This is where it all starts. So if it starts here, then you know that there's so much more to learn about. Girls, you got your Bibles? Amen. Rick, you got your Bible? But anyway, I would have had handouts for you, so I will get this copied for you and give it to you next week. But there's a lot of verses. Turn with me to Colossians chapter 1, and then Romans chapter 1. Amen. Colossians 1. But I want to talk about all creation. It says, thus, listen to what the word says, the heavens and the earth were, and the word is, finished. So think about that. When he says the heavens and the earth were finished, that means nothing more created in heaven. All the stars, all the planets, all the solar systems. Yes. We're on Genesis chapter 2 verse 1. Genesis chapter 2 verse 1. And I want you to turn to Colossians chapter 1. and Romans chapter 1. I want to show you some things. We're going to dissect some things. We're not going to get like, I mean, you can get deep. We can get deep, like we do at Men's Bible Study. But for time-wise, I can't. But I want you to see things when you read it next time you will have way deeper understanding of all things. And it says that the heavens and the earth were finished. That means when God created the earth, everything that He created, He was done, He was finished creating the plant life. He was finished creating human beings. He was finished creating the sky and the clouds and everything in it. He was finished creating the heavens and everything in it. But that does not, we're going to see in a minute what that means more. But look at Colossians chapter 1. Colossians 1, who is there with me right now? Read Colossians, who have, raise your hand, Steve, read Colossians 1, 16, please, nice and loud. For by him were all things created, that are in heaven and that are in earth, physical and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created by him. See, this is where I want you to understand, if you were a Jew or a Mormon or a Muslim or a Jehovah witness, you'd be reading this and you would not see and understand all the things we're going about to see, which are to us, plain. But it tells us that Jesus Christ, the son of God, who the whole Bible is about, but in the New Testament, it says that he is the image of the invisible God. And it says that by him, All things were created that are in heaven and that are in earth. Look what it says. Visible and invisible. Talking about the invisible things that you can't see. Who created it? The heavens and the angels and all that? Jesus Christ did. And that's where we have to understand that when we're looking in this Genesis factors, we have to see who it is that's doing the creating. Because sometimes we get a little bit confused where God and Jesus. And I want you to understand some things today. Look in Romans chapter 1. Romans chapter 1. Tony, are you there? Read nice and loud Romans 1.20, please. Romans 1.20. All things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen and being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead. I love that, for the invisible things, the things you can't see, all the spiritual things of him were formed in the creation where we're reading in Genesis chapter two of the world are clearly seen how being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead. So right off the bat, it's telling us that the Godhead, the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost, these three are one, that the Godhead, that the word of God, who is Jesus Christ, that is his name, In case you don't know that it tells us in first John chapter 5 it says in heaven There are three that agree that father the word and the Holy Spirit these three are one Amen, and then it tells us in John 1 1 in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God so you have to realize we're here when it says that Where'd I go? There you go. It says that, that being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that you're without excuse. And that's what we need to understand who this man, Jesus Christ is. and why he is, and what he did, and what he's doing now. Why did he do everything? And Genesis chapter 2 is a beautiful, beautiful chapter that is a recap of Genesis 1 in more depth and more substance. And it tells you things in Genesis 2 that happened in Genesis 1, but with more understanding. But the thing that I want you to understand is that the God, the eternal power of the Godhead, Godhead is God the Father, God the Word, and God the Holy Spirit. These three are one. When he says, let us make man in our image, we know what image he's speaking of. Look in Colossians chapter 1, all these ones, because they're all the beginnings, amen? In Colossians chapter 1, we have, well, we already read it. I was going to just read verse 15. I think I already read verse 15. Look in 1 Timothy chapter 1. Just go to Timothy. who would like to read for me? First Timothy chapter one, verse 17. Who would like to read it? Anybody? Okay. Well, you