Genesis chapter 1, Genesis chapter 1, and we're going to be dealing with just the first 13 verses here, as we look at part 1 of God's magnificent creation. Genesis 1 verse number 1, In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, and the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. God said, Let there be light, and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good. And God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light day, and the darkness he called night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. And God said, let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament, and it was so. And God called the firmament heaven, and the evening and the morning were the second day. And God said, let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so. And God called the dry land earth, and the gathering together of the waters called he seas, and God saw that it was good. And God said, let the earth bring forth grass and herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth, and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself after his kind, and God saw that it was good, and the evening and the morning or the third day. Now let me remind you that nowhere does the Bible ever attempt to prove the existence of God. His existence is just assumed there in verse number one, In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And listen, whether you look at God's creation through a telescope and look at the vastness of His universe, or whether you look at it through a microscope and see the things that we cannot see with the naked eye, or whether you look at it with just the naked eye alone, the only adequate explanation for what you see is God. Truly, only a fool can honestly view God's creation and come to the conclusion that there is no God. And I say that because God has left His imprint on all of His creation, just like He left His imprint in verse number 1, that this was his word. That's the reason I showed that video a while ago. I believe he left his imprint all over his creation. We'll see this this week and next week. I want you to think about the creation of anything man has come up with from the various sources created by God. Man can't create anything. All they can do is take the matter that is and try to make it into something. I have a digital watch. Many of you probably have one. Some of you probably have the old-fashioned watch. You can tell by looking at either watch that there's a watchmaker. Doesn't take an Einstein to figure that out. This thing didn't just come to what it is over millions and millions of years. Got two automobiles over there. One's a Subaru and one's a Hyundai. And when you look at there, you know that there was somebody that put that thing together. It was not just a scrapyard full of iron and it just all came together one day. There had to be someone to take and make those things. What I'm saying is that we can look and it's ludicrous for anyone to say no one planned those, no one made those, they just came together over millions and millions of years in the process of time from matter that has always existed. No, it's obvious from the intelligent design of each of these things that they point back to a maker who's left their imprint on each item. No matter what you want to take a look at, we can tell there's intelligence behind that. There was a planning. Somebody engineered it. Somebody put it together. Well listen, God has left His imprint all over His creation, which is much more complicated in structure than any of the things that man has made. Just a single living cell is more complicated than the processes that go on with that one cell, more complicated than what you will see in any manufacturer company that has a facility. We know that God is the one that put those cells together. Psalm 19 verse 1 says, the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament show with his handiwork. Romans 1 verse 20 says, For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen. If they're clearly seen and somebody's not getting it, they're not getting it because they don't want to get it. And we'll see that here in just a minute. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power in Godhead, so that they are without excuse. God has left his imprint, and when man chooses to take and ignore God's imprint upon his creation, he does that to his own destruction. Today, We look at God's magnificent creation accomplished in the six days of creation. We'll begin to look at it today as revealed here in scripture. We know that those are six literal days. They're not long periods of time. Even in the book of Exodus chapter number 20 in verse 11, it says, for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth and the sea and all that in them is. Were these real days, as we know it, or long periods of time? Consider that the terms God uses here in the scripture, such as day and night and the evening and the morning, indicate that these are literal days. And if our minds have trouble putting that together, we don't realize how great God is. God's great enough to do that. He just is. And the fact that these days also are numbered follows a pattern used only about literal days in the scripture. And I don't think I have it there on your handout, but Matthew 12, verse 40, where Jesus is speaking about his being in the tomb three days and three nights, just like Jonah was in the well three days and three nights. So that's an indication of that very thing that I'm talking about. So let's look at three days. Day number one, God created the heaven, the earth, and light. That's what you get out of verses one through five. Notice that God created light before he created the sun. And we've already talked about God creating the heaven and the earth, so we're just going to be talking about the light. All light is really from God. And God may use the sun for a time to dispense light, but listen, He is not bound to that limitation. And we see that very thing here in Scripture. We have light before the sun. He didn't want people worshiping the sun. He wanted us to understand that light came from Him. The book of Revelation speaks of the city of the New Jerusalem. When this heaven and this earth that we see are passed away, God makes a new heaven and a new earth and the city of New Jerusalem comes down from heaven. And it says in Revelation 21 verse 23 and 24, it says, And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it. For the glory of God did lighten it. And the Lamb is the light thereof. Jesus is the light. Amen. