WEBVTT 00:00:00.460 --> 00:00:05.040 Well, this morning's a special service because it's, you know, it's not every day that we're 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:07.320 outside, maybe once a year. 00:00:07.660 --> 00:00:11.040 So I wanted to preach on something a little bit different, something kind of special and 00:00:11.040 --> 00:00:11.919 fitting to the occasion. 00:00:12.580 --> 00:00:17.320 And as I kept thinking about what that might be, I kept coming back to, I think I'm going 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:21.160 to preach about creation from Genesis chapter 1. 00:00:21.400 --> 00:00:26.080 And I've never preached a message from Genesis chapter 1, but I thought if I was ever going 00:00:26.080 --> 00:00:29.640 to do it, it makes the most sense to do it outside when we're in the midst of what God 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:30.219 has created. 00:00:30.920 --> 00:00:33.039 So here we go, Genesis chapter 1. 00:00:34.980 --> 00:00:38.280 First, let's begin by just taking a moment to look around. 00:00:39.480 --> 00:00:41.539 I want to encourage you to look at the trees. 00:00:43.299 --> 00:00:44.380 Look at the leaves. 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:48.460 Listen to the birds. 00:00:50.820 --> 00:00:54.079 Imagine the roots of the trees down in the soil. 00:00:56.359 --> 00:00:59.439 Look at the green blades of grass poking up. 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:07.340 Think about those fields that you saw on the way in, some of them with beautiful yellow 00:01:07.340 --> 00:01:09.700 flowers, some just looking green and lush. 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:12.219 Look at the sky. 00:01:13.079 --> 00:01:14.560 The clouds hanging. 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:21.180 The sun shining through the trees. 00:01:21.180 --> 00:01:33.000 Consider for a moment that the sun is a massive ball of fire, a star burning over 93 million 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:34.240 miles away from us. 00:01:35.420 --> 00:01:42.860 And its light makes the difference between us being able to see everything around us or not 00:01:42.860 --> 00:01:44.180 being able to see anything at all. 00:01:44.180 --> 00:01:47.780 Think about the heat from the sun. 00:01:49.140 --> 00:01:51.300 We're probably going to feel it a lot this week. 00:01:52.340 --> 00:01:54.340 But think about what it would be without that. 00:01:55.600 --> 00:01:59.100 It makes a difference between us being warm and alive 00:01:59.099 --> 00:02:06.599 or us being freezing in the cold of space, not able to grow anything. 00:02:08.099 --> 00:02:10.459 Feel the wind, the breeze. 00:02:11.379 --> 00:02:13.879 All over the surface of the earth, the wind blows. 00:02:14.439 --> 00:02:16.680 Sometimes it's a gentle breeze like now. 00:02:17.299 --> 00:02:19.000 Other times it's a blasting gale. 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:24.680 In Davidson, sometimes it feels like it's more a blasting gale. 00:02:24.840 --> 00:02:26.860 But today it's a beautiful day. 00:02:27.479 --> 00:02:29.400 Without the wind, what would it be? 00:02:30.219 --> 00:02:30.860 It cools. 00:02:31.379 --> 00:02:32.180 It dries. 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:34.680 It helps things move about on earth. 00:02:34.780 --> 00:02:36.400 It brings the clouds with their rain. 00:02:37.860 --> 00:02:39.840 It's an amazing world that we live in. 00:02:40.620 --> 00:02:45.659 A massive habitat floating around in the dead void of space. 00:02:45.659 --> 00:02:49.280 And yet we have oxygen to breathe in abundance, 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:55.180 water to drink, heat, light, plants for food. 00:02:56.639 --> 00:02:59.359 Where did this amazing place come from? 00:03:00.900 --> 00:03:02.219 Genesis 1.1 00:03:02.219 --> 00:03:08.539 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 00:03:08.539 --> 00:03:18.019 Long ago, there was a day when the earth that we feel beneath our feet right now wasn't there. 00:03:19.359 --> 00:03:23.419 There was a day when the sky that we see up above wasn't there. 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:31.299 When the sun, the moon, the stars that we see at night weren't shining because they didn't exist. 00:03:31.300 --> 00:03:36.860 But in that day, God was there. 00:03:38.260 --> 00:03:39.280 He existed. 00:03:40.520 --> 00:03:49.220 And it was He, God, the Lord, Yahweh, who created all of this, the universe as we know it. 00:03:50.460 --> 00:03:53.140 I love the way that it says it here in Genesis 1.1. 00:03:53.200 --> 00:03:53.540 It says, 00:03:53.539 --> 00:03:56.519 God created the heavens and the earth. 00:03:57.359 --> 00:04:01.539 Which is a beautiful and poetic way of saying that He made everything. 00:04:02.180 --> 00:04:04.500 From our vantage point, that's all there is. 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:08.500 There's the stuff that's above, the heavens, and there's the earth. 00:04:08.780 --> 00:04:10.500 The place where we live and below. 00:04:11.639 --> 00:04:12.159 Everything. 00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:18.060 The earth, in all its beauty, with all its wonders, 00:04:18.060 --> 00:04:23.259 this home of ours, and the heavens way above and all that it contains. 00:04:23.639 --> 00:04:30.259 Stars, galaxies, all of it had its beginning when God made it long ago. 00:04:31.319 --> 00:04:35.139 And what we're about to read this morning is a little of how it happened. 00:04:35.980 --> 00:04:38.959 I'm going to read the first 19 verses of Genesis 1. 00:04:39.620 --> 00:04:43.019 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 00:04:44.019 --> 00:04:46.660 Now the earth was formless and empty. 00:04:46.660 --> 00:04:50.060 Darkness was over the surface of the deep. 00:04:50.820 --> 00:04:53.560 And the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 00:04:54.580 --> 00:04:55.820 And God said, 00:04:56.760 --> 00:04:58.480 Let there be light. 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:00.540 And there was light. 00:05:01.660 --> 00:05:03.660 God saw that the light was good. 00:05:04.500 --> 00:05:06.460 And He separated the light from the darkness. 00:05:07.700 --> 00:05:09.500 God called the light day. 00:05:10.100 --> 00:05:12.100 And the darkness He called night. 00:05:12.100 --> 00:05:14.060 And there was evening. 