WEBVTT 0 00:00:04.810 --> 00:00:07.322 Welcome to the Willow Ridge Sermons podcast. 1 00:00:07.466 --> 00:00:11.070 This is where you can find audio from Sunday morning messages and more. 2 00:00:11.220 --> 00:00:15.950 Make sure you're subscribed so that you don't miss future episodes, and thanks for listening. 3 00:00:21.090 --> 00:00:22.160 Well, good morning. 4 00:00:22.690 --> 00:00:26.722 If you've got your Bibles, go and open them all, all the way to the beginning. 5 00:00:26.786 --> 00:00:30.440 Genesis, chapter one, is where we're going to start off this morning. 6 00:00:30.970 --> 00:00:35.254 As you turn there, I want to remind everyone, I hope you've already heard about this. 7 00:00:35.292 --> 00:00:43.722 We are taking a missions trip to Salt Lake City for our adults here at our church on May 17 through the 22nd. 8 00:00:43.776 --> 00:00:46.010 So pretty quick trip that we're going to do there. 9 00:00:46.160 --> 00:00:59.246 After service today in Room 102, I'm going to do just a brief informational meeting where I can give you guys some information that has things like the cost and what we're the serving ministry that we're going to do, who we're going to partner with. 10 00:00:59.348 --> 00:01:02.254 All that stuff is in there as you think through that. 11 00:01:02.292 --> 00:01:04.174 And so hopefully you can make it. 12 00:01:04.212 --> 00:01:11.698 If you can't make it, then reach out to me this week if you're interested in going and I can share all of those things with you. 13 00:01:11.784 --> 00:01:22.786 So as Burger shared, I think it was about six to eight months ago, I was kind of navigating through what I want to do for the first of the year, and I really felt. 14 00:01:22.818 --> 00:01:24.054 Like I want to take on a. 15 00:01:24.092 --> 00:01:28.294 Big, larger book of the Bible and work all the way through it. 16 00:01:28.332 --> 00:01:40.474 So I threw out some options, and I was praying like, Lord, as we direct through this, like, speak through us so that we can see and resounding gets out over and over and over again with Genesis. 17 00:01:40.522 --> 00:01:50.942 And so I am terrified and excited at the same time because we're going to walk through all 50 chapters of Genesis this morning. 18 00:01:51.076 --> 00:01:51.840 All right. 19 00:01:52.690 --> 00:01:53.562 Just kidding. 20 00:01:53.626 --> 00:01:54.320 All right. 21 00:01:54.770 --> 00:02:00.126 But over the course of this series, we're going to work through all 50 chapters of Genesis. 22 00:02:00.158 --> 00:02:03.474 So I want to kind of share a little bit with what that will look like. 23 00:02:03.592 --> 00:02:08.674 If you ask me normally, every other series I've ever done, if you were to say, hey, but when does this one end? 24 00:02:08.712 --> 00:02:10.054 I can like, well, this is nine weeks. 25 00:02:10.092 --> 00:02:10.854 This is twelve weeks. 26 00:02:10.892 --> 00:02:12.054 This is 13 weeks. 27 00:02:12.092 --> 00:02:17.894 This is four weeks we plan through, and we know I don't know when we're going to end. 28 00:02:17.932 --> 00:02:21.798 I know we're going to begin, and we're going to end when God gets us there. 29 00:02:21.884 --> 00:02:25.238 But here's what we're going to do strategically throughout there, we will take breaks. 30 00:02:25.334 --> 00:02:26.774 We'll take a break over Easter. 31 00:02:26.822 --> 00:02:29.062 We'll take a break on graduate recognition Sunday. 32 00:02:29.126 --> 00:02:31.366 We'll take breaks when guest speakers come. 33 00:02:31.488 --> 00:02:41.002 But for the most part, if you see me standing on stage outside of one of our holidays that we celebrate in here, we're going to be navigating through Genesis. 34 00:02:41.066 --> 00:02:41.678 Okay? 35 00:02:41.844 --> 00:02:51.678 Now, there are some things that I want to impress on you, especially for those of you who are following up conversations with us, with your small groups. 36 00:02:51.774 --> 00:02:53.010 I think this is important. 37 00:02:53.160 --> 00:03:02.358 It's a tendency because studying the New Testament and studying the Old Testament has some different dynamics to us as we work through that, okay? 38 00:03:02.524 --> 00:03:07.046 Most of us are usually the most comfortable in working through the New Testament, right? 39 00:03:07.228 --> 00:03:08.082 It's Jesus. 40 00:03:08.146 --> 00:03:09.106 It's the church. 41 00:03:09.218 --> 00:03:14.762 These are things that we're confident and comfortable in, maybe, except for Revelation, right? 42 00:03:14.896 --> 00:03:27.614 And so we're a little afraid to work through the Old Testament and being through that, when we work through the Old Testament, we can have some bad habits that can typically flare up in us about the Old Testament as we study. 43 00:03:27.732 --> 00:03:32.414 So when we study Scripture as a whole, right, scripture is not the story of us. 44 00:03:32.452 --> 00:03:34.080 Scripture is the story of God. 45 00:03:34.690 --> 00:03:39.650 And so when we approach Scripture, it's not God how, tell me more about me. 46 00:03:39.720 --> 00:03:41.380 It's God, tell me more about you. 47 00:03:41.830 --> 00:03:43.426 And then learning of you and your. 48 00:03:43.448 --> 00:03:45.310 Beauty and your holiness and your perfection. 49 00:03:45.390 --> 00:03:46.274 And all of those things. 50 00:03:46.312 --> 00:03:53.922 Yes, God teaches stuff, teaches us things about ourselves, things about others, but the focus of it is the Lord. 51 00:03:54.066 --> 00:04:07.498 But when we study the Old Testament, we can have a tendency to drift from that and they become moralistic stories of characters where the character is the focus or we are the focus. 52 00:04:07.584 --> 00:04:10.794 And so we tend to draw some things from that. 53 00:04:10.912 --> 00:04:16.462 That may be a good lesson that we can learn, but it's not the overarching truth that God wants to point us to. 54 00:04:16.596 --> 00:04:27.918 And so as we study through these, what we are looking for as we walk through every verse of Genesis is we're going to be identifying God, we're going to be identifying Christ, we're going to be identifying God's plan for redemption and salvation. 55 00:04:28.014 --> 00:04:35.842 And what does that mean for us on this side of the cross and in the hope of eternity, of God's plan and redemption for man, right? 56 00:04:35.896 --> 00:04:41.206 Not some moralistic story of how in and of ourselves we can just become better. 