I remember it clearly.
The year was 1984.
I was in ninth grade.
And part of the church that I had been going to for the last six or seven years that my family went to.
When you get to ninth grade, it was confirmation year.
And so that's what we did in Sunday school.
And in that spring, we went on a confirmation retreat.
And on Saturday afternoon, our assignment was to sit around the table and to write a statement of faith.
For the elders to approve so that we might become confirmed as members of the church.
Now, I will tell you that in my family, going to church was important.
But believing in Jesus was not particularly.
And so I remember looking at the youth pastor at that moment and saying,
Well, what are we supposed to write?
At that moment, for me, it was simply a test that I wanted to know the right answers to regurgitate.
And not actually a real statement of faith.
This is not an indictment on the process of churches that may have confirmation.
I think it can be done well.
It was not done well in my case and this church.
But at the same time, on the same retreat, that evening, I walked out of the retreat center
and looked up in the clear western Pennsylvania sky on a crisp spring night
and saw the amazing array of the stars in the sky.
And I wondered, could it be true?
Is there really a God out there after all?
Maybe you've had experiences like that.
I can think of other places that have evoked in me a similar response.
We're sitting by Lake Bierstadt, looking up at the snow-capped peaks of the Rocky Mountains
in Rocky Mountain National Park on a beautiful July day.
We're sitting on the beach in Kauai at sunset, watching the sun, the golden ball,
slowly lower itself into the ocean, surrounded by this beautiful array of purples and yellows
and oranges and reds.
I remember one time I was flying to China, looking down out of the airplane
on these incredibly craggy, snow-covered mountains
as the sun came up behind the plane and the orange glow captured
and reflected off the tops of the mountains.
Maybe that's happened to you too.
It's awe-inspiring, isn't it?
Sometimes it makes us feel very small and insignificant.
Sometimes it fills us with joy and wonder.
Sometimes it makes us afraid as we face a transcendence that we cannot understand or control.
But I think for all of us, it raises a question.
Is there something more out there?
Does God really exist?
And as we encounter these things, as we live in this amazing world that we live in,
it raises questions.
How did it come to be?
What is our place in it?
Where do we come from?
Why are we here?
And as you know, there are many competing answers to that question today in our world,
just as there was in the ancient world that the book of Genesis was written in.
But as we begin our series in Genesis this morning, in Genesis 1,
we're going to see that as the book opens,
in the midst of other voices at that time, just as today,
we see a story that reveals God and answers some of those questions.
Genesis 1 invites us in, in the midst of these competing stories,
to behold the God of the Bible and to see him at work in the creation of all things.
Now you might be thinking, why is this important?
Or why was it written when it was?
If you remember, and if you were here last week,
Pastor Greg preached a great sermon that just introduced us to the whole book.
And I'm not going to repeat what he said last week.
So, if you weren't here last week,
and you intend to stick around for a while and listen,
and even if you don't,
go to our website, trinity-baptist.org,
and go to the sermon archive,
and find Pastor Greg's sermon from last week
to answer all the questions you have about authorship and context
and the big picture of Genesis,
so that you'll get to see it.
We won't cover those things.
But as we come to this passage that attempts to answer some of these questions,
we recognize that the context in which it was written
was to the people of Israel as they were leaving Egypt and slavery
and heading to a promised land that they had not seen or tasted yet.
And you might imagine if you were an Israelite
wandering around in the wilderness of the Sinai Peninsula for 40 years,
you might be wondering,
where is this all going?
We're following a God who's not taking us anywhere.
Can we trust him?
Is he good?
Is he in control of this?
What's going on?
And it's in that context that we see this book written.
Written to tell us what happened at the very beginning.
Written to assure us that the God of the Bible is in control.
That he is sovereign.
That he is life-giving.
And that he is good.
And that brings us to Genesis 1.
So we're going to read this together.
You can turn in your Bibles.
This time, I know what page it's on.
It's on page 1.
So page 1 of your Bible is Genesis 1,
and we're going to read this together.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
The earth was without form and void,
and darkness was over the face of the deep,
and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
And God said,
Let there be light.
And there was light.
And 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,
the first day.
And God said,
Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters,
and let it separate the waters from the waters.