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:15.300 And there was morning. 00:05:15.300 --> 00:05:16.660 The first day. 00:05:17.660 --> 00:05:18.680 And God said, 00:05:19.460 --> 00:05:21.180 Let there be a vault between the waters. 00:05:21.300 --> 00:05:23.120 To separate water from water. 00:05:23.840 --> 00:05:25.139 So God made the vault. 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:27.280 And separated the water under the vault. 00:05:27.520 --> 00:05:28.900 From the water above it. 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:30.540 And it was so. 00:05:31.660 --> 00:05:33.519 God called the vault sky. 00:05:34.199 --> 00:05:35.340 And there was evening. 00:05:35.780 --> 00:05:36.620 And there was morning. 00:05:37.180 --> 00:05:38.160 The second day. 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:40.000 And God said, 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:43.600 Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place. 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:45.580 And let dry ground appear. 00:05:46.540 --> 00:05:47.439 And it was so. 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:50.720 God called the dry ground land. 00:05:51.280 --> 00:05:53.700 And the gathered waters He called seas. 00:05:53.699 --> 00:05:56.180 And God saw that it was good. 00:05:57.300 --> 00:05:58.379 Then God said, 00:05:59.019 --> 00:06:00.920 Let the land produce vegetation. 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:02.879 Seed bearing plants. 00:06:03.479 --> 00:06:06.839 And trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it. 00:06:07.099 --> 00:06:08.519 According to their various kinds. 00:06:09.259 --> 00:06:10.300 And it was so. 00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:13.120 The land produced vegetation. 00:06:13.539 --> 00:06:15.339 Plants bearing seed according to their kinds. 00:06:15.459 --> 00:06:18.539 And trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. 00:06:18.540 --> 00:06:21.060 And God saw that it was good. 00:06:21.900 --> 00:06:22.879 And there was evening. 00:06:23.180 --> 00:06:24.020 And there was morning. 00:06:24.280 --> 00:06:24.960 The third day. 00:06:26.040 --> 00:06:26.980 And God said, 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:29.460 Let there be lights in the vault of the sky. 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:31.400 To separate the day from the night. 00:06:32.080 --> 00:06:35.240 And let them serve as signs to mark sacred times. 00:06:35.780 --> 00:06:36.740 And days. 00:06:37.060 --> 00:06:37.540 And years. 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:40.300 And let them be lights in the vault of the sky. 00:06:40.379 --> 00:06:41.460 To give light on the earth. 00:06:42.280 --> 00:06:43.300 And it was so. 00:06:44.400 --> 00:06:46.040 God made two great lights. 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:48.100 The greater light to govern the day. 00:06:48.540 --> 00:06:50.439 And the lesser light to govern the night. 00:06:51.280 --> 00:06:52.720 He also made the stars. 00:06:53.780 --> 00:06:55.640 God set them in the vault of the sky. 00:06:55.819 --> 00:06:56.840 To give light on the earth. 00:06:56.939 --> 00:06:58.040 To govern the day and the night. 00:06:58.120 --> 00:06:59.620 And to separate light from darkness. 00:07:00.340 --> 00:07:02.020 And God saw that it was good. 00:07:02.740 --> 00:07:03.660 And there was evening. 00:07:03.960 --> 00:07:04.740 And there was morning. 00:07:05.280 --> 00:07:06.259 The fourth day. 00:07:08.340 --> 00:07:09.240 Amazing, isn't it? 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:13.640 Personally, I don't have much experience making earths. 00:07:14.640 --> 00:07:16.600 Or designing habitable planets. 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:18.340 So when I read this. 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:19.520 I'll be honest. 00:07:19.620 --> 00:07:21.240 I have at least two to three questions. 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:22.939 About every single sentence. 00:07:23.939 --> 00:07:26.040 Why did God do all of this in four days? 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:31.879 Just what did it look like and feel like on earth during each of those four days? 00:07:33.460 --> 00:07:34.980 Unless God tells us at the end. 00:07:35.060 --> 00:07:35.800 We may never know. 00:07:35.800 --> 00:07:38.040 Because the truth is. 00:07:38.040 --> 00:07:39.540 None of us human beings were there. 00:07:40.460 --> 00:07:40.819 Yet. 00:07:41.980 --> 00:07:45.160 And yes, I do believe that they are 24 hour days. 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:47.460 And there was evening. 00:07:47.699 --> 00:07:48.540 And there was morning. 00:07:48.780 --> 00:07:49.480 The first day. 00:07:49.580 --> 00:07:50.319 And there was evening. 00:07:50.439 --> 00:07:51.139 And there was morning. 00:07:51.259 --> 00:07:51.900 The second day. 00:07:51.980 --> 00:07:52.720 And there was evening. 00:07:52.819 --> 00:07:53.519 And there was morning. 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:54.319 The third day. 00:07:54.639 --> 00:07:55.759 And so on and so forth. 00:07:56.120 --> 00:07:57.600 Six times God says it. 00:07:58.080 --> 00:07:59.519 The Hebrew word means day. 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:03.899 And it can be used figuratively to mean a particular time. 00:08:03.899 --> 00:08:05.500 As in the day of the Lord. 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:07.879 Or a general time. 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:09.719 As in in those days. 00:08:10.139 --> 00:08:12.719 But obviously it means a 24 hour day here. 00:08:13.259 --> 00:08:16.060 Because that's the only kind of day that has an evening and a morning. 00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:19.959 That's the whole point of creating light. 00:08:20.339 --> 00:08:23.120 And separating it from the darkness on the first day. 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:26.340 It's to have that first evening and morning. 00:08:27.220 --> 00:08:29.600 It's to begin that light and dark cycle. 00:08:29.780 --> 00:08:32.840 That will become one of the basic unchangeable foundations. 00:08:33.179 --> 00:08:35.700 Of all life on earth going forward. 00:08:36.700 --> 00:08:37.419 And according to God. 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:39.179 He started that cycle. 