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Review 1-4. Why is it important to study God’s Word? List the attributes that you know about God that no other being has. What do you know about everything that God made?. Review 1-4. Why did God remove Lucifer and his followers from heaven?

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Review 1-4

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  1. Review 1-4 • Why is it important to study God’s Word? • List the attributes that you know about God that no other being has. • What do you know about everything that God made?

  2. Review 1-4 • Why did God remove Lucifer and his followers from heaven? • What supplies did God use to make everything? How did everything come into existence? • What do you know so far about God’s character?

  3. Heaven and Earth Part 2

  4. Introduction • The Bible is God’s record of Creation • Fact not a Fable • Not a theory • It has not and will not change because it is TRUTH.

  5. Introduction • Studying creation helps us understand God better. • Sovereign Creator • All-powerful, All-knowing • God exists by his own power, separate from creation • Holy and Perfect

  6. Introduction • Today: Creation Day 2 to 4 • Creation moves from the “simple” to the more complex. • This order is important!

  7. Creation - Part 1 • Read Genesis 1:5 • God separated the “light” from the “darkness” • Light -> Day • Darkness -> Night • THIS WAS THE FIRST DAY! Page 2 of Lesson 4

  8. Creation - Part 1 Earth (Water) Water Above the Sky Atmosphere and Sky • Read Genesis 1:6-8 • On the second day, God created the air and the sky! Page 2 of Lesson 4

  9. Creation - Part 1 • How did God create the expanse surrounding the earth? • Though not stated in bible, what do you know about the sky and the water above the sky? Why? • Answer question 20. Page 3 of Lesson 4

  10. Concluding Statements from L4 • God’s account of creation has not changed! • God was there before the beginning and God knows how all things came to be. • God’s Word reveals that God created everything!

  11. Concluding Statements from L4 • God is the source of all energy and wisdom and the Creator of all matter. • He made everything from nothing! • As we continue to study the Bible, we’ll see that God is absolutely sovereign, greater than all and more powerful than all! • He has given us His Word to know Him!

  12. Review • Take a moment and complete the Summary Questions at the end of Lesson 4.

  13. Creation - Day 3 • Read Genesis 1:9-10 • How did God gather the waters into the seas and make dry ground appear?

  14. Creation - Day 3 • What are the following images of? Imagine...

  15. Creation - Day 3 • Read Psalm 95:5 • Only God can control the waters of the earth that He alone made!

  16. Creation - Day 3 God Made Them All • Read Genesis 1:11-13

  17. Creation - Day 3 • God alone has the knowledge and power to create and sustain life! • God made plants to produce seeds that would produce only the original plants!!! (after own kind) • The plants we see today are the same plants from the time of creation! - AWESOME!

  18. Creation - Day 3 • Why do you suppose God made flowers, trees, and other plants? • Recall: God doesn’t need anything • He is independent of all things • Hint: What have you noticed about the complexity level of each created thing?

  19. Creation - Day 3 • God made the plants and trees for man!! • To meet our physical needs (food, oxygen, building materials, etc) • To delight us with His love for us (varieties of colors, shapes, sizes, flavors, fragrances) • To remind us daily of His care and love for man • To show his beauty and character

  20. Creation - Day 3 • God designed everything to fit into the system that He had designed for Earth! • Water cycle • Oxygen Cycle • A true, stand-alone Biosphere! • God is the Master Designer • Everything God made is perfect!

  21. Check for Understanding • How did God gather the waters together in one place? • How is God able to control the waters? • Why do things in nature fit together so well and function together?

  22. Creation - Day 4

  23. Creation - Day 4 • We know very little about the universe; what we do know is baffling: • light travels 186,000 miles in one second • takes 8.5 minutes to reach us from the sun • take 4 years to reach us from the nearest star • some stars take hundreds, thousands, millions of years for light to reach…what a massive universe • God made them all and set them in their proper places!!! He is powerful!

  24. Creation - Day 4 • Read Genesis 1:14-19 • How did God create the sun, moon, and stars? • Did you ever just ponder the vastness of space? • The whole universe reflects the work of the Master Designer - with Order, Beauty & Complexity!

  25. Individual Atoms Creation - Day 4 • What is this? --> • Sharp Needle of Tungsten • Taken by a field ion microscope

  26. Creation - Day 4 • How can God hold the atom together while also keeping all the stars and galaxies in their places? • Jeremiah 23:23-24 says, “Am I only a God nearby,” declares the Lord, “and not a God far away…Do not I fill heaven and earth?” • God is everywhere! • Everything in the universe is God’s creation, but not part of God’s being!!!

  27. Creation - Day 4 • What makes space travel possible? • What makes scientific study possible? • God created it with order and consistency! • Laws of nature (Newton’s Laws of Motion, Kepler’s Laws for Planets, Einstein’s Theories of Relativity) - all are mathematical models of how the universe works!

  28. Creation - Day 4 • Read Psalm 104:19 • What is the purpose of the sun, moon, and stars? • Mark seasons, days, and years (order) • Read Psalm 19:1-3 • What message is God sending through His creation?

  29. Check for Understanding • Could all the things that we see get here by chance? • How did God create the sun, moon, and stars? • From the smallest of particles to the largest of galaxies, what is true as they relate to God?

  30. Creation - Day 5 • Read Genesis 1:20-23

  31. Creation - Day 5 • God made numerous kinds of water creatures and birds with countless, colorful designs and shapes. Why? • Show His creative power and wisdom • Show His love to us

  32. Creation - Day 5 • Even the tiniest most ordinary creatures are God’s creation and are incredibly complex. • Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on earth today, bacterial cells, are exceeding complex objects. • They weigh less than 0.000 000 000 010 gs and operate like a complex factory…

  33. Creation - Day 6 • Read Genesis 1:24-25 • God created all these and more…

  34. Creation - Day 6 • God created an unbelievable number and variety of animals! • Each has unique characteristics and is only capable of reproducing others like itself! • Only God has the power to create animals! Man can never do this!! • Everything God made is perfect.

  35. Check for Understanding • Why did God make planets, the moon, and the stars? • How do we know that Darwin’s theory of species evolving to more complex life forms is not possible? • What characteristics of the created world point to the Creator?

  36. Conclusion • What should we notice when we look at creation? • Although we can learn a lot about God by observing His creation, our true understanding of Him comes from His Word!!

  37. Conclusion • Hebrews 11:3 • By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.

  38. Review • Do the Summary Questions on page 3 of the hand out.

  39. Stranger on the Road to Emmaus • For Next Week… • Chapter 3 up through page 45

  40. Next Week… • Camping…no House Church • Who’s coming when?

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