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Welcome To The River. 
City Church podcast and a 

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message by our lead. 
Pastor Jason Powers our prayer 

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is that this message would 
Inspire and encourage you, build

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your faith. 
And point you to the 

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life-changing love of Jesus, may
you enjoy the goodness of God as

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you follow him today. 
Hi everybody. 

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We just abruptly. 
Yeah. 

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Hey, I'm glad that you're here 
here real quick. 

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Going to talk about Natalie 
said, depression. 

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Whenever I know some people 
people that I love people that 

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know, Oh, Jesus, that fear. 
Jesus, that love Jesus. 

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That are following Jesus. 
They're gonna die and go to 

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heaven. 
And they would say something 

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that if you are depressed, you 
just need to believe more. 

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You just need to have more, he's
need to understand more. 

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I just want to say on the 
account of, you know, based on 

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what I see in scripture like the
entire book of second 

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Corinthians and all of that, 
right? 

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Like, I love my friends are 
probably going to heaven. 

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They are dead wrong about that, 
right? 

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So what does it look like to 
practice, faith in the midst of 

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depression, and anxiety, and 
fear, and undone on that, I 

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think it looks like that you 
don't have to get on a stage to 

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do that, right? 
But you go to somebody and you 

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go I'm not doing okay today, I'm
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Okay today again, go read second
Corinthians. 

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If you think, if you have 
trouble with depression and 

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faith in this Paul, the Apostle 
Paul writes we despaired even 

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unto the point of death, the way
we would call that today is 

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suicidal. 
But you know what, here's what 

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we do, when we find that place 
we go I don't have to believe 

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that that's It's the Ultimate 
Reality. 

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I feel it. 
It feels weird, it feels dark. 

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I feel depressed. 
I feel scared and put the name 

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on it. 
I feel depressed depressed. 

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Just means push down, right? 
I feel depressed, I'm sad, I'm 

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sorry, I'm scared, I'm alone. 
I'm anxious. 

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But what she did was, she went 
to the word and she said, enter 

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his gates with Thanksgiving. 
So then what song does she sing?

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Gratitude, that's a model. 
What you just saw is among the 

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model and Christianity, isn't 
That all together until you're 

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not depressed. 
The model is this is the day 

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that the Lord has made. 
I will rejoice and be glad in it

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even when I'm depressed and it 
doesn't mean that you don't feel

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anything. 
It doesn't mean that you're not 

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sad anymore, doesn't mean you 
put on a smile and you shine and

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you grin through it it means you
go to the Lord and you go you 

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know what, I bring you today. 
Lord Sadness and Sorrow, and 

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grief and depression and I'm 
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I'm going to put my feet on the 
floor because you're here today.

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Even if I don't feel you or see 
you right now. 

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Now, you know what that takes. 
Faith and so I'm like Lord just 

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take it from me and he's like, 
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And I'm like, Lord your mean 
he's like no, you're stronger 

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than you think, get up and walk 
through it hard but I'm weak. 

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Yes, you are. 
You're terribly with your weaker

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than you can ever imagine? 
The Lord says, I'm not. 

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So you should fill your head 
with scripture. 

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You should fill your heart with 
scripture. 

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You should fill your circle with
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Who will tell you, I'm with you 
and your depression, but it does

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not get the last word in your 
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The problem is we feel feed and 
fill our lives with Other 

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messages with were messages. 
Say it's scary in your dangerous

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and you're alone, and you're 
lost. 

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And you're afraid. 
And we believe it, and then we 

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reinforce them. 
We fill our head. 

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And then we walk out and go. 
Where's God? 

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He's right there, right? 
In the middle of. 

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Okay, good. 
I want you to know that that it 

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is okay to not have it all 
together because when you say, I

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don't have it all together. 
You are saying I am part of the 

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human race and there's good news
in that. 

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You know what, the good news is 
the only thing Jesus came to 

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redeem restore as the creation 
as The Stomping. 

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In ground of humanity, which is 
created in His image. 

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We're going to talk about today 
and that's good news because he 

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loves you and he wants to redeem
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When saw that what week is this 
3 is the third week about two 

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weeks ago at the beginning of 
the series you looked at 

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Nicodemus and Nicodemus was the 
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The way that you're supposed to,
he was born into the family, and

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he went to a system, and he 
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system was Judaism and he 
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follow the law and he did all 
the things and he About this 

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guy, Jesus, and he went to Jesus
and he said, hey, Jesus, we know

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you're from God. 
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separation, this distinction, 
he's like, Jesus, tell me about 

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yourself. 
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no new life without rebirth. 
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like, what are you talking about
rebirth? 

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And we saw this metaphor that 
Jesus used, right? 

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He used you can't be born unless
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the spirit of water and of the 
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So we have to have this physical
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physical life that were born 
into from The moment that were 

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born, it begins to shape us, it 
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It begins to squeeze us to turn 
us and what it tells us is you 

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are what you do and you've 
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When you feel pressure about 
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identity is who you are and what
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relationship that leaves you or 
that goes away. 

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And you begin to wonder? 
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And my family. 
My father's facing retirement 

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and I Know It retirement. 
Well, he's not facing it 

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anymore. 
He's like in it now but the 

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retirement brings the question. 
After all these years of 

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working, who am I now? 
What fills my day? 

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What am I about? 
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is this path that you're on. 
It will get you a different 

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direction. 
But if you want to see the 

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kingdom of God, you have to be 
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And what that means is, we have 
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And we have to learn how to walk
in the Kingdom, where God's Rule

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and Reign is supreme. 
And so, what we did is we've 

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been looking at, we started last
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to the beginning. 
Inning in Genesis 1, to try to 

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get a picture of what that looks
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what's Jesus calling us back to.
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took us back and it said, and it
was empty and it was formless 

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and void. 
And there is confusion and there

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is emptiness over the face of 
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And we said, you know, if we're 
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biblical creation, we said God 
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That's so important because 
we're going to actually talk 

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about days of the week today and
the way that we can kind of talk

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about it. 
I just want to make it 

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absolutely Sure, God is 
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everything. 
He created all things, he is the

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one in the universe that has 
full and final say, that's why I

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don't put stock. 
That's why I don't put a lot of 

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faith. 
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astrology because I believe that
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whether you're a Libra or a 
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You're a child of the Living. 
God, we should ask him first. 

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I think really kind of the 
Enneagram is is helpful. 

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It's useful in a lot of people 
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But at the the end of the day I 
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fully go to the Lord of The God 
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it that you have put in me and 
this brings us kind of to the 

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setting of our story. 
We said, when we read Genesis 

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chapter 1, it wasn't written as 
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The story came to Moses who is 
with the people of Israel in the

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wilderness. 
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God, created all the stuff and 
he created every said, every I'm

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going to make you a nation and 
Abram became Isaac and Isaac had

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Jacob and 12. 
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they became a nation, maybe over
a million people, but then God 

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said, now that your nation, I 
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Wilderness so he pulled them out
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He separated them by plagues and
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Wilderness and he began to say I
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I am the god who called you out 
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created you and formed you for 
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This is where you have come 
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So what Genesis chapter 1 is 
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Has as Moses is telling the 
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You're not Egyptian Martin 
formed by Egyptian culture, 

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Martin formed by Egyptian gods, 
you are marked by the god of 

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Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 
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what we know as the Book of 
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Originally, it was an oral 
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Genesis, so that the people of 
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That's whose God, we are That's 
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So it's very important when we 
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It's so important that we not 
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textbook, the point of Genesis 1
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pre-scientific cultures 
cosmology. 