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:40.759 That light dark cycle. 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:42.320 On day one. 00:08:42.860 --> 00:08:44.179 Even before he made the sun. 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:45.419 And the moon and the stars. 00:08:45.539 --> 00:08:46.279 On the fourth day. 00:08:48.259 --> 00:08:49.820 Well why did he do it that way? 00:08:51.100 --> 00:08:51.960 As I said. 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:54.420 I'm no expert in making earths. 00:08:54.420 --> 00:08:56.980 Or designing habitable planets. 00:08:58.160 --> 00:08:58.820 Are you? 00:09:01.680 --> 00:09:03.240 I have all kinds of questions. 00:09:04.040 --> 00:09:06.139 Why did God make plants before he made the sun? 00:09:07.280 --> 00:09:10.460 What exactly is that water above the sky? 00:09:11.379 --> 00:09:12.960 Is that like clouds way up high? 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:15.920 Or is that some kind of moisture in the upper atmosphere? 00:09:16.180 --> 00:09:19.200 Is that some kind of canopy between space and the earth? 00:09:19.300 --> 00:09:20.240 As some have suggested. 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:21.700 The truth is. 00:09:21.779 --> 00:09:22.360 I don't know. 00:09:22.659 --> 00:09:25.019 And we can probably speculate all we want about it. 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:27.500 But can we know? 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:29.000 We weren't there. 00:09:29.940 --> 00:09:31.960 We hadn't been created yet. 00:09:32.600 --> 00:09:38.980 And maybe that's one of the lessons that we're meant to take from some of these first few verses of Genesis. 00:09:38.980 --> 00:09:41.120 I mean think about this. 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:42.659 Where did this account come from? 00:09:43.860 --> 00:09:47.500 It wasn't passed down human eyewitness to human eyewitness. 00:09:48.220 --> 00:09:49.600 Generation to generation. 00:09:50.500 --> 00:09:54.039 There were no human beings during these first four, five days of creation. 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:57.779 No, we believe that God spoke to Moses. 00:09:58.419 --> 00:10:00.579 And told him what to write. 00:10:00.939 --> 00:10:02.500 Told him how he did it. 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:06.360 So this isn't just man's perspective of what happened. 00:10:07.219 --> 00:10:15.240 Nor is it man's attempt to create a creation story like all the other cultures of the world of the day had in their time. 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:18.620 This is God's account of what he did. 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:23.320 Of how he made the universe and the things that are in it. 00:10:25.019 --> 00:10:26.100 Think about this. 00:10:27.019 --> 00:10:30.740 Day five, God makes the sea creatures and the flying creatures. 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:34.460 Day six, he makes all the rest of the creatures. 00:10:34.460 --> 00:10:39.139 And only after that does he make man and woman. 00:10:40.440 --> 00:10:41.940 Why did he do it in that order? 00:10:43.280 --> 00:10:45.720 Why not make Adam and Eve on day one or two? 00:10:46.100 --> 00:10:50.180 So that they could have a front row seat and watch as he makes all the rest of the stuff. 00:10:51.840 --> 00:10:55.460 Many would say it's because God wanted to go from least to greatest. 00:10:57.080 --> 00:11:01.639 To highlight that man is the last and the greatest of all of God's creation. 00:11:02.220 --> 00:11:03.280 And that's probably true. 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:06.579 But I see another purpose here at the same time. 00:11:08.299 --> 00:11:21.919 Wouldn't it be humbling to open your eyes and become conscious in a beautiful world full of life that you know very well you had nothing to do with the making of it? 00:11:24.059 --> 00:11:25.240 Wouldn't it be humbling? 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:29.720 Imagine this. 00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:31.500 It's not a perfect analogy. 00:11:32.060 --> 00:11:34.800 But it might get us started down that track. 00:11:35.340 --> 00:11:37.000 Imagine that tonight you go to sleep. 00:11:37.420 --> 00:11:38.220 You close your eyes. 00:11:38.840 --> 00:11:40.440 And tomorrow morning you wake up. 00:11:40.800 --> 00:11:42.040 And open your eyes. 00:11:42.660 --> 00:11:43.700 And you look around. 00:11:44.440 --> 00:11:46.540 And you're in a brand new house. 00:11:46.539 --> 00:11:50.579 And the house that you're in is beautiful. 00:11:51.219 --> 00:11:53.980 It makes the house that you currently live in look like a shack. 00:11:54.860 --> 00:11:56.279 It's like your dream house. 00:11:56.399 --> 00:12:01.980 It has everything you ever wanted and even things you didn't really know that you wanted in it. 00:12:01.980 --> 00:12:02.980 Can you imagine? 00:12:02.980 --> 00:12:07.820 Perfectly furnished and suited to your own tastes and needs? 00:12:07.820 --> 00:12:12.660 Almost like the person who built it knew you inside and out. 00:12:13.379 --> 00:12:16.200 The pantries stocked with all kinds of foods. 00:12:16.700 --> 00:12:19.440 Many of which you didn't even know that you would love. 00:12:20.040 --> 00:12:21.360 Until you tried them. 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:27.640 Can you imagine just opening your eyes one morning and waking up to that? 00:12:27.639 --> 00:12:31.460 To a home that you didn't build or buy. 00:12:32.460 --> 00:12:35.720 And was just there from the moment you woke up. 00:12:37.139 --> 00:12:42.220 Maybe we're now catching something of what Adam felt in his first few hours of life. 00:12:43.179 --> 00:12:44.220 Where am I? 00:12:44.960 --> 00:12:46.259 What is all this? 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:48.620 Where did this come from? 00:12:51.879 --> 00:12:52.899 How humbling. 00:12:53.620 --> 00:12:57.279 To wake up for the first time ever. 00:12:57.639 --> 00:12:58.600 In a home. 00:12:58.939 --> 00:13:01.679 A world that you didn't even know where it came from. 00:13:02.319 --> 00:13:04.340 Because all the work of building it. 00:13:05.080 --> 00:13:07.460 Making it ready for you to live in was done. 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:09.779 Even before you took your first breath. 