just read, Tony. What's that? Yeah, I want someone else to get to it. All right, let's just read it. First Timothy chapter one, verse 17. Look what it says. It says, now unto the king eternal, immortal, invisible, The only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. You're going to find this, these wordings anywhere else in the scriptures. And he goes on and says, unto the king, eternal, immortal, and invisible. Who is the king? Jesus Christ. He is the King of kings. He is the Lord of lords. There's so much to be understood about Christ. Look in Hebrews chapter 11 with me. Look in Hebrews 11. Hebrews 11, look in verse 27 if you would. It says, by faith, talking about Moses, he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, Look at what it says, for he endured, look, as seeing him who is invisible. Moses could see God, not with his eyes. He's invisible. But he knew he was there in his spirit. He knew he was there. He was following him. Same thing it says about Abraham. That Abraham followed God, even though he never saw God. He heard him. God spoke to his inner man. And it says that he went out looking for a kingdom. and whose builder and maker was of God. A thing that didn't exist yet, Abraham and Moses sought after. Here we can seek after and follow the God that we cannot see. We can seek after, we can feel after Him, the Bible says. We can feel Him inside. We can have a sense of His He's invisible, yet we know He's there. Does anyone understand what I'm saying? And Moses, it says that he's seeing Him who is invisible. Moses forsook the world, forsook the powers. He turned his back on being a prince and a king of Egypt to follow a God that he could not see. Because he just knew that He was there. I wonder if that's like any of us today. Can we just know that He's there? you know that, you know that, you know you don't have to see them with your visible eyes. The invisible things in Genesis, back in Genesis, it's where our text is, so always keep your hand there, we're going back there every time. In Genesis chapter 2, it says, thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them, that means all the angels, all the invisible things, and all the people and at this time we know that there's only one person being made. Now what it says is thus the heavens and the earth were finished and the host of all of them, look what it says, and on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made, he ended his work, which he had made, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work, which he had made. Now notice verse two does not say he finished his work. It says he created everything in heaven and he created everything in earth, but he didn't finish working. He ended working. He stopped working. And for six days he worked, and on the seventh day he rested. And he, look what it says, verse three, and God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. There's a lot in there, and I don't know if I can get to that today, but I want you to see that he sanctified the seventh day. What does sanctification mean? What's the word sanctified mean? It means He set it apart for something holy. He set it apart for something holy. Let's just look at that for a minute. When He said He ended His work, He didn't finish it. The heavens and the earth were finished, but His work, God's work, was not done. And that's why I want you to see. Look at John chapter 4, book of John chapter 4. And in John 4 and verse 34, is anybody there? John 4 verse 34 says, from there we're going to 2 Corinthians chapter 5, but 4.34 says, Jesus said unto them, listen, pay attention what Jesus said, my meat is to do the will of Him that sent me, and to, say it with me, finish His work. See, the creation day, the creation seven week, and the six days He labored, there's one day He just stopped and ended His work. He didn't finish. And He went, and He sat down, and He rested. And he hallowed that day. He made that day, the day of rest, a sanctified day, a holy, peculiar, particular day for a purpose and a reason. And that's because, as we're going to learn, that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was to come and was to be born, he is now that day. He is the Sabbath, the sanctified, holy day that God finishes his work. Now he ended creating, but he didn't finish his work. And what God is, is a creator. Only God can create. So that means he sent Jesus to do something or something amazing. But here we see that he said Jesus came, his meat, his daily bread, everything he's reasoned for is to finish God's work. So what is God's work? It's creation, it's creating something. He's creating new creatures. He's creating new people. He created, he made Adam, amen? And he created Eve, made Eve out of her. And he said, be fruitful and replenish the earth. And they were corrupted. Adam and Eve were corrupted. So now Jesus comes to finish the work of creation that God said that he would do before the foundations