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God is not talking about the 
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because back then they saw a 
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Right. 
They're not trying to show them,

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he's not trying to talk about 
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quarks or string theory, none of
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creation as the place where God 
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The same is now. 
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what Genesis was for for the 
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To show them this God who 
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God who leads them out of 
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That leads them out of Image and
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Genesis serves the same role for
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It answers the question or two 
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The issue. 
Who is this? 

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God this is important. 
See we, if we skip over or if we

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Breeze past Genesis chapter one,
the only thing that is impacted 

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directly for us is, are you 
ready our faith. 

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Because what if we believe that 
all of this is just some 

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mechanical force than we believe
that we are at best caught up in

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it. 
That's not encouraging. 

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How do you pray to a personal 
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How are you comforted by an 
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Now, I understand if you're 
outside of the church, if you're

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outside of this, you just say, 
well, that's not the point to be

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to be comforted by an impersonal
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But what I would say is, 
wouldn't it be neat? 

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If you could have both 
sovereignty and a comforting 

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personal force and presence in 
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So we get to this place. 
Now, as we look kind of in, we 

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looked at two verses last week 
and I promise we're going to do 

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more than that this week, right?
But we saw this. 

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What we saw last week is that 
Genesis 1 is a good God's 

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blueprint for life in a designer
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And here's this idea that I just
want to like dangle in front of 

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your face and just want to 
dangle over head. 

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And listen we probably won't 
fully implement this in our 

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lives today because it's deep 
and it's got strings and fingers

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that go all the way back into 
the very recesses of our being 

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and and our ideas and who we 
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Right. 
But the idea is when God created

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it all your life and life in 
general was not supposed to be 

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chaotic. 
Now, I have almost three 

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teenagers, so there's a level of
chaos, right? 

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That? 
I was not, I'm not even sure the

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Lord in his right? 
Like what we're reaching. 

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Genesis 1 levels of chaos, 
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At this point right now. 
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about that. 
But I'm talking about 

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interpersonal chaos. 
I'm talking about the cast of 

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who am. 
I am talking about the cast of 

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what does this mean? 
All this stuff that I look 

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around this world that I've been
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What does this mean? 
What does it look like? 

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Is it really supposed to be? 
Just grinding my way through 60 

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or 70, or 90, or 100 years, and 
then death, and then maybe I'll 

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get to sit on a cloud and play a
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God creates order in chaos. 
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ask you to just kind of identify
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chaos. 
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where things seem out of sorts 
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have an answer for. 
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threaten you. 
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the question now is, what is God
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What does it look like in your 
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Gases is God, right? 
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Thomas Jefferson's, Cosmic 
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world that he created? 
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I'm gonna kind of give you the 
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you can know where we're going 
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Number one, you're going to get 
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perspective interview on Genesis
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Makes sense. 
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life and into the cosmos and 
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to get a paradigm in a process 
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word to go to the word on your 
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of you ever come to the Bible 
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open it up and you look at it 
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have any idea. 
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That was talking about you ever 
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Anybody have that say it's okay.
Raise your hand High. 

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What's here's the Raging and I 
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Comfortable. 
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Good, good. 
That's okay. 

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I have my hand up and I 
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lost in that place, right? 
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If you have your Bible, if you 
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would be good. 
I hope you do. 

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This is a great, lets me write 
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get your phone or get your iPad,
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you use smoke signals or pigeons
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is that you get the scripture, 
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Idea the picture that we're 
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Genesis creation account reveals
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every chaos. 
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your life as cast as your 
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your relationship with your 
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relationship at work? 
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is your self-image. 
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peace and fun in this world. 
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what Natalie shared about 
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being being sometimes Moody and 
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time where you wake up and you 
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around that's cast. 
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How does that impact? 
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That sense of out-of-control, 
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Your family, your friends 
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Okay because what I want to say 
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that it's going to show us how 
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But what's important for us 
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Question, how do we read this 
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What was intended to put in 
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Because listen this is very 
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Genesis 1 was not written to us.
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I wonder what Jason is gonna 
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now nothing. 
Nothing like that. 

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Now it's good for us, it's 
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pick that apart but in order to 
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and remember how to read it. 
Well, right, so there's a cup of

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the best way to study. 
The only way to study really is 

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to ask questions to ask a good 
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I so what we want to know in the
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The first character that we see 
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the beginning. 
God, the book is about him, it's

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not about me now. 
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humankind like it's not, but it 
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What does it say about God? 
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What does the scripture say 
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What is this? 
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there's three questions that can
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First question is, what does 
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Bible, the first thing that you 
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read as you have to, what does 
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John 3:16. 
I'm not going to put it up 

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there. 
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So loved the world that he gave 
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believes in him. 
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everlasting life. 
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what does it say now did you 
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study? 
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said, translation is 
interpretation now, your 

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translation of the Bible is not 
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It is not you can't take and you
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That's not authoritative but we 
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what we can just say is God 
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For God. 
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God loves everyone. 
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That's what John 3:16 Says the 
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one, most, people want to skip 
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I want to know what the culture,
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was it, written to, who was it? 
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this? 
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the time. 
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the United States in 1750. 
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What does it say? 
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use, right? 
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What does it say? 

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Now what does it mean for the 
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relationships? 
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What does it mean for my 
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Right? 
What does it say? 

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What does it mean? 
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remember? 
Jesus said, repent because the 

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kingdom is here. 
The information that we find out

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about the kingdom, the 
information that we find about 

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what God's doing here on Earth 
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It's been to change our 
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This is so important. 
It's not meant to just change 

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our, our Behavior arbitrarily, 
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Our behavior in line with and in
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And reality that God's kingdom 
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God's present is available. 
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redeeming all things and that's 
the truth that changes 

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everything. 
Because of that truth, I can do 

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things differently, I can be 
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So we're going to ask those 
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Are you ready? 
You're going to be biblical 

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Scholars before you even knew 
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so when we decide what's it say 
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determine is genre now You could
go home, you could go to Blue 

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Letter, Bible dot-org, they have
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you could read all of the 
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chapter 1 and you could do all 
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you would be smarter for it for 
having done it. 

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And I think you should and I 
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minutes left so I'm not going to
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right? 
What? 

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I'm going to go ahead and do is,
I'm just going to kind of tip 

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the scales for you. 
I'm gonna give you a little bit 

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of insight and you can go home 
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more. 
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have to ask when figuring out 
what it This is what genre is it

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because you remember last week, 
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and history, and letters are not
the same, you don't read them 

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the same, right? 
So what do we say about Genesis 

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chapter 1? 
Well, there's a lot of 

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repetition in it, there's some 
symbolism in it, right? 

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But the thing about Genesis 
chapter 1 is, it's not really 

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pure poetry. 
Some people who try to kind of 

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try to take advantage of Genesis
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kind of either dismiss it or 
minimize or whatever. 

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They say, oh well it's just The 
poem, it's supposed to be read 

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as a poem, it is only a poem. 
Well, the reality is that it's 

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not really written, purely like 
a poem. 

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There's no big metaphors in it, 
right? 

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Like we saw last week, it 
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in the sky where the sun goes. 
There's no like Grand him Nick 

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language, right? 
Like when we read, you know, 

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that the him Nick language, 
Amazing Grace. 

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How sweet the sound that saved a
Wretch like Me, Right? 

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Like, the point in poetry, and 
poems. 

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And and Elvis is to convey 
something really big. 

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Really small sense and really 
small small space and that's 

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what's going on here, but it's 
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The language is straightforward.
The language says, it says, God 

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said, God did he made? 
And it was so there's no sense 

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of, and once upon a time in a 
land far, far away, and they 

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were dragons and gods, and all 
that. 