And God made the expanse,
and separated the waters that were under the expanse,
from the waters that were above the expanse.
And it was so.
And God called the expanse heaven,
and there was evening,
and there was morning,
the second day.
And God said,
Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place,
and let the dry land appear.
And it was so.
And God called the dry land earth,
and the waters that were gathered together he called seas.
And God saw that it was good.
And God said,
Let the earth sprout vegetation,
plants yielding seed,
and fruit trees bearing fruit,
in which is their seed,
each according to its kind,
on the earth.
And it was so.
The earth brought forth vegetation,
plants yielding seeds according to their own kinds,
and trees bearing fruit,
in which is their seed,
each according to its kind.
And God saw that it was good.
And there was evening,
and there was morning,
the third day.
And God said,
Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens,
to separate the day from the night,
and let there be for signs,
and for seasons,
and for days,
and for years.
And let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens,
to give light upon the earth.
And it was so.
And God made the two great lights,
the greater light to rule the day,
and the lesser light to rule the night,
and the stars.
God set them in the expanse of the heavens,
to give light on the earth,
to rule over the day,
and over the night,
to separate the light from the darkness.
And God saw that it was good.
And there was evening,
and there was morning,
the fourth day.
And God said,
Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures,
and let birds fly above the earth,
across the expanse of the heavens.
And so God created the great sea creatures,
and every living creature that moves,
with which the waters swarm,
according to their kinds.
And every winged bird,
according to 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.
And there was evening,
and there was morning,
the fifth day.
And God said,
Let the earth bring forth living creatures,
according to their kinds,
livestock,
and creeping things,
and beasts of the earth,
according to their kinds.
And it was so.
And God made the beasts of the earth,
according to their kinds,
and the livestock,
according to their kinds,
and everything that creeps on the ground,
according to its kind.
And God saw that it was good.
Then God said,
Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness,
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the birds of the heavens,
and over the livestock,
and over all the earth,
and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
So God created man in his own image.
In the image of God,
he created him.
Male and female,
he created them.
And God blessed them,
And God said to them,
Be fruitful,
and multiply,
and fill the earth,
and subdue it,
and have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the birds of the heavens,
and over every living thing that moves on the earth.
And God said,
Behold,
I have given you every plant yielding seed
that is on the face of all the earth,
and every tree with seed in its fruit,
you shall have them for food.
And to every beast of the earth,
and to every bird of the heavens,
and to everything that creeps on the earth,
everything that has breath of life,
I have given every green plant for food.
And it was so.
And God saw everything that he had made,
and behold,
it was very good.
And there was evening,
and there was morning,
the sixth day.
Thus,
the heavens and the earth were finished,
and all the host of them.
And on the seventh day,
God finished his work that he had done,
and he rested on the seventh day
from all his work that he had done.
So God blessed the seventh day,
and made it holy,
because on it,
God rested from all his work
that he had done in creation.
Let's pray together.
Father,
Lord,
as we come to this majestic text this morning,
Lord,
our minds are filled with
the wonder of it.
Our minds are filled with the questions
that it raises in our hearts,
in our lives.
Lord,
I pray this morning
that you would help us
this morning
to make your word clear
that we might hear it.
Lord,
I pray for your help
that I might speak it clearly.
And Lord,
that we would sit in awe and wonder
what a wonderful creator you are.
Lord,
we pray this in Jesus' name.
Amen.
So before we dive in,
I simply want to say one other thing.
As we approach this text,
we may have to ask ourselves a question,
what kind of writing is this?
You might be asking a question,
is this history?
Should I read this like a New York Times article
about an eyewitness reporter
being able to tell you
the facts of what happened
by observation?
Some of you may be asking,
is this a science textbook?
Is this telling us about the processes
and the means by which life was created
and the way that the natural world works?
Some of you may be asking a question,
is this primarily theology?
Is this to tell us about the character
and nature of God
in systematic categories?
And some of you may be asking,
well,
there seemed to be an awful lot
of repetition and structure.
This sounds like poetry to me.
Giving us a metaphorical sense
of God and creation,
but maybe that glosses over the details.
Well,
friends,
this has been a great discussion
and I could spend the rest of my morning
talking about this,
but I'm not going to.
I am going to rather say this.
