All right, it's recording. All right, so. Again, there's so much here. There's so many discussions that can break off in Genesis 1, just like as we're studying through 1 Corinthians 12 through 14. There's so many other things that we can discuss about those verses, especially with the gifts. But what we want to try to draw out is those high points. What's the main purpose? And so with 1 Corinthians, that main purpose is unity. And so for us, we've got a main purpose that we're going to try to pull out of these as well. There's a lot of minutiae that we can get caught up in and discuss, and those discussions are worth having. Don't get me wrong. But we're going to try to steer clear of some of those tonight and see what really God has for us to understand in Genesis 1, kind of the high points of that. From the previous weeks we've talked about this Toledot formula. It's a Hebrew, I'm not a Hebrew guru, I wish I was, but I'm not, but it's a formula for the book of Genesis that Moses lays out and he's got all of these generations and that starts in Genesis chapter 2, 4. And so in your English Bible to say these are the generations of and it'll give this long list of genealogies and so that begins the next section of the book of Genesis. And so the purpose of these formulas, it's a literary formula just like we have in poetry and in narratives, there's all of these grammatical and literary formulas that are used just like that that we use today. Moses uses this to bring us in a very specific way in an order so that the reader can understand something important and to help us arrive at certain conclusions. But this formula doesn't begin until Genesis 2-4, so Genesis 1 kind of is set apart. The rest of Genesis has this whole formula that it follows through Adam and Eve, and then through Seth and Noah and Abram, Isaac, Jacob, and so we get that all throughout the book of Genesis. It follows those lines, those genealogies. So if we read the rest of the book of Genesis after 2-4, we read it as like a historical narrative that God is telling this story through these certain genealogies. And the purpose of that is to bring our attention to the sovereign faithfulness of God throughout all of these generations. So in, for example, generation that brings us to Noah. God is faithful to Noah and his family through Abraham. God is faithful to Abraham, his covenant. He brings about a son, Isaac. And so God is continually faithful throughout all the generations to bring his people to a certain point. So that draws us, it draws our mind It draws our attention to the fact that God is faithful and he is sovereign to all of these generations. So when we get to Exodus, for example, we follow this formula and we've got all the book of Genesis that carries us to this certain place, brings our attention to the sovereign faithfulness of God. We get to Exodus and now we find the people of God. In captivity, in Egypt, what is our mind automatically supposed to go to? We don't have the same formula, but we've had it throughout the whole first book of the Bible. Our mind's attention should be drawn to, God is faithful, and he's going to deliver. The people of God don't see it that way. They cry, woe is me. They forget. But for us as readers, our attention is supposed to be drawn to, God is faithful. We've just had the story of Joseph and the whole context of Genesis where God has been faithful over and over and over. So this formula, this Toledot formula, brings our attention to God's faithfulness. And so when we pick up in Exodus, we're supposed to see that. Our attention is drawn there. So it's not just the words that we have in Scripture. All those are super important, maximum importance. It's not just the words that are important to us, but it's also the arrangement, the structure, and the trajectory of the text, where it's supposed to lead us, where the author is intending to lead us. Those are also super important. So now our question is, what about Genesis 1? Is there a structure? Is there a formula that we can see in Genesis chapter 1? Does it have a trajectory that it is trying to lead us to? My argument would be that it does, and we're going to look at that tonight. But before we begin, I've got just some of these introductory questions, you have them on your sheet. Worldly speaking, from the world, and this doesn't have to concern Genesis 1 necessarily, but with regard to creation, what does the world say about creation? You know, science, other religions like whatever what what are yeah yeah big bang I like that you said that chaos big bang chaos evolution yeah Uh-huh. We'll go into that. So we'll go into that when we talk about what do Christians think about the beginning. There's always this huge argument about the dinosaurs. They didn't coexist with us and all of this jazz. So that always brings out this huge science thing. Science and fossil records and all that stuff. And children love dinosaurs, so the first thing they do is get a book and tell someone that millions and millions and millions of years ago dinosaurs were on Earth, and they get completely confused from the get-go. I don't know the technical term, but like self-possessed, whatever you want to believe. Like you have your own position. Like your own perception. Yes. Relativism. We'll just bundle all of that under relativism. Whatever you want to believe, if it's true for you, then it's true. Yeah, this is how the world sees the creation of the world. You've got Big Bang, out of chaos, which as we're going to read, God is not a God of chaos. He's very much a God of order. Evolution that we've evolved from some goo, cosmic goo, into human beings. Nothing became something that's one argument that no physicist can escape. Arguments from science, relativism. So you've got all these that the world will hold to. What about within Christianity? There are a lot of different views of how the world and maybe how to interpret Genesis chapter 1 within Christianity. Okay, so there's the day-age theory, and so the day-age theory would go... that there's a verse, I can't remember exactly where it is, but a day is like a thousand years in the eyes of the Lord. And so they would use that verse to say that every day was a thousand years or some