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it. And the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into it. God is light. Light is His nature. The Lamb, Jesus Christ, who is God the Son, will be the light of heaven. In John chapter 8 verse 12, Jesus said that He is the light of the world. We know that is true physically speaking and spiritually speaking. Let's look at day number 2, verses 6 through 8. We read there that God created a firmament to divide the waters. The firmament is the expanse of space surrounding the earth. We might call it in our day the atmosphere. But there's a whole lot more to it then than there is now. But the firmament is the expanse of space surrounding the earth that separates the earthly realm from what is beyond. When you get beyond, the outer reaches of that, you go into what we call outer space, right? But we understand that this is the first heaven, the heaven that we see where the birds fly, and where the clouds are, and where the air is that we breathe. That's what we're talking about. This firmament was made to separate between two great volumes of water. And here's where I want you to understand that God divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. That's what we read there. Down on earth, the waters under the firmament were gathered together into the seas. But above the firmament, the waters were not gathered together, but evidently they were in vapor form and surrounded the earth with a great blanket of water vapor. This was prior to the flood. That's why things are different today. After the flood, things changed. The light could shine through. And when the sun was created on the fourth day, it could shine through, but some of the infrared rays and others that might harm were filtered out. And the whole earth was somewhat insulated so that the climate would have been even over the entire earth. You wouldn't have the extremes of temperature such as Siberia. In Siberia they have found rich vegetation and animals that would not survive underneath the ice that is there. How did that happen? Well, obviously the climate was different when God first created. The result was The earth was really like a hothouse with a moderate climate protected by the great envelope or canopy of water vapor which covered the earth. Now, this water vapor canopy would be where a great deal of the water came from the worldwide flood in Noah's day. Not only were the fountains of the deep broken up, but that was above, it ceased to be. When you look at the longevity of those that were before the flood, in Genesis chapter number five. You know, our mind has a hard time comprehending that somebody could live hundreds of years, but they used to. Before, the damaging effects of both sin, okay, we've got the increasing damage that sin caused, and we've got also that radiation. Prior to the flood, the low radiation caused by this water vapor contributed to that longevity of life in those days that we see in Genesis chapter number five. If you ever wondered, how was that possible? That was it. The atmospheric pressure and the oxygen levels were also more favorable to life back during that time. But that's what the firmament is about, okay? Now, day three, and this is where I want to plant. We're going to talk about the plants. So I'm going to plant with the plants. All right? God created plant life. And I'm going to jump ahead a little bit too at times here. But these verses in verses 9 through 13 and others we see next week totally refute the harmful doctrine of evolution. Here we see the difference between a biblical worldview and a secular worldview. Listen, evolution states that life began in the sea. The Bible says that it happened on dry land. Who you gonna believe? They can't duplicate it. Science has to be, and we'll talk more about this, but it's gotta be something you can duplicate. They can't duplicate it. But I want to share three things here, and three problems that all evolutionists have. First of all, evolutionists have the problem of the origin of life. The origin of life. They want you to think they have figured it all out, but they haven't. Evolutionists say life arose as a result of spontaneous generation. Okay? Yeah. They believe that life began as an organic matter or a prebiotic soup or a puddle of green slime. I don't know, you know, I don't know how you would describe it. They call it a fortuitous concourse of atoms. Don't let it sound educated. A fortuitous concourse of atoms. A flash of lightning hit a puddle of scum and life came forth. You believe that? There's some folks that do. Now why would intelligent people believe that? Here's why. And one of them's own words, okay, I'm quoting from Dr. George Walt. He was a Nobel Prize winner in biology and professor emeritus of biology at Harvard until his death in 1997. And I'm quoting him, he said, there are only two possibilities as to how life arose. One is spontaneous generation arising to evolution. The other is a supernatural creative act of God. There is no third possibility. Spontaneous generation that life arose from non-living matter was scientifically disproved been disproved 120 years ago by Louis