57 00:04:41.308 --> 00:04:52.390 So as you read through this with us, as we go through this season in Genesis, and as you read through anything in the Old Testament, just want to impress you on that at the end of your reading. 58 00:04:52.470 --> 00:04:57.558 If you or someone else is the main star of the story, then we've. 59 00:04:57.574 --> 00:05:01.434 Missed it, as God is the start of the story. 60 00:05:01.632 --> 00:05:03.226 So we're going to dive in here. 61 00:05:03.248 --> 00:05:06.558 In just a moment and listen to me on this, and then I'm going. 62 00:05:06.564 --> 00:05:07.226 To give a pause. 63 00:05:07.258 --> 00:05:10.234 We're going to we're going to walk through the seven days of creation. 64 00:05:10.282 --> 00:05:11.338 Now, some of you are like, whoa. 65 00:05:11.354 --> 00:05:12.746 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. 66 00:05:12.858 --> 00:05:14.314 There are six days of creation. 67 00:05:14.362 --> 00:05:16.499 Bo I know, but I'm going to. 68 00:05:16.499 --> 00:05:18.658 Call it seven this morning, and hopefully we can see. 69 00:05:18.744 --> 00:05:21.118 And don't brand me a heretic till afterwards. 70 00:05:21.214 --> 00:05:29.094 And I think you'll see what we're getting to with this as we see as God continues to create and what that looks like. 71 00:05:29.132 --> 00:05:31.046 All right, so let's start Genesis one. 72 00:05:31.148 --> 00:05:32.920 We're going to read verses one through five. 73 00:05:34.010 --> 00:05:36.434 In the beginning, God created. 74 00:05:36.482 --> 00:05:38.166 Now pause there for just a second. 75 00:05:38.268 --> 00:05:53.822 If you're a person that likes to underline highlight, make notes, I would encourage you to underline make note, highlight this word created because there's a couple of different words that we're going to point through as we read through this creation account, all right? 76 00:05:53.876 --> 00:05:55.342 And created is one. 77 00:05:55.396 --> 00:06:00.190 So in the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth. 78 00:06:00.530 --> 00:06:04.130 And the Earth was without form and void. 79 00:06:04.630 --> 00:06:08.238 And darkness was over the face of the deep. 80 00:06:08.414 --> 00:06:13.982 And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. 81 00:06:14.126 --> 00:06:16.998 And God said, let there be light. 82 00:06:17.084 --> 00:06:18.438 And there was light. 83 00:06:18.604 --> 00:06:21.222 And God saw that the light was good. 84 00:06:21.356 --> 00:06:24.978 And God separated the light from darkness. 85 00:06:25.154 --> 00:06:29.126 And God called the light day and the darkness he called night. 86 00:06:29.228 --> 00:06:33.770 And there was evening and there was morning the first day. 87 00:06:33.840 --> 00:06:35.242 So here's what we see in day one. 88 00:06:35.296 --> 00:06:36.170 These are mirror points. 89 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:43.966 There'd be lots of little things that we talk about, a little maybe in time, but powerful enlarge in significance for each one. 90 00:06:43.988 --> 00:06:51.120 So in day one, what we see is the creation of heavens, earth, light, and water. 91 00:06:51.490 --> 00:06:57.314 And here in verse one, we get some powerful things that we're going to cling to for this. 92 00:06:57.352 --> 00:06:57.586 All right? 93 00:06:57.608 --> 00:07:07.080 Now, I've read more than I've ever read in the Genesis creation account over the course of the last two months as I prepare for this. 94 00:07:07.530 --> 00:07:23.110 And there's lots of wonderful, biblical centered, gospel minded individuals who are way smarter than I am that talk through all of the things that are going to happen in creation. 95 00:07:23.190 --> 00:07:37.838 And what is remarkable as they talk through all of these things is we'll find differences in their accounts, differences in their explanations of what happened exactly and took place. 96 00:07:37.924 --> 00:07:42.270 And here's what makes the creation account so unique. 97 00:07:43.090 --> 00:07:53.060 And really what we see happen in Genesis one, genesis two, and even in Genesis three so unique is you and I have nothing to compare it to. 98 00:07:53.830 --> 00:08:00.680 You and I have no experience that would align with what Genesis one is talking about. 99 00:08:01.610 --> 00:08:16.490 And so that as we work through this, our mind tries to rationalize and explain to ourselves things that are incapable in many ways from us fully rationalizing and understanding. 100 00:08:17.470 --> 00:08:19.290 And so we find differences. 101 00:08:20.350 --> 00:08:32.160 And what I'm not going to do over the course of this is argue back and forth what I think Godly men and Godly women disagree about who love the Lord when it comes to the creation account. 102 00:08:32.850 --> 00:08:36.786 And instead begin to draw from this what we do see. 103 00:08:36.888 --> 00:08:47.074 And then from this how this explains to me who God is so I can understand Him at a greater depth in his beauty his Holiness, his Majesty. 104 00:08:47.122 --> 00:08:48.040 And his power. 105 00:08:48.890 --> 00:08:52.950 And verse one is one of these powerful verses. 106 00:08:53.770 --> 00:09:01.302 Verse one probably a verse that all of us know, like in the same ballpark as John 316. 107 00:09:01.446 --> 00:09:07.110 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 108 00:09:07.270 --> 00:09:17.994 And so here's what we can draw from from this one short verse that most of us have memorized and set into our hearts that we begin to understand and know the truth of creation. 109 00:09:18.122 --> 00:09:29.022 Here's the things that in our differences as we can work through in the details of creation, but things that we cling to and hold to is the truth of Scripture right here in these verses. 110 00:09:29.086 --> 00:09:35.090 That number one, that God is the Creator, god created. 111 00:09:36.010 --> 00:09:39.190 We're not going to read a story of a theory. 112 00:09:39.850 --> 00:09:42.040 We're not going to read a story of chance. 113 00:09:43.210 --> 00:09:45.560 We're going to read the story of God. 114 00:09:46.330 --> 00:09:58.678 And God created in every aspect that we are going to see that God is the Creator, god is the all powerful. 115 00:09:58.774 --> 00:10:08.640 And in this that God is the origin and the means of all of the creation, that it came from Him. 116 00:10:09.170 --> 00:10:20.130 That even in that not only he is the Creator, but God did not grab ingredients that preexisted and meld them together in order to create creation. 