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There's this very clear sense, 
that, that God did something 

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direct. 
So it's not a pure poem which 

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would allow us to make metaphor 
of everything, right? 

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Right, but on the other hand, 
here's the difficulty. 

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On the other hand, it's not 
straight Pros either, it's not 

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pure narrative. 
There are no facts later on in 

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Genesis chapter 6, God tells 
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build an ark and he says you got
to build it. 

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This high this size, this wide 
this way, so many qubits, so 

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many qubits, this kind of pitch,
this kind of wood, you got to do

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that. 
This doesn't have that. 

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It's got this repetition of 
language, there is this 

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repetition of structure. 
So it doesn't look like a 

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storybook. 
It's Not necessarily a poem but 

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it's also not necessarily an 
article found in National 

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Geographic magazine, what 
Genesis chapter 1 is falls under

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literary critics and historians 
have said, Jenna Genesis chapter

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1 is a genre called elevated 
prose. 

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Okay, so it is Pros language, 
prosaic language, but it's 

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lifted, its got repetition, it's
got structure. 

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It's got its got imagery 
specifically. 

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This is chapter one is a 
prologue. 

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Now you've read a prologue 
before you go read a book and 

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you look at it, it's like, hey, 
this is setting the stage. 

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This was kind of what was going 
on forth. 

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This is how we got to their 
right and it shows God 

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separating. 
So really later down the road as

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we see the all this Bears out, 
but for right now Genesis 

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chapter 1 is this beginning, its
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So what does that mean? 
For what we do, what it means 

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is, we need to as we go to 
Genesis 1 and if this makes you 

449
00:22:29,508 --> 00:22:32,000
nervous, I understand. 
I get it right the here. 

450
00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:33,400
Genesis 1. 
What we do. 

451
00:22:33,500 --> 00:22:36,200
It means we are allowed to come 
to Genesis one. 

452
00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:40,800
With all the ambiguity that the 
text Will Allow and here's what 

453
00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:45,100
that means, right? 
If we try to force onto this 

454
00:22:45,100 --> 00:22:52,500
text, that it was a Six-Day 
24-hour In this passage literal 

455
00:22:52,500 --> 00:22:57,000
creation, from nothing X nelio 
into all things, I can look at 

456
00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,900
that and say maybe because it 
talks about days, that certainly

457
00:23:00,900 --> 00:23:03,500
doesn't make my God. 
God smaller, right? 

458
00:23:03,500 --> 00:23:04,700
The fact that he had, that's 
good. 

459
00:23:04,700 --> 00:23:06,800
I can handle that. 
I can buy that, right? 

460
00:23:07,500 --> 00:23:12,400
But there's also just enough 
poet poeta, sysm In this passage

461
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,600
to make me see. 
It may be a literary device, may

462
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:18,700
be a rhetorical device, maybe 
Day means something else. 

463
00:23:18,700 --> 00:23:22,400
So let me tell you something. 
Now that I think that, I believe

464
00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:25,100
how I interpret this, and here's
what I want to say there are 

465
00:23:25,100 --> 00:23:27,500
people. 
I've read enough books by 

466
00:23:27,500 --> 00:23:30,000
enough, men and women, with 
letters, after their name on 

467
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,800
this subject that I believe my 
My interpretation is well, 

468
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:36,700
within the bounds of Orthodoxy, 
it sold their of a lot of Bill 

469
00:23:36,700 --> 00:23:38,700
had it. 
But listen, if you disagree with

470
00:23:38,700 --> 00:23:42,500
me, that's okay too. 
Part of the beauty of the church

471
00:23:42,500 --> 00:23:46,300
is within this bounds of what 
within the bounds of God is good

472
00:23:46,300 --> 00:23:49,500
and God is Sovereign over all we
can have room to fetch. 

473
00:23:49,500 --> 00:23:52,000
So here's what I say, here's 
what I believe real quick. 

474
00:23:52,100 --> 00:23:55,700
I believe that in the beginning,
there was nothing. 

475
00:23:55,700 --> 00:23:58,800
I mean, there is nothing except 
God the trinitarian. 

476
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:02,000
God, the father is eternally 
begotten, son. 

477
00:24:02,100 --> 00:24:05,100
And the spirit of God, that was 
hovering over pre creation 

478
00:24:05,100 --> 00:24:07,500
Waters. 
And then I believe that God 

479
00:24:07,500 --> 00:24:09,700
created everything. 
I believed that he created every

480
00:24:09,700 --> 00:24:12,400
molecule. 
Every atom, there is nothing in 

481
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:16,100
history that exists that did not
exist. 

482
00:24:16,100 --> 00:24:22,600
And I believe that Genesis 1 is 
a as an account of six literal 

483
00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:26,100
24 hour days. 
Here's what I also believe, I do

484
00:24:26,100 --> 00:24:29,600
not believe that Genesis chapter
one is the account and the story

485
00:24:29,700 --> 00:24:33,900
of the literal truth creation. 
X nelio, here's what I believe 

486
00:24:33,900 --> 00:24:35,700
it. 
It's like it's nearly all means 

487
00:24:35,700 --> 00:24:36,500
out of nothing. 
Right? 

488
00:24:36,500 --> 00:24:39,700
Here's what I believe, I believe
that God created the heavens and

489
00:24:39,700 --> 00:24:42,800
the earth, and the same way that
who killed our house. 

490
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,800
Bella Vista homes built our 
house, and there was a day that 

491
00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:48,100
I went to the bank. 
And I signed a check, a large 

492
00:24:48,100 --> 00:24:50,500
check, and they said, this is 
now your house. 

493
00:24:50,500 --> 00:24:52,700
And on that day, it was just a 
house. 

494
00:24:52,700 --> 00:24:54,800
And it's at their, it had an 
address, it had water, 

495
00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:57,500
everything was plumbed and ready
to go into that house. 

496
00:24:57,500 --> 00:24:59,700
But, you know, we didn't, we 
didn't want a house. 

497
00:24:59,700 --> 00:25:06,800
We wanted, what a home so, when 
did eight, A home at some point 

498
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:08,900
later and did it happen in one 
day? 

499
00:25:09,100 --> 00:25:13,400
Yeah, did my back still hurts 
from it when it happened in one 

500
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:17,100
day but it did right. 
My house began becoming a home 

501
00:25:17,100 --> 00:25:18,800
on the day that we moved into 
it. 

502
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:23,100
So I believe that Genesis 1 is 
the account of six literal 24 

503
00:25:23,100 --> 00:25:28,500
hour days of creation where God 
did something special and unique

504
00:25:28,500 --> 00:25:30,600
with all of the things that he 
had created before. 

505
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,000
Do you want to see what those 
things are? 

506
00:25:32,300 --> 00:25:34,100
Do you want to see what God did 
in the confusion? 

507
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,100
Asian and the chaos and The 
Emptiness. 

508
00:25:36,100 --> 00:25:38,700
Because what I believe is 
there's a reason that God wants 

509
00:25:38,700 --> 00:25:41,400
us to know what he did. 
And I believe that there's a 

510
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,100
reason that he said it out the 
way that he did. 

511
00:25:44,100 --> 00:25:46,000
Because you remember what we saw
last week? 

512
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,100
How God is speaking into 
confusion and into emptiness? 

513
00:25:49,100 --> 00:25:52,100
And so what I want to say is 
what God wants you to find in 

514
00:25:52,100 --> 00:25:56,000
Genesis chapter 1 is hope for 
the confusion and emptiness in 

515
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,400
your life. 
He wants you to see what he's 

516
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,300
capable of. 
He wants you to see what he's 

517
00:26:01,300 --> 00:26:03,800
doing. 
He wants you to see what all of 

518
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:06,400
history is pointing to. 
So are you ready? 