Pasteur and others. That leaves us with only one possible conclusion, that life arose as a creative act of God. Listen what he says, I will not accept that philosophically because I do not want to believe in God. Therefore, I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation arising to evolution. Now that's a quotation from a scientist. You want to talk about, well, creation's not scientific. Well, evolution's not scientific. Okay. I'm not here to prove anything except the fallacy of evolution this morning. So much for being scientific. Sounds more like a religion to me. Right? I mean, this is what I choose to believe. I know it's impossible, but this is what I choose to believe. So it's not a very good religion at that. Those words that I just read are the words of a fool. The words of a fool. Evolution is a philosophy that one chooses to believe in. It's not science. Evolution takes a lot more faith to accept than does belief that God created it all. So evolutionists have the problem of the origin of life. Now let me pause here, and you'll hear me say this again next week. They thought they'd been able to put life into anything. They can't manufacture life. They can't manufacture plant life. Now they can take two plants and they can put them together and make a hybrid, but they can't take nothing and put it together and give it life. They can't take something that's dead. If a tree dies, and they try to make that dead portion live again, they can't do that. They can't. You can't do it. Why? Because God's the one that has life. And that goes for not only plant life, but also physical life. That's why we'll talk about it next week when we get into the animals and mankind. Here's the second thing. Evolutionists have the problem of the law of biogenesis. The law of biogenesis says that DNA, that's, you know, we know what DNA is, right? Everybody here's watched the programs talking about DNA. We know what it is, right? Know what it is a lot better than I did in my day. Okay, but what we know is to make up, it's fixed. DNA is fixed. Everything reproduces after its own kind, and that's what God says in the phrase, or after their kind is repeated three times here in the verses 11 and 12 that we read that deal with plant life. Next week when we deal with the other verses later, two times in verses 21 and 22 dealing with birds and water life, and five times in verses 24 through 25 dealing with living creatures, creeping things, and beasts. Ten times overall. 10 times. It lets us know after his own kind, after their own kind. One can crossbreed roses and get different colors and sizes of roses, but they will never get a puppy out of it. They got different DNA to them. One can breed cats all they want to and get many variations, but they'll never get anything other than a cat. It's going to be a cat. Scientists have done all kinds of mutations to fruit flies. And they come up with some really funky things along the way. But all of them have been fruit flies. Mankind can take life that is and try to mess with it. And I don't like them messing around with the genes. I don't know about you. I mean, that's that's one thing that they're doing with these new vaccines. That's one reason why I have a problem with the vaccines that they are that they're not really vaccines, they had to change the definition of vaccine to come out and call them vaccines. Because what they are is genetic, they went in and changed the genes is what they did. I'll not dwell there. But there are no transitional forms in the fossil record. None. Not one. None. They have painted pictures, real nice colored painted pictures showing the man coming up through the years from an ape. It's just pictures. That's all it is. It's drawings that somebody drew. They even make plaster of Paris images. It's all fairy tales. They have no real evidence. It's not just a missing link or two. The whole chain's missing. The whole chain's missing because it's not there. There is no link between the apes and mankind. To be true science, listen, to be true science, something has to be observable and repeatable. Observable and repeatable. But this is false science. And Paul told Timothy to beware of the coming of science falsely so-called in 1 Timothy 6.20. So listen, don't be fooled. Evolution isn't science. I know they try to teach it in science class in the classrooms, but it is not science. It is an unproven theory of mankind, and it's devilish is what it is. You know what is observable? Things that are reproducing after their own kind. That's observable and repeatable. It happens. We see it happen all the time. That's scientific. So evolutionists have the problem of the origin of life. They have the problem of the law of biogenesis. And here's the third thing. Evolutionists have the problem of the second law of thermodynamics. The second law of thermodynamics. That's a scientific term, by the way. That's a scientific problem that they have. The second law of thermodynamics says that energy can never be destroyed but becomes less available for further work as it unravels. In other words, The universe is like a wound up watch that is slowly winding down. Everything tends to wear out and slow down. Things aren't moving from disorganization to organization, but rather from organization to disorganization. If you've got a plot of weeds, that's mostly what we have here. Bahia grass is nothing but weed. If you have a plot of weeds, it will never become a golf course, no matter how much that you hope that it might one day. A golf course left alone, though, will become a plot of weeds if you don't continually do some maintenance on it. I can guarantee you that. Back when I used to play golf, I played on a few, but they needed to put a little more time in maintaining because you were hitting out of stuff that ought not to be in the fairway. That's a sad thing, but