117 00:10:21.430 --> 00:10:27.326 That from every atom and every element in every molecule that we know exists. 118 00:10:27.438 --> 00:10:38.250 And I would even argue in every atom and element and molecule that you and I don't even know exists, that God is the Creator and from Him they were created. 119 00:10:39.390 --> 00:10:44.362 He's not just a baker grabbing things that someone brought Him and mixing them together. 120 00:10:44.496 --> 00:10:47.500 He brought forth all of it. 121 00:10:49.070 --> 00:11:08.660 And that in this because the Bible says in the beginning, is that in this we set time and God, we set time and God, because God has always been even before time, just as he always will be. 122 00:11:09.990 --> 00:11:11.460 God always was. 123 00:11:14.810 --> 00:11:19.270 Creation has a beginning, but God doesn't. 124 00:11:20.570 --> 00:11:24.950 We have a beginning, but God doesn't. 125 00:11:26.010 --> 00:11:27.430 God existed. 126 00:11:28.910 --> 00:11:32.442 Now, my mind struggles with that because. 127 00:11:32.496 --> 00:11:37.100 Everything I know has a birth date. 128 00:11:38.350 --> 00:11:42.560 And everything I know has an expiration date. 129 00:11:44.210 --> 00:11:45.550 But God doesn't. 130 00:11:46.610 --> 00:11:47.790 God doesn't. 131 00:11:48.770 --> 00:11:56.900 He always was, always is, and always will be. 132 00:11:58.150 --> 00:12:10.550 I think it's interesting that every idea about creation is a theory, number one, which means this, it can't be proven. 133 00:12:11.850 --> 00:12:15.480 But number two has a birth date. 134 00:12:16.650 --> 00:12:29.740 Every idea of creation has a birth date, which means this every idea of creation, except the biblical narrative of creation will also have an expiration date. 135 00:12:30.610 --> 00:12:36.640 It'll have an expiration date because it's not in God. 136 00:12:37.090 --> 00:12:39.600 So here's what we see. 137 00:12:40.130 --> 00:12:45.780 We see this massive piece of creation again that you and I can't understand. 138 00:12:46.550 --> 00:12:49.940 We see earth, but without form. 139 00:12:50.790 --> 00:12:54.210 We have water but with no shore. 140 00:12:54.790 --> 00:12:55.730 We have light. 141 00:12:55.800 --> 00:12:56.658 We have morning. 142 00:12:56.744 --> 00:12:59.640 We have evening, but we have no sun. 143 00:13:01.530 --> 00:13:09.254 And we got to be careful on this because sometimes in the Bible we hear the word heaven and we think of heaven as in heaven. 144 00:13:09.302 --> 00:13:15.980 But here we see little h, plural heavens, because heaven always was. 145 00:13:16.830 --> 00:13:21.370 And so we see this form and we see God as the Creator. 146 00:13:21.450 --> 00:13:24.458 And we see his means of creation. 147 00:13:24.554 --> 00:13:26.650 Again, it's not grabbing elements. 148 00:13:26.730 --> 00:13:28.250 It's not grabbing ingredients. 149 00:13:28.330 --> 00:13:29.406 What does God do? 150 00:13:29.508 --> 00:13:30.670 God speaks. 151 00:13:31.330 --> 00:13:37.170 And from the power of his very Word, creation is formed. 152 00:13:39.880 --> 00:13:49.130 And it's going to be from the power of the Word that comes that we're going to find eternal life. 153 00:13:50.220 --> 00:14:01.416 And it's going to be from the power of the truth of his written Word that we will carry that in creation, God speaks. 154 00:14:01.528 --> 00:14:04.796 Now, what God does here well, the. 155 00:14:04.818 --> 00:14:13.070 Reason why I had you underline this word created is we're going to see two different words as we walk through these days. 156 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:17.570 We're going to see created and we're going to see the word made. 157 00:14:17.940 --> 00:14:22.160 We're going to talk about made here in just the next day that we'll look at. 158 00:14:22.310 --> 00:14:25.232 But in this word, we see that God created. 159 00:14:25.296 --> 00:14:30.560 And it is the word barrah B-A-R-A that God created. 160 00:14:30.640 --> 00:14:37.076 And this word, barra, means that God created something from nothing, right? 161 00:14:37.178 --> 00:14:42.248 So you may feel like I'm beating a dead horse here, but it's so important that we understand this. 162 00:14:42.334 --> 00:14:43.368 There was no air. 163 00:14:43.454 --> 00:14:44.900 There was no atmosphere. 164 00:14:44.980 --> 00:14:46.148 There was no elements. 165 00:14:46.244 --> 00:14:47.764 There was no molecules. 166 00:14:47.812 --> 00:14:51.900 There was no anything floating around that can randomly bump into each other. 167 00:14:51.970 --> 00:14:52.920 God spoke. 168 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:58.510 And creation formed by the very word of God. 169 00:14:59.600 --> 00:15:01.500 God barrode. 170 00:15:03.220 --> 00:15:08.608 From his very Word, something came from nothing. 171 00:15:08.774 --> 00:15:10.720 And then God gives blessing. 172 00:15:11.140 --> 00:15:13.010 And God saw that it was good. 173 00:15:13.940 --> 00:15:22.420 And we begin to see in these pieces the totality of what's going to be in the universe. 174 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:23.556 And I love this. 175 00:15:23.578 --> 00:15:28.660 And this is going to be what we see in this early account of Genesis over and over and over again. 176 00:15:28.730 --> 00:15:30.036 So there's creation. 177 00:15:30.148 --> 00:15:33.448 And it's this weird creation that you and I don't understand. 178 00:15:33.614 --> 00:15:35.368 It's earth without form. 179 00:15:35.534 --> 00:15:37.204 It's water and separate of a void. 180 00:15:37.252 --> 00:15:43.230 But in this, what we see is that then creation did what it was created to do. 181 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:46.988 Earth was Earth, water was water. 182 00:15:47.154 --> 00:15:48.680 Heavens were heaven. 183 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:51.230 Light was Light even without sun. 184 00:15:51.700 --> 00:15:52.770 I don't know. 185 00:15:54.180 --> 00:15:58.050 But this is what we see in the first day. 186 00:15:58.660 --> 00:16:00.930 And then look at verse six through eight. 187 00:16:02.420 --> 00:16:12.180 And God said, let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate the waters from the waters. 188 00:16:13.160 --> 00:16:13.892 Verse seven. 189 00:16:13.946 --> 00:16:15.590 And here's going to be the Word made. 190 00:16:16.120 --> 00:16:19.988 And God made the expanse and separated the waters. 