation are found in Exodus 20:11. 21:45 "For in six days," what? 21:47 The Lord made what? Heaven and earth. 21:48 "The heaven and the earth, 21:50 the sea and all that is that is, 21:51 and He rested the seventh day." 21:53 And He rested the seventh day. 21:55 That's what the Bible says. That's right. 21:57 Why do so many even commentaries say 21:59 that each day is, 22:01 it has to be longer than a 24-hour period of time. 22:05 Could it possibly be that they're trying to make 22:08 the creation week 22:10 agree with their evolutionary theory? 22:13 They have to, they're looking for something 22:15 to grab a hold of here and try to give some, 22:17 you know, some credence to here, 22:18 what was taught by people to believe on the earth 22:21 in the early history. 22:22 Notice, we look at, we say all they said, well, 22:24 this covers millions and millions of years. 22:27 You hear it on the news a lot of time this, 22:28 while this is millions of years old. 22:31 Should we not go back to creation 22:32 and see what God has said in His Word here. 22:34 God speaks, since we spoke and the Bible said it, 22:38 I love it, it was so He created, 22:40 it was so and you mentioned it stood fast. 22:43 It stood fast. Isn't that right? 22:44 We have the heavens, right? 22:46 We have the rotation things 22:47 that are going on in the heavens, 22:49 and yet man still will not abide 22:50 by what God has said in His Word. 22:52 Now the quick reason why many reject 22:53 the seven-day cycle is simply this. 22:56 They work six and to rest one. 22:59 They tried to make it a long period of time, 23:01 it's because they simply, may I put it plainly 23:03 because you reject the seventh day Sabbath, 23:04 that's why. 23:06 Which is a weekly reoccurring day 23:07 of rest what the Bible says. 23:10 Scriptural interpretation insists 23:13 on giving literal meaning to creation week. 23:17 It insists on that, seven days of creation. 23:20 Exodus 20:11, notice this, 23:22 not a period of indefinite time. 23:24 Notice this, indicated by the expression, 23:27 we talked about in the Hebrew, 23:29 evening was, once again and what? 23:31 Morning was day one. That's right. 23:35 This is an indispensable firm foundation 23:38 in which we can build for the Christian 23:40 and certainly, 23:42 biblical theology here from Genesis to Revelation. 23:46 I like to go back 23:47 and I think about as 3ABN talks about a lot 23:49 when they had quickly in meetings in Russia. 23:52 There's an atheist, right? The atheists were there. 23:55 He didn't know anything about God. 23:56 They were passing out Bibles. Well, they do. 23:58 They gave him a Bible, 23:59 he'd never read the Bible before, 24:01 he's sitting on the hill. 24:02 He opens the Word of God to the very, very beginning. 24:05 How thrilled he was, 24:06 I wish you was as thrilled 24:07 and I want to be as thrilled as this man was. 24:09 He opened it back this 'cause he was atheist, 24:10 he didn't believe in God. 24:12 He simply opened the pages and he read it. 24:13 It said, in the beginning, what? 24:16 In the beginning God, he said, from that moment on, 24:19 he accepted God as his Lord and Savior. 24:21 That's all it took, 24:22 and that's all it should take for you and for me. 24:23 Amen. That's right. That's right. 24:25 Thank you, Pastor Kenny, that was an amazing. 24:27 You know, we have so much more to cover 24:28 when we think about creation as the first part, 24:31 we're just dabbling in creation, 24:34 so don't go away. 24:35 Many of the answers that you're seeking 24:37 will be answered right after we come back. 24:39 Amen. 24:44 Ever wish you could watch 24:46 a 3ABN Sabbath School Panel again, 24:48 or share it on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter? 24:51 Well, you can by visiting 3abnsabbathschoolpanel.com. 24:56 A clean design makes it easy 24:58 to find the program you're looking for. 25:01 There are also links to the Adult Bible Study Guide 25:04 so you can follow along. 25:06 Sharing is easy. 25:07 Just click share and choose your favorite social media. 25:10 Share a link, save a life for eternity. 25:18 Welcome back to our Sabbath School Panel, 25:20 we're going to continue in our understanding, 25:23 I'm going to throw it now to Pastor Ryan Day. 25:25 Well, you're throwing it to me, 25:27 but I'm gonna toss it back to you 25:29 because I feel inspired, 25:30 I'm gonna let you take a few seconds of my time. 25:32 Well, while we were at the break, Pastor, 25:34 you shared something with us about the day, 25:37 that literal 24-hour day, 25:38 why don't you take a few seconds to... 25:40 Very quickly, the word first day, 25:42 second day, third day, fourth day in Genesis 25:44 is the Hebrew word yom, 25:46 which means from one sunset to the next. 25:50 As in the Day of Atonement 25:52 which the Day of Atonement was not 1000 years 25:54 which is simply one day. 25:55 Right. Okay, Ryan, back to you. 25:57 Wow. That's a great point. 