even started. Look in second Corinthians with me, please. I'm sorry. Yes. Yeah. Did I say Corinthians? Yes. Second Corinthians. Chapter 5, verse 17. One of the verse that you should know, everybody should know this one. You all there? It says, therefore, therefore, if any man be in Christ, he's a what? You see, that's the whole thing. If any man be in Christ, Christ is the Sabbath. He's the sanctified. He's the holy day. He's not at the work. It's not about our work. It's about our rest. We mean doing nothing? When it comes to salvation, yes. When it comes to getting to know God, yes. When it comes to having God's plan and doing what God's will is, yes. Because it has nothing to do with you. It has to do with the sanctified day, though. holy day. It has to do with you being in the Sabbath, you being in the sanctified. And so therefore, Christ is our sanctification. Christ is our redemption. Christ is our day of rest. So when you enter into Christ, you're entering into something that God thought of before the world even began. And it says, and you can look at it again, it says, therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. I want you to realize that's exactly what Jesus came to do, is make new creatures on earth. Look with me, if you would, please, at Colossians chapter 1, verse 15. Somebody read that. We already read it before, so read it again, please. Yes, sir. Yeah, exactly. who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature. So something's going on inside of God that he's allowing us to seek and find out some mysteries. Before the world began, before God created anything, he spoke to himself and he said, let us make man in our image, in our likeness. and let them have dominion over everything that we're going to create. And you have to think about that because he's the image of the invisible God. So what does God look like? God looks like Jesus Christ. He has hands, he has eyes, he has feet, he has a mouth, he has feelings. So the invisible God is a lot like we are. we are a lot like him, we're not a hundred percent like him, but that was his thought before he created everything, is he was going to have a people, a children, whatever you want to call them, us, that would be like him. Angels aren't like him, powers aren't like him, principalities aren't like him, the universe isn't like him, nothing is like him. So he made a thing, he made a man, and that man was Adam. And Adam was given full dominion and authority, yet sin entered in and destroyed him. So God came down to this earth as the last Adam, as a new Adam, as God Adam. And in Christ, in Adam, we all live and we all die. But in Christ, we all live forever and ever. because that was God's plan before the foundations of the world. Look, if you would, in Galatians chapter six, please. Galatians six and verse 15. You see there? It says, for in Christ, in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision, right? Say that loud. But a new creature. That's what Christ came to do is to create a new being. And he took materials as God took materials from the earth. He made the earth, right? Made everything in it, right? Then he took materials from that earth and created a man. Then he blew his breath into that man, and that man became a living being, an eternal being. But that being that he made was corrupted. So what he did was, is God took that minerals and took those, the things that man was made of, and he literally, out of that, made a human being and a woman and put his seed and his spirit inside of that, and he became a man himself. And we're gonna look at that a little further, but Jesus Christ said, I've come to finish his work. So what was God's work? Creation. What is Christ doing now, creating? I know he's creating in me a new man. I have an old nature, but inside of me I have the new man. I have a new person inside of me. I'm not the same person. Oh, it seems like I am at times, and I feel like I am at times, but in all reality, I look deep down, that's not who I am. When I, the old man that I used to be, before I was created new, before I was born again, born of God, I would sin and I wouldn't feel bad about it. I didn't think twice about it. Now, if I do something wrong, that new creature inside of me doesn't like it at all. and feels horrible about it. And that's the whole concept of being a new creature, letting that new creature take over, because that's the final thing that's going to happen. You know, the creation of the new creature Only thing that matters is a new creature. That's what it says, not circumcision, only thing matters. The only thing that matters is this new creature. So you gotta remember that. Born again, born of God. Jesus Christ is that last Adam. Look at 1 Corinthians chapter 15. 