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by Brian Watts on September 29, 2019
The basic presupposition of this passage before us teaches that God will at times strike his servants to demonstrate unto them His great love for them, and so to strip them of all that hinders His work in their lives. Or to use the words of John Piper when he was here in 2010 at the Resolution Conference: “God will break your bones if needs be, to minister to your heart.”
on September 22, 2019
We come now to the third part of what God does on day 6 and we see that God gives a particular command to the man and the woman. And we find in this particular command to the man and the woman the first divine revelation of God to the human race.
by Brian Watts on September 15, 2019
We are still on the Sixth Day of creation, and we come now to the apex of God’s creative works. God had now completed the creation of all the land creatures – and yet there was still one more being, one for whom all the others had been made, that was still outstanding. On Day 6 God created the first human beings, and He made them a man and a woman, and then He crowned them as rulers over all the other creatures that He had already made.
by Brian Watts on September 1, 2019
From the very dust of the earth, God made all the living creatures that move along the ground. And the Word of the Lord repeats a phrase we have already encountered on day 5, for we are told that they were brought forth “according to their kinds” (v24-25) and within those kinds, they were subdivided into many subcategories.
by Brian Watts on August 25, 2019
On the fifth day, God created the sea creatures and the flying creatures of the skies, and this corresponds to some extent to the creation of the waters and the formation of the expanse on the second day. The creation of land animals and humans on the sixth day accords with that of the dry land and its productivity on the third day. Amazing to see the pattern God instituted in the events of creation.
by Brian Watts on August 18, 2019
A journey through the Created Order teaches us that there was darkness and then there was light. It teaches us that there was evening and then there was morning. Thus far three nights and three days have passed and we find ourselves now in the Fourth Day of Creation. On the first day, God made the light and He separated the light from the darkness. The light God made on the first day is very distinct from the light He creates on day 4.
by Brian Watts on August 4, 2019
We come now to day three and we will see that God continues to give form to the world by the process of differentiation whilst the emphasis begins to shift to the theme of fullness. God by His command progresses the act of creation of the second day and does further work to the waters which He separated on day 2. All this in preparation for man, who will be the crown of His creation, to work on the earth as God’s representative for the glory of God. On day 3 God performs an illustrious miracle by gathering the waters on the earth into one place and creating a dry place upon which man could habitat.
by Brian Watts on July 28, 2019
Today we will see that God continues His work of creating and separating and naming. For 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.” (Gen 1:6-7).
by Brian Watts on July 21, 2019
Without form, void and utterly dark – such was the original condition of the created earth. The earth was a mass of fluid, utterly incapable of sustaining human life. And as the very first acts of creation, the Spirit of God flutters over the face of the deep and vibrates with Divine Energy to life all of creation, bringing order and structure to what was at first chaos. This activity of God changed all that follows thereafter.
by Brian Watts on July 14, 2019
Without a thorough knowledge of Genesis 1, we will not comprehend Genesis 1-11. And this is seen as the first major section of Genesis, commonly known as Primeval History. And this Primeval History which is covered in the first eleven chapters, covers the creation of the world, the fall of mankind into sin, and the triumph and progress of sin through to the Flood and the Tower of Babel. This section presents us with foundational truths about mankind and the world.