In last week's message from Genesis 6 we learned that the Lord was not just destroying the earth and its inhabitants but hitting the reset button and working to restore His creation in His grand message of reconciliation. The narrative of Noah and the Ark is one that often brings thoughts of a children’s story about exotic animals lining up and getting on board a big boat. While it is a foundational bible account good for kids to learn it definitely contains eternal truths to which we all should attend as we look at the Ark of Safety from Genesis 7. The Ark of Safety is particularly enlightening when we see its correlations with the Cross of Christ.
The Ark of Safety
Genesis 7
July 5, 2020 • Pastor Greg Wagoner • Genesis 7
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The Day God Sang
April 26, 2020 • Pastor Greg Wagoner • Genesis 1:24–31
On day 6 or creation there is some phrasing in verse 27 that gives us a repetitive poetic pattern that leans into a thought that the day God sang was the day He created man. One commentator states: The making of man is so ushered in as to show that at length the work of creation had reached its perfection and ultimate goal. This first chapter of Genesis is the chapter of mysteries, and just as “the wind of God” in Genesis 1:2 was the pregnant germ which grew into the revelation of the Holy Ghost, so in Elohim, the many powers concentrated in one being, lies the germ of the doctrine of a plurality of persons in the Divine Unity. It is not a formal proof of the Trinity, nor do believers in the inspiration of Holy Scripture so use it. What they affirm is, that from the very beginning the Bible is full of such germs, and that no one of them remains barren, but all develop, and become Christian truths. There is in this first book a vast array of figures, types, indications, yearnings, hopes, fears, promises, and express predictions, which advance onwards like an ever-deepening river, and when they all find a logical fulfillment in one way, the conclusion is that that fulfillment is not only true, but was intended.
God So Loved Mankind
May 3, 2020 • Pastor Greg Wagoner • Genesis 2:1–17
In I John 4:8 the apostle states: "God is love." Yes, He is! His love rests firmly upon His creation. In Genesis chapter 2 we find our Creator God showing his love to mankind in various manifestations of provision. He's got the whole world in His hands. He's got you and me, sister/brother in His hands!