25:58 Praise the Lord. 25:59 In fact, we're gonna be talking about a day. 26:01 And on my day, which is Tuesday, 26:05 the Sabbath and Creation is Tuesday's title. 26:07 I just want to say for the record, 26:08 you know, I do not believe as a Christian, 26:10 as a Bible Christian, 26:12 I do not believe in the evolutionary approach 26:14 to the origin of man as the world 26:16 and the scientific world receives it. 26:18 However, I want to say this, understand me, 26:21 I do believe in a Big Bang theory. 26:24 That looks plain. Yes. 26:27 I believe that God said it and bang, it happened. 26:31 I just, I walked into it, I walked into a store one day 26:34 and I saw this shirt hanging up there 26:36 and it had like this little, 26:37 you know, Big Bang theory emblem. 26:39 And it said, I believe in Big Bang theory. 26:42 God said it bang and it happened. 26:43 I just love that, I had to share that. 26:45 It's powerful. 26:46 I'm sure there was a big bang when God spoke, 26:48 you know, because God has power when He speaks. 26:51 Tuesday's lesson actually, the Sabbath and Creation. 26:55 I love the opening remarks 26:56 that this particular lesson had, 26:59 I want to just read a few words of it. 27:00 It says, today the seventh day Sabbath 27:02 is heavily under attack in secular society 27:06 and in religious communities. 27:08 The fact can be seen in the work schedules 27:10 of global corporations 27:11 and the attempted change of the calendar 27:13 in many European countries, designated Monday, 27:16 has designated Monday 27:18 as the first day of the week and Sunday as the seventh day. 27:22 And by the recent papal encyclical 27:25 on climate change 27:26 that calls the seventh day Sabbath, 27:28 the Jewish Sabbath 27:29 and encourages the world to observe a day of rest 27:32 to alleviate global warming. 27:34 We are starting to see more and more 27:36 as we get closer and closer to the second coming of Jesus, 27:38 we're seeing an attack, 27:40 a direct attack on God's holy day, 27:41 the Sabbath day. 27:43 So what I want to do, 27:44 I want to take a little bit different approach 27:45 than what the lesson did. 27:47 We're still gonna get all the text in, 27:48 but they started with one particular text 27:50 and ended with another. 27:51 I'm going to flip flop those 27:52 instead of starting at the beginning of the book, 27:54 let's go to the book of Revelation. 27:55 I want to start there. Revelation Chapter 14. 27:57 I want us to see this powerfully 27:58 because it is powerful to consider 28:01 how while the devil is, 28:03 is doing all that he can to attack God's holy day. 28:07 The Sabbath day just as it was issued and given 28:10 in creation at the beginning 28:12 is still most relevant to us still today. 28:15 And we see this in latter day Bible prophecy 28:18 as found in the Book of Revelation. 28:19 So Revelation Chapter 14, 28:20 we're going to be reading the first angel's message, 28:23 which by the way goes to whom? 28:25 It goes to who? The entire world. 28:26 It goes to the entire world. 28:27 So notice this right here, verse 6 says, 28:29 "Then I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, 28:31 having the everlasting gospel, 28:33 to preach to those who dwell on the earth 28:35 to every nation, tribe, tongue and people." 28:37 This is a global message in the last days. 28:39 But notice verse 7, 28:40 "Saying with a loud voice, here's the message, 28:42 fear God and give glory to Him 28:44 for the hour of His judgment has come." 28:46 And then notice this last portion here. 28:48 "And worship Him who made heaven and earth, 28:51 the sea and the springs of waters. 28:53 So God is sending this global message 28:55 in the last days and He's simply saying, 28:56 hey, I want the world, 28:58 I want My children to return to worshiping me 29:00 and acknowledging me as creator of the universe. 29:02 You cannot separate the Sabbath from creation. 29:05 And that's where we're headed in this direction. 29:07 Who is this creator that we are talking about here? 29:10 Who is the creator 29:11 that we are to return to worship? 29:13 I believe it's already been mentioned 29:14 in this study so far, but I just want to reemphasize. 29:17 Ephesians 3:9. 29:19 Again, that's Ephesians 3:9, it says, 29:22 "And to make all see 29:23 what is the fellowship of the mystery, 29:25 which from the beginning of the ages 29:26 has been hidden in God, 29:28 who created all things through Jesus Christ, 29:32 the entire Godhead, 29:33 I believe in faith and as the Word of God 29:35 clearly communicates, the entire Godhead, 29:37 I believe had its place 29:39 and its position and its work in creation. 