1 Corinthians 15, I love this verse. See, certain things in the Bible just make so much sense to me that they help me. And in 1 Corinthians chapter 15, tell me when you're there. Look at verse 45 with me, please. It says, and so it is written. Pay attention to the wording. The first man, Adam, was made a what? A living soul. The last Adam is who? Jesus, was made a quickening spirit. What does that mean? Out of Adam, Adam's body and Eve, they made other souls. They made other people. Right? Well, Jesus Christ comes and out of His Spirit, He makes other spirits. He makes new creatures. He makes new, it says, a living soul. It says the last Adam makes quickening, making alive spirits because Christ is God. And what He does is He is the maker and giver of life. So Jesus Christ, through him, and he's still here, and he's still alive, and he is invisible, and you can't see his spirit, but you sure can feel it, just like Moses followed it, just like Abraham followed it, I want us to follow it, amen, and to know that he's at the end, to know that we're gonna see him face to face, but that spirit that is in us now, that gave us, that spirit's alive, amen, it's a living, living thing inside of you, isn't it? And that spirit can give life, to all those who will believe. It's a quickening spirit. It's not you, it's Him that's in you. And He is a quickening. A quickening means making alive that which was dead. Those that were dead in trespasses and sins through the Spirit of Christ can make them alive and born of God. It's amazing when you really think about it. Genesis chapter 2. Genesis chapter 2, look in verse 3, it says, and God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. because that in it, he had rested from all his work, which he had created and made. I want you to think about this, about that resting and about who Jesus is and about the Sabbath, because there's things in the Bible like the Jews, they believe the Sabbath is this and that, but we have been given a greater understanding. So God blessed the seventh day, sanctified it, he set it apart to make us holy for Christ is our Sabbath, our day of rest. Hebrews four, turn with me please in Hebrews chapter four. I want you to understand these things because you're gonna come, if you don't care about them now or you're not getting it right now, you will need to get it because someone's gonna come across like they did myself and ask questions about the Sabbath. Why was Jesus able to do things on the Sabbath that the Jews thought that he couldn't? He said, because I'm the Lord of the Sabbath. Why do we worship on this day? And why do we do everything on this day? Because it's the day of the Lord. It's His day. It's the day that He resurrected from death and He is now alive. Amen? So it tells us in Hebrews chapter 4. Are you there? Good. I'm stalling because I thought I was there. So many verses. Hebrews chapter 4, if you look with me, starting in verse 1. It says this, Hebrews 4, you can go back and read it yourself, almost a whole chapter. But it says, oh, sorry. It says, let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest. See the word his rest? Any of you should seem to come short of it. For unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them. But the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with what? Faith, in them that heard it. For we which have believed do enter into arrest. I want you to pay attention. There's people out there. Tell them they can come in. Tony. It says, for we which have believed do enter into rest. And what is rest? It's the Sabbath. And who's the Sabbath? Jesus Christ. So we enter into this rest. It says, as I have sworn in my wrath, pay attention, if they shall enter into my rest, look what it says, although the works were finished from the foundation of the world, talking about the creation where we're at, For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day, on this wise, and God did rest the seventh day from all his works. And in this place again, if they shall enter into my rest, seeing therefore it remains that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in it because of unbelief." What is he talking about there? Talking about the Jewish people. I'm talking about His people, the Jewish people. Jesus Christ is the rest. Jesus Christ is the Sabbath. Right? So you have to enter into Him. He's sanctified. He's holy. You've got to enter into Him and they wouldn't enter into Him. So therefore, they're still outside. They're still doing the work. They're still doing the six days of creation. They're still working, working, working to try to please God, to try to get, and God says, no, it's only in the rest. It's only in the Sabbath. Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath. He says those that he first preached didn't enter in. Why? Because of unbelief. So no one can enter in to Christ unless they believe. in Christ. And you have to, for you to believe in Him, the things we're learning now, that He is literally the Creator, the Lord God that spoke and created, then it's so much easier to believe in Him, isn't it? And it's so much more easier to get into Him. Look what it says, verse 7. Again, He limits a certain day, saying in David, today, after so long a time, as it is said, today, if you will hear my voice, harden not your hearts, For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterwards have spoken of another day? There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works as God did from his. Let us labor, therefore, to do what? Enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. I want you to realize that Jesus Christ, when we're looking all the way back in Genesis, and you can turn back there, all the way back in Genesis, when he says about the Sabbath day, when he talks about finishing the heaven and the earth, or ended his work, and he talks about blessing the seventh day, sanctifying it, and when you look at what the Jews did to it, and when you look at what everyone else did to it, there's Seventh-day Adventists that are out there, and they are not a Christian church. Seventh-day Adventists believe that if you don't go to church on Saturday and keep the Sabbath, you cannot go to heaven. You must keep the Sabbath day in the seventh-day Adventists. They were invented by a woman, I forget her name right now, you might know, you might be able to pop it up, and it's a cult. And what it is all because of this one thing about the Sabbath. That's why you're going to run into a whole lot of people, why do you worship on Sunday? And you're going to be like, what are you going to say? Because everyone told me to. You need to understand that it's the Lord's day, that Jesus Christ is the Sabbath. And that we're not working to please God anymore. We're not working, we're believing and getting into Christ through faith. And by our faith in who He is, we're entering. And when we're entering, we're into His rest. We're already in Him. We're in Christ. I don't have to worry about anything except rejoice and praise the Lord and thank You, Jesus. And one day I'm going to see Him face to face. And one day I'm going to know Him. And one day I'm going to be like Him. And one day I'm going to rule with Him. There's so much more to go on. But it's that we belong in Christ. Amen? And if you're in Christ, it's kind of like you're already on the ark and the storm's happening, but you're safe and sound. So you can be afraid all you want. You can be scared all you want. You can be nervous all you want. But you're not supposed to be at all. You're supposed to rest and say, Hallelujah, Jesus Christ. It's the truth. Turn with me like in Genesis chapter 2. It says in verse 4, it says, these are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. And every plant of the field, look what it says, before it was in the earth. And every herb of the field before it even grew. For the Lord had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. Now, that's two things about no rain and no man to till the ground. And we know Adam was created, and God put him in the garden to till the ground. But I want you to look at what it says. Every plant of the field before it was in the earth, before it was even planted, God created it. The old saying, what comes first, the chicken or the egg? What's the answer? No. What comes first? What came first, the chicken or the egg? The chicken! It's a real simple answer. God made a chicken. Holy, whole, already grown. Amen? Ready to lay an egg. God made a tree before it even was in the earth. God created everything before it was even planted in the earth. He created it. That's why that right there, those verses totally destroy evolution. Destroys evolution. This book is so scientific, so smart, so amazing, so foretold, so futuristic, so amazing. This book is the voice and the word of God. You think you're gonna be outsmart God? Impossible. I love this book. Every word of it is so good. God made every plant before it was even in the earth. And then it says no rain. It was a mist that came up. And in verse four, it says the Lord God made, look what it says in verse four. These are the generations of the heavens of the earth when they were created in the day that, look it says, Lord God. It's the first time that phrase, Lord God. Lord, when it's all in capitals means Jehovah. So here you have Jehovah Elohim. In the day that Jehovah Elohim created the heaven and the earth. Who is Jehovah? He is Jesus Christ. For every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Jehovah, Lord. Jesus Christ, Jehovah, Yahshua. The word Jehovah means the Lord who saves. And that's what Jesus Christ means. Yeshua means the Lord who saves. God is, this book is so amazing. In the Hebrew, the word, the all capital mean, the Lord means Jehovah. In the Hebrew, the word Jehovah means I am. Means I am. So that's why you know when they, Moses said, who should I say sent me? I am, that I am sent you, amen? And then we know Jesus when he said, I am the bread of life. I am the living water. I am the light of the world. They wanted to kill him and crucify him because he as a man made himself God. because