big period of time. What are some others? You mentioned gap theory, so that there's this gap. Some people would put a gap after Genesis 1 and 2 and then before the days where some things were happening. Some people would put gaps in between the days. It just depends on how you want to interpret it. But there's just these giant gaps, and we're just not given that in scripture in between periods of time that would make up all of this time. We have six-day creations or seven-day creations. So that would be your more traditional God created in seven days, because he said he did. And it's hard to refute that. You know, he said, the word says it. John can give you a lot more on the definition of the Hebrew word yom, which is used for all of these days, and it connotes a 24-hour period of time. So this is probably where we're going to hang more. The thing about the day-age theory, it seems so simple to blow that away that if people believe that God is sovereign, well, I guess first they'd have to believe that God is sovereign to do whatever. He could have done it in a thousand years as a day, but he chose to do it in 24 hours. I mean, if he can do all, he can do it the way he wanted to do it. He did it in... They're trying to rationalize what they see from science. in with the biblical record. So they're trying to make some way for these things to mesh. You know, they see the fossil record in millions and millions of years, or evolution even taking millions of years. You've got theistic evolution, where they will try to mesh the worldly understanding of Darwinian evolution with the Bible and say that God used evolution as a method of creating. So we've got all of these things. So we've got the world, and the world has their ideas of how the cosmos came into existence. And even within Christianity, there's not a consensus on how God created. What I want to argue is that, well, this definitely no. And even here, even here from the scripture, even though I believe this is true, I'm not saying God didn't create in seven days, but the Bible doesn't intend to tell us exactly how God created all of this stuff. It just says he did. The thrust is God created. And he did create in seven days because the Bible says he created in seven days, but the Bible is not a science textbook. It's not aiming to teach us how God created everything. How did he create the butterfly and how it goes into this metamorphosis from a larvae into a butterfly? Like, he doesn't give us all of these minutiae details, and that's not his aim in Genesis chapter 1. His aim is to say that I'm God, and I created everything that is, and you should worship me because of who I am. And so, although I would argue for seven-day creation, God literally created in seven days, that's because His Word says so, and that's the easiest and most easy way to read the text without reading a whole bunch of stuff into it. But the thrust is that God created it. Period. He did it. We've seen how the world sees the origin of the world, how Christians view the origin of the world and their interpretation of Genesis 1. But the bulk of our study tonight will be Genesis 1, verse 3 through 2, chapter 3. And we're going to look at, just like in the rest of the book of Genesis, there's a structure. There's a structure here in these verses, Genesis 1, 1 through 2, 3. There's a structure that's going to point us not to science and how God created and for us to examine all those things. A structure is going to point us to God. Just like the Toledoth formula and that framework points us to God's faithfulness and His sovereignty throughout the generations, Genesis chapter 1 is going to point us to God and His goodness and His power in creation. So, if someone would read Genesis chapter 1, verses 3 through 13, And Israel 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 heaven be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so. God called the dry land earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called seeds, 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 seed 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. There's a lot here. There's this idea of day. There's this idea of evening and morning, and that's a day. So there's time. God is creating time. So there's a lot there, we're not gonna get into all of it, just for time and ease. But each day, so day one. What did God create on day one? Chapter, or verse three. Created light. And so he separated the light and the dark. He just made it. He made light with no sun. And he just made it. He said, there's light. It's incredible. Day two, what did he create? An expansive mist of waters. So he created the seas and the skies. So you've got, like the atmosphere is full of water, and so he separated the skies, which have water in them, and the seas from the earth, and called the expanse heaven. And so he created the seas and the skies. Day three. He created the land. So he separated the seas from the land to create the land and vegetation. So we want to say a god is not a god of chaos. He's a god of order. So he's created these spaces in days one through three. And this is part of the formula. So day one, he creates a space of light and dark. Day two, he creates a space of seas and skies. Day three, a space of land and vegetation. All right, now we're gonna see the next three days, verse 14 through 31, if somebody could read that. And God said, let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth. And it was so. God made two great lights, the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from 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 team with living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky. So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teams according to their kinds and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said, be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas. and let the birds increase on the earth. And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day. And God said, let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds, livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind. And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground. So God created man in his own image. In the image