191 00:16:20.084 --> 00:16:24.116 And there were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. 192 00:16:24.148 --> 00:16:25.080 And it was so. 193 00:16:25.230 --> 00:16:27.316 And God called the expanse heaven. 194 00:16:27.348 --> 00:16:30.940 And there was evening and there was morning, the second day. 195 00:16:31.010 --> 00:16:32.956 And so here's what we see in day two. 196 00:16:33.058 --> 00:16:37.112 What God gives us is the sky and the atmosphere. 197 00:16:37.256 --> 00:16:46.780 Now, here before God, barrah, B-A-R-A in day one, but now here, that was God created. 198 00:16:46.860 --> 00:16:53.730 But here in day two, it doesn't say in verse seven and God created, but it says that God made. 199 00:16:54.100 --> 00:16:55.664 It says that God made. 200 00:16:55.862 --> 00:16:57.396 And this is interesting. 201 00:16:57.498 --> 00:17:01.508 I think this is very important as we understand the work of God. 202 00:17:01.594 --> 00:17:07.290 So this word for made is the word Assah as a h. 203 00:17:08.380 --> 00:17:12.090 So two different words on two different days. 204 00:17:13.180 --> 00:17:15.480 On day number one, God created. 205 00:17:15.900 --> 00:17:18.648 And on day number two, God made. 206 00:17:18.734 --> 00:17:20.804 On day number one, we see barrah. 207 00:17:20.852 --> 00:17:23.080 On day number two, we see ASA. 208 00:17:23.160 --> 00:17:28.380 And what we see here from this word is God begins to give order into his creation. 209 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:35.440 So the word Asah means to do or to make, to accomplish to the point of completion. 210 00:17:37.540 --> 00:17:43.196 So what we begin to see is that God, as God has created. 211 00:17:43.308 --> 00:17:51.700 Now God is diving into and making and giving distinction in order to his creation. 212 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:57.732 So in two days of creation, god brings matter and light into existence, right? 213 00:17:57.786 --> 00:18:03.812 And then begins to take the matter and light and water and give it order and give it structure. 214 00:18:03.876 --> 00:18:08.840 And we see this with the waters, that the waters were separated from one another. 215 00:18:08.910 --> 00:18:12.568 So we see the divides that begin to happen here in this. 216 00:18:12.734 --> 00:18:19.416 And now what we find with God is that God is going to have this pattern that's going to flow in creation. 217 00:18:19.528 --> 00:18:27.228 I believe this is off the top of my head, so I'm sorry if I'm getting this incorrect, but I believe three times what we are going to see is the word created. 218 00:18:27.324 --> 00:18:34.256 Barrah and then every other time, we're going to see the Word that God made as we go through this account. 219 00:18:34.438 --> 00:18:36.948 So this is the pattern that God's going to do. 220 00:18:37.034 --> 00:18:39.696 He's going to create creation. 221 00:18:39.808 --> 00:18:44.852 And then from that, he's going to ASA, he's going to complete. 222 00:18:44.986 --> 00:18:51.860 He's going to give order and set creation in its place and complete the work of its creation. 223 00:18:52.600 --> 00:18:56.808 Now, I want to try to use an illustration of what this kind of looks like. 224 00:18:56.974 --> 00:18:58.296 Thinking a lot about this, and this. 225 00:18:58.318 --> 00:18:59.468 Helps my mind understand it. 226 00:18:59.474 --> 00:19:05.740 But I want to set a little disclosure beforehand. 227 00:19:06.480 --> 00:19:09.292 In the illustrations that we use to. 228 00:19:09.346 --> 00:19:12.336 Explain creation, let's admit there's flaws in. 229 00:19:12.358 --> 00:19:17.170 Them because we're incapable of doing what God did. 230 00:19:17.780 --> 00:19:19.020 We're incapable. 231 00:19:19.180 --> 00:19:20.576 We can't do this. 232 00:19:20.758 --> 00:19:21.200 Watch. 233 00:19:21.270 --> 00:19:23.756 Try to speak something into existence, right? 234 00:19:23.798 --> 00:19:25.430 Like, I'm going to try really hard. 235 00:19:26.440 --> 00:19:28.310 Cheeseburger, right. 236 00:19:29.400 --> 00:19:30.150 Nothing. 237 00:19:32.760 --> 00:19:33.760 Cheeseburger? 238 00:19:33.840 --> 00:19:34.470 No. 239 00:19:35.160 --> 00:19:36.036 All right. 240 00:19:36.218 --> 00:19:37.424 Crystal cheeseburger. 241 00:19:37.472 --> 00:19:37.636 Right? 242 00:19:37.658 --> 00:19:38.256 It's smaller. 243 00:19:38.288 --> 00:19:40.072 So maybe that we can't do that. 244 00:19:40.206 --> 00:19:47.800 So any illustration that we give about creation is going to lack, but I think it helps us understand this process that we're we're seeing. 245 00:19:47.870 --> 00:19:53.180 So I want you to think of the the illustration or the piece of a puzzle. 246 00:19:53.680 --> 00:19:54.456 Of a puzzle. 247 00:19:54.488 --> 00:19:55.070 Okay. 248 00:19:55.440 --> 00:19:59.928 So what we see are these pieces that are there, and that exists. 249 00:20:00.024 --> 00:20:03.980 And it's not that they don't exist, but what we find is the creator. 250 00:20:04.060 --> 00:20:14.290 God is taking these pieces of creation that he has and he's putting them together in the formation so that it can begin to look like what we see. 251 00:20:14.820 --> 00:20:26.790 That's the beauty of what we're going to see as we go through the days of creation, that in a little while we're going to be like, oh, yeah, I know that, I know that. 252 00:20:27.560 --> 00:20:34.440 And we begin to see as the maker of the heavens and the earth are putting these things together. 253 00:20:34.590 --> 00:20:45.564 At first it looks like this jumbled mess that we don't know and that we don't understand, but God just saying, just watch me as I worked through this process of what I'm doing. 254 00:20:45.762 --> 00:20:47.916 So, verse nine continues on. 255 00:20:47.938 --> 00:20:54.108 And God said, let the waters under the heavens be gathered together in one place and let the dry land appear. 256 00:20:54.204 --> 00:20:55.330 And it was so. 257 00:20:55.700 --> 00:20:58.204 And God called the dry land earth. 258 00:20:58.332 --> 00:21:01.052 In the waters that were together, he called sees. 259 00:21:01.196 --> 00:21:03.264 And God saw that it was good. 260 00:21:03.462 --> 00:21:10.208 And God said, let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit, trees. 261 00:21:10.304 --> 00:21:12.800 Bearing fruit in which is their seed. 262 00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:15.456 Each according to its kind on the earth. 