This,
above all things,
is a narrative account
that has structure
and progression,
but does not always answer
the questions
that our modern world asks
in the ways that we would ask it.
It is truth.
But it is truth
within the framework
of God's revelation
in a narrative story.
Remember what I said earlier
about how this was written
so that the Israelites
would understand
where the world came from
that they were living in
and who the God was
that they were following in him.
Because, of course,
above all,
this passage is about God.
God who is mentioned
more than 30 times.
God who is the sole actor
in the entire chapter.
God who announced
what he would do,
commanded that it be done.
He who separated
and organized
the creation.
He who gave it names.
And he who saw it
and evaluated it
and called it good.
It is about God
in his work of creation.
And this is what we're going
to think about this morning
for the next few minutes.
We see three things
about God in this.
That God is a sovereign creator.
That he is a life-giving creator.
And that he is a good creator.
So let's look at each of these
in turn.
First,
God is a sovereign creator.
Look with me back
at verses 1 and 2.
In the beginning,
God,
you now know
the most important thing
about the Bible.
Before all things were,
God was.
God preexisted
all things.
and all the things
that we see
and all the things
that we know.
The heavens and the earth,
which is meant
to be descriptive
of everything,
inclusive
of the entire
created
world,
universe.
God was before
all those things.
And as God began
to engage
in this process
of creation,
he engaged in,
as verse 2 says,
a world
that was without form
and void.
I want you to think
about what that means.
There was no structure.
There was no order.
There was no way
to wrap your hand,
wrap your arms around it
and understand it
because it was without form.
And it was a void.
That is,
it was empty.
And in those things,
God
stepped in
to create something
out of a shapeless void.
And he created,
as we see,
as it goes on,
all things.
The things in the heavens
and the things on earth.
The things that the peoples
around the nation of Israel
would have worshipped.
The sun,
the moon,
the stars.
The lesser gods
that they worshipped
who said,
I'm the God of the harvest
who can bring forth plants.
I'm the God of fertility
who can help you
be fruitful and multiply.
This account says,
all of these come
from this pre-existent God.
And this pre-existent God
is not merely
one who sits back
and is distant from the God.
But we see in verse 2
as it keeps going,
that the Spirit of God
was hovering over the face
of the waters.
This is an image
that we see later
in Deuteronomy
about God's care
for his creation.
It's an image
that evokes
a picture
of a mother eagle
hovering over her nest
with her fledglings,
urging them
to arise
and to fly.
And this is what God
is doing
with his creation.
And we see
that God
has the power
to create.
The beginning
of verse 3,
and God said.
And this is one
of the most
remarkable things
about this God
revealed in this Bible
is that this God
can do whatever
he wants
simply
with the power
of his own
word.
Every day
he speaks
and God said
and it was so.
And God said
and it was so.
And God said
and it was so.
And as we read
in John 1 earlier,
all things
were made
through him
and without him
was not anything
made
that was made.
And I know
you're asking
what about
the process?
Did it take
a millennia?
Six 24 hour
literal days?
Was it
ex nihilo
instantaneous?
Did God
use means?
It's an interesting
question.
How does
this match
with the
scientific discoveries
and theories
that we live in
today?
Sorry,
I'm going to
punt on this one
too.
It's a great
question.
It's an important
question.
But
it's why
rather than
spending all
of our time
in a sermon
dealing the
details,
Pastor Greg
and Danielle
Speller,
who's a
physicist,
will be doing
a two-week
Sunday school
class at the
end of September
after Tom's
class on New
Testament
reliability.
If you're
interested in
those questions,
plan to go.
That's where
many of those
questions will be
addressed as they
address broadly
the question of
how science and
faith integrate
together.
But just to
give a little bit
of perspective on
that question,
you know,
when John
Calvin,
the great
reformer,
wrote about
creation,
this is
secondhand,
but I
believe it's
true,
that he
actually asked
the question
not why
did it take
God so
short in
this account.
We wrestle
with could
God have
actually done
this briefly
because we
think we
live in a
world that
takes long
processes.
Calvin's
question was
why did it
take a whole
day or a
whole week
for God to
create?
Can't he
just speak
and it
happens all
of it at
once?