00:13:10.860 --> 00:13:12.340 And oh the wonder of it. 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:15.699 As you look around at all the beautiful things. 00:13:15.819 --> 00:13:20.740 As you sink your teeth into that first juicy bite of fruit. 00:13:21.860 --> 00:13:25.659 As you gaze up at those mysterious lights in the night sky. 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:27.159 And wonder. 00:13:27.639 --> 00:13:28.919 What are those? 00:13:29.879 --> 00:13:31.080 How did they get there? 00:13:32.699 --> 00:13:34.080 Perhaps God did it that way. 00:13:34.220 --> 00:13:37.319 Not just to highlight that we're the greatest of all creation. 00:13:38.419 --> 00:13:41.799 Perhaps he did it that way also to remind us that we too are creatures. 00:13:43.419 --> 00:13:44.319 And that we can. 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:48.240 We can't even take an ounce of credit for the world that we live in. 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:50.460 For everything else that he made. 00:13:50.460 --> 00:13:52.340 Let's keep reading. 00:13:52.980 --> 00:13:54.160 Starting in verse 20. 00:13:54.840 --> 00:13:55.840 And God said. 00:13:55.840 --> 00:13:58.540 Let the water team with living creatures. 00:13:59.220 --> 00:14:01.120 And let birds fly above the earth. 00:14:01.280 --> 00:14:02.840 Across the vault of the sky. 00:14:03.560 --> 00:14:06.100 So God created the great creatures of the sea. 00:14:06.620 --> 00:14:09.160 And every living thing with which the water teams. 00:14:09.259 --> 00:14:10.440 And that moves about in it. 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:11.720 According to their kinds. 00:14:12.280 --> 00:14:14.540 And every winged bird according to its kind. 00:14:14.539 --> 00:14:16.879 And God saw that it was good. 00:14:17.819 --> 00:14:19.219 God blessed them and said. 00:14:19.719 --> 00:14:20.259 Be fruitful. 00:14:20.980 --> 00:14:22.000 And increase in number. 00:14:22.699 --> 00:14:24.779 And fill the water in the seas. 00:14:25.299 --> 00:14:26.939 And let the birds increase on the earth. 00:14:27.659 --> 00:14:29.399 And there was evening and there was morning. 00:14:29.959 --> 00:14:30.799 The fifth day. 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:32.699 And God said. 00:14:33.419 --> 00:14:36.459 Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds. 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:37.740 The livestock. 00:14:38.559 --> 00:14:40.099 The creatures that move along the ground. 00:14:40.439 --> 00:14:41.740 And the wild animals. 00:14:41.939 --> 00:14:43.259 Each according to its kind. 00:14:44.099 --> 00:14:44.859 And it was so. 00:14:45.699 --> 00:14:48.019 God made the wild animals according to their kinds. 00:14:48.139 --> 00:14:49.759 The livestock according to their kinds. 00:14:49.839 --> 00:14:52.699 And all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. 00:14:53.219 --> 00:14:54.679 And God saw that it was good. 00:14:56.059 --> 00:14:57.379 Then God said. 00:14:57.979 --> 00:15:00.500 Let us make man in our image. 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:02.719 In our likeness. 00:15:03.319 --> 00:15:05.099 So that they may rule over the fish in the sea. 00:15:05.199 --> 00:15:06.240 And the birds in the sky. 00:15:06.719 --> 00:15:07.759 Over the livestock. 00:15:08.019 --> 00:15:09.059 And all the wild animals. 00:15:09.199 --> 00:15:11.099 And over all the creatures that move along the ground. 00:15:12.099 --> 00:15:13.819 So God created man. 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:15.139 In his own image. 00:15:15.859 --> 00:15:16.959 In the image of God. 00:15:17.059 --> 00:15:18.379 He created them. 00:15:18.740 --> 00:15:20.299 Male and female. 00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:21.379 He created them. 00:15:22.259 --> 00:15:23.779 God blessed them and said to them. 00:15:24.459 --> 00:15:25.219 Be fruitful. 00:15:25.740 --> 00:15:26.799 And increase in number. 00:15:27.479 --> 00:15:28.879 Fill the earth and subdue it. 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:31.220 Rule over the fish in the sea. 00:15:31.399 --> 00:15:32.639 And the birds in the sky. 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:34.879 And over every living creature that moves on the ground. 00:15:36.220 --> 00:15:37.220 Then God said. 00:15:38.100 --> 00:15:41.439 I give you every seed bearing plant on the face of the whole earth. 00:15:41.860 --> 00:15:44.860 And every tree that has fruit with seed in it. 00:15:45.659 --> 00:15:47.460 They will be yours for food. 00:15:48.220 --> 00:15:49.820 And to all the beasts of the earth. 00:15:49.879 --> 00:15:51.120 And all the birds in the sky. 00:15:51.200 --> 00:15:52.879 And all the creatures that move along the ground. 00:15:52.879 --> 00:15:55.019 Everything that has the breath of life in it. 00:15:55.100 --> 00:15:57.019 I give every green plant for food. 00:15:57.939 --> 00:15:58.600 And it was so. 00:15:59.600 --> 00:16:01.620 God saw all that he had made. 00:16:02.179 --> 00:16:03.620 And it was very good. 00:16:04.259 --> 00:16:05.179 And there was evening. 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:06.899 And there was morning. 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:07.639 The sixth day. 00:16:07.799 --> 00:16:09.240 Thus the heavens and the earth. 00:16:09.500 --> 00:16:10.439 Were completed. 00:16:11.179 --> 00:16:12.919 In all their vast array. 00:16:14.820 --> 00:16:15.299 Wow. 00:16:16.159 --> 00:16:18.019 The first four days of creation. 00:16:18.340 --> 00:16:20.960 Are focused on the big picture of the heavens and the earth. 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:23.300 The last two days. 00:16:23.420 --> 00:16:25.620 Are all about the creation of all the living creatures. 00:16:25.900 --> 00:16:27.400 That God filled the earth with. 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:30.360 Plants had already been made on the third day. 00:16:30.460 --> 00:16:32.100 And depending on how you read Genesis 2. 00:16:33.379 --> 00:16:35.200 Their seeds were in the ground at least. 00:16:36.340 --> 00:16:38.560 And plants in and of themselves are amazing. 00:16:39.300 --> 00:16:40.280 How they grow. 00:16:41.160 --> 00:16:42.700 How they photosynthesize. 00:16:43.200 --> 00:16:44.000 How they reproduce. 00:16:45.139 --> 00:16:47.700 The almost endless variety of plants. 