519
00:26:07,100 --> 00:26:10,300
I'm Gonna Fly and I'm gonna get 
you. 

520
00:26:10,300 --> 00:26:12,000
I say that I'm not. 
We're just going to go over and 

521
00:26:12,008 --> 00:26:14,000
it's going to be fun. 
Let's see what we have, right? 

522
00:26:15,100 --> 00:26:16,900
If you're here for the first 
time you like I was good at 

523
00:26:16,900 --> 00:26:18,100
nope, we're going to get it. 
Here we go. 

524
00:26:18,100 --> 00:26:20,800
Genesis chapter, 1 starting in 
verse 1, in the beginning, God 

525
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,400
created the heavens and the 
Earth and the Earth was without 

526
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,000
form and it was void and 
darkness was over the face of 

527
00:26:26,008 --> 00:26:27,800
the deep. 
Remember we saw without form and

528
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:31,700
void tohu Wabo. 
Who remember at that empty 

529
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,600
confused right? 
The creation it doesn't say that

530
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:38,600
nothing existed what it said is 
everything was confused and 

531
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,100
everything was empty, the 
creation that God had it didn't 

532
00:26:41,100 --> 00:26:44,700
have purpose, it didn't have 
meaning, it wasn't well-ordered 

533
00:26:44,700 --> 00:26:49,100
and It wasn't fulfilling right 
verse 3 and God said, let there 

534
00:26:49,100 --> 00:26:53,000
be light and there was light and
God saw that the light was good 

535
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,700
and listen and God separated, 
there's a big word that's going 

536
00:26:55,700 --> 00:26:59,600
to show up over and over and 
over and over and over again. 

537
00:26:59,900 --> 00:27:04,500
God said, and there was and what
it said, he separated the light 

538
00:27:04,500 --> 00:27:08,200
from the darkness and God called
the light day and the Darkness 

539
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,900
he called night, and there was 
evening, and there was morning 

540
00:27:10,900 --> 00:27:13,100
the first day now. 
So some of the things we have 

541
00:27:13,100 --> 00:27:14,800
the first day, right. 
How did what? 

542
00:27:14,900 --> 00:27:18,900
Sharda besides the alarm clock 
aside from the rooster, it's the

543
00:27:18,900 --> 00:27:21,600
sun coming up, right? 
And again, we can point this out

544
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:22,800
and know. 
What does this mean? 

545
00:27:22,900 --> 00:27:25,900
I don't know what it means. 
All I know is there's light and 

546
00:27:25,900 --> 00:27:28,500
there's dark. 
And there is as of yet. 

547
00:27:28,900 --> 00:27:32,200
No son. 
So we have day and we have 

548
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,200
night, we have evening and we 
have the morning the first day 

549
00:27:35,300 --> 00:27:37,700
and it's rolling over, right? 
So what do we have second? 

550
00:27:37,700 --> 00:27:41,000
Right, we go down to verse. 
We make sure I got all this 

551
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,200
right, yeah, right. 
So first day he creates light 

552
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,100
and what does he say? 
Say it is what he separates. 

553
00:27:47,100 --> 00:27:48,900
There's light and there's 
Darkness, right? 

554
00:27:48,900 --> 00:27:50,800
And we just say, oh well God was
the light, right? 

555
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,400
But God is the alkanes. 
He is all like everything is 

556
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,300
like in him. 
There is no shifting, there's no

557
00:27:55,300 --> 00:27:57,600
changing. 
There's, there's no Shadow for 

558
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,300
there to be light at the time, 
that means God was creative to 

559
00:28:00,300 --> 00:28:04,100
separate the light from the 
darkness, was this creation of 

560
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:05,700
daytime. 
And what its creation really was

561
00:28:05,700 --> 00:28:10,300
it was time before this, we that
we have no sense that there was 

562
00:28:10,300 --> 00:28:12,400
this move. 
Now we know it was going on but 

563
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:16,100
when God says there's going to 
be evening Gonna be morning and 

564
00:28:16,100 --> 00:28:18,100
it's going to be regular and is 
going to be consistent. 

565
00:28:18,100 --> 00:28:22,200
What that means is we can start 
counting on this, we can start 

566
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:26,000
marking our time by this. 
So now we go down to verse 6. 

567
00:28:26,100 --> 00:28:28,000
And God said, do you hear that 
again? 

568
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:31,800
And God said, and what he say? 
Let there be an expanse in the 

569
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,000
midst of the waters and let it 
separate. 

570
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,200
There's that idea. 
Again, let it separate the 

571
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,600
waters from the waters. 
This is what we talked a little 

572
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:42,800
bit about last night, right? 
Waters above Waters below. 

573
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,900
Okay, so real quick, what happen
we put Water above and Waters 

574
00:28:45,900 --> 00:28:47,100
below. 
What do you have in here? 

575
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,400
The Bible calls it an expanse, 
you know what? 

576
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:56,300
We call it Sky, God. 
Created the sky on Day 2. 

577
00:28:56,300 --> 00:28:58,300
Do you know why the sky is 
important? 

578
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:02,400
Because if you don't have a sky,
you don't have weather. 

579
00:29:02,900 --> 00:29:07,000
And if you don't have whether 
you don't have agriculture. 

580
00:29:07,100 --> 00:29:09,700
So now, let's talk about this 
water above, right? 

581
00:29:09,700 --> 00:29:14,300
This shell of sky, right? 
This hard candy crust that's 

582
00:29:14,300 --> 00:29:16,900
around the Earth, right. 
Well, what would a hard candy 

583
00:29:16,900 --> 00:29:19,000
crust around the whole earth? 
Do you know what it would do? 

584
00:29:19,300 --> 00:29:22,700
It would keep the waters back, 
the waters above, right? 

585
00:29:22,700 --> 00:29:25,400
So you hope there's some holes 
in that firmament, right? 

586
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:27,700
So, a little bit of the water 
can get through, right? 

587
00:29:27,700 --> 00:29:30,500
But what it says is that God 
created the firmament from. 

588
00:29:30,500 --> 00:29:33,300
And what that means, is that God
controls. 

589
00:29:33,300 --> 00:29:38,400
When it rains, God controls when
the sun's Sun comes out. 

590
00:29:38,500 --> 00:29:42,300
God controls when the seasons 
come, and when the gods Seasons 

591
00:29:42,300 --> 00:29:43,600
own and you know what that 
means? 

592
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:45,600
If God does it the Of Abraham, 
Isaac. 

593
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,600
And Jacob does that, you know 
who doesn't do. 

594
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:54,300
It bail raw. 
All those Egyptian gods who went

595
00:29:54,300 --> 00:29:58,600
before God said I create and 
listen remember his job wasn't 

596
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,600
to fix their cosmology. 
His job wasn't to go. 

597
00:30:02,100 --> 00:30:04,100
Actually there's a water cycle, 
right? 

598
00:30:04,100 --> 00:30:07,900
Evaporation condensation 
precipitation right? 

599
00:30:07,900 --> 00:30:10,600
All he's not trying to do that. 
He's just like, hey all the 

600
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,500
order in the world that you see 
that makes sense. 

601
00:30:12,500 --> 00:30:14,700
The rain in the coming. 
God says, I did that. 

602
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:19,600
That I did that not, not anyone 
out over there. 

603
00:30:19,700 --> 00:30:22,900
I did that. 
Now, we go down to verse 8 and 

604
00:30:22,900 --> 00:30:30,300
God called the expanse heaven. 
You thought heaven was with God 

605
00:30:30,900 --> 00:30:32,600
on a harp plant, right? 
Right? 