they all knew what that means. Elohim, Lord God, the I am God for all of my creation, Lord over all, Lord of all. That's what he's saying, the Lord God, Jesus Christ. We know him in the man form as Jesus, but the Lord, the word of God, Jehovah, Lord God created everything and he is Lord over what? Everything. He's Lord over Adam and Eve, man. He's Lord over angels and powers and principalities. He's Lord over the earth. He's Lord over everything. Look real quick in John chapter 1, verse 3, somebody say Amen when you read it. Read it, Tony. John 1, 3. All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made. I love that verse. All things are... So, like, how do you get confused? How do you get... Does anyone get confused who Jesus is? Is Jesus an angel, the Jehovah Witnesses say? No, you don't have a clue about this book. Is Jesus the brother of the devil like the Mormons say? No, you don't have a clue. Is Jesus Christ just a physical being who didn't exist until Mary had him and he's just called the son of God? No, you're not a Seventh-day Adventist. I'm telling you, without knowing who the Lord God is, you can't even enter into him because you do not believe in him because you don't know who he is. And that's why he came to show his people who he is. Because He walked on water. He told the wind, stop. He's Lord over the wind. He told the waves, calm down. He told the fish, come here. He told death, go away. And people came alive. He is Lord of all. That's why we sing. That's why we praise Him. Because we're in Him. And He's our rest. And you have to just stop working right now. There's nothing that you can do to please God by your good works. You know what you can please God? Worship the Lord. Love Him with all your heart. You're already in Him, aren't you? Aren't you already in Him? Aren't you in Him? Why don't you just love, you know, love His guts. I know it sounds weird. Love everything about Him. I love the Lord. Amen. So I want you to think how God blessed the Sabbath day. I want you to think about how it didn't rain. I want you to think about how he is the Lord God of everything. I want you to think about John chapter one, verse three, verse 10. Tony, you're there, look in verse 10. Verse 10, very interesting verse. He said, he was in the world. Now we know that he created the world. He was in the world and the world was made by him, but the world knew him not. And he came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received who? Him. How did he receive him? By doing good works? By going to church? By being a good man, woman? No. By faith in who he is. He says, which were as many as received and gave to them, gave he power to become the sons of God. That's the new creature. And that's all that matters. If you're born again, you need to be a new creature. Look at John chapter five with me, John five. All right, let's do the last one. I didn't realize how late it was. John chapter five. Look in verse 17 and 18. It says, but Jesus answered them, my father worketh hitherto and I work. See, what is the work that, what is the creation work that Jesus Christ is doing right now? He's creating new beings. He's creating new creatures. How's he doing it? Out of old creatures. out of the old creature, the old man, out of the old from Adam, he's come down to make new out of Adam, something that's new. I was once old Mike Wills, just like you were. And then when the spirit, the living spirit came into me, he made me alive. And now I'm the new Mike Wills. And now even though I don't see him, the invisible God, I know he's there. I feel him, I hear him, I sense his presence, and I follow him. And the more I follow him, the more he manifests himself to me, and the more he speaks to me on my inner man, and my conscience is alive, and my spirit is alive, and by faith, I walk by faith, not by sight. And I know, I know, I know, that what's at the end, I'm gonna see him face to face. And this is what it's all about, the new creature. Look, because Jesus said that, look what happened. Jesus said, my father works, I work, in verse 18. Therefore, the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was his father, making him, say it, equal with God. We're out of time right now. I'm going to get into this. And there's so much more. And what I want you to see is, as we go through Genesis, that there's correlating verses in the New Testament to show us exactly the mystery of who it is that created, who it is and what he did. Amen. We're out of time. I love you guys. Thank you. Let's close in prayer. Father, thank you for the word of God. I cannot believe how fast this time flies. Would you please, Lord, bless the word to our hearts, help us to seek and to know you more. And I pray, Lord, you'd be with the service ahead. You'd bring the people out, fill these seats up, and fill our hearts with the Holy Spirit, and give unto us that which you want us to have. Save the souls and strengthen the saved, in Jesus' name, amen.