00:16:48.540 --> 00:16:49.480 All different kinds. 00:16:49.480 --> 00:16:51.879 But plants are nothing. 00:16:52.039 --> 00:16:53.800 Compared to the living creatures. 00:16:54.259 --> 00:16:55.240 That God made. 00:16:55.340 --> 00:16:56.399 And filled the earth with. 00:16:57.620 --> 00:16:58.639 On day five. 00:16:59.379 --> 00:17:00.800 He made the flying creatures. 00:17:00.899 --> 00:17:01.700 And the sea creatures. 00:17:02.259 --> 00:17:03.720 According to their various kinds. 00:17:04.779 --> 00:17:06.039 On day six. 00:17:06.140 --> 00:17:07.400 He made all the other creatures. 00:17:08.440 --> 00:17:09.620 And we hear again and again. 00:17:09.759 --> 00:17:10.740 According to their kinds. 00:17:10.839 --> 00:17:11.980 According to their kinds. 00:17:13.519 --> 00:17:14.480 Probably this means. 00:17:14.480 --> 00:17:15.420 That God didn't create. 00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:16.660 Every single species. 00:17:16.660 --> 00:17:17.800 That we see today. 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:19.800 All at the beginning. 00:17:20.480 --> 00:17:21.840 Every variety of bird. 00:17:21.980 --> 00:17:23.759 Every variety of snake. 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:26.300 Probably it means. 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:27.060 That God created. 00:17:27.380 --> 00:17:28.380 Every different kind. 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:29.440 Or every family. 00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:31.000 And. 00:17:32.100 --> 00:17:33.100 Almost like a. 00:17:33.100 --> 00:17:33.900 Like a seed. 00:17:34.340 --> 00:17:34.580 Later. 00:17:35.060 --> 00:17:36.000 That kind. 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:37.320 That family would unfold. 00:17:37.319 --> 00:17:38.559 And we would see. 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:40.319 The diversification of species. 00:17:40.980 --> 00:17:41.480 From. 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:42.539 Those particular. 00:17:43.079 --> 00:17:43.480 Animals. 00:17:45.299 --> 00:17:47.159 It's part of his creative power. 00:17:47.460 --> 00:17:48.019 And genius. 00:17:49.139 --> 00:17:50.559 He intended all along. 00:17:50.879 --> 00:17:51.039 That. 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:52.159 That's how it would go. 00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:52.480 That. 00:17:53.159 --> 00:17:54.179 As they spread. 00:17:54.319 --> 00:17:54.779 And filled. 00:17:55.179 --> 00:17:55.599 The earth. 00:17:56.139 --> 00:17:57.099 There would be this. 00:17:57.359 --> 00:17:58.579 Kaleidoscope of diversity. 00:18:00.859 --> 00:18:01.339 Beautiful. 00:18:01.639 --> 00:18:02.419 For all to see. 00:18:03.740 --> 00:18:04.220 I mean. 00:18:04.220 --> 00:18:05.140 Just think for a moment. 00:18:05.140 --> 00:18:05.620 Of the. 00:18:06.620 --> 00:18:07.720 The different varieties. 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:08.079 Of. 00:18:08.900 --> 00:18:09.420 Creatures. 00:18:10.360 --> 00:18:11.200 On this earth. 00:18:12.319 --> 00:18:13.380 You've got eagles. 00:18:14.500 --> 00:18:15.940 And you've got ostriches. 00:18:16.799 --> 00:18:17.539 You've got. 00:18:17.860 --> 00:18:18.299 Parrots. 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:20.279 And hummingbirds. 00:18:21.559 --> 00:18:22.120 Dolphins. 00:18:22.779 --> 00:18:23.759 And jellyfish. 00:18:25.059 --> 00:18:25.579 Crocodiles. 00:18:26.539 --> 00:18:27.400 And octopus. 00:18:29.400 --> 00:18:30.039 Earthworms. 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:32.120 And grasshoppers. 00:18:32.119 --> 00:18:33.959 Salamanders. 00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:35.459 And spiders. 00:18:36.939 --> 00:18:37.419 Horses. 00:18:38.339 --> 00:18:39.539 And kangaroos. 00:18:40.919 --> 00:18:41.399 Giraffes. 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:43.279 And snow leopards. 00:18:44.419 --> 00:18:44.819 Elephants. 00:18:45.979 --> 00:18:47.119 And hippopotamuses. 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:49.319 We could go on all day. 00:18:49.419 --> 00:18:50.759 We never get to the end of the list. 00:18:52.939 --> 00:18:54.659 And whether God has a sense of humor. 00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:57.000 Or whether he just wanted to humble. 00:18:57.519 --> 00:18:59.299 Some of the scientists of. 00:18:59.299 --> 00:18:59.980 Of. 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:01.779 Of human civilizations. 00:19:02.019 --> 00:19:02.379 To come. 00:19:02.480 --> 00:19:04.039 Or maybe he just liked to have. 00:19:04.139 --> 00:19:04.879 A lot of diversity. 00:19:05.379 --> 00:19:06.440 He also made a lot of. 00:19:06.740 --> 00:19:07.799 Creatures that have some. 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:09.059 Interesting combinations. 00:19:09.299 --> 00:19:09.799 And features. 00:19:11.799 --> 00:19:13.359 Things like flying squirrels. 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:15.680 And flying fish. 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:18.599 Birds that can't fly. 00:19:19.059 --> 00:19:20.000 Like the ostrich. 00:19:21.099 --> 00:19:22.720 Birds that can swim. 00:19:23.279 --> 00:19:23.779 And dive. 00:19:25.559 --> 00:19:27.480 Lizards that can run on top of water. 00:19:27.480 --> 00:19:31.440 Mammals that breathe like we do. 00:19:32.200 --> 00:19:33.920 And yet plumb the depths of the ocean. 00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:35.559 Like the whale. 00:19:37.500 --> 00:19:39.940 Starfish that just sit there and eat all day. 00:19:42.240 --> 00:19:42.880 Octopus. 00:19:43.640 --> 00:19:46.000 That has nine brains and three hearts. 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:48.319 And can camouflage itself. 00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:52.299 Fireflies that glow in the dark. 00:19:53.500 --> 00:19:54.879 Crawling caterpillars. 00:19:55.939 --> 00:19:58.759 That disassemble themselves into a chemical soup. 00:19:59.480 --> 00:20:01.339 And then reassemble themselves into a. 00:20:01.619 --> 00:20:03.500 Pretty much totally different kind of thing. 00:20:04.039 --> 00:20:05.539 With all different systems. 00:20:05.960 --> 00:20:07.099 They eat different things. 00:20:07.259 --> 00:20:07.839 They fly. 00:20:08.879 --> 00:20:10.819 They have different navigation mechanisms. 00:20:10.819 --> 00:20:14.859 How about the platypus. 