God didn't
have to say
and God
said and God
said.
He could have
just said it
once and God
said let it
be and there
it was.
Everything all
at once.
So just as a
bit of historical
perspective, the
questions that we
ask of these
texts are often
brought to us by
the context in
which we live and
this is why history
is important for us
to read.
Having said
that, the
Bible speaks to
many scientific
questions but we
must see that what
the Bible speaks to
is more than just
science.
It answers greater
questions as it may
answer some of the
science questions
along the way.
And what we see is
that God is bringing
order to his
creation and he is
ruling over it.
This God who is not
a part of creation
but who is engaged
with his creation,
who sits above it,
not as a part of it
but who rules over it,
he has taken from
emptiness and
formlessness and
darkness and he has
filled it in
creation.
Before we go on and
think about that
process a little more,
let's think briefly
about applying,
if these things are
true, if God is a
sovereign ruler,
what does it mean?
The first thing it
means is that we
must cling to and
understand this truth.
There is nothing that
is outside of God's
sovereign rule in the
world.
There is no random
chance over time in a
closed system that God
is not ruling over.
There are no stars
aligning in the heavens
to determine the fate of
our lives that God is
not ruling over.
The processes that
mother nature produces
in the wonders that we
see in planet earth and
David Attenborough's
video series.
None of those exist
except that God rules
over them.
In the ancient Near
East, they would be
struck by the fact that
there is no titanic
struggle between good
and evil.
There is no yin and
yang striving for
control of the world.
world.
But all that we see, God
is ruling over it.
For those of you who
are sci-fi fans, there
is no force.
There are no
mitochondrians.
There is nothing that
God does not rule over,
whether mythical or
real.
So we must see that if
God is the one who
rules over all things,
it also means that he
rules over all things in
our lives.
He rules over the
hurricanes that swirl in
the Caribbean.
And he rules over the
details of our medical
conditions.
He rules over the
chaos that we hear
reported week in and week
out in the news.
He rules over our
lives from the global
to the minutia.
He is sovereign.
And he calls us to
trust him in that.
And thirdly, he calls
us as his sovereign to
cultivate a humility
before him.
For because he is the
creator and not simply a
part of the creation,
because he is distinct
and over us and the
source of it, then we
are in fact answerable to
him.
We are not our own
little gods.
We are not the captains
of our own ship who are
able to determine our
destinies on our own.
The myth of the
independent human who can
do anything is humbled
by this account.
Instead, as the apostle Paul
preached in Athens, it is
in God that we live and
move and have our being.
We are dependent and we
are accountable to him.
So we see that God is a
sovereign ruler who in
power created all things.
But we see more than that.
He is not just reigning
over us, but he is
filling his creation
with life.
He is a life-giving
creator.
From formless and void
to form and filled,
this is God's work.
If you have a bulletin,
you can pull this out.
This is a time to look at
the little chart that is
in your bulletin to give
you a sense of the
framework of how this
passage in its, yes,
somewhat poetic form of
repetition.
And God said, and it was
so, let there be, and he
separated, and he saw
that it was good, and
there was morning, and
there was evening.
There is this literary
structure that helps us
see this.
And then we see that
there are in three days,
the first three days, the
form is brought together.
Light and darkness.
Sky and sea.
Don't get all confused by
the waters above and the
waters below and
expanse and firmament and
these words that you've
never heard before.
It's very easy.
Skies, seas.
That's what day two is
about.
Day three, dry land is
separated.
And in each of these, we
see these pairings.
Light and darkness.
Sky and sea.
Earth and water.
Separated.
Given boundaries.
Given places.
Given purposes.
There are no rogue elements
in this created world.
And it would have been
very comforting to the
Israelites at the time, as
many people around them
believed that these natural
forces were out of control
and were fearsome and
overwhelmed them.
after God creates this form,
takes what is formless and
gives it form.
He then fills it.
The void is no longer
void, but he begins to fill
it with life.
He creates trees that will
propagate themselves because
they have seeds in them.
fruit trees and plants.
The end of day three.
And then in day four, he
fills them with living
beings.
This is actually the word in
Hebrew.
It's a word for it that's
used later in the Old
Testament for souls.
Now we know that it's
broader than that.
It doesn't only mean that.
