4^th Day of Creation

Genesis 1:14-19

Illustration

• A little grasshopper was cheerfully hopping along (reminiscent of the one who played his fiddle in the Disney cartoon) when he came upon a tremendous railroad track.
• He looked down track and thought to himself, "Wow, I’ll surely get somewhere now!"
• Then all of a sudden a powerful freight train blew by at an incredible speed and force.
• It blew the little grasshopper right off the tracks, and left him dumbfounded as he reflected on the nature of the train and its purpose.

Thesis

• I want the majesty of God to overwhelm our imaginations.
• I want us to reflect on how Big God is, and naturally on how small we are in comparison.
• Hopefully these revelations will inspire humility and fear.
• The sermon structure is simple.
• Firstly, we’ll philosophize on the Magnitude of Elohim.
• Secondly, we’ll skim over the top his magnitude displayed in the creative acts of day 1 and 4.

Magnitude of God through Reason

• God describes himself as the Infinite, Supreme Being, "in whom we live and move and have our very being."
• The human intellect cannot imagine a being greater than the God of the Bible.
• He exhausts the capacity of man’s intellect.
• He fills beyond our measure.
• Our intellectual framework is not equipped to support the full quantity of God’s glory.
• Our mind’s eye grows dim when we peer into infinite abyss of God.
• Our mental vehicle breaks down long before we cover the expanse of infinity.
• Moses said, "The eternal God is your dwelling place." (Deuteronomy 33:27)
• The word eternal is not just a time reference.
• The word eternal embodies the ontological argument.
• It refers to God’s infinite nature of Being.
• He is the totality. The Absolute. The Ultimate.
• He is the infinite One
• Infinity implies one.
• There are not multiple infinities.
• That is an etymological fallacy.
• There is one infinity and all else is therein.
• Infinity encompasses all.

• God is one. (Deuteronomy 6:4)
• Two inherits its existence from one.
• One is in two.

• An amazing, yet inadequate illustration is space.
• Space or the universe is made in a likeness of God. It bears the fingerprint of its creator.
• There is one infinite space in which all bodies have their relative position.
• Imagine if we did not have space as a visual illustration.
• Space enables us to imagine eternity, and to define infinity.

The Magnitude of God in Days of Creation

• On the 1^st day of creation, God created and energized the entire universe, the infinite sphere.
• On the 2^nd day of creation, God made the primeval hydrosphere and the atmosphere of the terrestrial sphere.
• On the 3^rd day of creation, God made the earth’s lithosphere and plant biosphere.
• On the 4^th day of creation, God made the astrosphere to illuminate the terrestrial sphere.
• Spheres within spheres; systems within systems, and programs upon programs.
• All exist in him.

1^st Day of Creation-
 Time, Space, Matter, Light

• On day 1 God laid the foundation of the universe.
• He made time, space, and matter.
• "In the beginning (time), God (mind) created (force) the heavens (space) and the earth (matter)." (Genesis 1:1)
• Or in other words, "In the beginning Elohim created out of nothing an infinite vacuum of space and filled it with raw, unsystematized matter."
• God took out his canvas, his brush’s and paint.
• He manufactured his work site and his building blocks.
• He also made Light.
• He cut on the light switch.
• Can you imagine if the universe would have remained black?
• No color, no warmth, no energy, no life.
• Day 1 parallels day 4 in that God worked in the heavens.

4^th Day of Creation
sun, moon and stars

• On day four God made the 2 great lights and the stars.
• Involved in the creative acts of day 4 is advanced physics, mathematics, chemistry, astronomy, and infinite power.
• Purpose of the Heavenly bodies.
• Separate.
• Separate the light from the darkness.
• Separate the day from the night.
• Dominate.
• Rule over the day and night. The sun and moon dominate earth.
• Signs.
• Seasons.
• God set the earth on its axis.
• Inserted the distance between the sun and earth.
• Days and for years.
• The heavens are like a perfect metronome, keeping time.
• God set the beat and the tempo.
• He determined the rhythm of our timeframe.
• Illuminate.
• Our world of color is because of the sun.
• It radiates all the wavelengths of light to earth.
• Composition of the Bodies.
• On day 1 God supplied the raw matter (atoms). It was unformed and void.
• On day 4 God cosmically collected it together to form stars.
• Like a little kid who makes mud pies.
• He made cosmic solar systems out of microscopic atomic systems.
• Stars are massive orbs of nuclear energy.
• The sun is the lamp and power plant of the earth.
• Collection of heated matter.
• Each star is unique; each star has a different fingerprint.
• There are trillions of stars dispersed throughout the open expanse.
• Stars form galaxies-clusters of stars.
• Motions of the heavenly bodies.
• All of these massive bodies are flying through open space on an invisible orbit, or path.
• The moon orbits earth; earth orbits the sun; the sun orbits with the milky way galaxy; the milky way galaxy orbits.
• These bodies are moving at incomprehensible speeds.