263 00:21:15.488 --> 00:21:16.644 And it was so. 264 00:21:16.842 --> 00:21:19.844 And the earth brought forth vegetation, plants. 265 00:21:19.892 --> 00:21:22.744 Yielding seed according to their own kind. 266 00:21:22.862 --> 00:21:25.224 And trees bearing fruit, and which is. 267 00:21:25.262 --> 00:21:27.816 Their seed, each according to its kind. 268 00:21:27.918 --> 00:21:29.596 And God saw that it was good. 269 00:21:29.698 --> 00:21:34.012 And there was evening and there was morning, the third day. 270 00:21:34.066 --> 00:21:40.350 And so what we see in day three is we see dry land and plant life. 271 00:21:41.120 --> 00:21:43.250 We see dry land and plant life. 272 00:21:43.860 --> 00:21:49.490 The Bible tells us that seas and this land begin to peer in the divisions that are there. 273 00:21:50.100 --> 00:21:57.830 That God, that plants appear and plant reproduction has been designed, right? 274 00:21:58.680 --> 00:21:59.284 So, yes. 275 00:21:59.322 --> 00:22:01.910 And Amen, even early on, what do we see? 276 00:22:03.080 --> 00:22:04.100 Pollen. 277 00:22:06.040 --> 00:22:06.790 Right? 278 00:22:07.160 --> 00:22:08.296 And we see there's going to be. 279 00:22:08.318 --> 00:22:13.976 Plants that self pollinate and there's going to be plants that cross pollinate and. 280 00:22:13.998 --> 00:22:15.256 There'S going to be a process of. 281 00:22:15.278 --> 00:22:18.072 Fertilization that happens and takes place. 282 00:22:18.206 --> 00:22:30.110 And God created in this, what we see from these words is God created the finished product, the growing product and the beginning product. 283 00:22:31.460 --> 00:22:37.040 So God created the seed, god created the fruit and God created the tree. 284 00:22:37.780 --> 00:22:43.490 All in this we we see and they exist and they are found here. 285 00:22:44.020 --> 00:22:50.148 And within this, all plants and all kinds that they come from the earth are, are here. 286 00:22:50.234 --> 00:22:55.830 And so when you went into the beauty of this is we now this is the pieces that we can begin to understand. 287 00:22:56.940 --> 00:23:07.640 So when you plant something from seed and you see it grow from the ground, and you see it get bigger and bigger, and you see it reproduce. 288 00:23:08.300 --> 00:23:16.280 Yesterday I went out and we were working, getting our garden ready for the spring, because for whatever reason, it decided to turn springtime in February. 289 00:23:16.360 --> 00:23:18.664 And maybe we're going to get, like, three days of winter. 290 00:23:18.712 --> 00:23:20.492 That just ruined my peach trees, right? 291 00:23:20.546 --> 00:23:25.452 But you can look right now on my peach trees that are planted in the backyard. 292 00:23:25.516 --> 00:23:31.970 And there's one of them has somewhere between probably 71 hundred just little small peaches that are there. 293 00:23:33.060 --> 00:23:34.530 Let me just see this design. 294 00:23:35.940 --> 00:23:42.772 So if you want to join me in prayer, just pray we can stay in the 40s, right, for these next few days. 295 00:23:42.906 --> 00:23:45.860 I really like peaches, but we're seeing. 296 00:23:45.930 --> 00:23:53.748 This so when we walk out and you have that little in your throat. 297 00:23:53.844 --> 00:23:56.676 From the pollen, it's just a reminder. 298 00:23:56.708 --> 00:23:57.684 To praise the Lord. 299 00:23:57.732 --> 00:23:59.096 That's all it is, right? 300 00:23:59.278 --> 00:24:07.624 We're seeing this exist and we see seas and oceans and lakes and rivers and streams and they have their banks. 301 00:24:07.752 --> 00:24:10.792 And I believe this is just once again the reminder. 302 00:24:10.856 --> 00:24:14.896 And creation once again did what it was supposed to do. 303 00:24:15.078 --> 00:24:18.050 And it continues to do this until today. 304 00:24:18.900 --> 00:24:20.770 It's what we begin to understand. 305 00:24:21.780 --> 00:24:24.384 From an apple seed comes an apple tree. 306 00:24:24.432 --> 00:24:27.460 From an apple tree becomes the fruit of the apple. 307 00:24:27.960 --> 00:24:31.430 From the beginning of time until now. 308 00:24:32.360 --> 00:24:33.700 Look at verse 14. 309 00:24:35.800 --> 00:24:38.772 And God said, let there be lights. 310 00:24:38.916 --> 00:24:47.770 Remember, he's created light, but now let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. 311 00:24:48.460 --> 00:24:50.524 And let and let them be for. 312 00:24:50.562 --> 00:25:01.180 Signs and for seasons and for days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth. 313 00:25:01.600 --> 00:25:02.910 And it was so. 314 00:25:03.680 --> 00:25:04.600 Verse 16. 315 00:25:04.680 --> 00:25:16.020 And God made USAW the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night and the stars. 316 00:25:16.760 --> 00:25:30.680 And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth to rule over the day and to rule over the night and separate the light from the darkness. 317 00:25:31.020 --> 00:25:37.930 And God saw that it was good and there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day. 318 00:25:38.460 --> 00:25:42.200 And so we see the stars and the heavenly bodies. 319 00:25:42.620 --> 00:25:49.020 I love the the description of what's there in verse 17. 320 00:25:49.760 --> 00:25:53.664 It's just one of those verses that my mind is just captivated on. 321 00:25:53.702 --> 00:25:59.024 When we think about the bigness and the greatness of God, what does it say? 322 00:25:59.062 --> 00:26:01.330 That God set them? 323 00:26:02.180 --> 00:26:12.950 He set them, he says, no, I'm putting them in the place that I desire them to be. 324 00:26:13.560 --> 00:26:14.310 Right? 325 00:26:16.140 --> 00:26:28.970 And so every time we discover something new in outer space, god's like, oh yeah, I set that there, I set that there. 326 00:26:29.500 --> 00:26:31.676 Every time we have a theory or. 327 00:26:31.698 --> 00:26:41.070 We have a thought about things that are light years upon light years upon light years away, god's like, oh yeah, I know I set that there. 328 00:26:41.860 --> 00:26:47.490 The very hand and work of God, I set that there. 329 00:26:48.100 --> 00:27:05.700 And so here in day four, in the process of God continuing in the bringing of life to this earth, we see the formation of the seasons, we see spring, we see summer, we see fall, we see winter. 330 00:27:06.520 --> 00:27:12.490 For South Carolina, he designed summer one, summer two, summer three and summer four gave us all of them, right? 