29:42 The Father gave Jesus Christ 29:44 the authority to speak this world into existence 29:47 and the Holy Spirit carried it out. 29:49 It's powerful to consider it, 29:50 but the age in which we consider 29:52 in Scripture to be the authority 29:55 who actually did the creative work. 29:56 The Bible gives that to Jesus. 29:58 Where you see right there in 3 John 1:3, 30:00 "All things were made through Him 30:02 and without Him 30:03 nothing was made that was made," 30:05 speaking of Jesus Christ. 30:06 So there's no doubt 30:07 that Jesus Christ is the creator. 30:09 Now, when you consider the creation event, okay, 30:11 this is powerful, simple but profound. 30:14 When you consider the creation event, 30:16 and you read on and study about the Sabbath, 30:19 you cannot separate the creator from the Sabbath. 30:23 And that's essentially, I believe, what is happening 30:25 when people come to the conclusion 30:26 that we no longer have to observe the Sabbath, 30:28 we no longer have to rest as, as the Bible tells us to rest. 30:31 We don't have to keep a Sabbath day. 30:33 What has happened is they have separated 30:35 the creator from the Sabbath. 30:37 They have separated the Lord of the Sabbath 30:38 from the Sabbath, 30:40 and now they think that they can just do anything 30:41 that they want to do. 30:43 And so, I'm just gonna go to Genesis Chapter 2. 30:45 So we know that Genesis Chapter 1 30:46 gives us the creation account, 30:48 all the days of creation as Brother Kenny, 30:51 most beautifully brought out. 30:52 But when you get to the first few verses 30:54 of Genesis Chapter 2, 30:55 I think pastor read these earlier, 30:57 but I want to focus 30:58 in on what the Bible actually says. 31:00 So Genesis 2 beginning with verse 1, 31:02 notice what it says, 31:03 "Thus the heavens and the earth 31:04 and all the hosts of them were finished." 31:06 That means Jesus has now finished His work. 31:09 And again, I want to re-emphasize 31:10 that it's Jesus. 31:12 Who's the creator? Jesus. 31:13 Jesus is the creator. 31:14 So by the time we get to verses 2 and 3, 31:16 where it says, 31:17 "And on the seventh day God ended His work." 31:20 Who ended His work? 31:21 Jesus ended His work. Yes. 31:23 It says, "He ended His work which He had done, 31:26 and He rested on the seventh day 31:28 from all His work which He had done. 31:31 Then God blessed the seventh day 31:32 and sanctified it 31:34 because in it He had rested from all His work 31:36 which God had created and made." 31:38 So there's three things here and we emphasize this often 31:40 and I believe it's vitally important. 31:42 There's three things we see Jesus doing on this day 31:45 that He didn't do on into the other created days. 31:47 That's right. Okay. 31:48 So we see that He rests, okay, He rested on the Sabbath. 31:51 He blessed this day 31:53 which we know to be the Sabbath day, 31:54 the seventh day. 31:55 And, of course, He sanctified it. 31:57 That means He set it apart from the other six. 31:59 Does it mean that God did not do a special work 32:02 or to do something special on those six days? 32:04 But He sets that seventh day apart. 32:06 And He makes it clear, I sanctified it, 32:08 I make this holy, this day is a holy day. 32:11 Now when God declares something holy... 32:14 That's right. 32:15 When God declares something holy, 32:17 who can reverse that? 32:18 Who has the authority to say, yeah, it's not holy anymore, 32:21 I think this day is more holy. 32:23 My friends, you know, that's that, 32:25 I said Jesus you were talking about 32:26 in one of our previous lessons, 32:28 that's adding to the Word 32:29 and even taking away from the Word, 32:31 and we have to be careful because the Bible warns us 32:33 that people who do this, 32:35 who add and take away from God's Holy Word 32:37 has a fearful looking forward to judgment, 32:39 and we have to be careful with that. 32:41 You know, just right off the front, 32:43 I just want to make this clear. 32:46 Notice how there's no mentioning 32:47 of any Jew in this passage, 32:49 when God creates the Sabbath. 32:52 One of the primary excuses that I have received 32:54 over my ministry when talking to those 32:57 who combat or trying to contend with me 32:59 on the issue of the Sabbath. 33:00 Well, that's a Jewish thing, Ryan, 33:01 you know, that's for the Jews, we're Gentiles, 33:03 we're New Testament Christians, 33:05 we don't have to keep the Sabbath. 33:07 And truthfully, 33:09 when God instituted the Sabbath, 33:10 nowhere in there do you find that He says, 33:12 I'm resting on this day, I'm blessing this day 33:14 and I'm setting it apart for a holy use 33:16 for this specific group of people over here, 33:18 the Jewish people. 33:19 Adam was not a Jew. Okay. 33:21 And Adam kept the Sabbath. 33:22 He would have followed in the example of Christ 33:24 to keep the Sabbath. 33:25 And even this, notice this, the Bible says that Abraham 33:28 kept all the commandments of God. 33:29 That's right. That was before Moses. 