00:20:16.179 --> 00:20:17.259 A duck billed. 00:20:17.339 --> 00:20:18.439 Beaver tailed. 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:19.480 Otter footed. 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:20.659 Egg laying. 00:20:21.220 --> 00:20:21.779 Venomous. 00:20:22.099 --> 00:20:22.519 Mammal. 00:20:22.980 --> 00:20:24.319 With stingers on the heels. 00:20:24.639 --> 00:20:25.480 Of its hind feet. 00:20:26.859 --> 00:20:28.299 Or how about the peacock. 00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:30.659 One of the funniest looking birds on earth. 00:20:30.720 --> 00:20:31.619 At least in my opinion. 00:20:32.460 --> 00:20:34.299 It's got this huge fan of colorful. 00:20:34.480 --> 00:20:35.359 Iridescent feathers. 00:20:36.099 --> 00:20:37.179 That's big enough. 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:38.179 And colorful enough. 00:20:38.519 --> 00:20:40.399 To scare almost all the predators away. 00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:43.519 It can hardly fly. 00:20:44.040 --> 00:20:46.100 But it can run up to 10 miles an hour apparently. 00:20:46.759 --> 00:20:48.660 Even with that huge fan on its back. 00:20:50.800 --> 00:20:52.700 God created the living creatures. 00:20:53.220 --> 00:20:56.160 With such amazing potential for diversity. 00:20:56.880 --> 00:20:57.540 And variety. 00:20:57.700 --> 00:20:58.340 That even today. 00:20:58.460 --> 00:21:00.040 We still haven't managed to discover. 00:21:00.280 --> 00:21:01.460 All the different species. 00:21:02.480 --> 00:21:03.519 According to one source. 00:21:03.660 --> 00:21:06.100 There were 213 new species. 00:21:06.220 --> 00:21:07.400 Discovered just last year. 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:08.460 In 2020. 00:21:08.460 --> 00:21:10.799 According to UNESCO. 00:21:11.500 --> 00:21:14.120 There are about 150 new marine species. 00:21:14.120 --> 00:21:15.220 Discovered each year. 00:21:15.420 --> 00:21:16.740 And that number is going up. 00:21:17.660 --> 00:21:19.180 Also according to UNESCO. 00:21:19.579 --> 00:21:20.980 There's currently a backlog. 00:21:21.200 --> 00:21:23.079 With samples that have been collected. 00:21:23.079 --> 00:21:25.759 Of up to 65,000 unknown species. 00:21:25.759 --> 00:21:27.660 That have not yet even been documented. 00:21:27.660 --> 00:21:28.240 Or described. 00:21:29.519 --> 00:21:31.640 They estimate that they've only identified. 00:21:31.640 --> 00:21:35.759 And described 226,000 marine species. 00:21:35.759 --> 00:21:38.440 Out of maybe 700,000. 00:21:40.180 --> 00:21:41.300 It's amazing. 00:21:42.340 --> 00:21:44.980 It all points to the creative power. 00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:46.920 And genius of God. 00:21:47.800 --> 00:21:49.160 Who made the heavens. 00:21:49.340 --> 00:21:50.040 And the earth. 00:21:51.040 --> 00:21:53.120 And filled the earth. 00:21:53.340 --> 00:21:54.320 With all of this. 00:21:54.319 --> 00:21:56.960 And then there's you. 00:21:57.319 --> 00:21:57.879 And me. 00:21:59.079 --> 00:22:00.039 Human beings. 00:22:01.339 --> 00:22:03.399 Different from every other creature. 00:22:03.619 --> 00:22:04.319 On the planet. 00:22:06.779 --> 00:22:08.159 And we're still marveling. 00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:09.079 At how one of us. 00:22:09.200 --> 00:22:09.899 Can come to be. 00:22:10.059 --> 00:22:11.079 From seemingly nothing. 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:12.480 In only nine months. 00:22:13.480 --> 00:22:14.599 In our mother's womb. 00:22:16.200 --> 00:22:18.240 And yet God made the first one of us. 00:22:18.319 --> 00:22:19.240 In less than a day. 00:22:19.240 --> 00:22:22.700 Our bodies. 00:22:23.160 --> 00:22:24.599 Everything going on inside of us. 00:22:24.680 --> 00:22:25.579 Is so complex. 00:22:27.019 --> 00:22:28.680 Generation after generation. 00:22:28.680 --> 00:22:29.420 Of doctors. 00:22:29.620 --> 00:22:30.120 Researchers. 00:22:30.359 --> 00:22:31.079 And scientists. 00:22:31.480 --> 00:22:32.700 Are still discovering. 00:22:32.700 --> 00:22:34.279 New and amazing things. 00:22:34.779 --> 00:22:36.400 About how we work. 00:22:36.599 --> 00:22:37.299 All the time. 00:22:38.299 --> 00:22:40.099 And that's just the physical part of us. 00:22:41.339 --> 00:22:43.700 We all know that we are more than our bodies. 00:22:44.700 --> 00:22:46.980 There's an immaterial part to us as well. 00:22:47.799 --> 00:22:48.640 We have a spirit. 00:22:49.240 --> 00:22:50.579 We have a soul. 00:22:51.319 --> 00:22:52.700 We have consciousness. 00:22:53.319 --> 00:22:54.099 And awareness. 00:22:55.019 --> 00:22:55.920 And emotion. 00:22:56.660 --> 00:22:57.599 And memory. 00:22:59.099 --> 00:23:00.180 Ask a doctor. 00:23:00.339 --> 00:23:00.960 Or a scientist. 00:23:01.140 --> 00:23:02.240 Where that part of you. 00:23:02.500 --> 00:23:03.579 Lives in your body. 00:23:05.640 --> 00:23:07.839 They probably can't give you a good answer. 00:23:10.359 --> 00:23:11.900 King David might have lived. 00:23:12.120 --> 00:23:13.599 Almost three thousand years ago. 00:23:13.680 --> 00:23:14.859 But he hit the nail on the head. 00:23:15.319 --> 00:23:16.000 When he said. 00:23:16.099 --> 00:23:16.839 I praise you. 00:23:17.140 --> 00:23:17.420 Lord. 00:23:17.420 --> 00:23:17.500 Lord. 00:23:18.140 --> 00:23:19.440 Because I am fearfully. 00:23:19.440 --> 00:23:20.600 And wonderfully made. 00:23:21.640 --> 00:23:23.220 Your works are wonderful. 00:23:23.580 --> 00:23:24.000 He said. 00:23:24.700 --> 00:23:26.100 I know that full well. 00:23:28.519 --> 00:23:29.960 We don't even have time this morning. 00:23:30.039 --> 00:23:31.140 To talk about the stars. 00:23:31.580 --> 00:23:32.720 About the galaxies. 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:33.460 About the. 00:23:33.880 --> 00:23:35.539 Super clusters of galaxies. 00:23:35.539 --> 00:23:36.840 In the heavens above. 00:23:36.839 --> 00:23:38.639 Again. 00:23:38.639 --> 00:23:38.679 David. 00:23:38.679 --> 00:23:39.000 David. 00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:40.240 David. 00:23:40.359 --> 00:23:42.039 Who lived three thousand years ago. 00:23:42.119 --> 00:23:43.000 Hit the nail on the head. 00:23:43.059 --> 00:23:43.539 When he said. 00:23:44.299 --> 00:23:44.740 Oh Lord. 00:23:44.819 --> 00:23:45.279 Our Lord. 00:23:45.379 --> 00:23:46.119 How majestic. 00:23:46.119 --> 00:23:47.119 Is your name. 00:23:47.179 --> 00:23:48.000 In all the earth. 