331 00:27:13.580 --> 00:27:16.330 But we see what he gave us. 332 00:27:16.700 --> 00:27:20.460 We see the sun and the moon are created. 333 00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:31.340 And while now, while evening and morning have existed, we see these now in their association with daytime and nighttime. 334 00:27:32.260 --> 00:27:43.040 What we see at the end of day four is creation, but no living creatures. 335 00:27:44.340 --> 00:27:46.372 And so what we see is God. 336 00:27:46.426 --> 00:27:48.790 Created in day one. 337 00:27:49.320 --> 00:27:51.636 And then in day two and day three. 338 00:27:51.738 --> 00:27:59.960 In day four, God begins to give order and placement as he makes the different aspects of what we see in creation. 339 00:28:00.700 --> 00:28:02.570 And then look at verse 29. 340 00:28:03.500 --> 00:28:05.530 I'm sorry, verse 20 and verse 20. 341 00:28:06.380 --> 00:28:14.972 And God said, let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures and let. 342 00:28:15.026 --> 00:28:17.884 Birds fly above the earth across the. 343 00:28:17.922 --> 00:28:20.060 Expanse of the heavens. 344 00:28:20.640 --> 00:28:21.528 Verse 21. 345 00:28:21.554 --> 00:28:37.430 So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves with which the waters swarm according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. 346 00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:40.230 And God saw that it was good. 347 00:28:40.840 --> 00:28:53.240 And God bless them, saying, be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas and let birds multiply on the earth. 348 00:28:53.660 --> 00:28:57.944 And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day. 349 00:28:58.062 --> 00:29:03.500 And so what we see in day five is all life and water and life in the air. 350 00:29:03.570 --> 00:29:12.590 And here again, we see bhara as God creates living creatures and is going to continue with this. 351 00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:18.480 And we see the creatures of the water, everything that swims and moves. 352 00:29:18.980 --> 00:29:22.624 And so if here, if you like fishing, this is a big day for you, right? 353 00:29:22.822 --> 00:29:24.064 You celebrate this. 354 00:29:24.102 --> 00:29:27.648 We see the creatures of the water and we see the creatures of the air. 355 00:29:27.734 --> 00:29:32.852 And I never thought about this, but I read a guy, I don't know, this is just interesting to me. 356 00:29:32.906 --> 00:29:37.760 He said, in the creatures of this air, this is where we see the birds and the insects that fly. 357 00:29:37.840 --> 00:29:46.024 So as our flies and mosquitoes begin to take over us and begin in that right along with the pollen, we begin to process through of what has taken place. 358 00:29:46.142 --> 00:29:51.340 And then God says this be fruitful and multiply. 359 00:29:52.240 --> 00:30:08.688 And so what God says is, as I've created you, now you go be fruitful, multiply, reproduce so that this process continues on and how I've wired you and what I've called you to do. 360 00:30:08.774 --> 00:30:14.930 And in this they swam, they flew, each according to its kind. 361 00:30:17.780 --> 00:30:36.890 To birds with birds, fish with fish, insects with insects, even broken down into the species of both God designs it and it's part of creation and perfection to go and participate in and do this. 362 00:30:37.980 --> 00:30:40.060 And so God continues. 363 00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:42.110 Verse 24. 364 00:30:43.680 --> 00:30:45.724 And God said, let the earth bring. 365 00:30:45.762 --> 00:30:54.748 Forth living creatures according to their kinds and livestock and creeping things and beast of the earth according to their cons. 366 00:30:54.914 --> 00:31:06.804 And so and god made the beast of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. 367 00:31:06.922 --> 00:31:08.740 And God saw that it was good. 368 00:31:08.810 --> 00:31:10.452 So we're just calling this day six. 369 00:31:10.506 --> 00:31:14.070 Part one, creatures on the Dry Land. 370 00:31:14.520 --> 00:31:19.192 And God continues as in day five, his work. 371 00:31:19.246 --> 00:31:26.772 In day six, god continues his process of making creatures from creation. 372 00:31:26.836 --> 00:31:38.120 He begins to and he continues to make and he makes the creatures of the land, the livestock, the beast and my least favorite thing, the things that creep. 373 00:31:38.280 --> 00:31:41.384 All right, the things that creep as well. 374 00:31:41.522 --> 00:31:44.384 And this is what we see in this. 375 00:31:44.502 --> 00:31:49.490 And again, each to their own kind. 376 00:31:50.900 --> 00:31:53.152 And at the end of day six. 377 00:31:53.206 --> 00:31:56.230 Part one, part two, in a second. 378 00:31:56.680 --> 00:31:59.860 We'Re going to see the fullness creation. 379 00:32:00.440 --> 00:32:05.140 Minus one pretty big piece, mankind. 380 00:32:06.140 --> 00:32:15.960 And God has created it all, every creature, every plant, every element, every atom, every molecule. 381 00:32:16.620 --> 00:32:24.350 And in all of this, as God does, he says it's good. 382 00:32:25.360 --> 00:32:26.510 It's good. 383 00:32:28.240 --> 00:32:29.630 Now, verse 26. 384 00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:43.004 Then God said, let us make man in our image after our likeness. 385 00:32:43.052 --> 00:32:52.432 Let's pause here in verse think two or three of Genesis one, where we saw we saw the the Spirit of God hovered over the waters. 386 00:32:52.576 --> 00:32:55.670 The Holy Spirit of the Lord hovered there. 387 00:32:56.380 --> 00:33:08.360 And now what we begin to see in verse 26 is a conversation, not necessarily just God speaking something into existence, but the conversation. 388 00:33:09.260 --> 00:33:27.612 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 over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. 389 00:33:27.676 --> 00:33:42.672 In verse 27, so God created Barrah, man in his own image, in the image of God, he created him, male and female. 390 00:33:42.816 --> 00:33:47.590 He created them and God blessed them. 391 00:33:48.200 --> 00:33:51.188 And God said to them, be fruitful. 