33:31 Abraham was technically not a Jew. 33:33 Okay, the Jewish nation did not come along, 33:35 technically until the time of Jacob. 33:37 And I know that can be argued a little bit there, 33:40 but nonetheless, Abraham 33:41 at that particular point in his life 33:42 was not considered a Jew, yet 33:44 the Jewish nation would come from him. 33:46 Even Noah, who we know was, 33:48 was very much obedient to God's commandments 33:50 and God's Word. 33:51 Noah would have kept the Sabbath. 33:53 And so, we see the institution of the Sabbath very clearly. 33:56 How about the commandments of God? 33:57 How about the command of God in which He gives us 34:00 and tells us to remember the Sabbath day 34:02 right here in Exodus 20:8-11. 34:05 Want to reference that here? 34:06 Exodus 20:8-11, 34:09 "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. 34:11 Six days you shall labor and do all your work 34:13 but the seventh day 34:15 is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. 34:16 In it you shall do no work, 34:18 nor your son, nor your daughter, 34:19 nor your male servant, nor your female servant, 34:22 nor your cattle, 34:23 nor your stranger that is within your gates for." 34:25 And why do we keep the Sabbath? 34:26 Here's the reasoning. Verse 11. 34:28 For in 6000 years. 34:32 That's not what it says, 34:33 "For in six days the Lord made 34:35 the heavens and the earth, the sea 34:37 and all that in the midst and rested the seventh day, 34:39 therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day 34:41 and hallowed it." 34:42 I have to say here, if you notice in verse 11, 34:44 notice those last few words there. 34:46 It says, "For in six days the Lord made the heavens 34:49 and the earth and the sea and all that in the midst. 34:52 Where do we find almost an exact repeat 34:54 of that sequence of words? 34:56 Revelation. 34:57 We just read at the beginning, Revelation 14, remember? 34:59 Worship Who made the heavens and the earth and the sea 35:01 and the fountains of waters. 35:03 That points us right back to this commandment. 35:04 God is saying, "I gave you the Sabbath as a sign, 35:07 as a blessing to remember Me as the creator of the world." 35:11 And we know that Jesus continued this 35:13 in Mark 2:27 when he said, 35:15 "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath." 35:19 That word there is anthropos in the Greek, it means mankind. 35:23 Jesus created the Sabbath for all mankind. 35:25 So can you separate the Sabbath 35:27 from creation or from the creator? 35:29 Not at all. Absolutely not. 35:30 Amen. 35:32 Thank you so much 35:33 for that incredible study, Ryan. 35:35 Praise the Lord. Creation and the Sabbath. 35:37 What a gift the Sabbath is. 35:39 Creation is a gift in itself because we, 35:42 none of us would be here without that. 35:43 Thank you all so much for that study. 35:45 As we look at Wednesday's lesson, 35:47 we tackle Creation and Marriage. 35:51 Another gift, we see from the beginning of time. 35:55 There's a statement here 35:56 kind of a tongue and cheek joke. 35:58 It says, a good marriage would be between a blind wife 36:02 and a deaf husband. 36:04 Now, that might be the way 36:06 some marriages have degenerated to, right? 36:10 Because Satan takes everything that God created, 36:14 that God sanctified, that God ordained. 36:17 And He tries to either spin a counterfeit 36:19 or make you miserable and in it. 36:22 But God's ideal for marriage is beautiful. 36:27 We're going to look today at the origin of marriage, 36:30 the definition of marriage, and the sanctity of marriage. 36:35 So three things. 36:37 Let's start with the origin of marriage. 36:38 Turn with me to Genesis 1, Genesis 1:26. 36:42 We're going to read a couple verses in Genesis 1, 36:45 and then we'll go to Genesis Chapter 2. 36:47 Now, several of you referenced these, 36:49 so we won't have to go over all of them. 36:51 Genesis 1:26. 36:53 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, 36:57 according to our likeness. 36:59 Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, 37:01 over the birds of the air, 37:03 and over the cattle over the all the earth 37:04 and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 37:08 The entire Godhead was involved in creating man and woman. 37:12 That's right. 37:14 Let us, did you notice that plural? 37:15 Let us make man in our image. 37:19 Now as Pastor John brought out and Pastor Ryan brought out 37:23 John 1:1-3, 37:25 we see that in the beginning was the Word, 37:27 that's Jesus Christ, 37:29 and the Word was with God and the Word was God. 37:32 That means Jesus is divine. 37:35 And He pre-existed, we see that in verse 2. 37:39 He was in the beginning with God, 37:41 and all things were made through Him. 37:43 Jesus as creator, 37:45 we see Jesus intimately involved 37:47 in the creation process. 37:50 We jumped down, the Holy Spirit was also involved. 