The Fifth Day of Creation: God’s Blessing on Display

December 8, 2016 Matthew Recker
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Back to the Beginning, part 9

Genesis 1:20-23

  • The days of creation are in a fixed and important order.

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  • Evolution is no where to be found in Genesis 1 and in fact contradicts the Genesis record and robs God of His glory as our Creator. Evolution is also a hopeless and empty philosophy.
  • Day five of creation shows the incredible ABUNDANCE and BLESSING of God. The amazing diversity and complexity of the creation of fish and fowl reveals the infinite intelligence and power of God.

1.  Creatures that LIVE (NEPHESH): v.20

 

A. Nephesh = SOUL, which speaks of having breath or the principle of consciousness. Gen.1:20,21, 24, 30; 2:7, 19.

Psalm 148:7; Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:

Job 39:13; Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

 

B. An alleged “proof” of evolution is HOMOLOGY. Evolutionists attribute biological similarities to a “common ancestor” among diverse creatures. Homology demonstrates a COMMON CREATOR and not a COMMON ANCESTOR.

 

2.  Creatures that MOVE, v.20,21:

  • They have the power to move from place to place, of their own volition.
  • Psalm 69:34; Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth H7430 therein.

 

3. Creatures with ABUNDANCE:

  • God makes a teeming, swarming amount of fish and fowl, that are able to multiply and fill the earth, after their kind.

4. Creatures that are BLESSED:

  • Reproductive increase is not a curse but a blessing. God uses four words for fowl and fish that He uses for men:  Blessed, Be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth.

The Application: God’s ABUNDANCE & BLESSING is upon the Animal Kingdom, and how much more is His abundant mercy and love is upon us!

 

1.) God our Father PROVIDES for us like an EAGLE his young, Exodus 19

Psalm 91:4; He shall cover thee with His feathers, and under His wings shalt thou trust.

Matthew 6:25,26; Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drinbk; nor yet for your body, what ye shalll put on. Is not the life more than mean, and the body than raiment?

Behold the FOWLS of the air: for they sow not, either do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

 

2.) God the Holy Spirit Gives us PEACE like a Dove, Matt.3:16

 

3.) God the SON PROTECTS us like a Chicken her young, Matt.23:37

 

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