But what it does mean is
that these living beings have
a unique characteristic,
distinct from plants.
I'll just say that.
Distinct from plants in some
way, whereby there's this
life that God is now
filling it with.
Now, day four goes back to
the heavens, doesn't it?
And he fills.
He fills it with light.
With the actual things that
give off light.
He'd already created light and
now he fills it with sun and
moon and stars.
The things that we know give
light.
Then day five, the living
creatures.
Each according to their kind.
Not random.
Not haphazard.
But orderly.
God creates.
He fills the skies with the
flying things.
He fills the seas with the
swimming things.
I love the way that this
translation, let the water
swarm with swarms of things.
There's this idea that life is
teeming.
Have you ever walked into an
aviary?
You're walking outside.
You have normal life sounds
around you.
You walk into an aviary and
there usually, if you've ever
been to one, there's usually
two doors, right?
So that the birds don't fly
out.
So you walk through the first
one, you close the back door
and then you walk through the
second one to get the, and
then you walk in and suddenly
you're in a room and all you
hear is chirp, chirp, chirp,
chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp,
chirp, chirp, chirp.
It's almost, it's almost
overwhelming the amount of
noise that you hear when you
walk into that.
And you see these little flits
of life as the birds move
around.
And the more you look, the more
you see that the room is filled
with birds.
Some more active, some less
active.
just a taste of what it must have
looked like.
Just a taste of what God was
doing as he was, as he was
filling the world with teeming
with this life that was ever
expanding and ever growing.
Because just like the plants,
these were set, were told to be
fruitful and multiply and fill the
earth.
God's creation of life was not
terminal but abundant and
expansive and expounding.
And the pinnacle of it all, of
course, the end of day six, he
creates human beings.
Man, male and female.
In God's image.
Distinct from and yet still
created beings who have a role
to rule over all of this life
that he has filled the world with.
And their rule, which has been
sorely abused, we'll get to that
in the next couple of weeks, I
believe.
But the rule that has been
sorely abused, the rule was that
they might cultivate it and care for
it so that it might have more life.
That human beings would come and
bring greater order so that life
would flourish more.
This was God's intention in creating.
And this is the life-giving God that
we see in Genesis 1.
Do you believe this is true?
That life really does come from God?
More importantly, that God is able to
bring life.
We can get so distracted by means and
timelines and forget again what John 1
says.
That in him was life.
And that life was the light of men.
Scientists keep working to create life.
They're getting closer.
I did a little bit of research this
week.
I'm not a scientist.
I'm not really equipped to do this.
They're getting closer.
But it was interesting to see how the
articles even now describe they created
something like or getting closer to.
And you know, even if human beings do
begin to create life, wouldn't that be
fitting that we who are in the image of
God would be able to follow in his
footsteps and take the creation that he
has made and learn how to be life
producers?
There are all sorts of ethical questions.
I'm not talking about that.
I'm just talking about the fact that God
created this world to abound in life.
And it comes from him.
He is the life-giving creator.
He is the source of life.
Without him, there would not be any life.
What are the applications of this for us?
Well, we could be here all day.
But the one that I want to focus on this
morning for a minute is just that because
because of this, we have hope.
We have hope that the darkness that
covered the earth is not the final end.
But it is out of darkness that God created
light.
And in the darkness, God brings life.
Means that there is hope for those who are
facing death.
Many of you are young.
Not all of you.
But many of you are young.
Haven't thought much about that yet.
Some of you are young and have already
thought about it far too much.
But when you are facing death, to know
the God who is the author of life, who is
the life-giving creator, gives us great hope.
The fact that God created form and filled it
with life gives us hope when we feel like our
life is chaos without form and void.
When we feel like that's true externally,
whether that's true internally in our hearts.
God is a life-giving creator and it is his
delight to not only create the world,
but to continue to cultivate
and to expand that life
in this world
for his glory.
Think of the words that the apostle Paul
write in Ephesians 2.
But you who were dead
in your sins and trespasses,
God made you alive
in Christ and raised you up
with him.
This is our hope.
That God is a life-giving God.
Not only is he the sovereign ruler,
not only is he a life-giving creator,
but he is a good creator.
He does all things well.
This point is very simple.