37:53 We see that if you go back to Genesis 1. 37:55 Genesis 1:2 says, 37:58 "The earth was without form and void, 38:00 darkness was on the face of the deep 38:01 and the spirit of God 38:04 was hovering over the face of the waters. 38:07 The entire Godhead was involved in the creation of man. 38:11 That's right. We're created in His image. 38:13 And then immediately, we're told to have dominion, 38:15 Adam was told, 38:17 let us make man in our image after our likeness, 38:20 according to our likeness, 38:21 and then the next phrase is let them have dominion. 38:27 Then we look at verse 27, Genesis 1:27, 38:30 "God created man in his own image, 38:32 in the image of God, 38:33 He created him, male and female, 38:36 He created them." 38:38 Now we discussed this in a previous lesson 38:40 how the Hebrew didn't always have, 38:43 doesn't have the punctuation, 38:45 but yet the Hebrew uses emphasis and repetition 38:48 to bring about that emphasis. 38:50 And we see that here three times that word, 38:54 that word bara, to create, to shape is used in this text. 38:59 God created man in His image He created man, 39:03 male and female, He created them. 39:07 That's right. Verse 28. 39:08 "Then God blessed them and God said to them, 39:10 'Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it, 39:13 have dominion over the fish of the sea, 39:15 over the birds of the air, 39:16 over every living thing that moves on the earth.'" 39:19 We see procreation is part of His plan. 39:24 Turn over to Genesis 2. 39:26 Genesis 2:18. 39:28 This is where we get a little more explanation 39:31 you could say 39:32 as to what took place in Genesis 1. 39:34 "And the Lord God said, 39:36 it is not good that man should be alone. 39:39 I will make him a helper comparable to him." 39:43 God designed marriage 39:46 to meet the human need for companionship. 39:48 Adam was lonely. 39:51 Remember, he named all the animals 39:52 and he saw them in pairs. 39:55 And every other day of creation, 39:56 God said it was good. 39:58 It was good. It was very good. 40:00 Here, God says, it is not good that man should be alone. 40:05 God created us to be in companionship, 40:09 to be in community. 40:11 Companionship is important to God. 40:13 He wants us to be in companionship with Him 40:15 and fellowship with Him, but with each other, 40:18 within the bounds of that marriage relationship. 40:22 Let's look at verses 21 through 24. 40:25 "And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall in Adam, 40:29 and he slept. 40:31 And God took one of his ribs 40:32 and closed up the flesh in its place. 40:35 Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man 40:37 He made into a woman 40:40 and He brought her to the man and Adam said, 40:42 this is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh, 40:46 she shall be called woman, 40:48 because she was taken out of man. 40:50 Therefore, a man shall leave his father and mother 40:52 and be joined to his wife 40:54 and they shall become one flesh." 40:56 Adam was made from the dust. 41:00 And God made Eve from a rib in Adam's side. 41:05 We know that woman was not taken from Adam's head 41:08 to rule over him 41:10 nor was she taken from his feet 41:11 to be trampled or stomped upon. 41:14 But she was taken from his side so that he would protect her 41:18 and keep her close to his heart. 41:22 The word it says, 41:24 the rib that the Lord God had taken from man 41:26 He made into a woman, 41:28 it literally means in Hebrew built. 41:30 I like that. 41:31 So God built woman 41:34 to be the exact compliment what the man needed 41:38 as a help meet. 41:39 Now, if we read it in English, Pastor Johnny, it says, 41:42 Adam says, this is now a bone of my bones. 41:45 But in the Hebrew, it literally means, all right, 41:48 here now, this one at last, now at last. 41:52 He's excited. 41:54 God made me a help meet. Amen. 41:57 What do we learn from these verses 41:58 about the origin of marriage, 42:01 the entire Godhead is involved in creating man. 42:04 God created us, He made us male and female, 42:07 procreation as part of His plan, 42:09 male and female represents His image, 42:12 not just the man, not just the woman, 42:15 together that represents His image. 42:18 God did not create us to live in isolation. 42:21 He created us to live together. 42:23 God designed marriage 42:24 to meet our need for companionship. 42:26 God designed marriage to be a physical union, 42:29 an emotional union, a spiritual union. 42:33 Bottom line, God designed marriage. 42:35 Let's look at the definition of marriage. 42:38 I would say marriage is a God ordained union, 42:41 a lifelong commitment between one man and one woman. 42:47 God created them, 42:48 we already read that in the beginning, 42:49 male and female. 42:51 And He put them together in marriage. 