of God, he created him. Male and female, he created them. God blessed them and said to them, be fruitful and increase in number. Fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground. Then God said, I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground, everything that has the breath of life in it, I give every green plant for food. And it was so. God saw that all that he had made And it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. Thank you. I know there's a lot there. So specifically verse 26 through the end of the chapter and verse 31. We're going to deep dive into that a little bit more next week on the creation of man, the image of God. There's so much. there that we can go on about, and we will next week. Not the thrust of today, but hold on to your questions about 26 through 31 or your comments about that, specifically the image of God. We're going to go into that next week. So we've got the spaces that he created in day one through three, and now We've got day four. He created the sun and the moon. Day five, what did he create? Fish and birds. And then day six. So, we've got this structure here, spaces and filling. So, in our brains as we're trying to dive in to find a structure that's going to lead us somewhere, and I didn't come up with this, somebody way smarter than me did, who knows the language and can read these things. He's got these spaces, day 1, 2, 3, and then He fills these spaces. They correspond directly with one another. Day 1 and day 4, day 2 and day 5, day 3 and day 6. And so there's a completion. God has created everything, so much so that in the end, He said He saw all that He made, and it was very good. There was evening and morning, the sixth day. So it's complete. He's created everything. We have one more day, right? So that one more day, day seven, where my argument is that our attention, although these are amazing things here and we can go there and we can study and we can read and learn what God did in creation in these six days, our attention should go to day seven. because it's separate. It doesn't fit in the formula. It doesn't fit within this pattern. Our attention should go here. There's something different about this day that our mind should go to and say, why? Why? Why is day seven different? Why didn't he just stop at day six and then the world begins and we have six day weeks? Something was different on day seven. So chapter two, verse one through three, Someone agreed to that. Something's different about that day. Did God need to rest? Yeah, there's implications for that, for sure. And the law goes into that. Ten Commandments. The seventh day is set apart, God rested. Not only did He rest, He blessed that day. He didn't bless any of these other days, He blessed that day. And He made it holy. Our attention... God's making something holy. Isaiah, the cherubim and the seraphim are around the throne and they're saying, holy, holy, holy. God is saying, this day is holy. It has massive implications for us as Christians and for us as people who believe in God. So you've got these days where work is being done, and then day seven, which is different. It's set apart. It's holy. So this trajectory, this structure of Genesis chapter 1, verse, chapter 1, 1 through 2, 3, is pointing us somewhere, just like the rest of the book of Genesis in that genealogies. They're all pointing us somewhere. They're making us go to these certain conclusions. They should be pointing us to somewhere. Genesis in the creation account is pointing us to day 7. And next week, we're going to deep dive on the image of God and on the Sabbath. and what those mean for us specifically, what the Word of God says about the image of God, what the Word of God says about the Sabbath, and some implications for us as New Testament believers, what the Sabbath is and what rest really is. Hebrews is going to go into a lot about that, and I know we're going to study Hebrews after 1 Corinthians, so I'm looking forward to all of it. God has set apart the seventh day. He's blessed it. He's made it holy. It's not like the rest of the days, although there's magnificence and power on display and creation out of nothing on display in these days. And that should make us all in worship. But there's something different about this day that should point us to God as holy. So with all of that said, any thoughts before I go into anything else? Any thoughts on... I hadn't seen this until... my mid-twenties. No one ever taught this to me. It's just, it's one way a lot of commentaries will point this out. And it just, it blew my mind because I had never seen some of these literary structures and devices used in scripture. You know, I've read the scripture. And I've never gone beyond just reading the words. But there's so much more than just the words. There's beauty in how the words are put together, how the authors, the spirit through the authors, put these words together. that draws to new heights. And so that's my hope, is that as you see Genesis chapter 1, and there's so much there we can talk about creation, and we can talk about what God did in creating, and we can discuss some of these theories of creation and days and all those things. It's all worthwhile discussion. But at the end of the day, God has done it. And he's pointing to himself on day seven saying, I've done all this. Now look at me. I've made this day holy. And then as he goes on, that day is set apart to worship him. So any questions, any thoughts, comments on seeing Genesis chapter one in this way? It was all new to me. And I had so many questions, but you don't have to have questions. So that's that. So, some conclusions. So what of reading the creation account? Again, so much more that we could go into. There's a lot of Hebrew word studies that you can do that I don't have the ability to do. But there's a lot here that is worthwhile to dig in deeper. So what are the conclusions that we can draw from Genesis 1? through 2-3. God has made everything, period. He's done it. He's said it. He's given us his word. We're not told how. It's not a science book. He doesn't give us the minutia. He doesn't give us exact details of he created this animal and this animal and in this way. We're just given all of creation