We don't need to spend a lot of time expounding on it,
but simply to say
that God looked at his creation
and as he did it,
as he created the form
and as he filled it with life,
he saw it and it was good.
And he saw it and it was good.
And when he was finished,
he saw it and it was
and it was very good.
and friends I think we live with a serious case of forgetfulness about how good that was
and of course we would because we don't live in a world that doesn't express that goodness
one commentator Tremper Longman who wrote a great book on how to read the book of Genesis
if you ever want that it's a short accessible introduction to the book says this this
is important because the early Israelites the original readers of this creation account
would not have experienced the world as entirely good and the same is true today the creation
account informs and ensure assures us that the world as created by God was good
and friends though we experience the world is not always good today yet we still do don't we
we still taste the goodness of it we taste it in those moments where we interact with creation and we are
awed and overwhelmed by its beauty and its majesty and its splendor
we taste it when and I know many of you are scientists in this room when you look through
the microscope and you see the amazing thing that God created and the incredible intricacy
and delicacy of how God made that work
you see it in the creativity of human beings who in God's image make art and music and literature
who act and perform and sing who do these things in reflection of this original goodness
goodness and though it is not as good as it was we can still taste it and remember that it is true
and friends we see his goodness in the final day don't we after having said it was very good
God then rested he rested from all his work
now we need to see that in the greater picture of this and when God gave the law in Sinai book of
Exodus the creation story was because God rested from his works in the seventh day we too are to
observe a Sabbath and to rest from our works recognize that this is again a counter story
against some of the ancient near eastern stories where human beings in the form of creation as the
gods were taking control of the world were seeking to do so so that they could enslave human beings
and make them work for them all the time that is not a life-giving God and it is not good but here we see God's goodness in his life-giving gift of this seventh day where he rested from his work rest so that we can enjoy God's creation and its goodness rest so that we can enjoy God himself
God did not rest because he was tired or because he was bored or because he was bored or because he was out of ideas
God rested so that he might enjoy the works that he created
and to model for us and to set a pattern for us to live that we too might find rest in him
and that rest that he invites us into
the rest of enjoying his creation is something that
then as the Bible plays itself out will be a beautiful rest
with God forever
in his presence and in his good creation
when he redeems and recreates the world for himself
we know this is true we see it see it and we've read it in John
already but let me remind you again
it's going to memorize just quote it but I might mess it up so I'll just read it so we don't mess it
in the beginning was the word
and the word was with God and the word was God
he was in the beginning with God all things were made through him and without him was not anything made that was made
in him was life
and the life was the light of men
and the light shines in the darkness
and the darkness
has not overcome it
friends this is the good news
is that God who created the world
that we might see and enjoy his goodness
has come as the redeemer of the world
so that he might restore it to its goodness
to a greater glory
in fact
in heaven
through this one Jesus
the light who has come
to banish the darkness of sin and death
and the one who will
in eternity
be our light
and be our life
the sovereign ruler
bridges the gap
between him and us
by entering in
to his creation
in the incarnation
of Jesus Christ
he comes so that he might be
a life
giving savior
to all who believe in him
that we might be rescued
from the death
of our sin
and our rebellion
against God
and he comes so that
as we are raised
to new life with him
we may know his goodness
now
and for all eternity
this is the gospel
this is the good news
of Jesus Christ
this is the end of the story
that Genesis 1 begins
let's pray
Lord I pray
this morning
that you would
capture us
with the awe
of
what a creator
God you are
and that this world
that you have made
Lord
is
Lord
an expression
of your creative
sovereignty
and your creative
life giving power
and your creative
goodness
Lord I pray
that we might
have assurance
and confidence
in you today
in whatever we are facing
in whatever we are walking through
that this is the God
who rules and reigns
over all things
and over our lives
for your glory
and for our good
we pray
in Jesus name
Amen
well friends
it would be fitting
for us
as we
as we close
to observe
communion
the Lord's Supper
we come to this table
in order to remember
what it is
that God did
to redeem us
how it is
that he has come
ultimately
to be our life giving
savior
we celebrate
by drinking
by eating
a cracker
at that
tolerated
by eating
a cracker
O
to be
SD
can
expose
a cracker
and
over
to be
have