42:53 Marriage is not man with man. 42:56 Marriage is not woman with woman 42:59 or any other configuration 43:01 that we want to bring to the table. 43:03 Governments may legislate, culture may sway, 43:07 customs may dictate, 43:08 but it does not change God's plan. 43:11 It does not change God's creation 43:14 of one man and one woman. 43:17 Marriage goes even deeper than commitment, 43:20 marriage is a covenant. 43:22 That's right. 43:23 Malachi 2:14, this is that verse 43:25 where it talks about God hates divorce. 43:27 Malachi 2:14, it says, "Yet you say for what reason. 43:31 The Lord has been witnessed 43:33 between you and the wife of your youth, 43:35 with whom you have dealt treacherously, 43:37 yet she is your companion and your wife by covenant." 43:43 A covenant is an exchange of persons. 43:45 A contract might be an exchange of promises. 43:49 Covenants are established, 43:50 we know in biblical times by making an oath, 43:53 an oath that creates a relationship 43:56 between the two making the covenant. 43:58 God made a covenant with Old Testament Israel. 44:01 Now, they weren't so faithful to Him 44:02 and they walked and followed other gods. 44:05 But God made a covenant and a promise of faithfulness 44:08 to His bride, the children of Israel. 44:11 God makes a covenant with us as His people. 44:14 Covenant marriage, 44:15 covenant marriage is built 44:17 on the promise of faithfulness to one, 44:20 each commit to be faithful to the other. 44:22 A covenant marriage is built on agape love, agape love, 44:28 others centered love, self-sacrificing love. 44:32 It's not built on the recipient but on the giver. 44:35 A covenant marriage most importantly is built 44:38 on the Lord Jesus Christ. 44:40 Christ is the foundation of each person's life 44:43 and by extension, their marriage in their home. 44:46 Let's look at marriage, the sanctity of marriage. 44:50 Marriage is sacred, it's holy, it is set apart. 44:54 Ryan established that in the beginning, 44:56 God created the Sabbath. 44:58 Yes. 44:59 God created marriage. 45:01 God has set certain things apart 45:03 that are to be holy and sacred. 45:05 We have the sanctity of human life, 45:07 the sanctity of marriage, the sanctity of the Sabbath, 45:11 the seventh day Sabbath 45:12 and the sanctity of the law of God. 45:15 So we see that God created us in the beginning, 45:18 male and female 45:20 because He wanted to put us together 45:22 in that marriage relationship 45:24 that would reflect the image of God. 45:27 Amen. Amen. 45:29 Praise the Lord. Excellent. 45:30 Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. 45:31 Marvelous. 45:33 Well, we move on 45:34 to Thursday's part of the lesson. 45:37 And now we are going to be talking about creation, 45:42 the Fall and the Cross. 45:46 We saw the beautiful explanation 45:48 about God ordaining 45:52 weddings and marriage through Adam and Eve. 45:56 But we're going to back up a little bit 45:57 and go to Genesis 1:31, 46:01 because my part also involves creation in a literal sense. 46:06 And then the fall and the cross. 46:08 In Genesis 1:31, the Bible makes this statement, 46:13 "Then God saw everything that He had made. 46:16 And indeed, it was very good. 46:20 So the evening and the morning were the sixth day." 46:23 We have here, 46:25 a declaration that God examined everything that He had made, 46:30 and it was perfect, including people. 46:33 That's right. Yes. 46:34 Amen. 46:35 We may not think so now but back then, 46:38 we originated, 46:40 created in the image of God 46:42 and it is a marvelous creation that He made. 46:45 Now, moving to Genesis 2:15-17. 46:50 The Bible declares, 46:51 "Then the Lord God took the man 46:53 and put him in the Garden of Eden 46:54 to tend and to keep it." 46:56 Verse 16, "And the Lord God commanded the man saying, 46:59 'Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat, 47:03 but of the tree 47:04 of the knowledge of good and evil, 47:06 you shall not eat of it, 47:08 you shall not eat for in that day 47:09 you shall eat of it, you shall surely die.'" 47:13 And so here at this point, 47:14 I want to make a statement 47:16 concerning God's wonderful gift of freedom of choice. 47:20 You can select to eat of every tree of the garden 47:24 except the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 47:28 So we were given the great gift of freedom of choice. 47:34 Unfortunately, 47:36 the sum of the whole thing is that 47:37 Adam and Eve did not choose well. 47:41 We now go to the part 47:42 where the fall is introduced 47:44 and that brings us to Genesis Chapter 3. 47:48 In Genesis Chapter 3 beginning in verse 1. 47:52 "The Bible declares, 47:54 now the serpent was more cunning 47:56 than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. 48:00 And he said to the woman, 48:01 'Has God indeed said, 48:03 you shall not eat of every tree of the garden.'" 