392 00:33:51.284 --> 00:33:53.704 And multiply and fill the earth and. 393 00:33:53.742 --> 00:34:02.144 Subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth. 394 00:34:02.212 --> 00:34:12.028 And God said, Behold, I've given you every plant seed that is on the face of all the earth and every tree with seed in its fruit, you shall have them for food. 395 00:34:12.114 --> 00:34:24.028 And to every beast on the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I've given every green plant for food. 396 00:34:24.134 --> 00:34:25.396 And it was so. 397 00:34:25.498 --> 00:34:32.276 And God saw everything that he had made, all of the order of what's there. 398 00:34:32.378 --> 00:34:36.810 And behold, it was very good. 399 00:34:38.060 --> 00:34:39.450 Was very good. 400 00:34:40.220 --> 00:34:45.288 And there was evening and there was morning, the 6th day. 401 00:34:45.454 --> 00:34:53.100 And so in day six, part two, what we see is mankind, man and woman, come into existence. 402 00:34:53.760 --> 00:34:58.088 And the culmination of what Barrah and Asah. 403 00:34:58.184 --> 00:34:59.608 As he creates. 404 00:34:59.784 --> 00:35:09.650 He's made and he gives order and he gives placement and he gives responsibility in God's made. 405 00:35:10.340 --> 00:35:20.710 And God looks at this and now it's not just good, but now it's very good. 406 00:35:21.320 --> 00:35:22.484 It's very good. 407 00:35:22.602 --> 00:35:24.900 I think it's very good for a lot of reasons. 408 00:35:25.320 --> 00:35:28.488 But in verse 26 we see the. 409 00:35:28.494 --> 00:35:32.010 Trinitarian language in the creation account. 410 00:35:32.460 --> 00:35:41.444 We see the Trinity, let us make man in our image, god the Father, God the Son, God the Spirit. 411 00:35:41.492 --> 00:35:52.460 Now, we're going to talk about this more in week three when we come back in a couple of weeks as we look at the formation of man and woman and what that means for us in Genesis, chapter two. 412 00:35:52.530 --> 00:35:54.256 But there's some important things that I. 413 00:35:54.278 --> 00:35:58.704 Want us to see and draw from this as we look at the overview of creation this morning. 414 00:35:58.822 --> 00:36:10.820 And we see not the creation of, but we see the giving of us, the presenting to us of the Trinity. 415 00:36:11.160 --> 00:36:18.484 God has let us, God the Father, God the Son, God the Spirit make man in our image. 416 00:36:18.612 --> 00:36:21.320 So here's what's so important for us to understand with this. 417 00:36:21.390 --> 00:36:23.444 God doesn't create Jesus. 418 00:36:23.572 --> 00:36:30.728 Instead, Jesus took on the form of man, doesn't create His Spirit. 419 00:36:30.824 --> 00:36:41.664 Instead, the Spirit indwells redeemed man and works as God determines that his Spirit, that he will work. 420 00:36:41.782 --> 00:36:48.268 And we see the Trinity here in creation as active in creation. 421 00:36:48.364 --> 00:36:55.890 God the Father, God the Son, God the Spirit in there working of what they have called to do as God does. 422 00:36:57.320 --> 00:36:58.790 So God makes man. 423 00:36:59.800 --> 00:37:01.110 He makes man. 424 00:37:01.640 --> 00:37:05.300 And when I say man, as we move forward, don't want mankind. 425 00:37:05.800 --> 00:37:17.076 God makes man in his image and he makes man over all living creatures and he makes them in his image. 426 00:37:17.268 --> 00:37:21.320 You see, mankind will be unique from all other creation. 427 00:37:21.480 --> 00:37:24.412 Man is made to resemble God. 428 00:37:24.546 --> 00:37:28.008 Man is creative as God is creator. 429 00:37:28.104 --> 00:37:31.900 Man lives in fellowship as we see the fellowship of the Lord. 430 00:37:31.980 --> 00:37:33.756 And man is given authority. 431 00:37:33.868 --> 00:37:40.348 Mankind is different than any other part, any other piece, any other aspect of creation. 432 00:37:40.444 --> 00:37:46.048 And when God creates them, he creates man as male and female. 433 00:37:46.144 --> 00:37:55.990 As God creates all life, he does so in a manner that shows that life is meant to be able to reproduce itself. 434 00:37:59.590 --> 00:38:07.378 So as he did with the plants, as he did with the livestock, as he did with the fish, as he. 435 00:38:07.384 --> 00:38:12.680 Did with the birds, he does so with man. 436 00:38:13.610 --> 00:38:23.030 And he sets Him forth to reproduce and to be as male and female. 437 00:38:23.950 --> 00:38:27.740 And God sees all that is there. 438 00:38:28.510 --> 00:38:31.020 And it's very good. 439 00:38:32.190 --> 00:38:33.866 When we look forth in days one. 440 00:38:33.888 --> 00:38:47.386 Through five, what we see God doing in each and every day is creating and making for the culmination of what God creates. 441 00:38:47.418 --> 00:38:57.646 On day six, for the order in which God is going to place, we we see the purpose of creation. 442 00:38:57.758 --> 00:39:06.854 We see the order of creation from the very hand of God and it is good and it is good and it is good. 443 00:39:06.972 --> 00:39:17.420 And then he creates mankind and he places them in creation as he gives them life. 444 00:39:20.900 --> 00:39:46.920 And years later, after the brokenness that's penetrated the heart of all of mankind, in God's purpose and in God's order and in God's time, he'll send His Son and through His Son, what man will find is true life, life eternal. 445 00:39:48.060 --> 00:39:50.810 Let's look at day seven. 446 00:39:55.790 --> 00:40:01.900 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them. 447 00:40:03.230 --> 00:40:06.860 And on the 7th day, God finished his work that he had done. 448 00:40:08.210 --> 00:40:16.080 And he rested on the 7th day from all of his work that he had done. 449 00:40:17.090 --> 00:40:29.970 And so God blessed the 7th day and made it holy because on it God rested from all of his work that he had done in creation. 450 00:40:30.390 --> 00:40:41.400 Remember, I asked you, please don't let me be a heretic or say this, but God created God bara and assad on day one through six. 451 00:40:42.330 --> 00:40:54.860 And on day seven, God shows us god gives us something that had not existed until that morning. 452 00:40:55.310 --> 00:40:58.480 And this is largely what we're going to talk about next week. 453 00:40:59.170 --> 00:41:00.640 God shows us rest. 454 00:41:01.730 --> 00:41:03.200 God shows us rest. 455 00:41:03.810 --> 00:41:07.600 And it is beautiful to see, because here's the deal. 456 00:41:08.370 --> 00:41:09.840 At the end of day six. 457 00:41:11.910 --> 00:41:13.410 God wasn't tired. 458 00:41:15.270 --> 00:41:16.370 He wasn't. 459 00:41:17.910 --> 00:41:19.890 Yesterday I worked out in the yard. 460 00:41:21.350 --> 00:41:25.734 And I came in and I was spent, right? 