and we're to wonder at it. In our day and age, with the scientific technology we have, we can look into the minutia, and we can see not necessarily how God did it, but we can see how all these systems work together, and it's just beautiful, and it blows our minds, and it draws us to worship Him. We can look at our own bodies, and how our bodies function, and how all of these different systems work together to keep our body in some sort of harmony. and how it works, and there's no way that it would just happen by chance. There's no way. It's not possible. So that would draw us to worship God. So we're not told how. It's not a science book. We're just told that he did it. Hebrews chapter 11, verses 3. This is chapter of faith. Let me get there. By faith, we can believe what God has said and trust in Him for it. Hebrews 11, 3. By faith, we understand that the universe was created by the Word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. Are able to believe that God has done this. is not even something we can conjure up ourselves. By our own standards, we will rationalize all of those things, all those man-made theories of how things came into existence, how things came into being. But by faith, which is a gift, Ephesians chapter 2, we can see and we can believe that God has done it. Number two, our God is a God of order. He didn't create everything and then put everything in order. He didn't just have all of the parts and then put all the parts in some sort of fashion in order to make it work. He created it in order. Light and dark, seas and sky. He created these spaces. And then he filled those spaces. It was very ordered. And then last of all, he created humanity. And there's something special about humanity. So much so that some commentators and scholars will look at day six and they'll say day six is the day that's set apart. That's the day that we should really focus on. God has done something different on day six in the creation of humanity. And while the creation of humanity is something that we should study deeper and it is amazing. It is unique in the fact that he created a being in his own image. Following the formula of Genesis chapter 1, it's not the day that's set apart. But we'll go into that again next week. Where was I going with that? Oh anyway, order. So he created everything in order. So he ends with humanity and he gives humans. He gives Adam and Eve a very specific job to rule and subdue, to tend and to till the garden, to have dominion over all of the earth. So, he's created all of these things and the very last thing that he creates that we see from Genesis chapter 1 is humanity. He gives humanity dominion over all of the created order. There's representative on the earth. So God is a God of order. There's so much that we can throw into that with our culture today. We see a culture of disorder and chaos and there's no There's no order to male-female distinctions, to marriage, to family, to government. All of these spheres, there's no order. It's how man sees it in his own eyes, but God has a different view. He has created a world in which there's order. He didn't just create it in an orderly fashion. He created it with order. There's order in these things. There's order in the sun and moon. There's order in the animal kingdom. There is order in all of these areas. He didn't just throw it out there with no order. God is a God of order. He created it with order. Number three, humanity created in the image of God. Again, we're going to go into that next week. And then my argument is that this narrative, this creation story in Genesis that ends in chapter 2, verse 3. It culminates, it climaxes on day 7. And next week we're going to go into why that is. We're going to go into more into Sabbath, more into rest. Rest is a major theme throughout all of scripture for The people of Israel, for the New Testament Church, Jesus says, come to me, all who are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Anytime you see rest in the New Testament, especially coming from Jesus, it's going back to here. There's some significance with this day and rest and what rest means. So we'll go into that more next week. We'll go into a little bit of Hebrews on rest. So it's kind of short tonight. Next week, it was short tonight because we're just kind of going over the structure. Try to answer any questions or discuss anything that you want. And then next week we'll go deeper into the image of God and rest, Sabbath. Any questions tonight? Comments? John, you've got to have some comments. I know you do. I was just thinking about looking forward to what's unfolding next in the Bible and the Prophets. It starts off with we have a God who speaks, a God who sees, and a God who judges. When you see that formula, right there, he speaks stuff into existence, he sees what he does is done and then he makes a value judgment on it, and it's good. And so that's kind of exciting to have God truly involved in all of it. And I think you're right, the Bible doesn't answer science questions. The Bible answers the whole question, who is God? If you approach it from that perspective, I hope that as you read the Word of God, look into some other resources to help point you to some of these literary things that are in the original language that we don't see, these patterns that we don't see as easily in our English translations. There's so much beauty in the Word of God. The word choices that Paul uses versus some other words that he could have used. These structures in the Hebrew language, this Toledot formula, the way that the prophets write. There's so many beautiful things, rhythmic things, and the judges, they saw that there was no king and everyone did what was right in his own eyes. That's after every judge. These patterns that you see, pay attention to those patterns, the idea of famine in the book of Genesis over and over and over. there's beauty if you can step back and kind of see the big picture of these patterns that are repeating. So looking for these things in scripture, going to other resources that can help point you to those things, and then just kind of expand your mind to see the beauty of this book that God has given. even more so than just the words that are here