48:08 So here, 48:11 we have to declare that by this time 48:15 we have Lucifer who became the devil, 48:19 notice I say, he became the devil on his own, 48:21 just like Adam and Eve had freedom of choice, 48:24 the angels of heaven have freedom of choice, 48:26 and he chose to sin. 48:28 And this is, you can read 48:30 Ezekiel Chapter 28 and Isaiah 14 48:33 to get a background on the fall of Lucifer 48:37 and a third part of the angels 48:39 according to Revelation Chapter 12. 48:41 But now he comes here in the form of a serpent, 48:45 disguising himself 48:48 so that he can deceive Adam and Eve. 48:52 Talking to Eve, he says, as we just read, 48:54 "Has God indeed said, 48:56 you shall not eat of every tree of the garden." 48:58 Eve loves God. 49:00 Comes to His defense. 49:02 "And the woman said to the serpent, 49:04 'We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden 49:08 but of the fruit of the tree 49:10 which is in the midst of the garden, 49:12 God had said, you shall not eat of it, 49:16 nor shall you touch it, lest you die.'" 49:20 Now here comes a challenge by the devil. 49:22 Then the serpent said to the woman, 49:24 "You will not surely die." 49:28 So a complete opposite of what God had said 49:32 to Adam and Eve. 49:33 Now, remember that Eve had never heard a lie before. 49:40 Everything she had heard fact, fact, fact, fact. 49:44 Now here comes the devil with a lie. 49:46 Right. 49:47 And she doesn't know how to analyze it as a lie. 49:49 She has heard fact, fact, fact. 49:52 Now here comes a lie. 49:54 She has a conflict in her mind. 49:58 God has said this 50:00 and this serpent is saying that. 50:03 Eve was perfect. 50:07 God created her that way. Very intelligent. 50:11 Notice what happens, the serpent continue, 50:13 "For God knows that in the day you eat of it, 50:16 your eyes will be opened. 50:18 And you will be like God knowing good and evil." 50:24 Painted evil as something good, something to be desired. 50:29 You eat of this tree, you're going to be like God. 50:32 Now when you consider the idea of like God, Eve thought, wow, 50:36 like God, I can be like God. 50:39 That was enticing to her. 50:41 I have to say that Eve was deceived, 50:44 she believed a lie. 50:47 But she evaluated the statement because in verse 6, 50:52 verse 6, it says, "So when the woman saw, 50:55 she analyzed that the tree was good for food, 50:59 that it was pleasant to the eyes 51:01 and a treat desirable to make one wise." 51:03 You see, there's the make one wise, 51:06 she took of its fruit and ate, freedom of choice and sinned. 51:12 Now some people say, well, 51:14 Adam was right there 51:16 just listening to everything apparently said, 51:17 but Adam was there and listened to everything, 51:19 didn't say a word. 51:21 But we know, I'm saying this because I... 51:23 There's a whole book I saw, reading a book once. 51:26 They were talking about that Adam was standing right there 51:30 and said nothing 51:31 nor was he addressed by the serpent, 51:32 this is a mistake. 51:34 Eve ate and then went and found Adam 51:36 and then offered to him the fruits. 51:39 When she sinned, 51:41 she became an accomplice of the devil. 51:43 And she offered to Adam, 51:45 she also gave to her husband with her and he ate. 51:49 Verse 7, "Then the eyes of both of them were open 51:51 and they knew that they were naked, 51:53 and they sewed fig leaves together 51:55 and made themselves covered." 51:57 So I have to say once again, Eve was deceived. 52:01 Her mistake, her error was that she distrusted. 52:06 Yeah. 52:07 Did not trust Him but God said, believe they lie. 52:13 After God has said, do not eat of the tree, 52:15 if you eat of the tree, consequences, you will die. 52:20 Putting that aside, 52:21 not trusting in what God had said, 52:23 not believe in God, 52:24 believed the serpent instead and committed sin. 52:28 And because of this, sin entered into the world. 52:32 And moving quickly to Romans 5:12 52:35 because I think time is running quickly. 52:38 Romans 5:12, if someone gets there quickly, 52:42 perhaps you can help us in the reading of it. 52:44 Romans 5:12. 52:46 Romans 5:12 says, 52:48 "Therefore just as through one man sin 52:51 entered the world and death through sin, 52:54 and thus death spread to all men because all sinned." 52:58 Thank you. 52:59 So we see that through one man 53:01 that being Adam sin entered into the world, 53:03 and what entered? 53:04 Death. 53:05 Death entered through sin. 53:07 Just as God had said it would. 53:11 We are thankful for Romans 6:23. 53:14 We are thankful for Jesus Christ. 53:16 In Romans 6:23, it says, "For the wages of sin is death, 53:21 but the gift of God 53:23 is eternal life in Christ Jesus, our Lord." 53:27 Amen. 53:28 A marvelous thing, God in His incredible, 53:32 amazing indescribable love offered grace to Adam and Eve. 53:37 And I have to say that very quickly here, 53:41 they did not 100% joined the devil 53:47 because God instructed them. 53:50 God showed them the sacrificial, 53:53 to offer sacrifices. 