606
00:30:32,700 --> 00:30:34,400
That someday it is that heaven 
right? 

607
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,700
In the presence of God, right? 
But when Jesus said repent, 

608
00:30:37,700 --> 00:30:42,600
because the Kingdom of Heaven is
at hand, the original creation, 

609
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:44,900
he created the heavens, he 
created the space, he created 

610
00:30:44,900 --> 00:30:47,300
the air, he created the 
atmosphere in the ideas and when

611
00:30:47,300 --> 00:30:50,000
Jesus says, the Kingdom of 
Heaven is at hand, he's talking 

612
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:51,900
about that. 
The Kingdom of Heaven is all 

613
00:30:51,900 --> 00:30:55,600
around you God's activity in the
world, just like in Garden in 

614
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,700
the garden when Jesus came. 
God's activity in his rule in 

615
00:30:58,700 --> 00:31:01,200
his Reign and his authority is 
available here. 

616
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:05,200
Now and the space above the 
water below the water in the sky

617
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,500
where we are. 
And then he goes on verse 9 and 

618
00:31:07,500 --> 00:31:09,500
God said, do you see the 
repetition? 

619
00:31:09,500 --> 00:31:14,400
And God said and it was and it 
was good day to is actually the 

620
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:16,800
only day that doesn't talk about
that doesn't say that it was 

621
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:18,200
good. 
Let's see what day 3 verse. 9 

622
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:21,200
God said let the waters under 
the heavens be gathered together

623
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,100
into one place and let dry land 
appear. 

624
00:31:24,100 --> 00:31:26,700
And it was so, do you know? 
I dry land is important because 

625
00:31:26,700 --> 00:31:29,600
you've got time. 
You've got agriculture, you've 

626
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,200
got whether you got Seasons, you
got precipitation. 

627
00:31:32,300 --> 00:31:34,600
Well, what good is it to have 
rain? 

628
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:38,900
If you don't have any land to 
plant your crops Rain on the 

629
00:31:38,900 --> 00:31:42,600
ocean, doesn't do very good for 
agriculture. 

630
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:44,800
So God said, we should have a 
place for you to plant. 

631
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,900
Your crops verse 11 and God 
said, let the Earth Sprout, 

632
00:31:47,900 --> 00:31:51,300
vegetation plants, yielding 
seed, and fruit bearing and 

633
00:31:51,300 --> 00:31:54,300
trees bearing fruit in which is 
their seed each according to its

634
00:31:54,300 --> 00:31:58,900
kind on the earth and it was so,
so he creates sea and land 

635
00:31:58,900 --> 00:32:01,000
plants. 
So all through day one, we say 

636
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:04,800
God speaking and separating and 
creating. 

637
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,700
So here's what days one through 
three look like and creation. 

638
00:32:07,700 --> 00:32:10,900
We This on a t-chart, right? 
First light and dark. 

639
00:32:10,900 --> 00:32:13,000
He separated the light from the 
dark. 

640
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,500
The second he separated the 
waters above, and below and 

641
00:32:16,500 --> 00:32:18,900
segregate. 
He separated the sees that he's 

642
00:32:18,900 --> 00:32:23,200
separating creates dry lands and
he creates the plants on the 

643
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:24,900
field. 
So we see day one through three 

644
00:32:24,900 --> 00:32:27,500
and I do you remember at the 
beginning, the condition of the 

645
00:32:27,500 --> 00:32:31,300
earth, the earth was formless. 
And so, for the first three 

646
00:32:31,300 --> 00:32:34,000
days, God begins to put form to 
the Earth. 

647
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,900
He forms time. 
He forms, whether he forms 

648
00:32:36,900 --> 00:32:41,000
agriculture, he He forms 
farming. 

649
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,000
And how does he do it by 
separating? 

650
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:47,100
That is, that is not. 
This is, this is not, this 

651
00:32:47,100 --> 00:32:48,700
grows. 
This doesn't grow. 

652
00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:50,500
This is water. 
This is land. 

653
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:52,600
This is sky. 
This is C. 

654
00:32:52,700 --> 00:32:55,700
So days, one through three is 
all about God, creating this 

655
00:32:55,700 --> 00:32:59,900
problem of formless mess and so 
what we have though what he said

656
00:32:59,900 --> 00:33:03,400
is it was formless. 
It was confused and it was 

657
00:33:03,900 --> 00:33:05,200
empty. 
So we go. 

658
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:09,800
Now today's 4 verse 14, Teen and
God said. 

659
00:33:09,900 --> 00:33:12,500
So again we come to this, God 
said, let there be lights in the

660
00:33:12,500 --> 00:33:15,400
expanse of the Heavens to 
separate the day from the night.

661
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:16,600
Okay? 
So now we're talking about sun 

662
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,100
and moon and stars. 
He explains it and let them be 

663
00:33:19,100 --> 00:33:22,100
for signs and for seasons, and 
for days, and for years, and let

664
00:33:22,100 --> 00:33:25,500
the lights in the expanse of the
heavens, give light upon the 

665
00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:29,300
Earth, and it was so, and so 
here's what we have, right? 

666
00:33:29,300 --> 00:33:33,300
We have this fullness right now,
we have the sky, we have time, 

667
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:35,000
we have agriculture, we have 
land. 

668
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:36,500
But you know what? 
We have all these people who 

669
00:33:36,500 --> 00:33:40,500
walk around go window. 
I When do I put, how do I know 

670
00:33:40,500 --> 00:33:42,700
when I'm playing? 
Can I put beans in the ground 

671
00:33:42,700 --> 00:33:45,400
and in Winter? 
I'm not a farmer. 

672
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,200
So I don't know the answer that 
question, but that's the 

673
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:48,700
question that they're asking, 
right? 

674
00:33:48,700 --> 00:33:51,100
And so what God does is says, 
hey, you got to know when to put

675
00:33:51,100 --> 00:33:53,100
your crops in the ground. 
You got to know when to pull 

676
00:33:53,100 --> 00:33:55,200
them out. 
You got to know when it's time 

677
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,200
to, for your animals to have 
babies. 

678
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:58,700
And when it's time for them, not
to have babies. 

679
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:02,000
So when he did, he says, I'll 
show you how to Mark time, so he

680
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,300
puts seasons and how do you tell
Seasons? 

681
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:08,800
He fills them with sun and moon,
and stars. 

682
00:34:08,900 --> 00:34:11,300
And planets and constellations. 
So we can go. 

683
00:34:11,300 --> 00:34:14,900
Now, it's about to be cold. 
We better hunt for the winter. 

684
00:34:14,900 --> 00:34:16,500
We better hunker down. 
You see? 

685
00:34:16,500 --> 00:34:20,199
He's creating us and he's 
showing us how to live life in 

686
00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:22,400
this world, the sun and the 
stars, and the moon go to verse 

687
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:25,500
20, you see, I'm blown through 
this, go back and read it for 

688
00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:28,000
yourself, meditate unpack, this 
verse 20. 

689
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:33,400
God said, let the waters swarm 
with swarms of living creatures 

690
00:34:33,500 --> 00:34:37,000
and let birds fly above the 
Earth and across the expanse of 

691
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,800
the heaven, right? 
So he created added space, the 

692
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:43,300
heavens the sky and what did he 
fill it with life. 

693
00:34:44,699 --> 00:34:47,000
Now, I want to step back and I 
want to just real quick, make 

694
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:48,500
sure that we understand what's 
going on. 