461 00:41:25.852 --> 00:41:30.166 I had plans to do things that I wanted to do that night. 462 00:41:30.348 --> 00:41:42.662 And what it culminated to for me was 738 o'clock, I got in bed like something like that, yeah, like I'm done, I can't do anymore, I'm spent. 463 00:41:42.726 --> 00:41:43.980 That's not God. 464 00:41:45.390 --> 00:41:50.154 But there's significance that God said no. 465 00:41:50.192 --> 00:41:52.800 On this day, I'm going to rest. 466 00:41:53.810 --> 00:41:54.926 We're going to do something a little. 467 00:41:54.948 --> 00:41:56.302 Bit different this morning. 468 00:41:56.356 --> 00:42:00.270 I'm going to go ahead and ask the band if they'll come up on stage. 469 00:42:00.610 --> 00:42:01.866 And if you're one of our prayer. 470 00:42:01.898 --> 00:42:05.060 Encouragers, I'm going to ask if you'll go ahead and move into place. 471 00:42:05.430 --> 00:42:07.186 Next week, we're going to look at. 472 00:42:07.288 --> 00:42:14.840 These verses and we're going to talk a little bit more about what it means to rest, what is biblical rest. 473 00:42:15.370 --> 00:42:17.286 But what I want us to do. 474 00:42:17.388 --> 00:42:19.014 This morning is understand this. 475 00:42:19.052 --> 00:42:22.840 Like rest means a little bit more than taking a nap, right? 476 00:42:23.690 --> 00:42:26.186 Rest means more than sitting back on. 477 00:42:26.208 --> 00:42:28.540 The couch for a couple of hours. 478 00:42:29.310 --> 00:42:38.750 What we're going to look like is as creation, what does it mean to rest in the Lord? 479 00:42:39.570 --> 00:42:42.960 We're going to start that this morning. 480 00:42:43.650 --> 00:42:45.760 Now, here's where things are going to be a little bit different. 481 00:42:46.610 --> 00:42:54.900 Normally at this time, I close with a prayer, I close with some instructions, but I want to take a minute and do something different. 482 00:42:55.910 --> 00:42:58.180 We're going to bring the house lights down. 483 00:42:59.510 --> 00:43:12.262 Our response is going to be this I just want us to rest in the Lord when I get done. 484 00:43:12.316 --> 00:43:16.140 Normally we all stand and sing together. 485 00:43:18.670 --> 00:43:24.682 But I want to allow you to maybe just sit there a little while. 486 00:43:24.736 --> 00:43:27.500 Longer if that's what you want to do. 487 00:43:28.190 --> 00:43:31.440 Now, at any point in time, our prayer and couragers are in place. 488 00:43:31.890 --> 00:43:36.654 And if you need someone to pray with you, you'd be more than happy to pray with you. 489 00:43:36.772 --> 00:43:42.242 So please feel free to move around the room as the Lord leads you. 490 00:43:42.376 --> 00:43:43.762 But here's what you do. 491 00:43:43.896 --> 00:43:45.620 I'm going to admit, like, this is different. 492 00:43:46.550 --> 00:43:48.574 Maybe your thinking bogus is weird. 493 00:43:48.702 --> 00:43:50.180 Just walk with me on this. 494 00:43:51.190 --> 00:43:53.090 We're going to rest with the Lord. 495 00:43:53.590 --> 00:43:55.294 We're going to rest in the Lord. 496 00:43:55.422 --> 00:43:56.078 Here's what you do. 497 00:43:56.104 --> 00:44:00.440 Everybody in the room everybody in the room wants you to go ahead and close your eyes. 498 00:44:02.010 --> 00:44:03.160 Close your eyes. 499 00:44:05.470 --> 00:44:09.226 And as hard as it is, I. 500 00:44:09.248 --> 00:44:10.940 Just want you to enter your mind. 501 00:44:16.590 --> 00:44:18.254 Just ask God to help you. 502 00:44:18.292 --> 00:44:24.958 Let go of the stresses of the. 503 00:44:24.964 --> 00:44:25.790 Busyness. 504 00:44:27.970 --> 00:44:29.120 Of the work. 505 00:44:31.170 --> 00:44:32.750 Of the conflict. 506 00:44:34.850 --> 00:44:38.720 Of where you have to be next, what you have to do. 507 00:44:40.530 --> 00:44:45.350 Just take a moment and just release. 508 00:44:57.870 --> 00:45:01.834 And as your mind begins to fill. 509 00:45:02.032 --> 00:45:05.340 With other things, here's what you do. 510 00:45:06.850 --> 00:45:08.400 Just begin to think about God. 511 00:45:14.450 --> 00:45:16.240 Wherever he leads you. 512 00:45:19.410 --> 00:45:20.880 Just think about Him. 513 00:45:24.850 --> 00:45:26.430 Think about his creation. 514 00:45:41.530 --> 00:45:56.090 Every sunset painted by his hand, every mountain formed by his very breath. 515 00:46:00.210 --> 00:46:00.718 Every. 516 00:46:00.804 --> 00:46:01.630 Flower. 517 00:46:03.810 --> 00:46:13.458 Intricately designed by Him, every beautiful. 518 00:46:13.544 --> 00:46:14.610 Aroma. 519 00:46:16.710 --> 00:46:19.460 Given to us, land. 520 00:46:25.450 --> 00:46:27.190 And in his creation. 521 00:46:30.410 --> 00:46:31.350 Just think about. 522 00:46:31.420 --> 00:46:32.630 All the blessings. 523 00:46:34.670 --> 00:46:36.060 They'Ve given you. 524 00:46:43.790 --> 00:46:44.250 Every. 525 00:46:44.320 --> 00:46:47.760 Person who's impacted you. 526 00:46:53.570 --> 00:46:54.574 Every moment of. 527 00:46:54.612 --> 00:47:05.220 Love that you've experienced, every bit of joy that's there. 528 00:47:21.530 --> 00:47:23.590 And if this is his creation. 529 00:47:27.230 --> 00:47:27.546 Think. 530 00:47:27.568 --> 00:47:30.140 About Him. 531 00:47:33.550 --> 00:47:39.630 His beauty, his holiness. 532 00:47:42.530 --> 00:47:51.250 And his goodness and his grace and his mercy. 533 00:48:00.790 --> 00:48:03.960 Just rest in him. 534 00:48:07.210 --> 00:48:10.790 Rest in the joy of your salvation. 535 00:48:12.730 --> 00:48:13.480 Rest. 536 00:48:15.950 --> 00:48:17.580 You didn't save you. 537 00:48:18.430 --> 00:48:19.900 He saved you. 538 00:48:21.950 --> 00:48:26.380 You and I couldn't be perfect, so he was perfect. 539 00:48:28.290 --> 00:48:32.350 You and I need forgiveness, so he forgives. 540 00:48:34.050 --> 00:48:38.080 Rest in him. 541 00:48:48.390 --> 00:48:52.180 In a moment, the band will start to play. 542 00:48:55.530 --> 00:49:01.240 If you need to let your worship be your rest. 543 00:49:04.010 --> 00:49:06.562 If you need to stand and respond. 544 00:49:06.626 --> 00:49:13.880 To Him and do just respond to God. 545 00:49:14.970 --> 00:49:20.080 Lord, make me rest in you. 546 00:49:30.210 --> 00:49:34.714 Thanks again for listening and be sure to check back next week for another episode. 547 00:49:34.842 --> 00:49:42.530 In the meantime, you can visit us@willowridgechurch.org or by searching for Willowridge Church on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.