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God’s Word Genesis 1 gives us the creation account. Everything was
made in 6 days. Verse 3 states, “God
said, ‘Let there be light’”; verse 6 “God said, ‘Let there be a
firmament in the midst of the waters’”; verse 9 “God said, ‘Let the
waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry
land appear’”; verse 11 “God said, ‘Let the earth bring forth grass, the
herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its
kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth’”; verse 14 “God said, ‘Let
there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the
night’”; verse 20 “God said, ‘Let the water abound with an abundance of
living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the
firmament of the heavens’”; verse 24 “God said, ‘Let the earth bring
forth the living creature according to its kind’”; and in verse 26 “God
said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness’”. Eight times in Genesis 1, the phrase “God said” is
used. Each time the thing God said was created. There are a number of lessons we
can learn from this fact. God’s word is powerful. By simply speaking it,
the thing spoken was created. It is hard if not impossible to comprehend God’s
great power. Perhaps that is why some Christians try to reconcile the Theory of
Evolution with Genesis 1. Some want to explain the creation in a way that may
seem plausible in man’s eyes. However, God can do what no man can do.
He can create that which does not exist simply by speaking
it. This reminds me of the story in which an atheist was talking to God. God and
the atheist agreed to create life. God made life from the dust of the ground.
Now it was the atheist’s turn. He said, “Ok, let’s take some dirt.”
At which time God interrupted him and told the man he would have to get
his own dirt. It is this power to create that Romans 1: 16 appeals when it says, “I am not ashamed to the Gospel of Christ for it is the
power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also
for the Greek.” God’s word can create and it can save. God communicates through words. Why did God say anything?
Could not God have simply “thought” it into being? Yet throughout the Bible
we see where God communicated by the avenue of words to Adam and Eve in the
Garden of Eden. They were commanded by God to not eat of the tree of good and
evil. God spoke to Moses on The word of God was used to make everything that exists.
That word was Jesus. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God… All things were made through Him, and without Him
nothing was made that was made” (John 1.1,3). The Word of God is linked to our
creation and salvation in John 1. Just as nothing was made without the Word of
God; no one can be saved without the Word of God. Without Jesus and His
sacrifice for our sins we can not be saved. Genesis 1 and John 1 teaches us the
eternal existence of God and His Word. There are some that teach Jesus was
created either in Genesis 1 or at the time of His birth. However, such would
demand that God could not speak or say anything before He created His word. Such
gets to be absurdity. Jesus claimed His eternal nature in John 8.58 when He used
the term “I AM.” In the first Chapter of Genesis,
8 times Jesus acted as God’s word. To deny God’s creation as described in
this chapter is to deny the word of Jesus. God’s word creates, saves, and lives today. — Dennis
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