695
00:34:48,500 --> 00:34:53,199
What kind of Life did God create
one bird like a giant Albatross 

696
00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:55,500
and like you can eat it and it's
good like you can send messages 

697
00:34:55,500 --> 00:34:59,000
with it and it like all it's 
pretty to let what know a bunch 

698
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,700
of different birds. 
Create like, I love birds that 

699
00:35:02,700 --> 00:35:05,200
some birds are terrible. 
There have been to Bucky's about

700
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,600
Sunset and you see the starlings
with the thing, right? 

701
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:09,900
It freaks me out, man. 
I don't know why they do that. 

702
00:35:12,500 --> 00:35:15,200
I didn't teach him how to make 
the shapes and the signs and all

703
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,900
the thing and I just drive by 
and I walk out and it freaks me 

704
00:35:17,900 --> 00:35:19,700
out a little bit. 
But I go that's kind of cool. 

705
00:35:20,700 --> 00:35:23,300
And I think about all the 
abundance and the variety of the

706
00:35:23,300 --> 00:35:26,300
opulence of our God in this 
world that he created and I just

707
00:35:26,300 --> 00:35:28,200
know that he didn't have to do 
that. 

708
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,200
I just know that he did. 
So he created the sky inning, 

709
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:35,200
filled it and then we come to 
verse 26 and this is where it 

710
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:38,800
really gets good. 
And then God said, let us make 

711
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,400
man. 
Now the word, their man is the 

712
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:45,100
word. 
Adam Wright mankind. 

713
00:35:45,100 --> 00:35:48,200
Let us make mankind. 
God said, let us make man in our

714
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:54,500
image and after our likeness, 
And let them have dominion over 

715
00:35:54,500 --> 00:35:56,800
the fish of the sea and over the
birds of the heavens and over 

716
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:58,900
the livestock and over all the 
Earth and over every creeping 

717
00:35:58,900 --> 00:36:00,900
thing that creeps on the year. 
Now what I want to say is this 

718
00:36:00,900 --> 00:36:04,700
is a unique in creation. 
God never speaks like this over 

719
00:36:04,700 --> 00:36:07,900
any other aspect of creation. 
He doesn't watch philosophical 

720
00:36:07,900 --> 00:36:10,100
about the creation of the birds.
He doesn't want acts 

721
00:36:10,100 --> 00:36:11,900
philosophical about the creation
of the plants. 

722
00:36:11,900 --> 00:36:15,500
What I want to say real quick, 
this is real important because 

723
00:36:15,500 --> 00:36:17,900
what we have here, is this sense
of dominion, right? 

724
00:36:17,900 --> 00:36:20,100
Of the people to have dominion 
over creation. 

725
00:36:20,300 --> 00:36:22,400
But what's very important if 
we're going to understand and 

726
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:25,800
get this Humans are different 
than animals. 

727
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,600
We are valued differently than 
animals. 

728
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,900
God did not create human kind 
and animal. 

729
00:36:32,900 --> 00:36:35,800
Kind different. 
Now, does that mean that we 

730
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:37,900
don't respect? 
Does that mean that the entire 

731
00:36:37,900 --> 00:36:41,700
creation is here for us to just 
use and do with as we please? 

732
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,000
Absolutely not. 
We're going to see that but 

733
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:48,600
listen, God values human life 
differently than all other forms

734
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,000
of life. 
Is created in His image. 

735
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,600
It is created uniquely by him 
and for him. 

736
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:54,400
Okay. 
So here we go. 

737
00:36:57,100 --> 00:36:59,400
Over the livestock over all the 
Earth and over every creeping 

738
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,200
thing that creeps on the earth, 
verse 27. 

739
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:04,300
So God created man in his own 
image in the image of God. 

740
00:37:04,300 --> 00:37:08,400
He created him male and female, 
he created them unique but 

741
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:12,100
different and God blessed them. 
And God said to them, be 

742
00:37:12,100 --> 00:37:14,500
fruitful and multiply and fill 
the Earth, and subdue it, and 

743
00:37:14,500 --> 00:37:17,400
have dominion over the fish of 
the sea and over the birds of 

744
00:37:17,408 --> 00:37:19,900
the heaven and over every living
thing that moves on The Earth 

745
00:37:19,900 --> 00:37:22,000
we're going to talk about 
Dominion next week when we look 

746
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,600
specifically at Mankind and 
God's creation. 

747
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:27,000
And what that means for us, what
that means for you, and for me. 

748
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,100
But what that means. 
Right now, what I want to stand 

749
00:37:30,100 --> 00:37:34,900
on right now is on day six. 
Remember day, three God created 

750
00:37:34,900 --> 00:37:38,100
the land ride, he separated. 
And on day six, he fills it. 

751
00:37:38,100 --> 00:37:41,900
He fills it with livestock with 
animals and after all of 

752
00:37:41,900 --> 00:37:44,200
creation, after all the big 
plants in the little plants and 

753
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:46,900
the fish, and the birds and the 
season the animals and livestock

754
00:37:46,900 --> 00:37:52,000
after all of that, he creates 
And and he says have dominion. 

755
00:37:52,300 --> 00:37:56,000
He says you are in a unique 
position and a unique spot in 

756
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:59,100
this creation, you're different 
than everything else. 

757
00:37:59,100 --> 00:38:00,600
Adam and we're going to unpack 
that. 

758
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:02,500
And let me just tell you this 
real quick. 

759
00:38:02,500 --> 00:38:06,200
If you think your job is the 
thing that you are going to 

760
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:08,700
escape upon death, finally, and 
fully. 

761
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:10,800
So you can finally have the life
that God intended for you. 

762
00:38:10,808 --> 00:38:14,500
What I want to say is work is 
pre curse. 

763
00:38:15,900 --> 00:38:18,000
God wants to redeem your 
vocation. 

764
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,500
He wants to regime your job, he 
wants to redeem the goodness, he

765
00:38:20,500 --> 00:38:23,300
runs to redeem what your created
for, but right now I just want 

766
00:38:23,300 --> 00:38:25,500
to show us days 4 through 6, 
right? 

767
00:38:25,500 --> 00:38:28,300
So we have in creating light and
dark and then he creates the 

768
00:38:28,300 --> 00:38:31,000
Agents of the light and the 
Darkness who creates the waters 

769
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,800
above and the waters below and 
then he fills them, he creates 

770
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:37,100
the Seas and the dry land and a 
plants and then he fills them. 

771
00:38:37,100 --> 00:38:39,400
And then we go to verse 2, 
chapter 2 and starting in verse 

772
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,200
1. 
Thus the heavens and the Earth 

773
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:44,200
were finished and all the host 
of them and on the seventh day, 

774
00:38:44,208 --> 00:38:45,900
God finished his work that he 
had done. 

775
00:38:45,900 --> 00:38:48,800
Done and he rested on the 
seventh day from all his work 

776
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:51,200
that he had done. 
So God blessed the seventh day 

777
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,500
and made it holy because on it. 
God rested from all his work 

778
00:38:54,500 --> 00:38:57,700
that he had done in creation. 
Now that's really confused. 

779
00:38:57,700 --> 00:38:59,200
But what I want to say about 
this and we're going to unpack 

780
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:01,500
this a lot next week, you just 
have to listen to me and trust 

781
00:39:01,500 --> 00:39:04,200
me and believe me on this. 
Remember we said last week that 

782
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:08,700
Genesis chapter one is an 
ancient near Eastern creation 

783
00:39:08,700 --> 00:39:12,200
text. 
If you went to any, if you ask 

784
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,900
your ancient near Eastern 
friends, right, your people who 

785
00:39:14,900 --> 00:39:17,900
were from then, right? 
They read Genesis chapter 2, 

786
00:39:17,900 --> 00:39:19,600
they would step back and what 
they would look at and they 

787
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:23,700
would go, that's a temple text. 
Okay, what we find in Genesis 2.

