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Big Idea of the Message: Some believe that faith and science are contradictory to one another.
The truth is, faith and science complement each other when looking through the correct filter.
Application Point: We should love God with all our minds.
Therefore, use our intellect to worship God.
SESSION 2
Creation?
Evolution?
Young Earth?
Gap Theory?
Intelligent Design?
Ex Nihilo?
These categories (and many others) try to answer the “meaning of life” question.
Questions To Answer
People have struggled for years trying to explain our existence.
If a supreme being created us, then we’ll be held accountable for our actions.
If we came into existence by chance, then we get to choose what is right and what is wrong.
We get to decide what morality is.
Where did I come from?
Let’s take a look at what the Scripture has to say about our existence.
What about the Big Bang?
Dinosaurs on the Ark?
Throughout the Bible, God is credited as the creator and sustainer of the universe and everything that’s in it.
So, if God is the owner, we should pay close attention to his words.
First, we’ll take a closer look at how everything came into existence
CREATION STRUCTURE
1. Announcement “and God said”
2. Command “let there be”
Command “let there be”
3. Report “and it was so”
Report “and it was so”
4. Evaluation “it was good”
Evaluation “it was good”
5. Temporal Statement “there was evening, and there was”
Temporal Statement “there was evening, and there was morning”
CREATION ELEMENTS
Day 1 Light & Darkness
Day 1 Light & Darkness
Day 2 Sky & Water
Day 3 Sea & Land
Day 4 Sun, Moon, & Stars
Day 5 Fish & Birds
Day 6 Animals, Man, & Woman
Day 7 Rest
Yes, God created rest!
Throughout the Bible, God is credited as the creator and sustainer of the universe and everything that’s in it.
So, if God is the owner, we should pay close attention to his words.
First, we’ll take a closer look at how everything came into existence.
There is a popular pastor and public speaker, Louie Giglio, who speaks on the topic of God in a video titled “Indescribable.”
If you have a chance to watch it, it’s phenomenal.
In this video, he talks about having right perspectives.
He makes a statement that we need to “Right size God.”
Meaning that we often forget or don’t know how powerful God really is.
We sometimes get stuck in our children’s Bible storybook.
It’s difficult to describe God because he is indescribable.
But we can try, and we do try but often we fall very short in our descriptions.
Our children’s Sunday school lessons often fall into this category.
We water down some of the greatest stories from the bible into a manageable event that kids can comprehend, add a nice moral to the story and call it a day.
In doing so, we strip God of his Majesty, glory, his overwhelming sense of awe and power.
2. Command “let there be”
The end result is that we miss the real essence of the God of the bible, put him in a box, and live as if he isn’t all-powerful.
Creation
The Flood
The Tower of Babel
David & Goliath
Let’s skip the children’s bible storybook description of creation and look at it in all its glory.
3. Report “and it was so”
4. Evaluation “it was good”
1,300,000 (1.3 million) earths can fit in our sun.
There are billions of suns in our galaxy.
There are billions of galaxies in the known universe.
All of which was breathed out of the mouth of God!
5. Temporal Statement “there was evening, and there was ”
So what’s the purpose of the universe?
To show off the glory and splendor of God!
Louie makes a profound statement.
He says, “I know what your thinking, your thinking Louie, you’re making me feel small.
No, I’m not trying to make you FEEL small.
I’m trying to help you see that you ARE small.
But it’s significant insignificance.
Because as tiny as we are, we are known and prized by Majesty who sent for us and loves us and knows us even though we are teeny tiny little bitty people on a little bitty speck floating through the vast cosmos He has made.
…He knows us and is aware of us and loves us.”
SIGNIFICANT INSIGNIFICANCE!
Paradox = ˈper-ə-ˌdäks
noun - a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in
reality expresses a possible truth.
EXAMPLES OF PARADOX
- the best of times the worst of times
- the future is now
- less is more
- you shouldn’t go in the water until you know how to swim
- deep down, you’re really shallow
BIBLICAL EXAMPLES
- Humility For Honor ()
- Weakness For Strength ()
- Receiving Through Giving ()
- Freedom Through Servitude ()
YES, GOD CREATED REST!
- Gaining Through Losing ()
- Living Through Dying ()
- Finding Through Losing ()
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