God is the Creator

God Is The Creator

Genesis 1  

An atheist cries out to God?

I. What is an Attribute?

1. A character trait (Genesis 1:1; Psalm 89:11)   

   B. We can know God better (John 17:3)

II. Take the Bible literally unless the words like or as are used

• There was evening and there was morning one day

(Genesis 1:5; Psalm 65:8)     

•   Day is a 24 hour period in the O.T. when used with a      number (The flood, Mt. Sinai, 6 days of work pattern)

III. First Attribute – God is Creator! – out of nothing

• Elohim = God above gods (Deuteronomy 10:17)

• God of creative ability (Hebrews 11:3)              

• DNA molecule! Is evolution even possible?

• God said, let there be light: power of His spoken word 

       (Genesis 1:3; Psalm 33:9; Matthew 8:8)

• Genesis 1:9 God said, let the dry land appear – it was so (His will)

• Genesis 1:10 God called the gathering of the waters seas (Psalm 95:5-7)
• Genesis 1:11 God said let the earth sprout vegetation: Ore. vs Ariz

• Genesis 1:14 God said, let there be signs! Look and be      amazed (The human eye, the human brain – Romans 1:20)

• Genesis 1:16 God made the two great lights – sun and moon

• Genesis 1:20 God said, let the waters swarm with living creatures (Genesis 1:21; 1 Corinthians 15:39) After their kind – boundaries of 4 kinds of flesh  

• Genesis 1:24 God said, let the earth bring forth living creatures

• Genesis 1:26 Let Us make man in Our…image = 

• Genesis 1:27 God created male and female

• Genesis 1:28 God blessed them (count your many blessings)

• Genesis 1:31 God saw all He made (knows all) – it was very good!

IV. Application for Knowing God as Creator

     A. Thank God He made things and they didn’t evolve

     B. Say ‘My help comes from the Lord who made heaven’ (Psalm 121:2)     

     C. Believe nothing is too difficult for our Maker
 (Jeremiah 32:17)     

D. Realize God can still make something out of nothing (Romans 4:17)        

E. Believe God holds all things together (Colossians 1:17)

F. Tell the Lord He is worthy for creating you 

(Revelation 4:11; Psalm 139:14)   

Genesis 1

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. Then God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” God made the expanse, and separated the waters which were below the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so. God called the expanse heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day. Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good. Then God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them”; and it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good. There was evening and there was morning, a third day. Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also. God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day. Then God said, “Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.” God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good. God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind”; and it was so. God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good. Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so. God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.