788
00:39:23,700 --> 00:39:25,500
And again, we're going to unpack
this all next week. 

789
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:27,600
You got to come back next week. 
This is what I'm doing. 

790
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:28,600
Baiting the hook. 
Right. 

791
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:32,700
Genesis chapter 2, Star verses 1
through 3 is a temple text. 

792
00:39:32,700 --> 00:39:34,700
Here's the idea that we're gonna
unpack next week. 

793
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:41,400
God created Earth to be 
inhabited by him and Humanity 

794
00:39:41,500 --> 00:39:47,400
together forever, We were 
supposed to be there with him 

795
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:49,700
and what does God do in his 
creation? 

796
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:53,800
He reigns over it. 
He rules over it day seven, we 

797
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:55,700
find this. 
What, as we find on day seven, 

798
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:59,300
he completes he rests, He 
blesses. 

799
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:04,200
God, presides over his Creation 
in creation. 

800
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:07,600
That's different. 
Not on a palace far away but in 

801
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:10,800
the midst of his creation. 
So real quick, we're already 

802
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:11,600
over. 
Here's what I want to know. 

803
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,600
Like what does this mean? 
What does Genesis 1 mean listen?

804
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:15,300
Are you? 
Ready. 

805
00:40:15,300 --> 00:40:17,900
It means everything. 
It means everything. 

806
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:19,700
Everything changes for this all 
week. 

807
00:40:19,700 --> 00:40:22,300
I was so excited. 
This may be my favorite passage 

808
00:40:22,300 --> 00:40:25,300
in all the scripture because it 
has so much potential for your 

809
00:40:25,300 --> 00:40:28,300
life, for your Darkness, for the
confusion, for your fear, for 

810
00:40:28,300 --> 00:40:30,300
all of the things, right? 
And I'm only going to talk about

811
00:40:30,300 --> 00:40:33,700
three real quick. 
First thing, God always creates 

812
00:40:33,700 --> 00:40:36,600
an abundance of good. 
Always, always, always. 

813
00:40:36,700 --> 00:40:39,800
And you step back and you just 
go, doesn't look like it to me. 

814
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:44,800
World seems pretty garbage to me
a lot of anger and fighting it. 

815
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,900
Vision separates, right? 
Here's what's so important to 

816
00:40:47,900 --> 00:40:50,200
see this abundance that you see 
God? 

817
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:55,500
Creating it's pre-fall. 
When Jesus is talking to 

818
00:40:55,500 --> 00:40:58,200
Nicodemus about being reborn. 
Do you know what he has to be 

819
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:02,500
reborn out of the world that 
we're currently in into what 

820
00:41:03,100 --> 00:41:07,300
Genesis 1 and 2, where there's 
everything abundant your rights 

821
00:41:07,300 --> 00:41:09,600
in destroys. 
So when God says, Hey I want you

822
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:12,900
to, I want you to like have 
limits and boundaries on on your

823
00:41:12,900 --> 00:41:15,000
sexuality. 
It's not just unbridled for your

824
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:17,400
pleasure. 
I want you to boundaries on your

825
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:20,400
on your pursuit of money. 
I want you to have boundaries on

826
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:24,000
all of these things it's because
he knows how to give us a good 

827
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:25,700
luck. 
If it's because he knows what 

828
00:41:25,700 --> 00:41:27,600
abundance is. 
The problem is and we're going 

829
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:29,600
to unpack all of this in two 
weeks. 

830
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:33,800
The problem is, we think we know
better, what makes for us. 

831
00:41:34,300 --> 00:41:37,100
So here's what Jesus says, 
here's the practical application

832
00:41:37,100 --> 00:41:39,400
of that. 
Matthew chapter 6, starting in 

833
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:41,800
verse 33. 
Therefore, don't be anxious, any

834
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:45,000
of you anxious. 
Any of you, afraid? 

835
00:41:45,700 --> 00:41:48,900
And if you depressed, Any of you
insecure? 

836
00:41:49,500 --> 00:41:51,600
What I want to say is, Jesus 
begins by saying. 

837
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:53,500
Don't be anxious. 
Now, listen, he doesn't say that

838
00:41:53,500 --> 00:41:56,800
to condemn, you, he says that to
invite you and listen why? 

839
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:59,800
Because the question is why, why
would we not be anxious? 

840
00:42:00,100 --> 00:42:02,700
He says, don't be anxious about 
anything saying, well, we eat or

841
00:42:02,708 --> 00:42:03,800
what will we drink? 
Or what we wear? 

842
00:42:03,900 --> 00:42:05,900
Those are the basic things about
life. 

843
00:42:05,900 --> 00:42:08,500
Don't worry about what's going. 
Don't worry about what goes on 

844
00:42:08,500 --> 00:42:09,500
on the outside. 
Right? 

845
00:42:09,500 --> 00:42:13,600
Well, why because the Gentiles 
seek after these things, so 

846
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:16,400
important, because we're 
Gentiles and you're designing 

847
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:18,900
way, what do you say? 
Saying man, listen, here's the 

848
00:42:18,900 --> 00:42:20,100
thing. 
Do you know what defines 

849
00:42:20,100 --> 00:42:22,700
Gentiles and this Russ Gentiles 
don't know. 

850
00:42:22,700 --> 00:42:26,900
God Gentiles, don't know what 
you're about to read. 

851
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:30,100
Gentiles haven't heard the 
creation story where this loving

852
00:42:30,100 --> 00:42:33,600
God filling and expanding and 
overflowing everything, right? 

853
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,400
But you're a Christian you have 
access to the kingdom. 

854
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:40,700
You know Genesis 1 don't be 
anxious because God knows what 

855
00:42:40,700 --> 00:42:42,200
you need. 
Oh my goodness, it says that 

856
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:45,500
right there. 
Father knows that you need them 

857
00:42:45,500 --> 00:42:49,300
all, but seek first, the kingdom
and his righteousness and all 

858
00:42:49,300 --> 00:42:50,700
these things will be added to 
you. 

859
00:42:50,700 --> 00:42:53,200
Therefore don't be anxious about
tomorrow for tomorrow will be 

860
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:57,000
anxious for its own for itself. 
Sufficient for the day is its 

861
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:58,200
own troubles. 
Listen, don't worry. 

862
00:42:58,200 --> 00:42:59,200
Are you going to run out of 
money? 

863
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:01,900
No, you're not. 
Because the kingdom of God is 

864
00:43:01,900 --> 00:43:04,600
abundant now, are you can always
be able to live in the house 

865
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:07,000
that you live in now. 
No, maybe you shouldn't live in 

866
00:43:07,008 --> 00:43:09,500
the house you live in. 
Now, you ever worry about your 

867
00:43:09,500 --> 00:43:11,700
house. 
What if you sold it and lived in

868
00:43:11,700 --> 00:43:13,600
a smaller house and you used all
the money? 

869
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:16,800
You have extra instead of like 
heating it and cleaning it and 

870
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:18,800
Furnishing all that. 
What if you use the money that 

871
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:22,200
you got from your new smaller 
house to give to people who are 

872
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:25,800
hurting and eating, because 
Jesus loves them, because Jesus 

873
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:29,700
has given that sin, God creates 
an abundance of good. 