00:23:48.079 --> 00:23:49.359 You set your glory. 00:23:49.559 --> 00:23:50.699 In the heavens. 00:23:52.059 --> 00:23:54.039 The heavens declare your glory. 00:23:54.139 --> 00:23:56.519 The skies proclaim the work of your hands. 00:23:56.519 --> 00:23:59.579 And when I consider your heavens. 00:23:59.579 --> 00:24:02.240 The work of your hands. 00:24:02.500 --> 00:24:03.400 The moon. 00:24:04.119 --> 00:24:04.819 And the stars. 00:24:05.480 --> 00:24:06.779 That you have set in place. 00:24:07.779 --> 00:24:08.480 What is man. 00:24:09.099 --> 00:24:10.660 That you are mindful of him. 00:24:11.700 --> 00:24:13.599 The son of man that you care. 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:14.420 For him. 00:24:17.019 --> 00:24:17.940 God's power. 00:24:18.599 --> 00:24:19.359 God's beauty. 00:24:19.859 --> 00:24:20.759 God's creativity. 00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:21.920 God's wisdom. 00:24:22.119 --> 00:24:22.859 God's intelligence. 00:24:22.859 --> 00:24:26.740 God's foresight is written all over everything around us. 00:24:27.559 --> 00:24:28.119 Above. 00:24:28.659 --> 00:24:29.159 And below. 00:24:30.699 --> 00:24:32.019 And what floors me. 00:24:32.639 --> 00:24:34.179 And humbles me right to the ground. 00:24:35.039 --> 00:24:36.519 Is that he made everything. 00:24:36.619 --> 00:24:37.039 It says. 00:24:37.379 --> 00:24:38.399 Simply by speaking. 00:24:39.199 --> 00:24:40.259 It into existence. 00:24:41.379 --> 00:24:43.159 Do you hear that in Genesis 1? 00:24:44.079 --> 00:24:45.379 And God said. 00:24:45.759 --> 00:24:46.559 Let there be. 00:24:47.759 --> 00:24:48.799 And it was. 00:24:49.919 --> 00:24:50.819 And God said. 00:24:50.879 --> 00:24:51.599 Let there be. 00:24:51.599 --> 00:24:53.679 And it was so. 00:24:55.459 --> 00:24:56.480 And it was so. 00:24:56.879 --> 00:24:57.599 And it was so. 00:24:59.119 --> 00:25:00.079 That's astonishing. 00:25:01.759 --> 00:25:03.500 I can't do anything like that. 00:25:05.139 --> 00:25:06.119 I can dream. 00:25:06.759 --> 00:25:07.539 I can plan. 00:25:07.679 --> 00:25:08.699 I can envision something. 00:25:08.859 --> 00:25:09.839 I can go out and collect. 00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:10.439 And gather. 00:25:10.619 --> 00:25:11.980 And buy what already exists. 00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:14.339 And then build and assemble it into something. 00:25:14.939 --> 00:25:16.980 But God has the ability. 00:25:17.179 --> 00:25:19.339 The power to create with his words. 00:25:20.139 --> 00:25:20.959 From nothing. 00:25:21.599 --> 00:25:23.819 To command things into existence. 00:25:24.819 --> 00:25:25.740 Out of nothing. 00:25:26.619 --> 00:25:28.240 And he did all this. 00:25:28.959 --> 00:25:31.480 Before the first man even took his first breath. 00:25:31.480 --> 00:25:36.440 This is why when it comes to the origin of our world. 00:25:36.579 --> 00:25:38.799 We can only get so far by observation. 00:25:39.839 --> 00:25:41.240 By inference. 00:25:41.640 --> 00:25:42.120 Hypotheses. 00:25:42.220 --> 00:25:43.140 By science. 00:25:43.279 --> 00:25:43.880 By deduction. 00:25:45.700 --> 00:25:47.180 As the author of Hebrews said. 00:25:47.660 --> 00:25:48.779 Hebrews 11 verse 3. 00:25:49.779 --> 00:25:50.660 It's by faith. 00:25:51.019 --> 00:25:51.700 We understand. 00:25:52.559 --> 00:25:54.819 That the universe was formed at God's command. 00:25:55.620 --> 00:25:56.660 So that what is seen. 00:25:56.860 --> 00:25:57.819 Was not made. 00:25:57.819 --> 00:25:59.180 Out of what was visible. 00:25:59.180 --> 00:26:01.580 It's something we understand. 00:26:01.580 --> 00:26:02.560 By faith. 00:26:03.019 --> 00:26:05.140 Because the only way to understand it. 00:26:05.220 --> 00:26:06.160 And know the truth of it. 00:26:06.240 --> 00:26:06.840 Is to believe. 00:26:07.320 --> 00:26:09.779 The historical count of the one who actually did it. 00:26:10.320 --> 00:26:11.460 And tells us how. 00:26:11.779 --> 00:26:12.200 He did it. 00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:15.400 He says. 00:26:15.460 --> 00:26:15.920 By faith. 00:26:16.019 --> 00:26:17.279 We understand that the universe. 00:26:17.519 --> 00:26:19.019 Was formed at God's command. 00:26:19.900 --> 00:26:20.340 Again. 00:26:20.339 --> 00:26:22.819 Emphasizing the supreme power. 00:26:23.319 --> 00:26:24.279 Of our God. 00:26:25.159 --> 00:26:27.419 Making all the things that we see around us. 00:26:27.480 --> 00:26:28.259 In all their glory. 00:26:28.359 --> 00:26:29.059 In all their beauty. 00:26:30.059 --> 00:26:31.179 Simply by speaking. 00:26:31.679 --> 00:26:33.099 When there was nothing at all. 00:26:33.359 --> 00:26:33.639 Before. 00:26:34.119 --> 00:26:35.119 We have a glorious. 00:26:35.859 --> 00:26:36.419 Majestic. 00:26:36.980 --> 00:26:38.059 And powerful God. 00:26:38.319 --> 00:26:39.720 And all the world around us. 00:26:40.179 --> 00:26:40.659 Testifies. 00:26:41.159 --> 00:26:41.919 To his power. 00:26:42.619 --> 00:26:43.319 And his goodness. 00:26:43.319 --> 00:26:47.480 So what should our response be? 00:26:49.019 --> 00:26:49.859 Well as I've. 00:26:50.019 --> 00:26:50.619 Already said. 00:26:50.700 --> 00:26:51.779 It should humble us deeply. 00:26:52.279 --> 00:26:52.939 Before God. 00:26:54.399 --> 00:26:55.519 He is the creator. 00:26:56.619 --> 00:26:58.039 And we are but a creation. 00:26:58.559 --> 00:26:59.039 Of his. 00:27:00.839 --> 00:27:01.839 As David said. 00:27:01.980 --> 00:27:02.759 What is man. 00:27:03.099 --> 00:27:04.359 That you are mindful of him. 00:27:05.179 --> 00:27:05.819 That you. 00:27:06.019 --> 00:27:07.139 That you care about him. 00:27:07.839 --> 00:27:08.579 Who am I. 00:27:08.639 --> 00:27:09.740 That you even think of me. 00:27:09.980 --> 00:27:10.259 God. 00:27:11.519 --> 00:27:12.720 And yet he does care. 00:27:12.720 --> 00:27:13.799 Very much about. 00:27:13.980 --> 00:27:14.680 Each one of us. 00:27:14.900 --> 00:27:15.680 He loves us. 00:27:16.680 --> 00:27:17.480 That's why he. 00:27:17.880 --> 00:27:19.680 Graciously chose to reveal himself. 00:27:19.839 --> 00:27:20.720 Time and time again. 00:27:20.839 --> 00:27:22.039 That's why he sent his son. 00:27:25.059 --> 00:27:25.539 Jesus. 00:27:26.440 --> 00:27:27.480 The God man. 00:27:28.319 --> 00:27:29.539 To show us the way. 00:27:29.640 --> 00:27:30.319 To be the way. 00:27:31.559 --> 00:27:33.200 So it should humble us deeply. 