we'll move on here. Everything on earth is marked by death, decay, and disintegration because of mankind's sin. and the curse placed upon creation. You want to know where it comes from, that's where it came from. Now people want to have a problem with, why did God allow my whoever to die? You know, they blame God, blame sin. Sin's the problem. If you want to blame a person, blame the devil. The devil took and deceived mankind and caused them to sin. Listen, don't blame God. Everything is marked by death, decay, and disintegration. Romans 8 verses 18 through 23, and I'm not going to turn there, but it shows all of creation groans under the curse. It's waiting for the redemption, waiting for our final redemption when we're changed and everything's changed back and the Lord reverses the curse. Listen, the evolutionist, all he does is he just needs time. They say give it enough time and things will come together And that's why they need billions of years rather than the 6,000 years old that the Bible indicates the universe is. Now, they are a victim of their own argument. Order can never come out of disorder. It doesn't matter how much time that you add, nothing could ever come together in a meaningful way on its own. We all know that. We experience it. If you don't take care of yourself, what's going to happen? You're going to deteriorate. Let's talk about this building. We have to do maintenance from time to time on the building. Why? Because if you just leave everything like it is, it's eventually going to disintegrate. Now, this universe, From the smallest microscopic life form to the greatest things that can be observed in the universe, needed and show forth a designer, a creator, and an organizer. His name is Jehovah God. The evolutionist says that man started in darkness and is moving toward the light and just needs a boost from beneath. The biblical creation account shows that man started in the light, but plunged himself into darkness by sin. Man doesn't need an instructor to climb up, but rather he needs a redeemer. He needs not a boost from beneath, but a birth, a new birth from above, a spiritual birth. Don't fall prey to the thinking that you have to somehow combine creation with evolution. That's a lie too. Theistic. You've probably heard of theistic evolution. Well, God just got it all started and everything evolved. No, no. The two are diametrically opposed to each other. Theistic evolution is not the answer. It is not scientific either. Now these are just three logical arguments against evolution. There are more moral arguments and spiritual ones too. If evolution is true, then man is just an accident and there's no God to answer to. No right and wrong, no value to life. With evolutionists having taken over most of the educational institutions in our land, Is there any wonder why people have developed into acting more like animals? After all, they're being told that that's all that they are. Don't be fooled by this science, falsely so-called. The Bible account of creation, the fall of man into sin, and God's provision for our sin are all true. There is a Creator God, that is also our righteous judge that we will answer to after our life here is over. He's a loving God who's provided the salvation that we all need in person of His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Thank God for that. But in order to take advantage of God's provision, one must believe the gospel. They got to believe the gospel. That's the only way. Some might choose to say, well, I just don't think that that's it. I refuse to believe that. Well, you're going to wind up in a place that you're not going to think that you belong, but you do belong there if you refuse God's only Son. John 3.16 says, For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Verse 17 says, for God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. We were already under condemnation. And which is what verse 18 says. He that believeth on Him, believes on Jesus, the Son of God, is not condemned. But he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Make no mistake. We all came into this world condemned because of the sin nature we were all born with. Jesus Christ is the only hope any of us have. I'm glad that my eyes were opened by God's Holy Spirit. The convicting of the Holy Spirit of God showed me not only my great sinfulness, but showed me the righteousness of His Son, showed me what would happen to me if I didn't believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus said in John 14, 6, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me. Acts 4, 12, Peter reiterated that truth. He says, Neither is there salvation in any other, talking about any other than Jesus, for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. The question is, Do you know Him? And if you don't know Him, come to know Him today. Amen. Let's pray. Father, we thank You today for the biblical account that You gave to us to let us know of the beginnings, Lord, so that we wouldn't be deceived by the things that we hear today. where the folks in the educational world have been educated far beyond their intelligence, and teaching things that are not so, and calling things science that are nothing but fairy tales that are not provable. Lord, help young people not to be deceived. Help adults not to be deceived by that wicked lie of evolution. May your Holy Spirit open their eyes to the truth of God's Word. Thank you for saving us that are saved here this morning. Lord, help us to help others that are struggling in this area. If we don't show them about Christ, they're going to die and go to the devil's hell. Lord, if there's one here today that doesn't know Christ, Or maybe they're not sure that they're saved. Help them, Lord, to get things right today. And Lord, they'll be glad that they did. Bless the invitation now, we pray in Jesus' name. Amen.