Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."

A. Centuries before Galileo (1564-1642 A.D.) theorized the earth was round,  Scripture declared it so.

                                    Isaiah 40:22 The Almighty "sits upon the circle of the earth..."

                                    Job 26:7 "He hangeth the earth upon nothing."

B. The theory of evolution is not compatible with Scripture. Scripture states that each varying classification, at creation, was made "after its own kind," or "according to its own kind." In not a single instance has one class of creature evolved into another.

                                    Genesis 1:11, 12, 21, 24, 25

                                    1 Corinthians 15:38, 39

1.  Evolution claims life forms are in a continual state of transition. Scripture teaches creation as a completed event.

                                                 Genesis 2:3

2.  Evolution claims man originally was a meat-eater. Scripture says man originally was a vegetarian.

                                                 Genesis 1:29

3.  Evolution teaches death existed long before man was even created. Scripture teaches death resulted from man’s sin.

                                                  Romans 5:12

II.  All of creation was designed with a purpose ("not in vain"). Nothing exists by chance.

Isaiah 45:18 "For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited...."

A.  The purpose of creation (and thus, our purpose in being) was "for his pleasure."

Revelation 4:11 "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created."

                              B. We were created for the glory of God.

Isaiah 43:7 "Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him."

                              C. Creation is evidence of the reality of God.

Romans 1:20 "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse."

D.  By God's Word (a deliberate act of God's will, not by happenstance or by accident), everything we see was spoken into existence.

Psalm 148:5 "Let them praise the name of the Lord: for he commanded, and they were created."

Genesis 1:20-21, 24 "And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.... And God said... and it was so."

 

III.  The Father was not alone in the creative process.

               Genesis 1:26 "Let us make man in our image...."

                               A.  Jesus was present at creation.

Ephesians. 3:9 "And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ."

Colossians 1:15-16 "Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him."

                               B.  Adam was assigned the responsibility of naming the animals.

Genesis 2:19 "And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof."

 

IV.  God's creation is very orderly and the specifics of the creation process provide a significant point of reference to his plan.

A.  Woman was made for man. As such, her role is one of submission in God's order.

1 Corinthians 11:9 "Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man."

                               B.  God created a distinction between the sexes.

Genesis 1:27 "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."

Genesis 5:1-2 "This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created."

Mark 10:6 "But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female."

                             C.  Everything reproduces "after its own kind" – i.e., ducks do not mate with dogs, etc.

                                       Genesis 1:11, 12, 21, 24, 25

                                       1 Corinthians 15:38, 39

V. The status of creation today.

                              A.  Originally, everything God made was "very good."

                                         Genesis 1:31

                               B.  Sin destroyed the perfect plan of God.

1. God grew disappointed and angry with his creation and said he regretted having made it.

Genesis 6:7 "And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them."

                                         2.  Since sin entered the world, creation has been "in bondage."

Romans 8:19-22 "For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now."

                             C.  God knows all about his creation and watches over it.

Isaiah 40:26 "Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth."

Luke 12:6 "Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?"

                            D.  Creation will be remade.

Isaiah 65:17-18 "For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy."

 

VI.  Some worship creation, rather than the Creator; this is wrong.