53:54 They continue, they showed their children to sacrifice. 53:58 We have the story of Cain and Abel, 54:00 they knew what they were to do. 54:01 So they continued in the ways of the Lord after they sinned. 54:04 Praise the Lord for that. 54:06 And they passed on the knowledge 54:08 of offering sacrifices. 54:10 So, praise the Lord for that. 54:11 And because they believed in God's offer of salvation 54:15 through Jesus Christ, 54:17 through the Son of God 54:18 as was mentioned earlier that God offer, God said, 54:23 I will put enmity between thee and the woman, 54:26 between thy seed and her seed, that seed being Jesus Christ. 54:29 He will bruise your head and you will bruise his heel. 54:33 That's found in Genesis Chapter 3 54:35 as you continue reading. 54:37 I have to conclude 54:38 because time is gone with Romans 5:8, 54:43 because this is an offer for you and me as well. 54:45 Amen. 54:46 Adam and Eve sinned, they had to make their decision 54:48 for salvation or death. 54:51 You also, you and I have an opportunity. 54:54 And says in Romans 5:8, "But God demonstrates, 54:57 " I like the King James says, 54:59 "Commended His own love toward us in that 55:02 while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." 55:07 So the narrative of the Bible shows us 55:10 that there's a connection between creation, 55:13 the fall and the cross 55:16 and everyone because of Jesus Christ 55:18 has hope to have eternal life through Jesus Christ. 55:22 And I sincerely hope that you, my friend, 55:25 that are listening to me right now 55:27 will choose salvation through Jesus Christ. 55:30 Amen. Amen. 55:31 Thank you, panelists. Yeah. 55:32 What a wonderful lesson 55:34 to really walk through the beginning Genesis, 55:37 the first part, 55:38 and we're gonna continue but, Pastor Kenny, 55:39 what some closing thoughts you have. 55:41 Well, you know, I was thinking 55:42 about some of the greatest minds 55:43 in the world, 55:45 some time we're influenced by that, 55:46 found a quote, 8 Testimonies 258, 80, 258 talks about, says 55:50 "The greatest minds, 55:51 if not guided by the Word of God 55:54 becomes bewitched 55:56 in their attempts to investigate 55:57 the relations of science and revelation." 56:01 We need the Spirit of God. Absolutely. 56:03 Praise the Lord. 56:04 You know, I made a note here just, just to bring it out, 56:07 I didn't get to it. 56:08 But it just seems 56:10 as we're considering this creation, 56:12 how important it is, 56:13 you know, it seems like more and more 56:15 the world is launching themselves into, 56:18 you know, that drinking more and more wine of Babylon. 56:21 We're drunk on the false teachings 56:23 and concepts of Babylon. 56:25 And I think, you know, 56:26 we need to be in prayer for each other, 56:28 we need to be in prayer for our brothers and sisters 56:29 and for the church because, you know, 56:31 God wants to point us back to His creative work, 56:34 His creation as what He'd done at creation. 56:36 And I praise God for these lessons, 56:38 it's stirring my heart. 56:39 Absolutely. Amen. 56:41 Absolutely. 56:42 I just want to make appeal to you at home. 56:43 If you are in a marriage and you're struggling, 56:47 turn your life first of all over to the Lord Jesus Christ, 56:51 accept His gift of salvation, 56:53 make Him central in your home 56:56 and in your marriage 56:57 and He will revolutionize your home. 57:00 Amen. 57:02 I'd like to conclude by saying that I am grateful 57:05 because the door of mercy, 57:07 God's mercy is still available to each and every one of us. 57:10 And I encourage you to seek the Lord 57:13 while He may be found, go to Him and say, 57:15 "Lord, I accept Your free gift of salvation. 57:19 Please don't exclude me, 57:21 include me in your eternal kingdom." 57:24 Amen. That's right. 57:25 Thank you. 57:26 Thank you so much, Pastor Kenny, 57:28 Pastor Ryan, Jill, Pastor Dinzey. 57:30 And, you know, we just did Creation, 57:33 Genesis as the foundation part 1. 57:36 We're going to have Genesis as the foundation part 2. 57:39 You could never really exhaust the beauty of the beginning. 57:43 But here's a closing thought I'd like to bring with you, 57:45 you know, we heard as spoken of Jesus, 57:47 the Father said, 57:49 unto which of the angels did he say, 57:52 your throne oh God is forever but to the sun, he says that. 57:55 And the Bible says in Psalm 90:2, 57:57 "Before the mountains were brought forth, 57:59 whoever you form the earth and the world, 58:00 even from everlasting to everlasting, 58:03 you are God." 58:04 Get to know that eternal God and 58:06 your life will be a tremendous blessing 58:08 until we see you again. 58:10 Amen. Amen. |
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