874
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:32,300
So the question is, do we 
believe that God has created an 

875
00:43:32,300 --> 00:43:37,000
abundance of good for us to 
consume, or for the world to 

876
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:40,400
experience his abundance and his
goodness that didn't create one 

877
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:43,200
kind of tree? 
He created all of the trees so 

878
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:45,500
that you would No, so that you 
would experience so that you 

879
00:43:45,508 --> 00:43:49,800
could see it. 
Second thing, separation is an 

880
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:54,700
act of creation. 
In order for God to create who 

881
00:43:54,700 --> 00:43:57,500
you are supposed to be, he has 
to separate you from all the 

882
00:43:57,500 --> 00:43:59,400
things that you are not. 
Here's the problem. 

883
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:03,400
We hold Kicking and Screaming to
everything that we've found our 

884
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:06,500
way into. 
Have you ever seen the video of 

885
00:44:06,500 --> 00:44:08,800
that? 
Little boy holding the fish and 

886
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:10,800
the fish is screaming and he 
says I want to take it home 

887
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:14,000
daddy and his dad's like you 
can't take the fish was already 

888
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:17,200
dead and the kids just like 
holding on and cling to it 

889
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:19,800
because he can't, he can't 
imagine what's coming after 

890
00:44:19,808 --> 00:44:21,700
that, right? 
And in order for us to get that 

891
00:44:21,700 --> 00:44:24,300
little kid to the Into the homes
of the good thing is we got to 

892
00:44:24,300 --> 00:44:27,300
separate him from his dead fish 
and we're just like cling and 

893
00:44:27,300 --> 00:44:30,300
all these dead fish. 
No, no. 

894
00:44:30,300 --> 00:44:35,200
I want sex without consequence. 
It doesn't exist. 

895
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:38,800
It's not a real thing. 
So he'll separate us from that 

896
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and we just feel like he's 
hurting us. 

897
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We just feel like he's taking 
away from us which leads to the 

898
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last thing when God creates 
Space. 

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By separating us when God 
creates space he fills it. 

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I just look at this. 
Look at This this chart. 

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There we go. 
I put that in there at the 

902
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temple chart. 
Yeah, here it is right on day, 

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one, God created time, and he 
filled it so that we could know 

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where it is. 
We can know how it's translating

905
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on day two, he created, 
precipitation, and weather. 

906
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And then on day five, he filled 
it on day three. 

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He created habitat. 
And on day six, he created de 

908
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mini created. 
He created people to care for 

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it. 
Intend to it, and expand, and 

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fill the Earth. 
And on day 7, he sat in it and 

911
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he presided over it so that we 
could know in this. 

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This order and then the 
structure and then this system, 

913
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everything continues to run as 
it was intended, all we have to 

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do is not screw it up. 
If I could do a Morgan, Freeman 

915
00:45:36,500 --> 00:45:38,900
voice right now, I would say my 
best Morgan Freeman voice. 

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They screwed it up. 
But that's coming in a couple 

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weeks for now. 
What I want you to leave with, 

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is there is no space in 
creation, that God does not 

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fill. 
When you have heard that nature 

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abhors a vacuum, you can trust 
that, that means god. 

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So that means that, that space 
in you, that emptiness, that 

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fear, that doubt, that 
discouragement, that hope that 

923
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broken promise that wound, that 
space is where God wants to 

924
00:46:07,700 --> 00:46:11,300
fill. 
And maybe God has to create 

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00:46:11,300 --> 00:46:13,400
space in you right now, maybe 
you're in that space of 

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Separation, where it feels like 
God is taking from you, your 

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friends, your money, your hope 
your future, maybe it feels 

928
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right now, like you are an enemy
of God. 

929
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And what I would say is you may 
not be on day 1 2 or 3? 

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Yeah, he may just be separating 
you. 

931
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Maybe your he may be just 
separating, right taking all 

932
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these things. 
But I promise you, if you will 

933
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:36,500
give him what he asks for, he 
will fill you with things that 

934
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you can't imagine. 
Forever. 

935
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So Jesus. 
When we read in John chapter 1, 

936
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that you are the word. 
It reminds us in Genesis 1, that

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you are the one that creates 
light and dark places. 

938
00:46:52,300 --> 00:46:54,800
So I pray that you would enter 
in our hearts and create light. 

939
00:46:56,500 --> 00:46:59,700
I pray that you would create 
space for things to grow. 

940
00:47:01,300 --> 00:47:04,000
Thank you would fill us with a 
sense of the time and the 

941
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season, so that we can honor you
with our lives. 

942
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:11,600
Most of all father, I pray that 
our lives in this world. 

943
00:47:12,500 --> 00:47:18,300
We would walk through our days 
As if it were your temple to 

944
00:47:18,300 --> 00:47:22,800
bring glory and honor to you and
may we take our place within 

945
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:24,100
that. 
I pray for anybody today. 

946
00:47:24,100 --> 00:47:25,800
Who's depressed. 
Who is afraid? 

947
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:30,200
Who was alone? 
Whose life is just chaotic, and 

948
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:33,400
I pray that they would find you 
in this and maybe they 

949
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:35,700
understand. 
Now, there's things to be 

950
00:47:35,700 --> 00:47:38,500
separated from, it's not that we
have to go do all these things, 

951
00:47:38,500 --> 00:47:41,200
father, but we simply listen for
your voice and follow and Trust 

952
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:42,400
You. 
Jesus. 

953
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:43,400
We love you. 
And we thank you. 

954
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:45,500
And we ask all of these things 
in your name, and For Your 

955
00:47:45,500 --> 00:47:48,400
Glory. 
Amen, thank you for joining us 

956
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:50,500
today. 
River City Church is all about 

957
00:47:50,500 --> 00:47:53,300
experiencing and expressing 
God's love in our lives and 

958
00:47:53,300 --> 00:47:55,100
community. 
And we hope that you've been 

959
00:47:55,100 --> 00:47:57,800
able to experience that today as
grateful. 

960
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:00,500
As I am, that you've spent this 
time, listening in this morning,

961
00:48:00,700 --> 00:48:04,200
this podcast is no substitute 
for full participation in a 

962
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:06,900
local church. 
I love it when River City people

963
00:48:06,900 --> 00:48:10,100
listen to other pastors, but it 
is those who show up week after 

964
00:48:10,100 --> 00:48:13,100
week Faithfully, giving their 
support and time and resources 

965
00:48:13,100 --> 00:48:16,500
that make all of this possible. 
If we can help you get Connected

966
00:48:16,500 --> 00:48:19,300
to a local church. 
Pray for you or support you in 

967
00:48:19,300 --> 00:48:20,900
any way. 
Click the link in the 

968
00:48:20,908 --> 00:48:23,700
description and let us know if 
you'd like to financially 

969
00:48:23,700 --> 00:48:25,200
support the ministry of River 
City. 

970
00:48:25,300 --> 00:48:27,800
Click the give link on our 
website in the description. 

971
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:30,800
Don't forget to subscribe, and 
don't forget to share this with 

972
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your friends. 
Thanks so much for listening. 

973
00:48:33,100 --> 00:48:36,100
May the Lord bless, and keep you
in all Grace and peace. 

974
00:48:16,100 --> 00:48:19,300
Connected to a local church. 
Pray for you or support you in 

975
00:48:19,300 --> 00:48:20,900
any way. 
Click the link in the 

976
00:48:20,908 --> 00:48:23,700
description and let us know if 
you'd like to financially 

977
00:48:23,700 --> 00:48:25,200
support the ministry of River 
City. 

978
00:48:25,300 --> 00:48:27,800
Click the give link on our 
website in the description. 

979
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:30,800
Don't forget to subscribe, and 
don't forget to share this with 

980
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:32,900
your friends. 
Thanks so much for listening. 

981
00:48:33,100 --> 00:48:36,100
May the Lord bless, and keep you
in all Grace and peace.