Tuesday, January 1,
2013
Genesis 1, 2, 3 and
Matthew 1
I believe Genesis 1:1 is one of the most important verses of
the entire Bible. If we can accept this
verse, then all the miraculous things of the Bible are easy to believe. Jesus could
on water. Jesus could heal the sick. God can keep all His promises. Jesus could
call Lazarus out of the grave. And He can call us out of our grave too.
Whereas, if we reject Genesis 1:1, then how can we believe
anything in the Bible? If the very first
verse of the Bible is not true then the entire Bible is unreliable, and our
faith is built on the sand.
In verse 3, what was the light? God did not create the heavenly bodies (sun,
moon, and stars) until verse 14.
Verse 26 – it was very generous of God to make anything in
His own image. I wonder why He did.
Verse 28 – the story goes that the father of a large family
was asked why he had so many children.
He replied that the first commandment for people in the Bible is to be
fruitful and multiply. "Yes,"
the other person said, "but God did not say that you were to do it all by
yourself!"
I like the comments for each day of creation that God saw
that it was good, and then at the end of the week He saw that it was very
good. How like God it is to do
good! And how like people to mess it up!
2:9 This is exactly
like all of life. In the middle of the
garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil. The good and the bad were there
right there together. The good choice
and the bad choice were next to each other.
Life would be easier if the good choice was one way and the bad choice
was the opposite way. But life seems not
to be that way. As one would stand in
the Garden of Eden looking at the two trees they would be together, next to
each other. They mush have both been
beautiful trees. The fruit of each must
have equally appealing. So our choices
are often not easily determined to be good or bad. Our choices are often not easily determined
to be right or wrong, of God or of Satan.
But as with the trees in Eden ,
our choices can have deadly consequences too.
Or our choices can lead to a blessing for ourselves and others.
3:1 Why did God even
create the serpent?
3:6 We often blame
Eve for eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge, but Adam was there with
her. He should have stopped her. He is as guilty as Eve. In Sunday school yesterday (December 30) we
discussed the verses about women submitting to their husbands and husbands
loving their wives as Christ loved and protects the Church. Adam failed to love and protect his wife.
3:7-11 There is no
shame when husband and wife are naked before each other. But naked before God is a fearful thing.
3:15 As soon as there
is sin, there is also the solution.
Jesus will crush the head of Satan.
Matthew 1 The women
in the genealogy are in interesting mix of good stories and bad stories.
((( You may decide you want a different host for this blog. I see every passage as the beginning of a sermon! )))