00:27:33.860 --> 00:27:34.539 Before God. 00:27:34.620 --> 00:27:35.980 To consider what he has done. 00:27:36.039 --> 00:27:37.039 In creating everything. 00:27:38.539 --> 00:27:39.380 Including us. 00:27:40.559 --> 00:27:41.539 But beyond that. 00:27:41.539 --> 00:27:42.539 It should stir our hearts. 00:27:42.539 --> 00:27:43.539 To worship him. 00:27:45.420 --> 00:27:46.339 And that word. 00:27:46.500 --> 00:27:46.799 Worship. 00:27:47.639 --> 00:27:48.960 It's a serious word. 00:27:50.259 --> 00:27:51.819 It speaks of acknowledging. 00:27:51.819 --> 00:27:53.180 The supreme worth. 00:27:53.180 --> 00:27:53.960 Of someone. 00:27:54.619 --> 00:27:55.339 Or something. 00:27:56.920 --> 00:27:57.799 And in truth. 00:27:57.940 --> 00:27:58.799 There is only one. 00:27:59.379 --> 00:28:00.299 Who is really. 00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:01.180 Worthy. 00:28:01.180 --> 00:28:01.940 Of our worship. 00:28:02.619 --> 00:28:04.019 And not because our worship. 00:28:04.180 --> 00:28:04.779 Is worth a lot. 00:28:04.899 --> 00:28:05.339 But because. 00:28:05.700 --> 00:28:06.659 He is that. 00:28:07.279 --> 00:28:07.599 Worthy. 00:28:07.680 --> 00:28:08.579 He is that amazing. 00:28:10.099 --> 00:28:11.319 To not give him credit. 00:28:11.319 --> 00:28:12.279 For all that he's done. 00:28:13.240 --> 00:28:13.980 Is wrong. 00:28:17.579 --> 00:28:18.319 The response. 00:28:18.419 --> 00:28:19.059 That we should have. 00:28:19.119 --> 00:28:19.439 To God. 00:28:19.480 --> 00:28:20.480 And his marvelous work. 00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:21.059 Of creation. 00:28:21.740 --> 00:28:22.839 Is to pour our hearts. 00:28:22.839 --> 00:28:23.480 Out in worship. 00:28:23.659 --> 00:28:25.039 Not just on Sunday mornings. 00:28:25.119 --> 00:28:26.019 But every day. 00:28:28.159 --> 00:28:29.500 Not just some lifeless. 00:28:29.700 --> 00:28:30.539 Lip service. 00:28:31.200 --> 00:28:31.960 Kind of worship. 00:28:31.960 --> 00:28:32.900 But some passionate. 00:28:32.900 --> 00:28:33.700 From the heart. 00:28:33.819 --> 00:28:34.539 Kind of worship. 00:28:34.539 --> 00:28:35.559 As we take in. 00:28:35.620 --> 00:28:36.019 And see. 00:28:37.019 --> 00:28:38.180 All that he has made. 00:28:38.579 --> 00:28:39.579 And all that he has done. 00:28:40.799 --> 00:28:41.799 The kind of worship. 00:28:41.799 --> 00:28:42.200 That. 00:28:42.620 --> 00:28:43.600 He calls us to. 00:28:44.200 --> 00:28:45.420 Is the kind that we see. 00:28:45.500 --> 00:28:46.140 In the psalms. 00:28:46.600 --> 00:28:47.259 I'm just going to. 00:28:47.840 --> 00:28:48.860 Read a psalm in closing. 00:28:50.299 --> 00:28:50.740 Psalm. 00:28:51.519 --> 00:28:52.079 148. 00:28:52.079 --> 00:28:57.960 Praise the Lord. 00:28:58.960 --> 00:28:59.899 Praise the Lord. 00:28:59.899 --> 00:29:00.659 Praise the Lord from the heavens. 00:29:01.460 --> 00:29:02.759 Praise him in the heights above. 00:29:03.720 --> 00:29:04.240 Praise him. 00:29:04.339 --> 00:29:05.119 All his angels. 00:29:05.939 --> 00:29:06.359 Praise him. 00:29:06.460 --> 00:29:07.819 All his heavenly hosts. 00:29:08.500 --> 00:29:08.899 Praise him. 00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:10.259 Sun and moon. 00:29:11.259 --> 00:29:11.619 Praise him. 00:29:11.659 --> 00:29:12.899 All you shining stars. 00:29:13.899 --> 00:29:14.279 Praise him. 00:29:14.339 --> 00:29:15.259 You highest heavens. 00:29:15.259 --> 00:29:17.139 And you waters above the skies. 00:29:17.720 --> 00:29:19.500 Let them praise the name. 00:29:19.500 --> 00:29:20.480 Of the Lord. 00:29:20.619 --> 00:29:21.819 For at his command. 00:29:21.960 --> 00:29:22.880 They were created. 00:29:24.160 --> 00:29:25.539 Praise the Lord from the earth. 00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:27.180 You great sea creatures. 00:29:27.359 --> 00:29:28.359 And all ocean depths. 00:29:29.319 --> 00:29:30.200 Lightning and hail. 00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:31.799 Snow and clouds. 00:29:32.460 --> 00:29:34.079 Stormy winds that do his bidding. 00:29:34.740 --> 00:29:35.299 You mountains. 00:29:35.519 --> 00:29:36.240 And all hills. 00:29:36.799 --> 00:29:37.420 Fruit trees. 00:29:37.539 --> 00:29:38.400 And all cedars. 00:29:39.079 --> 00:29:39.859 Wild animals. 00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:41.000 And all cattle. 00:29:41.160 --> 00:29:41.960 Small creatures. 00:29:42.359 --> 00:29:43.279 And flying birds. 00:29:44.059 --> 00:29:44.839 Kings of the earth. 00:29:44.880 --> 00:29:45.539 And all nations. 00:29:45.740 --> 00:29:46.779 You princes. 00:29:46.779 --> 00:29:48.220 And all rulers on earth. 00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:49.480 Young men. 00:29:49.500 --> 00:29:49.940 And women. 00:29:50.700 --> 00:29:51.380 Old men. 00:29:51.619 --> 00:29:52.140 And children. 00:29:52.259 --> 00:29:53.980 Let them praise the name of the Lord. 00:29:54.099 --> 00:29:56.359 For his name alone is exalted. 00:29:56.980 --> 00:29:58.460 His splendor is above. 00:29:59.099 --> 00:29:59.619 The earth. 00:30:00.200 --> 00:30:00.880 And the heavens. 00:30:02.500 --> 00:30:02.900 Amen. 00:30:03.539 --> 00:30:04.579 Praise the Lord indeed. 00:30:05.920 --> 00:30:06.839 Father in heaven. 00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:09.720 We thank you that you have given us. 00:30:10.319 --> 00:30:11.299 The true story. 00:30:11.500 --> 00:30:12.559 Of how our world began. 00:30:13.240 --> 00:30:14.400 And we believe it. 00:30:16.460 --> 00:30:17.440 We're in awe. 00:30:17.880 --> 00:30:18.900 At what you have done. 00:30:18.900 --> 00:30:21.660 We're amazed. 00:30:21.660 --> 00:30:23.740 When we look at the things in this world. 00:30:24.560 --> 00:30:26.240 That are so far beyond. 00:30:26.380 --> 00:30:27.640 What we could ever create. 00:30:28.300 --> 00:30:28.740 Design. 00:30:29.080 --> 00:30:29.400 Build. 00:30:31.000 --> 00:30:32.200 And we see the beauty. 00:30:32.200 --> 00:30:33.960 That you have put into our world as well. 00:30:35.220 --> 00:30:36.500 It gets to our hearts. 00:30:37.500 --> 00:30:39.440 We know that we were made for you. 00:30:39.960 --> 00:30:40.840 To know you. 00:30:41.380 --> 00:30:42.780 To have relationship with you. 00:30:42.779 --> 00:30:45.599 And so we joyfully give ourselves to that. 00:30:46.500 --> 00:30:48.139 You are worthy of our worship. 00:30:49.639 --> 00:30:50.619 And we love you. 00:30:51.259 --> 00:30:52.099 In Jesus name. 00:30:52.099 --> 00:30:53.299 Amen.