and the salvation that is contained in its pages. But God wants to open it even more, even more, even more. And as I've progressed in my Christian life, I would have never seen these things before. And God is merciful and patient and shows His goodness through His Word over time as you continue to seek Him. So, pray for that. Seek Him. Seek out other resources that will show you these things and show you the beauty in the Word of God beyond the words that are on the page. They are beautiful and there's salvation in these words, but there's even more beauty than just contained in the words. The structure, how the Holy Spirit has devised it, even in the way the books were arranged. There's so much beauty in the Hebrew Bible and how those books are arranged together, where one story ends and another picks up. For example, Proverbs ends in the Hebrew Bible with Proverbs 31, the Proverbs 31 woman. And then, correct me if I'm wrong, John, but Ruth is the very next book in the Hebrew Bible. And what a beautiful picture of Proverbs 31 woman in the book of Ruth. And so there's beauty in even those things. Chronicles 2 is the last book in the Hebrew Bible, and it ends awaiting a king, and then Matthew opens up with a king that is born. So there's beauty. There's so much more beauty than at face value. And so I would just urge you to look for, pray for, and seek out the beauty that this book has for us. Anything else? If you want to turn, you don't have to, but Romans chapter 8, I was looking for something else, and this literally just said really amazing in a heavy way, but so awesome. And it's verse 19 of Romans 8. We're talking about creation, right? So the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself would be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves who have the firstfruits of the Spirit grown inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope for who hopes for what he sees. But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. Likewise, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groaning to deeper words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that for those who love God, all things work together for good. For those who are called according to His purpose. For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, in order that He might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom He predestined, He also called. And those whom He called, He also justified. And those whom He justified, He also glorified. It reminds me of a tidbit that creation is eagerly awaiting. The creation in the fall, Genesis chapter 3, we'll get to that. Jim's going to teach through that. But because of sin, all of creation is subjected to sin. consequences of man's sin. Because of Christ, He is going to restore all things. All creation will be restored. kind of in our Baptistic circles. You know, we think of the world as it's going to be done away with and, you know, we're going to be in heaven with God. Now there's a new creation, a new heavens and a new earth. It's going to be perfect. It's going to be like creation again. It's going to be perfect as it was, very good. God said that it was good and humanity will be there, restored in right relationship with God once again. Christ has done that and we are awaiting that return. One more theme that I was thinking of when Heather was reading that. Genesis chapter 2 will pick up on the Garden of Eden and how it looks. The stones and the river that runs through it. There's this idea in theology called Temple Theology. You see these themes that run all throughout all of scripture. So in the garden, there's these beautiful stones and there's this river and it's beautiful. There's four rivers, but that come into one. And it's beautiful and amazing. And that's the garden, that's perfection. And then the temple has all of these beautiful metals and stones and it's ornate. And then in the new creation, in the new Jerusalem. I was just explaining to one of the, because some of the children, I have rocks and minerals, and some of the kids have been asking me for them, so I was explaining that, you know, there's 12 gemstones that are described in the new, in the foundation of Jerusalem, and Amethyst is the 12th one, which is, I gave some of the Amethysts of it. And I was just explaining, can you just imagine how beautiful? Yeah. the perfection of, it's just amazing. Yeah. And in the New Jerusalem, like you said, like all of those stones and the river of life runs through it. So there's these themes that run all throughout scripture. Anyway, I get caught up on that and I love it. But that's all I had for tonight, if anything. Anybody has any other questions or any other comments? I did see a documentary that's out there called His Genesis History. You guys have heard of that? I've heard of it. It'll go through some of the scientific stuff and also the language. So it kind of ties that in. It doesn't go in depth, but it's definitely, it touches a lot of the bases that we touch also. Yeah Yeah And we didn't even touch on this young earth creation and old earth creation and all those things like there's a lot of worthwhile discussion that you can have About those things But my argument is God doesn't address those things Just like in 1 Corinthians 12-14, Paul is speaking about the gifts, but what's the purpose? The purpose is love and for unity and order within the body. Same here. We have all these things and there's all these discussions that we can have, but what's the purpose? The purpose is that God spoke and God created. In day 7, we're to worship Him as holy. On that day, He makes it holy. So when you have those discussions, remember where the text is leading you. We can have discussions about those things, and you can draw things from the text, but the main thrust of the text is not to tell you that it's a young earth. It's to tell you that God created the world by His spoken word, and that He's there. Don't get into the thing that you can't see Exactly. There's a lot of discussions that you can have and you forget that, oh wow, God created this by his word. And we're getting caught up in the details and we're not worshiping the God who did it. That's all I have. Would someone pray for us tonight?